[ C H A N C E S ]

❛ the switch ❜

          I WAS CURRENTLY HEADED to the nurse's office to hand in a book of hers I borrowed, I was pretty close to the nurse. I would help her out with something and in return, she recommends me some of the best books I'll ever read and she is pretty spot on with those book recommendations. I walk in to see both Ellie and Jack on the floor. "Oh my gosh! Are you guys okay?" I ask frantically, I help them up.

"Hello! Is someone going to tell me why you two were on the floor?!" I ask as they both got up with my help I stood in between them.

When they both look up, however, they were both terrified and screamed right in my ears "What the heck guys!" I exclaim.

"You... you stole my face!" says Jack. My head whips towards them as I heard that sentence alone.

"You stole my whole body! How'd you get inside? How'd I get inside?" Ellie yells.

"This is like a nightmare! I feel so grimy!" Jack says.

I start backing up as this was getting pretty uncomfortable "Dude! Slap me, and I'll slap you, and we'll see if we can slap each other ourselves back to reality," Ellie talks nonsense.

"Will someone explain to me what's going on!" I yell to get their attention, they both look at me and begin explaining the story.

[ A U T H O R ' S  N O T E ]
Starting now every time I say, Jack, it will be from Ellie's body and vice versa. Hopefully, that made sense.

"So..." I point at Jack in Ellie's body.

"You're now Jack but in Ellie's body," I say, pointing at Ellie in Jack's body.

"And you're Ellie but in Jack's body," I finish, they both nod.

"Okay, the chances of that ever happening is like a fantasy land showing up on earth," I joke. I shook my head in disbelief of what I was just told.

Eventually, they both get back to what they were about to do before I interrupted with my yelling. Jack slaps Ellie first, quite hard too may I add "Ow!" Ellie exclaims, then Ellie slaps Jack and pretty hard too.

"Oh!" Jack holds his cheek from the slap.

"Oh, sorry! Boy hands just hit so hard!" I nodded agreeing with her since I've experienced it my whole life.

"Ew, why am I so sweaty in weird places? What is the purpose of underarm hair?" Ellie asks.

"Dude, focustrate! What exactly were we doing right before this... This thing happened?" Jack thought.

"Texting. We were texting!" Ellie says. They both grab their phones and read their texts out loud.

"I wish I had your life..." Ellie reads out loud.

"Take it. Then I'd get yours," Jack reads.

"We did this!" Ellie gasps.

"No! No! It's just a stupid text! I once texted a wish that I could power fart myself across the ice and trust me, that didn't happen!" Jack says.

"Oh my," I whisper to myself feeling embarrassed by Jack.

"Okay, you're right. I mean, a text can't have that kind of power-" Ellie says stopping mid-sentence thinking hard about something.

"But wait! A totem can!" Jack and I both look at Ellie confused.

"The phone! Is it, like special to you in some way?" Ellie asks.

I look down to see the phone and I remember the sweet memories of Jack's mother making the sparkly case when we use to go to the Malloy's house for weekly dinners "I guess. Yeah. I mean... it belonged to somebody special," Jack says then looks at me, I give him a sad smile. Jack grabs the phone back.

"I can't believe it. My mom isn't crazy after all. She took this class on mystical religions, and if you put too much emotional energy into one object, you could turn it into a totem, and then it could have power over you," Ellie explains.

"So, you're saying you two," I point between the two.

"Put emotional energy into your texts?" I ask still confused about the situation.

"Bro, no way, that is nuts!" Jack says.

"You just swapped bodies," I say in a matter-of-fact tone.

"You got a better theory, Mr. Lady?" Ellie sasses, I giggle at the nickname.

"Okay, we gotta un-text our wish!" Jack explains his idea, so that's what they tried.

"Maybe it's the second part of the text? We said our lives would be better if we were each other. But we didn't mean it!" Ellie yells getting frustrated.

"Your mom must have a book from the class, right? So, we sneak over to your house and-" Jack starts.

"I can't sneak anywhere! My mom's, got her, like, pilot's license in helicopter parenting!" Ellie interrupts.

The bell then rang signaling that class was over "Okay, okay! We gotta fake being each other till we can get there! Speed coaching, one on one, let's do this!" Jack freaked out, as he finished his sentence hair got into his mouth.

"Ew! Don't get your spit all over it!" Ellie sighs.

"Well, technically it's your spit, but... oh, who cares! Focus zone!" Jack yells trying to not get distracted.

"Oh, just lemme do it!" Ellie says as she started fixing her hair on her body for Jack.

"Okay, fine, whatever, me first. Hockey is my life. I live with my dad and twin brothers," Jack explains.

"You live with all guys?!" Ellie asks.

"We call my dad coach, and we exercise a lot, like, a lot a lot. Ah!" Ellie pulls on her hair, which causes Jack to squeal.

"Sorry! Okay, me. I live with my mom, she's a yoga instructor, she schedules, like, her entire life around me. I specialize in the ribbon in rhythmic gymnastics," Ellie explains her life.

"Is that what it's called? I've seen you, girls, jumping around or whatever," Jack carelessly says. I give him the deadliest glare ever.

"It's called practice! R.G is a totally legit sport!" Ellie defends. She goes back to fix the hair on her body.

"Ah! Don't yank, twinkle toes!" Jack yells.

"What now, highlights? Get out," the nurse tells us.

We were all leaving until my name got called "I'll meet up with you guys in a sec," I tell them, and run back to the nurse's office.

"How was it?" she asks.

"It just keeps getting better," I smile before leaving.

"Amber, you forgot something, honey!" the nurse yells. I run back once again to see a book in her hands.

"Already?" I ask.

"You'll need it," I thank her then took the book, putting it into my bag and tried to catch up with Ellie and Jack by the lockers. But before I dropped it in, I took a good look at the cover 'The Swap' it read. This was going to be an interesting one.