Used by over 13 million students, IXL provides personalized learning in more than 8,500 topics, covering math, language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish. Melanie was never the name that he wanted. IXL is the worlds most popular subscription-based learning site for K12. He never wanted to be called a girl, a she, her. He was a boy, he liked boys, all his friends were boys. He wanted to look like a boy, to feel like a boy.
There was a while where he grew his hair long and dyed it different colors, wore girly makeup to feel feminine. He sat in his dark bedroom, listening to old rock from the 60's.īut it put him into a further depression.īeing someone you don't want to be takes a toll, and Ryan had lived a life of it. He wore a tight sports bra, compressing his small, but still prominent breasts, and a shirt from the men's department. Someone's knuckles wrapped the door 5 times but before Ryan could respond, it opened. Brendon stood with a Sonic drink holder, Spencer and Jon behind him. "Hey Mel," Brendon smiled, setting the drinks of Ryan's bed table. Ryan smiled softly and turned down the music, reaching for the drink. "The fuck are we? Chopped liver?" Jon puffed playfully. "I though the saying was just chop liver?" Spencer sat in the chair at Ryan's desk, poking through the books and CD's lying on the surface.īrendon took his normal spot on the bed, next to Ryan. "Because you're listening to Yesterday on repeat. That's literally one of the saddest Beatles songs in existence! Plus, you're sitting in the dark, reading The Diary of Anne Frank. It's only natural that we assume somethings bothering you," Spencer admitted his observations, waving the book at Ryan. You guys make a huge deal out of anything. "Melanie, you've never acted like this when its the womanly problems before. What's changed?" Brendon rubbed circles on the back of Ryan's hand. He jerked his hand away, "I'm not on my fucking period, you asshole.