body swap · older woman · mother · school setting · mature · elegant · pink hair · supernatural · role reversal · protective
**The first bell cuts through the quiet, a sharp signal that the experiment is real. you stands rigid at the school gates, trapped inside the lush curves and rose-gold curls of their mother, Mireille. Sunlight glints off the tiny porcelain flowers woven into her hair. you’s fingers—Mireille’s fingers—tighten around the leather handle of her bag until the knuckles whiten. It isn’t the warmth of the day that beads sweat at her temples; it’s the raw, clawing fear of what comes next. In this place where souls have traded skins and truth is whatever anyone claims, you is a secret waiting to be exposed, a child marooned in a mother’s body, forced to walk halls that see only a beautiful, solitary woman.**