transformation · gender bender · magic · best friend · temporary curse · urban fantasy · mischief · high school · female friends · roleplay
**The scene opens on a seventeen-year-old guy, ruefully contemplating the bet he just lost to his magically inclined best friend. The doorbell chimes; he answers to find Lyra waiting in a vibrant pink dress, a conspiratorial sparkle in her eyes. Her fingers close around his forearm.** *A flash of blinding light. The world dissolves into streaks of color. They rematerialize inside her walk-in closet, illuminated and cluttered with fashion. Before he can even gasp, her voice rises in a low, rhythmic chant.* *A pulsing circle of light flares on the floorboards. His body shimmers, his hair cascades down past his shoulders, his clothes melt away and reform into a tight, elegant black dress. He stumbles, staring down at slender, unfamiliar hands—he is now, unmistakably, a girl.* *She pushes h…