209 Surprise

To be fair, life as a girl went by quite fast, and before I knew it, the month was almost up, with today being the last day. Even then, it was already late in the day, meaning that the day will be over soon.

This month...how should I describe it, is one of the more joyful months for me. I was exposed to a sense of friendship that I was never exposed to before and given more opportunity to be close with the others. I guess this is the difference between being a boy and being a girl. As a girl, it's more common for friends to be quite close, doing everyday things such as shopping and having nails done together. It's rather easy to blend in as well as often times when we would have conversations, I would just listen in. I guess that part isn't that much different from being a guy for me, but I just feel as if when I was a girl, I feel more like in a family than when I was a boy.

Maybe it's because girls are a more closely knit group or it's actually more because of a change in mentality on my part. Ever since what happened on Christmas Eve, where everyone remembered who I was and sought me out in the cold winter streets of Palisia, I felt...closer to everyone at that moment. They all appeared to be someone that I...value above others. Even Noah, the more obnoxious of the bunch, I missed to a certain degree.

In this month as a girl, I suppose things went quite smoothly. Every day after school, I would either participate in the club activities with the others or leave school to hang out elsewhere with either everyone or just the girls. To be fair, even now, I still do not know what's the purpose for our club, but since it gave us a place to be after school, I'm not the one to complain.

During this month, I also made sure to not have any moments where I am alone with Loyd, knowing that he holds special feelings for the female version of me. I'm not sure what memories were implanted into his brain by the divines, but...it must be some of that sweet and sour youth memories thing cause...it just felt like that sometimes the way he would occasionally glance over at me in class and when we're with everyone else. I couldn't help it but notice the resemblance of our situation and our behavior with that of the many cliche romantic shows that are being played on television. This then made me think that maybe Emilia had a part in this, as I was once told in the past that she enjoys watching television shows like these. You know what, come to think about it, it must've been Emilia.

In this month, Erith has also blended into the group quite well. She no longer acts as if she is out of place and is more relaxed and natural now, which to be honest, I do not see the difference between how she's acting now and at the beginning. However, it is obvious that there has been a difference, and that, I believe is more of a mental thing. It's like she accepted us to be her friends and incorporated us into her social circle. However, the person that she is the closest to is still Luna, and I believe it'll be quite difficult to change that.

Everyone else has just been the same. I mean there's really not much going on in our lives other than the occasional exams that would warrant a change in our behavior. It's not like we're magically transported to another world and tasked to kill the demon king or anything, so there's really nothing much going on. Daily life is still daily life, it's bland. Like in those slice-of-life shows, they only show the interesting part of life. Those are basically highlight reels of one's day, and to think how long a day is and how long an episode of those shows are, it just goes to show how boring life is. However, just like those shows depicted, it isn't without its highlights, but those highlights in my life...it's rather bland at the moment. You just have those days where nothing interesting happens. I guess it's due to the fact that I'm trying to live life as peacefully as possible as a girl and actually succeeding at that.

If one were to really dig into what happened this month that is worthy of mention, then I guess that one time when I was out with Elise on another weekend where we went to watch a movie together and bumping into Ralus counts.

"Hey," Ralus smiled and waved at me. "You're looking oddly attractive today."

His voice still sounded the same as before, although with a greater sense of taunting and mocking mixed into it. This was probably because he knew that I'm forced to be a girl for a whole month so he's taking advantage of that.

"Is this your friend?" he asked, looking over at Elise who appears to be a bit smitten by Ralus's appearance.

To be fair, Ralus is quite handsome, and being an angel and all, it gave him a sort of divine and noble aura. However, since I know his nature, I'm not about to let my new friend fall for his devilish schemes.

"Thank you for taking care of my neighbor," Ralus bowed his head and said in a flirty and yet gentlemen-like manner. "It's quite flattering to me to know that Alvelyn has such a pretty friend. I—"

"Get going," a familiar woman said and gave Ralus a kick in the back. Looking over, I saw that it was Emilia.

"Come on," Ralus laughed as he gathered himself and followed after the woman. "You're jealous?"

"No," Emilia said with great determination in his voice. However, I could swear that I saw a light blush somewhere in that face of her's.

After that, the two just went off and disappeared, and Elise, after assuming that Emilia is Ralus's wife or girlfriend, gave up. All in all, I'm kinda okay with this ending.

Anyways, that's the more interesting event that happened to me over this month. Everything else was rather bland and boring and like every other day. Life is just so peaceful these days, and I'm actually enjoying it.

That night, as I sat there on my bed, catching up on what the girls had sent in our own group chat while I was taking a bath, I was actually quite sad that I will have to leave this tightly knit circle and be looking in from the outside as Alevian. Surprisingly, I sort of want to stay a girl. But, I'm also missing being a guy, so I guess you can't have the best of both worlds.

With a sigh, I locked the screen on my phone and turned off the lights. Then, I walked over to the curtains, shifted it slightly to the side and gazed out the window. With a lazy smile on my face, I observed the beautiful nighttime view of the city from this alternative angle that I rarely have the opportunity to see until now that I'm living life as a girl in this room. But...all of this will come to an end tomorrow when I'm turned back into a guy.

With a sad and lonely smile, I released the curtains, allowing them to gently sway back and forth before they slowly lost their motion and rested in place the same way that I had left them. Then, I walked over to my bed and laid down. Since the temperature wasn't hot as a month ago, I was no longer wearing that warm, bunny onesie that Emilia had prepared for me. Instead, I was wearing a simple night gown. In the morning, when I transform back into a guy, this outfit would probably be extremely tight and uncomfortable, but I'm a bit too tired to get up and change. Therefore, I opted to take it all off, knowing that it'll be more comfortable in the morning once I'm back as a guy.

I raised my right arm and pointed it up straight at the sky, opening my hand as if I was reaching out for something.

"Goodbye," I whispered to myself. "And welcome back."

Then, I closed my eyes and prepared for my slumber, which will ultimately lead to the transformation that would return me back to my male body. Exactly how it works, I do not know, but it'll work. The divines promised me that, so I should at least trust that from them. Hopefully, they took care of everyone's memories, the furniture in this room, and all the extra stuff that I had bought for this body. It'll be a pain to try and remove it all myself. If they don't, I'll just have Noah come and haul everything away whether he likes it or not.

Slowly, my eyelids became heavier from my sense of drowsiness. Slowly, I allowed them to shut and allow myself to be enclosed in this comfortable darkness where my naked, female body is cloaked by the warm bed sheets. In the morning, when I wake up, it'll all be over.

***

I gradually stirred as the alarm on my phone continued to ring, begging me to rise. The sound made its way into my dreams, and slowly, it dragged me from that dream world and back into the physical realms. However, my mind was still a bit foggy from my drowsiness, and I was still unable to open my eyes in its entirety.

The bed, for some reason, was extra warm. It must've been the fact that Winter was slowly giving way and transforming into Spring. When I moved my hand under the bed covers, I felt it brush against something smooth. It wasn't my own thigh as the positioning of the object was a bit too far from my body.

This alarmed me, causing my mind to shake with fright. Immediately, I opened my eyes and staring into my own eyes was a set of eyes of the same eye color. This face before me, it took a second to register with my brain, but I recognize this face. It was a familiar face, one that I've been seeing for the past month. Both of my faces were characterized by a look of shock, and it was during that moment that I realized that there seemed to be two voices in my mind. Both of them were mine, but one of them belonged to this female body that is laying next to me in bed.

"What the hell?" I whispered to myself and sat up in bed.

The sudden motion of me sitting up stripped the bed cover from her, exposing her naked body to the open air. This erotic and alluring nude figure was the exact one that I've seen every day in the past month. The size and shape of her breast, the slender curves of her hips, it immediately solidified the fact that this body belonged to Alvelyn.

Wait! I paused myself. Does that mean I'm a guy again?

"Yes you are," Alvelyn's voice said in my mind, and looking over at her, I saw that she was gently nodding with a blush on her face. "It's standing up."

"What the hell?" I shook my head and reached over to the bedside table for my phone, but I discovered that there were two phones there. One of them was in a case that I recognized as Alvelyn's and the other was in Alevian's. "There are two phones?"

I then looked around the room that I was in, and as I assumed, it was the exact same room that I had fallen asleep in last night: Alvelyn's room. Then, my mind immediately started running, thinking of what could've happened. However, I was immediately disrupted.

"We need to do something about this," Alvelyn said to me in my mind as she sat up and covered her body with the bed sheet. "What would Loriana think if she sees us like this? In her perception, we're twins, and yet we're naked and sleeping in the same bed."

Right, I thought to myself and brought a hand to my forehead. Loriana already thinks Alvelyn has a brother complex of some sort... Is this the surprise Noah was talking about?