I could leave right now and spare further trouble. Or, I could give my brother a taste of his own bile. I shut the door and crept up the stairs until ...I could hear them."... what did you think, I'd stay pissed off? Gee, you've got a lot to learn about women." Wendy laughed."Your father, he was furious." My brother worried."Oh, he still is, but mom's been trying to cool him. That's why I got sent out of the house. I think they're at it for the third time since last night." You're kidding!" It's. When he came out about the same time as Beck's left, Beck's looked bright red "Oh Hello Melvin, you skiving?" He says "yeah, well just in the loo" but he could tell Beck's went quiet and didn't have her usual brash tone of voice.It was only when I left, he caught up with me, texted me once Id changed jobs and was in the pub one evening. Melvin tells me "You know you had an admirer in the shop, but will have to figure it out. She worked Mondays and Fridays and admitted you had a hot arse! I. There was shading to suggest elevated cheekbones, a narrower nose, and apouting lower lip.My face was no longer my own. When I frowned, a stranger reflected theexpression back at me. The coup de grace was a ridiculously large wig,pale blue, with bangs and a large bow above them, that she set atop myhead. There was something inside it that, when she pressed it firmlydown, made it stay in place. I got up and had to take another walk ofshame, up and down the narrow room, arms slightly extended. One day I just did it.I don’t know what my village thought of the madness that possessed “Deetga”. I don’t know what the poor man whose body I now possessed thought of his fate, trapped now in Deetga’s body. I do know that everyone in my new village thought “Cowmpu” was acting pretty weird for a week or two, until I had read enough language and custom and shared experience from the minds of those around me to pass as “normal”.But it wasn’t enough. Within a month I was bored again. And so when.