Alex accepted the call and said “Yeah, Henry, what’s up?”
“Hey man, I was just checking to see if you were down to come over to play Call of Duty once you’re cleaned up. Still down for that?” Henry asked. The guy was a gamer geek who had been Alex’s friend since they were little.
“Yeah, sure,” Alex said distractedly.
“Everything ok? I know Delilah turned you down earlier. That must be hard,” his friend said sympathetically.
“I still don’t get it.” Alex vented. “I mean, no offense-”
“None taken.”
“-but somehow I have even more trouble pulling in girls than you. I mean seriously, sometimes I think, have we switched lives and I’m the geek and you’re the jock?”
Suddenly Alex felt a vibration from the ring, and the world suddenly swirled and went black.
When he woke, he was in his room at home, but it was different. There was more geeky stuff about video games, such as posters, that looked like he’d stolen them from Henry.
He glanced in his mirror and gasped. Alex barely recognized himself as he’d become a total geek. He was the same height with the same black hair, but he was paler and quite thin, he now had thick glasses, and he was wearing baggy jeans and a Halo T-shirt that was way too big.
Alex then saw the picture of himself and Henry he kept on his dresser. He saw this new version of himself dressed very similarly to his current outfit, but also a changed Henry. His blond hair was in a pompadour, his skin was more tanned, he wore no glasses, and he was clearly bigger and more muscular, wearing a tight Colts T-shirt.
“Well, sorry, I’ve got to run home and shower,” he heard Henry’s voice come from the phone he realized he still held. “Talk to you when I get there?”
“Ok,” Alex croaked out, bewildered.