PRIDE'S POV STILL

Me and Lex stared at each other wide eyed with frozen horror. Of course Lex was the one who was panicking out of their mind right now as they ran around my room attempting to find somewhere to hide as 'he' muttered "ohgodohgodohgod" over and over. I sighed and got up from my bed, I mean there was no point in hiding Lex was there? I didn't know what the hell happened or what I could do to help Lex, and well I supposed they'd have to see 'him' sometime and boy would it take a hell of a lot of explaining, well as much as we could explain. - Hey guys, Lex woke up and is now a girl, see look at that body. Hmm don't think that will go down well. And I have a feeling 'he'll try blaming me or something.

"Pride?" The voice called through the door again following by a banging on the door, "you decent in there?" they asked, and I knew they were ready to walk in.

"Uh, be out in a second" I called back with a groan as I straightened by bed covers.

Lex turned to face me, as 'he' pressed against the wall in horror, suddenly looking even more small and scared as 'he' shook his head frantically, "No!" he whispered sharply.

I rolled my eyes and grabbed Lex by the arm, giving him a yank to move him away from the wall, "They'll see you sometime Lex, and they might be able to help" I told Lex, and before 'he' could protest I threw open the door and walked out dragging Lex out with me.

"Pride!" Bray gasped eyes wide open as he saw me standing there holding onto Lex's arm as he attempted to hide behind me. I knew what he was thinking and quickly protested "Its not what it looks like!"

And it was that point in the worst possible time that Salene walked out and saw- and then you could see the hurt and anger across her face.

"You cheated on me? With some cheap slut?" she fumed getting the totally wrong idea and walking over, Lex still hiding behind me as she then slapped me across the face. Twice in one morning, ouch.

"No I didn't, just let me explain" I tried to say.

"You don't need to explain, its clear for all to see what you did, how could you Pride? Just walking out your room like that with some scantily clad stick insect in" she peered around and looked confused, "Boxers and a massive T-shirt?"

I sighed, "Look there's a perfectly good explanation for this!" I looked at her and Bray as they both looked angrily at me, and then Amber arrived looking shocked too. Oh great. Lex tried to sneak off but I reached back and grabbed his arm.

"Oh really? And that is?" Amber asked, with eyebrows raised having heard what I said.

"This isn't a girl, its Lex" I simply said, and knew how dumb and irrational it sounded.

"Are you mad?" Amber cried out as she stared at me like I was a nutter.

"No" I said quickly, "Look!" I pushed Lex forward who was interestingly blushing madly and looking down, hair falling on front of 'his' face as he stood looking dead embarrassed.

"This is so crazy" I heard Bray whisper and rolled his eyes not believing me.

"Well uh, its true" Lex mumbled still looking down and wanting to be a million miles away, "I'm me, but not me, I'm me but a girl and I don't know what happened or why I just woke up and"-

"Hold up hold up" Salene interrupted raising her hands, "Let me get this straight. You seriously expect us to believe that the you're claiming this girl, is Lex?"

"YES!" Me and Lex said together huffily.

"They're both mad!" Bray flung his arms in the air from frustration.

"Oh shut up Bray, you wouldn't know madness if it came and smacked you in the face, in which case you wouldn't know if Trudy smacked you in the face" Lex snapped angrily, narrowing their eyes at Bray.

Everyone blinked a bit shocked. "Well they sound and act like Lex, lets talk in the cafeteria" Bray said looking weirded out.

A bit later, much to the humiliation and anger of Lex, we'd gotten most of the tribe into the cafeteria so we could try and explain as best we could about what had happened that morning, Lex waking up to discover he is how he is, and him coming to me to ask for help. He sat on the chair next to me fidgeting and looking moody and at the same time embarassed as I did all the talking. The tribe seemed to be taking the rather weird tale well. "So, that's it" I finished with a sigh. I looked up to see everyone blinking at me.

"So. we have no idea what happened to make "Lex"" Bray did quote marks with his fingers as he said the name, "into a girl?" he had difficulty not to smile despite the 'seriousness' of the situation.

"Maybe it was something he ate last night" May suggested with a shrug.

"All I ate was that **** Bray cooked for us all last night and I don't see anyone else morphing into something freaky" Lex muttered, speaking up for the first time.

"Well then man I'm stumped" May sighed and sat back in her chair, pretty much summing it all up for everybody.

"So uh" Jack said, sitting near Lex, "Are those real?" he asked pointing oh so subtly to Lex's chest. Lex scowled and smacked Jack's hand away.

"Well now all the serious talk is over, anyone else want to join me in laughter?" Trudy smirked and began to giggle. There was a bit more laughter and Lex was getting more and more angry.

"Don't laugh" I snapped and some of the laughter died down.

"So what am I going to do? I can't stay like this!" Lex whined.

"Looks like till we figure out how to get you back to being 'Lex' you'll just have to well, live it out as a girl" Amber said with a grin. Okay so despite the serious level, this was pretty amusing for everyone, well apart from Lex.

"What? No!" Lex shrieked, "I can't do that, I mean, I don't know how to!" 'he' looked so defeated as he folded his arms on the table and put his face down on his arms.

"Well there's plenty of us girls in the mall Lex who can like.'tutor' you to be a girl" Amber said helpfully but giggling at the thought of it.

"Bet you can't wait to paint your nails and put yogurt on your face and stuff at girly sleepovers" Jack joked and the others laughed.

"God hates me! This is my punishment isn't it? Instead of death he gave me something far worse" Lex moaned from where 'he' was.

"This is waaaay weird" Ellie said from her seat.

"The word duh springs to mind" Lex said as he looked up and the others laughed again and he glared "what?" he snapped.

"Oh nothing just. well come on you, big bad Lex as well a skinny small girl" Salene smirked and burst into laughter again.

"Man I shoulda just like killed myself or left when I had the chance" Lex snapped angrily as 'he' stood up and the chair scraped back with a screech.

"Hey wait Lex, we're sorry okay, its just"- I got interrupted grabbing his arm.

"Weird? Tell me about it, God this sucks!" Lex whined and slumped back down in his seat in a manner of defeat.

"Make the most of it, being a girl is brilliant" May chimed and sat up, "Just wait and see, girls have the most fun"

"Hmm that's debateable" Lex folded his arms huffily.

"Come on, it won't be so bad, me, Amber, Salene and everyone will help ya out" May said.

"And we're here to support you you know that" I offered.

"Well I don't want support or girly sessions with you pathetic excuses for girls, I just want to go back to being me!" Lex whined more.

"Well right now, we don't see how that will happen so shut up and be glad of the support and that you're getting now" Bray stated.

"Um this is probably going to sound weird, but well I can't call him, her, whatever Lex, or a him its just weird" Trudy shuddered a bit.

"You're right. We need to say she so its not confusing"-

"I'm a HE!" Lex fumed which sounded funny if you looked at him sitting there right then.

"Well now you're a SHE! So a she you are" Amber smiled as she continued.

"Hmm.. I see you as an Alexis!" May piped up.

"Alexis, ooh that's good" Bray grinned.

"I'm still Lex! I'm not a new person okay, I just have a weirded body" Lex said.

"Well yeah we know, but well. its all well and good explaining this to our tribe and it being all okay and stuff, but what about to the rest of the city?" I said.

That made Lex's frown deepen, "The city. Oh God!"

"Don't worry you'll still be our little Sexy Lexy" May smirked.

"Yeah only you'll be Sexius Alexis" Jack said and we laughed.

I could tell how annoyed, angry and humiliated Lex was feeling.

"Well Alexis" Amber beamed as she spoke the name, a few giggles chiming, "First things first about being a girl - you need to wear girl clothes"

Lex's eyes widened comically. "No way! There's no way I'm wearing girl clothes, I'm wearing my own damn clothes"

"Have you seen the size of you? None of your man clothes will fit they'll be massive" Amber spoke rationally, "come on its not that big a deal"

"Yes it is!" Lex snapped.

"Shut up and come with us" Amber said standing up and walking over, grabbing Lex's arm and pulling her up, you could see the fear on her face.

"This will be so much fun!" May squealed, as the rest of the girls followed. I saw the plain scared 'help me!' expression on 'Alexis's face as she was pulled away.

I turned to see Bray smirking. "This will be good" he laughed.