Suddenly, I felt strong arms around me and I was lifted up. As my face came out of the water and I took a clean breath, his face was beside me and I h...eard him say,“Don’t worry, I’ve got you!”He had too! Partly out of relief, I put my arms around him and clung tightly to him. In those moments, I had forgotten that I had no trunks on but survival takes precedence over modesty and I was only now coming to my senses. It was then that I realized that he wasn’t wearing his shorts either. The reason. But usne kuch nahi kha isse meri himmat bad gayi. Mene dhire dhire uske tummy pr hath pherta raha. Vo boliNidhi. Bhiya kya kar rahe ho. Raj. Kuch nahi tu so ja bs tere tummy pr hath pher raha hu .Vo kuch nahi boli phir mene himmat karke karke uski tshirt m hath haat daal karke tummy pr hath pherne laga. Or navel s khelne laga. Nidhi boli bhiya mut karo please gudgudi ho rahi h. Mene kha tu so ja. Usne kha neend nahi aa rahi h apka mobile dedo m usme movie dekh lu mene kha thik h or mobile de. “So you’d have been okay with it, apart from the bit with the actor playing you?” her smile a challenge to me, albeit a loving challenge.“Fuck, Jill,” was all I could think to say, still exasperated and upset, but my anger slowly dissipating as I entered the zone of tired bewilderment.“Honey?” she gently pushed.“Help me out here,” she asked, “Dave, baby, it’s genuinely difficult to know where to draw the line sometimes. You were fine with me getting fucked six ways to Sunday by Malcolm’s. We're survivors. We've faced up to worse terrors than those turds at the pool-table ever have." Terrors!" I spat, and it all came out, all the bile, all the fear. Things I had never admitted to anyone, never mind a stranger I'd just met. "Like the terror of being forcibly trans-sexed and you're not old enough to understand why? I mean, do you know what its like suddenly being dressed as a boy and thrown onto the playground to cope? To have your childhood dreams of princesses and marriage and.