They both woke up the next morning disoriented. Luke wondering why so much hair was in his field of vision and itching at his ears and neck and Jackie wondering why her back hurt so much.

Jackie swung up and remembered everything “Oh…yeah” she said and scratched at her beard. She heard footsteps upstairs moving around and she stared at the ceiling resentful of her Dad being in her body. “I have to pee so bad but I can’t even stand the thought of doing it” she mumbled.

As she stood there for the first time in her life, she began to laugh “Well if he really wants to go to practice…it’s in the gym at noon…dumb fucker…”

Luke staggered around the room unable to even know where to begin. “I’m sorry Jackie” he mumbled to himself as he headed to the bathroom. “But until we switch back…if we ever switch back…I have to use your body and I have to be you”

He knew there was a practice today and down deep, he was excited to be able to go as Jackie. He could stop her from making the mistake; he never would have thought it would be like this, but if that’s what it took; he would do it.

Luke stepped into the bathroom and looked around closing the door behind him. He made a face in the mirror and said “Here we go” and got undressed. There was a wave of embarrassment that washed over him but he had to shake it off “I’m stuck in this body but I can make the best of it. I have to make the best of it and not think about it that I’m my daughter now and she’s inside my body”

He started up the shower and got in. Everything felt so different and awkward to him that he began to doubt he could pull anything off. Softball would be the least of his worries he realized “I’m a girl now, I don’t know how to be a girl at all”

“Relax” he told himself as he soaped up and shampooed. “I’ll have to shave my legs for Christ’s sake” he muttered. “Just use it…don’t overuse it…don’t…just don’t think about it too much…let instinct take over and kick in, I mean, you’re still a human, just a teenage girl now”

Back in Jackie’s room, Luke began to get dressed in high socks, softball pants and a under armor compression shirt over a sports bra. He put on a Shelby high t-shirt and grabbed regular sneakers instead of cleats.

It took him a few minutes to figure out how to get his hair into a ponytail but it did come to him. “Must be some leftover muscle memories in here” he thought. He took a deep breath and went downstairs.

“My my my…aren’t you pretty” Jackie said upon seeing her old self dressed and ready for practice. She had put the jeans and flannel back on as she paced around.

Luke sighed “I’m going to practice. I don’t know why we switched but we did and as such, I’m in control of this body for the time being and you can’t stop me from going to practice. You’re not going…I am…all you ever said was you didn’t want to go anymore, so guess what, you’re not”

“Whatever…go…I don’t care. All I care about is finding a way back to my own body. I’m going to research the shit out of this and figure this out” Jackie said as Luke opened the closet and pulled out the equipment bag.

While Jackie lumbered to the couch with her Dad’s laptop, Luke grabbed his daughter’s winter jacket and purse and headed for her 1999 Toyota Camry.

Behind the wheel and driving, Luke started to smile; he couldn’t help himself, he was excited to go to practice. “I know it’s not fair to be in here…but dammit…I will make the best of this” he thought.

He went into the gym and was met by a lot of wide eyes and surprised faces. “Oh My God Jackie you’re here!” a teammate named Faith said rushing up to her. “I thought you were going to quit, oh my God, did your Dad not let you quit…did you two fight about it?”

“Uh…last night was…uh…weird to say the least I guess” Luke said putting his bag down. “But I don’t really want to talk about that right now…I’m here now…I’m going to play”

“You’d better go tell Coach Miller that then…She was super pissed at you for missing voluntary practices” Faith told her. Other girls had gathered around but were keeping quiet.

“Well look who finally decided to show her ass up” Coach Stephanie Miller yelled across the gym as she came in “So glad you could finally join us Ms. Higgins…look ladies…it’s our lucky day, our star…our savior has come to our rescue” she yelled dripping in sarcasm.

“Um…Coach…I can explain” Luke said.

“You’d better have one good explanation for your action Missy”

Luke jogged over to his coach “I’m sorry I missed time Coach but it’s like this: I really, really, really thought about quitting entirely. I’ve thought about it long and hard though and I’m here now and fully committed to my team and my teammates…I’m sorry”

Coach Miller looked a bit stunned at the thought of totally losing her best hitter. She took a moment before she said “I appreciate your candor Jackie. I hope you mean what you say though about being committed because if you’re having even a sliver of doubt, you might as well walk right back out of this gym right now”

“No coach” Luke said quickly “I’ll even shag balls all practice to make up for it okay”

Stephanie smiled “Alright then get your ass out there”

The team applauded as Luke jogged over to them. She was greeted with “Welcome back…knew you wouldn’t actually quit…good to have you…let’s repeat at State…”

Luke hustled that whole practice and it felt great. Having the energy and stamina of a 17 year old was mind blowing. Jackie’s body was perfectly toned and trained as a softball player. Luke was amazed at the speed in her wrists and the power in her hips and thighs. He could drive a ball so much better than he ever could in his own body. There really was no limit of her possibilities he realized even in a short amount of time.

After practice, Clara came up to him “Are you coming over to my house tonight?”

“Uh” Luke stalled.

“We’re going to watch some movies and just hang out” Clara told him.

“Yeah…sounds good” Luke said blushing a bit at the prospect of hanging out with a bunch of girls his daughter’s age.

“Be there at six” she said as she left.

“Okay” Luke responded packing up.

“How was practice?” Jackie yelled out sarcastically as Luke came in around 4.

“Um…it was just fine” Luke responded.

“How did you explain me being there?” Jackie asked.

“It, uh, really wasn’t that hard…I told them I didn’t want to talk about it or I changed my mind and Coach Miller was fine with it so…” Luke shrugged and gave a perfectly timed teenage girl eye roll.

“Well, to let you know, I have searched the internet all day and have found nothing outside of a bunch of made up story shit about our situation. No scientific examples have ever been recorded…spells are bullshit…it’s all pretty fucked up” Jackie said.

Luke was drinking a Gatorade, his full lips stained a bit red from its coloring “So what are you saying?”

“I’m saying that if we changed spontaneously to begin with, it looks like we would have to just spontaneously change back too”

“So we’re stuck like this?” Luke said feigning shock and anger but secretly happy as he could be.

“Apparently so, but I’m not giving up so easily…I’m going to keep looking; you are not taking over my body forever Dad. I will not live the rest of my life as you” Jackie said.

Luke just looked down and then around before Jackie’s phone went off. Both of them reached for it but Luke ultimately took it and answered the text.

“Who was that from?” Jackie asked.

“Um…Clara…she invited me over tonight”

“Oh dear Lord…Shit…you’re going to go have a fucking girls night?” Jackie said putting her hand through her short coarse hair.

“I have to keep up appearances…no one can know about this so ‘Jackie’ has to go and I’m Jackie for the time being. So where does Clara live?” Luke asked.

Two hours later, Luke came downstairs in tights and a sweatshirt, his long blonde hair wild and loose around his pretty face. He was wearing black converse and white socks as he grabbed Jackie’s purse and coat.

“You have fun little girl” Jackie called out to him.

“Um…yeah…I will” Luke responded.

Jackie finally stopped after watching her old body walk out the door. She looked down at herself.
As much as she wanted to deny it, it was becoming a bit more familiar to her. Other things had kept coming up that she tried to ignore but had to face. Part of her Dad had remained in this body and was now part of her too. She could tell in her speech and reactions to things that part of his mind and personality came with the body and that meant that part of her was still there for Luke,
Little things like having a thought pop into her head and recognizing the person in it even though she didn’t know them. She had thoughts of her Dad’s insurance business running around in there. As much as it pained her, she had to come to grasp with the fact that it might very well be her going to work for him on Monday morning.

She hated the thought of him going to school as her, but on a larger scale it would be much worse for everyone if she went to work and ruined his business. Jackie knew she had to focus on those random threads inside her mind to pull everything together; keep her Dad’s business afloat, keep her old life at school going in the right direction and finding a way to swap bodies again.

Luke pulled into a driveway packed with cars already. He could hear the noise coming from inside while still steps away from the door. The door opened before he even got there and hands grabbed his forearms and pulled him inside in a squealing whirlwind of noise.

Girls were everywhere and all talking at once. As if using a Jedi mind trick, Luke let the Jackie part of his brain take over and start talking. He talked his way out of all the quitting talk she had put out there for months obviously and had to bad mouth himself in the process, but sacrifices had to be made.

He found himself watching Mean Girls and getting his toenails painted by a girl named Maddie. Luke had never had so much fun in all his life. “Team building never looked like this for me before” he thought as he propped his long skinny foot up on the edge of a couch and had another girl paint his nails.

As the evening went on, Luke realized he knew these girls; actually knew them and not just on a superficial level of seeing them as Jackie’s teammates. “Part of Jackie is here” he thought.

After nails and eating pizza and talking until midnight, Luke gathered up his purse and put his shoes back on and headed home. Jackie was still up when he came in.

“Have a good time?” she asked. She was sitting on the couch, laptop still open in only a pair of boxers and a white t-shirt.

Luke was a bit shocked to see her like this but answered “Yes…as a matter of fact, I did”

Jackie snorted and picked up the beer she was drinking and finished off.

“Um… when did you…” Luke started to say.

“Don’t even go there little girl” Jackie snapped back. “Cravings come with these bodies and you know it too. If you’re me than I’m you and I’ll drink a damn beer when I feel like it okay princess”

Luke put his hands up “Whatever Dad” he replied to a quick neck snap in his direction.

Jackie coughed “I know you know it too…we’re connected on a different level now having gone through this. I know you know my secrets because I know yours. The longer we’re inside these bodies the more comfortable they become and the more the real you seeps in” Jackie said. “Have you thought about Ryan yet?”

Luke’s cheeks burned at the mention of Jackie’s boyfriend. He had all kinds of thoughts about him and it was all pure confusion to him still. Luke refused to answer.

“I thought so” was all Jackie said. “Look…we might be here a long time as much as I hate to admit it. But I’m not going to curl up and die and neither should you”

“I won’t do that” Luke said. He sat down and pulled his feet up onto the chair and rested his chin on his knees. “This is going to be hard isn’t it?”

“Yep” Jackie said standing up and going to the kitchen to throw away her can. “It’s going to get awkward”

“Like super awkward” Luke responded.

“You go back to your ex-wife tomorrow…but now it’s your Mom and Step-dad. And if you stay in there another 10 days…”

“I’ll have to go through a period…shit” Luke said.

“No secrets between us after that if you know what I mean” Jackie smirked.

Luke closed his eyes and let it wash over him just how complete this transformation really was.
Just being inside her, he knew that his daughter wasn’t a virgin. Now though, that was his responsibility “I could get pregnant as Jackie and then I know we really would never have a chance to go back”

“Go to bed…get some sleep” Jackie told Luke.

Luke slept in the following morning; it was almost 11 when she got up. There was no shame or embarrassment in going to the bathroom anymore and no shock and surprise at the amount of hair on her head.

It would, however, be a few minutes before she realized that she was now referring to herself as she and her in her own mind.

She looked down at the gold nail polish on her toes as she sat on the edge of the tub “Need to do a little touch up after I get out of the shower” she thought wiggling her toes.

“Good morning sleepyhead” Jackie said when she made her way downstairs. Jackie had also woken up a bit more comfortable with the situation. His morning erection was now just a part of life instead a reason to hide under the covers in shame. He had caught himself refereeing to himself as a guy and by male thoughts and pronouns and decided to not fight it. He still knew he was and he was determined to get back there but with no end in sight, he might as well let some things go.

After getting a bite to eat, Luke packed up what she needed from the house. “Good luck this week in trying to figure this out and swap us back” Luke said. “If you need anything about like, my job or stuff, please text me”

“I will. You need to look up some stuff on this too to see if I’ve missed anything. If not…then good luck in school” Jackie said kissing her old body on the forehead.

“I will” Luke replied then left to go to what was now her Mom and Stepdad’s house for the next few days.

With the softball season officially underway, Luke had practice every night inside or out depending on the weather. School wasn’t too hard in some ways but yet very difficult in others. Navigating the waters of high school girls was like translating a foreign language and dealing with a boyfriend was all together new.

The highlight was practice and she looked forward to it every day. It didn’t matter how much coach yelled and screamed, Luke even enjoyed running laps. Sports bras and compression shorts for her replaced his old jock straps and cups, but putting on a uniform always gave her a rush.

Jackie felt very odd in a shirt and tie, sitting behind a desk taking phone calls from clients. He filled out all the paperwork and let his staff do the work they were used to doing. Slowly but surely, it became more routine.

A few weeks after their switch, Luke came around the corner in the hall and saw her locker festooned with balloons. Ryan was standing next to them with a sign in his hands that read ‘PROM?’
Luke thought he might die right then and there, her friends all began to scream at the top of their lungs as only girls could do. The first time that actual sound had escaped Luke’s lips, she had been as startled as anyone.

She nodded and said “Yes” which got her a kiss and a hug from her boyfriend. “Now I have to go dress shopping” she realized.

That night was one where she was with Jackie and telling him “Can I get you to pay for my prom dress?” was one of those truly awkward moments.

Another was when they had to talk about what college she should attend. They had already had many conversations about the subject but no it would be Luke putting pen to paper and accepting a softball scholarship to Stanford and not Jackie.

“Might as well get the best education you can if they’re paying for it” Jackie said.

As she headed out to shop, Luke looked at the credit card that had been handed over; Luke Higgins was on it and she knew that it was hers but it never felt further away.

Her mind reeled as she tried on dresses and shoes; part of her wanted to show off her body and another part wanted to cover it up as much as possible. Eventually, Jackie’s thoughts won out and the strapless royal blue dress that stopped mid-thigh along with strappy silver heels were purchased. “I’m kind of like, huge, in these heels” she told her friends Faith and Maddie who had come along to pick out their own outfits.

“But Ryan doesn’t mind, he loves it when you wear heels” Faith reminded her getting her to blush.
Games brought out the competitive spirit in both of them. Jackie now watching from the stands had a hard time watching his mouth as did Luke on the field who got warnings from umpires several times.

Her batting average stayed around .450 all season with power and stolen bases numbers that led the team and her conference.

Three months had passed in each other’s bodies by Prom night. Luke was an expert on getting her makeup done and hair ready for her big night. She was proud of how she looked and when she came downstairs, Jackie was there with his camera alongside her Mom and Stepdad.

Ryan blushed a grinned like a fool when he saw her descend the stairs. Her blue eyes sparkled and her blonde hair was done up in long ringlets that cascaded down to her bare shoulders. Her toes were painted blue and silver to match her dress and shoes and she could see him visibly shaking as he pinned on her corsage.

They posed for what felt like hundreds of pictures before they were allowed to go. Prom in the early 90’s was like a Victorian church meeting compared to what Luke walked in to. Rave music pulsated and pounded as everyone gathered in the middle of the dance floor.

She lost her shoes early on and danced barefoot in the sweaty and hot confines of the hall all night long. She had no idea she even knew how to grind and twerk but she did along with every other attendee.

Luke got a new thrill to experience when it was announced that she and Ryan were voted Prom King and Queen.

She had to scramble to find her shoes and put them back on to go up on stage and get crowned. She beamed with pride and smiled and waved to the cheering crowd “You’re used to hearing cheers, but not like this” Ryan told her.

“No…not like this at all” Luke admitted.

Luke was exhausted by the after prom party at the town rec center but the pool was open so she changed into a swimsuit and swam with her boyfriend and all her friends as the night went on and on.

It was just after 5 when she came into her house; her Dad’s house.

At the sound of the door, Jackie woke up and came down the stairs. Luke’s Prom dress lay over the back of the couch and her shoes sat by the side of it. Luke herself was barefoot and wearing a pair of black shorts and a gold tank top. “Hey” she said smiling.

“I see you’ve got something there” Jackie said pointing to the item in Luke’s hand.

“Yeah! Ryan and I were voted King and Queen can you believe it!” Luke said excitedly.

Jackie raised her eyebrows “Congratulations…you deserve it” he said with a hint of sadness.
Jackie’s throat clenched and the back of his neck burned in jealousy. For the first time in months, the teenaged girl in her rose up and took control “I hate this and I hate you!” he yelled in his deep voice.

Luke was shocked and reeled back at the words that came at her “Wha…what?” she said sounding hurt “I…I thought you’d be happy for me”

Jackie took a deep breath and tried to calm down and maintain his composure but instead he said “No. I’m not happy. You just went to my senior prom in my body! You’re going to go to State and play in my body! You’re going to graduate high school in my body! You’re going to go to college in my body while I’m stuck here in your body! A 43 year old man who should be having the time of her life as a girl just starting out! You took that from me! You selfish son of a bitch! I hate you and I hate this!”

“I…I don’t know what to say right now” Luke mumbled.

“Say you’re sorry and actually mean it” Jackie said full of contempt. “You can claim that you want to swap back with me but you don’t; I can tell in your eyes. You’re having the time of your life as me. You’ve gotten used to it enough to realize that you got the way better deal out of all this.
You pushed me and pushed me as a kid until somehow you got my life. You do realize that I’ve never gotten a chance to live my own life right”

Luke stared at the floor, tears began to well up in her eyes.

“You made every decision for me and told me what I could and couldn’t do until the point I tried to defy you just one time and I was punished by somehow losing my very body to you…how in the world is that fucking fair?” Jackie said.

Luke couldn’t take it. She ran up the stairs to her room and shut and locked the door behind her.
Jackie looked around the room still furious with whatever fate had caused this. He put his head against the wall and banged it there a few times with a resounding thud coming forth each time.

Out of the corner of his eye, he could see the sparkling silver shoes by the couch. The left shoe was upright but the right was tipped on its side “What I wouldn’t give…” he thought as he walked over and picked up the right one. He cradled it in his hands and said softly “I wish she could put herself in my shoes and see just how awful this has been”

Jackie slumped down on to the couch still holding the shoe. He ran his fingers over the toe grooves that had been made that very night and said softly “My feet…my feet…”

A muscle spasm ran through Jackie and made her jerk and drop the shoe to the floor. She scooted forward on the cushion and leaned over to pick the shoe back up. As she leaned, something caught her eye. The rough skin on her right heel. It was changing. It looked more pink and orange in color than before. She put her hand down and ran it over her heel; it felt soft, super soft to her touch.
Jackie’s heart jumped up into her throat “Oh my God!” she thought “Don’t get too excited yet” She put her wide foot up in front of her braced against the coffee table. Her eyes widened as she watched her right foot narrow from the heel forward along the sides. The skin color changed to a much more milky white and all the rough spots and veins smoothed out before her eyes. Her foot thinned and elongated but it wasn’t until she saw her toes that she allowed herself to feel excited for the first time in months.

Her toe nails rounded and thinned and her toes began to shift and change shape “It’s happening!” she whispered to herself. “It’s going to…” she said as her toes became long and skinny and quite familiar looking to her. When she saw blue and silver polish begin to appear she wanted to scream out in joy. The big toe was blue while the other 4 nails were silver just like Luke had painted them yesterday.

“I can’t! I…” she wanted to call up the stairs but found her throat was so tight she couldn’t make a sound. Jackie brought her right foot up and stared at the mismatched pair before her. She giggled which sounded strange coming from a man, but she didn’t care. She felt so alive and so ecstatic that she could barely breathe. She watched her left foot narrow and elongate and smooth out and soften. Her toes extended and thinned as the nails rounded and changed color.

“I have my feet back” she thought as she stood up. She put her feet together and banged her ankles together to make sure they were as close as they could be. The hair was gone from her feet and now it was thinning and vanishing from her ankles and calves.

Jackie’s milky white smooth skin was returning as her ankles trimmed and her calf muscles rose up and tighten greatly giving her back the beginnings of her own legs again.

Her knees shuddered and shook as they rearranged. Her thighs; she gripped her thighs as the hair on them thinned and pulled inside of her. They softened and rounded out fuller but still stayed strong as her hips widened and shifted and her ass began to fill out.

Her returning flesh pushed her boxer shorts out as her thighs and ass filled them. “This feels so good” she thought as she ran her hands over her soft smooth legs as her body returned to her in all its glory.
That was when she heard the scream from upstairs.

Luke stretched out on her bed, tears rolling out of her eyes. Some rolled off her cheeks but other stayed pooled at her eyes to be blinked away or wiped by the back of her hand. Her bottom lip quivered; she was hurt, stung by the words she had heard but more by her own conscience. “What kind of monster am I?” She thought to herself.

Luke was crying so hard that he failed to notice his body begin to twitch, especially his right foot. The long elegant foot began to widen and roughen up while thickening. Hairs began to pop out across the top as his toes started to shrink and widen out. His nails flattened along with his toes and the meticulously applied blue and silver nail polish faded and vanished.

Luke’s left foot twitch and began to move to reshape itself back to its original form as well. The left foot soon matched the right as he cried on and on.

His heels slid backward as his legs shrank and he lost inches in height while lying on the bed on his back. Hairs began to break through his smooth skin first at the ankles, then moving steadily up his calves, knees and thighs. “What the…?” Luke said sitting up. He saw the hairs thickening and growing in more and more “Am I…is this really happening?”

His legs began to thicken he slapped his delicate hands down on them. His claves grew and his thighs hardened and trimmed losing the female shape they had held.

Tentatively, he stood up, testing the feel of his own legs again as his hips narrowed and slid inward and his ass deflated and flattened from that of a teenaged girl to a middle aged man.

His waist pushed at the waistband of his shorts and he felt a deep seated pressure building in his abdomen. Luke’s mouth began to work and his lips quivered as a scream built up behind them.
“AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!” escaped from his pent up body.

Jackie heard the scream and began to move. She took the stairs two at a time, stumbling on the top one as her legs grew out longer returning to their original longer length and making her catch the lip of another step as she ascended.

The door was opening as she came up to it and with a look of shock and joy this time, she saw an odd combination of her top half and her Father’s bottom.

Jackie’s eyes scanned the hairy legs and feet before her and saw her Dad clutching her stomach with a pained look on his face. She recognized the look as someone who was cramping badly and she put her still meaty hand on his still delicate shoulder and tapped her “It’s okay…we’re changing back and everything will be okay now”

Luke grimaced as his insides rearranged and the uterus and ovaries his body had changed into having now reversed. The ovaries grew and slid forward changing back into testicles and began to drop. His clitoris began to throb and grow as the skin began to rearrange and close up but not before a sack formed and caught his descending testicles. His vagina sealed and formed back up into his penis and regrew back out.

The power of the change dropped Luke to his knee and he struggled to catch his breath for a moment.
As Jackie tried to comfort him, pain exploded across her mid-section, the pain that only a man knows as her testicles began to shrink and rise up. Her penis also began to recede back and it pulled inward. Her testicles popped back into her body cavity and changed back into ovaries. Her uterus spread back out along with every other returning part internally. Her penis was down to nothing, just a nub of nerve endings that were flashing and pulsating rapidly and wildly as her skin folds rearranged back into her own vulva and vagina.

Her stomach cramped for another moment and her hands pressed down as hard as they could until the pain subsided and both of them stood back up.

Luke lunged forward and hugged his daughter as tightly as he could. “I’m sorry if you’re mad at me honey. I didn’t mean it…any of it…I don’t know what to say to let you know just how sorry I actually am”

Tears ran down his soft round cheeks and Jackie joined in with tears of her own.

As they pressed together, Jackie’s stomach tightened and her Dad body belly pulled back and turned into her flat abs and stomach again while the fat passed over to Luke whose stomach came out.

They broke apart as Luke’s tank top began to go flat. The B cup bra beneath the top slid upward as his breasts began to shrink. His nipples came inward and turned smaller as his areolas lightened and shrank down in advance of the flesh behind them. Hair came up across his belly and began to come out across his chest even as some of his breasts remained.

“Hair sticking out of a bra is not a good look Dad” Jackie told him as his whole chest cavity began to broaden back out. His back stretched wider and his shoulders broadened and rose upward stretching out the gold tank top and bra. The bra no longer had anything to hold as his breasts were gone for good now.

Jackie looked down at the plain white t-shirt she had on. She lifted the bottom and saw her smooth flat stomach really had returned before her nipples poked out of the thin fabric. Her breasts began to grow back. She pulled the collar of the shirt out and watched in awe as they returned. Round orbs grew out as flesh and fat built up giving her pert and perky boobs back to her.

Jackie’s chest narrowed along with her back even as it elongated growing her two more inches in height back up to 6’1”. She was taller than her Dad again and vowed she would never be put in an opportunity to be shorter than him again. Her body swapping days were through as far as she was concerned.

Her shoulders dipped inward and she readjusted her feet as her weight and center of gravity shifted.

Jackie’s arms strengthened even as they trimmed and thinned down. Her long ropy muscles returned over the stocky tight muscles of her Dad’s arms. Her wrists narrowed as her hands began to change. “We’re getting there” she said in anticipation “Just don’t stop now”

“Don’t even joke about that” Luke said.

Jackie put her hands out, her fingers splayed wide as they thinned and stretched out. Her nails rounded and grew and the skin smoothed out as her palms shrank down and the callouses vanished. Once she felt they were hers again, she balled her hands into tight fists.

Luke watched his arms stiffen and grow wider and shrink down. Hair broke out across his blocky forearms and his wrists filled out as his hands roughened and veins became apparent across the back. The delicate fingers he had gotten to know over the last few months were gone already. His stocky fingers were back along with the rough short nails that accompanied them.

Jackie stuck her chin out as her throat and neck pulled up. She ran her fingers over the front of it and was comforted by the flat surface she found. “My voice” she said still deep “My voice…!” her eyes widened in happiness as the second word rose up in pitch. She swallowed and finally said in her own voice again “My voice is back! I sound like a girl again!” as she shot her arms up over her head in triumph.

The stubble on her chin, jaw, cheeks and upper lips was fading and she felt a tickling sensation as it pulled in. She rubbed her hands over her rejuvenated smooth skin there. Her eyes closed in satisfaction as her chin came to a point and her jawline pulled up and back to a more feminine placement.

Luke coughed as his throat bulged. ”It’s so good to hear your voice coming from you again honey” he said in his own deep voice with a smile. Luke’s pretty and girlish face was now marked by stubble breaking out across its surface. His chin rounded and his jaw jutted as his lips thinned and his teeth shifted inside his mouth. His nose grew longer and larger as his eyes narrowed and changed from blue to brown.

Luke’s eyelashes thinned, his cheeks dropped, his ears grew larger and his brow thickened along with the eyebrows on it getting bushier. His long blonde hair; the last visible piece of Jackie began to rise up and darken to brownish gray.

Jackie’s smooth upper lip puffed out and her nose grew up away from it as it thinned and shrank. Her cheeks rose up and rounded as pink coloring flushed forward. Her ears shrank up and holes reappeared in her lobes as her eyes widened and brightened changing from brown to blue accompanied by full long lashes. Her eyebrows thinned on her forehead as it too narrowed. Her hairline shifted as blonde replaced brown and gray and it grew long a luxurious down over her shoulders. “I’m back!” she said. “I’m really, really back!”

Luke took a step back as his daughter’s hands moved up and down and all around her tall and thin body. He felt ashamed for enjoying his time in there as much as he did. “I’m sorry” he repeated.

Jackie stepped forward and hugged her Dad “I’m just glad to be back”

“I know you are” Luke responded. He looked at his daughter standing in front of him “I’m proud of you no matter what you do. Go…live your life…if you don’t want to play in the State Tournament, it doesn’t matter to me. Stanford…go wherever you want to go” he shrugged.

Jackie looked down, still amazed at seeing her own body again. “I’ll play at State and I want to go to Stanford”

“California is a long way away from here” Luke said.

Jackie just nodded.

Luke saw the crown he had brought home as Queen lying on the bed. He reached over and picked it up.
Jackie blushed as he twirled it between his fingers “You want to keep that?”

Luke blushed and laughed “No…I want to put it on your head…you’re the Queen around here again”

Tears welled up in Jackie’s eyes now as her emotions began to catch up with her. Her body was readjusting and coming back in full and her emotional state cracked then and she cried freely as her Dad put the crown on her head. “Thanks” she managed to say.

“No Jackie; Thank You” Luke said.