" See, it worked out. You no longer look like a slob."I stuck my tongue out at her as I commented, "Although it was weird to still have a visitor this...morning." What?" Tina said she thought the way you cuddled looked nice, and she wanted to try it. She was there when I woke up." That little hussy is trying to steal my man."Her words were angry but her eyes and voice were not. Also, the fact that she called me her man did not go unnoticed by even someone as slow as me."'Your man, ' huh?"I was. The principal was in the hallway chatting with another teacher, but she hadn’t noticed I was still in the classroom yet. I thought fast, walked around the corner of Ms. Rogers’ desk and squatted behind it where I was completely shielded from any prying eyes. NOW she looked at me, straight into my searing blue eyes, and she hissed through clenched teeth, ‘What the hell are you doing?!’ My tongue quit working. Suddenly I was twelve and awkward. ‘Uh..’ I stammered. ‘I was just checking on you is. It took me so much longerto become who I am today.I say discomfort because I am inclined to understatement, but I hadendured facial surgery grind my skull and jawbone to a feminine shape,and pull my skin and scalp, I had endured surgery to my throat to changethe sound of my voice and the line of my neck, I had breasts insertedand my groin turned inside out, and my whole body was plucked or burntto destroy hair and modify my skin. In short, there was hardly a squareinch that was not in pain. Nausea twists through Gavin's stomach, and he actually covers his mouth for a second, certain that he will be suddenly and violently ill. It can't be true. The divorce had been bad enough, the total rejection of their family by both his parents, but this? If Elena is right, it would mean the entire marriage had been a lie to his dad, a lie that had produced him."I'm going," he says quietly, lowering his hands, and walking towards the bike he had left leaning next to the garage door."Good,".