She got so many compliments on her outfit that day, she thought she was teetering from the sheer bliss of it all. She was pretty, or cute, everyone said. She had curves in ALL the right places. Her voice was breathy and sexy, the boys all fell over themselves to open a door or pull out a chair for her!
Unfortunately, with the new dawn would come a return to the dismal role of Abner.
Ugh.
Little troll.
Maybe she could just take over.
It's not like anyone who noticed would care he was gone, after all... she was HAWT!
I had no clue. I mean, I know the answers were there for me, but I was lost. I had only one option really left to me. So, I did as I had done so many times in the past... I turned to Jesus for the answer to my question.
"Hey," I whispered to get his attention, "What's the area between the Tigris and Euphrates called again?"
He dramatically rolled his eyes at me.
"You've got to start studying more, girl... er... dude, cheating is just wrong," came the whispered answer.
"Does that mean you're not going to tell me?"
I heard soft rustling grass of someone approaching behind where I sat. Probably her.
"Whaddya want?"
She sighed -- yes, it was her -- and came around the bench to sit next to me.
After a moment she reached out with a finger under my chin and tilted my head up, softly brushing away my tears with the other hand... "Is it so bad?"
"But... we're supposed to be lesbians -- girl power and all that -- how can we do that if we're both boys?"
She glared at me like I'd grown a second head... or neglected to clean my plate at supper. Then she let out one of her way over the top dramatic sighs. Finally, she scoffed, "You want me to write a piece that will tell a transgender story in only one hundred words?"
"Exactly one hundred," I softly corrected her, carefully plastering my face with an apologetic grin -- no sense in poking the bear, now, is there?
"Leonard --"
"Lydia, grandma," I murmured.
"Lydia, then... that's a tight order. Just what kind of transgender content exactly are we talking about including here?"