“Hi Beth, it’s Steve Adams,” I said when she answered.“Steve? Holy moly! I haven’t heard from you in ages! How are you? Are you still seeing... Kara?”“I’m good. I’m still seeing Kara, but it’s a bit complicated. As usual.”She laughed, “Four years later and you still haven’t calmed down? Why am I not surprised? What can I do for you?”“I have a proposition for you.”“Yeah, right! Your stupid rule wouldn’t allow it even if I drove up to Chicago today and stripped naked in front of you!”“It sounds like. We did everything together, school, concerts, interest in boys or girls. I knew her taste in guys very well and when we were both a bit drunk shortly after our sixteenth birthday we shared our interest in girls. Our confession was in between shots of tequila, so it was only the next day that it dawned on me.She must have come to the same realization, as I got a call from her just that day.“You like girls?” She gasped over the phone. “What do you like about them? Do you look at the girls’ bodies. .Meru toilet vellinappudu kurchuntaru kada alla kuchondi…Akka gontikila kurchundi..Mee kaalu koddigha dooram pettandi..Kallu koddiga edamu cesindi vadina..Emayya ..Nuvvu eppudina ee adadani manani(pookuni) choosava?Chudaledu annanu..Ippudu nuvvu mee vadina gari daggariki velli langa etthi chudu..Vadina daggariki velanu … Mancham kinda kurchoni …Onukutu unna chetulatho langa koddiga ethanu…Lopaliki chusanu…Ori devudaaaaaaaaaaa…. Pacchaga balangha unna vadina thodalu…Avi kalisina sandhi. It was the only place that Brian felt comfortable taking hisshirt off and revealing his skinny chest. They'd swim, they'd shower, andthey'd fool around. Her back yard was very private.Brian was spending his whole summer as another person. This was finebecause after four years of being stuck as a twelve year old, it wasexciting to be growing. He liked pretending he was someone else.For the past four years, he'd stare at his underdeveloped body searchingfor change. For four years, nothing.