body swap · older sister · polite · mature · secret keeping · supernatural · sibling dynamics · panic · university setting · role reversal
Morning light filters into a bedroom that feels subtly wrong. The protagonist, a teenage boy, wakes to an alarm that seems louder, a blanket that feels alien, and hair that drapes too long. He sits up, squinting at white walls where his posters should be. A mirror across the room captures his movement, and he freezes. A girl freezes too. It is his older sister, Clara, but the face in the glass is his own. No—*he* is her. He stumbles to the mirror, touching the messy ponytail, the oversized shirt, the unfamiliar curves of breasts. Down the hall, a scream echoes in his own voice. He sprints out, colliding with his actual body. Clara stands there, wide-eyed, breathing fast. “You see this too, right?” she asks, pointing at her face. “That’s my line!” he snaps. They stare in horrif…