Had been for years. Yet she had never really had anyone to wear it for. She just liked the look and the sense of being mischievous. Obviously, she did...’t tell the shop attendant back home she was single and frustrated. Instead, in the past Zinaat liked to tell the cashiers she was married to a rich businessman from out of town and that she was just planning a surprise for his return. Once she even claimed a family was planned for next year but until then she just wanted to treat herself while. She liked that Alec was there. Her heart thumped as if she was excited about that. She opened the door. “Hiiiii,” he said. “I wondered if you were here?” “Uhhh hi Alec,” she said. “Umm what brings you by?” He shrugged his shoulders, “I don’t uhhh know. I saw the light on as I drove by. I know how your parents, you know, go south each year so it kind of had me wondering. And look, here you are. At your parent’s house.” He said, “Soooo, uh, what brings you here?” What do I tell him? That I’m. ‘PLEASE, STOP!’ I screamed. ‘Not until you say it,’ the prison guard insisted, yanking so hard on my nipples that I was almost certain that she was going to rip them clean off. ‘You know what I want to hear! Now say it!’ ‘THANK YOU, LAUREN,’ I screamed. There were real tears rolling down my face now. The pain was so intense I was struggling against the handcuffs despite the fact that there was no way mere flesh and bone could ever break free from stainless steel. ‘Thank me for what?’ Lauren. After a moment of silence and awkwardness he eventuallystunned me by telling me "medically you are really 99% female". I don'tremember anything else that was said to me, mum burst into tears andboth mum and dad wrapped their arms around me. I walked into thehospital a 14 year old young man; brash, athletic, confident, and livingup to my parent's expectations, how was I expected to walk out of thehospital and understand I was now a girl and that everything would bealright.I was born with.