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Chapter #6
Spending the Morning as Richard
by: Unknown
For a moment, John forgot that he was in his best friend's body. His body was too tired to even think about that. After eating a late-night dinner with someone else's family, he dove for the bed that smelled of Richard's scent.
Morning came. John woke up and wished that everything that happened in the past was some weird dream. When he opened his eyes, he awoke to a room he recognized as not his own. John has a messy room but Richard takes it to another level. Clothes are strewn everywhere from chairs and down to the floor. He can't believe one man can own these many articles of clothing. And the air… it reeks of a sweaty shower room. John could not stand any of this. If he was going to borrow Richard's body, he could at least clean his room for him.
And so, John picked up clothes while still in his underwear. John remembered Richard wearing pajamas whenever he sleeps. He was about to look for it last night but the bed looked enticing with every passing second. He ended up sleeping in his underwear and the gratitude that Richard has a thicker layer of baby fat to keep him warm.
John finished cleaning just as his little brother called him for breakfast. Colin was the little runt's name. "Look, look. Richard's awake. Was the explosion big?"
Behind him was this 6-foot white hunk in his white-tighties as well. It's Henry. He bonked Colin in the head and pushed him out of the door frame. John saw Henry a few times in the past. He's a reserved individual despite the stereotype that fame must come automatically given he has a muscular body and more than decent face.
"Are you okay Richard?" Henry asked.
"Yes. Thank you for the concern but why are you asking?"
"Because of what happened yesterday?" Henry walked inside the room and snatched an underwear John failed to notice before. It's somewhat stained yellow, and John shuddered at the possible reason for the color. Henry folded it neatly and added it to the pile. "I've never seen you clean your room before. It's always me and mom who does it for you. Are you sure you're alright?"
"I said I'm fine." John thought of a response to get him off his back. Talking about what happened yesterday feels like beating a dead horse now. "I already have Sean helping me sort my feelings. We already talked and I think we're already fine about it."
"If you say so," Henry smiled with his soft pink lips. "If it's Sean, I trust him. Anyway, mom cooked pancakes."
Pancakes… It's Richard's favorite. And soon to be John's when he took the first bite of the pan-cooked pastry. Somehow, it tasted a whole lot better than he remembered. The maple syrup's sweetness is mellow and somewhat earthy. The pancake itself seemed to melt in his mouth. It can't only be because Richard's mom made it. Can't it? Being in Richard's body must be rubbing off him. The preferences of the body become his. If he becomes attracted to men with prescription glasses, then this hypothesis must be true.
John helped in cleaning up the table, much to Henry and his mother's surprise. John silently fumed at Richard for being a cunt to any responsibility. Even in their school projects, it was John and Sean who did the bulk of the work. While Richard is too busy being a gossipy bitch with the other groups.
After the chores, John was about to clean up his body because he smelled like a dead corpse. Then he got a message from Sean saying that classes are canceled for the rest of the year. They still get credits and an immediate passing remark. It's some sort of ruling from the school board. Not like it's going to help much at all. There's only a week of classes left. It's still a relief as they won't take their finals anymore.
In other news, the chavs responsible are detained in the sheriff's office but we're promptly released. It's still a theory but multiple similar precedents make it a more likely explanation. One of them is a Folger, a prominent family in this town. They had to use money and pull some strings so they could leave unscathed from the hammer of the law. The town was enraged, of course. There are demonstrations in the park demanding the chav's incarceration and the resignation of the principal. Richard's parents will be there this afternoon.
Then as for John's body. The school board took responsibility for paying for the entire hospital accommodation. That's all thanks to the media's focus on him. He's the only student to ever get comatose from the accident. It's the best scoop since the town was founded. They'll run his story for months. The school board hoped that paying his hospital fee would ease the bad press they were getting.
As for John's current condition, it's going to be a juicy one that demands a face-to-face conversation. John had to take that shower after all.
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