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Chapter 3 - Not Ourselves
PS: It is way harder than you'd think to write stories that involves characters switching bodies. I had to reread it a few times to make sure I didn't mess anything up! Or maybe I'm just easily confused...
After hours of trying to switch back into their original bodies, Sandy and Kirsten were becoming frustrated.
"That's it! I give up. We've tried running into eachother, imaging ourselves in our original bodies, preying. What else can we do? I'm going to be stuck like this forever," Kirsten exaggerated.
"That would be interesting. But come on honey we can't give up. Do you remember how Freaky Friday ended?"
"Sure. Lindsay Lohan and her mom had to understand the other one's life or something like that. And in the end of the movie they were closer because of it."
"Hmm, you might be on to something."
"Really, what do you mean?"
"Well our fight was about how we never do anything that the other one likes. If I remember correctly your exact words were, 'you never want to do anything that I like. Everythings a fight and an argument..."
"Well, it's true. I mean shopping with you is a chore. And I don't even want to talk about Newport parties. Also, I believe you said there were things that I don't do that are important to me. So you're saying..."
"That to switch back into our normal bodies we will have to embrace eachothers activities," Kirsten sneered and sighed. "Without complaining," Sandy added when he saw the look in her eyes. He was looking forward to maybe finally getting to surf and golf with Kirsten.
"Fiiiine," Kirsten faced the fact that she was actually going to go surfing with her husband. And the fish.
"First lesson starts now."
"Shouldn't we atleast wait until the morning? Aren't the waves better then?"
"Nawh. The first lessons always on the sand."
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"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Mom! Back away from the grill. I thought we had a deal dad?" Seth panicked when he saw who he thought was his mother that night making burgers outside near the pool house.
"I thought we'd give your mother a chance at cooking. It has to start sometime right Kirsten?" Kirsten asked.
Sandy looked up into Kirsten's eyes and laughed. Yeah right...
"Oh god, this must be punishment for something I did. What is it now? What did I do?"
"Nothing. Now the burgers are done. You're going to sit down, eat them, and be quiet," Sandy ordered.
Ryan walked out of the pool house right at that moment.
"Something smells gre..." he stuttered when he saw that it was Kirsten cooking. "-at."
"Dude, the Kirsten is cooking dinner."
"How bad can it be?" Kirsten asked.
"Oh come on dad! Do you remember the meat loaf incident of 96?"
"That was pot roast!" Sandy and Kirsten said in unison.
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"Wow mom. If I didn't know better, I would say I didn't believe it was you who made this. I'm surprised. I'm shocked..."
"Thank you Seth," Sandy laughed, and flipped back his hair in a very good impersonation of his wife.
"So what are you two up to tonight?" Kirsten asked.
"Playstation Tournament. Why, trying to get rid of us?" Ryan joked.
Seth choked on his food. "Dude, let's not joke about that okay..."
Sandy and Kirsten shared a sideways glance, both thinking the same thing. Wouldn't that be weird?
"No Seth," Sandy excitedly. "We're going surfing tonight!"
"Wow mom, I never thought you would get excited about surfing."
"I've agreed to let your father give me a lesson," Sandy covered himself up. He was going to have to be more stealth. He didn't want his sons thinking his parents were going crazy. I mean who, who would possibly believe them if they told someone about their situation. Nobody, that's who.
"Alright, well we better get out there before it gets to dark. You boys be good," Kirsten instructed.
"I don't want to go anywhere near the water!" Kirsten whined after they finished their lesson on the sand.
"It won't kill you!"
"How do you know?"
"Because I would never let that happen," Sandy stated simply. That seemed like reassurance enough for Kirsten. She trusted Sandy with her entire heart.
"Okay."
"Okay?" Sandy questioned.
"I'm as ready as I'll ever be for this."
Sandy pushed her out onto the ocean while she lied on her surfboard, pulling his close behind.
"Well Sandy, except for those disgusting fish I saw swimming around my legs, this was actually kind of fun," Kirsten admitted as they walked back home.
"Well you weren't bad!"
"I think it's because I was in your body. And someone your body knew what it was doing. I was just kind of being guided by it. Because there's no way I'm athletic enough to surf."
"Well we'll have to try again when we get back into our bodies," Sandy said excitedly.
Kirsten smiled shyly. She didn't want to admit it, but the idea didn't exactly give her the heeby-jeebys anymore.
"We'll see about that. But now I think we're gonna have to do something that I like to do first."
"And what would that be?"
"Dinner with my Dad. No complaints. It would mean a lot to me."
Sandy sighed, "Alright, but only because I love you."
"Tomorrow night," Kirsten responded. "And I love you too," she said as she kissed his cheek. Or her cheek. It felt weird for her when she did it.
"Does it feel as weird for you as it does for me when I kiss you?"
"Yeah, it was like a man was coming at me. Even though I know it's you, it's strange."
"I don't like it," Kirsten admitted.
"Yeah, me neither. I'm not entirely thrilled with this whole situation. Except for the fact that I got you to come surfing with me! And don't worry, as soon as we're back to our normal selves, you can kiss me as much as you want to."
Kirsten laughed, "I'll hold you to that."
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"Sandy, hold still!"
"I'm sorry. But this just feels weird!"
"Well, it'll be over faster if you just. stop. moving," she said, struggling to keep a squirming Sandy to sit still.
"It used to be a mystery to me what what on in this bathroom. I thought it would stay that way..."
"Yeah, well no such luck," Kirsten laughed as she put the finishing touches on Sandy's makeup. "There all done. Now I can look good for dinner with my Dad."
"Finally! I think I'm gonna go lie down before your dad gets here. I've been feeling kinda sick all day."
Kirsten paused. A thought crossed her mind that she didn't think about before.
"Sick how?"
"I don't know. Just kind of gross and my stomach's been feeling gross..."
"Oh no. This isn't good."
"What?" he asked in a worried tone.
"I think more things about what go on this bathroom are going to become less of a mystery to you."
Sandy looked at her with a confused expression until he registered what she meant. "Ew, do you mean what I think you mean? Oh no it's the seventeenth, isn't it?"
"I'm sorry honey. But I think you've officially become a woman."
"Gross."
Fini pour maintenant.
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Next chapter will probably be: Jimmy and Rachel both unexpectedly show up at the dinner with Caleb :)