Macy sat at the desk, Jeffie on her lap, squirming and fussing as she tried to navigate the Chronivac program. The juice box she'd given him earlier sat half-finished on the desk, straw slightly crumpled from tiny, frustrated hands. Though Jeffie couldn't form proper sentences, his intense flailing and high-pitched baby babble made it clear he was trying to say something important.
"Jeffie, stop! You're going to make me click something by accident!" Macy giggled, half-annoyed, half-amused, as she gently tried to restrain his little arms. "You're acting like you don't trust me or something."
Jeffie let out another urgent string of garbled syllables that only barely resembled, "Make me back! Now!"
"Okay, okay! I'm fixing it. Chill, baby boy." Macy smirked, focusing on the screen again. She opened the file labeled "Jeff" and slid the age slider back up to 18.
But in her distraction, her finger brushed the gender field.
Click.
Without realizing it, she toggled it from "Male" to "Female" and hit "Execute."
There was a bright flash.
Jeffie’s body immediately grew and changed, stretching rapidly in her lap. Within seconds, the baby had transformed into a young woman—a fully grown 18-year-old female version of Jeff, sitting awkwardly on Macy's legs.
"Wha—?" the now-adult Jeff gasped, voice high and unfamiliar. She looked down at herself in shock. "Macy!? What did you do!?"
Macy blinked, wide-eyed, her gaze taking in the sudden transformation. "Oh my god, I didn’t mean to! I swear!"
Jeff—now Jess—covered her chest with her arms and looked for something to throw on. "You turned me into a girl!"
"Hey, that was your idea the fault! This was just... a misclick," Macy said sheepishly. "You were flailing like crazy!"
Jess groaned sat up and pulled a hoodie out of the dresser wrap around her naked self. "Ugh, you better fix this before my mom gets back."
Macy tried not to laugh. "I mean, it could've been worse. You could still be drooling in a diaper."
Jess glared. "You think this is funny?"
Macy shrugged. "A little. But also, I’m sorry. Let me try to fix it. Just... maybe sit still this time, yeah?"