Closing your eyes, you are shocked when you open them up again only to find yourself in the body and bedroom of Bobby Fields, the 15-year-old boy who lives in the house just opposite yours!
As you wake up, you look around the room. Right away, you realize that you’re no longer in your own room, but someone else’s.
Large, colorful posters of professional soccer players cover your white, bedroom walls. You see photos of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi everywhere. There are photos and posters of youth soccer teams hanging from the walls and framed on the dresser. You also spot a long wooden rack hanging from the wall containing many hooks with silver and gold medals hanging from them. Lastly, you discover some large trophies standing on the top of the dresser. Each trophy shows a soccer player or a soccer ball.
As you approach the trophies, you see the engraved markings on them.
“Regional Soccer Championship MVP 2022 – Bobby Fields”.
You also see the same trophy for the years 2020 and 2021.
“Wow, this kid must be really good in soccer!” you mumble to yourself. “Huh? Why does my voice sound different?”
You walk over to the dresser and open the large, wooden door. Inside of the door, there is a full-body mirror. You look up and you see a short but athletic, blond, 15-year-old middle schooler staring back at you.
You move your hands, and you see the same in your reflection in the mirror.
“Holy SHIT!” you gasp, as the realization begins to set in. “I’m HIM! I’m the soccer kid! I’m Bobby!”
You look down, since you’re only wearing underwear and a tank top, and you notice your short but thick and quite muscular legs. You sport a well-developed six-pack of abdominal muscles and toned chest and arms. You look like a young athlete. The only thing is, you’re no longer seventeen and in High School! You’re fifteen now, and you’re still in Middle School!
“Bobby?” someone says, as you hear a knock on the bedroom door, just before it opens.
“Yes?” you respond.
“You better get going, honey!” Bobby’s mother Julia says, as she slowly opens the door. “You were supposed to have a soccer practice session with that high school girl. What was her name again? I think her name was Melanie Trenton, right? I think it was around ten this morning, sweetie! You better get into your soccer gear!”
“Oh, umm… Thanks for reminding me, mom!” you respond to her.
As she closes the door, your jaw drops wide open in complete disbelief. You’re going to be on the same soccer field as Melanie, while playing soccer in the body of Bobby Fields? You stand there, completely slack jawed. If Bobby is as good as everyone says, then Melanie would be super impressed!
As you look down at your dresser, you discover that you have at least four pairs of soccer cleats. Somehow, you know which cleats to wear. You find the section in the dresser where all the soccer jerseys, socks and shorts are located and you just “know” what to wear.
As soon as you’re all suited up, you leave the house and you march down to the high school soccer field, which is across the street and next to the Middle School where you go to school on weekdays. Your heart is racing from excitement!
While walking to school, you look back and you see your old body (Jacob) walking next to Halima, a few feet behind you. But you’re too excited to think about them now. You just want to get to the soccer field and hang out with Melanie Trenton, the Captain of the High School soccer team. It would be incredibly special, especially since you’re the Captain of the Middle School soccer team!
Once you arrive on the pitch, Melanie walks right up to you. She is taller, with her long, black hair. She greets you with a smile as she’s holding a soccer ball in her hand.
“Hey there, champ!” she smiles. “Thanks for coming! Ready for some practice?”
“Sure!” you reply with a huge grin. “I’m always ready to practice with you, Melanie!”
You can’t believe it. You feel like you must be living in a dream. Yes, you’re two years younger now, but you’re in the body of a total soccer jock who is alone on the field with the one girl in High School whom you have a total crush on!
Melanie starts to session kicking the ball to you and you return the ball back to her. To your surprise, you realize that as long as you’re in Bobby’s body, you’re actually pretty darn good! All those soccer trophies weren’t just for show.
Then she kicked the ball a little harder and a little higher at you, and you were able to leap in the air and kick them back, using more skill and speed. Melanie was clearly impressed. Finally, she stepped back and sent a ball straight at you, but it was coming at you from a high angle and it seemed to be landing right on top of your head. You leaped in the air, you flipped your body around so that your head was turned towards the ground and your feet were pointed towards the sky, and you managed to kick the high soccer ball straight into the goal with a difficult technique called the bicycle kick, which seemed to be very advanced for most middle school players. You land flat on your stomach, just in time to see the ball go in the goal.
“Wow, very nice, Bobby!” Melanie smiled back at you. “You’re very, very good! You got a lot of talent there, guy!”
“Aww… Thanks!” you smile shyly as you stand up and wipe the grass off your jersey and shorts and you walk up to her.
This is the first time you get to admire her from up close. Wow, she is so cute! She’s tall, athletic, and strong. And, for the first time ever, you don’t feel clumsy or awkward when you’re in her presence.
After about an hour of kicking balls into the goal and passing balls to one another, she offers to take you to get ice cream at the snack bar just around the corner. You sit down opposite her at the picnic table as you enjoy your ball of vanilla ice cream on a cone as she has her strawberry ice cream at the same time.
“This was a great practice session, Bobby!” she smiles. “I want to do this every week with you, if you don’t mind, okay?”
You must be dreaming. Your jaw drops wide open.
“Uhh… Sure! I’d love to! This has been great!” you reply. “Thanks for the training…. And for the ice cream!”
You say goodbye to her as you walk back home. She gets in her car and leaves as you run back home. Your house and just opposite your own house. You check yourself so you don’t enter the wrong house by mistake.
You change clothes and take a shower before you go to bed that night. As soon as you doze off in Bobby’s body, you wake up again in Jacob’s bedroom.
What do you do, next?
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