.. well I have a little pain, you know in my..."It dawned on me at once what she was referring to."Oh, do you want me to have a look?"She gave me a su...prised look. Apparently that was something she hadn't thought of."O... K," she mumbled after a while. "Later, when mom and dad are in bed."At ten o'clock the door to my room opened and Sue came in. She had taken a shower, thrown her robe on and wrapped a towel around her hair, the way that seems to be an art women muster from the day they are. I set the oven and started gathering up salad fixens, singing James Carrington’s Ache softly to myself. I choked on a high note when I realized he was right behind me listening. I didn’t bother to turn but I could hear him boost himself onto the island behind me. ‘You have a pretty singing voice. Don’t stop on my account,’ he encouraged. ‘I can’t carry a tune in a bucket,’ I scoffed. I held up a red bell pepper and onion and motioned to the salad greens. ‘Yes, no, both?’ ‘Both, please. I said. That was a choice spot for sales, a short distance from old Waikiki, and he was the reason I got hooked up with the owners of Repo Auto Center.I doubt I submitted a resume or had a real interview with the owners, the two of them, Wally, Dave. I don’t remember any whatsoever. It seemed as though they were only half serious about business and I would find out much more, soon, regarding their philosophy of life.My new friend Dave told them I was a good guy and that was about it. Without any. ”“Now the question is, Ronan, were you born male or do you just prefer to be in male form?” Ricky asked so he could eat, and they could talk.“Neither,” Ronan blushed. “When I worked on the fish boats, it was better if I took a male form, so most of the townspeople thought I was a male. When the trouble started, most people forgot that I was even a shifter until I went berserk.”I was in male form when I met your great-uncle, and he didn’t approve of males having sex with other males, so when I.