I prayed that through her emergence mylife might actually start to take on some real meaning.I had often spent time outdoors as Laura, but only ever i...n the dead ofnight, never ever in the company of other people & never dressed in suchbeautiful clothing and shoes. Tonight was going to be different though. Iwas determined to take this chance, I knew there was an enormous risk thatAlex might react badly, he might even laugh, but so what? What could hepossibly do to harm me? After all, I now knew. As I sat there, he stirred in his sleep, groaned and then rolled over onto his front. Now, clad in those black underpants (the ones with the white waistband and piping!) the beautifully rounded shape of his bum was laying beside me. The temptation to do more to him was enormous but I was already feeling a bit guilty for what I had already done, although I kept telling myself, he had offered himself to me quite freely. I leaned over and put my nose between his lovely ass-cheeks and inhaled the. Thanks a lot."But in the end, she agreed, reluctantly. "Just so all this doesn't getme preggers," she said."It isn't as if we had swapped bodies," I objected. "I'm just a clone.You'll be safe." We hope," she said.The big day came. Betty and I had swapped the night before and had ourusual fun in bed. Then Saturday evening I started to dress up. But I raninto an unexpected problem.I had started having my period.Shit! That meant no sex with Steve. I had planned to let him go "all theway,". "ME: "OK, I guess that covers my current questions. Show me what else you have for me to see."At this request, the gray fog began to fade away and I could see a vast panorama of marvelous buildings scattered amid a rolling plain of mostly orange vegetation. The voice in my head told me that this color for the grass and leaves was the result of a copper base in the local equivalent of chlorophyll.I was told to run as fast as I could toward a blue building on the horizon. I began to run and I was.