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This chapter is based on episode 'Totally Switched'.
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"No, no and no." I responded firmly while marching out of the living room and avoiding eye contact with Uncle Angus. "Lily, please just listen!" He jumped over a kitchen table right in front of me. I shook my head with a frown. "There's nothing to listen. I'm not going and that's it!" I retorted with my anger slowly rising.
Now why was I acting like this? It was Mother's birthday tomorrow. The day where I had to spend whole time sitting at her boring birthday parties, where I had to listen to her and her friends' boring talks, the day when I just wanted to escape from the house…
Which was what I was going to do. I wasn't going to spend the whole day stuck inside the house again! Now, I prayed Jerry would have a mission for us tomorrow so I wouldn't have to be at Mother's birthday party… Fingers crossed.
"Lily, it's your mother's birthday!" Uncle Angus frowned. "Which I'm going to spend just like all the others before this one, stuck and bored!" I retorted. "Uncle please, I know it means a lot to you, but just… I still have my job, you know? I may be working tomorrow after all!" Uncle was looking at me unimpressed.
"So many excuses, yet neither one works with me." He said while folding his arms and observing me like a teacher would observe his student disapprovingly. I resisted the urge to laugh and kept my face straight. "You're going to the party tomorrow at 9 pm, and that's it!" Uncle Angus declared in a voice which told me not to argue.
I huffed but said nothing. I then walked out of the living room with a frown and decided to head for the attic. Uncle had to go to work now and Mother was on work too, so I'd be completely alone here… And this place was beginning to give some sort of comfort. Here, I could shout whatever bothered me, I could find out more about Mother, and….
There were no secrets. I quickly opened the box I had been looking through earlier. And, just as I moved a book out of the way, I saw…. Another paper. I quickly took it out of the box and started reading it. My eyes widened once I saw the date. It was 10th December 1987….
Dear Diary, I can't. I just can't live like this anymore. I've dreaded this day ever since he left… I'd even wanted an abortion, but my brother Angus convinced me not to, telling me that I couldn't do that to my own child…
And yesterday, it happened. The baby is a girl. She weighs 7.7 lbs and is 49 cm long. Angus is so happy… But, just looking at her makes me want to give her away for adoption or something like that.
Every time she looks at me with those dark brown eyes, it's like he's looking at me instead, laughing at me. I can't look at her without seeing him; she had his eyes after all…
And I couldn't find out what was writing next because… The paper was ripped off! "Fuck." I muttered just as I stood up. Mother was writing about me this time, I knew that much… I mean, 10th December was a day after my birthday! In other words, it was way too obvious.
Was this the reason why she was so cold towards me? Every time she looked at me, she would give me cold and angry stares, never smiles. Because when I looked at her, she would see him instead. That would explain it…
If I weren't so used to Mother's behavior by now, I'd be sad. She wrote here that looking at me made her want to give me away… Now all I was feeling was uneasiness, hurt and a bit of sadness. But I wouldn't be sad. It was a slight feeling, but there was no point worrying over something already known. I never cried over this, I haven't cried since I was little and no one will ever see me cry. The best thing was to keep your emotions bottled up, and let no one know about your worries and problems.
I gripped the paper in my hand even tighter, resisting the urge to crumble it and throw into garbage. My train of thoughts was broken by a random box opening and sending me into a well-known tunnel. I let out a scream while sliding down.
Soon after, I landed right out of a garbage bin and on top of Alex who was on top of the girls. I quickly looked up and around Jerry's office. But the man was nowhere in sight! I got off the girls and kept looking around. "Where is he?" I asked as the girls were looking around in confusion.
"Down here!" Jerry opened the door, wearing a weird outfit with a wig on his head. "Are you like, in a play or something?" Clover asked. "No, but I have some very exciting news!" He responded while closing the door. "I am to be knighted!" The girls and I smiled at that.
Alex then started asking something before… "What's that?" She pointed at a paper on the floor. My eyes widened and I quickly picked up the piece of Mother's diary which I had dropped earlier. "Nothing!" I said sheepishly while rubbing the back of my head. "So, can we come? I've always wanted to meet the Queen!" Sam asked while Clover and Alex nodded with huge smiles.
I let out a small smile instead with a small nod. "Tragically, you cannot. Though you four will be travelling to England." Jerry responded while folding his arms. "Really?!" My eyes widened at his words and I grinned. "Yes, really." At that moment, I was feeling only happiness. I would get to see my old home once again!
Clover, on the other hand, wasn't as excited as me. "England? But I can't!" She mentioned some very important video she had to star in. "Well, I'm afraid it will have to wait! Right now, I have an assignment for you." The man closed the windows with a remote and the whole office was filled with darkness. "In the city of…" He stopped for a moment but quickly recomposed himself.
"In the city of Liverpool, there have been odd occurrences. People's personalities have suddenly changed! Observe." All four of us turned around to look at the screen. A woman suddenly picked up a man with her own bare hands and threw him against the floor. God, that must have hurt! "This usually quiet and calm librarian started acting like a professional wrestler."
We then saw pictures of a prominent surgeon dancing like crazy and an army general playing with two puppets on his hands. This was really bizarre… And creepy. "Freaky!" Alex commented just as Jerry turned on the lights. "Especially since some of these people are very important." He noted. "Then I guess we'd better find out what's causing this to happen, and fast!" Sam commented. "Precisely. Now for your gadgets… Laser Lipstick, Earring Communicators, the Hairpick Lockpick, Suction Cup Bottom Gogo Boots and VAGs."
My eyebrows furrowed at the name of the last gadget. "VAGs?" Clover asked in confusion. "What's that?" I asked just as clueless as the rest of the girls. "Vapor Emitting Gloves." Jerry explained before activating the glove right in front of Clover and me… And the smell was awful! I started coughing because of it while I could see Clover saying 'ew' and Alex and Sam covering their noses. "Fuck." I muttered just as I stopped coughing.
"And you're off, as am I!" Jerry stated before he pressed the remote and… The floor beneath us opened, making all of us scream as we started falling.
We were travelling towards England by an airplane. Sam was looking through the window while Alex was recording Clover's audition video for some sort of a show. I was sitting a bit away from the entire ruckus and just looking through the window, wanting to finally see my birthplace.
"Excited to see Liverpool?" Sam whispered in my ear because Alex was still recording Clover. I nodded with a smile. "I haven't been there since I was three, so it's nice to see it again. Even if I don't remember it." I responded quietly. "That was awesome, Clover!" Alex said with a smile once she finished the recording.
Clover smiled as well. "Thanks! Now all I have to do is send him the tape, and then…" She started while standing up. "Fingers crossed." I finished for her while crossing my right index and middle finger with a smile. "That." Clover crossed two fingers as well with a grin.
A huge grin spread across my face as soon as I got out of the airplane. I quickly looked around. So this was Liverpool… I felt pure happiness and relief at being not only in England, but also in place where Mother, Uncle Angus and I grew up!
"The librarian's apartment is supposed to be over there." Sam pointed at the street ahead of us.
"Stanley Street." I read with a frown once we were at the beginning of the street. "This is the house." Sam pointed at a nice green house next to News Agents. Clover and Alex opened the door and entered it, Sam following suite. I was about to do the same, but I stopped.
Uncle Angus told me that the hospital where I was born was in a street next to the Stanley Street… And he said that it was a huge building, not easy to miss. From what I remember, our old house was nearby as well…
"Coming?" Sam asked, making me look at her. "If you don't mind, there's something I've got to check in a street on the left? It will be quick." I told the girl, making her nod. "We'll talk to the librarian and meet outside the building in 20 minutes." She said. I smiled. "Thanks guys." Sam smiled back before opening the door and entering the house.
I then started running down the street. As soon as I was at the end of it, a huge red building was in my sight. I turned left and ran to the building. Letting out a breath to take a break, I looked up at the building in front of me. I walked to the door slowly, putting a hand on them.
So this was where I was born? It almost seemed surreal, seeing this place… Especially since Mother never mentioned Liverpool and Uncle Angus mentioned it only because I asked about it. Something was pulling me towards inside of this place, but I knew I couldn't enter it now. I took the paper of Mother's diary and looked at it before looking up at the door. Few tears were brimming in corners of my eyes but I quickly brushed them off. Now was not time to cry. Actually, I shouldn't cry at all.
I quickly shook my head to get to my senses before running to the street and looking around. But… I didn't know the number of our old house! Fuck. I would have to ask Uncle Angus and then come back next time here…
By the time I was in front of the librarian's house, the girls haven't showed up yet. I decided to look at some newspapers instead. "These are from today?" I asked the man. "Yes." He responded in a Liverpool dialect, making me smile a bit in happiness. Finally, another person who spoke in a Liverpool accent just like me!
I took one copy of newspapers and looked at the title. "A pro-wrestler Birmingham brawler quits for a simpler, quieter life?" I read it with a raised eyebrow and looked up at the man selling the newspapers. "Yup. Really weird, huh?" He asked me. "I agree." I responded and decided to read the article. It said here that he preferred reading now than wrestling…
Of course reading was better, I preferred it than wrestling at any time of day, but this was still odd. That was when the girls got out of the house. "How did it go?" I asked while folding the newspapers. "What a freak show!" Clover commented, making my eyebrows furrow in confusion. "The librarian prefers working on her abdos now ever since last Thursday. Apparently, she was working in a library when she saw some bright late and all of a sudden, she wasn't a librarian anymore, but a wrestler." Alex commented with a face palm.
"I don't understand a fucking thing to be honest." I told them and they nodded. "Well we don't understand it either. I mean, how often do you meet a wrestling librarian?" Clover stated just as I looked at the newspapers again. The librarian was a wrestler now, and that pro-wrestler quit wrestling for a quieter life…
This was way too similar to be just a coincidence… "Check this out, girls." I showed them what was writing in the newspapers and read the title. "He probably hit his head too many times." Clover pointed out but I shook my head. "This can't be just a coincidence." "Lily's right. It's like their personalities are switched!" Sam commented just as I folded the newspapers and returned them to the man.
Soon after, we were in a wrestling gymnasium, wanting to talk to the former wrestling champion. He was sitting in a chair, surrounded by a pile of books! As much as it surprised me, I was also excited. I mean, a pile of books said everything! I wanted to ask him what he was reading at the moment, what all those books were, and…
"But you're like, the Birmingham brawler, dude, butt-kicking powerhouse of strength!" Clover exclaimed while pretending to punch someone. "Well, yes I was until last Thursday when I discovered Tolstoy, Emily Bronte and Balzac!" The man responded with a small smile lifting each of the books up as he said the authors' names.
My eyes widened in excitement. "You love Balzac?" I asked ecstatically, making the man nod. "Um, Lily? As much as we appreciate your love for books, don't you think this is not a right moment for that?" Clover whispered to me, making me face palm in embarrassment. "Oh, my apologies." I responded with my face red while straightening up.
"You don't happen to know a head librarian at the Liverpool library, do you?" Sam asked. "Why, no, but I'd so love to meet her! We'd probably have a great deal in common!" The wrestler replied. "Trust me; you wouldn't want to meet her." I muttered without thinking, making both Sam and Clover hit me a bit into my ribs with their elbows as if to say 'not time for that, Lily'. "Ouch!" I exclaimed quietly while Alex stood up from the chair.
"Well, thanks for your time, keep digging on those books!" She said. "Yes, I shall. Cheerio, my dears!" The wrestler said just as we exited the gymnasium. "It's like a game we used to play in the nursery school, you know, switching game?" Alex commented.
Sam looked at her in realization. "That's right! It's like they switched personalities!" She pointed out. "But how's that possible? Especially since they don't know each other?" I asked in confusion. "That's what we have to find out."
We visited the Liverpool library where we found out the librarian had an appointment on Thursday morning with a shrink called Doctor Grey.
So, that night, we decided to visit this so-called Doctor Grey. We were wearing our suits and looking at the huge house in front of us, Clover pressed the door bell, but of course… No one answered. "Looks like nobody's home." Sam mused. "Then what are we going to do? Wait for him to come or let ourselves in the house?" I asked while rubbing the back of my head.
"What else than let ourselves in?" Sam smirked, Clover and Alex smirking as well. Soon after, the girls activated their Gogo Boots and used them to climb up a wall towards the balcony. I activated my boots as well, climbing up slowly after them. Alex and Sam helped me up the balcony just as Clover fell over the balcony with one boot holding the glass door.
The door broke and she climbed back up. "Let's split up. We'll use our ear communicators to stay in touch." Sam said.
"Anything there, Lily?" Clover asked once she, Sam and Alex said how there was nothing at their places. I was in a bathroom, looking around. But again, there was nothing. "Nothing here." I commented. "The librarian and you Lily would like this room." Alex commented, making me roll my eyes. "If you say so."
But then, Alex let out a scream, and we couldn't hear from her anymore! "We've got to find her!" Clover exclaimed. I nodded, about to run to the door, but… I couldn't feel the ground beneath me anymore. I was soon screaming before I fell into some sort of a prison cell right next to Sam and Alex. "Fucking great!" I exclaimed in annoyance and started hitting the door of the cell. "Lily, it's no use!" Sam stopped me. "We just have to hope Clover will find us." Alex commented. I sighed in disbelief. This would take a while…
"What do you think, how much time will it take?" I asked with an eye roll. We've been here for two hours with no sign of Clover. "Hopefully soon." Sam stated, just as bored as Alex and me. That was when we saw… Clover and Jerry falling down in front of us!
Clover got off Jerry just as the man started putting his wig back on. "About time you got here!" Sam said just as all of us stood up and the duo turned around to see us. "You could have been a bit quicker, you know." I commented with a frown just as Jerry stood up.
"Give us a break, we've like, been totally busy!" He exclaimed while waving with his left hand as if he were offended. What… What the fuck have I just seen?! For three or four months of knowing Jerry, I knew the man would never say 'give us a break' or 'totally busy', let alone wave with his hand like that! "Huh?!" Alex exclaimed while Sam raised an eyebrow in surprise.
I, on the other hand, was gaping at Jerry. "Indeed, we've been quite preoccupied!" Clover said in a British accent while standing up as well. She said it in a way Mister British Man would say it… It was Jerry's turn to gape now. Sam and Alex gasped while pointing at the two of them. "What the actual fuck?!" I exclaimed while pointing at them as well.
"Oh, good heavens." Clover commented. "No freaking way!" Jerry shouted before covering his mouth in shock just as I covered my mouth as well to stop myself from laughing. As much as it was creepy, hearing those words coming out of the man's mouth was funny… "I don't know whether I should laugh or cry." I commented dryly.
"This is the weirdest moment ever!" Sam stated while looking at Alex and me. "Yeah, what happened to you guys?!" Alex asked in shock. That was when the door of the room opened and Doctor Grey entered it with two bodyguards. "I gave them a little attitude adjustments!" He declared with a smirk.
Except that seeing this was just wrong… "I so can't believe the nerve of you! Talk about a major loser!" Jerry pointed at the man angrily, making me face palm. Again, seeing Jerry acting like Clover and Clover acting like him was so creepy but funny at the same time… "Jerry please, that kind of talk isn't going to alter our current predicament!" Clover told the man.
Hearing those words coming from both of them meant something… But soon after, Clover and Jerry were locked in a cell as well, except that this one was filled with rats! And the crazy Doctor Grey was off to turn the American president into a Rodeo Clown. Great, just fucking great. "Ew, this is like, seriously disgusting!" Jerry exclaimed while pointing at the creatures in disgust. Well, I had to agree with him this time, rats were disgusting!
"Unhand me, you vile creatures!" Clover exclaimed while trying to get the rats off her leg. "Mercy, this is repugnant!" That sounded like something Mother would say… "I don't know which is scarier, the rats or those two switching personalities!" Alex commented just as I face palmed once again. "Me neither." Sam agreed. "I think those two are scarier, but whatever." I commented.
"Clover, the Laser Lipstick is in your pocket!" Sam then shouted. Clover soon used it to create a hole of the door of the cell. They got out of the cell and then Jerry used the lipstick to free us as well. And I didn't want to comment on the shapes both of them had made by creating the holes of the door… "Thanks Clover, um, I mean Jerry!" Alex thanked. "Oh, you're quite welcome!" "No prob!" Clover and Jerry responded at the same time.
I let out a loud groan at this with hands on my face. "How long do you two intend on staying like this?! Because, you know, this is just wrong!" I exclaimed. "I agree, I can't stand another second of this! We need to find that demented doctor and switch you back right now!" Sam agreed with me.
That was when Clover's compowder started ringing. "Oh, for the love of Pete, who could be phoning at time like this?" I raised an eyebrow at her vocabulary just as she answered the call. 'For the love of Pete'?! Clover was reminding me of Mother more and more…
Clover then said they accepted her gig for that show thing she was doing and that they wanted her at Los Angeles right now. Alright, my question was… Was she REALLY going to show up like this in front of them?!
"But what about your, situation?! You know, the fact that you're acting like a 55-year-old English man?" Sam asked in utter disbelief. "No offense to you Brits at all." She then told Jerry and me. "No offense taken." I told her. "So what? She'll just have to deal with it! Because the four of us have to race towards…" But then, Jerry's wallet started ringing as well…
And he said how they were apparently waiting for him at the knighting ceremony. I swear to God, he and Clover were fucking crazy. If I were Jerry, I wouldn't go there! I mean, with Clover's attitude, hell was about to break loose! No offense to Clover, but… British gentlemen were one thing, and American teenage girls were something else!
And if I were Clover, I wouldn't go either! Who knew what could happen at that show with her new attitude! "Honestly guys, if I were you two, I wouldn't even think about showing up there." I commented while folding my arms. But then, the arguing started… "Oh, for the love of Pete, I've got to show up there…" "What do you mean you wouldn't go there?! I mean, seriously…"
"Because you're going to embarrass yourselves! I don't know, tell them you're sick, that you can't come, at least you won't get in awkward situations!" I exclaimed and lifted hands up. "I've got to go!" Clover exclaimed and ran out.
I face palmed once again because I knew what this was going to look like. Clover was going to talk about something British on a teenage show and Jerry was going to talk how knighting was better than any sale at the mall. In other words, they were fucking dead.
"I'll call agents and tell them about this." Jerry suddenly said and took out his wallet. "What about the Queen?" Sam asked with a raised eyebrow. "Oh, forget the Queen! That loser is way more important at the moment! I mean, seriously, he wants to turn the president into a Rodeo Clown!" He retorted in a bit of annoyance.
Alex, Sam and I looked at each other before sighing in relief. Clover's attitude just saved Jerry from total humiliation… But Clover should have stayed too! "Come on then, we've got to go!" Sam exclaimed. "What about Clover?" I asked a bit worriedly. "We've told her not to go, but she insisted on it! We'll just have to hope everything goes well on the show!" Sam responded. I let out a sigh but ran after her and Alex.
We ran into the White House the fastest we could. "We've got to talk to the President immediately; it's a matter of national security!" Alex declared just as we showed them our WOOHP employee cards. Soon after, we barged into the President's office, much to his surprise.
"Sorry to barge in like this Sir, but it's an emergency!" "Yeah, an evil shrink is about to turn you into a Rodeo Clown!" Sam and Alex explained. But of course, the President was confused. "Did you say a Rodeo Clown? Because this is just plain crazy!" He declared. "Crazy, but true." I commented, making the President frown.
"Trust me; crazy doesn't even begin to describe this guy!" Alex commented. "Good evening, Mister President." A voice behind us could be heard, making me turn around quickly to see… Doctor Grey! "It's time for your counseling session!" He said just as he took out some crazy pair of shoes. The President then of course asked what those were, and the man said those were the shoes he'd be soon walking in.
And, the President looked at the man as if he had grown two heads. "I think this explained everything." I commented just as Alex pointed at the Doctor. "We said he was way loony!" She waved with her index finger around in a 'fucking crazy' meaning.
And soon after, the fight began. Sam and Alex soon found themselves thrown against book shelves. I charged towards one of bodyguards, attempting to punch him, but… I was sent flying against another book shelf. Then Doctor Grey said how he switched his bodyguards' attitudes with those of men wearing karate black belts.
"What now?" Alex asked. Sam and I looked at each other with grins right after Sam took out one VAG. "You two take care of the bodyguards; I'll take care of Grey." She said and we nodded, taking our VAG's as well. "We're not done with you yet!" We shouted just as the bodyguards were intending to grab the President.
Doctor Grey was looking at us unimpressed. "You've got to be joking!" He declared. "Do we look like we're joking?" I asked with a raised eyebrow. "When it comes to saving the world, we don't joke!" Alex exclaimed before we started running towards our targets.
I charged towards a bodyguard and kicked him with my elbow, knocking him down. I then activated VAG right under his nose just as Alex did the same to another one and Sam did it to Doctor Grey. Soon after, we tied up Doctor Grey and the security came to escort the villain towards awaiting WOOHP agents and Jerry outside.
"I wonder how it went with Clover…" Sam suddenly spoke up, making Alex and me look at her with frowns because we had no idea.
"As far as I'm concerned, the only music worth its salt is the classical variety; Brahms, Mozart, Bach…" Clover on the television was talking in a British accent. We were watching how the show went from Jerry's office, and neither Clover nor Jerry were happy about it. "I can't believe those words actually came out of my mouth, it's so embarrassing!" Clover commented in disbelief.
"If it helps, you remind me of Mother." I told her, making the girl look at me unimpressed. "Not helping." She said, making me laugh. "What did the Queen say about your absence last night?" Alex then asked Jerry. "I told someone I wasn't feeling well, and that's it. I have a feeling it would have been even worse if I had showed up there." The man frowned.
That was when Clover's phone started ringing. Apparently, everyone loved Clover's attitude last night and wanted her back, and of course, Clover was thrilled. "You can thank me any time." Jerry commented with a frown still on his face. "I don't need to thank you Jer, I need to switch personalities with you!" Clover declared, making me gape. She wanted this again?!
She then asked where that thing for swapping personalities was, but Jerry of course refused to tell her. Sam, Alex and I, on the other hand were watching the whole scene in amusement.
"Remind me again, why did it take you so much time to come?" Sam asked while we were walking down the street towards our homes. Clover frowned. "I called Jerry because I didn't want to be alone and end up like three of you, but then he tried to sell me the 'I'm busy' act. Of course, that didn't work because I got mad and he told me to calm down, saying he had my coordinates and was coming soon." She commented.
Alex, Sam and I laughed at that. "What about you, Lily? What were you looking for back there in Liverpool?" Alex asked curiously. "I managed to find hospital where I was born." I said with a small smile, making the girls smile as well.
That was when we came to in front of my house. I said 'bye' to the girls before opening the door slowly, waiting for Mother's boring birthday party to begin…
And that's it for today! I wanted to show a bit why Bryony is so cold towards Lily, so I hope this chapter explains at least a bit why. I hope you liked it and until next time!