Wow. I love it that this is rather sad but for a change its got a nice ending. Like a light at the end of the tunnel. It's a shame not everything turns out like this as awful as it is to be lablled almost unlabable so people resort to freak and dyke and so on.
Okay, thanks to the new rule that you can't have a collection of oneshots as a story, I'm being forced to create them as different stories. This is Linoleum Tiles from the collection that was originally called 'from the pages of a blank notebook'