Tina's Secret

"That's OK," she said with a laugh. "Thank you for trusting me. I won't
tell anyone."

"You know," I said, "you can tell me anything you want too."

Tina looked into my eyes and opened her mouth to speak. Then she closed it
again. I felt something pass between us but it was gone in the blink of an
eye. Tina looked at the clock on my desk and told me that it was time for
her to go. She had an 8 AM class. I thanked her for coming over and for
her help with my poem. I opened the door for her and, as she walked past
me, I put my hand on her elbow. She turned to face me and I suddenly
realized how class we were. Well, there was only one thing to do now. I
leaned in and closed my eyes. Our lips brushed together softly, then
parted.

"Goodnight," I told her.

"Goodnight," she said in a whisper, and then she was gone.

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Halloween
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That kiss was on my mind all the next day. I looked forward to coming to
class and talking to Tina about what had happened, maybe even ask her out to
a Halloween party that night, or hear an answer to my prayers in the form of
Tina confessing to me that she was a transsexual. I kept running over the
events of last night, as well as the last few weeks, trying to find some
clue which would tell me beyond any doubt that Tina had a cock in those cut
off shorts. She was nearly everything I wanted, all rolled up into one
package, but did she have a package? That was the question.

As it turned out, our teacher had some kind of family emergency to deal
with, so our Creative Writing class was cancelled that day. I never even
saw Tina. Dejected, I went home and took a nap for a few hours, until it
was time to meet up with my friend Gabe. He and I were going on a little
shopping excursion to find the last missing pieces for our Halloween
costumes. He was going as a gym teacher and I had made my own Superman
costume, a deliberately cheesy one constructed from blue sweatpants and a
sweatshirt, a logo cut off of Gabe's old Superman t-shirt, red briefs, and a
red sheet for a cape. It looked bad, but I knew people would love it.