Regular Guy by Sarah Weeks

Author:Sarah Weeks
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1999-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

As we walked through the field toward the fort, Buzz sidled up alongside me and whispered in my ear, “I hope he isn’t going to pick his nose in the fort.”

“As long as he keeps his hands in his pockets, it shouldn’t be a problem,” I said.

“What about the stink?” he asked.

“The fort smells like an old sock anyway,” I said.

“Great. Now it’ll smell like an old sock with a dead fish in it. Nice combo.”

We walked on in silence for a little while. Bob-o was lagging behind, kicking stones as he went. Every now and then one of the rocks would skitter up the path and clip one of us in the heel, but since it didn’t really hurt we didn’t bother to tell him to knock it off.

“You know, Guy,” said Buzz as we neared the fort. “I didn’t think of this before, but if you switch places with Bob-o you’re going to have to sleep in his bed.”

I hadn’t thought of that either.

“We’ll just have to make a deal that each of us will clean our rooms and change the sheets before we make the switch,” I said. “To tell you the truth, I’m more worried about the bigger issues.”

“You mean like how you’re going to get his parents, I mean your parents, well, anyway, them, to figure out the truth about you guys getting switched?”

“Yeah.”

When we reached the fort, Bob-o caught up to us and we gave him the grand tour. He must have remembered the hands-in-the-pocket rule from his visit to my room and figured it would hold true for the fort as well, because he stuck his hands deep into his pockets before he came inside.

“So, what do you think, guys?” said Buzz. “Will a weekend be long enough to accomplish your mission?”

“Should be,” I said.

Bob-o shrugged.

“Don’t tell your parents about the assignment until Friday morning—that way there won’t be time for them to make a stink about it, or snoop around finding out what other parents think of it. Make sure you clean up your rooms and change your sheets and junk before Friday, okay?” Buzz looked pointedly at Bob-o. “Got that? You might want to open a window too.”

Bob-o blushed, and for a second I felt bad for him.

“Basically, you’ll have Friday night and all day Saturday to point out all the things you have in common with your real parents, then on Sunday—a week from tomorrow—you plant the seed about how babies sometimes get switched at birth, blah, blah, blah. Then all we do is wait for the lightbulbs to go off over their heads.”

“Maybe we should go over some of the similarities we want to be pointing out to our new parents,” I suggested.

“Good idea. Bob-o, for starters, make sure you dress the way you always do, because that’s a big thing you and Guy’s parents have in common,” Buzz said.

“And don’t change your hair,” I added.

Bob-o checked out his reflection in the screen on the old TV, carefully studying the cowlicks that stuck out in all directions like a pinwheel.

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