The rest of the "family reunion" wasn't exactly a relaxing vacation for Amber and me. I had to teach Danielle how to take care of my old body and impersonate me in my classes while I did my schoolwork remotely. At the same time, Amber was teaching me to take care of my temporary new body - wash my hair, shave my legs, that kind of thing. (Luckily, Danielle said I wasn't scheduled to have my period before I switched out.) All the while, we had to pretend that nothing was up whenever Amber's mom was around.
At the end of the reunion, I took Danielle's flight home. On the first night when Danielle's body was back in her apartment and Amber was back in ours, we had Amber make the wish on the statue. Sure enough, my senses flickered once again, and suddenly I woke up in an unfamiliar bed. I found myself in a young, muscular male body, in an apartment I didn't recognize. When I found a bathroom and looked in the mirror, Luke's face gazed back at me from it.
As planned, I called Amber and Danielle to confirm that the wish worked. Not long after that, though, I got a call from Luke in Danielle's body, trying to figure out what happened. All I could say to him was, "I'm sorry, but you're not getting your body back." Then I hung up and blocked his number.
There was no way I could do Luke's job for long, and Amber wanted to stay in her graduate program, so we decided that I'd move back in with her, rather than her moving in with me. I put in a two weeks' notice for Luke, bought a bus ticket back to Milwaukee, and made plans to vacate his apartment before I left.
One evening, though, when I had barely finished all of that, I got a knock at Luke's door. I opened it to find someone I had kind of been expecting: Luke in Danielle's body.
[Image: Danielle's body with a ghostly image of Luke's face behind it.]
"Give me back my life, you bitch," he said. He must have thought I was Danielle.
"I can't," I said. To keep things simple for him, I continued, "The spell is irreversible."
"You're lying," he said. He didn't sound too sure.
"I'm not," I said.
"It's been two years, for fuck's sake!" he said, tearing up. "What, was dumping me not enough for you? Why couldn't you just move on?"
"If it makes you feel any better," I said, "I'm not Danielle. She's in a different body. It's complicated. But suffice it to say we didn't do this just to hurt you."
"What?" Luke said. "Why did you do it, then?"
"I don't want to go into it," I said. "It's too late to change anything, anyway."
"Why not?" Luke demanded.
"Goodbye, Danielle," I said, and closed the door. I did pity the new Danielle, but it really was too late. I haven't seen or heard from her since. If she's been stalking Amber or me on social media, she's probably seen photos of us together by now. I wonder if she's jealous. If so, then at least the old Danielle got her wish.
Without the right degree, no one would hire the new Brandon for a job in his old field, so to save money between the three of us, he started living with Amber and me. Our cover story for all of this was that Brandon and Amber broke up but stayed friends and roommates, and Luke was Amber's new boyfriend. We had to convince Amber's close friends that, no, I wasn't the same Luke that dated and tried to cheat on Danielle. Which was true in a sense, of course.
Over the last few months, I've been helping the new Brandon live my life as if nothing happened. He's been needing less and less help, fortunately, so I don't think we'll always feel like we're keeping up a farce. As for me, I'm planning to go back to school to get my old degree back, and I'm searching for a part-time job to help pay for it.
The new Brandon is getting a kick out of his new body. He's experimenting with fashion and working out more than I ever did. True to his word, he's even found a guy who's into him, and they've gone on a few dates recently. "Sure, my dating pool's smaller than when I was a straight girl," he said once, "but the quality really makes up for the quantity. I get to be a hot guy and be with a hot guy at the same time! If only teenage-yaoi-fangirl-me could see me now..." I think it's all a bit gross, considering he's using my old body, but with my new body, I really can't complain.
Luke's body is great, by the way. It's taller, in better shape, and just generally better-looking than my old body - at least in my opinion. Amber says she liked my body the way it was, but she can get used to this one. For my part, I like how manly this body makes me feel, especially when I'm with Amber. I used to be about the same height as her, but now she can rest her head on my shoulder! My penis didn't scale up as much as the rest of me, unfortunately, but Amber doesn't mind.
My name is Luke Foster. I have a brother-in-law named Brandon, and a loving girlfriend named Amber. With them by my side, I think everything's going to turn out alright.
THE END
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