Feeling depressed, Betsy sat on the plane staring out the window at the checkerboard of farms below. She wasn’t really seeing the scenery. She was s...eing a middle class home six hundred miles behind her.She could not imagine such indifference on the part of a parent towards his or her child. In a way, she was pleased with the restraint she had shown. The more they had talked, the angrier she had become. Her desire to beat the hell out of Sally’s parents had been almost irresistible.She had. I was not sexually active in college, though fantasized a lot. I tried to fit in, and hoped that others wouldn’t see me as gay; but how could they not? After all I was a theatre major, I never dated, and I never bought the current issue of Playboy. Tim hinted a bit about who I was seeing, that kind of thing, but I never felt comfortable enough to explore what he was getting at.One Friday night, I came back to the apartment after a rehearsal, expecting no one to be there. The roommates were all. ." she was cut off as I transformed her into a large diamond. I threw on my jeans and put the diamond into my pocket before morphing into a completely steel form of myself. Three gas canisters flew through the front window and a flashbang was after them. The gas spread quickly and the flash had no effect on me whatsoever. Three soldiers burst into the front door as I extend my right hand into a blade and form my left into a short barreled .50 caliber cannon. I slash at the first enemy. Ryan and Jack were much like Dom and me: inseparable. But that was to be expected from them. They had gone to the same high school, dormed together since freshman year, and were in the same pledge class. It was far from the first time someone had made a joke about them secretly being lovers, but it was clearly just that: a joke. But what wasn’t a joke was the way Dom touched me as he fired off his rebuttal. His arm stretched around me, grabbing my waist with his hand and pulling me in close to.