I was so sore after that, I hardly ever got out of bed. The only time I even moved was to text Cobbler. I was on painkillers, but even that didn’t stop everything. I mean, they removed a piece of my arm skin to– Okay, TMI moment, but it’s my story, so who cares. They removed it in order to construct my… genitalia. So that hurt like hell. But still, I was happy. Even while I was hurting I finally felt comfortable with my outward appearance. The body may have been cosmetically created, but I definitely felt like I was in the body I was supposed to be born with.

Cobbler knew I was going to be going home soon. Which meant we’d be far away. I didn’t want to leave him behind, honestly I wanted to take him home with me. I fell for him so hard, he was more first love, and I wanted him to be my last. He promised to visit when the school year was over though, and I was definitely happy about that.