Author's Note: From here on out, you'll have to use your imagination. Anything spoken or thought by Drake will come from Josh's body and sound like Josh. Anything spoken or thought by Josh will appear to come from Drake. Get that? It'll probably be a little confusing at first, but if you have questions, ask me. This is much similar to Freaky Friday and the episode of "Jimmy Neutron" where Jimmy and Cindy switch brains...hope that helps.
My birthday was today. Yay! Well, it was the 6th of January. Same day as Drake & Josh Go Hollywood. Anyway, liked the movie.
The alarm clock went off the next morning, as it did every day. It was odd. The loud buzzing sounded a bit distant to Drake that morning. The mattress also felt a bit more firm than usual. Oh, well. Drake reached up his hand to hit the alarm clock, as he did every morning. Then he realized there was no alarm clock there. What was going on?
The sound of the alarm was driving Josh nuts. Why didn't Drake turn it off? Josh picked up a pillow and threw it over his shoulder at Drake. However, he heard a light thump against the wall. Had he missed in the dark? Probably. Josh sighed and went to step on the floor next to his bed.
"WAH!" Josh yelled, taking a sudden and unexpected tumble.
"JOSH! GET OFF OF ME!" Drake yelled.
"I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY I'M ON TOP OF YOU!" Josh yelled back. "Hey, if I just fell on top of you, that would mean I was in your bed, and you were in mine."
"That is wrong on so many levels," said Drake.
"Seems like the only logical explanation," Josh replied. "But I don't know how it happened in the first place. Maybe we both sleep walk."
"I guess so," Drake replied. "You know, we've been in the same room too long. We're starting to sound like each other." Drake got up and went to switch on the lights. As he did, he heard a yell come from Josh.
"Josh, what are you...OH MY GOD!" Drake shouted, as he turned to look at his brother.
"You look like me!" Josh hollered.
"Uh, you look like me!" Drake responded.
"This has to be a dream," said Josh. "Maybe if we pinch ourselves, we'll wake up."
Drake glanced at Josh and gave him a quick pinch.
"OW!" Josh yelled. "What'd you do that for?"
"You said maybe we should pinch ourselves," Drake replied. "You look like myself."
"That's not what I meant!" Josh shouted.
"Whatever," Drake said. "Wait a minute! You didn't wake up! It's not a dream!"
"Then the only other explanation is that we've gone crazy," said Josh.
"Or we're in some twisted dimension," Drake replied.
"I don't think so Drake," said Josh.
"Then how do you explain what's going on? You're supposed to be the smart one!"
"I can't explain it. I wish I could, but I can't."
"What are we gonna do?" asked Drake. "There's no way I'm going to get any dates if I look like you."
Josh gave Drake a glare.
"No offense," said Drake. "But you're not the most popular guy in school, and you have a terrible reputation among the girls."
"That's not important," Josh replied. "There's that huge English test coming up. I can't take it for myself, and you can't take it for yourself as long as we're like this. Oh no! I'm gonna fail it because you're me!"
"Wait a second," said Drake.
"What?" Josh asked.
"I've got a date with Claire this Friday," Drake replied. "What if we're still stuck like this?"
"Um, that's when I'm going out with Mindy."
"WHAT? THERE IS NO WAY I WILL GO OUT WITH MINDY CRENSHAW! YOU HEAR ME JOSH?"
"Calm down, Drake. Hopefully this will all be over by Friday. Besides, if I went out with Claire, that would be disastrous."
"Man, it would," Drake responded. "Okay. We have to figure this out by Friday. If not, oh man, this is so bad."
"Maybe we should tell Mom and Dad," Josh suggested.
"Oh, yeah," replied Drake. "We'll just tell them we magically switched bodies, and then listen to them laugh."
"Okay," said Josh. "So that's not a good idea. We could go to a psychiatrist or something then."
"Who will laugh even harder than Mom and Dad."
"You're really not helping, you know that?" asked Josh.
"Your ideas haven't been very good!"
"At least I'm thinking! -- Wow. It's weird to hear the word 'think' with your voice."
"Thanks a lot," Drake replied. "Look, let's find Megan. It's probably some crazy prank she managed to pull."
"Maybe," said Josh. "I don't know how she'd pull this one though."
"Well, only one way to find out," Drake responded.
The guys found themselves outside of Megan's bedroom. Josh reached up his hand and knocked on the door. Megan opened it.
"What do you boobs want?" she asked.
"WHAT DID YOU DO?" shouted Drake, who looked like Josh, so Megan thought he was Josh.
"Josh, what are you talking about?" Megan responded.
"Don't play dumb Megan," said Josh, who looked like Drake, so Megan thought he was Drake. "We know you're behind this."
"Behind what?" she asked. "You guys are really starting to freak me out."
"How'd you switch us?" asked Drake.
"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Drake, why has Josh gone insane?"
"He hasn't gone insane," Josh replied. "And Josh is me. I just look like Drake."
Megan stared at her brothers as if the both of them had suddenly grown two heads.
"So," said Megan. "Drake is Josh, and Josh is Drake."
"Yes," replied Drake.
Megan continued staring at them, and then she suddenly burst out into laughter.
"This isn't funny Megan!" said Josh.
"Oh, come on," said Megan. "Like I believe you. Not even I could manage to do that, and there's a lot I could do to you two."
"But," said Josh.
"Cut the act, but thanks for the laughs," said Megan, and she shut her bedroom door.
"Great," said Drake. "Now what?"
"I guess she didn't do it," said Josh. "I have absolutely no idea what to do now. We'll just have to go to school. Maybe all of this will be cleared up tomorrow morning."
"I hope so," Drake replied. "Because tomorrow is Friday, and I am NOT going out with your girlfriend."
"Headaches!" said Josh.
"It's weird to hear that come out of my mouth," Drake laughed.
Josh gave his brother a glare, and Drake became silent and looked away.
Drake was downstairs and eating breakfast when Walter walked into the room.
"Morning Josh," said Walter.
Drake didn't respond.
"I said morning Josh," Walter tried again.
Drake still didn't respond.
"Son! Are you awake?"
Drake snapped his head back and looked up at Walter.
"I didn't know you were talking to me," said Drake. "Sorry Dad."
"I said your name twice," said Walter.
"No you..." Drake began. Then he remembered his overnight change in appearance. "Sorry, guess I'm a little tired. I didn't hear you."
"Oh," said Walter. "Sorry. Didn't you sleep very well?"
"As well as I could considering I know look like my step-brother," Drake mumbled under his breath.
"What was that?" asked Walter.
"Nothing," Drake responded quickly.
Josh walked into the room to find his dad and Drake sitting at the kitchen table.
"Good morning Drake," said Walter.
"Morning Dad," Josh responded.
"Wow," said Walter. "You guys aren't acting like yourselves today. Normally Josh is the one who's more awake."
"Yeah," said Josh. "Well, we better get to school. Come on Josh!" Josh grabbed Drake out of his chair and pulled him out the door.
"Ow," said Drake.
"Sorry," said Josh. "Man, Dad's easy. Mom will think something's up. We haven't even done anything wrong, and we'd probably get grounded."
"And what if Megan tells her first?" asked Drake.
"Mom and Dad will ground us because you know Megan will say we tried to freak her out."
"Yeah," Drake replied.
"Well," said Josh. "Let's just try to get through this day. It's going to be so long."
"Uh, you're not leaving with my hair looking like that," said Drake.
"What?" asked Josh.
"Come here," said Drake. He pulled out a comb and started to run it through Josh's, er his own, hair.
"Do you mind?" asked Josh, swatting Drake's hand away.
"Hey, I got a reputation to protect," Drake responded.
"Oh jeez. Let's just go to school."
"Fine."
"I just hope that tomorrow, everything is back to normal."
Okay, please read and review. I want to know if you guys like this concept.