"Okay, so it seems that I've made a slight miscalculation." I declared. I couldn't believe that I was a girl. It felt weird. I actually did have experience wearing skirts in the past, so that wasn't as weird as I thought it would be. Regardless of the unintended side effects, my machine had in fact worked and Zack and I were transferred to another universe, seeming one where we had never been to Seven Seas High before. However, it seemed like this version of me had not also decided to build a wormhole generator, which might make getting back home difficult.
"A slight miscalculation?" Zack challenged. "A slight miscalculation would be a world where we're hipsters, not girls."
I had to say it had been a while since I had seen Zack look so angry. Granted, I would have probably also been upset if the roles were reversed. I would probably have to find a way to make it up to her…him…her? It would probably be easier to think about him using female pronouns at least for the time being. I supposed the first thing that we should do was try to find out who we were. The problem was since we were identical, it would be hard to determine which of us was which. It might also help to say it aloud.
"We need to find out who we are." I stated.
"How are we going to do that?" Zack inquired. "It's not like we have anything to tell us who owns what."
I tried to look for any sort of clues that may be able to differentiate things between the two of us. One thing was that Zack seemed to have the stronger accent, but I didn't know if that would be any use to us. I thought of something that maybe could be used. There were two purses: one black and one pink. Maybe I could use the clothes that we were wearing to help.
"I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this one is yours." I stated as I handed her the black one. I would guess by the all black clothes and excessive makeup that she was wearing that she was a little bit gothic and the gothic people I knew hated the color pink.
She opened up the purse and found a phone. It was an iPhone, which neither of us had in the previous world. There was also a wallet which had a Massachusetts driver's license in it.
"Let's see Zara Renee Martin." She read. "I'm gonna guess that this is me."
It would seem that why since her name started with a Z. Did that mean mine would start with a C? I went over to the other purse and opened it up. I found the usual stuff: makeup, another iPhone, pens before I found a wallet.
"Here we go Clarice Brenda Martin." I replied. That was a name that I wasn't expecting to hear. I couldn't say that I was a fan of it. "Well now we know who we are."
At that point, someone walked into the room. I was a bit surprised to see her. She was definitely older than the last time I had seen her.
"Hey Claire Bear." She greeted me before she walked over and kissed me. I was a bit surprised by this. She seemed to notice something was off and pulled away. "What's wrong?"
Now that was probably something that I couldn't talk about. There was no way that I could tell her that I was from another universe. Though, I couldn't help but be curious she became my girlfriend, and I was also surprised by the fact that I had a girlfriend.
"You just caught me by surprise." I lied. Well, it wasn't a lie. I was caught by surprise, but the surprise was probably greater than she thought.
"Well I'm surprised that you're not dressed yet." Stacey commented. Dressed for what? What was I supposed to be dressed for?
"Dressed for what exactly?" Zara inquired. She seemed to be thinking the same thing that I was.
"Claire and I were going to go to the pool. You can come with us if you want." Stacey offered. "If you don't mind washing all of that makeup off, that is."
"How about we meet at the pool?" I suggested. I wasn't sure if she was being mean or making a good-natured joke. I hoped it was the latter, because I didn't know how I would be able to date someone who didn't like my sister. Bailey liked Zack. In fact, there were times that I felt that Bailey would leave me for Zack.
"Okay. Just be there soon so we can have a fantabulous pool day." Stacey declared before she walked away.
"Why did you tell her that we were going to go to the pool?" Zara asked me.
"Because she was expecting me to." I answered. I didn't see why that would be an issue.
"Don't you realize what going to the pool entails?" She questioned.
"Swimming?" I guessed. I still didn't see the issue with that.
"And what do girls wear when they swim?" She asked. It was then that I realized what she was talking about. "Bikinis."
Okay, yes, that was an issue. Maybe I shouldn't have agreed to go down with her. Would that make me a bad girlfriend if I said no? Of course, I really didn't know how to be anyone's girlfriend.
"Maybe we should do it." I suggested.
"What? You can't be fucking serious?" She retorted.
"Zara, like it not, we're girls now. We need to wear girl clothes and do girl things." I pointed out. Why did I say it like that? I wasn't even entirely sure what I meant like that. "Besides, we need to try to act as normal as possible so no one realizes that anything is off with us. I mean you're wearing a bra right now, aren't you?"
I was, but I couldn't be sure that she was. Neither of us was particularly busty, so we could probably go without them if we needed to.
"Yeah,." She answered.
"Then wearing a bikini can't be that much different." I reasoned.
"Well I'm not going to change in front of you. Just because our bodies are the same doesn't mean that you get to see mine." She replied before she opened her dresser and grabbed something before disappearing into the bathroom.
I figured the first thing that I should do is figure out what I was going to where. I didn't know if I would have multiple choices when it came to swimsuits. I knew some girls had them but I wasn't sure if I needed them. I had only had one swimsuit before. I opened the drawer and found out that I did in fact have multiple bikinis. I pulled out a pink and blue top and bottom.
I took off my clothes, slowly until I was naked. I knew how to remove a bra because I had taken Bailey's off. I could probably figure out how to put it back on later. I started to look over myself for a minute. I was definitely a girl. I had breasts and a vagina. Part of me did want to touch it, but I would have to refrain from doing so. I put on the bottom and was able to tie. That was easy enough. That was when I was hit with the problem. After several attempts, I found that I had no idea how to get the top on.
"Are you done yet?" Zara called through the door.
"No." I replied back.
"Well, what's taking so long? I started before you did." She pointed out. I could only blush.
"I don't know how to get the top on." I told her.
"How do you not know how to put on a bikini top?" She asked me.
"I'm pretty sure that the better question would be 'How do you know how to put one on?'" I retorted. I couldn't think of any logical reason for that.
"Because I've had to help a girl get dressed before when we spent too much time having sex." She answered. I blushed even more at that. Okay, that was a logical reason. I just didn't think that she would be that considerate. "Do you need me to help you out?"
"Maybe you could just tell me how to do it?" I suggested. She gave me some instructions and I managed to get it on. "Okay, it's on now."
It was at that time that she came out wearing a black bikini and she had washed all of her makeup off.
"Why are you still wearing makeup?" She asked.
"I wasn't exactly able to use the sink." I pointed out as I started look for something to cover myself with.
"You could have used those wipes over there." She remarked as I noticed some Neutrogena makeup removing wipes.
After a few more minutes, the two of us finally made it down to the pool. We found Stacey in the lobby. I hoped that she hadn't been waiting for too long. She seemed to notice us immediately.
"What took you so long?" She asked.
"Claire forgot to wash off her makeup." Zara told her. I wasn't sure why she needed to tell her that.
"Well let's go in." Stacey suggested.
"You could have gone in without us." I stated.
"What are you talking about? I don't have a key to the pool?" Stacey reminded me. I couldn't believe that I forgot that you needed to have a room key to get into the pool. I hadn't even brought mine.
"Good thing I do." Zara stated as she pulled it out of her robe. It was actually the Tipton robe that we still couldn't take out of the hotel. Apparently, even though we were living there, it was still hotel property.
We walked into the pool room and Stacey took off her dress while Zara removed the robe. I, meanwhile, removed the towel. Stacey was wearing a white bikini. Seeing her like that couldn't help but make me feel kind of weird. I knew that was how girls were supposed to feel when they were aroused, but it still felt weird feeling it. The first thing that Zara did was jump in the water.
"So do you want to go in or lay down first?" Stacey asked. "Or maybe we could go in the hot tub."
"The hot tub sounds okay." I replied as the two of us walked over. I still couldn't believe that I was dating her when I didn't really know much about her. I had a crush on her several years ago, but even then I didn't know a lot about her. There were things that I didn't know. Obviously we had kissed before, but how long had we been together? Was it weeks? Months? Years? Had we had sex at all? I wasn't sure how to get this information without giving things away.
"So, are you excited about the ship?" She asked. You know with this sudden sex change and influx of new information, I almost forgot that we were about to leave for the S.S. Tipton pretty soon.
"Yeah. I guess I am." I stated. "I've always wanted to go on a boat."
I figured that I should say something like that to make it seem like I hadn't ever been on a boat before.
"Didn't you go on the ship with your mom that one time?" She asked. Oh, so that had still happened.
"I mean yeah, but I guess I mean without her." I stated.
"Well, it is going to be my first time. Do you think you remember your way enough to show me?" She said.
"What? You're going?" I repeated. It was then that I figured that I probably should have known that and shouldn't have said that.
"Duh, we've been waiting for three years but hadn't been able to get in together. You said that you didn't want to go without me, and your mom wouldn't let Zara go if you didn't go." She explained. "Why are you acting so weird all of a sudden?"
So that gave me the reason why we had never been at Seven Seas High before. It seemed like I was a better girlfriend than I was boyfriend because I hadn't left my girlfriend behind. I hadn't known that Barbara was jealous of me going. I still didn't think that would mean she would cheat on me though. It was then that I realized that I needed to come up with an answer. Maybe I could say something romantic to get out of it.
"Because sometimes I have a hard time remembering what really happened because every day with you is like a dream." I told her. Was that too sappy?
"There's the girl that I love." She said with a smile.
"I love you too." I lied. I felt bad about it. She obviously loved me and I didn't even know her. Maybe I could try to get to know her better. Maybe I could try to see if I could fall in love with her too. It wouldn't be easy considering that I had just gotten out of a long-term relationship.
Later, Zara and I were back in our room. We were trying to learn how to put on makeup. I had opened a YouTube for some help.
"I think I know how you can make it up to me," Zara said. "You can buy me some new clothes."
"Why do you want me to buy you clothes? You hate getting clothes." I reminded her as I tried to use the mascara brush.
"That was before I was a girl. I don't really know what else I ask for right now." She remarked. "You know maybe this will be good for you. Maybe this will help you lose your sexist attitude."
How could she say that? I was not sexist. I was probably the least sexist person on the planet. I cared a lot about women's rights. Just because women weren't as smart as I was didn't mean that I automatically thought that all of them were dumb. I still couldn't believe that she had said that to me.
"I am not sexist." I argued.
"Then why is the video that we're watching called 'How to put makeup to impress guys'?" She asked.
"It was the first video to pop up." I stated. I hoped that she hadn't noticed it.
"It was the third." She pointed out. Damn. I wasn't expecting her to be so observant. "Just admit that you have a problem already. You spent all summer working on something just to avoid having to think about Bailey."
"I'm sorry that I didn't want to think about the pain of the breakup." I said as I looked away from her.
"Well now you have another chance. Hopefully you'll actually treat your new girlfriend well." She stated.
"You're one to talk about treating girls well." I reminded her.
"I know I haven't treated girls well, but none of those girls were my girlfriend." She declared. That wasn't a good reason. "You know maybe we shouldn't do this together. I'll let you figure this stuff out yourself."
With that she stood up and started to head towards the door.
"Where are you going?" I asked. It was probably too late to go anywhere.
"I'm gonna go get a smoothie from the lounge." She declared before she went out the door. However, a few seconds later, she came back inside. "Okay, I am not ready to wear heels yet."
After changing her shoes, she left once again.
We didn't really talk on the plane ride to Miami. My seat was next to Stacey and we had watched a movie that I had never seen before. I had bought something new for Zara to wear on the ship. I knew that I had screwed this up. Maybe it was what I did. Maybe I screwed everything up. I screwed up my relationship with Barbara. I screwed up my relationship with Bailey and now I could only hope that I didn't screw up my relationship with Stacey.
The S.S. Tipton wasn't the only ship in the port because Mr. Tipton apparently didn't want to build his own. You know that also made me wonder if London would still be there. Maybe the London of this universe wouldn't be as dumb as the one that we knew. That also made me wonder if someone else was going to be there. I supposed the only thing that I could do was wait and see. The three of us walked onto the boat together.
So Zack and Cody are now Zara and Claire. In the original story, I decided to bring Max along, but in this one I'm bringing a character that is far less explored. How will Seven Seas High be different for the girls? Please don't forget to review.