The snickering was instantly swallowed, but the smiles could only be hidden."Four bells on the First Watch and all is well!" intoned the ship's AI."No..., all is bloody well not well," muttered Sub-Decurion Chan."AI, can you tell the difference between sponsor, concubine and dependant when they're all nude like that?" Tribune Whitefeather demanded."Affirmative, Tribune Whitefeather. I am tracking each individual." Can we use tan lines, maybe? The ones without tan lines are the sponsors?" suggested. Bye bye."After that, I didn't hear anything else, so I decided to go back tosleep. As I drifted off, I wondered what kind of surprise did my motherget, and what would I wake up to in the morning? What I really wantedwas to be a girl.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Click! "... and that was Clay Aiken with his latest song on Q100 all thehits radio. Next comes a shout out from Alfie to Milly, 'Love is cominghome with me tonight.' and their song request, Michael Damien's "OneChange in my Life" :"Just when I know. .My relationship with my family is not currently a positive one,"Telemachus says coldly. "They neither approve of my lifestyle or myrelationship, particularly my- I mean, our marriage." Pity," dad shrugs. "If I was married to someone like Ophelia I'd want toshow her off to my family, even if I was only eighteen." If it were my choice, I would show Ophelia off to the whole world,"Telemachus says, smiling happily as he gazes into my BFF's eyes. "I justwish that there were those who were willing. Honolulu, HINo. No, sex wasn’t supposed to be like this. It wasn’t supposed to be some awful man making her do it or else. It was supposed to happen when she was older, old enough. It was supposed to be fun, exciting, and beautiful.And it was supposed to be with Paul.With that thought the eight-year-old broke for the door.And no I haven’t written the rest. Some in the middle and the very end, but not all the sexually abusive details. I couldn’t post those details here anyway and, this time at.