The Other Side of the Mask

"I must be dreaming," I mutter under my breath.

"You're not," a familiar voice fills the air.

"I am," I respond unconsciously.

He flicks my forehead and startled, I become wide away.

A handsome smile appears before me and tears start to well up.

"Don't cry," XiaoLong whispers as he wipes away my tears.

A sudden wave of tears start to flow and XiaoLong gives me a hug. A puddle starts to flow onto the ground, and I finally stop. XiaoLong comforts me while drenched.

After my tears stop, awkward silence fills the air.

"..."

"..."

"We need to get you a disguise," I mutter.

"Sure," he complies.

I clean myself and shower, then heading out to the new uniforms section. XiaoLong takes refuge in my room and showers while I go get his disguise.

I walk down the familiar hallway into the staff room. I sneak in and look at the uniforms. Girls uniform, girls uniform, girls uniform… girls uniform. Wait… where are the guys' uniforms?

1474 finds me, "Hello! What are you doing? Did you ruin your uniform again?" she teases.

Great timing!

"Hey, uh no… um where are the guy uniforms?"

She looks at me with a strange are-you-kidding-me expression, "2745, are you ok? Do you have a fever? Do you have amnesia? Everyone knows that all the guys work as pirates!"

… what? I glance around the room and finally realize that everyone is a girl. There are short haired girls and long hair girls, some are actually quite strong, carrying cartons of paperwork.

I never noticed since I didn't pay much attention…

"By the way, what's with that makeup?" 1474 asks me.

"Oh, uh I love putting on makeup so like, yeah," I hint a little sassily.

"Ok then…" she shrugs her shoulders.

I then grab a girls uniform and hurry off.

I slam the door to my room open and walk over to XiaoLong who is sitting on the bed, shirtless. I immediately close the door after me, luckily, no one is around.

"Why. the. Heck. are. You. shirtless."

"Well, all my clothes are wet so I could only use the towels and yeah…"

I look away and throw the uniform onto the bed.

"Put it on," I demanded.

He looks at me shocked, "You're joking right?"

"You'll have to crossdress for the time being because only girls work in this faculty."

He looks at the uniform and then begrudgingly takes it.

I turn away and start to redo the caked makeup.

"Why are you wearing that?"

"Because the identity of the person I stole loves to wear this overbearing makeup," I reply, annoyed at that woman.

"Which identity should I steal?"

"I dunno, maybe 2233. She doesn't talk a lot and also has long black hair."

"I'm done," he announces.

I turn over to see XiaoLong, "Pff… Pfftt… PFFBWAHAHa…"