Chapter 40

Not long afterwards, Dennis, my mother, and I moved to a town far, far away from the town I had been born and raised in. I never went to kindergarten again. Or to school, for that matter. My mother applied to the Ministry of Education to home school me and that’s just what she did. Most days.

I was thin and pale as a child. I guess I was pretty for a boy. My dark brown hair was long and straight, and my fringe was cut in a perfect line just above my eyebrows. I very easily passed for a girl and fooled everyone, just as I had fooled Dennis. It was to my benefit to make sure I did a good job. I’d already had a taste of what happened to boys who wore dresses.

Six months later my step-father found out I wasn’t really a girl.