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after all those vaccinations we had when we first got these bodies!”
    When they first got these bodies? Oh, man! What do they really look like? Maybe they have six eyes and two heads and eight long arms! I shuddered at the thought of them in their true form.
    â€œIf you caught anything at school, it was a bad attitude! We should never have let you do this week! Except I couldn’t have taken that math test.”
    So both Chads did go to school? And nobody noticed the difference? Wow. I still couldn’t figure out why there were two of them. But it’s not like I could ask Chad-Two!
    â€œAnd your observations are better,” Chad-Two continued. “But now I know why. You like those horrible, slimy humans! And to tell you the truth, it’s beginning to give me the creeps!”
    I was giving him the creeps?
    â€œYou have to stop hanging around with humans.” Chad-Two went on lecturing. “One of them might find out the truth! And you know what will happen to you if you let one of the humans get too close. We won’t have any choice.” Chad-Two’s voice lowered ominously. “You know what we’ll have to do with you— mind tailoring.”

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    M ind tailoring? Oh, man! What was that? It sure didn’t sound like anything good!
    And mind-tailoring was something they did to each other for just getting close to a human.
    â€œYou remember Zoink from back home?” Chad-Two asked. “Well, after he explored the Quarex galaxy, they mind tailored him—and now he has no memories. No brain at all. He just sits in his pod with that blank look on his face. You don’t want to end up like Zoink, do you, Chad-One?”
    I gulped. “No. I don’t.”
    â€œGood,” Chad-Two said. “Then remember that story the next time you feel like hanging out with those slimy humans.”
    I couldn’t believe it. If the aliens did things like this to each other, they were sure to do horrible things to me if they discovered what I really was.
    My heart started pounding in my ears.
    I had to get out of this house!
    But I didn’t even know how to get off the ceiling!
    I had a terrible thought. What if they already knew I was human? They lured me into hanging upside-down. I’m trapped. Now they could do anything they wanted to me!
    â€œI’m watching you,” Chad-Two warned. “You’d better clean up your act soon! Shut your door and go to sleep.”
    Even if I could get down off the ceiling, I couldn’t sneak out now. Chad-Two was still awake. If he caught me trying to sneak out, I’d be mind tailored for sure. I had to pretend I was going to sleep.
    But first I had to figure out how to get my door shut. I stared at the three touch pads near my hand. One of them was green, like the other door controls I’d used before. On a hunch, I touched it.
    Bingo. The door to the closet whooshed shut and disappeared.
    I was in total darkness, hanging upside down from the ceiling like a trapped fly.
    In a house full of aliens!
    Great. Just what I had in mind for the weekend.
    The darkness wasn’t quite total. The three touch pads glowed.
    My Chad act was probably still working. Since I followed Chad-Two’s orders, maybe now he’d leave me alone.
    I couldn’t imagine falling asleep with so much on my mind, and I wanted to stay awake and figure out what to do next. But a weird fizzing started in my head, and I conked out.
    *   *   *
    My eyes popped open. Why is it still dark? I reached for my alarm clock to see what time it was.
    I noticed three floating bubbles of color off to my right. What are those things? I wondered.
    Then I realized I was hanging upside-down from the ceiling. That really didn’t seem right!
    In a heart-sickening rush, it all came back to me.
    I wasn’t Will. I was in Chad’s body.
    Only there were two Chads.
    I was hanging upside down in a house full of aliens with sitcom