Noah was a energetic 13 year old with quite the trouble making streak. He wasn’t exactly a bad kid or a bully, far from it, most people loved him. He was your typical class clown type who both frustrated and amused many. He often played sports like soccer and baseball so he was always down for a game.
“Dad, so can I have a sleepover this weekend?”
Noah’s father was a single dad who was well aware of his son’s antics.
“Woah there, what’s got you so excited?” He said as he gave his son a knowing smirk.
“Um nothing! I just thought it would be cool to invite some friends from school to my house for once.”
“You sure it doesn’t have anything to do with the talk I gave you last weekend?”
Last week Bill sat down and gave his son “the talk.” Not about the birds and the bees but about body swapping and how it’s important to be careful and blah blah blah.
They’ve taught about the ability to exchange heads in school and even outside of that it was super common knowledge. What excited Noah was his dad’s story of his first swap experience.
He was 13, around Noah’s age when he first swapped at a party, some older kid let him try out his body. After he explained what happened next then the “birds and the bees” talk happened.
“Your not planning on swapping or anything are you?”
“Of course not dad.” Noah said with fingers crossed behind his back *which he didn’t realize his father noticed.*
“Well then, the sleepovers alright with me.”
“Yes! Thanks dad!”
Noah invited 3 guys.
His 13 year old best bud Josh. He had blonde hair and often acted as Noah’s sidekick and yes-man.
His 14 year old black friend Trevor. He often kept egging Noah on and setting the bar for his antics.
And his 13 year old Mexican bud Carlos. He was an overall cool dude and was good friends with Trevor.
Noah was getting things read for his mini party sleepover when he got a call from Carlos.
“Hey Noah, I can’t go to your place tonight.”
“Why not?! If you don’t come Trevor will want to bail too.”
“My parents won’t let me go unless I bring my little brother Ruben. I doubt you want a 10 year old at the sleepover.”
“Just bring him, what’s one more person gonna do?”
“You sure?”
“Of course, trust me it’ll be fine.”
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All of Noah’s friends arrived. Carlos’s skinny little bro Ruben wasn’t even a problem. Carlos gave him some video game to play with and he was glued to it most of the night. A night that was going pretty great so far.
“Ok guys, how about we play a new game?” Noah announced.
“Uh oh, watch out guys, Noah’s got that look in his eyes.” Carlos teased.
“Haha very funny. So as I was saying, how about we make tonight the night of our very first swaps?”
Josh almost spit out his drink. “Are you serious?”
“Yeah totally! Come on guys.” Noah insisted.
“I don’t know....who gets to choose?” Trevor said.
“Well I was thinking since I’m the host-“
“No way!” Trevor stood up.
“If we’re really doing something like that, we’re doing it fair. We can put everyone’s name in a hat and draw for it. Whatever name you get, that’s who you swap with. The randomness can make it fun.”
Noah was kinda upset about losing control of his own sleepover like that but he couldn’t let his friends see that.
“Oh that’s a great idea! Watch out guys, whoever gets my body will need to get used to carrying the soccer team.” Everyone laughed as Noah started striking some poses with his kid athlete figure.
Josh began writing down the names
“Hey put Ruben’s name in the hat!” Trevor said
“What?!” Carlos exclaimed
He can be a wild card, adds to the fun.
“Yeah, totally just put him in..” Noah was tired of agreeing at this point but he was didn’t want to disagree and make everyone back out of the swap.
“Ok sure.” Josh wrote the names down about them in that hat.
“Ok let’s begin...”