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him out for no good reason!”
    Mike turned around. I don’t think he entirely
heard what we were saying, but something caught his attention. He
stood and stared at us squabbling, and he was standing about 15 or
so feet away from us.
    “I don’t really care what he thinks,” she
said. “I’m still not done with you, and I don’t have time to deal
with him!”
    “I’m not going to have you ruin my life in
the process of trying to figure out what happened,” I said.
    She smirked. “I’m not sure how you think you can stop me!”
    Okay, maybe this wasn’t the best idea. Maybe
it wasn’t the classiest thing to do, but it was all I could think
of. I turned toward Mike, and I lifted my shirt revealing Nicole’s
chest to him.
    Several things happened at almost the same
instant. Mike’s eyes bugged out and he passed out on the floor. I
heard the most hideous, blood-curdling scream come from my mouth. I
didn’t think it was even possible for me to scream like that. But
there was Nicole, with my mouth wide open, screaming a scream that
no guy should ever be able to scream. She definitely took some
estrogen with her into my body. I quickly pulled my shirt down and
tried to calm Nicole down.
    “Okay, okay,” I whispered. “I’m sorry. Now
will you please calm down so we can try and sort this whole thing
out?”
    “Sorry? You just flashed my breasts to your
best friend and you’re sorry? And…couldn’t you have at least left
my house wearing a bra?”
    “I did leave your house wearing a bra, but by
the time I got here I was itchy and sweaty from running. I had to
take it off.”
    “I can’t believe you just did that,” she said
stunned.
    “I’m sorry, I didn’t know what else to do.
You were getting belligerent.”
    We both stood there silent for a moment
gathering our thoughts.
    “Look,” I said, “I don’t know how this
happened any more than you do. All I know is if we don’t work
together, this could turn out very bad. We can’t exactly tell all
of our friends and family that we’ve switched bodies. We’d be
committed.”
    She stared at me for a moment, contemplating
what I had said. Then she said in an almost defeated tone, “Look at
you. I can’t believe you left the house letting me look like that.
I have no makeup on.”
    “I don’t know how to put makeup on. You don’t
like the way you look now, you would have been really upset if I
had tried to put on makeup. I woke up this morning screaming. Your
mom came in to see what was wrong, and then she helped me pick this
out. I was trying really hard not to make you look stupid in front
of your mother, and I was trying really hard to get out of there
before I said something that would make her suspicious.”
    She paused at this and her features, well
actually they were my features, seemed to soften just a bit. “Okay,
look,” she said. “You’re right about us needing to work together.
This may all go back the way it is supposed to be tomorrow, but it
may not. Either way, we need to work out a plan. We need to get to
know each other well enough to pass as each other…at least for the
short term.
    “I will make you a deal,” she continued. “I
will do my best to be you…carry out your responsibilities and do
things the way you would while I’m in your body, if you do the same
for me. Working together will also allow me…us,” she corrected, “to
keep an eye on each other.”
    “I don’t know. I’m not sure that I could be a
girl even if I wanted to.”
    “The other option is we could destroy each
other’s lives in a very short time. And trust me, I would destroy
you.”
    I considered that. “Okay. We need a plan
then.”
    She motioned me to follow her and we walked
away, not even realizing that Mike was passed out on the floor
still. She was leading me out toward the parking lot.
    “We can’t work out a plan here. We are going
to have to ditch today. I don’t have any classes that I have to be at today, do
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