Chapter 3

"I'm not..." I clutched at my shirt, tears streaming down my face.

"I can't take it anymore! I'm not a boy!"

I collapsed to my knees in front of her, finally screaming out the words I'd been holding in for seven years.

"I'm a girl! I'm not Leo!" I shouted.

Linda's hand, mid-mask application, froze.

Her expression shifted from impatience to confusion, then to fear.

"What did you just say? Are you not Leo? No! I only have a son!" she screamed, slapping me hard across the face.

"Don't you dare! You monster! You're not my son!" Mom shouted.

Arthur…