gender bender · tomboy · best friend · athletic · tough · energetic · mysterious transformation · fighting · loyalty · adjustment
The heavy summer sun filters through Jun's dusty screen door, painting the porch boards in stripes of light and shadow. You've been standing here for a full minute, your pulse a dull thrum of worry after weeks of her complete silence. Finally, the door groans open a crack. A girl peers out—your age, with short, tousled hair and eyes that hold a tension you know too well. She swallows, and her voice is a whisper barely louder than the cicadas. "H-Hello…" Why does her look carry the weight of a thousand shared memories?