’She nodded and looked me up and down again. ‘Yes, you’ve certainly grown.’ From her expression, and the tone of her voice, I ...ot the impression that she considered this to be a good thing. Perhaps I had been particularly small when I was six or seven. Although I don’t remember being particularly small. In fact, I thought that I’d always been reasonably tall for my age.I followed Mrs Hattersley through a happily-cluttered sitting room and into an. As she finished, she heard the stall next door close with a click of the lock. Not thinking much of it, she wiped, flushed and stood with a zip of her jeans. As she turned to leave, she heard a knock from the stall next door. Three double knocks, like horse hooves on the wall. Smiling in a surprised amusement, Harri shrugged and repeated the knock back. As she studied the wall, she noticed—around waist height—a small hole one might be able to squeeze a baseball through. Beside the hole, in. She has been offered a place at Hayfield Hall as a fulltimestudent. That school is tolerant about people with gender issues." Do you start in September?" asked Mrs Scott."The pupils at that school live there all year round," explained Mr Scottto his wife. "What I think Anna is trying to say is, that if Jill goesshe will never see us again, or Anna again."Mrs Scott was so shocked it didn't occur to her to ask how he knew. "OhAnna," she said, scooping her daughter into her arms. "I know you. Cait and I were in the cafeteria in the gym and it was Friday. Her dad was downstairs working out but he had been a little late and had only been doing it for like half an hour and so we had plenty of time. I think we were both a little nervous for some reason, but we didn't tell each other that, it was just kinda in the air and it was okay and even a little more exciting because of it, like it was the first time all over again and I was on my second cup of coffee and Cait was halfway through.