After that day, Kecong and Jiahao become good friends.
They go to school together everyday.
6 months later.
1 June
After school.
At a noodles stall.
" Kecong, recently my parents have bought an apartment for me nearby the school. Why don't you move in together with me?" Jiahao asked.
"It's..it's fine. I can stay together with my mum." Kecong replied.
"But you stay so faraway. The school to your house is one hour plus and you are always alone at home. I worried no one look after you and you won't eat anything at all." Jiahao said.
"I..I will speak to my mum first." Kecong replied.
"By the way, what does your mum does for a living? She work at weird hours." Jiahao asked.
"She..she is a songstress at Shanghai night club a during the night. In the morning she worked at a factory till 4pm then she will go over to the night club." Kecong said sadly.
"What!? She does so many things!You ever go and see her before? She worked till so tired, maybe one day you can visit her she will be very happy." Jiahao replied.
"Good idea! Her birthday is coming soon! I can buy her a present and go to the night club and look for her!" Kecong said happily.
"By the way, your birthday will be coming soon. Any plans?" Jiahao asked.
Kecong kept silence and grabbed his hands. Jiahao hold his hands And he felt his hands are icy cold.
"Why are your hands icy cold?! Are you not feeling well?!" Jiahao asked anxiously.
"Recently I am having tummy cramps. I go home first." Kecong replied uneasy.
At home - toilet.
Kecong kept using the toilet paper to clean the blood stains on his underwear and cried. His aunt came to his room and heard him crying. She noticed he never lock the toilet and went in.
"Kecong, what are you doing?! Why are there blood stains on your underwear?! Wait! Have you reach puberty?! I quickly take a pad for you." Xue er asked anxiously.
Xue er came back with a sanitary pad. Kecong saw the pad and kept crying…..
"Aunty Xue er, please please don't do this to me! I..I am not a girl!" Kecong said crying.
"Kecong, listen! You have to accept the facts that you are an intersex person! You cannot do without a sanitary pad when you are having menses! Everyone can see and it will stain on the chair and your pants. I understand how people will look at you. But you have no choice!" Xue er replied loudly.
That night Kecong became mentally unstable and ate overdose of sleeping pills and was sent to the hospital.
The next day morning in the school.
Jiahao didn't see Kecong in the classroom and went to the teacher's office to look for Chen min.
In the teacher's office.
"Mr Chen, did you see Kecong today?! He is not in the classroom today!" Jiahao asked anxiously.
"He..he took overdose of sleeping pills last night. He..he just found out he got menses yesterday. He couldn't accept it and tried to commit suicide. He is sent to hospital last night." Chen min replied softly.
Kecong's classmate, Ron overheard what they said and start spreading the gossip in the classroom.
After school hours, Jiahao went to the hospital to visit Kecong. Some students secretly followed him.
In the hospital.
Kecong's ward.
Jiahao entered the ward and saw Xue er.
"Hi, you are?" Xue er asked.
"I am Wang Jiahao, I am Kecong best friend at school. How is he?" Jiahao asked.
"The sleeping pills hurt his stomach badly. He is in coma for the whole day already. I may ask my sister to transfer him to another school. If other students start hurting him he will go mad. Yes..yesterday he first day came menses he nearly went mad. He cried the whole night till his eyes are swell and kept talking to himself. I thought these six months he start to have friends he will be much better. But I never never know he as an intersex person will..will have this happen to him. It will be very very tough on him when he go toilet on those days." Xue er said and cried.
"Aunty, don't worried he can always go to handicapped cubicle." Chen min replied.
"Mr Chen, it's not as easy as you think. The road will be very very tough for him." Xue er said.
Jiahao grabbed Kecong's hands, Xue er pushed his hands away….
"Don't do this to him! He may fell in love with you! He has a very weak character deep inside his heart! And I don't want him to get pregnant! He will be a laughing stock!" Xue er said angrily.
"Aunty! I will protect him with all my heart!" Jiahao replied angrily.
"All guys said the same thing. But take a look at Kecong mother and me! All our men left us! We are strong but not Kecong! He have been abused by his dad since the age of 6! He have mental disorder when he was 7. He looks as if he is happy all the time but he is not! Moreover I have check on you. Your family is very rich. Do you think your parents will accept him?! They will only think he is a monster, an alien! " Xue er said angrily.
Jiahao left. He went back to his own apartment.
In the apartment.
His parents were already in the apartment.
"Where did you go?" Jia cheng asked.
"I went to the hospital to visit a classmate." Jiahao replied.
"Something happened to cheng jie?" Pei Pei asked.
"Not him is a new friend of mine, his name is Lin Kecong." Jiahao replied.
"New friend?! I heard rumours that there is a transsexual student in your school. He is very pretty but he is a guy and have female organs. Disgusting! Where in this earth there are such people?!" Pei Pei asked anxiously.
"Mum! There isn't any transsexual student in the school! There is only a intersex guy in my school and he is my new friend Lin Kecong! Everyone bullied him! There is nothing wrong with an intersex person!" Jiahao replied furiously.
"Son! Do you know what you are doing?! An intersex person can get pregnant easily if he have sex with a man! China will not approved a man pregnant with a child! He will be imprisoned!" Jia cheng said shockingly.
"Did I say I have sex with him?! Unreasonable!" Jiahao replied angrily.
-End of chapter 5-