My brother Cody and I sat outside the Tipton Hotel with our friend Bob. We were playing a video game.
"This game sucks." I declared. "It doesn't give you very good powers."
"I don't know, Cody it looks pretty good to me." Bob replied.
"I'm Zack. We've known each other for a few years. How can you still not tell us apart?" I questioned. It always frustrated me when someone confused me and my brother for each other. Yes, I knew that we were identical twins, but I was pretty sure that we had distinct enough personalities that people should be able to tell us apart. Of course, that didn't help the people that didn't know us.
"Sorry, man, I just get confused sometimes." Bob replied. I did know he wasn't very smart.
At that point, Mr. Moseby, the hotel's manager came over and tripped over our bikes that we had left out.
"Zack! Cody!" He yelled.
"Didn't hear a Bob." Bob remarked as he ran off. I was pretty sure that Moseby didn't know his name. At that point, Mr. Moseby got up.
"I have told you repeatedly, not to park your bikes in front of my hotel." He said as he dusted himself off. "Now I am confiscating them."
"What gives you the right to do that?" Cody asked.
"I'm bigger." Moseby said.
"Well not by much." I pointed out. He was a pretty short man. I would think that by the time we started puberty, we would be taller than him.
"Norman help me with the bikes." Mr. Moseby ordered.
"Sorry Zack." He said to my brother. Again, did someone just confuse us for each other again? I was seriously annoyed by this.
"This stinks." Cody commented as they took our bikes away. I wondered if he hated being confused for each other as much as I did.
"Yeah, I know. People keep confusing us for each other and I'm sick of it." I explained. He looked at me like I was crazy. "I'm pretty sure that if we dressed like each other, people wouldn't even be able to tell the difference between us.
"Well, what exactly are we supposed to do about it. It's not like we can just stop being identical twins." Cody proposed. There had to be something that we could do. Maybe I could get a haircut or something, but I didn't think I wanted to change hair.
I then noticed something in the sky.
"Whoa, look a shooting star." I declared as I pointed up at it. It was really a special sight. I didn't think that I would ever see one in my lifetime. In fact, I kind of thought that they were just a myth. I was pretty sure that Cody knew all of the scientific stuff about it because he was a bit of a nerd. Yes, he was good for making sure that my homework got done, but that didn't mean that he was not a nerd. Maybe he would be less of a nerd for the moment.
"Quick. Close your eyes and make a wish." He instructed. I knew exactly what I wanted to wish for. I also didn't know if both of us would be able to get a wish or only one of us. If it was only one of us then I wanted to make sure that it was me, because I was pretty sure that Cody would wish for something stupid like world peace or something. That was definitely not as important as what I wanted to wish for. I was pretty nothing good would come from that either.
"I wish that the two of us didn't look just like each other anymore." I declared as I closed my eyes.
"That was a terrible wish." He told me. He seemed like he always liked to ridicule my ideas. Another thing about him was he always wanted to be the smartest person in the room…even though we weren't even in a room at the moment. "Not to mention, how would something like that even work? Don't you know how much you could mess things up by making it so we aren't identical twins anymore. I thought you were going to wish for superpowers.
"Well, you don't look any different." I told him.
"Neither do you." He replied. "Well, I suppose that just proves that you can't wish on a shooting star and expect it to come true. I don't know why I expected anything to change."
The rest of the night really wasn't that eventful. Since we didn't even have our bikes, we couldn't do much. We could have tried to walk around downtown Boston, but even I knew that wasn't safe. We didn't really want to get involved with any of the mobsters in the town. I had seen The Departed. Granted, my mom didn't know that I had seen it, but I had seen it. She would probably be upset if she found out that our dad had let us see that. You know maybe it would have been better to wish for them to get back together.
I woke up in the morning. Even though we had to share a room, we at least got to have our own beds. I then looked around the room and couldn't help but feel like it looked different. On top of that, I felt some hair against my back. My hair was long, but I didn't think it was that long. I sat up in bed and saw that my clothes looked different and there were not clothes on the floor either.
I didn't know why I felt so weird when I woke up. I kind of felt like I should go look in the mirror. My hair seemed to move as I walked. The mirror seemed to be in a different place than it was before. Also, I couldn't help but feel like I was taller for some reason. I felt something weird on my chest as well. What was going on?"
"Dude, you're a girl." A voice said as I looked over to Cody's side of the room. I then looked in the mirror and screamed.
So it seems like Zack's wish had some consequences. I originally intended this as a sort of prequel to Zoey 1803, but I went in a different direction. I'm debating having Cody be a girl as well. I would like to hear your thoughts on the matter. Anyway, Zack is played by Meaghan Martin. Please don't forget to review.