The following morning I woke up, today I would be moving into my newapartment in The Gardens and three days from now, Monday, would begin mysearch for...a job. The apartment I was to live in was already selectedand set-up for the most part by an agent who helped settle people intotheir new identities. This agent, Heather, would live with me for thenext few months to help me transition into the new life, pose, and actbetter as a female, with all of the surgeries little time was taken. Not too long after, they were making out. In my head, I was asking, "Aren't you going to take a break and breathe?" Soon enough, they did. She asked him, "Hey, babe?" "Yes, Lisa?" "Do you have any sexual desires?" "I do. There's this one--" She interrupted him in a demanding tone, "And-- tell me." Lisa looked down at his chest while he was searching for her eyes. He then just ignored her wandering eyes. "Well, um, I'd like you naked for a day. You'd be teasing me by only allowing me to look and. "The gumbo looks really good. But, when I said 'intimacy, ' I didn't mean a good night kiss. That's more of a declaration of intent."There must have been some of Topher's sense of lost opportunity in his face because Allegra grinned at him. "Don't worry. If things go well, I brought a toothbrush." I brought one too," said Topher, not thinking about the implication until Allegra gave him a faint smirk. He considered explaining that he nearly always brought a toothbrush when he ate at a. I was lonely." I knew what you were! Why didn't you talk to me?"He got very quiet, and stroked her fingers. "You kissed me. You didn't just kiss me; you kissed the core. You kissed the real me. You reached me. And for the first time in ten years I had finally found someone who could relate to me. But I couldn't relate back to you. Not as long as I was spread out."Warren stood up and paced, and Sandy followed his position by detecting his senses. "I knew then what I had to do for you. I had to.