“This is going to be hard to believe but, up until a few months ago, I was a guy.” She explained. “Someone used the curse to turn me into a girl. They also added conditions for just about everything. My clothes were different. Makeup kits, pink bedding, and even flowery wallpaper appeared in my room. I found tampons and pads in the bathroom and even my class schedule changed. Suddenly I was off the basketball team and signed up for track and cheer squad. As far as my parents knew, they’ve always had a daughter. Even you two didn’t think twice when I showed up to school like this.”
“Why didn’t you just ask me to help you change back?” Jen asked.
“I kind of just got used to it. Besides, do you believe I was ever a boy?” Sam replied. “Either of you?”
They both shook their heads.
“Even the ‘return to normal’ condition only reversed the changes we made today. Whoever did this covered all of the bases.”
“Well... Almost... There was someone else who figured out that I had been cursed.”
“Kyle?” Jen asked.
“Yea...” She continued. “He approached me about two months ago. At first, he wanted to help undo my curse, but at the time neither of us considered exchanging the words to do it. Or so I thought... .. I’ll get that that part in a bit.”
“Over the next few weeks, he offered information about the curse, though nothing I hadn’t already figured out. He also grew more and more interested. To be honest, I’m still a guy at heart. I guess twice a man as most at the moment. Anyway... He began to show romantic interest and I rejected him. After that, he started stalking me.”
“What a creep...” Cassie remarked.
“No kidding.” Sam continued. “But I may have misread his true intentions.”
“One day, I overheard him talking with someone. I never saw who it was, but they were talking about taking back the curse power. At the time I didn’t even know I could pass it on. I actively avoided Kyle after that. I’ll spare the dirty details, but spending a few months as a girl wasn’t bad. In fact, I had become accustomed to this new life and decided to embrace it. I also decided that the curse would end with me. Unfortunately, my second decision wasn’t meant to last.”
“Kyle cornered me in a vacant hallway about a week back. I’m not sure how far he was willing to go, but the moment his fingers slid under my skirt, I asked the question...”
“I used the power to take away his manhood and the ability to curse me in return. In retrospect, it was probably his last ditch effort to make me give him the curse. If that was the case, then I suppose he got what he was after. That’s one hell of a price though...”
“I honestly thought that was the end of it, until you pushed me into the bathroom this morning...”
“To answer your original question, I do take this seriously. But... As long as it stays between the three of us, I feel like there’s nothing to worry about.”
“I figure that if something did go wrong, one of us could just turn the other back to normal...”