He and hismother sat around the kitchen table eating a small roast dinner. It wasstrange; having nowhere to go on Christmas day. To Neil, sitting in t...henew pink roll neck dress his mother had bought him, there was somethingunreal about the situation. He brushed his hair out of his face andplayed with his food."You really should tie your hair back Neil." It was his mother's habit,still unremarked upon, to call him Neil when she criticised him andJuliette when she praised him."Mum please, I get. I mean we should get a bong for ourselves. I have like eighty bucks on me." "I have about eighty too... You want to go get a sweet glass piece?" "I think I want to go get a sweet glass piece Maria," Christine grinned in agreement. "Let's go to the High Roller down by the beach. I heard it's not that expensive." "lets go, ho." Christine put her blond hair in a loose ponytail and followed Maria to her car. Christine switched the radio to some hip hop station while Maria backed out of the. She then leaned over and gave me a kiss blowing nothing but fumes in my mouth. She then smiled and told me that this is going to be a fun night. We continued to dance and an the drinks never seemed to stop. By now I am not sure what was drinking and I'm sure my new friend is in the same boat. At this point we were totally hammered and I invited her and her friends to my house. We went to the basement and played some card games and drank some more. After a couple of hours, one of my cousins. Such a weird family. On finding out the boy was cursed to turn into a girl, the mother had demanded that father and son commit seppuku. How terribly old fashioned. It had taken weeks to get the bloodstains out of the dojo. But now everything was back to normal, and Akane could try to meet Tate-chan later. He didn't seem to notice anyone as normal and boring as her, but Akane had her hopes. *********************** ending #4 suggested by Jared Ornstead: Akira picked up the "Debbie Does Dallas".