Becoming Robert

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Becoming Robert
 © 2011 Zoe Taylor

“But… aren’t you, weren’t you dating Arnold?”

She laughed. “Arnold? That meathead? Baby did you hit your head getting out of bed this morning?”

“I dunno,” I answered softly. “I had this really weird dream that I was a girl.”

“Were you a pretty girl?” she teased.


“Ngh,” I awoke with a groan, my head positively splitting. That was some dream, though. It felt so absolutely real. I cast my gaze around my room. My old NBA basketball poster hung by the window, and a pile of dirty laundry, all boys’ clothes, lay at the foot of my bed. I stared bewildered at the clothing pile for a moment. This was my room, my house, but it wasn’t the room in my dreams. I know I moved to Alpine Springs, didn’t I?

“Morning sweetie,” Mom chimed cheerfully as I stepped into the hallway. “I’ve got breakfast on the table. You need to bulk up if you’re going to win tonight.”

“Win?” I asked as I stared blankly back at her.

“You’re still on the basketball team aren’t you?”

“Mom, girls’ basketball ended a couple of weeks ago,” I blurted without thinking. She furrowed her brow.

“Honey, are you feeling alright? Thanks to you and Arnold you’re going to the playoffs, remember? Oh, and Andrea called already. She wanted to know if you could swing by her house on the way to school.”

“Um, sure Mom,” I answered slowly. None of this made any sense. Was it really all a dream?

~oOo~

Outside I found my bright yellow convertible waiting for me. At least THAT hadn’t changed, but the Hawaiian hula girl bobblehead Jennifer had put on the dashboard was conspicuously absent.

I sat down in the driver’s seat, staring ahead at our house for several seconds before finally pulling away to head for Andrea’s.

“There you are,” Andrea practically leapt into my arms after opening the door, though her energetic kiss took me off guard even more. She was wearing her blue and white cheer uniform with her hair pulled into a high ponytail with a matched blue ribbon. She frowned at me.

“You’re not happy to see your girlfriend?” she pouted.

“But… aren’t you, weren’t you dating Arnold?”

She laughed. “Arnold? That meathead? Baby did you hit your head getting out of bed this morning?”

“I dunno,” I answered softly. “I had this really weird dream that I was a girl.”

“Were you a pretty girl?” she teased. “Hang on a sec. Just let me get my books. I need a ride to school because Mom’s car’s in the shop and Dad’s out of town.”

I waited patiently for her to return, walking her to the car without saying anything. As she slid into the passenger seat, she seemed to be watching me walk around to the driver’s side. She frowned.

“You’re moving differently. Are you sure you’re okay?”

I shook my head slowly, for the first time realizing I didn’t feel my long hair tickle the back of my neck. I breathed a long, steady sigh. “No, I’m not. In my dream I was just so happy. I had these amazing friends and this cute goth girlfriend.” I paused to laugh at that. “Can you imagine it? Me, dating a goth. It just felt so real though. It’s kind of unsettling.”

“Yeah, really. Just warn me if you decide you want to go putting on a skirt or something, ‘k? I want time to break up with you so it doesn’t look like that’s why we’re breaking up.”

We both laughed, but I knew she was serious. She was my trophy girlfriend as much as I was her trophy boyfriend.

As we cruised on to school, though, a strange thought crossed my mind.

Wouldn’t it be weird if this was the dream?

~ April Fool’s! ~

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Oh, and don't worry...

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I plan on taking this down again tomorrow. :-) I wouldn't want anyone mistaking it for canon ^_^ I wanted to do a big, huge, long chapter-like piece about Robert's life and THEN kick in the "April Fools" tag at the end, but it totally slipped my mind until this morning, so this is the product of about twenty minutes in MS Word and a desire to do something fun :-P

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Noooooo!

Don't take it down! Now that you've added your comment, there's no reason to.

Sorry to add to the workload...

...but if you're going to leave it up I'd like to know how the original plan would have turned out.

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Cat

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....April Fools? Ooopsies



Dio vi benedica tutti
Con grande amore e di affetto
Andrea Lena

  

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Love, Andrea Lena

Gah!

I just figured it out - the real April Fools was your threatening to take this piece down! :D

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Where you can fool around like you want to and most you get is some bemused good ribbing!

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Added a tag :-)

Zoe Taylor's picture

Was going to delete it, but I decided to leave it up, as one dear friend put it, it's a great writing exercise. I do wish I'd had more time to put into it though.

But yeah, I've added the April Fools Day tag now that the day's passed :-)

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Great story

Zoe, you can leave it up it is delightful. Brought a smile to my face.

leave it up hon.

it was a good one.

Dorothycolleen

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Becoming Robert

Very cute, Zoe. PUHLEEZE leave it up.

    Stanman
May Your Light Forever Shine
    Stanman
May Your Light Forever Shine

OHMIGAWD!

Don't do that to me! Minor heart attack before I realized what day this was! Meanie!

Wren

PS-Don't take it down! That was a good one!

Awww Zoes

you soooooo deserve a dope slap, April Fools indeed!

Next thing, you are going to tell me you are actually a boy :P

Kim

You...you...you....arrrrggghh

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You...you...you....arrrrggghhh!!

Don't.
Do.
That.
Again.

As April Fools go, you had me worried for a moment, Zoe! :-p



"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

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BEST. APRIL. FOOL. EVER. ^_^

Zoe Taylor, you are truly a goddess among TG women.

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You just LOVE screwing with our heads...

... Don'tcha?

I've actually been reading all of your stories out of series order (started with BDC/ESwS), and when I saw this, I was starting to think it might be another "Peeing in the Timestream"...

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Danielle

*giggle* Sorry. :-)

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This was a one-off April Fools Day prank that I was going to delete on April 2nd, but I got tons of requests to keep it for posterity, so I left it alone :-) Thanks for reading! ^_^

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Keeping it up

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I'm glad you left it up. It was quite funny. Shocking at first, but funny.