Freakier Friday

An excerpt from a book I am writing where a girl switches bodies with her ex boyfriend. 

“ You have to get up.”

“No, I can’t.”

“No, s@#%, You need to get up! I need to be at work in twenty three minutes!” Jesse swore.

“I’m not going to work for you!”

“No, you have to!”

“I hate myself too much to get up.”

“Yeah, boo hoo.”

“I cannot be seen like this! We need to figure out a way to switch back, right now, before anyone sees us!” The thought of being in public as Jesse Clorence was just too much embarrassment for me to take. “Call in sick.”

“Dang it, I really can’t miss another day.”

“Jesse, oh my god, this is a sick day ok, this is the sickest day you’ll ever have. This is the reason that sick days were invented. ”

“Ok, ok, you’re right.” He reached over and grabbed my pocket.

“Hey, what do you think you’re doing? You can’t just grab people.”

He pulled out his phone from my pocket. “You were lying on my phone. I have to call my boss, and technically you are me- so I’m just grabbing myself, which is perfectly allowed.”

He dialed then shoved it in my face, “you have to talk to him.”

“Why me?”

“Because I sound like a girl okay?”

“What do I say?”

“Oh my gosh, say you’re sick, duh, and you’re not coming in, he answered, ok, c’mon.”

“Hello?”

“Yeah, what do you want?” A not very friendly voice barked at me.

“Um it’s Jesse.” It was hard admitting that. I turned red.

“Jesse, no.”

“What?”

“No, the answer is no.”

“Umm.”

“I’m just messing with you, what do you want?”

“I’m not coming in today, I’m sick.”

“You’re sick huh? What you got this time?”

“Umm,” I stammered, I looked at Jesse. He threw my arms up in the air at me and looked exasperated. “Umm, umm the flu.”

“Ummtheflu? I think you had that already.”

“Well you can get it more than once.”

“you know what? you want the day off you gotta come up with a new disease. C’mon let’s hear it, you must got lots of excuses floating up there, let me here a good one.”

I gulped, “I think I have may have changed bodies with this girl.”

“Haha, that so huh? That’s mildly amusing, try to think of a better one by tomorrow huh? I gotta keep the crew entertained.” He hung up.

“So?” Jesse asked, “Did it work? did you get the day off? was he nice to you?”

“Sort of, I think so, no.”

“Yeah you talked to Ben all right then, he hates me, not as much as you though, probably.”

“Now he hates me.”

“Probably, he doesn’t know who you are though, you’re lucky.”

At that I wailed. I was the direct opposite of lucky. I knew who I was and I did not want to be him! I did not want anyone else to find out! It was a horrible deep bellow, I wanted my girly scream back but there was no way to get it, no way, no way, no way.