Jayden continues scrolling through the messages on his phone, learning more about Yumiko with each word he reads. He learns about her quirks, her insecurities, her interests, her crushes, her friends. Usually he'd consider reading through some girl's text messages a gross invasion of privacy but he can't bring himself to look away, with the dizziness in his mind increasing whenever he tries to shift his focus even slightly away from the phone.
As he swipes through the messages, his hands continue to get more and more slender while his skin slowly gains an East Asian complexion. Yawning suddenly, Jayden leans back onto the bed, which sense a shiver of warmth down his spine as the muscles he had spent years developing rapidly deflate into a new petite form.
"Ohhh... this bed feels so good... I..." He yawns again as his voice heightens even more, "...I guess I'm just getting tired, won't hurt to just lie down here until the gi-guys get back..."
He clicks out of the the text app for the time being and finds his wallpaper has changed, where's previously it had been an image of the new action flick 'Death 'n' Darkness in Peril 4', now the background of his phone's frontpage is pink with an anime-style kitten.
"I don't remember changing my phone wallpaper... wait I didn't pick up Yumiko's by mistake when I fell did I?" Jayden wonders but his attention returns to the kitten, "This wallpaper is cute though...'' he mutters before blushing.
Shaking off the comment, he gets a sudden urge to look through the photo gallery. As the app loads, the images which flood his vision quickly confirm this isn’t his phone.
Hundreds of photos, ranging from selfies of a very cute looking Japanese teen in various outfits, to photos of various parts of the town and Terra Falls Academy, to pictures of others other students and girls. Flicking through the selfies, he instinctively recognises as Yumiko. Each one in a different cute outfit or pose, every image sends butterflies through Jayden’s body.
A sudden itching sensation flows over his skin as his complexion continues to change while. He rubs his legs together as the hair in them resides while they become slender and smooth.
A giggle escapes Jayden’s lips as he continues looking over the outfits, each one sending a vague flash of recollection in his mind. All of these seems oddly familiar...
“Oh right! I,,. er... Yumiko-chan sent all of these to her sister and friends back in Japan. Kunnie-chan just loves hearing all about her Onee-sama‘s adventures in the west...” Jayden says with another giggle escaping his lips as thoughts of leaving or the dare which brought him to the school are pushed to the back of his mind. A subtle but noticeable accent coats his word.
Suddenly a notification pops up, alerting to them at he just received a text. Confused and oddly curious, Jayden instantly clicks the notification
> Kunnie: お姉さん、私、そして私の友達がもうすぐテラフォールズに到着します！(Big Sister, me and my friends are arriving at Terra Falls soon!)
Despite the text being written entirely in Japanese, a language which Jayden has only briefly studied in one class during elementary school (which he probably slept or goofed off through most of), he has not issue with understanding the text on the screen, so much so that his brain does not even register tje writing as being foreign.
Jayden rises from the bed, dark raven hair falling down his shoulders as he does, and reads through the test eagerly. He finds himself giggling again, some part of him is concerned by all this and resents these sudden onsets of giggling as ‘unmanly’ and something that’ll get him teased by his friends. He focuses so much in the text that he doesn’t notice how he crosses his now smooth slender legs in a distinctly girlish manner nor the fact he is slightly shorter than when he first laid down on the bed.
Jayden instantly goes to type a reply, pausing only momentarily to itch his chest as new breast form. As his body shifts into a feminine figure he briefly
> Kunnie: お姉さん、そこにいますか？(Are you there, sister?)
The very thought of Asumi thinking sh-he is ignoring her fires out sisterly instincts deep in Jayden’s brain. His thoughts of concern are quickly brushes off as he rapidly types a reply, his small girly fingers moving with practice ease so quickly he doesn’t even notice the nail gloss.
> Yumiko: あすみちゃん、ごめんなさい、勉強してた (Asumi-chan, I'm sorry, I was studying)
Blinking as his eyes change colour, Jayden glances over to finger various textbooks sprawled across her bed- Yumiko’s bed. Before he can wonder where they all came from, another text from Asumi comes through.
> Kunnie: 大丈夫だよ。お姉さん！(it's fine. Big sister!)
> Kunnie: ユトリはあなたのようなファッションが大好きで、タミはあなたが見逃したアニメをたくさん知っています (Yutori-chan loves fashion like you, and Tami-chan knows a lot of the anime you missed)
> Yumiko: また妹に会えるのが待ちきれません。そして、あなたの友達に会うために. (I can’t wait to see you again little sister. And to meet your friends).
A few more tests are fired off from both sides, with Jayden confirming Kunnie knows the way to Yumiko’s dorm. A few personal references pop up which Jayden easily understand, even getting vivid images from each letter he types, the persona of Yumiko coming with ease.
“Oh I can’t wait to see Kunnie-chan!... wait what..?” He says, snapping briefly out of the trance as he glances over at a full view mirror.
A slim Asian girl looks back at him(?), a confused expression on her flawless face, long black hair rolling down her shoulders and a pair of noticeable breasts sticking
“Wait.. is that me... well of of course it’s me... although that outfit looks horrible, I really just change into one of my cute dress, on mauve Kimono to honour Kunnie-Chan arriving from Japan... wait.. no get it together Yumiko! Uh I mean. Yumiko!”
The girl’s head spins as she climbs up from the bed, stumbling through the room as her ill-fitting shirt begins to shrink and change form into a bra, with his pants soon also shrinking and merging with his underwear to form a pair of cute new panties.
“My name is... my... 私の名前は由美子です!” (My name is Yumiko) she proclaims proudly with a smile of confidence on her face. Before a streak of doubt comes through.
“Wait.., no...” she says as her voice becomes noticeably accent but still fluent, “I am a.... a... 私は日本からの留学生です“ (I am an international student from Japan).
Every word feels right but some part of her mind is rejecting the idea. A wave of dizziness pours through her mind.
“I am Jayden...” she says weakly and unsure, “I am Jayden,” she says slightly more assertively but still weakly.
“Jayden.. Jayden..” the name rolls through her tongue as she considers it. It sounds like a typical American boy name. She gazes over herself in the mirror, and then over her room, neither her appearance nor that of her room strikes her as belonging to an American boy, indeed only some pervert boy would be hanging around in a room like this uninvited.. She looks at the phone which she had left on her bed, the name Yumiko written in clear letters on it. Every text message is addressed to Yumiko and every selfie contains her, so surely this is Yumiko’s phone and not this Jayden, whoever he is.
In fact the more she thinks about it, the more the name Jayden seems odd and unfamiliar. In fact she was beginning to wonder why the name even entered her mind, did she go to class with any Jayden? Maybe one of the boys who wants to ask her out?
“Wait no!” She announces suddenly as a small part of her brain continues to reject her current state. She glances back at the figure in the mirror, who now smiles, she looks so confident and at home in her body, as if she’s lived in it her entire life..
“No..l I need to... I... need to...”