My dreams were like a montage of my life. A stroll down memory lane
through all of the key events that had brought me to where I was today.
I'd relived my very first memories, kicking a huge plastic football
around in the back garden with my dad. Standing in my uniform for my
first day of school while my mother snapped photos of me. The annual
family holidays to exotic European destinations, and my playing on the
beach with other children.
Then there were my teenage years. My first kiss as a 15-year-old. My
first taste of alcohol, and my first hangover. The wild celebrations
when I'd received the A-level results that I needed, and spending the
first week of University getting drunk every night.
They were all happy memories, and I should have been able to have many
more. At 21 years old and now an adult, having lived through my
formative years, it was surely not going to be long until I found a
girl, got married, and maybe even considered having children. I'd be
graduating from University and moving out, starting a career, and
getting on with my life.
Or at least, I should have been able to look forward to doing all of
that. For they were all memories of the life I had lived so far as Tony
Bradley. Even in my sleep, my subconscious knew that I was in a
predicament, and the final memory that it played over was a reminder of
just how bad things could become.
"Tony?"
That fateful Friday night. The day that all of this had started. A
young girl I'd never seen before in my life at my front door,
interrupting my preparations for a night with my friends.
"Cool, I'm Katy. You went to Lansley Secondary School, didn't you?"
Why hadn't I just turned and closed the door on her? Or properly
interrogated her on why she was there? Maybe it would have gotten me
out of this nightmare before it had begun, this seeming conspiracy to
take away my identity.
"So you remember the uniform, then?"
Even in my sleep, just reliving my first encounter with Katy was
unnerving. Her questions about the school uniform, the fact she knew my
name, how I'd been unable to not accept the bags she gave me, and what
it had all been a precursor to.
"Did you like it?"
I couldn't fathom how I hadn't fought all of this more. Why had I let
my parents refer to me as a school kid, and a female one at that? Why
had I barely protested any of this until it was possibly too late? Was
my lack of resolve to Katy and to them all a part of this?
"Oh-kayyyy, this bag's got my skirts in."
This whole situation felt like it should have been a bad dream,
something that I'd wake up from and realise that life was continuing as
normal. My mind instinctively started to scream at me to do so, to
return to consciousness and escape the unwanted flashback playing in my
head.
Eventually, the flashback started to fade, and I felt myself beginning
to come around.
Just a few moments later, every bit of my being would have preferred to
have stayed in the comparative bliss of sleep.
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As my senses came to me, I could tell through closed eyes that the room
wasn't entirely dark, a tell-tale sign that most of the night had
passed and that the late-year Sun had started to come up to begin the
morning.
That probably would have made it around 7AM, if not a little later,
meaning that I'd slept right through the night despite having fallen
asleep much earlier than I was used to.
I stirred a little, still groggy and half-asleep, and let out a low,
barely audible gurgle of discomfort under my breath, instinctively
rolling over from my back and onto the right side of my body.
"Urgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh."
It was then that my consciousness fully returned, and that I could tell
that something was very, very different from how it had been the night
before.
I knew that I'd fallen asleep above the covers, lying on my back unable
to move and fully clothed. Now though, that wasn't the case. Without
thinking about it I'd just instinctively rolled my body over to my
preferred sleeping position on my side, and I could feel that my
current position was below, not above, the bed covers.
The bed covers felt strange on me. It took a split second to register,
but the material between them and my legs did not feel like my jeans.
It felt like a softer material, perhaps cotton. As I'd shifted over to
my side I'd felt a similar material covering the entire length of my
arms, whereas I'd fallen asleep in a short-sleeved t-shirt. I was
dressed differently now.
More alarming, though, was how my body now felt alien and strange. My
cheek didn't feel right on the pillow, as if the bones weren't where
they usually were. My chest felt heavy and bloated compared to normal.
My feet felt several sizes too small.
As I realised all of these abnormalities, my eyes flew wide open. I
found myself face to face with the radiator next to the bed, obstructed
only by strands of brown hair in my face. Given my typically short
hair, that was not normal for me, yet it wasn't the major concern at
the time.
'What? Oh, shit', I thought to myself.
Was I? Had I? No, this was impossible.
I didn't dare move further in fear of discovering what I was dreading
was true, instead just staring at the vertical stripes of the radiator
and feeling how odd the placement of the muscles and parts of my body
felt compared to when I'd fallen asleep.
It was clear, more than clear, that I no longer had the body that I'd
had nine or so hours ago.
It was then that I started to notice the most worrying change of all.
My crotch.
It felt bare to this body, and I couldn't sense the presence of the
usual equipment in my groin area at all. With my eyes still wide open
and fixed on the bare radiator in front of me, I gulped and moved for
the first time since I had awoken, lowering my hand down my body to
around the top of the legs.
I put my hand on my left thigh. I seemed to be wearing pyjama bottoms,
or at least that's what they felt like. I knew the feeling now, as I'd
worn them as a child. The pressure of my hand confirmed the lack of
hair on the leg, and the hand itself felt dainty and small, and worst
of all, feminine.
'Don't tell me this actually happened', I thought to myself panickedly.
I slowly forced my hand inward toward the joint of my legs, hoping to
feel hair and my left testicle as I had at any other time since I'd hit
puberty as a boy.
Instead, where that should have been, I felt nothing at all.
A beam of sunlight suddenly filtered into the room as I reached the
middle of my legs, and to my horror, I felt a very small and thin mass
of light hair, and then through the pyjama bottoms my fingers reached
the tip of something that only a female should have.
"No!" I wailed.
As the word came out of my mouth, a teenage, feminine voice echoed in
my ears. It was as if Katy had just vocally freaked out at something,
yet I knew all too well that it was me, in this body, that had said it.
I shuddered for a moment, trying to comprehend what had happened,
before turning over and bolting upright in the bed. As I did so, though
the hair still obscured my view, I realised that it wasn't just me
that
had gone through a drastic change overnight. So had my room.
I quickly raised my left hand from under the bed covers and, with my
forearm brushing disconcertingly against a mound on my chest that I
didn't dare explore, pushed the hair blocking my view to one side, and
then again after it simply fell back into place in front of my face.
My room had always been immaculately tidy for the past few years. I'd
reached an age where I'd moved on from throwing clothes and rubbish all
over the place, wanting it to be easier to find things, and maturely
keeping a washing basket and rubbish bin in my bedroom.
This room, though, was a tip. I looked around in the still dim light of
the morning, and could see CDs and bits of paper all over the floor.
Worse still, there were items of girl's clothing scattered around,
including a denim skirt just beyond the bed that I could have sworn was
the same one that Katy was wearing when I'd last seen her the night
before.
All of the furniture was also different. There was now some sort of
dressing table instead of my desk, and the wardrobe was a focal point,
painted in a light pink colour with curved feminine decorations, with a
tall mirror on one of the doors and stickers all over it.
The walls also seemed to have posters on them and I spotted a small
portable television, but they didn't matter right now. I was too
consumed with my own self, and while on any other occasion I'd have
freaked out at being in what seemed like her bedroom, it just didn't
seem to matter that much when I seemed to be in her body.
I breathed heavily, still stunned, before looking down at myself,
lowering the bed covers to confirm with my own eyes that what I had
felt was true.
As I had suspected, I was encased in a matching long-sleeved pyjama top
and bottoms. The top had the number 23 on it in big red letters in an
American college style, but the set was otherwise in a plain cream
colour. It was still odd to be wearing pyjamas, but they weren't overly
childish.
I reached my hand inside of the bottoms, rubbing the top of my new leg
and confirming that it was definitely now completely hairless. It
crossed my mind to double-check my crotch again, but I couldn't bear to
do so. I knew there was nothing masculine there.
My eyes scanned up this foreign body. It was uncomfortable to see two
breasts sticking out. It felt wrong for me to be looking at a teenage
girl's breasts, even if I appeared to be that teenage girl. I felt the
breast, squeezing it to see if it was real, and the discomfort
instantly confirmed that it was.
All through this exploration, the word 'fuck' played on an endless
cycle in my head. I'd have been saying it out loud if it wasn't for the
fact that I'd already learnt that I had a girl's voice.
For the next few moments I just looked down at the body and around the
room in a state of shock. I didn't want to move an inch and feel the
muscles, or lack of muscles, shift on this body. I didn't even know if
I was in my own house, although the shape of the walls of the bedroom
suggested that I was.
After a moment or two, I heard a stirring outside of the closed bedroom
door, and heard the round handle rattle as if somebody was touching it
on the other side.
'Shit! What do I do now?' I thought to myself, again in panic mode.
I glanced over at the window, briefly entertaining the idea of an
escape before realising how impossible that would be, not to mention it
would mean being in public in this body. Yet, as the door started to
creep open, I had a split second to do something before somebody would
see me like this.
It came back to me what day it was and what that meant. Monday. If the
real Katy was right, I was going to be expected to go and attend a day
of school as a girl. As a 14-year-old girl.
There was no way I could handle that.
I did the only thing I could think of doing, and darted back under the
covers on to my right side, to try and look asleep, wincing as I felt
the right breast of the body press into the mattress in a less than
comfortable fashion.
"Katy?" quizzed the woman who had entered the room.
It was a woman. It was my mother.
"Katy, are you awake yet?"
It should perhaps have been of slight relief that it was my own
mother's voice. After all, I could have woken up in Katy's house, and I
wouldn't have known anything about her parents. At least I'd have a
chance with my mother of worming out of this situation, or so I could
hope.
"It's nearly half-past seven, you'll be late for school", she
continued.
Even with my own mother, deep down I knew that I couldn't just get out
of this by lying on the bed and not responding. If I pretended to be
asleep, she'd only try to wake me up. All that I was certain of was
that there was no way that I could handle doing anything in my current
predicament, not least something as significant as a day of school as a
different person.
I heard the click of the bedroom dimmer switch, even though it was
probably light enough to see already, and felt light fill the room
through my closed eyes. I could hear my mother moving toward the bed.
I was trapped.
I started to part the lips of my new face to speak, but before I could,
I felt the covers above me being tugged off the bed, leaving me fully
exposed in the pair of pyjamas on the mattress.
"Look, I know you're awake, you've got to get up", she said sternly.
I could feel the cold air of the room on my new feet for the first
time, but the real chill was from what my mother had just done. There
was no doubt about it, I wasn't going to be allowed to just lie around
doing nothing right now.
I turned onto my back to face my mother, the presence of the breasts
still almost too much for my brain to process, even if I was starting
to notice that they were fairly modest in size. As I looked up to her,
she seemed half ready for the day, her hair still frazzled but some of
her make-up done. It was unusual for her to be getting ready at such an
early time.
I quickly tried to think up a clever retort to try to get her to go
away, but in the end went for something a lot more blunt.
"I don't want to gooooo."
I cringed very visibly at the way the words came out of this new mouth
of mine. I'd tried to make it a stern statement of intent, but instead
it sounded just like any teenage girl who didn't want to go into
school.
My mother dropped the bed cover which she'd bundled into her hands on
the floor of the bedroom, and walked around to the side of the bed. I
tried to glance the other way, but it was obvious that she wasn't
impressed with my statement.
"Catherine Elizabeth, you get up off that bed and get ready now."
I felt her grab my arm, and despite my immediate instinctive
resistance, found myself pulled out of the bed and onto my feet. My
mother would never have been able to overpower me in my own body, nor
would she have tried to, but now she seemed so much stronger than me.
As I stood there reluctantly, realising I was now a couple of inches
smaller than my mother. I didn't think matters could get any worse,
before I glanced over to the door and saw my father looking into the
room.
"Is there a problem here?" he asked, staring at me with serious eyes.
I looked to my mother and then down to the feminine body that I had
inherited. I had yet to have a chance to properly react to the change,
never mind get used to it, and now I was on the verge of being forced
to be this girl publicly.
There were so many things I could have done right now. I could have
plainly refused to do as I was being told, but based on how I'd just
been dragged out of the bed, I knew that I'd probably end up being
forced into clothes and out the door in the end.
There was no way I could run away from the house. For a start, I'd be
wearing pyjamas, and I was already getting chilly. It was obviously a
cold day outside, even with the occasional glimpse of the autumn Sun.
On top of that, Katy didn't look old enough to pass for a college
student, so I'd only be picked up by truancy officers regardless.
As my mother and father stood waiting for a reply, I realised that I
really had no choice but to do as they said right now. I'd have to
figure out my options later on.
I couldn't bear to reply vocally, so I lowered my head in defeat and
shook it from side to side.
"Good. Are you dropping her off or am I?" he asked my mother, in such a
passive way that it made me feel as if I wasn't in the room.
"I'll take her in, she needs to go to the reception area anyway", my
mother replied.
Being referred to as 'her' and 'she' was just rubbing the current
situation in even more. I didn't even try to correct them, forgetting
momentarily that Katy had said I couldn't if I wanted to. There was no
denying that, right now, I was in the body of a girl. No matter how
hard I tried, nobody would ever mistake me for a guy while I looked
like Katy.
My father disappeared from the doorway without another word, while my
mother walked over to the dresser across the room, rummaging around it
a little bit with her back to me while I stood frozen, not knowing how
to react or what to do.
"It's your first day back, everything will turn out fine", she said,
before turning to face me with two items from the dresser in her hand.
I looked to both of her hands, noticing that she'd picked up the pair
of white knickers and the bra that the real Katy had laid out on what
was my desk the night before.
'Shit', I thought.
"Ok, you obviously sorted your underwear out already last night, so
stop stalling and go get ready", she stated.
I glanced around for a moment not knowing what to do, while my mother
simply looked impatient. Reluctantly I stepped toward her, the smaller
surface area of my feet making my steps feel alien, and took the two
items of clothing from her.
I stood silently as I watched my mother leave the room, holding the
underwear of a teenage girl while standing in a teenage girl's body.
I looked at the dresser before me, the rest of the school clothes laid
out in the same manner that Katy had done so in front of me the night
before, the tights and tie dangling off the side and the skirt, blouse
and jumper placed neatly amidst the clutter covering the rest of the
dresser's surface.
'There is no way I am wearing that', I protested silently to myself,
all too aware that my first attempts at protest had just failed
miserably.
I clenched my feminine fists in anger at everything. What was I going
to do? For now, at least, I had been completely defeated.
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After a few moments spent stewing in my own annoyance, I decided to
seek out the solace of the household bathroom, figuring that I could at
least lock the door and try to collect my thoughts in there.
As I made the short journey I could feel my forearm ache from being
forced out of bed, reiterating just how weak this body was compared to
my own. I was shivering a little, unsure if it was fear or because the
house was genuinely quite cold and the pyjamas quite thin.
After I reached the bathroom I immediately closed and locked the door,
dumping the alien underwear that I had carried on to the floor and
sitting on top of the closed toilet seat with my head in my hands.
'Fuck, why did I let this happen', I questioned myself.
Less than twelve hours ago, I had been a 21-year-old guy with his life
ahead of him. Sure, I'd been tormented for a couple of weeks and spoken
to as if I were a school kid by my parents, and had found myself
inexplicably not fighting that treatment much at all, but at least I'd
always been me.
Now, though, I wasn't me. I felt as far from myself as I could be.
Despite the slight relief of seeing both of my parents a few moments
ago, I was in the body of a child in the eyes of the world, and worse
yet, the body of a member of the opposite sex.
Even worse, I was in the body of Katy Campbell.
'I have got to get myself out of this', I told myself, referring to
both the imposter body and the day that seemingly lay ahead.
I replayed what I could remember of my encounter with the actual Katy
the night before. She'd told me that she had wished to be someone else,
and that that wish had somehow been granted in the form of swapping
identities with me.
More crushingly, though, I played over what she'd said about the
aftermath of the swap. No going back, being unable to tell people what
had happened. I think she had even said at one point that I couldn't
contact her about it.
Then, it dawned on me.
What was my real body doing right now? If I was now a girl, did that
mean that Katy was a guy? That she was now, well, me?
Scared by that thought, I stretched out my new legs and looked down at
the tiny feet that I had noticed on Katy the night before. Feet that
were now mine, possibly forever. Reluctantly, I stood up of my own
accord in her body for the first time, stepping toward the mirror in
front of me.
I'd looked in the same mirror everyday recently and been thankful to
see me, solace that nothing physically had changed amidst the weird
goings on. In the course of a night's sleep, though, it had gone from
nothing to, well, everything.
The girly face looking back at me was definitely that of Katy Campbell,
although it didn't look as it had previously. The lack of make-up was
making blemishes on her skin visible that I hadn't seen before,
including the odd red mark that may have been a spot at some point. Her
bed head hair was all over the place.
The other thing that was different was the expression of shock on her
face, but that was definitely just me, a reminder that at least my
emotions were my own.
Staring at her face in a mirror and having released this swap would
work both ways, it scared me more than even being a girl to think that
she'd have full control of my life, albeit presumably with her own
parents.
She could ruin me in a day. What if she decided to wear girl's clothes
in public? Or remained attracted to guys? How would she cope with
University work? How would she deal with my friends?
For a few minutes I stared into Katy's eyes, all too aware they were
now mine, trying to find a silver lining where there wasn't one and an
escape from all of this.
Was this it? Could I not find a way to get out of this ever? Was my
life no longer my own?
It wasn't something I was ready to accept, and so after a few moments
of mentally going around in circles, I eventually found a new straw to
clutch at.
'If I can't handle this, then how the hell can she handle being me?'
There was no way that Katy was going to be able to cope with being me.
From her lack of life experience to her girly mannerisms, she was
simply never going to be happy as an adult guy.
She'd want to change back. I was sure of it.
Katy's experiences as me, I hastily decided, had to be my best hope
now. She'd hate this and wish to be herself again, or do anything to
have her own life back and stop me from being trapped in some sort of
mundane, juvenile existence as a school girl.
Somewhere amidst my thoughts was the idea that I might have to cope in
such an existence until all of this reversed itself, but before I could
truly contemplate that I heard an unwanted knock on the bathroom door
and the unwelcome sound of my mother's voice.
"It's quarter to eight Katy, get a move on", she said.
I looked toward the door, an arm's length away from me but thankfully
locked.
"You've got half an hour to get ready, do you hear me?"
A shiver ran down my spine as I realised again what was expected of me.
No matter how much hope I could have of this all being reversed, how
the hell could I ever be ready to appear in public looking like this?
I looked around. I had no escape. I'd already realised earlier that I
couldn't just climb out of a window or run out of the house, and I knew
that the law dictated that any girl of this age would have to be in
school on a school day.
'Fucking hell, I'm going to have to be this girl for a while', I
bemoaned to myself.
I looked at the mirror one last time before realising I'd have to hurry
up, and begrudgingly I parted my new lips to reply to my mother.
"Yes, mum", I stated, trying to sound as natural as possible but still
proving to be completely freaked out by the sound of Katy's voice
speaking my words.
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After I had gotten my mother away from the door, I realised for the
first time that I particularly needed to pee. I'd been too occupied to
notice it since waking up, but the last thing I needed right now was to
proceed to soil myself in someone else's body.
I stepped in front of the toilet and flipped up the toilet seat,
lowering the pyjama bottoms down a little, still trying to keep my
hands away from my new unwanted crotch. I then stood bemused for a
couple of seconds, before realising the anatomical flaw to my
intentions.
'Oh, fuck, do I have to', I pondered, yet again brushing the
increasingly irritating strands of brown hair out of my face.
With a basic knowledge of the female anatomy at my disposal, I knew
that girls didn't just unzip their fly and let loose. I sighed again,
swallowed my pride, and lowered the pyjama bottoms down to my ankles,
trying not to catch a glimpse of my offending genitalia.
Then, bringing the toilet seat back down and sitting down on it, I
waited for something to happen.
After a few moments of trying to push out and force a flow of urine to
no avail, I felt a flow come gushing out from nowhere, an unnerving
feeling that made me curl my toes a little at how unnatural it felt to
be peeing like a girl. I was using muscles I didn't know existed, if
they had ever even been part of my own body.
I sat on the seat for a few seconds after the stream had finished,
before standing up, wiping the moisture away with a piece off the
toilet roll, and pulling the pyjama bottoms back on properly.
'I never want to have to do that ever again', I bluntly told myself.
After that I proceeded to attempt a quick morning routine, acting in
haste due to not wanting to learn what my mother and especially father
would do to 'their daughter' didn't hurry up.
I started simply, proceeding to brush my teeth. My teeth felt like the
only thing on my body that hadn't changed, because like myself Katy's
teeth had fully developed into an adult set. That didn't stop me from
being reminded of my status by my new, sparkly blue toothbrush,
however.
In fact, it seemed that all of my old hygiene products and items in the
bathroom had changed. My share of the products in the bathroom cabinet
had dwindled down to a body lotion, a girl's razor, and an opened box
of tampons, the latter of which I didn't even want to contemplate
having to use.
Next I washed my face, feeling uncomfortable at having to touch the
softer, smaller and more delicate features that Katy possessed, and
almost poking myself in the eye twice due to not expecting my eyes to
be where they were.
I'd faintly hoped that the cold water might bring me around from the
bad dream, but sadly that didn't seem to be in my immediate future, and
so I dried my face off and looking around to see what might be next.
Eventually, I set my eyes on the items of clothing I had thrown on the
floor.
"Fuck", I muttered quietly, the word sounding less annoyed and more
cutesy in Katy's stereotypically teenaged voice.
I knelt down and picked up the two items that I'd been handed by my
mother before heading to the bathroom. I figured that getting changed
into her underwear for the day must be part of Katy's bathroom routine,
and with my mother's out-of-character impatience, perhaps something
that I should try to do before returning to the bedroom.
I picked up the knickers first. The cotton material didn't feel too
alien, especially as I'd worn cotton underwear myself as a child, but
the slight feminine trim and 'Age 15-16' on the tag in the back was
enough of a reminder of the person that these were normally worn by.
I stood up, catching my new reflection once more in the bathroom
mirror, before reluctantly stepping out of the pyjama bottoms and
putting my left leg into the left leg hole of the knickers, followed by
the right.
I closed my eyes shut tightly to psych myself up, before yanking the
knickers up my legs in one fell swoop, leaving them to rest around the
top of my hips.
I looked down, and realised that, in the space of about five seconds,
I'd voluntarily put on an item of pre-worn, female underwear.
I could feel the material digging into my skin a little, and perhaps in
to my very soul as well. The fit of the knickers was clearly nothing
like anything I'd felt before. Instead of the roomy and snug fit of my
boxer shorts, these felt small and restricting. Looking down, I could
see nothing but a flat white material and smooth, pale legs.
Trying to detach myself from what I was doing, I decided to just get on
with it, and took off the pyjama top, pulling each long sleeve out
before dumping it on the floor and picking up the white bra.
'What now?'
Putting the knickers on had been easy. After all, despite their
different design, in essence they were just two legs holes as with my
usual underwear. Clearly, however, the bra was going to be an
altogether different challenge.
I tried to recall what Katy had shown me while I was pretty much
paralysed the night before, and facing the bra forwards I put my arms
through the straps one after the other, both lying loosely over my
shoulders.
In terms of getting it on it was a case of so far, so good, I figured.
I fumbled my left hand around my back a bit, trying to locate the clasp
that I knew needed to be fastened to get the garment on correctly.
Eventually I managed to grip a piece of material, and grabbed the other
side with my right hand, feeling my new breasts disturbingly sticking
out due to my arms being behind my back.
After a moment or two of trying to catch them together, and almost
getting it several times only for the bra to come loose again, I
managed to get them to clasp and felt the material at the back tighten.
'Is this thing on me now?' I wondered rhetorically.
Realising that it was, I lowered my hands, and began to notice how much
it was digging into my back. Katy had said it was a tight fit the
night
before, and while it was thankfully reducing the movement of my
breasts, the presence of the back strap was very quickly a constant
reminder of the fact that I was wearing female clothing.
I turned to the mirror again, finding myself looking at a teenage girl
wearing a plain white bra, with a small but noticeable bow in the
middle between the two cups.
There was no doubt about it. To any onlooker that were to see me right
now, I'd be wearing the appropriate underwear.
'This whole situation had better not last much longer', I told myself,
looking away from the mirror.
Sighing in defeat to the underwear, I unlocked the bathroom door and
returned to my bedroom, keeping a brisk pace to try and avoid my
parents seeing me in such feminine items, even if they'd today not find
it at all unusual to do so.
As I reached my new bedroom, I had a chance to get a better look at the
alterations to it, and the possessions that I had now involuntarily
inherited. In the full light of day, everything I had owned seemed to
be gone, replaced with something more fitting for the day-to-day life
of a teenage girl.
I noticed that the top of the dresser was covered in all manner of
hygiene products and make-up bottles, making up for the lack of
products in the bathroom, along with a worn-looking portable stereo
that had probably been bought over ten years ago.
At the foot of the dresser lay a noticeably cheap laptop with a hot
pink cover, as well as a pair of small fluffy cream slippers that I
suspected Katy might usually wear for her morning bathroom routine.
The poster that I had vaguely noticed earlier was probably the worst
sight, though, since it was of a topless footballer. I hadn't even
begun to consider the idea that I was now a girl at the age where they
start to look at boys in a certain way, nor did I intend to anytime
soon.
Trying to block the poster out, I made my way to the dresser, and
brushing the hair which had fallen in front of my face out of the way
again, and trying to ignore the feeling of the bra on my chest and
back, I looked down for the second time today at the remaining clothes
that Katy had laid out for school.
It was definitely all unchanged from last night, with a school jumper,
a blouse, a school tie, a short skirt and a pair of tights all on the
desk, all neatly laid out and ready for a teenage girl to wear to
school.
The problem, of course, was that I was now the teenage girl in
question.
I briefly pondered a u-turn or attempted escape from wearing the
clothes in front of me again, but the sound of my mother in the
background elsewhere in the house was a constant parental reminder of
my current predicament, and that, no matter what I tried, I'd probably
have little choice but to pull these clothes on to this body.
It was at this point that I remembered an episode from my own teenage
years, in my rightful body as Tony. I'd wanted the day off school once
at around the age of 12, and after repeated warnings to get ready and
my stubborn refusal, had been dressed by my dad and dragged out of the
door to the car.
Whether he'd do that to what he believed to be his daughter, I did not
know, but I wasn't about to try and find out.
'Let's just, ugh, let's just do it', I told myself, hoping Katy was
about to wake up as me and wish the world back to normal.
Looking at the items, I decided that I should put the tights on first.
My legs were starting to become frigid, not least because they were
completely lacking of hair, and I figured that it was probably what a
girl would usually do first.
I picked them up off the desk, holding them in front of me. It was now
that I noticed how small they looked when not worn, looking barely wide
enough to fit around an underfed supermodel's legs, never mind the
average legs that this body possessed.
Examining the tights some more and stretching them a bit, I noticed
that the toes seem to have the odd bobble, a reminder that this
particular pair had been worn before.
Somehow, the idea that the tights had seen at least a full day of
Katy's life before, and been worn around school with the rest of this
uniform as well, made things a whole lot worse. Not only were these
girl's clothes, but they were the clothes of a real girl, who'd lived
her all too real life in them before she'd forced it on to me.
I sat down on the bed with the tights, and stretched the opening as
best I could, trying to put my left foot in them as I would a pair of
jeans. It didn't seem to work, my foot not sliding into them as I would
typically expect.
'Right, that's not going to happen then."
My concentration on trying to figure out how to get the tights on had
led me to ignore the approach to my bedroom door of my mother, which I
only noticed as I saw her come in to my eyeline and begin to speak.
"Katy, I'm so-", she started to say, before noticing me holding the
tights and stopping.
She looked like she may have been a lot calmer than she had been when
I'd first seen her this morning, but the sight of me, for reasons she
was about to make clear, agitated her all over again.
"God, Katy, are you deliberately being so slow this morning? Come on,
get your uniform on!" she barked.
Great. This was just what I needed, a hurry-up to keep me from taking
this all at my own pace.
My mother stood looking at me, so sighing inwardly I placed my left
foot into the tights to avoid my fear of being forced into the clothes
or worse.
The stuff my foot in approach hadn't worked, so I tried to gradually
work the material up my leg, bit by bit, eventually succeeding in
getting the material halfway up my left leg to my left knee.
As I did this, my mother started to glance around the floor at all of
the items scattered around it, feeling no need to give me the privacy
to get dressed that I'd got used to since my age had been in the single
figures.
Trying to ignore my mother, I worked the material over my right leg in
the same way as the left, also reaching my knee before standing, as if
I were going to pull a pair of jeans up.
That turned out to be a mistake at best.
As I stood, I found myself stumbling over the material not yet on my
leg, only avoiding falling over by pressing my hand hard down onto the
bed.
"Katy, what are you doing?" my mother asked sharply, noticing what I
had done.
My resolve was starting to wear thin now. I had no idea how to do this,
and if anything, I'd done quite well to just get the bra on, never
mind
the tights.
It was an instinctive reaction, and probably one I'd come to regret, as
I started to bite for the first time, sounding agitated and stressed
out.
"I don't know! I'm, I'm", I said, not sure what to say and trying to
stop myself from making the situation worse.
My mother sighed, as I sat back down onto the bed behind me, the tights
still partly on and bunched up around my calves.
"I'm sorry Katy, I know your first day back won't be easy. I just don't
want you to hide in here forever and not go."
I knew the 'first day back' wouldn't be easy without my oblivious
mother telling me, although I strongly suspected she didn't mean
because I was an adult guy that had become a teenage girl and was now
trying to put on a pair of tights for the first time ever.
"I'll leave you for a couple of minutes to get dressed and come and
help you with your hair and stuff, if that'll be easier for today?"
The idea of privacy sounded good to me. Well, the idea of being left
alone until everything went back to normal sounded good to me, but that
seemed like it would be impossible.
Accepting that privacy and then getting help would be better than
guesswork, I nodded slowly, allowing my mother to leave the room.
Although she had seemingly relented, I still didn't especially want to
cross her, and so I returned to the tights with a view to getting the
unwanted clothes on before she returned.
Returning to the tights, I opted not to stand this time, instead
working them both up my legs bit by bit, taking around thirty seconds
until they covered my thighs and the white underwear that Katy had laid
out.
I messed around with them while before managing to smooth each leg out
as evenly as I could, disappointed that as I did the cold air of the
house was barely cancelled out, still reaching my new skin through the
material of the tights.
'Fucking hell, these don't stop the cold at all', I told myself,
briefly ignoring the fact that my body temperature wasn't the most
pressing of concerns right now.
The shape of the knickers was clear through the tights, the white
material clashing. Knowing how Katy had been teasing me, it wouldn't
have surprised me for her to have deliberately chosen the underwear
knowing that. Even now, she seemed to be messing with my head.
I minced across the floor, finding the contact between the carpet and
my feet unnerving and a little slippery.
Reaching the dresser, I grabbed the blouse, and put it on like a shirt.
It wasn't too difficult, although I instinctively tried to button it
on
the wrong side.
Nonetheless, once it was on it almost felt like a boy's item, although
the breasts that it seemed to accentuate were a reminder that I was no
longer a male. Also, the blouse sleeves seemed to be a little longer,
covering my elbows and leaving my upper arms looking more slender.
Next I put the tie on the same way that I always had back in my own
school days, followed by the navy blue school jumper.
As I finished pulling down the school jumper, I found solace in the
fact that, for a moment or two, albeit in the wrong body, I hadn't had
to put anything embarrassing and female on.
That was a relief that was short-lived, as I turned to the dresser,
noticing the sole remaining item sitting there. The item that I'd
dreaded the most.
'This is not going to be easy', I told myself, as if anything was right
now.
Katy had made a point of teasing me the most about the skirt the night
before, even putting it on my lap at one point while talking about how
the boys liked the style. It had given me a bit of a complex, clearly,
because I'd resigned myself to wearing a bra and tights but saw this as
infinitely worse.
In my hands now, it looked shorter than ever, and the thoughts of my
male dignity dying with it were all that echoed through my head.
I looked down at the legs of this body. Even though the tights had
barely warmed my legs up, and even though the knickers I had to wear
were visible, it crossed my mind that I'd rather just stay like this,
half-dressed, than put the skirt on at all.
'If only I could', I pondered, knowing I was pretty much trapped right
now.
I dropped the skirt to the floor, it forming something of a rectangular
shape at my feet, waiting to be stepped in to.
'Why can't she just wear trousers?'
I minced forward slowly, placing my tights-encased left foot into the
skirt on the floor, following with my right.
'One, two, oh, fuck it', I told myself.
I reached down, grabbing the material with both hands and pulling it
upward so that it surrounded my legs. I started to draw it up my legs
slowly, hearing my mother returning once more. I seemed to be
legitimately scared of my mother shouting again, and so I started to
draw it up my legs faster.
Even as the skirt passed the top of my knees, it didn't seem too
restricting, but as it reached my new thighs the tight feeling was
becoming noticeable, forcing me to slide and tug it up the rest of the
way.
With my mother now in the room watching me, I hiked the skirt up to
cover the knickers, at least getting my flat crotch out of my own view.
Still holding it up in place, I looked for a button or a zip,
eventually locating and pulling up a thin zip on my left side which
only worked to make the skirt feel even tighter than it already was.
As I released my hand from the zip, a big part of me wanted to scream
or cry, as I realised all too well that I was now fully dressed in a
girl's school uniform.
The blouse and jumper were offering the only real warmth to the body,
the two layers enough to cancel out the cold of the house. The skirt
was tightly encasing my legs, and as I stepped forward I felt the
material heavily limit the movement of my thighs.
'Fucking hell, why do girls choose to wear these things?'
I dreaded to think how I actually looked right now from an external
perspective, and made a point to not look in the nearby mirror as I
turned to my mother, idly standing and hoping she would provide some
guidance.
Luckily, she read my facial expressions, and decided to tell me exactly
what else Katy would do in this situation.
"Ok, dear, I guess I'll do your hair for you and help you with your
make-up, unless you want to do it yourself now?"
"Umm, can you do it for me please?" I replied.
I knew it was odd for a 14-year-old to have her mother help her get
partly ready, but for some odd reason, it seemed that Katy had been off
school for a while and her return was a big deal. I didn't care why
she'd been off, of course, but if I could use it to make life easier
for now, then I would do so.
"Alright, sit down. Are you wearing a hair band today?"
I sat down at the chair at the dresser, feeling the skirt at the back
catch on the chair and ride up. I heard my mother giggle a bit.
"I can tell you've not worn your uniform for a while, don't do that
today!" she said light-heartedly.
I looked up over my head to my mother, not entirely sure what she was
talking about.
"Do what?" I plainly asked.
"Sit down like that, everyone will see your knickers", she told me.
I could feel my face burn a little, meaning I was probably blushing at
my mother referring to people seeing the underwear that I'd only had to
put on a short time ago, and that stood out due to the colour clash.
"So darling, hair band or not?" my mother asked again.
I really had no interest in choosing a hairstyle, but it did cross my
mind quickly that the hair had been a huge annoyance since I'd woken up
in this body, constantly getting in the way of my eyes and in my
mouth.
I figured hair bands were designed partly to prevent that.
Just as I was about to say yes, however, I remembered that I'd seen
Katy in a hair band and felt it had made her look younger. The last
thing I needed was to give people a reason to make life more difficult
for me, and so I settled on an answer.
"No", I quietly answered.
"Well, alright then."
My mother grabbed a brush and stood in front of me, and proceeded to
start brushing the hair on my head around. She seemed to be brushing it
in random directions at first, but after a moment or two I started to
notice it appearing more in the corner of my left eye, and then the
motions continuing more in that direction.
After what seemed like an age of brushing, she eventually stood back.
"Ok, does that feel alright to you?"
For the first time the hair didn't feel as it were about to get in my
eyes, and thankful for that at least, I nodded.
I then watched as my mother picked up a tall, pink can and sprayed it
all around my hair a little, leaving a feminine scent in the room that
I'd smelled plenty of times before when my mother had used hair spray.
I'd used hair spray before myself when I'd had hair of a medium length,
but I'd also made sure to use a scentless one, and had bemoaned
running
out and having to use my mother's due to the horrible feminine smell it
left in the air.
It was probably supposed to be a nice, perfumed smell, but instead all
it managed to do is offend my confused senses a little bit more.
"Alright sweetie, now I'll just put a bit of foundation on and you
should be ready for the day", she continued.
The word 'sweetie' made me cringe pretty visibly, but didn't concern my
mother at all. I suppose even the real Katy might have found that
patronising at age 14, but then she seemed relatively feminine, as I
was all too reminded by the tight skirt around my thighs and the
feeling of the tights whenever I wriggled my toes.
For the next few moments I found my face being touched and dabbed on
with a large brush, and my eyelashes stroked with a small brush. It
didn't seem like she was doing much, but I knew all too well of the no
make-up policy at my old school, that I appeared to be condemned to
attending for a spell unless I could think up a way out very soon.
Eventually my mother finished with the brushes and stepped back, taking
a look at me for a moment or two and smiling before standing up and
towering over my seated body.
"Ok, that's you all done. Get your shoes on and come downstairs, we'll
have to dash off soon", she replied.
At this point I realised that I hadn't eaten yet, but food wasn't
really a key issue for me right now. After all, I'd just been told I
was about to have to go outside.
Outside. As a girl. Wearing this stuff.
Was there going to be any last minute way to avoid this?
I sat down in the chair for a few moments to collect my thoughts.
Clearly my mother was in a rush for whatever reason, and she'd got
ready herself during the time in which I'd been in the bathroom trying
to figure a way out of the mess I was now in.
Additionally, I was being parented a lot more strongly than I had been
before the apparent swap, almost treated more like I had been as a
primary school child in my own school years. Clearly my parents saw
more of a need to be strict with a daughter than a son.
I slowly stood up and glanced around the room, and knew that any
resistance would be pointless, and that my fate, for now at least, was
sealed.
'Just get through this Tony, this won't be forever', I attempted to
convince myself.
I glanced around the messy floor to try and spot a pair of shoes that
resembled something a girl would wear to school. I knew that Katy had
thrown them somewhere the night before, and eventually I spotted both
of them below the bedroom window.
I made my way over to them, partly wanting to get something onto my
feet to remove the sensation of the tights on the carpet, but also
realising it would unwelcomely complete the schoolgirl look that I was
now undesirably rocking.
I picked one of the shoes up, and examined it. I'd only ever worn
loafers to school, some some girls had also done, albeit normally if
they were a bit of a tomboy or a chav.
Unfortunately for me, Katy wasn't either of those things, and I quickly
noticed that Katy's school shoes of choice were a pair of especially
girly black ballet flats, not too dissimilar to those that she'd worn
on the first day that we had met.
The shoes possessed a small, fake, fastended gold buckle on a strap
across the front, seemingly present for aesthetic reasons than to
actually be used. The shoes appeared to be quite cheaply-produced, and
close-up looked to be well-worn, with the soles of the shoes heavily
faded and the front a little bit scuffed.
'She's probably worn these for most of her time at the school', I told
myself, just as uncomfortable with the idea as I had been with the
tights earlier.
I dumped the shoe that I had picked up back onto the floor, slipping my
foot into it and finding that it slid in very easily due to the tights
that I had no choice but to be wearing.
The second shoe went on just as smoothly, my heel fitting snugly into
the item and the shoe encasing the sides of my foot but leaving the top
exposed to the world save for the black tights.
At that point, I looked around and realised that I had done exactly
what I'd said I'd try to not do.
I'd just fully gotten ready for a day in the life of a teenage school
girl.
At this stage I needed to see how I looked, how the world would
perceive me with this identity. I knew I looked like Katy from the
bathroom mirror earlier, but I knew that the school uniform and my
mother's efforts would have changed my appearance, probably for me for
the worse.
Walking in front of the mirror, I looked at myself and immediately
wished that I'd stayed ignorant to my appearance.
'Fuck, it's, it's just like in the photo', I freaked out mentally.
Before me stood the very picture of Katy in the photo she had teasingly
tagged as me on Facebook early on in this whole debacle. Back when I
had no reason to believe swapping places was even possible, and back
when I had a chance to stop it from happening.
The navy blue school jumper, with petite but noticeable breasts
protruding out as two mounds, made my gender all too clear. A tight
navy skirt that caused my steps to become mincing and had rode up the
moment I had sat down, ended considerably above my new knees and showed
off Katy's smooth legs.
The tights, that made my legs an opaque black, just like any schoolgirl
that chose to wear a skirt to school on a cold day. My feet, encased
in
a pair of worn school shoes, which had an annoyingly feminine look,
outing Katy as the kind of girl that wanted to add something pretty to
her otherwise regulation uniform.
My face was made up just like hers normally was, and unlike in the
bathroom mirror earlier, no blemishes were in sight. Instead was a
slightly cute, yet relatively average-looking teenage girl, who looked
every bit her fourteen years.
Finally, my hair had been done in a standard style with a fringe, just
like the majority of teenage girls I'd attended classes with several
years ago.
My examination left me, above all else, one question.
'How the hell can this be me?'
Before I could answer myself, as if I could have done so I heard a call
from my father to hurry up and get downstairs.
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Seeing myself in a mirror all dressed up as a girl should have been the
worst feeling of the morning, but as I slowly yet obediently walked
downstairs, I noticed more signs of the situation that I was, as of
right now, seemingly unable to escape.
Our staircase and hallway had always been decorated with family photos,
mainly of myself and my two parents, but also of my grandparents and
extended family, dating back to my childhood and to before I had even
been born.
The presence of the photos hadn't changed, but as I looked at them,
every single one that had formerly had me, Tony Bradley, in it had been
replaced by the intruder in my life and the thief of my body, Katy
Campbell.
If the photos meant anything, the entire past had been altered so that
Katy had always been a part of my family, and that I had never been.
A photo from my final year of primary school, of me in my school
uniform, had been replaced by a photo of a primary school girl, wearing
her own school uniform of a grey pleated skirt and a white polo shirt.
The photo was dated only a few years ago, a reminder of my new age.
Our family holiday to Spain when I was a ten-year-old had gone from me
standing with a beachball next to my dad in swim shorts to my dad
cradling a female toddler in his arms.
The holiday photo from five years before that didn't feature me at all
or a replacement, no doubt because Katy hadn't even been born when I
was a young child.
'Shit', I told myself, stating the obvious.
I reached the bottom of the stairs wanting to cry, and not knowing why
I hadn't yet during the awful past hour or so, considered turning
around and running straight back upstairs.
Before I had a chance, I was met by my mother, handing me a girl's
black canvas school bag and a sandwich bun.
"We've got to go so you'll have to have your breakfast on the way,
sorry", my mother explained.
I looked down at the sandwich I'd been given, but found myself being
ushered towards the door, and my reluctance to move being met with
disapproval.
"I've got to get to work Katy! Let's go", my mother explained.
"Do as your mother says, and have fun", my father chimed in, adding a
sarcastic slant to the word 'fun."
Annoyingly the staircase was not far from the front door, and before
I'd had a chance to think of how to act I was nearing the doorstep,
before my mother overtook me and finally let me maneuver of my own
accord.
'Think, Tony, think', I demanded of myself.
The front door was now wide open, the world going about its average
Monday morning, while I was about to possibly experience the biggest
living nightmare and the most unaverage day imaginable.
My mother had already reached the car and opened the passenger door for
me, as I realised that I was going to have to either fully resist or
go
ahead with a day in Katy's life.
I looked around one last time to evaluate my options. My father was
behind me, presumably to wave my mother and myself goodbye for the
morning, but inadvertently preventing me from re-entering the house.
I again couldn't just run away, especially not in a school uniform,
because I'd only eventually get caught up to by my mother in a car or,
worse yet, caught by a community support officer and brought back home
to be scolded.
"Katy! Come on!" my mother called, getting into the car on the driver's
side.
It was clear. Right now, there was no escape.
I physically stamped my foot a little in frustration, unaware of if
either of my parents had noticed, but finding the loud slap of the
flats on my foot against the doorstep to not have the desired effect.
I headed toward the passenger side of the car, getting flashbacks once
more to the night that the real Katy had stood in the vicinity wearing
jeans, handing me the much more feminine and undeniably teenage clothes
of hers that I was wearing now.
As I stepped into the car, I tried to block it all out and pretend that
this somehow wasn't happening, that life would be back to normal soon.
I made a crude effort to prevent the skirt riding up as it had earlier
as I sat down, and proceeded to distract myself by closing my eyes and
beginning to eat the sandwich.
I heard the roar of an engine. I felt the motion of a car accelerating.
Then, it clicked.
This was the point of no return.
I was clearly going to be driven straight to the grounds of my old
school, at which point I'd not be able to get away from the place until
the end of the school day, unless the hopeful happened and everything
reverted back to normal before then.
I would be expected to do all of the things that a school kid would do.
Answer to the name Katy on the register, complete classwork, hand in
homework, and be coerced into chatting about whatever juvenile things
Katy talked about with her friends.
That would have been bad enough without it being in a skirt, that I'd
been told boys liked on a girl, or items of clothing like a bra and
tights that only girls would justifiably wear outside of a fancy dress
party or University bar crawl.
I opened my eyes and turned to my mother, who was keeping her attention
solely to the road and had not spoken to me, barely acknowledging my
existence. As we continued along the road, my concerns only began to
heighten, and my heart started to beat that little bit faster.
At that point, I saw the final straw for my mental resolve to get
through this.
We were on the main road to the school by now, less than five minutes
away in the car, and I started to spot navy blue clad individuals of
varying shapes and sizes on both sides of the street, moving in the
same direction as the much faster car.
From groups of boys chatting away to girls texting on their mobile
phones, to the odd kid on their own and the tall, leggy, final year
female students, every one of them was casually making their way to
school on a Monday morning.
'Fuck, fuck, I'm not one of these!' I fretted to myself.
I turned to my mother, still ignoring me, and decided that it was time
to stop trying. This was all a lie, and I had to let her know it now,
because I couldn't do this.
'I need to tell her I'm her son, her 21-year-old son', I said to
myself.
I turned my head to her, and opened my mouth to demand we turn back
because her son should not have to be in this situation.
Instead, it turned out, I said nothing at all.
I tried again. Then, it hit me.
'What, I can't say this? Oh, shit', I said to myself.
I'd briefly forgotten all about Katy's statement the night before, that
we'd be unable to speak of the switch at any time and tell anyone who
we really were.
I sat looking dumbfounded at my mother, before she noticed in the
corner of her eye that I was looking at her.
"Katy, do you want to say something?"
I could feel a slight stinging in my eyes, as if I was about to break
down in front of her. That would probably have been the best thing, but
my masculine resolve was still clearly slightly intact, and so instead
I lowered my head to look at my feet.
"N-No, nothing", I meekly replied.
A few moments later we pulled off the main road and onto the side road
toward the school, eventually pulling up near to the gates, the paths
around us even more swamped with school children and my mind in a
complete panic.
Pulling into the car park, the car eventually came to a halt
immediately in front of the reception area, which had always been
separate to the student entrances and so proved to be thankfully
quieter than the rest of the surrounding locality.
As the car stopped, it was clear what I was supposed to do, but my
mother helpfully reminded me regardless.
"Alright, you've got to go to reception remember, and Mr. Bailey will
meet you there."
I sighed, outwardly, my mother not noticing.
"I've got to work until five today, so will you be alright walking
home?" she continued.
I responded by shrugging my shoulders, looking around out of the
windows.
"I'll take that as a yes. I'll see you at home, then."
My mother hesitated for a moment before reaching over and kissing me on
the cheek, something she'd never have done before when I had been of
school age.
Of course, to her right now, I wasn't a guy with macho pride. I was
Katy, and I was now in the car park about to experience a day of
school.
Reluctantly I pulled down the car door handle, and swung my legs out of
the car, being met by a cold gust of wind that acted to bring
everything from the skirt downward right back to the chilly
temperatures of earlier on.
Grabbing the bag from the foot of the passenger seat, I took one last
look at my mother in the hope I could say why this was wrong, before
sighing inwardly and stepping away from the car.
Immediately after I closed the door the car moved away. Just a few
seconds later it had disappeared out of the gates and down the road, my
mother heading toward her workplace and leaving what she thought to be
her daughter for her big day back at school.
I was on my own now. On my own with the identity of a teenage girl.
I glanced around, and resigned to this horrible experience continuing
for now, I stepped toward the reception area. I'd have dithered outside
for longer, but the morning was very cold, and indoors seemed like a
better idea right now.
The automatic doors slid open as I approached, and I stepped inside. A
couple of steps further forward and the doors shut behind me, the faint
sound of their closure symbolic of my current predicament.
I looked around. I'd not been in the reception area for a few years,
but it hadn't changed. At my feet was a dark red carpet, and
comfortable chairs lay to my left, a corridor to my right and a
reception desk directly in front of me.
I looked around nervously before noticing that the receptionist was
looking straight toward me, no doubt awaiting the enquiry of a young
girl that would normally have entered via the student gates, and not
the reception area reserved for teachers and visiting adults.
As I walked toward her in the hope that this would all end right now,
only one question was on my mind.
'How the hell do I get out of this?'
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AUTHOR NOTES - A big thanks goes to Jaime Ehlers for proofreading this
chapter. I also thank the readers that offered their feedback, and also
those that e-mailed me recently to tell me to hurry up with this part!