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After filling erin in on your night and subsequent morning, which trualy wasn't eventful but before you could ask what happened at home after you left the bell rang. "Go, I'll see you at lunch." She nodded and hugged you tight again like she may never see you again.

Tom stayed with you for the first class since you had the same class that was easy but now he had chemistry and you had english. You were scared as hell but you didn't want to keep using tom. "I'll be fine." You said reassuring yourself more than him really.

"I know you will." The way he says it makes you almost believe him, but standing alone at your locker taking your daily meds you were not so sure. "I'm fucked." You sigh. So many worrisome thoughts ran through your mind. First and foremost was you should have taken your car so you could escape. When you feel a slap on your ass. You spin around ready to fight when you see billy and marvin.

"Dude I've heard of stealing a girl's panties but this is a bit much don't you think?" billy teased with his goofy smile.

"Seriously what's with the get up?" Marvin asked. "There's some talk." You expected by now there was several rumors most of which werent true.

"It's hard to explain." Instintively you covered your chest.

"You a girl?" No one was ever sure if marvin was bullheaded or smart, but damn if he didn't have a way of cutting through the bull.

"Yeah." Again your mind screamed at your body to move to prepare for a fight or run but again your body refused.

"Alright. See ya at lunch." Marvin raised his fist and you bumped him back like always. You breathed a sigh of relief.

"Dude. It's not right." billy sighed. "You gonna get to see all them chicks in the lockerroom and I'm not!" He laughed again slapping marvin on the chest.

Later in class you couldn't help but stare at them thinking how great your friends were. For most of the day in your core group nothing had changed but you could tell they wanted to ask questions. At lunch you sat with tom and your sister. Apparently the guy she was making out with the other night had picked up her phone and left it with the principal's assistant at the front. When she opened it he had left her a message explaining that the guy who **** you both had been aressted shortly after you ran out of the club, he and rick both acted as witnesses and thankfully rick would not be pressing **** charges. "Thank god."

"You decked him?" tom asked not even trying to contain his amusement.

"I thought he roofied me." Tom hated what happened but he was glad he got his clock clean since he couldn't do it himself. "What happened after I left?"

"You know mom."

"She did dishes?"

"Very loudly."

"How do you do dishes loudly?" Tom asks confused.

"It usually involves breaking them." By now you knew your dad knew, god only knows what she told him, but you were far more concerned with kyle. "How's kyle?"

She gulped down her soda and gave you the look telling you it should be obvious. "Heartbroken, sad, confused, scared." She sounded angry but you couldn't tell if she was angry at you or your mother. You couldn't blame her if she was mad at you.

"I'm sorry."

A tray slapped across from you followed by billy and marvin. "Tom how do you always get food before us?"

"I'm cuter." Tom smiled. While it was true billy was cute himself.

Marvin stared tom down, if you didn't know him you would think he was a violent person but marvin unfortunately just had one of those faces even though he was a very gentle person. Off the court of course. "So, what's the deal with this guy?" He asked you again.

"...I'm tom?"

"You dating her or what?"

You **** on your grape soda "Oh god it burns!" you cough and quickly wipe your borrowed clothes. Despite **** you were thankful for marvin, his quick acceptance was uplifting but still shocking.

"Hey spitters are quitters." billy laughed.

"We are. I mean I'm his, he's my boyfriend."

"Goes without saying right?" Marvin asked.

"Yeah." Tom answered.

"What?What goes without saying?" you look between them frantically. What could they be talking about? Was there something obvious about you?

Erin put a hand on your shoulder "It's a guy thing, I'll explain later." It felt weird not knowing about guy things, you were born one after all. But also not knowin felt good as well.

"Hey, do you have the time?" Billy asked erin out of nowhere.

"Uh sure." She pulled out her phone "It's-"

"No, the time to write down my number?" Oh god billy was hitting on your sister and right in front of you.

"Does that line ever work?" She quipped.

"Maybe, why dont we get together and discuss it?"

Erin turned towards you "This one is persistant.".

Lunch continued as normal and in class apparently the rumor mill was alive and well. A few girls had come up to you and asked you outright if they were true. Several were nowhere near true, somehow people thought you were your own twin sister and you had actually died. Some believed you fell into a vat of estrogen, as if there were vats of hormones laying around open for humans to fall into. You had to answer the same questions a lot. "Yes I'm a girl. No I wasn't born one. It's why I'm transgender. No I haven't cut anything off."

You were very relieved to find yourself in the lockerroom. Despite the season being over you still had gym class as your final class for the day. The other guys were already there when you walked in. Billy gave a wolf whistle "Heads up fellas lady in the lockerroom."

Everyone already knew by now what was really going on with you and most didn't have a problem with it, most. Rick was not one of those guys. Rick never liked you to begin with. You paid him no mind as you opened your locker thankful you leave gym clothes in your locker. The thought crossed your mind now that you could have worn your gym clothes all day instead. You had to laugh at yourself though it worked out in the end you thought, for the most part at least.

Marvin was suddenly beside you. "You might want to go to the girls lockerroom." You wanted to tell him you didn't want to make them unconfortable when you followed marvin's eyes and apparently some of the guys were highly anticipating your unveiling.

"Right." You grabbed your stuff and left. You clutch your gym bag for comfort as you enter the lockerroom expecting screams and lawsuits but thankfully the few girls that were still behind were too busy with gossip or changing or both to notice your existence. You took an empty locker and changed quickly, but not quick enough apparently as a girl tapped you on the shoulder.

"Hey what's your name?" She asked. "You're that guy that's a girl right?"

"She's not a guy." One girl jumped to your defense.

"You know what I mean." she snapped at the girl defending you.

"Kara." You managed to say.

"Right, kara, next time bring a sports bra." She left back to her locker and the girl she was talking with.

You breathed a sigh of relief and closed your locker "Thanks." and went to the court. Stepping onto the basketball court was like stepping into another world for you. You could leave your troubles behind, you were a baller and that's all that mattered.

Rick was guarding you pretty hard, throwing elbows whenever he had the ball, even going so far as to outright shove you in a terribly hidden attempt at reaching for the ball. "Hell's your problem?" you shouted standing up shoving him back.

"If you can't hang with the men maybe you should play with the girls!" Your foreheads pressed against one another's like angry rams butting heads.

"I beat your ass every time rickie!" Rick hated being called rickie. "You know rick, I made out with a guy named rick once, is that your issue? You want me but you cant have me and it twists you up inside."

Rick shoved you away to deck you for the nerve you struck but marvin caught his arm wrapping him up in a half nelson. "Simmer down rickie." Marvin hissed.

"No let him go, I kicked his ass before I'll do it again!" You charged after rick only to be stopped by billy.

"Dude, you got a little mad dog thing going on. Let's chill."

"You're defending him?"

"Dude, no. You got enough shit going on." Billy was serious, which was something you've never seen, it was enough to break through your anger enough to walk away and sit on the bench. A few of the girls who sat on the benches every day sat next to you. Suddenly they wanted to talk to you? You really didn't like the attention. It felt like you were a thing, not a person. While the girls were pestering you the same questions you were being asked all day you noticed the girl who asked you your name in the lockerroom was playing half court ball with the other girls.

Innevitabely the ball ricocheted off the rim bouncing to you. You quickly grabbed the ball up "Hey." she jogged over "Ball." After passing her the ball she called back "Thanks and you can play if you want, kara."

"Your name is kara? That's so adorable." one of the many girls surrounding you gushed. And as much as you wanted to go play rick's voice was in your head. You were a girl but they were still your team, you had earned your spot damn it! Everyone was treating you like you were different now but you werent. You were the same person you always were. Not someone's doll. Not someone's fashion accessory. As you leave you without a word you hear one of the girls on the bench proclaim "What a dick.".