My mom wasn’t surprised that I had changed to being a girl. After all the information between Goahirians and Saclaurilians. She was confused for a while, but it took a lot of convincing that she was on a different planet. She was still confused why I looked like Mikayla. No one knew the reason. Not even Jane.

But, now that we are a family again, we plan on having a barbecue. On Terra, we would go to a restaurant, which is usually fast-food. Saclaurilia doesn’t have any restaurants like McDonald’s, Burger King or The Banana Peel (The name Subway chose when they merged with Banana Republic). I believe it’s because we eat healthier here. In fact, there are no restaurants. If we eat out, it usually means a barbecue or at a friend's house.

My dad invited a few neighbors over. I invited the whole Graviball team, and even Brianna. I guess Mikayla invited a friend. I’m not sure who. I usually don’t like seeing animals on the barbecue, but today I was okay with it, because those Fraggles smell excellent roasting over an open fire.

Another good thing about this barbecue is its beginning to get cold out, and with a fire going, it helps us keep warm. I even suggested making S'mores. The upsetting thing was it wasn’t that easy explaining S'mores, when there aren't marshmallows on this planet.

I keep forgetting that this is a healthy planet. Marshmallows are considered junk food. As for chocolate, I gave up explaining that after the marshmallow incident.

I watched the pig... I mean Fraggle cook. None of my friends were here yet. What else could I do? I wasn’t going to be a couch potato and watch TV all day. I heard the Fraggles came from Wendy’s farm. That's when I thought of it. Did anyone invite her? I ran to the phone. I was about to call her, but stopped. What’s her phone number? In fact, what’s her last name? I can’t call her if I don’t have her last name. I can’t look it up. Bummed out, I stepped back outside and continued watching the food cook.

The first guest arrived. It was one of our neighbors. They introduced themselves as the Flandersons. They seem pleasant. I kept watching the Fraggles, but not for long. On the corner of my eye, I saw someone that made my heart pound.

The Flandersons have a child. Not just any child, a boy. I couldn’t keep my eyes off him. This was weird for me. I never had a crush on a boy before, only girls. Especially since I was originally a boy. He had gorgeous semi-short, light blonde hair, and his eyes were like light blue. He looked to be about my age.

He noticed me staring and came over to me. When he saw me staring, I looked away. I guess I am a bit shy. I have never been shy before.

“Hi,” he chirped. I looked at him again and then started blushing. I turned away. “Don’t be shy. My name is Cory. I just moved here.” I can’t believe it. That was my name. I looked at him, with my mouth open. “Did I say something wrong?” He looked worried.

I looked into his eyes again. He has the most gorgeous eyes I have ever seen.
“My names...” I began. “...Courtney. I was too shy. Why am I acting this way? It was embarrassing me. Mikayla came skipping along. She spotted me with Cory and skipped over.

“Hello,” she spoke quickly. “My names Mikayla. I see you are with my sister, Courtney. I could say she’s my twin sister. But she never was my twin sister before.... Long story. It all started when we lived on the planet Terra. By the way, I never saw you before at school. Are you new? What’s your name?”

“My names Cory,” he answered with a smile. “Nice to meet you.”

“Oh my God! That was Courtney’s name before she changed into a girl.”

“Mikayla!” I grumbled.

“You were a boy?” Cory asked, looking at me again.

“Um...” I started to cry.

"Did you go through surgery to get... your penis removed?"

“No, I didn’t," I cried, "I was forced to change my gender.” I had tears in my eyes now.

“Forced? How could you be forced?” He let go and looked into my crying eyes.

I was half Saclaurilians, half Goahirian. The only way to remove the Goahirian gene was to physically change into a girl.”

“I see." He looked down at my body. "So you have everything a girl has? That is cool." He looked back up at me eyes. "But hey, you turned into a beautiful young lady.”

I looked at my sister. She was watching us. Playing with a flower as well. “Yeah, well my looks came from my sister, when she touched me. I got the genes from her. So I guess, I am the exact copy of her in a way.” Mikayla smiled when I talked about her. I can tell she loved the attention.

I was about to continue talking, but just then, my friend Brianna came over with her parents. I had to go see her.

"I... gotta go," I stuttered. I ran off to meet Brianna. Mikayla stayed and chatted with Cory.

“So this is your house?” Brianna said gazing at it.

“Yeah, it was built two weeks ago,” I stated. I can’t believe it's only been about two weeks since we left Terra. Mom only got here yesterday. It’s a bit confusing. I wonder what the date is on Terra? As much as I know, only a few days have passed there. That still confused me. I still think we are in a different dimension or something. And I still think The Doctor from Doctor Who will show up sometime with a blue box. If it does show up, I am out of here.

The rest of the guests showed up within the hour. Brianna, Cory and I played together. I was still too shy with Cory. I would keep stuttering when I talked to him. Brianna said I had a crush. I knew I did, but I didn’t want to believe it.

Mikayla was with the Graviball team I invited. I would have played with them, but was not in the mood. I did feel sorry that I didn’t want to play. They didn’t mind. In fact, they anticipated Mikayla invited them. We do sound the same over the phone, and I didn’t mention my name when I called.

To my surprise. Wendy came to the barbecue. That made me happy. I guess she was invited when dad bought the Fraggles from her. Why didn’t I think of that?

Talking about the Fraggles, they were finished and we were all sitting down to eat. Cory Sat down next to me. That made me blush some more. I have to stop blushing when I see him. It’s a dead give away that I like him.

There were many people here. Or whatever they call themselves. I wondered if this was going to be the same as Thanksgiving on Terra? Wait, there is no Thanksgiving on this planet? Unless this is Thanksgiving, and I didn’t know it.

I had to find out. “Dad?”

“Yes, sweetie?” He answered.

“When we were on Earth... Err... I mean Terra, we had Thanksgiving. Is this like Thanksgiving on Saclaurilia?”

“In a way, it is?” He announced. “But we don’t call it Thanksgiving here. It’s The Great Harvest Festival. Every city has one. We were the lucky ones to have it at our house this year.

“Why is it so early?” I asked. “Isn’t it supposed to be in November?”

“Only in the United States. In Canada, it’s in October, and other harvests can be different, wherever they are. On this planet, the harvest comes in Onrich. That is this month on Saclaurilia.”

I keep forgetting, our months are different than on Terra.
Juna, Phrane, Milnisium, Apoach, Milneen, Jolnick, Johop, Alfrane, Solice, Onrich, Nuvent and Daphrane.

“Oh,” I acknowledged. “Thanks dad.” I sat down at the table next to my food, and... of course... Cory. I sighed. He is so dreamy. I slap myself. Stop thinking about him, in that way. But he’s so cute.

“Kiss him already!” Brianna blurted.

“I...”Cory stared at me. I gazed at him. I blushed. Without even giving in, he gave me a kiss.
I accepted it.