Luis - you need comfort

Even though he took all dignity away from me today, I’ve always turned to Luis for comfort. Almost in tears, I dial his name. He picks up immediately. “Luis, I- what’s happened to me?”

“Alex? Are you okay?”

I start to cry as I explain everything that’s happened to me since we last saw each other, and how humiliated I feel.

“I’ll be there right away.” Before I can say anything, he hangs down the phone, leaving me a crying mess still in my girly uniform.

I soon hear a knock at the door and open it to see Luis. He steps inside the door and closes it after him.

“Alex, I’m so sorry for ... making you feel like this.”

“It’s not you,” I sobbed. “I kind of liked it when you did it but ... why does everyone want me to be a girl today?”

Luis gave me a tight hug and my tears dried up a little. It just felt so natural to cry in the arms of my man like this... No! Why was I thinking this way?

“I don’t know about everyone else...” Luis said, “but you smell so good to me today. You smell like a girl. It just made me realise how many other pretty things there are about you.”

With tears in my eyes, I look up at Luis. The wet spot I’ve left on his t-shirt is clinging to his abs. “Really?”

“You’re even a pretty crier,” he teases, and I laugh. “That’s it, baby. Show daddy that pretty smile. Daddy doesn’t like it when you cry...”

I realise with a start that he’s talking about himself - he’s my daddy.

“Uh...” you say. “Let me just clean myself up in the bathroom quickly.”

“Of course, baby,” Luis says. “Do you want me to come with you?”

“No, I think I need to be by myself.”

“I understand,” says Luis and I close the bathroom door behind you.

I look at yourself in the mirror as I dry my eyes and my tear-stained cheeks. I am pretty, Luis is right. But I’m also very much a boy. Even in this uniform. At least, for now. When I get out there, I need to tell Luis my decision: am I going to be his friend, or his girlfriend?