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bring the
homework by my house tomorrow.
    “Well, that was easier than I expected,” she
said. “Okay, I think for the rest of the day we should stick to the
basics. Let’s just get familiar with our houses and immediate
family. We will recite it until we know it.”
    “My mother will be home in a couple of
hours,” I offered. “We can stay here until five, but then we should
definitely head over to your house. It’s Friday, so my mother won’t
expect me tonight. I’ll just leave a note that I’m staying the
night over at Mike’s. She won’t call. I spend a lot of Fridays at
Mike’s house. Then, when you come home late tonight, if you run
into my mother, you can just tell her that you started feeling
sick.”
    “That’ll work,” she said. “We can spend the
evening at my house, and you can get more familiar with my house.
You can drive me back to your house at about nine. That will give
you time to get back to my house before my parents arrive. You can
just stay in my room with the lights out, and they will leave you
alone.”
    Over the next few hours, she walked through
my house, opening more drawers, simulating things I do when I am in
my house. She had changed into some of my clothes and we washed her
brother’s clothes so we could return them when we got back to her
house. When five came, we packed up our stuff, piled into the car,
and headed back to Nicole’s house.
    “I’m getting hungry,” I said. “Do you want to
stop and get a pizza? We can take it back to your house.”
    “Yeah, I guess that would be okay.”
    We stopped at Giovanni’s Kitchen and ordered
a pizza. We took it back to Nicole’s house and ate while we recited
her immediate family’s info.
    I repeated the same steps that Nicole took at
my house. I walked into the kitchen, opening drawers and cabinets.
She would ask me for a drink and I would have to go to the cabinet
to get her a glass and pour her a drink. When I was able to
maneuver throughout the kitchen without making any mistakes, we
moved to other parts of the house. She showed me how to work the
theater. We went upstairs and walked through each of the rooms. We
spent most of the remaining time in her room. She would tell me to
get something and I would go retrieve it.
    “It’s almost nine,” she finally said. “You
need to take me to your house now.”
    She started walking down the stairs and we
headed into the garage. “Tomorrow, if things aren’t back to normal,
we have to work on your walk. You so don’t walk like a girl.”
    “I actually take that as a compliment.
Current situation excluded, I’m not supposed to walk like a girl.
While we’re on the subject, you’ll need some pointers
yourself.”
    “Fair enough,” she said.
    “So,” I thought aloud, “what happens if
things are back to normal tomorrow?”
    “What do you mean?”
    “Well, are we going to be…friends?”
    “Jake,” she said, “you may not be as bad as I
thought, but that doesn’t mean we have anything in common.”
    We both got in the car and I started the
engine. “Yeah, I guess swapping bodies doesn’t give us much in
common,” I said sarcastically.
    She looked at me for a minute, seeming to
consider the thought. Neither of us said anything for the rest of
the trip. I pulled up in front of my house and she opened the door.
As she started to get out, she turned back to me.
    “Whatever happens tomorrow, we should meet to
talk. What are you going to do when you get back to my house
tonight?”
    “I’m going to take a shower, follow all of
your directions and go to bed. I’m actually exhausted,” I
admitted.
    “Me too. I’m going to drag myself into bed
and pray to wake up a girl.”
    “You may want to be more specific. You don’t
want to wake up as some other girl.”
    “Thanks for the advice. Hopefully I’ll see you tomorrow.”
    I waited while she walked into my house, and
then I took off for Nicole’s house. This night couldn’t end fast
enough. I hurried back