The girl who'd spoken to Daron took him aside to a corner where none of the others were looking. "There's something about this school you and your brothers should know."
"What?" Daron asked sarcastically. "That all the other students here are girls? Or that they make me, Gabe, and Stan wear these dresses? Sorry but I already know that."
"My name's Max."
"Is that short for Maxine?" Daron asked, in a less sarcastic tone. 'She is pretty,' he thought. Maybe, after he had some free time, they could get alone together....
"No," Max replied, then her tone dropped into a lower tone, almost like a boy's. "It's short for Maximillian. Or at least it was." Before Daron could ask any further, Max touched her throat and Daron noticed-an Adam's Apple.
Max looked at the room; the teacher had gone out of the room. "All right, 'girls,' let's show our true selves to our new classmate."