Have some fun with it. Walk with a swagger. Be anass." An ass, as in asshole?" I asked. "Why would you want me to act likean asshole?" Because once... you become a woman, you'll never have the opportunity tobe an ass the way a man can be an ass," my mother said while trying tokeep a straight face.And that's when it hit me. Today really was going to be my last day asDarren. A montage of thoughts flashed across my eyes and made mesmile. "I can't get in any trouble today. Can I?"Mom raised an. On grouchy Old Man Witherspoon who was out mowing his lawn,and got quite indignant to be showered upon thusly. And then he flew overHawkins Park where Aaron and Micky and Jim were hanging out sitting on apicnic table. They had kind of been his buds for a while, but recentlyhad turned against him, but now they were totally impressed as he circledoverhead, "Wow Ace, you can fly!"So NOW they wanted to be his friends...But instead he did his hovering trick, where he hung in one spot andpointed his. He nodded. “Sure, have fun,” he whispered back. She glowed a smile at him.Denise arrived a few minutes later and they turned on the TV news. The news basically duplicated the tabloid articles, then the reporter interviewed two parents from a London school which was running the Program; both parents appeared angry that their school would be continuing to require student participation and they told the reporter that their children would refuse if selected. The piece ended with a brief interview. I watched still unable to move. My mind was racing but I felt paralyzed.The man told me to follow him up around the parking garage to the top level. I paused for an external second and u*********sly trailed behind. We had reached his rusty tan sedan. He told me to get into the back seat and undress. I got in and shut the door. I heard the locks latch as he started his car. I undressed and he took my clothes, placing them in the front. He told me to buckle into the middle seat in back. He turned.