You think I’d bed a nobody?’ She stared into my eyes and I felt George’s humiliation. ‘Yes, just like that.’ ‘Am I a lesbian?’ ‘What?�...�� ‘Well, I just wanted to know what was in your mind, Trish. I mean, I don’t let George have me or anyone else come to that. Is there a sub-text?’ I was angry and could not work out why. ‘Just because I am doesn’t mean I write all my women as dykes.’ ‘I wasn’t suggesting you did. I was merely asking.’ Her voice was even and soothing. Emily’s eyes sparkled in the. She didn't even hesitatewhen she told me that I might as well take the job, seeing as how I wasalways coming home and changing into a skirt anyway! Over dinner I toldShelly, who simply grinned at me, telling me that she knew it wouldhappen some day anyway. Then Shelly told mom and I that she had found anapartment and planned on moving within a week. Mom took that news wellenough I guess, and that night Shelly gave me a lot of her clothes, mostfit me and not her, and I set out what I was going. What's your decision?"It didn't take me long to decide. My spirit was broken. I dropped my clothing and crawled back into my mom's bed. I think I would have cried but I was too numb."Now get to sleep," Mom whispered as she hugged me.No way I'm going to be able to sleep I thought but that was the last thing I remembered before I heard the clock radio blaring music about six hours later.Nothing much happened that morning, which was Saturday. I picked at my breakfast and avoided Hannah's extra. Cuando vio la mueca de horror que mostraba su amiga, record? que no le estaban haciendo el amor. Estaba viviendo los recuerdos de una mujer violada. Volvi? a sentirse culpable. Agarr? las manos de su amiga, apretando con fuerza.-Vamos, ya queda poco cielo. Erica y Joyce, como si fuesen una sola, notaron la eyaculaci?n de su violador. Thompson dio un par de pasos torpes hacia atr?s. Casi cay? de culo al suelo, pero mantuvo el equilibrio. Erica, sin reincorporarse, baj? la falda tanto como pudo..