Me? I was just washing my hands and thinking about Sofia – again – when I suddenly felt It. Nah, if you want that stuff, you can go elsewhere. No stories from me about turning to the people stood beside me and watching as they started to change… No stories from me about the giant flash of green light everyone saw in the sky. The biggest thing that has happened in human history and I basically missed it. Or rather, I was meant to be in class, but I’d wandered off to the restroom. I kinda screwed around behind her back, and when It first happened, I panicked and worried that she’d found a genie or something, and made a cruel wish to get back at me. Strange as it is to say now, I actually thought what happened was her fault. I’d even had a British girlfriend for a while, a cute blonde called Sofia with a soft, pretty face and a curvy body, the sort guys like me used to go wild over. I’d been there for, like, 5 months and got pretty settled. I was in Britain as a student, doing some dumbass degree and trying to soak up as many British parties as possible.
In short, very different from how I look now. If I close my eyes and try, I can just about remember what I used to look like. For those of us who were there, the Great Swap was terrifying. Presidents would gather to shake hands and make speeches commemorating it all.īut at the time, things were very different. There would be global parties, the kind that go on till the early hours and leave you drunk and lost, blearily trying to make your way home at 3am. Decades later, they’d celebrate the date when It happened.
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