Peace

You stop looking for the garbage bag and just stand there thinking about if you really want to do this. After all if you did it would pretty much be picking a fight with someone who can take full control of your body and you have no idea when or how long for. Eventually your head drops in defeat and you dejectedly sulk back to your room to plan how your going to try and make peace with your alter ego.

You sit back down on the edge of your bed and end up face to face with your mirror image again causing you to become more depressed, you're still wearing what you where when you went shopping and your face is still fully made up. You can't stand looking at it anymore so you roll over onto your side looking away from the mirror while you think. Is there really nothing you can do to stop this? if only you knew the trigger you could at least try to defend yourself from it but until you figure it out you are completely defenceless but there must be something you can do for now. If only you could talk to your girl side and ask to let them know you don't want to fight and to set some rules for each other. Then you realise that's exactly what you need to do, even though you can't speak with them directly there is nothing stopping you from writing them a note and trying to get them to understand. So you grab some paper and a pen and start writing.

'Hi.... me? I don't really know what else to call you so I'll go with that for now. I'm not sure how to say this so I'll try to just get to the point, I don't want to be constantly afraid of what you'll do with my body and I don't want to fight over what you do but I feel like we could both use some rules to make sure we don't get on each others bad side. I'll make mine now and when you see this feel free to say what you think and add any you'd like and we can work out something of a compromise.' You feel like that's a good start, obviously you aren't going to let the girly you go crazy with what they can set as rules but if you just demand they do what you say there is no way they would agree to the rules in the first place so you'll have to make some compromises for the summer so minimise the risk.

'Ok so my rules are:

1. No more spending my money without asking through these notes first, I know you are technically me but I'm the one who earned all that so you can't waste it however you want.
2. Dress conservatively when outside, this means no skirts, dresses or super short shorts. It also means no make up and we are getting a hair cut, if your inside the house I don't mind what you wear but I don't want to wake up somewhere I don't know looking like a man in a dress.
3. Only put anything on that I can easily take off when I take over, this means no more fake nails, hair extensions, difficult to remove makeup and definitely no using that glue on those fake boobs

That should cover most things I can think of at the moment but these rules can also be added to if I find anything else that happens to be going to far, just like you'll also be able to add and change your rules. Once again this Isn't supposed to be me picking a fight I'm just setting out how I want things to be so that we have a starting point for our compromise so please help get these sorted before doing anything else. '

There that should cover everything for now, at least it should stop you from finding the rest of your savings being spent the next time you wake up as long as 'you' follow the rules. You leave the note on your desk and hope 'you' will notice it.

Now you've got that sorted you feel a lot better and finally realise that you've been sitting doing this while still looking like a girl, so you get up and start by getting changed into some normal clothes then looking for whatever you need to remove all this makeup. It takes almost an hour for you to find what you need to remove the make up and follow some online guides, you decide it's best to put all of these things in an easy to find place and then you notice it's time for dinner. You head down stairs and can see the disappointment on your sisters face at the face you've changed back to normal but that's not your problem. "I thought you weren't going to start a fight, how come you've changed" she whines. "I'm not going to fight I've decided we'll make some rules so that I can live normally now I just need to wait until next time I swap so that I can see how 'I' respond, actually could you trigger me after we eat so I can get this sorted tonight, I don't want to spend a week of not knowing how I'll wake up while I sort this out." you decide to ask not really expecting your sister to help since she doesn't get anything out of making things easier for you but she surprises you. "Fine but I'm not bringing you back so you'll have to wait for that to happen naturally" she said, you should have expected something like that but in the end decide it's worth it to get these rules in place and agree to her terms. You finish eating and brace your self for what response 'you' might give.