Just as there would occasionally be get-togethers with Jon, Jonnie, and Karyn, there were ones with Sarah, Sarah L, and Nicole, a fellow cheerleader who was a friend of Sarah's.
"It's still weird, Nicole" said Sarah L. "You used to be two years younger than me, and now you're two years older. And I always wanted a younger sister, but now I am the younger sister."
"So you're going to go into cheerleading?" wondered Nicole.
"Sure I am," replied Sarah L. "It worked well for you, didn't it, Sis?"
"Of course," replied Sarah. "It's great! I promise you that one day we'll see a cheerleader as president of the United States. Maybe even today. And look at it this way; when you're in high school next year, Karyn will have graduated."
"Karyn Westwind?" replied Sarah L.
"Right. It may be harder for you to notice it because you last remember her of four years ago, but there's something, I don't know, funny about her. Ever since two months ago, when her friend Jon got the cloning machine, she's been acting very uncool. Spreading rumors, being bitchy to me for no reason... can you believe I heard her make a big breasted blonde joke? And it wasn't making fun of herself like when Jews make Jewish jokes. Because a second later she had this expression on her face as if she just crashed her dad's car."
"Okay," said Sarah L., "that makes no sense. Unless she thinks she's a brunette trapped in a blonde's body."
"I wouldn't be surprised," remarked Sarah. "Also around two months ago, she put this picture on Facebook. It's her, Photoshopped to get rid of her hair and reduce her chest size."
"She could be a clone," offered Sarah L. "An evil clone. The original Karyn's still visiting her family in the mountains."
Sarah giggled at that. "That almost makes sense. Her sort-of boyfriend Jon got the cloning machine and she didn't want to be near him after he dumped her for his sort-of sister. So she's gone. Jon missed her and made another one."
"It's not impossible..." mused Nicole. "He made Joey... though I really think Joey was a bet or something. I hung around his booth for a while at the fair and everything else he did was... well, not evil, if I can coin a phrase."
"You may," replied Sarah. "But I can't shake the feeling that it's something a lot stranger than cloning." For some reason cloning didn't seem strange at all, but she never questioned that. "Me and my sister can tell weird, and this is number one on the weird scale. I intend to figure this out before I get out of high school. And that's in a month."
