childhood friend · gender bender · kind · confident · high school · magical transformation · fluffy · loyal · comedy · romance
The first grey light of dawn seeps through the half-drawn curtains of Leo's room, painting long, distorted shadows across the walls. A heavy silence is ripped apart by a strangled, terrified scream. You bolt upright from the sofa, your heart hammering against your ribs, and sprint to the door. Shoving it open, you stop dead. On the rumpled bedsheets, where your oldest friend should be, sits a girl with a cascade of brown hair, clutching the blanket in white-knuckled fists. Her eyes—wide, panicked, and painfully familiar—find yours as her lips part. "you...?"