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It's your friend Vanessa downstairs. "I'll cover for you," Mike whispers. With YOUR voice. "But wait, how do we get out of here?" "We take the stairs," you say. You open an inconspicuos door at the back of the secret room and it spirals around, taking the two of you up to another door that's disguised as the back wall of the closet. "Cool!" Mike says. "Now go!" He hurries downstairs. "Oh, hey." "Liam! How are you?" Good, with no parents around to bug me to do my homework." They both laugh.
While this exchange is taking place, you tiptoe to your room to hide until Mike can get Vanessa to leave. Then, before you get there, you hear something unexpected happen. Something in the front hall shatters in a loud explosion of glass and wood. Was that the front door? Vanessa screams. So does Mike, with your voice. "So YOU'RE the one we want. Liam, is it?" "Who - who are you?" Mike stammers. "Don't you know? I'm Dr. Hex. And you have a friend, I see." OH MY GOD! "Take them away," Dr. Hex orders someone. You hear heavy footsteps like his minions weigh about 500 pounds. You hear a low growl. Your friends start screaming again, but the noise fades. Then there's no more noise. You stand there in shock for what feels like an eternity.
There's only one thing good about this situation: they didn't get YOU. You can still save them, and no one in the world knows about you. Dr. Hex thinks he has you. Then you hear another voice. "Liam?" It's Scott, Vanessa's little brother and your neighbor, probably spying on his sister. He doesn't seem that freaked out that your front door got pulverized, but that's just how he is, right? "Hello? Anybody home?" He's probably staring at the smashed front door. Should you risk it and go see him? You throw on a jacket before coming down, hoping to hide your new appendages.
"Yeah?" you ask as you come down the stairs. Scott's standing just inside the front hall. "What happened to your front door?" You stare at the big gaping hole in the front of your house. "WHAT THE?" Even though you knew what happened, it's still a scare. What did Dr. Hex do, hit it with a meteor? Maybe his henchpeople who took Mike and Vanessa away did it. Who's to say they were human? "Where's my sister?" "Uh . . ." Could you possibly explain that she's been kidnapped by the minions of the evil Dr. Hex without bringing up your potion-induced transformation?
Maybe you don't have to. He doesn't look like he'll freak out over a couple of magic potions or a secret room. He'd just be excited. You know enough about him to know that.
"All right. I AM Liam, but with a little extra." You take off your jacket and unfold your huge glossy brown wings, which match your hair and are probably fourteen or fifteen feet across. "I went to check out my grandpa's room, fell into a secret room, drank this potion that caused me to hallucinate and when I woke up I was a girl. Mike invited me to crash a girls' slumber party, he found out I'd switched gender, came back here with me, and we ended up drinking a bunch of potions that turned him into a girl, then into me, made me shrink, then made me change back into myself but with wings. Okay?
"Then your sister came over and he went to cover for me and they both got kidnapped by Dr. Hex, who thought Mike was me." You fold up your wings like you've been doing it for your whole life. "So will you help me out here?" He grins enthusiastically. "Sure!" Uh, is that kind of reaction normal? Maybe for a little kid like him with a wild imagination. "Okay, thanks." Then you realize you have no idea where Dr. Hex's evil headquarters are. But at least you can fly over there, right? "Awesome! We can fly over there, right?" "Uh, let's see . . .
So what do you want to do now?
Written by Steve Charuk
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