Luke and Mark were walking around the mall with Ethan and Max silently beside them. After searching for twenty minutes Luke spotted the Santa with a huge line-up stretching down the hall. “There he is. But look at that line! It’s huge!”
“Yah,” Mark sighed shaking his head. “We could be standing for an hour trying to see him…”
“Hey! What’s going on, I can’t see anything!” Mark as trying to take the bag off his head with their arms. Mark pulled them back down and shoved his brother, “Shut up! Do you want people to hear you?”
“Um, guys. We’ll be back in a few minutes. I want to talk o my dad in private.” Luke turned around and ran into the bathroom. After checking each stall he raced over and locked the door. Once we has sure no one could see them, he took the bag off his father’s head.
“Okay, what is it?” Ethan stretched his neck trying to get rid of a cramp.
“Well… it’s just…” Luke stammered, “You see the thing is… I’ve been having a lot of fun with you… more fun than I thought we would… seeing how we never really get along. And, well… I… don’t really want to be split.
“Luke…” Ethan sighed, “You know we need to come apart. We can’t stay like this. You have school, and I have work. We need to be separated back into our own bodies. The time we’ve spent together has been great, we’re a lot closer than we use to be. I doubt we’ll return to arguing all the time once this is over with. But we just can’t stay like this!”
“I know.” Luke sighed. Ethan put his arm around their chest and hugged Luke, while Luke did the same. “Okay, let’s do this.” Luke put the bag back over Ethan’s head and walked towards the door. Just as he was unlocking it Mark barged in with the Santa close behind. “Wow!”
“Ah, Luke, I see you’ve been having some fun with the present I gave you!” The Santa chuckled looking from Luke to Mark then back again. “I see you’ve run into a little bit of trouble though. Maybe I can help!”
“So you can undo this?!” Max blurted out ripping the bag off his head. “I knew you could! I knew it! Quick, split us up!”
“Not so fast, hold on!” The Santa raised his had. “I said I could help, but it’s up to you guys what I do. I’ll give each of you one wish. What you do with it is up to you.”