An hour had passed since the explosion. Most of the StarKids had stopped freaking out by now; all expect Darren, who was too busy shouting at his reflection of Jaime in the mirror.

"You idiot. You Goddamn idiot. Why didn't you take it off when you had the chance?"
"Darren," said the real Jaime "I get it, you're upset, but can you please calm down so we can figure out a way to get this fixed?"

Darren let his head bang against the mirror a few times, the cool of the glass chilling his fore-head, then allowed himself to be led back towards the couch where all the other StarKids had gathered.

"Ok," squeaked Joe, his high pitched Lauren-voice shocking himself again "I think we need to work back from the start to where we are now. Jaime, let's take a look at that necklace."
"I haven't got it!" Jaime piped up after a few seconds of fumbling around her new body in every imaginable place, "It's definitely not on me."
"Wait," Joey stammered as Meredith "Darren, look at your neck."

Brushing aside his new locks of brown hair, Darren rummaged around and spotted the necklace lying on his chest.

"It must've changed over with me." he gasped, as he scuffled around for the catch around the back of his neck. To his surprised, it clicked open almost instantly.
"Oh yeah. Now it comes off." Darren muttered, as he handed over the necklace to Joe for inspection.

No one could notice anything unusual about the necklace; it looked just like any other. The buzzing had long since stopped and the gem remained in its dull emerald shade, with no ounce of glow radiating from its centre. The StarKids began to come up with other ideas as to how to change back; Lauren suggested that they should run at each other from opposite sides of the room, only to be reminded by Jaime that that idea came from 'Freaky Friday' and it didn't even work. Brian, Dylan and Joey tried pinching their arms; thinking that they would wake up from a horrible nightmare, but that didn't work either. They just received harrowing looks of disapproval from Julia, Denise and Meredith, who weren't happy at the idea of their own arms being bruised for nothing. Jaime was now busy arguing with Joe as to what to do with the necklace, holding it aloft so that Joe couldn't reach it from his new shrunken height. The row now began to escalate, with each of the StarKids yelling at each other to have their ideas heard.

The only person that remained silent was Darren, who sat quietly in an armchair on the opposite side of the room, his hang resting on his head out of tiredness and pain (he had banged his head in the explosion, and a large lump had begun to emerge on his crown.) Most of his mind was wracked with guilt, as he gazed on his muddled-up friends quarrelling with one another; the other part of his brain was running through every single possibility as to why the necklace had done this. He tried to remember the fan, how she had quickly passed the necklace onto him and left immediately. Who was she? Why did she give it to him? Did she know the necklace would do this, and if so, what did she hope to gain out of this? All sorts of idea tumbled in and out of his mind, until, something clicked.

The Jaime-fied Darren slowly rose from his armchair, as his brown eyes bulged out of their sockets in realisation.

"Guys…." Darren called "Guys, I've got it." But his small voice couldn't be heard over the raucous racket that was now taking place. The boy's argument with the girls had now escalated, as Brian-fied Denise had started to cry out of sheer desperation. Joe and Jaime had started to fight over the necklace, with Joe trying desperately to rugby-tackle Jaime to the ground. He eventually managed to knock her over, but it sent the necklace flying straight into Darren's open hand.

"GUYS!" Darren bellowed, at the top of his voice. Everybody stopped in their tracks and turned around to face Darren, the necklace clenched in his fist.

"I have an idea."