.How did you find out?” “This afternoon, your mother was certain that if you were going out with your father there would be sex. She told me all ...bout you two.” She appeared to be warming. “What’s it to you, Donna?” “Michael, I love you. I have always loved you” Hearing those words brought more tears to my eyes. She paused and then her words took on an empathetic tone. “And…I also love your mother.” “Since when have you loved my mother?” “Since I was a little girl.” They moved into our. I was dumbstruck, I could not speak. He had taken me totally by surprise with that last statement.He pulled open his center drawer and pulled out a bunch of photos. He threw them on top of his desk and sat back. I looked at the pictures and my heart stopped.They were my pictures from my photo albums! My head spun as my world caved in on me.Mr. Barkly pressed his intercom switch and called for Karen to come into his office.Karen came in and walked around to stand next to him. He slid his hand up. I know she won?t sunbathe topless, but the bikinis she wears are sosmall, it?s a moot point. I amtouching myself, I can?t help it. Sometimes I do it three or four times in one tanning session. I am helpless. I have no self-control when it comes toher. I would do anything, nomatter how humiliating or self-destructive to garner just a smile, justanything to be acknowledged by her, to be apart of her world. But to her I don?t even exist. I am invisible, which for the currentsituation, is. Even after a month as a woman, he was still forgetting that. After he had finished and cleaned himself, he stood in front of the full-length mirror.Even half-asleep and with hair unkempt, he still looked beautiful. He wasn't surprised that Anne had been put off. She didn't have that many inhibitions, but she wasn't really a lesbian. Over the last week, things had been strained between them. Perhaps the spark between them had died out. It hadn't exactly been that strong during the months before.