" You are forcing me to. I have the choice to leave or stay and become aLadyboy anyway. So it is the same." Are you out of your mind? I want you to st...y because I love you and Iwish there would be an alternative to all this. I wish we had met youbeing single and you wouldn?t be in such a situation. Ok., I leave youalone for five minutes. Think about it. If you want to stay with mecome into the bedroom, go to the nightstand, grab yourself a pill andswallow it. If not, grab your stuff and leave.. His name, as he had said, was Jon, short for Jonathan. He was eighteen years old and actually lived in the same state as Noemi. She thought it funny that with the online service covering half the world, she'd wind up chatting with someone only a few hundred miles away. A college student during the week, he worked weekends and some nights at one of the numerous Twenty-Four & Seven convience stores that lined the Interstate.The conversation turned out to be very interesting, covering topics. It may as well be a stiletto as the sound is stabbing myheart.I retreat from the window and go back to my full length mirror. Myreflection is pleasing but the niggling doubt is always there in the backof my head. I do look pretty; I know I do but I cannot summon the courageto leave my safe haven.With a strong resolve I march over to the coat hanger and put on myraincoat. It feels like a shield against the world when I decide to leavemy sanctuary.I confront the door leading out of my domain and. " And just why would he want to kill you? Have you upset anyone?" Sergeant Jones asked."You mean apart from you? Well there is your ex-Inspector O'Neil and the people he was working for? But ... no, not that I know of, and I can't honestly think of anyone else." I said earnestly"Well, I can't authorise detainment for people just on the hearsay of one man, I have to have creditable information to work on." The Sergeant said falling back onto procedure."Then just ask him, he'll be glad to tell.