ACROSS THE STREET AND TWO DOORS DOWN by Spanky de Bautumn

As he got older, he found that he started to take an interest in feminine attire. When the Sear’s Catalog would come at Christmas time, while other kids were checking out the toys, he was drawn to the women’s clothing. He found it interesting that women had so many different types and styles of clothes to wear. He wondered if you could get a read on a woman’s personality just by the clothes she wears. Women are more complex, maybe that’s why they have so many choices. Men, on the other hand, are basically stuck in one style, pants, shirt, and a coat. Which makes sense because compared to women, men are basically basic. That’s not break through psychology, but kind of heavy for a ten year old. He just chalked it up as part of being different.

In middle school, the class got larger, but he was still the smallest boy and still kept them laughing. He got dates for some of the important school dances, but in general, he wasn’t sexually attracted to either boys or girls. This was the time in most people’s life where they have that growth spurt. Jamie wasn’t most people. One puzzling thing about Jamie was that for being so popular in school, he didn’t have any close friends, so outside of school, he didn’t have much of a social life. If it wasn’t for his humor, he would be a nerd.

In high school he started taking drama classes and, with his innate ability, he took to it like a fish to water. He also started piano lessons and became good enough to sit down anywhere and liven up a crowd.

His mom did have some concern about her boy, she worried that his size would be a real problem later in life and he didn’t seem to have that healthy teenage sex drive. He seemed to be indifferent about sex, he had better things to do. Jamie’s popularity gave him a lot of confidence, the only thing that he had a problem with, and he figured it was because of his overall size, is that he was also small where it counted. He didn’t lose any sleep over it, but it’s something he kept to himself.