“Understand?” I slowly nod, cursing in my mind for handling it myself. Candy slowly releases me, turning and walking away with Alicia as if nothin... happened. The students are still staring at me and I can’t look up, mortified and still terrified. Then everything returns to normal. “Natalie!” someone yells my name over the yammer of the other kids. A dark haired girl rushes over to me and halts in front of me, searching my stricken face. It’s Sammy. Samantha Blue, my best friend from middle. O.F. day I replied.“What?”“Buy One, Get One Free, the boss decided that he needed a bit of a promotion to increase sales.”“Oh, well I’m not complaining. LUKE, GET YOUR SORRY ASS OVER HERE.”Seconds later this reasonable looking guy appeared and Loudmouth said,“Luke. It’s your lucky day, they’ve got a 2 for 1 offer so you get to see 2 girls strip.”“What, these 2 girls are strippers? The last one that I saw was twice the age of these 2.”“EVERYONE,” Loudmouth shouted earning his knickname, “CLEAR. "We might have a problem. I have quite a temper myself, you know. And if you just yell at me sometime for no reason, I'm likely to yell back!"He grinned at her. "I've already thought about that. But I think I know how we can resolve it." And how would that be?"He shook his head as he replied. "I'm not going to explain it to you now because I need to learn more about you before I know if it will work." What else do you need to know about me?" she asked expectantly.Charles looked at her in. I didn’t even know what all the lessons she intended to teach me were yet.I knew I was supposed to learn to obey and be polite and considerate to my elders. I knew I was supposed to gain the perspective of girls and appreciate what they go through. I still didn’t really understand the need for pain and humiliation in the process. I was actually enjoying dressing like a girl even though I didn’t want to admit it.We walked right into TG&Y as if it were perfectly normal - which it seemed like to.