Chances Are Omnibus (Gender Swap Fiction) by Dilloway P.T

Author:Dilloway, P.T. [Dilloway, P.T.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Planet 99 Publishing
Published: 2014-10-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

From TV and movies I expect a stretch limo to show up for Jamie and Caleb with a driver in a black suit with a little hat. Instead it’s an ordinary silver Mercedes. The driver wears a dark suit, but no hat. He does open the back door so we can climb inside.

I sit in the middle, so that I’m between Jamie and her little brother. Caleb hasn’t said anything since he joined us on the front steps of the admin building.

“It’s great your grandma finally let you come over,” Jamie says. “We haven’t had anyone over since we moved here.”

“It’s hard making friends,” I say.

“Yeah, especially at a place like that.” Jamie’s phone beeps. She checks the screen. “I’m getting an update from one of my friends back in Miami,” she says. She lets me see the screen. It’s her Facebook account. Jamie has over five hundred friends on Facebook, but apparently none in the city who can hang out with her.

With the afternoon traffic it takes about forty-five minutes to reach the glass tower Jamie and Caleb call home. From the look of it, it’s about as tall as the headquarters for Lennox Pharmaceuticals. There’s a lobby that’s just as opulent, complete with its own fountain that puts the one at St. Andrew’s to shame.

“Some night I’d really like to go swimming in there,” Jamie says.

“That sounds like fun,” I lie.

Caleb has already trotted over to the elevators and pushed the button. When one of the elevators shows up, Jamie and I have to hurry in order to make it before the doors close. On the way up to the sixteenth floor, Jamie swats Caleb on the back of the head. “The little weasel is always doing that,” she says.

“Do not,” he says.

“You do so.” She sighs. “Is your little sister this annoying?”

“No. Maddy is nice.”

“Lucky you.”

There’s a corridor inlaid with brown marble and gold. There are only three doors; Caleb races Jamie to the one at the far end of the hallway. “I win!” he shouts.

“Only because you cheat,” she says.

The door opens on its own. I recognize the young man from Dr. Macintosh’s office. “This is my friend Stacey,” Jamie says. “We’re going to do homework.”

“Whatever,” he says.

The condo is easily bigger than Jake’s entire house. Caleb runs over to the leather couch in the living room and turns the sixty-inch plasma TV to cartoons. Jamie takes my hand and leads me into the kitchen. There’s an old Hispanic woman in there to cook dinner. Jamie ignores her and opens the fridge. She takes out two bottles of Coke, one for each of us.

“Come on, you got to see my room.”

Her room is somewhat of a disappointment. It’s bigger than the one I share with Maddy, but it’s not that different from any little girl’s bedroom. The walls are pink and covered with posters for her favorite singers and bands. There are also posters of older boys, probably from the shows she tells me about. “You can leave your bag on the bed.

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