’ ‘He must be fucking gay.’ I heard her mutter. ‘He’s not gay.’ I tucked my legs up, not thinking, and took a sip off my water bottle. Jus... then a shadow fell over me, I looked up. ‘Hi, Mary, Hi, Lee!’ Billy Hanson stood there, a big grin on his face. Billy was the team water boy, and a bit on the chubby side. ‘I love your outfit!’ He snickered, his eyes were looking right up the gap in my jumpsuit. Too late I realized and put my legs down, smoothing out the pants legs. ‘Go away, Billy!’ Lee. "Mom, it's okay. I'm all right. I'm not sad that I'm changing. Andyou know, I'm starting to like the name Natalie. I think it goesalong with the way I look."Mary sat down and hugged her child. She felt the tears forming.Natalie gave her a long hug. "Mom, I love you."Mary did her best to hold back the sobs. "Oh, I love you too,Natalie.He looked her in the eyes. "Mom, how come I'm not like you?" What do you mean, sweetie?" Well, I'm a boy and yet I'm living like a girl. I don't understand." Well,. "Yeah, go ahead and laugh. I would get down on my hands and knees for..."Lance's lips reminded her of how close they got at the party. How closethey were to kissing. "...my girlfriend."Lance stopped laughing as Zoey started leaning into him. As she gotcloser, Lance closed his eyes.As Zoey got closer, she noticed something was wrong. His lips didn't havelipstick. His eyes had no mascara or eye shadow. He wasn't wearing a wigand was dressed in his boy clothes. Zoey realized she yearned for. We would need time to dig all the holes required for the pen posts and the watering hole before fence construction could even begin.Horse pen construction on the second and third day however, went much faster than the first time we had built it. Primarily because all the wood was pre-cut, and we now had the horses to help move materials.Three days later the pen was complete with the exception of Treeya's two extra tall poles used for horse training, which we would take care of later on. Sheel.