“Are you ready to go?” Robert asked Grace, who was still surrounded by siblings.
“I guess,” she said. “It isn’t like we will get to drive together.”
Robert nodded ruefully and went down to his car, watching Grace moving slowly toward her own. They would probably have to sell one of these cars. Finances would be a bit tight. He drove for a couple of minutes, and then flipped his phone open again. It was a Saturday so Caleb would, hopefully, be free to talk.
“Hey!” Caleb said, “I was hoping you would call. I was up half the night working out the details of this crazy dream you said you had.”
“Sorry for taking away your beauty sleep, you really need it.”
“You should talk. Doubt you got any sleep last night.”
Robert blushed, and then plunged on, “So, what did you figure out?”
“I need more details, that’s what I figured out.”
“Well, Grace is in the other car, but I’ll tell you whatever I can.”
“You are the most interesting case, anyway. Grace was still sort of Grace, no? And her sister, was still her sister. But you got knocked out of the park; changed into a girl.”
“It knocked me out of the park, anyway.”
“But, from what you told me yesterday, it wasn’t completely *you*, was it?”
Robert thought about that, “No. Not completely. There was a girl there with me. At least, that is how it felt.” He paused, thinking about it. “In fact, ‘feeling’ is a good word to talk about. I probably freaked you out with all of my ‘feelings’ for you, getting married to you and all. But that was all ‘her’, whoever she was.”
“This is still weird. How could you participate in…”
“No, stop, I thought about this some last night. Think of it like this. You like to read sci-fi, and other fiction stuff; and you like to write, too. It seemed to me like this, like I was kind of an ‘author’. I had a character, and she had relationships and all, and it was like I had to write the part. It wasn’t me, not my feelings and all. I mean, like, I spent practically the whole first day crying and flouncing on the bed.”
“Naked, you told me.”
“Yeah, well, that part was me. I mean… you know… gorgeous female body and all.”
“So she was cute?”
“You loved her.”
“It would have been interesting growing up next to two cute girls…”
“Well, don’t complain, you find Jenny cute enough, don’t you?”
“Yeah, great, I wasn’t complaining. But still, two cute girls…”
“Caleb!”
“Sorry. Say, did Jenny say anything about, you know?”
“Like I’ve had a chance to ask her.”
“Yeah, I guess, I just wondered.”
“Well, get on over to my house. They’ll be planning the party and all and you can help; and be around Jenny at the same time.”
“Ah, right, bye.”
Robert chuckled. This was going to be interesting…