You were quite happy when Monica returned to her own body before the two of you got back into your car. On the way home the conversation was a bit awkward. You had just witnessed your girlfriend having sex with your stepfather then with your mother and she didn't seem contrite at all.
You did talk though. You asked Monica 'Have you always been a shapeshifter?'
'I don't know. Maybe I have always had the ability but I only discovered I could shapeshift about 8 months ago'
'How did it happen the first time?'
'I had a fever and was sick in bed. I dreamed I had become my Mum and when I looked in the mirror I was her. I at first thought it was a hallucination. But then the next night I dreamed I was my cousin Stacey. I went to the mirror to splash water on my face but it was Stacey's face. I pinched that face and it hurt. I realized I was Stacey. I suppose that's when I learned that if I dreamed I was someone else then I could become that person. I've become much better at doing it since then'
'Can you change into anyone?'
'Only people I have physically touched'
'So those girls you changed into earlier today, when you were the black girl or that Asian chick, they were someone you know?'
'They were people I have touched, I don't actually know them, well I sort of do now. When I become someone I get some of their memories. The black girl's name is Marsha. She sat beside me on a bus and our bare shoulders touched. The Asian girl was Shaya, she is a hairdresser who cut my hair'
'So if you haven't touched someone you can't become them?'
'Yep. Don't ask me why or how. Maybe by touching them I get some sort of record of their DNA. I now just summon up a memory of who I want to change into and I can become them'
'Have you met anyone else who is like you? Are your Mum or Dad shapeshifters?'
'No and No. As far as I'm aware I am the only person like me'
'Have you told your Mum or a doctor or anyone?'
'Only you. I thought about telling Mum and Dad but chickened out. And well I didn't want to go to a doctor. They would treat me like some sort of freak. They would probably lock me up. I realize I'm not actually sick. It's like I have a superpower'
'But you said you were sick the first time you changed'
'I was. I had this really bad fever for a couple of days. It was after I got scratched by a bat'
'Hmm. You don't think there is a connection. Maybe this bat gave you the ability to shapeshift?'
'Maybe. It certainly had never happened before I got scratched'
'Maybe the bat transferred to you some sort of shapeshifting virus? A bit like how Peter Parker became Spiderman'
'I suppose that fits. That would make me "batgirl" but I guess that name is already taken'