The two entered the school’s hallway and Ethan noticed how different it felt now that he was a student again. Nobody looked at him lustfully or envious, which probably was the result of not being Ms. Dufour anymore. It was also nice to walk through the halls without a click-clack echo that told everyone “here I am!”.
The two friend-turned-siblings went to their lockers that were still next to each other and still in the same location. On their way they were greeted by some students like every morning, the only difference being that Lilly was called Susan by them. She was a bit disappointed that almost nothing had changed but it was to be expected. People would not treat them completely different just because Ethan and she were now brother and sister.
Lilly and Ethan were just getting their stuff out of their lockers as they heard a familiar voice behind them.
“E!”, said a voice behind Ethan and seconds later he felt a hand pat his back. “Good morning, you two.”
Ethan turned around and looked in the face of his other best friend Keith. Keith always called Ethan E as a nickname. Ethan did not really like it but over the years he began tolerating it. Lilly on the other hand found it very annoying, just like she found Keith obnoxious.
“Morning”, said Ethan as his friend turned around to look at Lilly.
“And you look as lovely as ever, Susan”, he said with a big smile on his face. “Have you thought about our date?”
“Date?”, thought Ethan surprised. “He never made any attempts with Lilly before. Why would he want to date her now that she was my sister?”
Lilly, just as surprised as Ethan was, shook her head and quickly excused herself, saying that she needed to use the bathroom.
Keith sighed and looked after Lilly. “Susan doesn’t know what she is missing”, he said. “Man, must be really hard to have such a smart and hot sister. If I were you, I would definitely peak into the bathroom when she is in.”
“Don’t tell me you believe this crap with me and my sister being a couple?”, asked Ethan, split between wanting this conversation to end and curious to the changes in this reality. Why was Keith in love with Lilly? Did that mean that he was always in love with her? Then why did he not try anything? Did he know that Ethan had feelings for Lilly? Ethan never told him but maybe he figured it out? Maybe Keith had a crush on Stacy but considering the age gap he did not tell Ethan and now that Lilly was basically in Stacy’s position he had a crush on Lilly. The swap simply transferred the crush from one sister to another.
“No! I know that the rumours aren’t true. But you gotta admit, they seem quite plausible. You two are joined by the hip so to say”, said Keith. “But, I know an easy way to get rid of the rumours: Help me get together with your sister. People will stop thinking that you are dating your sister and I get to be with a hot girl. Everyone wins, right?”
“Except that I a.) love Lilly and b.) am not sure if this wouldn’t result in you getting together with Stacy as soon as we change everything to normal”, thought Ethan but replied: “You’re right, I’ll talk to her, but I can’t make any promises. It’s her choice after all.”
Keith grinned broadly. “Finally, you come to your senses. I knew if I nag you long enough with this, you will eventually give in.”
The two friends continued to chat for a bit until Ethan had to excuse himself just like Lilly did, only difference being that he really needed to go to the bathroom. It felt refreshing for Ethan to talk with Keith. It was nice to have a conversation with someone that did not involve swapping one’s body parts around.
Ethan found Lilly waiting for him at the bathroom. “What’s gotten into Keith?”, she asked Ethan the instant he was in hearing range. “He never tried anything towards me.”
Ethan just shrugged. “Beats me. Either he always had a crush on you and for some reason, now that you are my sister he tries it or, and this is the more disturbing thought, he had a crush on my sister, mainly because she is my sister, and now that transferred over to you.”
Lilly shuddered. “Either way, I don’t like it… By the way, bad news for you, I texted Nicole and she is sick today. I know it must be hard not seeing your crush. Maybe we both should swing by and bring her homework.”
“Oh, er, unfortunately I can’t, Keith wanted to do some er guy stuff with me after school. Yeah that’s right”, lied Ethan and hurried into the bathroom. “Gotta pee”, he told her as the door closed, feeling relieved to have escaped this conversation for now. He did not want to imagine that Nicole might also have a crush on him for whatever reason.
He quickly finished his business, slightly annoyed that he could not use the urinal anymore, now that he lacked the equipment. “But the masturbation makes up for that”, he thought and felt his genitals become damp. “Damn, not now.” Before anything else could happen, he left the bathroom as quickly as he had entered it.
“That was fast”, said an amused Lilly. “I hope you washed your hands. Anyway, I have been thinking-“
“No!”, interrupted Ethan.
“But you haven’t even heard me out”, she whined.
“Because I already know what you want and no, we won’t use the swapplet in school. Too many people who might want to know what it is or happen to take a glance at the display”, he said sternly.
“Aw, come on. You took it with you to school, so why shouldn’t we use it? We have to learn the capabilities of that thing!”, she tried to convince him.
Ethan shook his head. “We already know the capabilities. We did every sort of swap there is, and we know everything by simply having touched the device. There is no such thing as ‘we have to test it out’!”
“I doubt we did every sort of swap so far”, mumbled Lilly. “Maybe it broke as it fell down”
Ethan raised an eyebrow. “It survived a crush from outer space into my backyard, do you really think it would break from such a small fall?”
Lilly sighed. “You’re right. I get it, I get it… No swapplet in school. You’re right. What would I do without you?”
Lilly came closer and hugged him. Ethan was stunned by this sudden act of tenderness and did not notice that Lilly got the swapplet out of his purse. Grinning broadly, she held the swapplet victorious in his face. “I’ll be careful.”
Ethan blinked surprised and needed a moment to process what just happened. He then followed her as fast as he could through the student filled hallways. He caught her soon after but not because he was faster. Lilly was looking horrified at the swapplet.
“This is not the swapplet. It’s a normal tablet”, she said to him and looked with big, horrified eyes at him. “Keiko has to have it. There is no other explanation. You must have grabbed her tablet instead of the swapplet.”
Ethan’s face took on the same horrified expression as Lilly’s. “Shit”, he mumbled. “We gotta get it back.”
“Well, duh”, she replied. “Only problem is, we have class.”
As if the school wanted to give her statement more weight, the bell rang.
“I don't care, let’s skip class”, he said agitated. “Getting the swapplet back is more important right now! Just imagine what she might do with it. We can’t let her have it!”
“I know! But we don’t even know her classes! I doubt the hall monitor would appreciate it when we wander around aimlessly and bother every class we can find”, she explained.
“But what else should we do? Simply wait until after school? It might be too late then! Best case scenario would be that I haven’t noticed tablet missing yet. But the longer we wait the more likely it is that she notices. We got to move now and quickly!”
“I'd was we have at least until lunch. She as a shy student, as far as I know. I mean, if it wouldn't be for her clumsiness, nobody in school would even know that she exists and shy students are always good students that would never dare to miss a single word of the classes. That's why I'd say she won't look at it until lunch", reasoned Lilly.
“I kinda doubt your prejudice is true”, said Ethan, thinking of his options. “I think...”  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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