It was Bob and Susan's habit, when they were both between boyfriends, to get together on a weekend night for pizza and commiseration. (Susan called it "The We hate our Exes Club.") But what had been fun venting during their twenties was becoming less fun as they aged into their mid-thirties. Did the fact that neither had managed to establish a romantic bond that lasted more than a couple of years have to do with their attachment to each other (a theory that several of their exes would have endorsed)? Maybe it was time for a friend breakup, Susan thought as she munched on her pizza. She would really hate to do that, but something had to change.
Sudden Susan felt itchy all over most of her body. She stared with horror at her arm, which was suddenly covered with thick black hairs. Then the horror vanished. Susan heard a ripping sound as her broadening shoulders tore through her T-Shirt. As she wriggled out of its remains she noticed that her chest was not just hairy but flat. Bob was watching with fascination as Susan's hips narrowed. She felt her butt go from soft and cushiony to hard and muscley. The hell with it, Susan thought, I've got to see this. He began to lower his pants. "Do you mind?" he asked Bob.
"Not at all." Bob couldn't tear his eyes away.
The two stared raptly as Susan's clitoris expanded and developed the unmistakable features of a penis, a good size one at that. Susan felt his vagina close up, as the labia developed into a scrotum and with a briefly painful feeling of displacement, his ovaries, now testicles, moved to their new home. Susan--I'm going to have to change that name, he thought--was now completely and unmistakeably a man. And just the sort of hairy, well-muscled man Bob found attractive, with all the kindness and savage wit in his eyes that had made Susan Bob's best friend for decades. If he's straight now, Bob thought, I'm going to shoot myself. "Uh, since I'm a long term user, would you like some help on making use of your new equipment?"
Susan gave a deep, chesty, male laugh. "Get that sweet ass of yours over here right now, cutie." Bob breathed an inward sigh of relief.
Something had indeed changed.