by LM Wilson
“I’ve never heard it explained that way.” She looks at me as though I’ve just given her a huge insight and the smile playing on her full lips has me drawing closer.
“I don’t write poetry, merely understand the concept behind it. Now if you were interested in something more intellectual rather than emotional…” I lean in, caging her between my arms. She giggles as I lean in further, lowering my voice to a whisper, “I’d be happy to talk books with you sometime, maybe over dinner and then we could compare said books to the movie.”
Joey doesn’t get a chance to answer me. Fucking Raine pulls her out of the water by her armpits and stands her up on the edge of the pool.
“What the fuck is your problem Raine?” Joey shoves him in the chest as she growls and for a second, I almost feel sorry for him, but then he grabs her arm as though he has a right to. I’m out of the water and facing off against him faster than I can think. I reach for Joey but his next words have me letting go faster than even I thought possible.
“She’s my split-shift mate.”
“Am not!” Joey shoves against Raine, only he doesn’t move, she loses her balance and I try my best to catch her, only we both end up in the water instead.
“What the fuck Raine?” Joey shouts, in my voice.
“Oh, shit!” Raine starts laughing as I scream at them both, “Why the fuck do you look like me?”
“Welcome to my world Angel.” Raine chortles before doubling over and holding his stomach.
“This isn’t funny.” I snap.
“Someone want to explain to me what the fuck is going on here?” River’s question makes all three of us jump.
“It appears you were wrong about Joey being my Split-shift mate. I’m not the only person she shifts into.” Raine informs his brother.
“That’s not possible.” River barks out as he moves closer to the edge of the pool. He takes one look at Joey and laughs, “You really are a remarkable young woman Miss Kale.”
He laughs while I freak the fuck out.
My tattoos and piercings are all still in the same place, but the rest of me is definitely not male. I pull the soaking wet shirt away from my body and stare down at a set of tits that were made for hands the size of mine… Well, the size I have in my own body.
I’m curious what everything else looks like, but now is definitely not the time.
“If I were just a few years younger-.” River begins, Raine doesn’t let him finish - thank goodness. He pushes him into the water and for a second, I entertain the thought of trying to drown him. I let out a loud laugh as River comes up out of the water, spluttering and cursing out his brother. Joey too laughs, which only makes me laugh harder.
River, with the biggest smile I’ve seen on his face in years, splashes me as I try to sneak around and dunk Joey. I push on her shoulders, which feels really weird when they are my shoulders. River circles around in front of us and as if we’ve all choreographed it, we turn together and splash half the pool onto Raine. He’s stripped off his shirt and diving in before we even finish splashing him. He surfaces between Joey and I as she laughs her ass off.
“Principal Abaddon, sorry to disturb you sir, but there’s someone at the gates to see you. The young woman said its extremely urgent.” Doc declares as he comes running into the pool room.
“Raine, take these two back to your room, I’ll find out what this is about then meet you three there.” River climbs out, wrapping the nearest towel around his waist.
“So, as weird as this is, it’s kind of cool being a girl.” I laugh as I pull myself up out of the pool.
“Um, could you cover up, I don’t exactly want anyone seeing my body.” Joey snaps at me.
“It’s not like I haven’t seen it already.” Raine makes her blush with his comment. As she climbs out of the pool, I notice that she’s still wearing her bikini, her pink bikini which weirdly enough actually fits my body. It’s not a very flattering colour though. I glance at Raine just as he snaps a photograph of my body in said bikini. “You will delete that picture.” I scream at him.
“What? No way. You look good in a pink bikini, Angel.” Raine laughs at the same time Joey mutters, “Urgh, remind me never to scream like that when I get my own body back.”
I’m across the three-foot distance quicker than he can react. My hands grasp for his phone, but the bastard pulls it away, lifting it high above my head. I make a mental note to use that move on Joey when she gets her own body back at the same time I growl in annoyance at the lack of height. Jumping proves futile as Raine laughs at my attempts.
Changing tactics, I push my chest out, bringing Raine’s gaze to the perfect mounds pushing hard against my shirt. The distraction works although if I’m honest, I think he actually gives in, cause after a few seconds I manage to pry the phone from his fingers and delete the picture.
There’s only two ways to enter or exit the pool room, through the men’s or lady’s changerooms. I really don’t feel right going through the lady’s, so I follow Raine and Joey into the men’s.
We’re surrounded by other guys, all of whom are in various stages of undress. My arm twitches with the urge to cover Joey’s eyes until I see that Joey’s blushing. She groans and glares right at me. It hits me all at once that she’s in my body and I’m in hers. Complete with every guy’s wet dream of being in a soaking wet white t-shirt. I can just imagine what she’d be thinking about her reputation right now. She gives me a look that would make any guy’s knees quake and instead of getting changed, she smirks and drops the towel.
My eyes go wide. Fuck! I don’t know whether to be pissed or impressed. There’s no way I’m going to live this down. Camera clicks reverberate throughout the tiled bathroom as far too many guys snap pictures of my body in a fucking pink bikini. I can’t do a thing about it while stuck in Joey’s body, so when the laughter starts, I simply smile and take a bow, “Best dare ever!” I declare as though I’m the victor here.
Her smile hits her eyes and for a second, I feel like I’ve done something wonderful, but reality sets in quickly at the thought of all those pictures being shared across the school. Despite my annoyance at me fellow students, I’m not even the slightest bit pissed at Joey.
She’s intriguing.
Once we’re along again, I hurry to catch up to her. “So, the beautiful Joey Kale is a split-shifter. I really didn’t see that one coming. I always thought they were just a myth.” I flash her the flirtiest smile I can. She just shrugs at me then turns her gaze to the grey stone floor at our feet. “Then again, most myths are just based on truths that occurred once upon a time.” I add trying my hardest to get her to flirt back.
She giggles, “Is it weird that I’m kind of getting used to this whole ‘body swap’ thing?” Joey finally asks as we reach Raine’s room.
He opens the door and ushers her inside. “It’s part of who you are so it only makes sense that you’d get used to it. I’m just glad it’s not me this time. Being a chick was really weird.” He pulls his shirt off and even I’m jealous of the look she gives his shirtless eight pack.
“Could you act more like a guy when you’re in my body, I’d rather not have people thinking I’m checking out my best friend.” She blushes and smiles so I add, “So, is this a time limited thing, where we just wait around a few hours and we’ll go back to being normal or is this one of those kiss your true love scenarios, cause I’m down with a bit of lip locking if that’s what it’ll take.” I pucker up but she doesn’t even look at my lips.
“Okay ew, that would be so weird, like kissing yourself…” She pauses giving me the ‘you’re an idiot so grow up’ look. “And it wore off when we fell asleep, so I have no idea how long it’ll last.”
Raine tosses her some clothes as I move closer to the bed, after wrapping the towel around me, I sit down on the end. “Dude, I could be the first guy to ever give myself a blow job.”
“Oh my god, Angel! Too far man.” He starts pacing and I know I’ve hit a nerve.
“Have a little respect Angel. That’s Joey’s body you’re inhabiting.”
“If you’ve got a problem with it being my dick inside her, you and I could always….” I wriggle my eyebrows. I’m joking but I think Raine thinks I’m serious. I smirk when he’s not looking and add, “What? It wouldn’t be gay, I’m a chick right now.” Joey comes out of the bathroom before I can stir Raine up any further. “I gotta take a piss.” I jump up and hurry to the bathroom before either of them can say anything. I flick the lock out of habit and swap out the wet clothes for the clean ones Raine tossed at me after we entered his room.
I kept my eyes closed the entire time, trying my damnedest to be a gentleman. I really want to check her body out, but not without her permission. That’s a hard line I’ll never cross.
I wait a few moments, allowing myself to imagine everything I could have seen. As I pull the door open, my cheeks turn red. Joey yawns and I wonder if that means I’ll get my own body back before the temptation to check hers out becomes too much.
“You take the bed; Angel and I’ll sleep on the floor.”
I hate the idea of sleeping on the floor. “Aww come on man, it’s a big enough bed, I’m sure we could all share. I’ll take the middle.” I grumble as Joey lays down. She smiles at me and I jump up onto the bed, snuggling into her side. She doesn’t push me away or tell me off, so I take that as a win.
Joey drifts off almost immediately, me however, I toss and turn for a while.
“You might as well get up, you’re you again.” He sits down beside her, staring at her beautiful heart shaped face. “It seems to switch back the second she passes out.”
“Do you think she might be th-.” I begin, but he cuts me off.
“No. Don’t even think that.”
Joey stirs, rolling around like she can’t get comfortable. I’m about to suggest she might be feeling strangled by the too big shirt she’s wearing when Raine shifts closer and pulls the shirt over her head.
“What are you doing?” I hiss, glaring at him while trying to pull the sheet up to cover her.
“She was strangling herself with it.” He deadpans.
“She’s going to be pissed that you stripped her.”
“Really?” He asks as Joey, still asleep, wriggles out of his boxers and tosses them aside.
“Did she just….” I’m seeing things, I have to be. The girl of my dreams just stripped naked.
“Yup.”
“Damn!” I grumble as I feel the tell-tale growing of my cock. It feels really good to have it back.
“Go to sleep Angel. Be grateful I’m not kicking you out.” He lies down with his front to her back. With slow deliberate movements, I lift the blanket. She stirs slightly as I ease myself under, trying my best to keep her decent.
“What do we say if she asks why she’s naked?”
“Go to sleep.” He snaps.
He begins to snore softly almost immediately, while I lie here staring at the ceiling. It feels wrong, yet so right to be in the bed with her. I just wish it was under better circumstances. I finally drift off to sleep after she wriggles closer and leans her head against my chest.
♡
Chapter: Angel
I wake to the sound of Joey and Raine’s voices. It takes me a minute to realise that we’re in Raine’s room and she’s still here. My hand is on her ass, I’m not sure what to do, move away or leave it there and pretend to be asleep still. Joey wriggles and Raine groans. “Babe, you really shouldn’t wriggle around like that.” Her entire body freezes as she realises what he’s talking about. I subtly shift my pelvis away from her, so she’s not being stabbed by two horny teenagers.
“Uh, could you let me up?” Joey asks. It takes me a couple of minutes to get my hard on to go down enough to get out of the bed. “Urgh, what is it with you guys and sleeping without clothes?”
I swear she looks slightly annoyed, not embarrassed or angry, just annoyed.
“Hey, at least I had underwear on.” Raine mumbles as he rolls over and faces the wall. Mother fucker just threw me under the bus! My fists clench as I get the urge to punch him. I refrain for Joey’s sake, but still… Two can play at this game. I wink at Joey, “I can’t sleep with clothes on it makes me feel like I’m suffocating.” I sing song the words. I know she feels the same, even if it’s only subconsciously. She doesn’t comment, simply pads across the room and starts going through Raine’s clothes.
Someone knocks on the door and I glance at the clock on the bedside table. It’s only six in the morning, who the hell would be at the door at this time of the day?
Raine answers it after putting on some pants.
“Raine baby, I thought about it and I don’t care that you were sleeping with that slut. I forgive you.” I cringe at the sound of Claire’s squeaky voice.
“Look, I made it perfectly clear the other day, I don’t do relationships. We fucked, that’s all it was.”
“Baby, please don’t be like that. I’ll let you do that thing you like; you can even use the ropes this time.”
“Are you as curious as I am?” I whisper into Joey’s ear. She nods, surprising me, but then she shakes her head, taking it back. I huff at her as another voice rings out loud and clear in the hallway.
“What are you doing in the boys dormitories Miss Floress?”
Joey’s whole-body shakes as she tries her hardest not to giggle out loud. The second we hear Claire stomping away, Raine opens the door letting River into the room. “You’re a bit of a hypocrite huh?” Joey asks River.
“Sometimes, but you’re the exception to the rule, after all, half the time you are a guy.”
“Touché.” She laughs.
“Speaking of which, I think it might be best if I move you three into the old caretaker’s cottage, it’s probably best if we don’t go advertising that Kale here is a Split-shifter.”
“You know my name’s Joey, right?”
Is she flirting with Raine’s brother? I look over at Raine to see if he thinks so too, he just raises his brows at me.
“Yeah, I know. I just like to call students by their last names.” River emphasises the word students and I almost laugh at him. I know for a fact that he was dating a nineteen-year-old last year who had only just graduated from our school.
“I’m good with sharing the cottage with them. So long as I don’t have to see all that girly shit clogging up the bathroom.” Raine gruffly replies, like he’s trying to bring everyone back on topic.
Joey lets out a loud laugh, then shakes her head. “I’m stealing your clothes.” She doesn’t wait for a reply, simply walks out the door.
“Kale, I wasn’t finished talking.”
“Yeah well, I’m done. I’ve had a shitty few days and all I want to do is have a shower and put on some clothes that fit me.”
“Are you seriously going to let her run off like that?” I ask River and Raine.
“Yup.” Raine grunts walking over to his cupboard. He pulls out a suitcase and begins packing his clothes into it.
“Technically I can’t stop her from leaving the boys dormitory, she is a girl at the moment and that means she’s not supposed to be here.” River shrugs his shoulders.
I’ve grown up with River and Raine my entire life, so I know something big is going on here if they are actually agreeing on something. “So, does someone want to fill me in on what’s really going on?”
“You know as much as we do.” River again shrugs.
“We found out that Joey’s a Split-shifter when she switched bodies with me after elemental studies yesterday. River thought that meant that Joey and I were fated to be mates but then she switched with you and that theory went out the window. Now we have no idea why she can shift into both of us.”
“Ever think maybe it has something to do with our guardian marks?” I ask, referring to
the burn-like brand Raine, Chase and I have on our hips.
“She has a brand similar to ours on her hand.” Raine remarks. His brows draw down as he thinks it over.
“So, we’re thinking what? That she’s the one we’re fated to guard. Cause I thought our marks meant we were supposed to be the guardians of the lost princess.” It’s my turn to shrug. I never believed in the whole princess crap but Raine and Chase do.
♡
Chapter: Chase
“Hi Chase.” I spin on the spot looking at the girl talking to me. She’s cute, a little over five-five. Her blonde hair hangs to her shoulders making her face look longer that it actually is. She’s a touch too skinny for my liking. She’s got nothing on the new girl. I frown at my own thought.
“So, I was wondering….” She trails off twisting a strand of hair that is hanging beside her ear. I know what she wants, I’m not sure I want to be the one to give it to her though. What the hell am I thinking? This girl wants me and the new girl is probably off somewhere with Ray. I nod along to whatever the girl is saying. I can’t even remember her name but that’s never stopped me before. Slinging an arm around her shoulders, I manoeuvre us so we’re heading towards the girl’s dorms.
Halfway there the blonde spins in my arms and practically climbs up my body. Her kisses are sloppy, but I know where this is leading and I really want to take my mind off the new girl. We stumble through the hallways, until we reach her dorm room, I put her down long enough for her to open the door, then I’m lifting her, spinning and slamming her into the back of the door. It shuts with a thud, but neither of us seem to mind.
In seconds we’re butt naked, on her bed and I’m fumbling for my pants to grab a condom. The girl beneath me writhes, pleasuring herself while she waits for me to get the condom on. It’s bloody hot watching a girl get herself off and I feel like the entire room is heating up. I finally snag the condom, tearing the foil open with my teeth. I glance down so I can put it on properly and my entire world turns to shit.