This choice: She decides to head home and live with her changes • Go Back...Chapter #6Living with Her Changes by: sget   Mick frowns softly and shakes her head.
"Sorry, but I can't risk it," she says. "We swapped a few things, but unless there's a sure way to swap those traits back, I'm not going to gamble. At least I'm mostly intact, I'll just have to learn to live with it."
"Are you sure? You're living in my crappy dorm now. Who knows if your roommate even still remembers you? Plus you've got my name."
"We swapped our housing arrangements, not our friends. The contacts in my phone are all still the same as far as I can tell. Dani and I are more than just roommates, you know. And the name... Keep it. I know it's the swap, but I hardly feel like a Nancy. From where I'm standing, it fits you more than me. Everything else, the shoes and underwear, that's just material. I can buy myself new shoes anytime."
"Yeah, and I guess you won the height trade. Still, I wish you'd reconsider," frowned Nancy. "It could be a lot of fun, experimenting with it further. Honestly, I couldn't wait to try this staff out when I got it. Now that we've used it once, I can't help but want to go deeper down that rabbit hole. Learn how far it can go and see what else it can do."
Mick only shrugs. "I didn't even want to swap the first time."
She turns and walks out the door. She pauses for a moment and looks back to the boy with her name through the doorway. "Also, I liked being short," she says softly and walks away.
Nancy clicks the door shut and collapses onto the bed. With a deep sigh, he looks over at the staff that now leans against the wall. "Think she'll come back, mysterious disembodied voice?"
The staff, and whatever powerful entity gifted it to him, remains silent.
"Yeah, me too," he says to himself. "Well, I guess we might as well check out the new place. Get familiarized and whatnot."
--
Outside, at least happy not to be wearing heels at the moment, Mick trudges through heavy winds toward her new dorm. Checking her phone while she walks, she starts flipping through old photos. The first one shows her and her mom at some vacation.
"That doesn't tell me much," she mumbles as she swipes.
The next is a selfie of herself in Nancy's old dorm.
'Mick. Mick's old dorm,' she internally reminds herself. The bed is an cheap, easily manufactured thing shoved between a cluttered desk and a window with a view of a brick wall. There doesn't look to be much of a path to the door from the desk without hopping over the bed.
"God, it's tiny!"
She recognizes the covers on the bed as the ones her mom bought her before she moved. She also notices some of her school hoodies and a pair of men's boxers hanging out of the cheap hamper she bought when she moved in, barely in frame of the photo.
"This is so weird." She grinds her teeth for a moment and flips to the next pic. This one is of herself and Dani at the beach, each smiling and holding ice cream.
"That's a relief. Doesn't look like our trip south last summer went much different than before.
She notices that she's wearing her yellow bikini in this pic and enjoys the small comfort that at least her bikini bottoms haven't been swapped away with her panties. She is taller than Dani for once in the photo, but decides she doesn't care at the moment. Maybe if she keeps telling herself she doesn't care, she'll start to believe it.
As she walks to her dorm she finds her gaze attracted to a little shopping mall she used to go to, here and there. "What the hell. It's been a day. Between the presentation this morning leaving me dressed like an office worker and the whole Nancy fiasco, I think I've earned a treat."
She stops into the mall and ducks into a shoe store. Passing by all the customers, she begins to picture different swaps she could be left with if any of these people walked up to her with that staff instead of Nancy. She shutters at the thought of being less like herself than she already is.
Eventually, she finds a cute pair of flats and sits down on a nearby bench with them. Looking over to the next closest bench, she sees an attractive asain women with her daughter or young sister, maybe.
'She's awful cute,' Mick thinks to herself idly as she slips the shoes onto her small feet. 'Honestly, I wouldn't mind taking some of her features. Wouldn't be too different from my own, but it would be interesting. I bet her hair would look great with a dress I've got back home.'
As she looks at the woman, the woman looks back confused. She gives Mick a real funny look and walks away, her daughter or sister in tow.
"What was that about?" She mumbles to herself.
Finding the new shoes to fit nicely, she places Nancy's old sneakers into the box for the flats and walks up to the check-out counter. There, she slides the box to the man at the counter and he opens it, revealing the old sneakers.
"Oh, I'm wearing them out," Mick smiles sweetly and points down to her feet.
The man gives her a funny look, similar to the one the asain lady had given her, but ultimately resigns to shrugging and scanning the box.
On her way out of the shoe store and to the lingerie shop, she finds that more people still are looking at her funny. To Mick though, it just feels good to be in shoes she could call her own again. She does her best to put it out of her mind and focus on the task at hand.
As she enters the shop, a store attendant greets her and walks out from behind the counter. She's quite tall, though still shorter than Mick, with wild red hair barely contained by a hair tie.
"Hello, there!" The attendant forces a fake grin effortlessly. "Anything I can help you find? Brassières?"
"No, actually. Just panties."
"Pan-" The lady stops herself short and takes a moment to recompose. "I'm sorry, we don't sell men's underwear here. Boxers and the like, I mean. We're a lingerie shop."
Confused, Mick frowns and arches a brow. "No, no. I mean't what I said. I just came in looking for panties. Women's panties."
"For a friend, then?" The lady says before glancing down and noticing the cute flats on Mick's feet. "Oh, I see. You're one of those alternative types. Um... Okay, let me show you which aisle they would be in."
Finally it clicks, and Mick's face goes red. "Oh, um, maybe I should leave." Nervously, she tucks a strand of dark hair behind her ear.
The attendant stops and turns back to Mick. "Hey, don't worry. You're not the first to come in here and break the norms. You just didn't seem the type. Let me help you find what you're looking for, and then you can leave like nothing even happened. Is this your first time?"
"N-no."
--
Some time later, Nancy is laying on the couch at his new apartment, playing GTA on his old and beat-up PS2, when Dani walks in on the phone, startling him. She's still in her med school scrubs, her tangled hair struggling to escape the tight blonde bun she'd trapped it in.
"At the mall today?" She drops her keys and bag on the kitchen counter and waves to Nancy, who awkwardly reciprocates. "Really? You were in a lingerie store?" She leans against the fridge, seemingly befuddled. "No, don't worry. I'm sure it'll be fine. Whatever this is."
"Who is it?" Nancy mouths to his new roommate silently, pausing his game.
"Look, I'm sure you'll feel better if you get some sleep. I just got home, so I'm gonna have to let you go." She says before holding one finger up to her roommate. "Yeah, I'll talk to you soon. You'll be okay."
"Who was it?" Nancy repeats out loud when Dani hangs up. She walks over and plops onto the couch beside him.
"My friend Mick. I don't think you've met her yet."
"Oh. She okay?"
"I dunno," she flashes a worried grin. "Sounds like she was having a breakdown about women's underwear. She seemed fine earlier today. Maybe her presentation didn't go as well as she let on."
"I... Might be able to explain that."
"Oh?" She laughs. "Alright Mister Psychic Powers. Tell me what's up with my friend."
--
Mick hangs up the phone, her eyes red from crying, and slumps backwards onto her new bed. She looks at the bag from the mall in the center of her cramped and cluttered dorm room. It wasn't long after she bought the pack of panties that she slipped into a women's bathroom stall and switched back to her ratty sneakers, dropping the flats in with the underwear.. She couldn't bring herself to think of the sneakers as her own, but at least she could go without stares in them.
"Guess this is my life now," she says to herself. "I don't think Dani picked up anything I said, but she's right. I should get some sleep."
Rolling out of bed, she slips out of her dress shirt and skirt, revealing her boxers. "Gross," she looks in disdain at the men's underwear clinging to her hips. "I did end up buying the panties, even if it was mostly out of awkwardness at that point. Maybe... It's not like anyone would ever see my underwear anyway, right?"
After a moment's thought, she lets the boxers drop around her toes and opens the package of new panties. Slipping them on, along with a tight cropped tee, she hops under the covers and stares out the window at the brick wall across the way. She watches as a light pitter-patter of rain hits the wall and runs down in streaks. "That needs to be me," she thinks to herself. "I just need to be steady like that wall and let all of these changes run off me."
She keeps watching the brick until she drifts to sleep.
--
"Wait, wait. You used a magic staff on my friend?" Dani looked at her roommate bewildered. "What?"
"Exactly. I can prove it." Nancy spins the staff idly. "No going back if I do, though. Probably. Unless we get super lucky with chance."
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