“Let’s go then,” she says. You follow her and put your bags in the car before getting in yourself. Danielle drives off and the two of you talk ...about the surgery. You’re both excited and scared at the same time. You obviously hope this will solve Danielle’s health problems, but if the surgery doesn’t solve them, the doctors don’t know what would. Danielle parks the car in the hospital’s underground parking lot. There’s no one around, which gives the two of you the opportunity for one last act. Ms. Johnson gave me a list of what she wanted done. Iasked her if it was OK to wear pants when I went outside to clean thegarage. She replied, "Staci, you will never wear pants! If you ever askagain, you will be punished!" She added, "Make sure to iron all of yourmaster's tee shirts. He can be very finicky."That was the first time she referred to Derrick as my master. It feltvery uncomfortable at first. But I guess he was my master. I could notdisobey him. He controlled my finances. Yes that was inconvenient, but it wasexciting too. It reinforced again that I was leaving my male life.In retrospect, I realise that some time around then I dropped themedallion.Around 9 in the morning, as Rachel I came jogging out of the other end ofthe reserve. I carried a water bottle, into which I'd somehow stuffedPaula's shirt, shorts and backpack.Then I jogged on to Rachel's apartment to begin my new life.*****That evening, when I realised I'd mislaid it, I went back to the reserveto try. " she blurted and blushed a deep pink.He stared at her, mouth open and shocked " You want me to be your boyfriend huh?" he asked, coming back to his senses and eyeing her up and down, she wasn't too bad looking, she might be nice on the eyes and he liked her enough, on his search his eye caught something pick and bright sticking out of her mini skirt, his mind quickly moved to "the dark side" as his friends and his so often joked."Ummm..." He said, his mind still on the strap of her pink thong.