"Please, would you come out with me when I look like myself again?"
I knew it was a mistake as soon as I said it. "Never I could go out with anyone in this town. I've had all the offers, from all the boys your sister thinks are real cute. And what would they do if I did go out with them? They's soon be going camping or fishing with the boys. Come the football season they'd be going to games, or training. I don't want tha sort of relationship."
I'm not that kind of person," I said, feeling suddenly very insecure.
"I know you aren't. As a boy, you're a wimp, nothing special. I'm too strong for you, and you couldn't keep up with me." I looked at her, feeling afraid at having been dismissed with so much contempt, but then she smiled. "But on the other hand, I'm getting to like you right now."
"What do you mean 'right now'?" I suddenly felt excited. I hadn't expected these words to follow her outburst.
"Well, I mean, how would you like to be my girl?"
The suggestion hit me without warning. I must have looked dumbfounded.
"What, how would that work?" I was confused. "What could we do... I mean, have we any future?" The thoughts tumbled from my brain to lips in no particular order.
"Of course we have," Susan smiled gently at me. "After all, you're going to be a girl for a while, why not be my girl" I'd really like that."