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Basic Human

Adrik hugged the sweater around himself shivering a little. He watched Anya pace around the room, mumbling random speeches and shaking her head. She finally stop and faced Adrik.

"What's wrong Anya?" Adrik puffed out his chest a bit. "My body to manly for you?" he grinned.

Gasping she hung her head low. "No" A frown wiped itself on the boys face.

"Adrik..." she trailed out "...what are you?"

"Uh? What am I?" He asked confused

"Yes, what are you?"

"A human being?"

"Correct, but what...how should I say this" she sighed, standing in front of Adrik. She looked over his soft features. Short slate hair; grayish in the front, deep blue at the back. Crimson eyes?

"Since when do you have these eyes, Adrik?" patting his hair softly.

He rubbed his eyes with his pale hands and blinked. "I don't know. Since yesterday when I got...frustrated... yeah frustrated"

"I see...Adrik are you a boy or a girl?"

Adrik looked at her, wondering if the old woman had gone mad. He laughed a bit.

"Silly Anya, I'm a boy!" He continued laughing.

"No Adrik..." the elderly woman said. "Your...your...a girl"

Adrik shuddered, his eyes went pale. "You're kidding right? I'm a boy. Not girl"

Anya got up and went to a near by book self, leaving Adrik shaking. She came with a book that said 'Health' then flipped some pages. Holding the book in front of Adrik she covered the two top corners. On the page was to bodies; male and female.

"Point out which body looks like yours"

His chubby finger pointed to the one on the left. Anya's face faulted when the small boy looked at her.

"Adrik that's a females' body" she flat out said. "That means you're a girl"

Adrik was dumbstruck. All his life he was raised as a boy. Called, trained, and treated like a boy. His life passed before his very eyes. His mouth went dry not having a single word to say.

"So I've been living my life as a lie?" he was a state of shock "I'm a girl?"

Anya nodded. "But...but that can't be right, Bryan said there's no females allowed in the abbey, minus you Anya."

"I understand. But Adrik you have to understand there must have been a mix up of somehow." She continued to explain.

Adrik shook a bit, trying to understand everything that's happened so far. He wasn't no longer a he, he was a she. This was all too strange. Adrik got up, brushing pass Anya. The Russian stood at the door trembling.

"Anya..." Her head shot up "...promise not to say anything...to anybody"

She nodded, with that Adrik left.

'What am I going to do now? I'm a girl...not a boy. I hope no one notices. But I have to tell Bryan. He and Anya are the only ones I could trust. But not now.'

 Thinking, Adrik came back to the lonely cell. She lay on the bed, trying to hold back her tears.

"I'm not going to cry anymore. Whether I'm a boy or girl, I promise myself I'm not going to cry anymore."

"Ya nee paneemayoo..."

"What don't you understand?" Bryan's voice came from the door way.

"Dobriy vyecher..Byran" Adrik turned on his side. The creaked a bit.

"I see..." Bryan scanned the room he noticed the papers on Adrik small desk haven't been written on. "Made up any new rhymes?" Slate hair shook from side to side, signaling 'no'.

"Bryan" a muffled voice came the bed.

"Yeah?"

"Can I tell you something?"

Bryan took a nearby chair and sat next to the bed, leaning over to Adrik better. Adrik sat up, eye puffy almost ready to spill tears.

"Bryan...you know your like an older brother." Adrik sadly smiled, she touched the lavender haired boy cold hands. The older boy tensed up.

"Go on.."

"I trust you with my life. You've always been there for me. Saved me from trouble, Tala and from the bad things in life. I thank you for that, you know"

Bryan looked at Adrik strangely. "You aren't coming on to me are you?". Adrik laughed softly.

"No.." Bryan sighed joyfully. "But even if I was falling for you, it wouldn't be wrong."

Silence wrapped around the room. The tension ready to break the lines of the reality between the two.

"Since...after all I am a girl"

Hacker: Great I got some Russian speaking into this chapter, the translations are obvious. Wow I can't believe I've actually gotten this far. Review please, hoped you enjoyed this chapter.