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to her house, went up the stairs, undressed,
jumped in the shower and followed Nicole’s routine as well as I
could remember.
    I got out of the shower, dried off, got
dressed into underwear and a night shirt and returned to the
bathroom to blow-dry my hair. If I weren’t so exhausted, I would
probably have taken a few minutes to enjoy the view. As it was, I
wanted sleep more. I turned the lights off in the house and crawled
into Nicole’s bed. I was going to be asleep before my head even hit
the pillow.
     
     
     

DAY
2
    “Jake? Honey. Wake up. Are you feeling better
today?”
    I knew already that I wasn’t feeling better.
If Jake’s mom was waking me up and calling me Jake, then I was
still in his body. “Not really,” I said. “I’m still feeling pretty
strange.”
    “Is it your stomach? Try taking some
Pepto-Bismol,” she replied.
    “I don’t think Pepto is going to help what
I’ve got. Thanks for the advice, but I’ll be okay.”
    “I’m sure you will,” she said as she turned
to walk away. “Oh, I almost forgot, there’s a girl on the phone for
you.” She handed me a cordless phone. “She says her name is Nicole.
Isn’t that the girl you were arguing with the other day?”
    “Yeah…it’s the same girl.”
    “Did something new happen between you
two?”
    “I guess you could say that.”
    “Good,” she said with a smile. “I know you
really like her,” she whispered away from the phone.
    I’m sure Jake’s mom would feel bad to know
she was giving away insider trading secrets. We’ll spare Jake about
this. Well, we’ll spare us both. “Thanks…mom,” I said as she walked
out of the room and shut the door.
    “Hello?”
    “Hey Nicole, it’s Jake,” he said in my
voice.
    “Hello Jake,” I sighed. “It looks like we’ve
got more work to do.”
    “Looks like,” he said. “I’ll get dressed and
come get you. Your mom said that she and your dad are going out for
the afternoon, so we can come back and work on things here.”
    “Okay, I’ll get in the shower now and see you
in a bit. Bye.”
    “Bye.”
    I grabbed the clothes I was going to wear
today and headed into the bathroom. I turned the shower on so it
would warm up, undressed and went to the bathroom…sitting down, of
course. That was different. It’s easy to see how boys can make a
mess. Those things are unpredictable.
    I jumped in the shower and got myself cleaned
up. Five minutes later I was out of the shower, drying off and
doing my hair. I don’t want to tempt fate, but I could get used to
this getting ready as a guy thing. On a bad day, it can take me two
hours to get ready as a girl. I was done in 30 minutes today.
    Once I was finished dressing, I decided I
would wait in the family room for Jake to pick me up. I figured I
would likely spend some time with his mom, but I should be okay if
I was polite and didn’t talk much. If she seemed concerned, I would
just play up the fact that I wasn’t feeling well.
    I headed down the hall and into the kitchen
where I would fix a bowl of cereal and some orange juice, Jake’s
breakfast of choice, and then eat at the kitchen table. As I came
into the kitchen, I saw his mother sitting in the family room
watching television and writing something on a notepad.
    “Morning,” I said with a smile.
    She returned the smile. “Are you feeling any
better yet?”
    “Actually, I’m feeling a little bit better,”
I said truthfully. “I guess the shower helped.”
    I reached to grab a bowl out of the cupboard
and found the glasses. Oops! Concentrate harder Nikki! I
grabbed a glass, as though I had intended it, and placed it on the
counter. I opened the bowl cupboard and pulled a bowl out.
    Jake’s mom continued on as I finished in the
kitchen. “Good! A shower always helps me feel better.”
    I nodded.
    “So,” she said with an inflection of
curiosity, “what did that Nicole girl want? Did she apologize for
the other day?”
    Oh great. What did Jake say to his mom