I was half way to the cafeteria when a thought suddenly shot through my head. 'Did Dick just call me Sarah? What else changed?'
I pushed that thought aside for later after noticing one of the clocks in the hall telling me I only had ten minutes until lunch was over. I hurried to the cafeteria and was lucky enough that they hadn't yet closed the lunch line though all that was left was rubbery Salisbury steak served with gritty mashed potatoes.
I automatically made my way to my usual table and sat next to my girlfriend without thinking.
"Hey Sarah," she said, "Where have you been? Lunch in almost over."
"Um... I had somethings to take care of." I replied trying to look innocent while hurriedly shoving food into my mouth. 'I guess my name really is Sarah now' I thought.
"Oh really? What was his name?" she teased me.
I nearly choked on the bite of meat in my mouth in surprise. "What? I didn't... I wasn't..."
"Geeze Sarah. I was just kidding. I know you'd never do something like that at school."
"Um... yeah, never" I said suddenly feeling my face flash hot with embarrassment.
"Wait! You're blushing. You really were with a guy weren't you? You almost missed lunch just so you could make out with some guy you haven't even told me, your best friend, about?" she said. It seemed my girlfriend, make that best friend now since it seemed neither of us were into other girls, could read me as well now as when we were a couple.
"No." I protested, afraid if I said anything more she would figure out what I had really done.
"You little slut," she teased. Then leaning in close she took a deep breath, "Little slut indeed, you smell like sex. Who was it? What was it like? Did you remember to use protection?"
Oh God! Protection! We didn't use anything. I'm a girl, I could get pregnant and we didn't use any protection. Now I really needed to get the wand back. There was no way that I wanted to give birth anytime soon, or ever for that matter.
"It's none of your business." I said frankly hoping she would drop the subject.
"Fine be that way, I won't tell you what Frank and I did on our date last Friday. Let me just tell you this though: it didn't hurt as much as I thought it would the first time."
I almost choked again. When I was a boy Jess and I had been going out for over a year and a half and we had never gotten past second base, but now here she was telling me that in this new reality not only was she dating someone else but they'd had sex together.
"You fucked Frank? You never let me get anywhere close to that." I blurted as soon as I managed to swallow.
"Never let you...? Are you saying you wanted to sleep with me? You know I'm not gay right? I mean I like you a lot, you've been my best friend, like forever but I've never really thought about you... in that way. Not that I care that you're gay, I'm okay with that."
'Great now she thinks I'm gay' I thought. "No, I'm not gay I meant when I was a boy and your boyfriend we never did more that make out with some light petting."
"You're not making a whole lot of sense here Sarah. When you were a boy?" she looked genuinely puzzled. "Maybe it is possible to 'fuck someones brains out.' You sure you're feeling alright? Maybe you should go see the school nurse."
'And now she thinks I'm crazy. Of course I would probably think that same thing if I was in her shoes. Maybe I can...' I start laughing trying to play it off as one big joke. "I can't believe you thought I was serious."
A look of puzzlement crossed her face quickly replaced by laughter. "You had me going there for a second." We sat together laughing until the bell sound announcing the end of the lunch period. Then we separated to go to our classes.
The rest of the day passed rather uneventfully. It seemed everyone knew me as a girl named Sarah and almost everything about me was the same as when I had been a boy named Scott. I experienced first hand what all the girls meant when they called Mr. Taylor a pervert since every time he looked in my direction it seemed he was staring at my breast and not my face, though that seemed to be the norm for a lot of the guys my age as well.
After school I tried stopping by the gym to see if Coach Jackson would give me my wand back, but his office was locked and the lights were off. He must have left already, so I started for home determined to make the best of my current situation.
