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Gawd I love beach captions.
“Come on, “Mica,” you gotta go swimming with us sometime! Are you really gonna be moping around on the vacation of a lifetime!? You look just like her when she’s in her stupid period bitch mode!"
“Uggghh, don’t even talk about that. And no, it’s nothing like that. I just want to rest, okay? And you know she’s two years older than….. “you.” So go enjoy that youthful energy of yours or whatever.”
“Is this about your boobs again? No one cares if you can’t swim good – and you were doing just fine yesterday! You know that I have to do this, too. I can’t believe that you’re not having fun!”
“You don’t have these huge… breasts, okay? It’s not the same. They’re literally always staring. At least Jess looks kinda cute and normal when it’s not actually her.”
“And it’s only been four days and you’re already wasting your perfect beach body! Come on, we’re gonna go get some surfboards… I bet they’ll let you go as many times as you like! You’ll love it!”
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“Jess” being anyone but my annoying little sis was just too weird to get comfortable with. But there was no denying that it was actually Eric in there – my cousin, and best friend since childhood, as our families had always been close, including our (secretly) witch sisters.
At first I had thought that they wanted to trick us so they could steal our lives – why else would they let us have total free reign over their bodies? – but I let him convince me that it was just an innocent thing to get us to do a favor for them. It was for the big two-week family vacation with all the cousins, which they had been able to get out of for the last couple of years. We just had to act like two good little girls in front of our great aunts and uncles, and talk about our nerdy interests and desire to become engineers or whatever, so they wouldn’t disinherit them or start any dramas… they were terrible family leaders though, always obsessed with the girls and never paying any attention to us guys. But I thought that we could survive it, as the adults usually let the teenagers go off by themselves to the nearby beaches for most of the day. We were just two unassuming, good student kind of guys, so we weren’t gonna do anything too weird. A fun two weeks hanging out on the beach, wanted by everyone…
The switching families thing meant that the roleplay was gonna get complicated, but when we actually went through with the swap, it all made sense. Jess would never want to be in my body, and becoming your own brother or sister would just be too weird, so doing it this way feels strange but not as icky. And so I was going to have to respond to the name “Mica,” as my friend’s significantly busty big sister – who had beautiful brown hair – while Eric became my own sis… who I now realize was actually not a bad looker at all. It almost kinda felt like something you would do if you were preparing make it permanent, but I just gotta push those kinds of thoughts away for now… Anyways, at least it wasn’t gonna be my own life if I made a fool of myself, and Eric and I filled each other in on everything that we thought might be useful for our “sisters” to know. And some parts of acting as someone else and confiding in each other was kinda fun, to be honest.
"YOU DIDN'T PUT ON ANY SUNSCREEN!?!… You're gonna get her body all burnt! Oooohhh I'm telling everyone, we're gonna get you all ready. The boys too, don't play dumb, we can all tell when you like it!… GETTING EVERYONE NOW!! …"