Twins Switch (part 2)

Four days after the body swap.

 -"Tonight is going to be a great night" *grin*

 -"What do you mean?"

 -Have you forgotten? Tonight I am invited to Sarah's pajama party! It will be really fun eheheh!"

 -"What?! I remember ordering you to warn Sarah that I couldn't go!"

 -"And in fact YOU won't go. I will go. And I will spend an evening and night locked in a room with 5 beautiful girls, discovering their secrets and what they like!"

 -"You... pervert! How dare you! Do you want to violate the privacy of my best friends?! It's a girls' night!"

 -"And I AM a girl. At least for the moment. Eheheh"

 -"You're disgusting."

 -"Oh, come on little sister! It's a unique opportunity! Probably in a few days we will be happily back in our bodies. I want to take advantage of this unpleasant experience to get at least a good memory or two."

 -"And to do this you have to take advantage of the good faith of 5 innocent girls, who will be spied on by a boy and who will reveal secrets to who they believe is their friend, but he isn't?"

 -"Well... I guess so. It's a unique opportunity, sorry. *grin*

 -"As soon as we return to our bodies I will make you pay."

 -"You're always so hysterical, little sister... Relax and have some new and unique experiences while you can. And let me have some fun!"

 -"I'd have mom and dad ground you... but we can't tell them the truth. They would think we are crazy, or they would worry themselves sick. But I'm sure that Karma will punish you!"

-"Oh, sure, little sister. You're really annoying."

The ethereal being watched them. And in judging Dylan it felt angry.

Twins Switch (part 1)

 -"Wait, Emily? Is that you? Is that you in my body?"

 -"Dylan? What's happening?!"

 -"I have no idea, I just woke up in your room... and in your body!"

 -"I just woke up too, hearing a female scream. It was you, right?"

 -"Of course it was me! I looked in the mirror and saw the image of my twin sister!"

 -"Do you have any idea what could have caused this tragedy? Or how we can get back to our bodies?"

 -No, I don't know- wait, maybe... Last night before going to sleep I was thinking about my difficulties in getting close to Tiffany and getting her to notice me. I looked at the sky outside the window and wished I could understand girls better. Do you think it could have something to do with it? I certainly didn't want to find myself in my sister's body so I could understand girls!"

 -"I have no idea... maybe. We don't have any options that make more sense than this. It's like those body-swap comedies."

 -"And in those comedies after a few days everything goes back to how it was before!"

 -"Yes, we can only hope that this is the case. In the meantime, let's try not to ruin our lives."

 -"How could I ruin your life? I'm not that bad."

 -"For example acting like YOU while you are ME. I'm not ultra feminine, but I act 100% like a girl. I don't want people to suddenly see me acting like a boy. You have to be careful how you talk, how you move , how you walk. Don't embarrass me and don't do anything that makes me feel ashamed!"

 -"Same goes for you, little sister. I don't want people to suddenly see me acting like a sissy. Act like I usually do."

 -"Eww."

 -"What?"

 -"Being in your body and acting like you. It makes me sick just thinking about it."

 -"The same goes for me, trust me. Let's hope that in a few days it will all be just a bad memory."

Invisible to the eyes of the two 18-year-old twins, the ethereal being who had listened to Dylan's wish and caused the body swap was watching them. Judging them.

The Tulip Lady

Here I am, holding the thousandth tulip in my hand. Or the ten thousandth. Or the one hundred thousandth. I don't count them anymore. Everyone calls me the Tulip Lady, but until a few years ago I would never have imagined in my worst nightmare that I would have this nickname. In fact the 25 year old girl you see was a 20 year old boy 5 years ago. I was the heir to my family and our marquisate. While now here I am receiving a tulip from my future husband, imposed by my family.

It all started one evening 5 years ago. I had just returned from a hunting trip, and I found a beautiful tulip on the doorknob of my room. I thought it was a gift from some charming maid in the house who had fallen in love with me. "Poor deluded girl", I thought, "but it's a sweet gesture, and if she's nice I could make her happy for a night...". But while I was thinking about which maid could be my "secret admirer", I smelled the beautiful tulip and immediately felt a burning sensation and strong tingling sensations throughout my body. The tulip instantly turned to ash, terrifying me further. “Did I just get poisoned?” I thought, and ran in confusion towards my parents' nearby room. As soon as I entered I found my father and mother there, but I didn't have time to say anything. Immediately the burning and tingling became more intense, and my body changed under the terrified, shocked and worried eyes of my parents. In just 10 seconds I became a girl. I was apparently the same age as before, but every fiber of my body had become feminine. As soon as I recovered from the shock, I explained what had happened to my parents. My father went to investigate among the servants if anyone knew anything about a tulip on my door, while I remained with my mother crying. I don't even remember the last time I cried before that day. It happens to me often in recent years. My father returned after an hour and told us that no one knew anything. For the moment I would have to pretend to be a normal girl so as not to attract dangerous attention and accusations of witchcraft. My father called my older sister (22) and my younger brother (18) into the room and told them what had happened, while I was unable to look them in the eyes out of shame. I could sense their shocked expressions. We decided together that for the moment we would tell that "I" had suddenly left to study in France, while a "cousin of mine" from Ireland had come to live with my parents. It was very humiliating to have to publicly pass myself off as a girl, but we had no choice. My family and I investigated for months, without attracting attention, to understand what had happened and how to transform me again, but without success.

For two weeks my mother and sister taught me everything they could about being a girl and a female member of a noble family. It was terrible, but necessary. I was paranoid for months, thinking about who could be the culprit of my curse, who could have placed that enchanted tulip on my door. Another young noble from the area envious of my successes? A furious maid for some unappreciated comment of mine? My sister, to not be the only daughter and have a sister to "have fun" doing girly things with? My brother, to become our father's heir and become Marquis one day? I don't know, and maybe I will never know. And over time I accepted it. After a couple of years I stopped asking myself these questions. Everyone always treated me well and family members who knew my identity showed tact and empathy. But obviously they increasingly treated me like a girl, a daughter, a sister. And almost every activity I loved was no longer possible, from hunting to courting the beautiful girls in town. Over time I accepted this too, despite suffering a lot in the first few months.

Since the day of my transformation I have become obsessed with tulips, hoping to find another one that can transform me again. Walking down the street I always stopped to smell the tulips in every vase and at every florist. At every ball and public event I went first to smell the decorative tulips. In a few months the rumor spread that the beautiful and charming niece of the Marquis adored tulips, and numerous suitors began to continually give them to me. And I continued to smell them one by one, always, hopefully. After a year everyone in town started calling me the Tulip Lady.

After 4 years my father explained to me that he was patient, understanding the tough situation I was in, but that it was time to find me a husband. We argued for a long time, I was desperate, but in the end I gave up. In fact I was now a 24 year old woman from an important family, it was really strange not to be married. So I started meeting possible matches from noble families in the area. And after a few months I met a better man than the others, a 26-year-old nephew of a count, funny, kind and willing to provide me with much more freedom than the classic wives of the 17th century. He immediately fell in love with me, while I... I still can't fall in love with a man, still feeling like a man inside myself, but I started to care for him. He's a good man, and I'm willing to spend my life with him if I don't find a solution to my "condition". When he asked for my hand in marriage, I said yes. I cried, feeling another part of the old me fade away, but to him they seemed like tears of joy.

In a week I will be married, I will be a wife, and probably within a short time a mother. My destiny as a young Marquis will be just a distant memory. And I won't be able to do anything but smell every tulip I see, as long as I have the strength to try. Reinforcing my reputation as the "Tulip Lady". Ironic. A tulip stole the life I loved. Everyone calls me Tulip Lady, I'm always looking for tulips, but I really, really hate tulips with all my heart. Really ironic.

No carbs

 -Friend: "If you keep looking at me like that I won't be able to eat. I already asked you, do you want some pizza?"

 -"No, no, I can't. Just tell me how it tastes. Please."

 -"Oh, come on, you're almost drooling. A slice of pizza won't hurt you."

 -"No, Akiko and her mother were clear. As long as I'm in her body, no carbs."

 -"And why do you follow all their orders? The bodyswap happened for mysterious reasons 3 months ago. You have the right to decide about your life."

 -"Don't say that. You make this situation seem "final". I prefer to follow their instructions, because then I still feel like "Jack", simply "guest in Akiko's body". If I start deciding how to live, I would feel more "owner of this body." And that's something I don't want."

 -"Ok, but you can't cancel yourself. To continue feeling like "Jack" you need to recover some of your habits. Like eating pizza with friends every now and then. Akiko will understand if you talk to her openly."

 -"Akiko maybe. Also because she is doing what she wants in my body. But her mother... Her mother is a dictator. She repeats to me every morning "A young lady doesn't eat sweets and carbohydrates". And she checks my weight every evening to make sure I'm not making her daughter fat! And food isn't the worst thing. When it comes to college grades she's much worse. She demands I get an A on every test, or she yells at me for hours. And you know I hate being scolded... Last week she made me cry.  Isn't it enough that I woke up in the body of an Asian girl with glasses? Does her mother have to treat me so badly?"

 -"Oh, man, I'm so sorry. I hope you figure out how to get back into your bodies soon."

 -"Oh bro, don't tell me about it..."

 -"Anyway, in the meantime... please stop staring at me with those eyes while I eat pizza! I'll lose my appetite and there will be two of us who won't be able to eat it!"

 -"Ok, sorry. But describe it to me later, please! Three months without pizza is agony!"

You're joking, right?

-"Forgive me, I didn't understand what you just 

said. You're joking, right? Because if you're not

joking, it would mean that you lied to me! For 2

months! So you have no idea why I turned into a

woman?!" 

-"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..."  

-"You're sorry! Oh, this makes up for the 2 months

you made me play the part of your girlfriend!" 

-"I... You're just so beautiful! I hoped that with a

little time you would fall in love with me..." 

-"How could I fall in love with you?! Until a few

moments ago I believed you were the cause of this

nightmare in which I am trapped! I thought you

transformed me with some black magic!" 

-"Okay, I'm an idiot. I hope you can forgive me. I 

really like you." 

-"Forgive you?! You forced me on humiliating dates!

You forced me to wear makeup! You even told me I

had to get my ears pierced! You freak!" 

-"I'm terribly sorry! But at least I didn't force you to

dress too femininely. And above all I didn't force

you to be intimate with me! I hoped that part would

be your free choice one day..." 

-"You idiot! I'm a man! I still feel like a man! This

body is not the real me! And I like women, not

weirdos like you! Now you better start running. I'll 

give you a 3 second head start." 

-"Please, let's talk about it..." 

-"1..." 

-"I'm sure I can help you in some way..." 

-"2..." 

-"Ok, ok, I'm leaving, don't look at me with those

murderous eyes!" 

-"3! Come here, you idiot! I may not be as muscular

and strong as before, but I can still hurt you a lot!" 

*sounds of a short chase and numerous kicks and

 punches*

Be optimistic

"Be optimist. 

Look at the bright side. 

It's true, that girl stole my life by swapping our bodies. 

It's true, I was a 25-year-old boy who just graduated from law school, and now I'm a 25-year-old girl who dropped out of school at 18. 

It's true, I had a bright future, while now I'm a girl who has to work in a fast food restaurant because she dropped out of school in her last year of high school. 

It's true, I've lost my family and my girlfriend, and in return I've received periods and uncomfortable clothes (and I don't have the money to buy new ones). 

It's true, in the last 2 months my life has been hell, but as always I have to look on the bright side. 

And being forced to work at this fast food restaurant for a living, at least I can eat my favorite burger whenever I want. 

So I have to be optimistic. 

I have to stay optimistic. 

I have to... *sob* be... *sob* optimistic... [crying sounds]"

Stressful vacation

"I really needed a shower to relax for a moment. This is the most stressful "vacation" of my life! Damn me when I let myself be persuaded to come to the beach!" 

I've always loved the sea and the beach, but those days are clearly over. Since 4 months ago, when a rare virus mutated my Y chromosome into X, my life has been turned upside down. 

Turning into a girl in a matter of days was a shock, but I was able to resist thanks to my family, my best friends… and my girlfriend. But my girlfriend resisted until a month ago. She doesn't like girls, and eventually our relationship ended. I fell into an even worse depression, and my best friends organized a vacation to my favorite beach to help me: "15 days to relax and change perspective on things". They convinced me, with a little effort, and off we went. 

The vacation has been terrible until now! Wherever I go I perceive the eyes of guys following me or I hear some whistles. I hate wearing a women's swimsuit, but I have no alternative! I no longer have the balance of before and I can't surf. It's a constant disappointment and stress! I just wish I could hide this body in a baggy sweatshirt at my house! And even the showers are worse than before, with this mass of hair! Soon I'll have to go back to my friends by the sea, and the unsettling looks of half the beach will start again. Next year I will definitely go to the mountains!