Jon was reasonably sure his homeroom would be full of the same people he was used to. Even if the homerooms had changed like their physical positions and clothes, none of the people reporting to them would know that.
Everything was surprisingly orderly. The Principal's stern words over the PA gave everyone some odd sense of normality. They were all used to it.
The faculty, unlike the students, were called to a meeting to discuss the matter, with the school's few security guards patrolling the halls to keep order, leaving the students alone in their classrooms, under a sort of lockdown.
Jon sat in his usual seat, with Karyn next to him. He kept shifting, awkwardly, trying to figure out where to put his arms now that he had breasts.
"Shouldn't we be talking about this?" a beautiful girl said. Jon looked at her, then where she was sitting. No....it couldn't be. he thought. Genetics was not that weird.
"Talking about what?" a boy asked her. Jon couldn't remember who sat in that seat.
The girl got up. "Has everyone checked their stuff for clues?" There was a murmur, some had, some hadn't.
Jon hadn't, though he'd thought of it. He pulled the bag he'd found out and started, like many, rifling through it. School ID for Jennifer, check. Feminine hygiene products, yuck. Schoolbooks, a picture of 'Jennifer' and male Karyn, hairbrush.
"I used to be Jay Duncan," the girl said, confirming what Jon was thinking.
"Jeeze," Jon remarked to Karyn.
"We've all been turned into the opposite sex. But its more than that. None of the teachers seem to notice anything is different, and we all have...well, different lives. Different classes, bags, clothes." And Jay himself was feeling oddly confident. Maybe it was shock, or something else. "Which means either the world has changed, or we're in a different one."
"That's impossible," someone called out.
"Sherlock Holmes said, if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. This happened, so it isn't impossible. I don't think anything shouldn't be considered. We could have all dislocated into a closely congruent parallel universe where we're all the opposite gender, and our counterparts are now in our bodies. Or our own universe could have changed by some means."
"Like what?" A girl challenged him. "Magic? Little gender-changing elves?"
"Look, I don't have any answers that aren't obvious if you think about it. We may change back. We may be stuck. We may found out why, we may not. What do you want me to say?" Jay asked. "I'm just trying to help. The best thing we can do is look out for each other and get through this, one way or another."
"Can you fix this?" Karyn whispered to Jon.
"I hope so," Jon said. "I'm not sure how. Wishes can't be reversed. But as soon as I can, I have to wish to find out what happened."
Karyn nodded. That meant this would play out for a few more hours, at least.
