My mother, bless her open mindedness gaveme the opportunity to buy my own clothes of my choosing to wear what Iwanted when I wanted and as any typical... teenager would, I instead chose totry and conform, to avoid being anything other than normal.I have regretted this decision ever since and to my shame; at times haveblamed my mum for not forcing the issue.Coward.Fast forward and my mental state and inability to deal with my conditionhave caused me to be unreasonable and confrontational. At. 'Oowwww', I called out as the rubber tipped sword bounced off the edge of my collar bone.'Would have hurt a lot more if it was a real one', Tara said, slightly patronisingly.We restarted, and almost immediately I lost my footing and had to roll over just Tara was bringing her sword down on my torso. I brought my weapon up and caught her on her stomach.'Nice hit', she said as I was scrambling to my feet. 'So you've won one. You won't win another'She was wrong ... I did win again, but only two. ” she said quietly. “I just ... I really don’t want to be thinking about boys right now, you know?”I chuckled. “Yeah, me too.” We exchanged smiles as if we were sharing an inside joke and dived into our lunches.“Y’know...” she began slowly after a minute of silence, her mouth full. “It’s kind of hard not to talk about it.”“Is that because of recent events?” I asked, chewing. “Maybe it’s because of how recent they are, too...”She shrugged. “Is it weird being in the council with Phil?”I paused.. There was no way that we could hide that we were doing something. Our friendly Utorians said that the Utorians aboard the spaceships would wonder at what we were doing. However, the average Utorian had so little imagination that it would soon forget us since we could not be seen to be doing anything that would harm them.It was in April that we received another surprise. It turned out that Jake was female, and she came into heat. The other three Utorians were all male, and they took turns.