-1"Hurry up, Blair, I don't have all day!" Jo stomps her foot impatiently at the foot of the stairs.
"Give me a minute, Polniaczeck!" came the angry reply.
"What could you possibly be doing now to get ready? You're already dressed; you brushed your hair and teeth. What is taking so long?" Jo frustrated, blew her bangs out of her eyes.
Blair rushes down the stairs and almost knocks Jo down.
"Sorry," Blair mumbles and continues out to the cafeteria with Jo following behind her.
"What took so long?"
"One of my brand new pearl earrings went missing."
"Blair, we are not even going a mile from our room, why do you need to dress up."
"Warners must always look presentable." Blair rolls her eyes and sighs as if it was the most obvious answer.
"Whatever, let's hurry up and get this thing over with. I have plans to meet some of my friends in the Bronx later."
"Yeah, and I have plans to eat lunch with some of my friends at my home in Manhattan."
………..
At the exhibit, Natalie is on the verge of dying of boredom. She sits at a table far in the back away from the display and taps her pencil absentmindedly on her paper.
'Could this be any duller?' she thought. 'Maybe, things will get more interesting once Blair and Jo get here.'
Jo and Blair walk in and survey their surroundings.
"Don't tell me you forgot the camera, Warner!"
"Of course I didn't forget the camera. Its right here, see?" Blair searches her purse and pulls it out. She waves it in Jo's face.
"Okay, okay. Why don't we start with this red one right here?" Jo picks up glowing red rock.
"That one is pretty, it matches some shoes I have."
"Do you want to take the pictures or should I?" Jo asks still holding the rock.
"You take the pictures; I want to see how the color of the rock goes with my skin tone."
Jo rolls her eyes but hands Blair the rock. For the briefest moment, both of their hands are on the rock. A bright red flashes throughout the whole room.
"What the hell was that?" Jo's eyes go wide as she looks at everyone around them that don't seem to notice the strange flash of light.
"That was really weird. I wonder if we are the only two people who seen that." Blair quickly puts the rock back in its place.
Jo goes to scratch her neck in a nervous kind of way and finds that it is tangled in her hair. At the same time, Blair glances at her reflection in one of the display cases.
"Umm, Jo, I don't think we are ourselves today." Blair stands in front of Jo, who looks remarkably like Blair.
"Oh my God, it's a doppelganger!" Jo nearly screams after she stares at herself looking back at her.
"What's a doppelganger?" Blair, even though she is freaking out, is still very curious.
"You should know since you are one. Hey wait a minute, what happened to my Bronx accent?" Jo starts pacing nervously around Blair, who just looks dumbfounded.
"Jo, I think we somehow switched bodies." Blair glances at her reflection again and frowns disgustedly.
Jo joins her and looks at her reflection, she too frowns disgustedly.
"What are we going to do?" Blair takes the ponytail out of her hair and tries to fix it so she can flip it.
"I don't know, maybe we should try both holding that rock at the same time." Jo picks it up.
Blair touches the rock at the same time as Jo.
After a long moment of touching the rock Blair sighs," I don't think this is going to work, Jo."
"Maybe if we both concentrate and think ourselves back into our old bodies."
Blair and Jo both shut their eyes tightly and imagine being themselves again.
"Damn, it didn't work!" Blair practically screams.
"I am completely shocked! Since, when do you swear?" Jo asked with raised eyebrows.
"Since, I'm stuck in your body!"
"Maybe, we should be a little more quiet people are starting to stare at us."
Blair nods her head in agreement and they move to the back of the room, forgetting that they are still holding the rock.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" Natalie walks in their direction. 'Since when does Jo wear her hair down?' Natalie thinks to herself.
"Nothing!" Jo and Blair answer in unison.
"Oh, I see your holding that rock Mr. Bullard was telling me about earlier." Natalie points to the rock that Jo is holding in her hand.
"What did he say about it?" Jo asks as she hands it over to Natalie.
"Why so curious about some dumb rock, Blair?"
"I…" Blair starts to answer Natalie but, remembers that she is in Jo's body, quickly stops herself. She nudges Jo to answer.
"Uh, it might help with my extra credit?"
Natalie immediately notices how strange they are both acting. She glances over at "Jo" who is standing up straight and keeps playing with her hair nervously. She glances at "Blair" who is slightly leaning up against the table.
"Mr. Bullard said that the rock is a special rock used by the Cherokee to help resolve conflicts in the tribe. Two people hold the rock at once and they will switch bodies to see each other's perspective and once they understand each other better they should switch back."
"We are going to be stuck like this forever, aren't we?" Blair sits down next to Natalie.
"Most likely." Jo sits down next to Blair and slumps in her chair.
Natalie glances back at them and sees "Jo" sitting up perfectly straight, no elbows on the table and she sees "Blair" leaning on her elbows on the table.
"What are you guys talking about? Why are you two acting so strange?"
"Well, you see, Natalie; it's all Jo's fault."
"No, it's Blair's fault!" Jo points at Blair.
"Seriously, what's going on? You guys are acting so weird!"