“Dude what do you mean you aren't coming, we've had these playoff tickets for weeks!” Jeff yelled incredulously into the phone. He sat down on his recliner, frustrated.
“It's Naomi, she's got a migraine and needs me to stay home with her. I mean she can't help it” His best friend Mitch replied
“Conveniently again” Jeff grumbled under his breath.”You can't believe her, come on man she always has a migraine, or a stomach ache or just can't handle going out, any time you want to go somewhere without her. If it isn't what she wants to do she sabotages things you have to see that man.”
“That's not fair man” Mitch replied
“Really? How about when we were supposed to go out for Riley's graduation? She was worried she would be nauseous. Or Kevin's birthday, or when we were all going to meet up for Taco's at El Pastor” Jeff said
“She said you would do this, that you don't understand her poor health or how tough it is being all the way in San Francisco with all her family back in NY. I can't believe she was right, I thought my best friend would understand.” Mitch yelled. “Ya know what lose my number for awhile until you aren't bad mouthing my girl”
Jeff went to protest but the line was no longer active. They had literally spent $400 each for court side playoff tickets that now it was go alone, or sell them at a huge loss. Naomi was toxic how could he not see it? She ONLY wanted to spend time with him. Everyone else was out to get her. Oh how could he leave her alone she came out to be with him.
He went to his computer and sold the tickets, at a loss, online. Damn that witch, damn her right back to the east coast hell she came out of. Maybe she would break up with him, he doubted it. Honestly it was only a matter of time before Mitch proposed and that would be it. He would never see his best friend, the man that saved his life when they were kids when he was drowning in a pool, the man who he had loved like a brother since they were 4, again.
It brought a tear to Jeff's eye, and he quickly wiped it away. He heard a chime on his computer. It was a message from Raven, Mitch's baby sister. He liked her well enough, she was a little kooky always on about her pagan circle. She was studying in Stanford. She messaged him on discord.
BlackbirdRising: Hey Jeff, I heard you got Naomi-fied again
ChaosKing3: yep, I should have expected it
BlackbirdRising: Damn that bitch is so much negative energy around my brother it really needs to be resolved, it is like she has some sort of spell over him.
ChaosKing3:you know it is just cause your brother is such a good guy,right?
BlackbirdRising: I know but it hurts to see him get used like that
ChaosKing3: I know squirt but what can we do?
BlackbirdRising: we could break them up
ChaosKing3: no then Mitch would just hate us
BlackbirdRising:Not if he didn't know it was us, look I can explain, do you mind if I stop by, I'll explain, I'll bring beer and we can even watch the playoffs.
ChaosKing3: OK squirt
Two hours later Jeff was buzzing Raven up to his loft. The tiny girl had a giant backpack on and a super oversize Stanford hoodie on over purple leggings. She also had two six packs of a really good IPA the kid had good taste. Jeff wished sometimes he was a little bit younger Raven was everything he wanted in a girl. She was essentially Mitch with a vagina a lot of ways. “OK squirt, talk to me how to we takeout the black-haired bitch.” Jeff said opening a beer.
Raven sat on the couch next to Jeff, “So here's the deal bean pole, you need to keep an open mind here what I'm going to say is going to sound very weird and possibly unbelievable OK.”
Jeff chuckled “wow, that is all very ominous and foreboding you're prose is improving squirt all the English course you're taking”
She slapped him in the arm “sush, OK, so here is what would need to happen for Mitch to move on, Naomi would need to break up with him in such a way that he would never take her back .. and” she held up a hand cutting off anything smart alack thing Jeff was about to say “ I know what you are going to say 'but Raven she has such an easy life with Mitch waiting on her why would she do that' well Jeff”
She pulled out a marble bust of a unicorn. The base is covered in what look to be runes, possibly viking. “This is a sacred artifact my coven has, with the stored manna in it I can swap you and her into each others bodies for 72 hours. You would be her and her you, I know that part sucks it can't be helped, then you burn every bridge between her and Mitch come back and we get the best of us back”
Jeff is taken aback he really didn't know Raven thought that highly of her brother. He did miss his friend and being trapped with Naomi wasn't going to make anyone happy least of which Mitch. “OK I don't believe it would work but I will do it, can we start?”
Raven nodded, “I wish you were a girl so you could marry my brother I think you would make the best sister”
“Cute, do it” Jeff replied.
Raven touched the statue in many different ways it reminded Jeff of someone typing. Then he felt nothing, everything went dark. No not nothing, something cold, something cold and wet running down his head. He reached his hand up, yep cold and wet and …..soft. A towel it was wet.
His vision was all blurry, why he wondered, he moved his hands down over his face, smooth very, very smooth. He kept going, his chest oh god........she actually did it. Jeff screamed....