“What do you mean? I’m not a girl!” I cry softly. “He is crazy. I got to get out of here,” thinking to myself.
Doctor Wheeler sat at a small table in the room. “We have the lab results. It shows you are now a girl.” He shows me a sheet of paper. I get nervous and start twisting my new long hair around my finger as I listen to the crazy doctor

“If you don’t mind, we would like to do some tests?” He said getting up from the table.

"Well, they're wrong, I feel smaller, but I still am a boy.” I stare at myself in the mirror. I check my baggy clothes, almost falling off me as I hold them up with my hands.

“I will set up the tests…”

“But doctor, I’m scared” I look like I was about to cry, as I play with my long hair again.

“I love your long blonde hair Nathan... or, should it be Natalie?”

“Um, I need to get some other clothes. These are falling off me.” I get scared holding my jeans up, can’t even see my feet.

“The only things we have in your size are these cute hello kitty pajamas.”

“I notice you’re getting shorter every minute.

“But aren’t they for a girl?”

“Natalie, you are a girl.” He said chuckling.

“But, but no, I’m not,” I cry softly.

“Here put these on as well. He says handing me pink panties. You don’t want to wander around with no underwear.

“I still don’t believe I’m a girl.”

“You will when you change into the panties.”
I reach out to take the clothes, and my pants and underwear slide to the floor.
I see him looking the other way and I put on the clothes. I didn't want to see it, but putting on the panties made it hard for me not to notice what I lost and gained done there.

“There you go, young lady.”

“Doctor, I appear so small now. How old are girls that wear these size clothes?”
The doctor smiles at what I said.
"The clothes you're wearing are what five to seven-year-old girls wear.”

“What? Really?” I pouted. I sat down on the bed. “I feel like I need to rest. I feel dizzy.”
Doctor Wheeler helped me into the bed.

I relax lying as my mind goes 100 miles an hour in every direction. “What’s my girlfriend going to think?” I silently thought, as I cry softly to myself.
I close my eyes as the doctor leaves me alone, lying on the bed. The doctor leaves the room.

“I can’t stay here” I open my eyes, “I need to get out of here”. I climb off the bed, noticing how tiny my feet are now. “This is crazy.”

I walk over and open the hospital door. I peer out looking both ways, seeing no one, I simply wander down the hallway. “Dang, I can’t walk home in a girl’s nightgown. I will stand out big time. I need some other clothes.”
I hear someone coming, and I slide into the hospital room closest to me. A nurse walks by with a wheelchair to another room, heading to another place.

I notice a bag on the floor of the empty room. Then a new nurse steps in. Realizing it’s that same nurse. I turn and see the nurse. Thinking to myself; I am caught. The nurse didn't stop, she just kept walking past and towards the nurses station.

I quickly put on the clothes, not noticing until I was finished that I put on a skirt. Not wanting to search for any other clothes, I head out to the hall and walk casually, trying not to be suspicious.

I noticed Doctor Wheeler was walking down the hall, but didn't notice me. He looked like he was more interested in what’s on his clipboard.
I was almost to the exit of the hospital, when I spotted mom wandering in.
I cross my legs together when viewing mom walking towards me.
I turn the other way and head straight for the ladies’ room to hide.
Mom notices me but doesn't do anything. I guess she didn't recognize me. “What a cutie.” she says still going down the hall.

Doctor Wheeler stepped into the room. I was originally in. He was getting ready for some tests that I was supposed to take. He noticed I was gone. He immediately told a nurse. Mom walks up to my room and noticed I was gone as well.

“Excuse me?” She says to a nurse. “Where is my son? He’s supposed to be in this room” The nurse looks at a chart.

“I’m sorry lady; you must have the wrong room. A little girl occupies this. Which at the moment is missing?”
Mom thought for a minute. While walking, she remembered a little girl about a minute ago. She heads to the restroom.

As hide in the restroom, I see my reflection in the mirror for the first time. I was in shock. I looked like my mom when she was little. I saw pictures of her, so I kind of knew what she looked like. I don’t know why, but I started to giggle.

Just then the door opens, and a nurse walks into the restroom looking for me.
I hide, hoping nobody catches me.
The nurse checks under the stalls, but doesn’t find any feet and walks out.
I breathe a sigh of relief and step out of the stall right about the time my mom walks into the room.

“Oh crap!” I just stare up at her.

“Nathan?” Mom said, staring down at me.

"Who?" I say.

That same nurse returned into the room.

"There you are Natalie," she grumbled. "We have been searching for you all over the place."

"Natalie?" Mom repeated my new name. "Is that what you call yourself now?"

"Yes," I cry glancing down at the ground.

"Come on Natalie," the nurse said, taking me by my hand and heading down the hall. "Doctor Wheeler wants to do a few more tests on you."

As we walked out of the hospital, mom held my hand.
"So the doctor told me you are as young as a six year old now," mom told me.

"A six year old?" I whined.
"Yes," Mom laughed. "And because of that, he gave me a booster seat for you to sit in while we are in the car."

We walk to the car. mom puts in the booster seat, and I sulk as I watch.

“Why can’t I just sit in a regular seat?”

“It’s the law of the state," Mom told me, "You have to be in a booster seat until you grow taller. Now come on. We have to make it to the airport to pick up Jennifer.
"Oh great, Jennifer," I thought. "Just what I need, my sister seeing me like this."

"But mom!" I cry as we head into the mall at the airport.
"No butts!” mom scolded, "It's dresses and skirts, no pants"
I cry as we step into the building
Your sister won't be here for a few minutes, so this gives us plenty of time to buy a dress for you to wear and show off to her.

We head into a store called ‘Just Girls’ I felt angry. I gazed down at the floor and saw a picture of a clubhouse. with a sign saying “Girls only, no boys allowed.”

“Just Girls?” I thinking to myself. "Good luck finding pants now"
We step in and find all kinds of cute clothes. A sign that says "Why wear pants?"

“Fantastic, this sucks!” I whisper.

A sales lady walks up to us. “What a cute little girl? How old are you?”
"She's six."

I look around not realizing I am still holding mom’s hand like a toddler and staring at a dress.

“Do you like that dress? I notice you keep staring at it,” the saleslady said looking at me.

“ Um, no, I wasn’t staring at it,” I lied. “Just looking around the store.”

Mom whispered to the sales lady, “I will get that dress for her.”
I see them talking, but can’t hear what they’re saying.

“Come on Natalie, let’s look for clothes,” mom says. “You pick, and I will decide.”

We make it to see Jennifer just in time. I was wearing the new dress I was looking at earlier. I didn't expect mom to actually get it.

As we walk, I see Jennifer, and I put my head down as I hold mom’s hand.
Jennifer runs up to us and hugs mom. Hi mom.” She looks down at me, “Who's the little girl?”

“This is Natalie, your sister.”
I look up at Jennifer smiling down at me.

“Welcome back sis,” I say.

“ Nathan?”

“No," I sigh. I'm Natalie now.”

“How'd you become a little girl?” she giggles.

“Long story," I'll explain in the car ride home."

We start walking towards the exit to the parking lot.

As we turned the corner, I saw Jennifer stop in her tracks.

"Look over there?” Jennifer cried. mom and I glance towards where Jen is pointing. We see a woman struggling to escape these three weird looking people with no luck.
One took huge bite out of her arm.

mom drops her purse and almost screamed in pure horror.