“Look... uh... Mark,” said Mark to his own body. “I just want to see that little remote control for a second. I think... it might belong to a friend of mine who left it here and...”
“You don't have any friends, you ugly little dork!” sneered Mark's body.
Mark couldn't believe this! He resolved that if he ever got back into his own body he would no longer be such a jerk to his younger sister.
“Look, I promise I'll give you the remote right back,” Mark pleaded. “I just want to see it for a moment. That's all. If it... uh... doesn't really belong to my friend, I'll give it right back to you. I promise!”
“No way!” laughed Mark's body. “Get lost you stupid little twerp! Go back to playing with your dolls or something...”
This can't be happening, thought Mark! How could I have been so dumb? Now Heidi thinks she's really me... and I'm going to be stuck as my own little sister!
Mark sighed and huffed with frustration. He stamped his little foot on the ground and started to lose his temper.
“I've tried to be nice,” he said, disgusted that his words came out in his sister's whiny voice. “But you're just being a jerk! Gimme that thing.”
Mark reached for the device, but found his old body was easily stronger.
In the midst of the siblings fighting, Mom suddenly burst into the room.
“What is the matter with you two?” she roared. “Get going, or we're going to be late again!”
“Mom, Hei... I mean, Mark won't give me that thing,” Mark pleaded.
“Stop it, both of you!” snapped Mom, grabbing the remote away from Mark's body. “Now both of you – finish getting dressed and get out to the car.”
“But mom, that's my...” Mark cried.
“I said stop it!” interrupted Mom. “You can have this... this, whatever-it-is, little toy or whatnot... you can have it back at the end of the day. For now, it goes in my purse. Now get going, you two. I mean it!”
Mom walked off with the remote tucked away in her purse. Mark's body made a face and stuck out his tongue at the real Mark, then it too stomped away.
Mark was left alone in his sister's body, in his sister's room, staring at the rubber snake still laying in his sister's open panties drawer.
“It's going to be a looooooooong day,” he sighed with his sister's voice. He then stooped down, picked up Heidi's book bag, and headed off to her school.