Alvin and Simon Switch Minds 2

Alvin walked over to his own body and shook him awake. Finally Simon, who was stuck in Alvin's body, woke up.

"Why are you waking me up? It's only seven o clock in the morning. We're supposed to sleep late on days when there's no school."

"C'mon Simon, I'm going to teach you how to play baseball."

"Theodore told you, didn't he?"

"Yeah, it doesn't matter really. I'm going to make sure my brother doesn't fail gym class."

"You'd really do that? I'm the worst person in this house at baseball. Even Theodore's better than me. He's making an A minus in gym while I'm making a B minus."

"Stop complaining and get dressed. After we get our own bodies back, you'll be throwing like a pro."

"Alvin, if we're going to get our bodies back we're going to have to call Jennifer. She has a cell phone and then you ask for Jeannette. It's really simple. Then we can get our own bodies back and no one will be suspicious."

"Well, I guess calling Jennifer would be the smartest thing to do first, then I'll talk to Jeannette if she can't help."

"Or you can ask both of them for help. You two should get help right away."

"Oh my gosh, I didn't know you…how did you…"

"I heard the whole thing…why didn't you two just go on and tell me you had switched minds?"

"We thought you would tell Dave."

"Tell me what?"

"D-Dave how's life going for you? Do you want us to make breakfast this morning? Theodore was just telling me to not tell you that we're going to make breakfast this morning."

"Nice try Alvin. Seriously tell me what's going on. If you tell the truth the first time I won't punish you."

"Promise?"

"Promise."

"Don't say a word before we're done speaking. Now Simon was working on a project and I kind of broke it. Then I pushed this button while the both of us were in the lab and then we fell unconscious and then we woke up and I was him and he was me. We've been like this since yesterday."

"Why didn't you tell me right away?"

"We thought you would get mad at us…"

"Why would I get mad at you? You two are learning more about each other and maybe this will help the fighting stop. I have to go to work now, bye fellas." Simon sighed and as soon as Dave was gone he said that it was always up to Dave to come up with the positive things about dangerous situations like this.

"Wait a minute, how is this dangerous?"

"Well according to my calculations, if we don't switch back in five days, we will be stuck in these bodies forever."

"I can't be stuck in this body forever! My fans need me!"

"And I want to make good grades and go to college and be a scientist when I grew up."

"Guys, don't you think you should call Jennifer now instead of thinking about how terrible this is?"

"Oh yeah." Simon reached up for the phone and he had to stand tip toe to reach it. Then Alvin grabbed the phone from Simon and held it up high so he couldn't reach it. Theodore told them to stop fighting and that he would call Jennifer himself.

"Hello, this is Jenna Pemberton speaking can I help you?"

"Yeah, can you give the phone to Jennifer or Jeannette please?"

"Sure thing Theodore, hold on a sec."

"Hi it's me, Jennifer."

"Can you speak up so both Simon and Alvin can hear you as well? They need to talk to you about something important."

"Hey Simon, hey Alvin, what do you need?"

"Well Simon and I switched minds two days ago. Can you help us? What do we do?"

"Was it that time machine that Jeannette and Simon were working on the other day that did it? Oh, and I helped too."

"Yeah, how did you know?"

"Well, it may have seemed like it was the time machine that did it, but it was really this necklace that has a charm on it. If two of the same people are in the room and you push on a button that has the word "do not touch" on it, then the two people in the room switch minds. The only way to break the charm is to learn more about each other and find out why each of you acts certain toward other people. Sadly, the charm needs to be broken before five days end or else you will be stuck in that person's body forever."

"Why'd you leave it there anyways?"

"Oh man, I got to go. Jenna just poured ketchup all over a bald guy's head. Bye guys. Hope you break the spell soon."

"Now what Simon?"

"I guess we try to be as nice as possible towards each other."

"Well, do you want me to teach you how to play baseball or not?"

"Um sure, I guess." By the end of the day, Simon had learned how to hit the ball perfectly and how to pitch too, almost as good as Alvin.

"How come the spell hasn't broken? I've been nice to you all day."

"Well maybe I have to learn some secrets about you Alvin. Then I can teach you some stuff and we can get back to normal."

"Teaching me is going to be much harder than me teaching you Simon."

"Hey listen, if I can pitch you can learn how to write a proper English paper."

"I'm making a B plus in English, History and an A minus in math. Science is my real problem. My highest grade in science was a seventy so far. I think Mrs. Johnson and Mr. Miles are funny teachers. But history is just boring because Mr. Foggin is so annoying. I still make okay grades in his class though. Ms. Magouirk is just so boring. I don't know when science is ever going to affect someone's life though. I mean, it's not like someone is going to hold up a gun to your head and say "why is water called H2O?" or something like that."

"Why do I need to know how to play baseball Alvin? It's not like someone is going to kill you unless you can hit a home run."

"Simon, that's different."

"How is it different?"

"I guess you're right."

"The learning shall begin tomorrow." As Alvin lay in bed, he wondered why Simon hadn't made fun of him when he said that he was making a D minus in science class. He was always making smart remarks to him about how dumb he was.

Alvin guesses it was probably because of the same reason that he was nice to Simon. He took off Simon's oversized glasses and placed them next to the pillow next to him. He was starting to get used to these huge glasses and taller body. Simon was getting used to not wearing glasses and his shorter body. It was going to feel weird but nice when they got back to their normal heights, voices, and bodies. Simon stared at the ceiling until he finally fell asleep having nightmares about him having to stay in the same body forever and his head starting to get a headache. He now knew why Simon was in a bad mood when he was doing his experiments or projects, because he always got a headache from all the technology and knowledge running throughout his brain. He actually started feeling a little sorry for Simon.

As Simon lay in his bed that night, he knew why Alvin had trouble sleeping sometimes. It was because he would always be in pain from all the exercise that he had done earlier. He was hurting everywhere and wished that all the pain would go away. He remembered his headaches he used to get when he did experiments or had a lot of things on his mind. He was glad he wasn't having one of those right now, but felt a little sorry for Alvin.

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