"Thanks for offering." Susan said, "I don't really believe in luck. I do wish that there is nothing wrong with me. I just want to be a healthy girl." She added giving Robin back the rock.
Accepting the rock back from Susan, Robin said, "I wish that too."
For just an instant Robin felt like he had been turned inside out and sideways, all at the same time.
It past so quickly that Robin wasn't sure it had happened.
Robin set his lucky rock down and he and Susan began to talk about things. At first Robin had a bit of trouble keeping up with Susan who knew just about everything about fashion, boy bands, and boys.
Knowing that Susan thought he was a girl, Robin tried extra hard to think like a girl when talking with Susan.
About an hour after Robin had been moved into the room, his mother arrived. Robin heard her in the hall outside the room asking the nurse at the nurse's station where Robin's room was.
Robin picked up his lucky rock, hoping that everything went well.
Just then his mother entered the room, "Robin "
