Jon decided to look for the girl Laura. She was in his school, so he probably would have seen her pretty often--she was just in the background and he never noticed her. After trig class, as lunch was about to start, he spotted her down the hall. He wasn't quite sure what to say to her--let's go out because we both had the opposite genitals pasted--but he approached her through the crowd anyway.
"Uh, hello, Laura?" he said.
The girl didn't reply.
"Laura? It's me, Jon?"
This time she looked up at him. "What?" she replied. "My name is Ann. I don't know any Laura."
"I don't think you have an identical twin," said Jon. "I'm pretty sure I would have remembered seeing you with a twin sister."
"Of course I don't. I... Oh, I get it." She smirked. "That's funny," she said. "I think I can find Laura for you. Anything else isn't my business, and I don't know if I have a right to say anything about her. I just need to get to that mad scientist's web site and send a private message...."
The girl pulled her phone out of her pocket, and a few searches and text messages later, she said "Okay, it's done. I'm staying out of this one." She proceeded to walk rapidly away.
"Hold it," said Jon. The girl didn't stop, but he saw another girl, who looked identical, pass her in the hall. The first girl didn't pay any attention to her. As she approached, Jon said, "Laura?"
"Yeah," replied the girl.
He looked down at her pants. "You're still, I mean..."
"Yes, I am. I was thinking of you but...."
"But?"
"It's a long story."
"I give up," said Jon. He reached into his pocket for the trusty stone. "First of all, I wish you'd tell me the truth now without hiding things. Second, I wish you would forget these wishes. Why is it I go looking for you and I find someone who looks like you with a different name?"
"Because my body was pasted from hers."
"I thought they said said you had the inverse procedure of mine." Laura didn't say anything in response. "Fine, I guess I have to ask you outright. How can that be?"
"Because you had your genitals pasted over with a girl's parts. I had all of my body except my genitals pasted over with a girl's parts. That's an inverse."
"So you're a guy? Why did you hint that your 'it' is new?"
"Because," said the redheaded girl, "it's damned embarrassing to just tell someone I'm a guy and once von Stupple said I had the inverse procedure, that was the only thing I could say that made sense and wouldn't give it away."
"Then who are you? And don't tell me 'Laura', I mean your name before that."
"Three months ago it was Larry. Larry Nadish. Larry... Laura... get it? If you'd become a girl you'd probably pick something that sounded like Jon, like 'Jonnie' or 'Jen'. Why am I telling you this, anyway?"
"Larry, great. I was trying to hit on a guy, who wears ties to school and thinks everyone else is an idiot."
"People pick on me for being smart. At least they don't now."
"Maybe being smart doesn't help, but if you wear ties to school and think everyone is an idiot, you're probably going to get picked on whether you're smart or not."
"I'm not wearing a tie," said Laura. "They don't go well with blouses or skirts. So you won't see me in one for the next month."
"And then they change you back? I doubt that."
"As a matter of fact, yes. They pasted my body onto a statue first so there's something to paste back. It's perfectly logical--the paste has to adapt itself to the target, and since it's already impossible to paste between two people without worrying about blood vessels and the immune system, pasting onto a statue isn't any more impossible. They didn't save your dick that way?"
"Um, no," said Jon.
"So now that I've told you more than I really wanted to tell you, what did you want to talk to me about?"
"Well..." hesitated Jon.
