Every Day Page #4

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Yeah, for an hour.

And I have to have

50 new facts

memorized by the time

she picks me up.

Okay, so let's get you

some facts.

It can wait.

Tell me about your day.

It was just a day.

I was thinking about you.

You were?

Jeez.

You were?

Yeah, well, I mean,

what was it like

when you were younger,

being you?

Best I could tell,

I was born somewhere

in Phoenix, maybe.

But the family I was with,

this one day,

they flew to Detroit

for a wedding.

And I bounced around Michigan

for a while.

You couldn't

get back to Arizona?

No. Like I told you,

I can't choose

who I wake up in.

Right.

But I meant,

what was it like for you?

Well...

I didn't figure out I was

different from other people

until I was six or so.

What tipped me off

was the way people would

talk about tomorrow.

The things we'd do,

the places we'd go.

Tomorrow.

As though

we'd all be together.

Which I knew we wouldn't.

But anytime

I tried to say that,

the people,

they wouldn't understand.

They'd think it was

a joke or a game.

Or else they'd get worried.

After a while,

I just realized my tomorrows

are very different

from everyone else's.

And you never

found anyone else like you?

No.

I mean, I search online,

message boards

people talking about

being taken over.

There's a subreddit

that's interesting.

Should we get you some facts?

- Yeah. Yeah.

- Okay.

47, chicken.

Chicken gestates for 22 days.

48, goat.

Goat gestates

for 136 to 160 days.

49, groundhog.

Groundhog gestates

for 31 to 32 days.

50, kangaroo.

Kangaroo gestates

for 32 to 39 days.

Wow. These are great.

They're really gonna

unsettle his mom.

So, how'd I do?

I don't know, I didn't check.

You didn't check?

I think I did all right.

I think so, too.

Where's my reward?

George!

What kind of a whore...

- She really does talk slow.

- Yeah.

- ...seduces my son?

- Hey, just run.

- Are you sure?

- Yeah, run!

Rhi, 6:
30.

Holy sh*t!

What is it?

Nothing.

I will be cool about this.

I promise.

Nick, it's Walmart,

not the Yukon.

I can't. Please?

Hey.

Everything okay?

Yeah. Just,

have a good day at work.

Hey, wait.

Come here.

I need to go to DC on Sunday

with my team for a pitch.

We could squeeze in

a little sightseeing,

little shopping,

if you wanna come?

I wanna come.

Good.

Okay, have a good day.

I love you.

Be cool, be cool, be cool.

I'm sorry!

I didn't mean to look.

Dude, were you gonna wake

me up? We're gonna be late.

Sorry.

What the sh*t are you doing?

Siri, set an alarm

for 11:
00 p.m.

Your makeup looks different.

It's good.

Breakfast?

Oh, my God!

I'm sorry,

I completely forgot.

It's okay, I hate that sh*t.

Everything okay with you?

You just look

really pretty today.

So do your balls.

All right,

keep your panties on.

Hey.

You're lookin' sexy today.

Oh.

I mean, more than usual.

Well, thanks.

Thank you for lookin' so sexy.

So...

Do you wanna get out of here,

and go back to my place?

Maybe not today.

I thought you like

when we do that.

You have no idea

what I like, do you?

Excuse me?

I like leaving with you

if you're going to give me

a special day.

If you're going

to give me a day

of fooling around

in your gross room

watching you play video games,

and maybe getting

McDonald's for lunch

that does not qualify

as special.

Qualifies as awesome, though.

No, it doesn't.

We've had one awesome day

in months.

I'm sick of hearing

about this day!

Is that because

you don't remember it,

because you weren't

really there?

Do me a favor

and don't talk to me

again today.

Are you on

your period already?

It's been, like,

a week and a half.

Congratulations,

you're not a father!

I'm sorry.

I lost control.

Please, please don't be

mad at me tomorrow.

Everything okay?

Mmm-hmm.

Thanks.

Dad, why do you paint?

You never ask about my work.

Uh...

I think when I started

doing insurance

and gave up on painting,

that maybe I bottled up things

that I shouldn't have.

All those years, doing

something that wasn't me.

Took its toll?

Yeah.

So why faces?

I suppose it's like

"Write what you know."

Paint what you see.

In my mind's eye...

This is what I see.

Some face of someone

I don't know.

They're just there.

I wanna give 'em

the space to exist, live...

Be.

I could use a fresh face.

Wanna sit for me?

Yeah.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

Okay.

So I was you yesterday.

And I tried to leave you

every memory.

I tried to change things

for you as little as possible.

Although, I did do

a week of your homework.

And I'm amazing at homework.

No need to thank me.

Okay, fine, you're welcome.

I need you to know that

I didn't choose to be you.

I wouldn't choose that,

even if I could.

And in all of my years

I've never woken up

in the body

of someone I care

so much about.

It was the best

and most terrifying day

of my life so far.

You are the only reason why.

Yours, A.

Hey.

Hey, babe,

what are you doing here?

I think we need

to take a break.

But this stuff between us

is great, our connection.

It's really not.

You don't see me.

I can see you.

You have no idea who I am.

Have a nice life.

Hey.

Are you kidding?

I woke up feeling clearer than

I ever have in my entire life.

Where are you today?

I wanna see you.

What?

Nothing.

What?

Your hand feels different.

Yours feels the same.

Thanks for not breaking up

with Justin.

Honestly, it was not easy.

My uncle's

in California right now.

He barely uses

this place, anyway.

But I have to be home

by Sunday afternoon

to hang with my mom.

Oh, yeah. Right.

So this is our weekend?

This is our weekend.

Was that just because

I look like this?

It's because you're you.

And ten percent

because you look like that.

So, you actually

remember everything?

Well, it was like

I went to bed Thursday

and woke up today

wearing a really strange bra,

thank you very much.

But with all these memories,

somehow, with you in them.

That must be really weird.

No, it's amazing.

A, I think you should let

people remember you.

I think you should leave

more memories behind

for more people

and make more of a mark.

You're such a bright,

beautiful, kind, funny...

Thing.

Person.

You're not freaked out anymore

that the first time

that we met,

I let you kiss me, and tell me

all this personal stuff

without knowing that...

That I was there?

Well, you must kiss

a lot of people.

And hear a lot

of personal stuff.

Yeah, I...

I've been a lot of boyfriends

and a lot of girlfriends.

How does that not sound

terrible to you?

A, it sounds incredible.

So why midnight?

As far as I can tell,

I get 24 hours in each house.

After that, I get pushed out.

"Pushed out"?

By the person

whose place I'm taking.

When they return,

I don't know,

it's just what it feels like.

What happens

when you push back?

I don't. When it's time

to go, it's not my body.

Look, we just

haven't gotten that far

in AP paranormal biology, yet.

But I think it's being covered

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