School today completely and totally sucked.  And not in that, "I hate homework way," or  "The teachers a bastard," way, This was more of the "blind rage, wanna kill the government for making me be here today, because somehow, overnight I was transformed into a girl way."  Don't you just hate those types of days?  I know I do.  

I was currently standing by my locker, fidgeting with the bra which I hoped I had put on right this morning.  The wire was digging into my ribs and I wondered how girls were able to breathe without fracturing their own ribs.  Suddenly, I heard the bell ring.  I jumped, instantly stopping my fidgeting and yanked out  my books from my locker in a haste, before starting to sprint towards algebra.  I was late.  Again, for the third time today.  But luckily, I had realized that since my unfortunate gender change last night, the rest of the world (with the exception of my family) thought I was a new student.  Joy.  Now I had all the fun of getting used to this accursed female body and getting to know people I already knew.  On the plus side, teachers wouldn't really care if I was late to class for the next couple of days.  I sighed, as I stopped in front of the classroom, enjoying the last few seconds of blissful silence and no nosey classmates, before opening the door, and slowly striding in.  All the heads swivelled to face me, and I cringed.  The teacher did a double take of me, before saying, "Hello, who do we have here?"

"I'm Ta-Terra, I'm new here."  I mumbled quietly, not because I was shy or anything, It was mostly due to the fact that I hated my freakishly high pitched voice.  People who had lost interest in me after I came in, looked up from their books.

"Really?  Where did you move here from?"  Ms. Wells sounded genuinly fascinated.

"Maine."  Was the first thing that popped into my head, vaguely remembering last hour, I came from Nevada.

"So Minnesota must be really different for you then."  I nodded, and without her telling me to, strolled down one of the aisles of desks and took a seat in one of the empty ones in the back.  It wasn't long before ms. Wells continued on with the lesson.  I was absently staring out the window, after deeming the lesson boring.  In fact, It was so boring it only took about a minute for me to completely tune out the whole class.  It wasn't until I heard someone from next to me whisper "pssst."  I turned around to face him.

"Hey,"  He said.

"Hey, Danny."  I responded casually, glad to see one of my friends.

"How do you know my name?"  He raised an eyebrow.  Oh shit!  He didn't know I was me.  He thought I was a girl.

"Oh...um, well this one girl who's showing me around the school was talking about the soccer team, and said something about a Danny, a really good offense player.  And your shirt has your soccer team logo, I was just kind of guessing it was you."

"You like soccer?"  He asked sounding enthusiastic.  I had to restrain myself from shouting "Duh, I'm on the same soccer team as you!  I play mid-field."
"Yeah, at my old school, I was on the soccer team.  I played mid-field."  

"That's really cool!  Did your team ever make it to state or anything?"   What was he getting at?  I mean talking about soccer is fun, and one of my favorite past times, but not when you're talking to your best friend, who apparently has never met you before.

"We did once about 2 years ago.  We were an okay team I guess,"  I lied quickly.

"Our school's one of the best in state, we-"

"Mr. Nelson, do you have something you'd like to say to the class?"  Ms. Wells asked sharply.

"No ma'am, I was just helping Terra with that equation,"

"Oh, very well then, Terra do you know the answer,"  I sighed and glanced up at the board.

"You multiply 3x and 5x to x squared to get (x+3)(x+5) or X squared + 7x plus 15."  I answered.  She looked impressed, and the rest of the class looked slightly suprised.

"Good job, Well let's move on to the next question then."  And then she continued on with her dismal lecture.  I rolled my eyes at her back, before turning back to face Danny.  "She's so stupid."  I murmured under my breath.  Danny raised his eyebrows at me, but his eyes flickered with amusement.

"But, you hardly know her."  He told me, we were both silent for a while before he continued.  "But it's true."  And we both started bursting out laughing.

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"Terra, since you're new here, I'll let it slide this time." Ms.Wells told me sternly.  She was acknowledging the fact that me and Danny had been making jokes about her the whole class period, and continuously having laughing fits.  I rolled my eyes once again, and looked away trying to keep my boredom from showing too badly.  "But as for you Danny, You've never done something like that before and should know better."

"Pardon me, ma'am,"  I interrupted, being as polite as I could. "But if he's never done something like that before, shouldn't you let it slide, and he can learn from the whole experience."  She bit her lower lip as she mulled this over.  And I guess my politeness wore off on her, because she finally said.  "Yeah, I supose so, just don't let it happen again."  She turned to Danny, who nodded solmnly, and we were dismissed.  We strolled out of the classroom and into the hallway, before stopping about 30 feet from the algebra room.

"Thanks for bailing me out of that one,"  He mumbled sheepishly as he scratched the back of his neck, clearly not liking that I had to help him out of it.  It didn't make sense to me at first, until I remembered I was now a girl.  It felt weird now, knowing that I was on a lower scale of recogintion now by my best friend, but on an even creepier higher scale as well.

"No problem, man."  I brushed it off casually.  He quirked an eyebrow at me.

"What?"  

"It's just not often that girls use the word 'man'."  He chuckled.

"Yeah, well, I do."  I frowned and looked away.  He was still laughing slightly, when I heard Stephie, (one of my friends but now one of the girls who was showing me around the school I already knew.) yell.

"Hurry up, Terra!  Or your going to be late for another class!"  I was about to turn around, when I heard Danny say.

"Hey, You should come to my soccer game tonight.  It's our first home game, and it'll be a lot of fun."  I smirked at how nervous he was around the girl version of me.  

"Yeah, sure."

"Sweet, it's at 7:00."

"Got it, but I gotta get going."  I said hastily, feeling Stephie grab onto my wrist and start to drag me down the hall.

"Ok, see you then."   

As soon as he was out of ear shot, Stephie released my wrist and made me face her.  Her freckled face was filled with suprise and happiness.  Which I wasn't exactly sure why she was happy, and I was debating whether or not I should be happy too, or being extremely creeped out.

"Danny Nelson just hit on you then asked you out, and you're not happy??"  Her glee was evident.  But some part of my brain completely froze.  He what?  

"H-he did?"  I asked dumbfounded.  When he had asked me that, I thought he had meant it as like a friend thing, because that's what we were.  Friends.  Nothing more.  But now that I was a girl he suddenly decides to ask me out.  That was wrong in so many ways, it was revolting.

"Don't play stupid!  When guys ask you to go to something like that, their always asking you out.  But I mean, Danny Nelson!  The hottest guy in our school asked you out, and your breathtaking, romantic response is, 'yeah, sure.'  He's going to think you'r not interested!"  She scolded me.  my mind was screaming, 'Then let him think that.  Going out with him, is sick.  We're both guys, It's not right!

"So are you going to his soccer game tonight, or not?!"  She continued on, placing her hands on her hips, a gesture I knew from experience wasn't good.  I flinched slightly.  And muttered "Yeah, I'm going."

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It was sometime vaguely after Stephie left me, that I realized I had a break period between third and fourth period, so I was mindlessly ambling around the halls, hating my luck and getting so absorbed in absolutely nothing, that when I heard footsteps come up behind me, naturally, I jumped.  I pivoted sharply on my heel to see Jed standing there.

"Hi there, loverboy or should I say girl!  See, I told you I'd help you with you're love life, you already have a date!" He singsonged through a massive grin.  Something inside me snapped, as I came to a horrifying conclusion.

"You did this!"  I screeched, pointing to my body.  His grin widened as he nodded.

"It's so cute when you screech like that, it makes you sound so girly!"  He mocked, reaching out to pinch my cheek.  I felt my face harden into the most murderous glare I'd ever given, and I lunged reaching to strangle him.  He dodged in time for me to only grab his shirt.  But I used that to pull him so he was right by my face and ground out the words, "Change. Me. Back. Now."  He burst out laughing, which made me want to break his jaw.  

"Don't you want to know how I did it first?"  A good point.  I reluctantly released him, and scowled at him waiting for him to explain.

"It's a gift I've always had, helping people, granting wishes, stuff like that."  He explained casually.

"I didn't need help, and I definitly don't recall wishing for this!!!"  I hollered.

"Oh, but you did.  Have you ever been asked out by someone before now?"  I looked away, and cursed my life.

"No,"  I replied through gritted teeth.

"So there for you have no idea what actual love is, this is a good thing for you and with out my help you would never have gotten asked out!" He continued on.  I still wanted to throttle him, but he had brought up some very good points.  I got the feeling he was something like a genie, and had magical powers, by the way he summoned up a basket of flowers from nowhere.  He ran up to me, before starting to prance around me tossing flowers.

"Loverboy here has got a date, and now that you have flowers, You can actually learn the basics of romance, and smell like a fresh new tulip for your da-"  I stuck out my foot, and tripped him mercilessly before running down the hall.  That crazy good for nothing, rude, awful, lunatic!
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