I’m Your Girl?

Chapter One:

Chaeyoung goes on the date with Mina after some convincing from Momo – “I can’t miss another date, she’ll break up with me! Please, just pretend to be me.”

They keep it a secret.

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“It’s just a date. No big deal.”

 “No big deal, right.” Chaeyoung said to psych herself up as she walked towards the beautiful brunette she’d never met. She didn’t think this was a good idea, but she was stuck in the situation with Momo and they had agreed to keep it a secret from everyone until they got it under control. Still, she can’t believe that Momo had somehow managed to convince her to go along with the plan.

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Momo stared at the girl in front of her. Chaeyoung had been quiet for the past couple of minutes. It was as if everything that could possibly go wrong kept going wrong. The situation they were already in was one that couldn’t be described.

How does one go about telling someone they’ve swapped bodies? No one would believe them. The first place they’d go is either a hospital or a therapist to be pumped full of meds, the next a mental asylum. They had to keep this to themselves and get it under control.

“Chaeyoung, say something,” Momo pleaded. She had been waiting for so long, she thought the silence would make her go insane, if the situation didn’t catch up to her first.

It took a moment longer, but the younger girl finally looked away from the lab table, which had been cleaned of their science experiment.

“This is crazy.” Chaeyoung whispered as the situation settled in.

“I know, but it’s the only way.”

“The only way? What if we ask—” Momo interrupted Chaeyoung before she could continue.

“You know we can’t tell anyone.” Momo spoke and locked eyes with the other girl and they were matched in an intense stare before Chaeyoung looked away.

“You’re right, but I’m not sure about this.”

“Please, Chaeyoung! I can’t miss another date, she’ll break up with me. Just pretend to be me.” Momo sounded desperate for the younger girl to agree to her plan.

“Pretend to be you?” Chaeyoung scoffed. “I don’t even know you!”

Momo waved a hand as if she were waving the other girl’s response away. “I’m sure you’ll figure it out. You like rapping, right? Just talk about music and dancing.” Momo nodded, it was a simple: Chaeyoung would pretend to be her, and Mina wouldn’t break up with her. It was the perfect plan.

Chaeyoung wasn’t convinced, she tried another argument. “What if she notices?”

“If she gets suspicious, just cover it up. We only started during the summer and we haven’t had many chances to meet up.” Momo was lying, of course, but Chaeyoung didn’t know that, so she nodded, thinking that the other girl made sense. Then Momo continued. “It’s probably fine.”

“Probably? What do you mean probably?”

“I mean, that it’s a perfect plan and you’ll do just fine.” Momo nodded, a wide, confident smile planted on her face. “I believe in you.” She gave Chaeyoung a pat on her back.

Momo’s confidence somehow had Chaeyoung nodding back. “Yeah, I’m pretty smart. I bet can think of something.”

“Exactly!”

“I got this.”

“You got this!”

“Alright!”

“Alright!”

And so Momo handed Chaeyoung her phone. “My passcode is 0528—Don’t look at the pictures!—Mina said she’ll be outside in 10 minutes, let’s go.”

“Right, let’s go.” Chaeyoung took the phone and put it in her pocket. She couldn’t help but feel like she got tricked, but Momo looked too innocent to do something like that, so she followed the older girl.

Momo had given Chaeyoung a quick rundown of her girlfriend as they made their way out of the science building and towards the courtyard that she knew Mina to be waiting at.

“Her name is Myoui Mina, age 19, and she’s in my year, or I’m in her year since I started a year late. Anyways, she’s majoring in dance, her specialty is ballet—she’s been doing that for over 10 years—but she’s good at all types of dance. She likes the Harry Potter series and cries when she’s stressed so don’t freak out. She also…”

Momo continued to ramble details about her girlfriend. Chaeyoung smiled at the happy look on her own face. It was clear that Momo cared for this other girl, so Chaeyoung listened closely and committed it all to memory, or she tried her best—Momo was quite the talker.

Chaeyoung tried not to think of everything that could go wrong, but she couldn’t help but think that literally anything could go wrong. However, Momo did convince her it was a good idea and they were stuck in the situation together, so she really had no choice but to go along. She would try if only to keep her new friend happy.

As they walked towards the courtyard, Momo saw a girl sitting on a bench under one of the trees that lined the pathway. Momo pulled Chaeyoung to a stop and placed her hands on the shorter girl’s shoulders.

“Okay, Mina is waiting under that tree.” Momo nodded her head in the direction her girlfriend was sitting. “You just gotta pretend to be me and everything will be fine. I’ll give you a call later.”

Chaeyoung turned to look at Momo’s girlfriend – at Mina, she corrected herself – and immediately turned back towards the other girl.

“What the hell! You never said your girlfriend was beautiful!”

“I didn’t think I had to!” Momo laughed. “Have you seen me? Do you think I deserve anything less?”

Chaeyoung huffed.

“I’m kidding.” Momo said after Chaeyoung looked like she was suddenly nervous. “But she’s more than just looks. And she won’t bite. Go get ‘er tiger.” Momo gave her shoulder a comforting squeeze.

Chaeyoung resisted. “I don’t know…”

Momo sighed. “It’s just a date. No big deal.” Then she gently pushed her in the direction of the waiting girl.

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Chaeyoung waved when she got closer the girl sitting under the tree but was ignored. When she was standing next to her not-girlfriend she noticed that Mina had earbuds in her ear. She didn’t know what got into her, but she decided it would be a great idea to scare the other girl. With her shadow hidden by the shadows of the tree above, she circled around the girl looking at her phone and quickly shook her shoulders.

“Kya!” Mina turned and threw the object in her hand, meaning Chaeyoung, who was slightly bent over, got hit in the face by the smartphone.

Chaeyoung quickly realized that today was not her day, and that scaring Myoui Mina was not at all a great idea like she thought.

“Momo, I’m so sorry!”

“S’okay.” Chaeyoung picked up the other girl’s phone and brushed off the grass. “I’m just glad your phone is okay.”  She sheepishly muttered, while holding her smarting nose.

“You know I always throw what’s in my hand and you usually dodge it, are you okay?” Mina took Chaeyoung’s hand off her face to inspect the damage, but Chaeyoung could tell she wasn’t just referring to her nose.

“I’m just having an off day is all.” Chaeyoung smiled and took Mina’s hand in her own. She was getting flushed from the close look the other girl was giving her and wanted to take the attention away from herself. “Enough about me. What about our date?”

Mina looked like she wanted to press but accepted the subject change. She released Chaeyoung’s hand and stood, then started walking towards the campus exit. Chaeyoung quickly caught up to walk beside the other girl.

“Well it’s been awhile since it’s been just the two of us, so I thought we could stay the night in. I wanted to make you dinner for repayment on cancelling our last few dates.”

“Wait, you canceled them, I thought-” Chaeyoung quickly shut , having realized she was speaking aloud.

“I know, I know, you keep telling me that it’s not my fault that we had the dance recital, but I still can’t help but feel bad.”

Chaeyoung was glad that Mina was the one who covered up her slip up without noticing. But she also realized that Momo wasn’t entirely truthful on the situation, since she made it seem like she was the one who had skipped out on the past few dates.

“Exactly, so I don’t want to hear you blaming yourself anymore…” Chaeyoung paused, she wasn’t sure what Momo had called the other girl. She’d have to