"Steve? Are you okay? You're not acting like yourself."
Steve looked up at the woman who was now his mom. That's because I'm not myself. I'm a girl named Athena, he thought. "I'm okay. Really." Suddenly, his cellphone rang. "I've gotta take this," he said, then left the kitchen table and went to his bedroom.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Athena. It's me, Zoe."
"Thanks for calling when you did," he said. "I really don't want to interact with Steve's family."
"Well, I've got some good news. I found out who switched us."
Steve stood up from his bed. "Really? Who was it?"
"My brother. Jon."
"It was your own brother the whole time?" he asked, not believing it.
"Yeah. Weird, huh?"
"So, is he gonna switch us back?" Steve asked, hoping the get this nightmare over with as soon as possible. As much as he liked slutting around, he wanted to get back to his own Goth life, after he switched back bodies, of course.
"Nope," Zoe said. She almost sounded fine with it.
"What do you mean?"
"Don't get upset, Athena. It's all for the best."
"What are you talking about?" He couldn't believe Zoe's reaction. He thought that she'd be going through the roof.
"Listen, Athena. I've come to like being popular. I intend to stay this way and so have Zelda, Sabrina, and Stephanie. We just love being girlie." Then she giggled.
"What happened to you?"
"Nothing," she said, getting offensive.
"Zoe, where are you right now?"
"At the mall. Allison told me about these shoes that I've got to have and ..."
"Zoe!" he yelled.
"What?"
"You've gotta snap out of it. Did your brother cast a spell on you? Because there's no way you'd have this much of a personality change this fast. I just saw you a few hours ago and you were nothing like this."
"Well, there's nothing wrong with me, Athena. Maybe there's something wrong with you. Maybe being in Steve's body changed you in some way."
"Zoe, it's not ..."
"Yeah, whatever. Listen, Athena. You're still my friend, so take some advice from me. Try to think about what you're going to say before you say it. Unless you want to sound like a weirdo. Oh, and by the way, if you want to swap back bodies, all you have to do is have sex three times."
"With a girl?" he asked, hoping not. He had no interest in girls, only guys.
"That's probably what he meant." Then her voice became fainter, as she was talking to someone else, then she talked back into the phone. "Gotta go. 'Kay, bye."
Steve put down his cellphone. He couldn't believe it. Zoe was sounding like some sort of bubbly airhead. What had her brother done to her?
Now since Steve knew who was behind all of this, he decided to pay Jon a visit. But first, he wanted to call Steve (or Athena, whatever) to say how to get out of this body-swapping mess. If Jon had even told Zoe the truth, that was.
