At recess, Mikey went off to a corner of the schoolyard to think. He'd tried watching Jon teach the class, but it was just too weird. It was like watching a car accident...you couldn't look away.
Jon's movements became more and more effeminate, to the point at which Mikey had to stifle himself, as no one else in the class knew what he was seeing.
"Hi, Mikey..." a soft voice said. He looked up. It was his Mom. She looked more childlike...maybe it was the way she was walking and her clothes. She blushed, and sat down next to him. Gina had never done that. "Are you all right?"
"Yeah, I guess," he said.
Suddenly, she leaned over and kissed him on the cheek, then hurried off.
Mikey slunk further into his corner to the taunts of "Mikey's got a Girlfriend." Gina would never do that. She hated him. Why had his Mom, no matter how she was acting, do that to him?
