"Simone, are you alright?" Rick Sheppard (the assistant principal) asked, walking into the room. "I thought I heard someone cry out."
Simone didn't answer him. She just kept staring at her new nameplate. "I'm married," she muttered to herself, trying to process that and everything else that had happened.
"They still haven't fixed that?" Rick asked, grabbing the nameplate out of her hands.
"Huh?"
"Your nameplate is wrong, remember? It's supposed to say 'Mrs. Simone Ross'. I'm not even sure why they were using your maiden name instead of your married name. I mean, you've been married for almost thirty years. By now, I'd think they'd get something like that right."
Thirty years? Simone thought, uneasily. It was bad enough that she was now a woman, but on top of that she was also married to some guy for nearly three decades? She couldn't even think about living with a guy for that long. She still thought of herself as a man.
Rick placed the nameplate back on the desk, then said ...
