Sweet Dreams-28...Oh Crap! WTF?

Chapter 28

The rest of the night is actually really different. I think Alex might have gotten that the doctor thing is scaring me and freaking me out because he keeps close and he slips his arms around me every now and then and we share little nuzzles and kisses.

He surprises me when we don’t retreat to our place but stay in the main house and maybe it’s that the girls are here but we actually stay and Alex digs through some stuff in the hall closet and takes out all these board games.

I’ve seen them before, I’ve played a few of them as a little kid at school and stuff but mostly I’ve never done this before. We dig things out called Sorry, and Trouble, Candyland but also Scrabble and Monopoly.

Adam still not overly friendly abstained right up until I started kicking butt in Scrabble. That’s when he started helping April which was sweet and made Alex take a second look and it was really cute with him leaning over her shoulder and whispering into her ear to help her and her actually surprising him with some good word strategy every now and then and there was some mild flirting between them in that almost fighting way when she tells him all innocently blinking that she actually had to read the odd book or two when she went to Penn state.

It still didn’t stop me from winning. And it got to that point where Adam had taken a seat and April was up and more or less out of the game. I still won.

“Another game?” I asked all Blink, blink, blink.

“How about we play something that we can all play and not just you two well read people.” April says and the others agree. And that’s when Adam nodded and reached into the pile and set down monopoly.

I…there was this intense look there and I couldn’t help but smile at him because it was so on.

Honestly I’ve never had this kind of fun before and it was the perfect almost TV show family like moment but just so good even if Adam and I were like super aggressive playing the game and it did actually go all the way to where he did beat me and I ran out of cash and slowly mortgaging my properties off to keep Adam at bay and Alex got all of us laughing even his dad when he was watching and having another slice of pie this time with cottage cheese on it and a huge glass of milk and he just gestured with his fork saying.

“This game is really out of date Hunter owns the electric company and she’s going broke, what happened to the government bail outs?”

It was a really nice moment and the rest of us actually had more pie once I had lost and headed off to bed.

Oh I so couldn’t sleep with the nerves and the thoughts of what there might be actually going on with me besides being pretty damned positive that I’m transgendered.

I think I slept for three hours and laid there in Alex’s arms until it was time to get up and go to school.

I know I could have begged off going to school but I was going insane with nerves and I didn’t even stay in bed when Alex moved to get up I was up right there with him and already puttering around as soon as I could to get things ready, getting into too much coffee and really fighting with my cravings for a smoke.

Why the fuck did I ever quit smoking?

I’m not just beating eggs for scramble when Alex comes in to the kitchen and hugs me from behind. “I could skip and go with you.”

“No…I’m just scared and being a big wuss.”

“You are not a wuss, not after what you lived through.”

“Yeah but I scared and like you just said after what I’ve been through this is only the Dr.s office.”

“When was the last time you’ve been to a hospital?”

“Never, a free clinic once in a very blue moon.”

“Well there you go. You have a good reason to be scared and nervous?”

“Okay but what if they find out about me and it gets out that I’m not a girl, and people think that you’re gay.”

………………………

There was the sound of a water bottle hitting the floor.

We both looked over and Jennifer is staring at the both of us her face this pale color of just pure shock on her face and then she looks at Alex and then she looks at me and then at Alex and them me again and these great big tears roll and spill out of her eyes and she makes this wet sounding sob and she turns and bolts past Cindy and down the stairs and Alex swears something like “Double-fuck…” and he takes off after her.

Cindy is just looking at me and she picks up the spilled water bottle and she looks at me and she shakes her head kind of almost in sad commiseration. “We make a good pair don’t we.”

“Yeah….” I’m…oh god…oh…I need a drink of something since my mouth has run dry and at the same time I want to hurl…I’d likely hurl if I drank anything right now and I just sort of stare at Cindy at a loss for words. I know she’s got her own thing to deal with and Jennifer’s involved with that too.

She actually looks like a combination of tired and in shock like the rest of us. I took a breath and went back to beating the eggs when I hear Jennifer scream… “BUT SHE’S A FUCKING BOY!”

There is no way that everyone in the house hadn’t heard that.

I’m crying now, trying to beat the eggs and I swear that I can feel everything slipping away from me and the world getting cold and grey around the edges except for the splotches of red that are getting into the eggs.

I hear Cindy’s voice.

“Hunter?”

I’m pretty sure that it’s Cindy’s voice. I turn to look at her and she’s getting up and running to me with a towel and she’s yelling but it sounds like she’s trying to yell at me and I’m just under water.

I’m falling too.

I the lights just go out.

The last thing I hear is Cindy’s voice. “Hunter!”

“SOMEBODY HELP!”