Tim and Gene were best friends entering their senior year of high school. For their humanities elective there was an assignment to watch My Fair Lady over the summer, and then read the source material Pygmalion in class. Both boys watched it separately, and groaned over how the movie dragged on and on over English class stereotypes that were outdated within a decade of the movie's release.
It was the first day of school, and the two boys caught each other just outside the front entrance ten minutes before their homeroom.
"Duuude," Tim initiated a firm handshake, "long time no see."
"Likewise, my man," Gene reciprocated and went in with a side hug.
"So how about that movie?" Tim chuckled as Gene groaned.
"It was so long, bro," Gene turned around to talk to Tim as they both went through the metal detector line, "and so stuffy!"
"What a weird bet, too," Tim followed Gene through the metal detector, "turning someone into someone else."
"Yeah..." Gene pondered as the boys got in their homeroom to find it was empty and sat down at a table near the back of the room.
"Hey Tim," Gene continued, "wanna make a bet like that?"
"Like what?" Tim asked.
Gene giggled as he made his proposal, "I bet you can't take the first girl who walks in here, and turn her into a nudist!"
"Bro!" Tim recoiled in shock, "I can't even get a girlfriend, how am I going to make a girl get naked for me, let alone the whole world?"
"I don't know, dingus," Gene scoffed in smugness as he considered his near certain victory and the near certainty that Tim would back out at the end, "but the loser has to get the winner laid in college orientation," Gene offered his hand.
Tim smirked slyly at the prospect as he said "deal," and shook Gene's hand.
Gene watched the homeroom door like a vulture, while Tim watched it like a hawk. Both were intensely invested in who the next girl would be to walk out and become the new school nudist with Tim's guidance.
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