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I had waited until Viola had returned to the room before I fell asleep. I decided to toy with her a little bit.

I let out a supposedly sleepy sigh, and turned over in the bed.

"Sebastian?" I asked, pretending to have just been woken up. "What are you doing?"

"I, uh, er..." She said. "Bathroom. Go back to sleep Duke."

As she talked, I, for the first time ever, took stock of her voice. Her tone changed around a lot, and it was obvious the voice was work.

I decided to play with her a little more. "Ehhhh, it's hot," I said in a fake-drowsy voice. I took off my shirt, and tossed it on the ground, and then pulled my comforter to about my waist. I was sure I heard a distinct gulp.

"Go to bed Duke."

"'Night Sebastian," I said lazily, and I turned over, pretending to fall back asleep. I let my breath get steady, so that she would think I was asleep. I wanted to see what she was going to do.

She didn't go to sleep for a few minutes. I could almost feel her sitting on her bed, awake. After a few minutes, she whispered (in her girl voice, mind you), "Goodnight Duke."

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The next morning, she was up before me. She must have been used to missing that hour of sleep in the middle of the night, but I was not. I woke up 15 minutes after my alarm first went off.

I slowly got out of bed, and picked up my shirt. Looking around the room, I noticed that Viola was nowhere to be found. I sighed, and looked at the calendar on the wall. There was a week until the Cornwall game. Did I still want to help Viola with her soccer? I did still want to try and get a date with Olivia. And I did promise Sebastian. But that was before.

As I looked at the clock, I noticed that I only had about 45 minutes before my first class. I quickly got dressed, and then hurried to the bathroom to brush my teeth, wash my face, and shave.

As I went through my morning routine, I began thinking about how I was going to do this. I couldn't just stop helping Viola with soccer. I needed to give her a valid reason, and I couldn't do that without revealing that I know. Plus, I couldn't do that to the team. She really was getting good, probably just as good as and maybe even better than some of the boys in first string. If I stopped helping her, I would be depriving my team of a great player. As a captain, I couldn't do that, even if I wasn't too happy to continue to help her.

I realized also that if I was going to piece together why she was doing this, I'd have to talk to her still. I couldn't just ignore her. In fact, I'd probably have to talk to her more and ask more questions than I used to. Because I was going to figure this out. I had to.

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Today I had English, so I made my way down to Ms. Ingram's room. Viola was in my class, but we had assigned seats, so we didn't sit together.

I got there about three minutes before the bell, so I took my seat and put my head down. I was so tired. Suddenly, I felt a presence next to me. I looked up to find Viola-as-Sebastian staring at me.

"Uh, listen Duke," she said in her strange made-up voice. "Sorry for waking you up last night. I didn't mean to."

I thought for a second. "No need to say sorry, man. We're guys," I said, emphasizing guys. "No need for apologies."

A slight blush crept into her face, and I couldn't help but wonder if she would be really cute when she blushed as a girl. I quickly dismissed the thought from my mind, and reprimanded myself.

"Thanks... bro," She said somewhat cautiously.

"No problem, man."

She looked like she was about to say something, but then the warning bell rang. Class was about to start.

"See you after class," she said, and walked over to her seat.

As I pretended I was paying attention to Ingram's speech on Thesis statements, I started to evaluate what had just happened. While emphasizing words like guy, bro, brother, man, and dude was amusing for me, it would also become excessive. And she would probably figure out that I knew.

So after class, I would just pretend like everything was normal. I had no idea that she wasn't Sebastian. And I would start to ask her some questions.

Class flew by as I did my planning. I walked over to Viola's desk. "Hey, I didn't have time to eat this morning. You want to go to the caf with me and grab something?"

"Sure. I have a while till my next class," Viola said.

So she stood up, and we walked down to the caf.

As we entered, I said, "So man, what's going on?" This time I did not emphasize man.

"Nothing really, just chillin'," Viola said.

I walked over to the line and said, "You want to snag a table man?" She nodded, and walked away. I walked through the line, grabbing a bran muffin and a carton of milk. What was I going to say to her? I quickly paid for my lunch, avoiding Principal Gold's eyes, hoping he wouldn't say anything to me. No such like. "Smile!" He said, "It's a BRAN new day!" he laughed at his own pun.

I cringed, and nodded.

I noticed Viola in the corner, twiddling her thumbs. I studied her face from across the room. Her features were soft. Much softer than a boy's. I shook my head, and walked over to the table.

"So what's up dude?" Viola asked me when I reached the table.

"Nothing man. I was just thinking..."

"'Bout what?" Man, she had guy-lingo down by now. I thought back to the first day we met. It was a little shaky then, but she was catching on.

"Well, you think I'd be good with your sister, right?"

Suddenly, she perked up. "Oh, you wanna talk about Viola?"

"Yeah dude, I hope that's okay," I said, wanting to see what she'd say.

"Yeah, that's fine man. More than okay. So what do you want to know?"

"I don't know, tell me about her." Maybe I could get her to say something that would help me put this thing together.

"Well, where do you want me to start?" Hmmm... What could possibly be relevant to her wanting to be Sebastian?

"I don't know... how does she like her school?"

I saw her try to subtly role her eyes. "She used to love it."

"Used to?"

"Well, you know she was with the douche Drayton," she started. Wait, this entire thing was about Drayton? She was pretending to be Sebastian because of that dick? "And I guess he just won't leave her alone. School hasn't started for her yet though."

I knew that that couldn't be it. There was more to the story than Drayton. And wait... that's right. Cornwall hadn't started yet. So Viola wasn't missing any school. What would happen when her school started though?

"What did she see in that guy anyway?" I asked, trying to dig a little bit more. There was more to this. I just knew there was.

"Soccer, probably." That answer didn't exactly catch me by surprise. Viola was good. She was on our team. I briefly wondered if Sebastian actually played soccer.

I was about to say something, when I noticed the clock. "Dude, we're late. We had a team training session that started five minutes ago."

I heard Viola curse under her breath, and I laughed. She really was getting good at this guy thing.

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I don't want the story to go too fast, so I didn't have her reveal everything right now. I'm still kind of toying with how this is going to work out, though I do have a general idea of what I think I want to happen.

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