Good work. Nobody could mistake that this was a girl who had been thoroughly fucked. ‘I’m glad somebody shares my pain at any rate,’ he said lac...nically before pulling her back down to nestle in his functional arm. ‘My little lifesaver,’ he crooned, kissing the tip of her nose. ‘Where would I be without you, Kit?’ ‘You will never be without me,’ she replied dreamily. ‘I will stay with you.’ ‘Do you mean that?’ He sent an exploratory fingertip down her cheekbone, finishing at her soft lips. ‘I. Now of course what hurt me themost about it was that I was told that I could do something about it ifhad been born a girl instead of a boy, that?s when I started to cryabout it. The doctor informed us that I could start taking shots thatwould allow my body to produce those chemicals but I would go throughpuberty the same way a girl does so except for the extra part I wouldbe a girl. Now my parents were about to object with something like "assorry as we are we could never ask our son to do. She was not sure how shefelt about being, well, ogled. A little flattered and a little soiled,perhaps. But also with that undercurrent of fear that she might berecognised or at least exposed as someone other than the young woman shewas pretending to be.During the lengthy ride up, Natalie tried again to find out where theywere going and why, but Rina was no more forthcoming than she had beensince the moment they'd met under the clocktower. They got out on thevery top floor, to find themselves in. Noticing that Val was still walking with him, Danny said, “It’s funny. I don’t remember you walking this way at this time of the day.”“I thought I’d take a different route to class, today,” Val said lightly.This was a very different route. She’d had to run three quarters of the way around the building to catch up with him. She had heard people talking about his time spent at the whiteboard when she had reached his original class. If he hadn’t stopped to talk to Steve, she never would have.