"Maxwell. Maria and I are heading out. . .where ever." Michael said Max nodded not really paying any attention. Michael and Maria wondered out into the streets of the small town.
"So we know that your 'fake' is 'fake' Tess's sister, and that your friends with them. But what about me? I know am here and the caption of the cheerleading squad. Are we together here too? Am I even friends with you guys? And 'fake' Max said they when he was talking about you, as in two people. And they way he said 'They went back to your place' you could tell it was a girl." Maria babbled. Michael leaned down and kissed her to shut her up.
"If were aren't together than we'll leave. . .okay?" Michael said, Maria nodded. The two sat down on one of the benches in the park and talked about the changes in the new world. About an hour later the rest of the group found them holding each other still talking.
"Hey guys. Find you 'fake' selves?" Isabel asked
"Nope we've been sitting here. . ." Michael was cut off by Maria's laugh. The group looked at Maria who was sitting in Michael's arms and she wasn't laughing, but looking in another direction. Everyone looked to see what she was watching. Over on the other side of the park was 'fake' 'Max', 'Tess', 'Michael' and 'Maria'. 'Max' and 'Tess' were standing together holding hands; 'Michael' had his arm protectively around 'Maria's' waist and 'Maria' was laughing with her head on his chest. 'Michael's' hair was once again spiky and wild, he was wearing regular jeans and a tight black shirt. 'Maria's' hair was long and straight unlike the curly style she had in the real world, she was wearing black velvet jeans, white tennis shoes and a baby blue tank top.
"So you two are together." Tess observed, Maria smiled and sank deeper into Michael's arms. After about five minute 'Max' turned and went back down the street toward his house, 'Michael', 'Tess' and 'Maria' got into an expensive convertible, with 'Michael' driving and speed off down the opposite street.
"So am I rich or something?" Michael asked
"I guess. . .hey this is so weird. . .I know where I live." Maria said
"Me too." Everyone else said at the same time.
"Maria we live together?" Kyle asked
"What?" Michael yelled
"Yeah brother and sister how weird is that?" Maria said as she watched Michael relax knowing that they weren't just living together.
"So we know that Maria and Kyle; Max and me; and Michael and Tess are siblings. So why don't we go with our sibling and Alex and Liz can go together. We can get around faster, we can all meet back here in one hour. Okay?" Isabel asked taking charge. Everyone nodded, and split up going their separate directions.
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"So this is where we live. . .it's. . .smaller than our other house. . ." Isabel said to Max as they walked up the drive way of their 'fake' others house.
"Yeah. . .hey I wonder what parents we have." Max said. The two looked at each other one last time before they entered the house by walking right through the door. Once inside they saw their father (both in the new world and the real world) sitting in his chair reading the paper.
"Max it's dad." Isabel said in delight, right away she ran into the kitchen with Max right behind her, there they found their mother (same as dad) washing the dishes at the sink.
"They adopted us from an agency when we were three. Mom's a housewife and dad's a small time lawyer." Max told Isabel as the information came to him from nowhere like Zerka said it would.
"Let's find our 'fakes'." Isabel said heading down the hallway. Once there they knew right away which rooms were which.
"There's my room." Isabel said walking right through a door. Inside they found 'Isabel' sitting on her bed with a magazine, nail polish and homework, talking on the phone. Her room was neat and tidy, her cheerleading uniform neatly hanging up, shoes lined up, everything was in order.
"So were on for tomorrow night?" 'Isabel' said on the phone.
"Okay. . .bye Alex. . .I love you too. . .bye." 'Isabel' hung with the phone with a smile on her face as she continued working on her nails.
"Wow. . .Max everything seems. . .great." Isabel said to her brother, Max nodded.
"I want to see what. . .my other me is doing." Max said as they went out of 'Isabel's' room and into another. 'Max was sitting at his desk typing on his computer, unlike in the real world his room was a wreak, everything from his football uniform to dirty dishes were tossed around the room. Max and Isabel went and looked on the computer screen to see what he was typing.
So you two just went to a movie?
Yea, get your mind out of the gutter
Fine. Fine. Listen I'm gonna go and call Tess.
You've got it bad man
Look who's talking
Yeah. . .so! See ya later man.
See ya
With that 'Max' signed off the computer and picked up the phone.
"Finally Izzy's off the phone. . .you'd think that after seeing each other all day they would be able to cut communication at night. . ." 'Max' muttered to himself.
"You'd think. . ." Max said, Isabel looked at her brother then hit him on the arm.
"Funny, Mister 'He's got it bad'. By the way, you do have it bad." Isabel said laughing, Max rolled his eyes and they walked out into the family room. Their dad was still sitting in his chair so Max and Isabel sat down on the couch and watched T.V not really knowing what to do next.
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"So we're brother and sister? Are we on Antar too? Or just here?" Michael asked Tess as they watched their 'mom' and 'dad' eat dinner with their fake others.
"I'm not sure about the whole brother and sister thing on Antar but I guess we are here." Tess told Michael, after a couple of minutes Tess looked at Michael with a weird look on her face.
"Um. . .this is weird but I all of the sudden just like. . .know stuff." Tess said
"Our real parents died in a car accident when we were four and Tom and Susan Gurien adopted us. Dad. . .I mean Tom is a Doctor and Susan's a Teacher for second grade. That is weird, lets go inside for a closer look." Michael said as he and Tess walked through the front door. Inside 'Michael' and 'Tess' were just leaving the dinner table and were walking up the stairs to their bedrooms.
"See ya in the morning dogface" 'Tess said smiling at her brother.
"Whatever loserbutt" 'Michael' said with a smirk.
"Well I guess my vocabulary has increased, yours seems to have stayed the same." Tess said laughing.
"Very funny. Listen you go and watch your fake whatever for a while, and I'll watch mine. We'll meet up here in about ten minutes, okay?" Michael said
"Okay ten minutes it is dogface!" Tess continued to laugh as she walked through the door into her huge room. It was like her own room but a little more personal, Tess liked it better this way. Hearing her own voice brought her back into. . .reality.
"Sure they were only at a movie. . .I've heard that one before from you!" 'Tess' said laughing at the person on the other end of the phone line.
"Yeah, just wanted to see if you could find out what they were really doing. Okay see ya tomorrow. . .Romeo at your window. . .how sweet. . .bye Liz." 'Tess' hung up the phone still laughing. 'Liz? Wow! I never talk to Liz in the other world, but we seen to be good friends here.' Tess thought to herself. Tess watched her fake other pull out her homework and start on it when the phone rang again, right than Tess realized that it had been ten minutes so she walked back out into the hall to wait for Michael.
Meanwhile:
Michael walked into his room to find a. . .well a room. It looked just like a room that Michael would have in the real world if he had money. 'Michael' was at his computer typing to someone. The real Michael looked around the huge room to find Metallica posters, football things, clothes, and homework everywhere. The only thing that was clean was his nightstand with a picture of him and Maria on it. He had his arms around her waist as she leaned back into him, they were both smiling. Michael looked up to see 'Michael' turn off the computer and start to look through his things, all of the sudden the phone rang and 'Michael' started to laugh than mutter something to himself that sounded like whipped. The real Michael look at his watch and realized that he should be getting back to Tess. Out in the hallway he found Tess there already waiting for him.
"Well? How did you like it?" Tess asked
"We are a rich family, that's for sure. And it looks like my other really likes it here, the only clean place in the room is where there is a picture of me and Maria. You?" Michael said with an almost smile, all his real smiles were for a certain little Pixie.
"I'm good friends with Liz Parker. And it looks like everything's good here. I mean we both seem happy with life, were well off money wise, we seem to have good parents and a good sibling relationship. I like it here!" Tess said smiling.
"Let's go check our parents out." Michael suggested, downstairs they found their parents watching t.v together, both of them curled up on the couch. The two teens could hear what they were talking about.
"I'm so proud that Michael is so good at football, best the towns ever had. And Tess. Her grades seem to get better and better!" Susan said to her husband.
"I know, and I am their father so you can save your bragging for your friends!" Tom said laughing at his wife. Susan looked at him than started to laugh also. Michael and Tess looked at each other and rolled their eyes.
"Great, their. . .in love. I wonder if they kiss in front of us." Tess wondered out loud, she looked at Michael and they both got a look of disgust on their face.
"Let's watch them a little longer, see what their like." Tess suggested, Michael nodded and they both sat down on the soft carpet and their 'parents' feet.
"So we know that your 'fake' is 'fake' Tess's sister, and that your friends with them. But what about me? I know am here and the caption of the cheerleading squad. Are we together here too? Am I even friends with you guys? And 'fake' Max said they when he was talking about you, as in two people. And they way he said 'They went back to your place' you could tell it was a girl." Maria babbled. Michael leaned down and kissed her to shut her up.
"If were aren't together than we'll leave. . .okay?" Michael said, Maria nodded. The two sat down on one of the benches in the park and talked about the changes in the new world. About an hour later the rest of the group found them holding each other still talking.
"Hey guys. Find you 'fake' selves?" Isabel asked
"Nope we've been sitting here. . ." Michael was cut off by Maria's laugh. The group looked at Maria who was sitting in Michael's arms and she wasn't laughing, but looking in another direction. Everyone looked to see what she was watching. Over on the other side of the park was 'fake' 'Max', 'Tess', 'Michael' and 'Maria'. 'Max' and 'Tess' were standing together holding hands; 'Michael' had his arm protectively around 'Maria's' waist and 'Maria' was laughing with her head on his chest. 'Michael's' hair was once again spiky and wild, he was wearing regular jeans and a tight black shirt. 'Maria's' hair was long and straight unlike the curly style she had in the real world, she was wearing black velvet jeans, white tennis shoes and a baby blue tank top.
"So you two are together." Tess observed, Maria smiled and sank deeper into Michael's arms. After about five minute 'Max' turned and went back down the street toward his house, 'Michael', 'Tess' and 'Maria' got into an expensive convertible, with 'Michael' driving and speed off down the opposite street.
"So am I rich or something?" Michael asked
"I guess. . .hey this is so weird. . .I know where I live." Maria said
"Me too." Everyone else said at the same time.
"Maria we live together?" Kyle asked
"What?" Michael yelled
"Yeah brother and sister how weird is that?" Maria said as she watched Michael relax knowing that they weren't just living together.
"So we know that Maria and Kyle; Max and me; and Michael and Tess are siblings. So why don't we go with our sibling and Alex and Liz can go together. We can get around faster, we can all meet back here in one hour. Okay?" Isabel asked taking charge. Everyone nodded, and split up going their separate directions.
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"So this is where we live. . .it's. . .smaller than our other house. . ." Isabel said to Max as they walked up the drive way of their 'fake' others house.
"Yeah. . .hey I wonder what parents we have." Max said. The two looked at each other one last time before they entered the house by walking right through the door. Once inside they saw their father (both in the new world and the real world) sitting in his chair reading the paper.
"Max it's dad." Isabel said in delight, right away she ran into the kitchen with Max right behind her, there they found their mother (same as dad) washing the dishes at the sink.
"They adopted us from an agency when we were three. Mom's a housewife and dad's a small time lawyer." Max told Isabel as the information came to him from nowhere like Zerka said it would.
"Let's find our 'fakes'." Isabel said heading down the hallway. Once there they knew right away which rooms were which.
"There's my room." Isabel said walking right through a door. Inside they found 'Isabel' sitting on her bed with a magazine, nail polish and homework, talking on the phone. Her room was neat and tidy, her cheerleading uniform neatly hanging up, shoes lined up, everything was in order.
"So were on for tomorrow night?" 'Isabel' said on the phone.
"Okay. . .bye Alex. . .I love you too. . .bye." 'Isabel' hung with the phone with a smile on her face as she continued working on her nails.
"Wow. . .Max everything seems. . .great." Isabel said to her brother, Max nodded.
"I want to see what. . .my other me is doing." Max said as they went out of 'Isabel's' room and into another. 'Max was sitting at his desk typing on his computer, unlike in the real world his room was a wreak, everything from his football uniform to dirty dishes were tossed around the room. Max and Isabel went and looked on the computer screen to see what he was typing.
So you two just went to a movie?
Yea, get your mind out of the gutter
Fine. Fine. Listen I'm gonna go and call Tess.
You've got it bad man
Look who's talking
Yeah. . .so! See ya later man.
See ya
With that 'Max' signed off the computer and picked up the phone.
"Finally Izzy's off the phone. . .you'd think that after seeing each other all day they would be able to cut communication at night. . ." 'Max' muttered to himself.
"You'd think. . ." Max said, Isabel looked at her brother then hit him on the arm.
"Funny, Mister 'He's got it bad'. By the way, you do have it bad." Isabel said laughing, Max rolled his eyes and they walked out into the family room. Their dad was still sitting in his chair so Max and Isabel sat down on the couch and watched T.V not really knowing what to do next.
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"So we're brother and sister? Are we on Antar too? Or just here?" Michael asked Tess as they watched their 'mom' and 'dad' eat dinner with their fake others.
"I'm not sure about the whole brother and sister thing on Antar but I guess we are here." Tess told Michael, after a couple of minutes Tess looked at Michael with a weird look on her face.
"Um. . .this is weird but I all of the sudden just like. . .know stuff." Tess said
"Our real parents died in a car accident when we were four and Tom and Susan Gurien adopted us. Dad. . .I mean Tom is a Doctor and Susan's a Teacher for second grade. That is weird, lets go inside for a closer look." Michael said as he and Tess walked through the front door. Inside 'Michael' and 'Tess' were just leaving the dinner table and were walking up the stairs to their bedrooms.
"See ya in the morning dogface" 'Tess said smiling at her brother.
"Whatever loserbutt" 'Michael' said with a smirk.
"Well I guess my vocabulary has increased, yours seems to have stayed the same." Tess said laughing.
"Very funny. Listen you go and watch your fake whatever for a while, and I'll watch mine. We'll meet up here in about ten minutes, okay?" Michael said
"Okay ten minutes it is dogface!" Tess continued to laugh as she walked through the door into her huge room. It was like her own room but a little more personal, Tess liked it better this way. Hearing her own voice brought her back into. . .reality.
"Sure they were only at a movie. . .I've heard that one before from you!" 'Tess' said laughing at the person on the other end of the phone line.
"Yeah, just wanted to see if you could find out what they were really doing. Okay see ya tomorrow. . .Romeo at your window. . .how sweet. . .bye Liz." 'Tess' hung up the phone still laughing. 'Liz? Wow! I never talk to Liz in the other world, but we seen to be good friends here.' Tess thought to herself. Tess watched her fake other pull out her homework and start on it when the phone rang again, right than Tess realized that it had been ten minutes so she walked back out into the hall to wait for Michael.
Meanwhile:
Michael walked into his room to find a. . .well a room. It looked just like a room that Michael would have in the real world if he had money. 'Michael' was at his computer typing to someone. The real Michael looked around the huge room to find Metallica posters, football things, clothes, and homework everywhere. The only thing that was clean was his nightstand with a picture of him and Maria on it. He had his arms around her waist as she leaned back into him, they were both smiling. Michael looked up to see 'Michael' turn off the computer and start to look through his things, all of the sudden the phone rang and 'Michael' started to laugh than mutter something to himself that sounded like whipped. The real Michael look at his watch and realized that he should be getting back to Tess. Out in the hallway he found Tess there already waiting for him.
"Well? How did you like it?" Tess asked
"We are a rich family, that's for sure. And it looks like my other really likes it here, the only clean place in the room is where there is a picture of me and Maria. You?" Michael said with an almost smile, all his real smiles were for a certain little Pixie.
"I'm good friends with Liz Parker. And it looks like everything's good here. I mean we both seem happy with life, were well off money wise, we seem to have good parents and a good sibling relationship. I like it here!" Tess said smiling.
"Let's go check our parents out." Michael suggested, downstairs they found their parents watching t.v together, both of them curled up on the couch. The two teens could hear what they were talking about.
"I'm so proud that Michael is so good at football, best the towns ever had. And Tess. Her grades seem to get better and better!" Susan said to her husband.
"I know, and I am their father so you can save your bragging for your friends!" Tom said laughing at his wife. Susan looked at him than started to laugh also. Michael and Tess looked at each other and rolled their eyes.
"Great, their. . .in love. I wonder if they kiss in front of us." Tess wondered out loud, she looked at Michael and they both got a look of disgust on their face.
"Let's watch them a little longer, see what their like." Tess suggested, Michael nodded and they both sat down on the soft carpet and their 'parents' feet.
