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"Uh-huh" Jody grinned

"My skin cleared up! I don’t have a single zit"

"Ding, ding, ding," Jody ono that Tommy had hit on the correct answer

"If I had known etio," Jody said "That’s not all, take off your shoes"

"I don’t understand, I - "

"Just take off your shoes»

Toe of the tub and took off his sneakers and socks

"What?"

"Look at your toes"

"They’re straight My little toe isn’t bent anymore It’s like I’ve never worn shoes"

"You’re perfect," Jody said She re both delighted and horrified because now she felt that she’d always need to lose five pounds - five pounds that were preserved for eternity

To of his jeans and studied his shin "The scar where I hit one"

"And it alill be," Jody said "You’ll always be perfect, just like you are now My split ends even went away"

"I’ll always be the same?"

"Yes"

"Just like I a to start working out I was going to be buff I was going to have abs of steel"

"No, you weren’t"

"I was I was going to be an awesome hunk of muscular man-meat"

"No, you weren’t You wanted to be a writer You were going to have little stick aret winded when you hit the back-space key reat shape frorocery store Wait until you see how you can run"

"You really think I’ht I made that clear"

Tommy flexed his chest in the h his flannel shirt He unbuttoned his shirt and tried it again, with little effect, then shrugged "What about the writer thing? Will et any smarter, or is that stuck in time, too?"

"Well, yeah, but that’s because you’re a man, not because you’re a vampire"

"You spiteful harpy"

"I think I’ve made my point," Jody said

Jody had put on a red leather jacket, even though she could no longer feel disco in off the Bay She liked the way it looked with her black jeans and a low-cut black lace camisole she’d rescued froot hold of it "Co for you to eat before we run out of night"

"I know, but I have so I have to do Give ain, this tio down, then a slightly breathless man-scream The bathroom door flew open and Tommy, his pants and underwear around his ankles, bunny-hopped in two great leaps across the bedroo tofuriously to his penis "It’s like I’rabbed his hands - held him steady, looked him in the eyes "Tommy, calm down It’s just your foreskin"

"I don’t have a foreskin I’m circumcised"

"Not anyrew back, just like your toes straightened and your scars all went away"

"Oh You don’t find it creepy, then?"

"No It’s fine"

"You want to touch it?"

"Thanks Maybe later"

"Oh, sorry, I freaked Didn’t realize I - uh - I still feel like I have to finish what I was going to do"

"That’s fine," Jody said "You’re fine You go finish up I’ll wait"

"You’re sure you don’t want to give it a quick fondle?"

"If I do, can we get out of here?"

"Probably not"

"Well then, back in the bathrooentle shove He bunny-hopped his newly recovered foreskin back into the bathroom and closed the door

Jody shuddered at the sound of the door closing She hadn’t thought about whether or not Tommy would retain his incessant horniness after he turned, she had just wanted a companion who could understand what she hat she felt, what the world looked like through va to be nineteen forever, sheto kill him for real