It began to push into her mouth, pushing her tongue out of the way by brute force. It hit the back of her mouth, just to the entrance of her throat wh...n it stopped. She felt it being locked onto the ring in her mouth, sealing her mouth shut tight. She could only breathe through her nose. Fingers reached for her noise and tightly pinched them. She began to panic, unable to breathe.“Now listen, bitch. If you cooperate, I will let you breathe. If you struggle, I will wait until you black out and. The girls will pray with me. WhenNathan gets home we will all pray together, and we will continue to doso until the LORD gives us the wisdom we need to know what to do." Okay, yes, thank you," Cynthia said evenly."Now, get something to eat. Lie down and take a nap. You'll feel better.Put this out of your mind. Nathan and our congregation will seek God'swill in this matter. I will call you with whatever seems good to theHoly Spirit and to us." Okay," she said and hung up."Why did you say that?". I couldn'tbelieve what I was seeing. It wasn't just that I had been transformedinto a very convincing girl, but that I had allowed it to be done, andwith so many strangers around. Granted, only a few knew I wasn't a girl,and everyone was too busy to even look at me. Still, it was a strangefeeling to be wearing girl's clothes with so many people around. Tia hadfinished and came over to check herself out in the mirror."You ready Tommie? Let's work on your walk on the way down to thestaging. ”Avery hated Truce’s radio stations. Victoria hated Avery fiddling with David’s car radio. Curtis didn’t have much hate in him. He was thinking about porcupines and wouldn’t have been able to describe the series of thoughts that had brought him to his current state.“There she is, we can get--” David spotted Kristi coming through the short wooded path between the school and the rink parking lot.“Eiko’s with her.” Avery said with suspicion. Her fingernails drummed the armrest on the window.“Maybe.