Being part of an Olympic skating pair should be excitement enough for one life, but for Erika that's only the beginning. Her skating partner, Tom Alan, is her ex-husband, who fell in love with former British ice dancer Milo, and all three of them live together and raise her daughter, whose father is Erika's ex-boyfriend, Bill, a rabid hockey fan who is old friends with Milo. Whew! As if that's not enough, Erika still loves Bill, loves Tom Alan, and might just love Milo, too. Add a couple of troubled teenagers to the pile, and suddenly training for the Olympics is the easy part. But Erika's never been a fan of the conventional, and one way or another the four of them will find a way to make their strange tangle of love, sex, and family work.

Transitions

“A student group at NYU. A transgender group. Jesse is a boy.”


Erika took her aside. “Jesse believes he was born into the wrong bodyIt’s called gender dysphoria…I think. I don’t know. I’ve read as much as I can online and half of it’s probably bullsh—wrong. The point is, Jesse…feels male, and she—he—wants to make the outside reflect the inside.”


“It’s been difficult. But look how she’s come out of her—Dang it!—how he’s lit up in just the time he’s been hanging out with us, and especially the other people he can relate to down at NYU with Milo.”


“It’s foolishness.” The pronouncement was not harsh, nor did it seem dismissive. The incongruity of words and tone left Erika without a response. “You do not do something so drastic for one person,” Kyoko declared.


“You do,” Jesse said, skating up behind them.


“Jesse…she didn’t mean anything.”


Chapter 33