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Plus this story is based on the movie, 'It's A Boy Girl Thing,' hence the title. Enjoy!

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It's A Boy Girl Thing

Chapter 15 - Back to the Museum

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"Are you sure it's okay to be in here now?" Mikan asked, glancing around nervously. "What if we get caught by the night guard?"

"Tch. It's probably some lazy old geezer who won't even bother doing rounds," Natsume said dismissively as they made their way to the statute. "Who'd want to break in here anyway? It's not like it had the Mona Lisa."

Mikan rolled her eyes. It figures that he didn't know the Louvre didn't have night guards who did rounds but instead a security system that locked in intruders if anything was disturbed after closing time.

No alarm had gone off when they had jumped the gate. It had been quite easy to Mikan's surprise, Natsume's body being fit for wall vaulting. It would have been simpler to do this during daytime when the museum was still open but they had left at six because Mikan had insisted on finishing the physics worksheet so that Natsume could submit it in her name and the drive itself was two hours even with Natsume at the wheel.

She had taken advantage of the time to do some SAT prep. She almost started crying in the middle of it when she realized that if they didn't switch back, there'd be no point in taking the SATs. He was probably planning on going to some liberal arts college with no SAT requirements on a sports scholarship anyway. She had then got a hold of herself and thought very strongly, 'no we will switch back tonight, we will."

"Left or right?" Her own voice breaking her chain of thought, she doubted she'd ever get used to that. Looking around, she found that they were in the Egypt section. If memory served her right, the statue was two sections away.

"This way." She said, leading them.

Natsume couldn't wait to get this over with. The body switch had gone from fun to disastrous since Sakura had started screwing with his life. When he got back to his body, he would make her pay very dearly for the embarrassment she had caused him.

"Okay you go first." He heard her tell him. They both stared at the figure that had caused this mess. Well Natsume was glaring but still. He hadn't believed her at first when she told him her theory about the green smoke but eventually gave in for lack of a better explanation.

"And say what?" He asked, skeptical.

"Apologize to the statue! He obviously overheard us saying we'd never want to be each other. Convince him we've learned the lesson and he'll let us switch back. Haven't you ever seen Freaky Friday?" She explained, exasperated.

"No I detest Lindsay Lohan. You go first, you have the biggest mouth." He retorted.

She was tempted to point that right then she had his mouth but bit it down and focused the statute. Nervously she started, "Hi. How are you?"

"Great start there." Natsume mocked.

Mikan ignored him and played with her hand unconsciously. She went on, "Now you may have got the impression that this...young fellow"- oh how it hurt to say this- "this lovely young fellow and I didn't like it each other. But" she let out a small laugh her getting into the flow of a convincing speech and throwing in appropriate expression, "let me tell you that could not be any farther from the truth."

She prodded him in the ribs. Natsume picked up unsure of what to say, "That's right. Umm sure we were fighting but all friends fight sometimes, right?"- if seven years count as sometimes –"How could you not like Mikan? She is uhh… tidy and book smart! Kinda cute, like when she makes a total fool of herself. We get along really well." He crossed his hands behind his back. Did crossing count if you were speaking to a god statute?

"Yeah, we're actually very close." Mikan agreed, desperate enough to go along with anything.

"The closest," He wrapped arm around her shoulder. "Real homies."

"To the end, bro." Mikan supplemented, doing the weird punch manoever she had seen jocks do.

"Don't overdo it." Natsume warned.

"Okay so now that we've got that all cleared up, here's what we're going to do. We close our eyes, count to three… and when we open them up, we'll be back in our right bodies." She paused. "If that's OK with you- which I'm sure it is, since this is just a big misunderstanding we can laugh about in years to come." She chuckled fretfully.

Natsume counted out loud while Mikan clenched her eyes closed and prayed, "One… Two… Three." They both squeezed their eyes shut hard but reopened them after a few seconds having not felt anything. Mikan sighed, they were never switching back at this rate.

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"Maybe he only speaks Japanese." Natsume commented, taking a bite out of his pizza slice. They were at an all night dinner and it was around 10.

"So what are we going to do next, buy him dumplings?" Mikan asked, having lost all hope. She just wanted to fade away into nothingness.

"I had my heart set on MIT." She said her voice breaking.

"No, not the tears!" Natsume put his hands up trying to ward them off. You never knew who could walk into this kind of place, regardless of what time it was. He decided to try a distraction. "Look- you think I want to end up running my dad's business?"

"I don't know." She replied her voice still whiny. That's when Natsume's phone beeped from its place on the table. It was a text from Ruka.

At Koko's with the guys, pizza & beer night. You in? Btw Mochu's cool with the punch. Says you're even for last year now.

"Hey you broke Mochu's nose." Natsume told her, poking her.

"Yeah I know, I was there." She replied giving him a weird look.

"You have my body, my strength. I just need to show you how to use in time for the championship game." Natsume decided, nodding to himself.

Mikan scoffed, "Me? Play soccer? I'd trip over my own feet or rather your feet. Besides what's so important about this one game?"

"Scouts are coming to watch. It's the last chance to get a scholarship this year." Natsume informed her. She never thought he would be thinking about things like scholarships.

"Well I have the most important public speaking event of the year coming up too but unfortunately you have not inherited my gifted vocabulary or storehouse of historical and literature related knowledge." Mikan pointed out.

Natsume closed his eyes not believing that he was about to say this but sacrifices had to be made for the greater cause. "I'll do your speech if you play my game."

Did he just offer her a truce? Were her ears working right? He looked serious enough. She thought about it. She could help him study for her speech and he could teach her how to play soccer. The odds might be against them but what other choice did they have?

"Deal."

If only she knew what she was in for…

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A/N : Hey guys. This is me, Carolle. Some of you may know that I am currently on a hiatus which means I will not be writing/updating any of my stories which also includes this one. I'm really sorry. But things are just not working out and I have a lot of other things to do. Plus having a writers' block does not help whatsoever. I'm really sorry.. This chapter was written only by Alexxis since like I said I have a writers' block and I did not contribute to anything. Sorry once again.

~Carolle Royale

Alexxis here. Let me start of by saying this story is the result of a total fluke. Me and Carolle wrote the first chapter for fun and we decided to make it a full-length story due to popular response. We never imagined getting over 200 reviews, it's overwhelming and we're glad we made so many people laugh.

Unfortunately this story has always been a team effort and I don't feel comfortable continuing on my own. I'm going through a phase right when everything I write comes out crappy as you can see from the above. So if and when Carolle ever returns to the world of FF, then the possibility of this fic being finished will be reconsidered by the both of us.

I just want to say thank you to every person who reviewed and encouraged us. We really only wrote this story for you guys and we had a lot of fun doing. We had every intention of finishing and planned out the whole thing but alas fate has intervened. We hope you understand. (in case you want revenge don't worry, we have exams next week and we are dying already)

We posted the above chapter for three reasons: because its against FF rules to post a mere AN as a chapter, to celebrate 200 reviews and also I wanted to show you guys how crappy my version of this story is without Carolle.

~Alexxis T. Swan

Goodbye.

~TheInvisibleInsider