. well, for lack of a better word, her 'sea legs' under her." {She knew Jesse wasn't the only one who was going to have to weather the ups and downs ...n, uh, 'gams'.}Dad had backed up towards the chair in the corner. "Yes, we're going to have to..." {A fog of concern was coming on him.}Tammy said, "It may take a couple of months or so, but with the proper moral guidance, I'm sure she'll come through. She will still rather be a boy, but since she can't, she'll live with what she is." {She knew. He then puts a knife to my neck and cuts me i scream my dad is dad stands up he hits him again and says dont move. i shout stop it, please i do anything the bloke with the basebat looks at my father and say see she loves you. he then tell the other bloke who is holding me to let me go, i run to my father who is tied to a chair, he says to me i am sorry you are involved in this. he then grabs me and says to my father,doesn't she look beautiful? you both do what i say and no one gets hurt, he. I climbed the ladder and pushed aside the entry hatch and then she started handing me boxes. After a couple of them, I felt her hands on my butt cheeks and she told me that she was worried that I would fall. I finished the boxes and it was really hot up there and I was sweating like a pig when I climbed down. She noticed that I was wet from it and told me to take off my soaked t-shirt and to use her shower to wash down. Being the DUMB ASS I was, I declined the shower but she insisted and took. Because thinking about other things can be a bad idea.See, most shell-people dont think about their actual bodies much, or atall. We are ... encouraged to forget that behind our titanium shellsthere is a body, that we are something other than the shells and thesystems they are hooked up to.But I'm ... a little different.Because besides all the other things I had wrong with my body, I had onenobody could see at the time.My body, as twisted as it was, is male, and my soul, my sense of.