If only he'd paid better attention in Biology...
(Originally written for the wednesday100 topic "Genderbending")
Lantos Lang was the Prince of Smallville High. All the girls wanted him; all the guys wanted to be him. Everything he touched turned to gold, but somehow something was always missing. Maybe it was because his parents were dead. He seemed to need more admiration than even Smallville could provide.
When the Giant Krypto-Ants took him in, he found just what he'd always longed for. They literally worshiped him -- fed him, sheltered him, brought him everything he could ever want.
Then winter came, and they threw him out of the lair to die, like all the other drones.
Darn.