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As I said in the previous chapter, I've been updating this story. This chapter needed the most work. It was rushed to have a happy ending, people acted out-of-character, and it had weird, unexplained, local terminology that didn't fit in the story. It still has the same ending sentence, but it's not as happily-ever-after as before, in order to save room for chapter six.

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Jamie was surprised that her mom now knew her secret. She never would have said it if she hadn't thought she might make it through the blackness back to the land of the living. However, it was out now. There was no turning back.

What surprised Jamie the most though, was her mom's reaction. She couldn't remember the last time she kissed her on the forehead like that. She's sure her mom probably did it when she was little, but her mom didn't show affection like that to avoid embarrassing her "son".

Her mom choked back her tears. "I need to ask you a question sweetie. Do you want to live like a girl? I mean, all the time?" Jamie couldn't believe her ears. Despite her pain and grogginess, Jamie got a huge smile on her face. Her mom smiled at this and then frowned a bit. "I can talk with your principal and teachers, and try to keep you from getting hurt again. But I can't promise anything. And, you know we live in a neighborhood with a lot of religious people. The neighbors might give you a hard time. Sorry to say it like that, but that's the world we live in. If you choose this, I feel really bad about what you have ahead of you. Your life isn't going to be easy."

Jamie looked at her mom. "My life has never been easy. But it will be a lot easier if I can be who I really am." Her mom smiled. "I'll get everything worked out for you. You just get your rest now."

Back in the waiting room, Jamie's mom saw that her daughter Amy was here, talking with Jamie's friends. Amy looked at her mom. "Is Jamie alright? Can I see him?" "Jamie's fine, but he needs his rest." He then addressed Jamie's friends, "Did you tell her?" Amy spoke up, "Yes, they told me. To tell you the truth, I always suspected it. Is he going to have a sex change?" Both Amy and Jamie's friends looked at Mrs. Jameson, as they all wondered what she would say. "It's too early to say. Jamie's going to have to see someone so they can figure out together what's best for him."

She looked over at Jamie's friends and added "What he needs now is support. It's not going to be easy for him. I'll call my friend at family services and try to get everything set up for Jamie once he's up to it." She then got a stern look in her eyes. "But first, I'm going to call Jamie's dad and get him to talk to the father of that punk that put him in here."

Back home, Mr. Jameson was waiting for his wife. "I talked to Larry Cleary. It turns out the manager at Denny's called the cops, and they pressed charges against him for disorderly conduct and assault. He tried to talk me into dropping the assault charges, but I couldn't. Especially after I saw Jamie in that hospital bed. His son has a date at the juvenile court in a month."

Mrs. Jameson looked at her husband with a worried look on her face. "What about Jamie. I mean, what do we do from here?" Mr. Jameson looked flustered. "This is way too much to me. I love Jamie, but I really don't understand at all. He's a big strong boy, so why would he want to be a man in a dress? I'm going to stay at my mom's for a few days, and talk this over with her. I know she loves Jamie more than anything, so maybe she'll have some kind of idea how to talk him out of it."

Mrs. Jameson frowned at her husband as she watched him go outside and get into his car. She then decided to stop getting worked up over her husband and decided that she'd like to take some time to bond with her oldest daughter instead.

Mrs. Jameson smiled at that thought. "I can't wait to meet her."