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Nico Spinelli (switchitup) wrote in genome_project,
@ 2011-12-31 21:50:00

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january 2012, nico spinelli

Who: Sasha and Nico
What: New Year's
When: Dec 31-Jan 1
Where: Nico's house
Rating: TBD

Nico was getting a lot better at this whole not acting like a tool around Sasha thing. After their last encounter, when he'd been ten seconds from attempting to punch his brother's lights out, Sasha had helped him relax. She was the sort of person it was hard to be angry around.

And she was kind of distractingly good-looking. It's hard to be angry around someone like that.

He'd managed to keep conversation up for most of the evening without much effort, but now, with three minutes to midnight, he felt himself getting nervous all over again. It was tradition to kiss someone at midnight. He'd never actually done it before, but he'd seen it on TV a hundred times. With his parents downstairs, he had enough privacy with his mom and dad downstairs, but he wasn't sure if Sasha would smack him for it.

Probably not? Hopefully not?

She had kissed him on the cheek, after all! Didn't that say something? And Alfie seemed to think it did, even if he'd been on some sort of I-miss-Laney-so-I'm-cranky tirade. Maybe it wasn't so far-fetched an idea...

"So. Do you have a new year's resolution?" he asked to distract himself from his thought process.

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magneticme
2012-01-03 04:29 am UTC (link)

In between getting dressed and dodging her mother's 300 unimportant questions about tonight, it took Sasha nearly two hours to get ready for New Years Eve with Nico, and she was sure hoping to go out with a bang. She had been polite to his parents, almost seeming at ease with them despite them being adults. She wasn't as adept at talking to adults as her sister was, but she could manage just fine. About a dozen rules had already been broken tonight, most notably the one where the parents had to be around at all times. Sasha wasn't going to mention that little detail to her mother of course. The night went by smoothly still and before they knew it, the time had arrived to ring in the new year. It was a good thing Sasha had gone to freshen up about a half hour earlier. Her lipstick had been looking a bit on the dull side.

"Other than breaking my record for fastest mile from this year and getting the chance to sing for the President of the United States? Nope. Not really." She smiled at him and adjusted herself so that she was almost facing him. "What about you?" She couldn't even imagine what sort of new years resolution he would have. He was already practically perfect. And his house was so warm and inviting. She could have drifted off into her own fantasy world and dreamed a thousand dreams of living with him in this house like a princess with her prince. Some things weren't ever going to change no matter how many years went by. And Sasha's imagination was one of those things that would remain in tact forever.

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switchitup
2012-01-03 02:31 pm UTC (link)

Nico let out a soft laugh. "Those seem like pretty intense resolutions, actually." To sing for the president? He didn't even realize that Sasha could sing. Well, that wasn't entirely true. He just didn't realize she was that good. "I don't know," he began, shrugging his shoulders. He did have one, honestly, to work on his temper, but that was the same every year, and it never really seemed to work out for him. Of course, that wasn't the sort of thing you blurted out in front of a girl you wanted to kiss in... one minute. "Maybe just to have a better year than the last one."

Thirty seconds.

"I don't think it's going to be so hard to keep," he said, lips quirking up slightly for a small smile in her direction.

Fifteen. Okay. No sweaty palms. He tried to sneakily wipe them on his jeans in a nonchalant way. "10. 9. 8," he counted down along with the chorus of voices shouting on the television. Okay, not a big deal. If she smacked him, she smacked him. At least he'd tried, right? "5. 4. 3. 2. 1!" A blast of horns went off as Auld Lang Syne played loudly.

Now or freaking never. He met her gaze for a moment so at least he knew he wouldn't be catching her off guard, hesitated a moment, before his hand shifted up to cup her cheek and pressed his lips to hers.

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magneticme
2012-01-06 02:34 am UTC (link)

Those hadn't really been her resolutions. Well maybe the one about breaking her record. She knew she was no where near good enough to sing for the President though. And definitely not as talented as Annie. "That sounds like a good resolution," she replied with a grin. And hopefully she was going to help with that.

Time felt like it was suddenly speeding up. The entire night had seemed to take forever to get to this moment. And now that it was finally here, it was zooming by in the blink of an eye. She counted down right along with him. "5. 4. 3. 2. 1! HAPPY NEW YEAR!" Sasha laughed and tossed her arms up in the air happily. It was customary to hug and kiss the people around you when midnight struck. Sasha wasn't about to do anything though. She just waited for him to look at her.

Those eyes of his seemed to peer into her very soul. Sasha felt her heartbeat quicken as he hand touched her cheek. And then his lips were on her lips, warm if only a bit hesitant. Sasha had been here before, in the first kiss stage of a relationship. It was no less nerve wracking the second time around. She went with the kiss as best as she could, closing her eyes and parting her lips slightly as she kissed him. As always, she had no idea what to do with her hands. So she kept them placed gracefully on her lap.

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switchitup
2012-01-07 02:01 am UTC (link)

She was totally kissing him back. If he wasn't preoccupied with kissing her, he'd be grinning like an idiot. Her lips were soft, and she smelled good, and he would bet a million dollars she tasted good, too, but he didn't want to scare her off by pushing things. Sasha seemed like the kind of girl who took things slowly, and the last thing he wanted was that horrendously awkward moment where a girl pushes you away and makes that face.

But as he shifted a touch closer, something felt... odd. He felt tingly, and at first he thought that kissing Sasha was the cause, but no. The familiar out of body experience, feeling frozen as he watched himself kissing Sasha. And then.

Oh God. He was kissing himself.

Startled, Nico pulled back, but the wide eyes he was staring with weren't his.

"Not again," he groaned, jumping slightly as his voice came out in Sasha's higher tones.

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magneticme
2012-01-07 04:41 am UTC (link)

The kiss felt totally right. In her excitement, Sasha had forgotten all about New Years, forgotten that it was now January first and that this night was about to come to a close soon. The festivities had been had, but Sasha was sure she didn't want to leave. She wanted to stay here all night with him. It didn't matter how many rules she had already broken. She would have broken them all with him a million times over. And then...

Something changed. For a moment, she felt as if she was floating out in space, like her mind wasn't connected to her body. It was a terrifying feeling, one she had felt only once before. And when her eyes open, she gasped just as he had pulled away from her. She was looking at herself, and being a girl, she couldn't help but give herself a once over just to make sure she looked all right. No one wanted to be in a situation like this and look a fright!

Aww, my dress is so cute, she thought momentarily before shaking herself out of it.

"Holy cow." And of course, her voice was deeper than her normal voice. "What-- What do we do?"

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switchitup
2012-01-07 05:28 am UTC (link)

"I don't know." He jumped again at his voice. He was never going to get used to that. His mouth opened to suggest the completely innocent notion of kissing each other until things went back to normal, but he closed it for fear of her reaction. Er. His reaction. Her reaction in him. Whatever.

"Last time it didn't go back for a while, but it was always more than one person." He hesitated. It was seriously bizarre to look at yourself, especially with a girl's mannerisms. He didn't sit like that. He was sure she was seeing the same thing, too. Sasha's body probably wasn't used to his boyish slouching. He shifted uncomfortably in the dress. How did girls wear this stuff? It was so tight. He felt like he was being sucked in on all sides.

"You know, now that I think about it, this is the first time it's just been me and you, which means..." He grinned, or rather Sasha's body did. "I can DO something. This is totally my thing, you know, like your magnets!" How weird was it that he was openly discussing his ~~girlfriend's~~ friend's magnetic properties and his own abilities to swap bodies. "And... now that I think about it. If I can still do your magnetic stuff in your body. That means... it's your job. To switch us back, I mean."

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magneticme
2012-01-07 06:19 am UTC (link)

Sasha tried tucking some of her hair behind her ear, something she did when she was nervous or unsure of what to do. Obviously, that didn't work out very well since his hair was too short and kept sliding back into her eyes. He really needed a haircut. And maybe it was her imagination, but Nico not only looked and sounded like her, but it almost seemed as if he was talking a lot more, which was something she tended to do. On the other hand, Sasha wasn't feeling very talkative. Her voice was difficult to control and everything just felt way too big.

"Me?" She bit her lip and thought about what that could mean. "How do I do that?" She did feel glad that he finally felt like he had something special like most of the other kids did, but at the moment, she was sort of freaking out about what to do. She waved her hands in front of her face, seeing if maybe by attempting to perform a magic trick, she could make everything right again. "I mean, I forgot how it happened last time. How I fixed it, I mean."

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switchitup
2012-01-07 03:33 pm UTC (link)

Nico tilted his head slightly as he watched Sasha's mannerisms in his own body. Huh. Maybe his mom was right and really did need to get a haircut.

"Well, the first time it happened, I was really angry. This time it happened when I kissed you, so I guess something kind of..." He was not about to use the word emotional. He'd be digging a grave for his manliness. "Big has to happen? Maybe we should get you to be mad or something." Not exactly appealing. "Or excited?"

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magneticme
2012-01-13 10:17 pm UTC (link)

Sasha raised an eyebrow and studied Nico's.... er... her own face curiously. She shook her head just thinking on what, if anything, could possibly make her angry enough that she would grow really upset. She supposed talking bad about her father or her family, but she doubted Nico would do something like that. There was very little that would upset Sasha enough for her to be angry. It just had to be the excited thing.

"Maybe if we kiss again?" She bit her lip, startling even herself at the question. It was beyond weird thinking of kissing herself, not at all sexy. Was this the way Nico saw her? She closed her eyes though and pretended to be kissing him over and over again in her head. Slowly, a small smile appeared on her lips. "I think I've got it," she said, shifting awkwardly in her seat. And when she glanced down... "Oh goooooosh.... I've got it all right."

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switchitup
2012-01-14 03:16 am UTC (link)

Nico eyed her warily as she closed her eyes. He wasn't sure if she was trying to think about a happy memory or something to make her angry, but he had a feeling that he didn't want to see Sasha pissed off any time soon.

"Uh. So I should kiss you again?" he asked, jumping yet again as Sasha's voice came out of his mouth. He was never going to get used to this whole thing.

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magneticme
2012-01-16 02:39 am UTC (link)

Sasha peeked with one eye and saw herself sitting across from her there. It was insanely creepy. She never thought she'd miss her body this much. It was usually getting in her way. Her crazy power, her wavy hair, her one toe that was unusually bigger than the other. It was all so annoying up until it wasn't hers anymore. What sort of insecurities did Nico have about his body? Psh. Probably none cause he's perfect.

Sasha nodded at him and closed her eyes again. She pictured Nico in her head, shirtless perhaps. Had she ever seen him shirtless? Well, that didn't matter. She'd seen New Moon. Taylor Lautner shirtless would just have to do for the moment. Or there was also Julius, whom she was sure had been to a pool party once or twice while they were dating. But he'd been like 12 then. Whatever. "Let's do it," she said in his voice and sort of waited for him to kiss her again.

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switchitup
2012-01-17 01:01 am UTC (link)

Nico didn't acknowledge insecurities, but they were there. At the moment, however, he was too focused on the fact that he was looking back at himself and that he was going to have to kiss himself, which was akin to kissing another guy, which just didn't feel... right.

Hopefully if he closed his eyes, he could pretend things were reversed. Biting back a grimace, he shifted forward, closed his eyes, and kissed her.

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magneticme
2012-01-24 12:47 am UTC (link)

Sasha focused on returning to her regular body. She found herself lost in his kiss as her arms wrapped around his neck, fingers getting lost in (her own) curly brown hair. She tried not to think about how weird it was that she was kissing herself but remembered she was actually kissing him no matter how he looked. It happened faster than she had intended it to. One moment, she was kissing what looked to be her own lips, and the next, she was reaching up to find thin short locks of blond hair.

When she opened her eyes, she was looking back at Nico again. A sigh of relief escaped her lips as she pulled him in for a hug. "Oh thank God, it worked. I was so worried it wasn't going to work."

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switchitup
2012-01-24 01:28 am UTC (link)

This was so weird. It was so freaking weird that Nico was doing everything in his power not to think about how weird it was- a failed attempt, might I add. Was this what gay guys felt like? His lips didn't feel as nice as Sasha's. And. He smelled different, too. Or something. He didn't like it.

Well, at least his supreme awkwardness with the situation reaffirmed that he was, in fact, heterosexual.

And then, slowly, Nico felt himself slipping out of Sasha's ~~voluptuous~~ body and back into his own. That was better. His hands were in long, soft hair, full, soft lips were on his. Fingertips brushed the skin of her neck. All too soon, though, she was pulling back from him, and while a hug was nice, it was a definite downgrade.

"Yeah, me too," he answered with a weak laugh. "Sorry. About the whole... switcheroo. I apparently have no control over it... at all."

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magneticme
2012-01-30 02:36 am UTC (link)

"It's okay," Sasha replied once she was sure all her body parts were her own. She smiled at him and just fixed his hair absently. It wasn't messy at all. She just felt a connection with his body now that she hadn't felt before. Perhaps it was because last time this had happened they hadn't been quite so intimate with each other right before, even if it was just a kiss.

"Maybe you can try and practice it," she suggested. "Like with me. If you want sometime... I'm sure all you have to do is concentrate like how I do with magnets." She felt the need to show off how much she had improved with her power but at the same time didn't think it was a good idea considering what had just gone down between them. Besides, all she really wanted to do was spend the first few hours of the new year locking lips with him.

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