When we walked into the restaurant that Mr. Hancock had made reservations at I was suddenly concerned that we would be kicked out because of dress code. I mentioned that to Amy and she replied, "Theyre used to people coming in like this from the park. As long as you make reservations they dont have a problem with it." I knew Mr. We were actually seated rather quickly, and they didnt even give us a second glance for our clothing as far as I could tell. Our waitress came to the table soon after that. "Bonjour! Je mappele Elodie, your waitress for this evening. May I start you out with an appetizer?" She asked. Mr.

That next day was Friday, so much for TGIF? When I got to school kids were whispering behind my back like I was some sort of alien that inhabited Brandons body. First hour came and went without incident. During nd period I got called to come down to the office where I saw my parents waiting. We went in together to talk to the Principal, Mrs. Hinther.

The next day was actually fairly uneventful. I hung out with Amy at lunch time, as well as her other friends. I definitely felt like we were becoming close friends, but didnt know if that would mean we would be boyfriendgirlfriend? I honestly wasnt interested in that at this point. I had gone home that day and started looking up my situation on the internet. I quickly discovered there were a lot of others out there like me. I also discovered there was a name, transgendered.

I walked into the choir room and sat down on the front riser where I stood due to my short size. Mrs. Schultz greeted me as I came in. She was the one person in this school for whom I believe more students picked on than me; As a new teacher she was making just about every mistake in the book of mistakes, and making up some new ones. Even I would place bets on the likeliness that she would end up running to her office crying some days. "Brandon, here, this a new piece were going to sing.

The next day school went decently, except for one thing; Homework! Amy and I had first period together, and Mr. Krantz decided that this was the week to do two things. One, we had a paper due Friday based off a lab we did that day dissecting a frog. The second was a major test on Friday that was supposed to be a practice final exam. We still had months till the end of the year, why were we taking a practice final? Amy and

I woke up to mom standing in the doorway. She could clearly tell that I had been crying again. I was sure that she had also heard about earlier and as she saw me stir she came over toe my bed and gave me a hug. "Sweety, what happened?" Part of me hated it when she called me that, but part of me liked it for some reason. I related to her all of the bullying crap that had happened to me that day. When I told her about what happened with Matt after school.

By the time the bus pulled up to the school I had regained some control of my eyes and wiped them. I went out the bus and took my instrument into the band hall storage room. I then waited outside the main door to go in for the day. I could feel the stares of the other kids burning in my backside. Thats when I noticed Matt had joined up with the group of guys that had been with Lucas. He had brought his own group with him to make a formidable gang of kids.

I had meant to take that out before her parents saw me with it; I decided to do damage control and just go ahead and take it off. Amy saw what I was doing and I passed it to her to put back in her bag. Her parents didnt say anything about it, so I decided they must not have noticed. We talked non-stop with each other on the way down to town ; it was about a minute drive. When we got there we found a parking space and started walking around

The next day we all were kind of tired but still excited that we had done so well at contest. In the morning announcements the principal congratulated us on our fine performance at the contest. For the most part the day absolutely flew by, and before I knew it I was riding the bus home with Amy. When we got to her stop she told me, "First person to the door chooses what we do!" and she took off. To my credit I made it only a half second after her, but I still lost ; even if it wasnt fair! grumble We got inside and I asked, "So what are we doing today?" "Come upstairs

When I came out of shock I ran through my brain about how my body felt. It really didnt feel like anything was seriously injured, but I didnt get up right away because it just seemed like too much work at that moment; "Miss, are you okay?" I turned my head to see a ski patrolman standing next to me. "Umm;" miss? Well, I dont want to seem like a freak, so I decided not to correct him. "Yeah, I just decided it was more comfortable on the ground.