What was going on? I looked like me, but something had changed."Just one of her tricks," I told myself. "Just more mind games."I looked in the mirror ...and told myself, "You are a boy. You are male."But I said it in a voice that I swear was higher and more feminine."Nancy!" yelled my mother. "Don't dawdle! Get dressed and get down here!" I showered as quick as I could. Mom had taken the soap out of the bathroom and replaced with a liquid skin cleanser that had a flowery smell and promised to. ” I pointed to Deirdre as she was moving toward the door to leave.“Done.” Abernathy was all smiles, he turned to Deirdre, “Are you all right with that?”“Certainly.” She seemed a little taken aback with my request, but I knew that if she was half a tenacious as an adult as she was as a kid, I’d couldn’t be in better hands.Deirdre left Jason and I alone to finish the business at hand, he gave me 3 file folders and what looked like a safe deposit box outside a bank vault. The instructions for. ’ he looked at her with a mouthful. ‘Swallow your food, and answer me already.’ she raised the tone a bit. ‘Well, if you really wanna know, I had a chit-chat with my future father-in-law.’ he answered looking annoyed. ‘It must have been a pleasant conversation, since it had bloodshed.’ she said sarcastically. ‘He told me to stay away from his daughter till I ask him permission to marry her. Now can I eat?’ he replied and didn’t wait for her answer to stick a fork full of food in his mouth.. Today is the first day in your life since birth that you are able to take a shower all by yourself, like a normal unpampered adult. Usually, your caring yet slightly overbearing mother was usually the one that stood by your side and did most of the cleaning for you, and despite your maturing age, she has still continued to do so for as long as you could remember in your eighteen years of life. That you remember.Except today! Today is the day after your recent birthday! It's hard to believe that.