Charlie

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Did I have a sleep over? Charlie wondered as he woke up in a bed much bigger than his own.

He was barely conscious but recognised the room as Nick Nelsons. They had only been friends for a couple of weeks, Charlie had only been to Nick's house once before. This must have been our first sleepover. Charlie thought sleepily.

Charlie needed to pee so he got up and rubbed his eyes as he made his way to the bathroom, Nick wasn't in the bedroom or bathroom so he must be downstairs, suddenly Charlie saw nick in the mirror and jumped. He was nick.

This must be a dream, Charlie pinched himself, it hurt. Not a dream. Charlie splashed cold water on his face, washing away the last vestiges of sleep. Definitely not a dream.

Surprisingly Charlie was not freacking out. He still didn't quite believe it, the whole experience felt surreal. Instead he just appreciated his new appearance with mild curiosity, looking at his reflection then looking down at his new body.

Not a bad body to be trapped in. Charlie thought as he admired his new muscles. Then he noticed the terrible bed hair. Nicks blond hair looked like a golden retriever that had been in a river then shaken dry.

The hair needed washing, but it didn't feel right to shower in someone else body so Charlie filled the sink with hot water. After washing his face and head Charlie tried to style his hair into the way nick always did.

As Charlie touched up his appearance he tried several facial expressions in the mirror, trying to recreate nicks smile. It was then he realised that he had subconsciously already decided to pretend to be nick. What other option did he have, run back home and try to convince his parents he had woken up in the wrong body.

Charlie fixed his new face in a bland tired expression, the face of a teenager who has just woken up to another boring and completely ordinary school day. Then he took a deep breath and went downstairs.

Nicks mum smiled and hugged him when he came down for breakfast; she noticed something was off but when she asked Charlie mumbled something about waking up on the wrong side of the bed. which was sort of true in a metaphorical sense.

When he sat down Charlie found nicks body was ravenous. Nick was a large but still growing 16 year old boy who was an active rugby player. His body needed a lot of food. Charlie found himself devouring bacon, eggs, toast and porridge. As well as three cups of tea and a banana.

Then he went back upstairs and found nicks uniform crumpled up in the corner of the room next to his school bag. The bag had gone untouched since it had been dropped there yesterday. Charlie opened it to find unfinished maths homework that nick probably intended to do on the way to his lesson.

Charlie finished the questions in a couple of minuets and picked up the bag. It was then that he remembered nicks phone. He didn't know the password but it recognised nicks fingerprint. It was then that he found several messages from Charlies phone, Nick had woken up in his body.

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