Hold out your hand

I was only expecting her to give me a bit of clever advice. Not knowing what she had in mind, I hesitated. However, curiosity got the better of me and I slowly extended my hand towards her like she wanted. Faster than I would have believed possible for someone her age, she reached out and firmly grasped my hand.

"Hey! What do you think you—Ahhhh!"

A green light shot up my arm from where she had a hold of my hand and I screamed in surprise. It felt like some peculiar energy was sent into my body. I tried to pull my hand away as soon as she had grabbed it, but her grip was abnormally strong. She continued to keep a tight hold of me despite my struggling. Soon my whole body began to glow with that same green light that I had seen fly up my arm before. After a few more seconds, she finally released me. I stumbled backwards into the wall of the alley.

"What did you do to me!?" I shouted at her.

She did nothing but smile and watch. Fear filled me as I stared at my hand that was glowing with the eerie green light that now covered my whole body. As I watched it with wide eyes, my hand began to change. My hand seemed to shrink and my fingers became thinner. I could also feel the change happening along with seeing it. It was an odd sensation. There was no pain, but I could clearly feel my skin and bones shifting and moving into new positions. Only a moment later I could feel the same shifting happening everywhere else in my body. The hair on both my arms was sucked into my skin which seemed to be becoming smoother. My clothes became slightly baggy as if I had shrunk down in size. The change that grabbed my attention the most was with my penis. It felt very similar to getting an erection, but instead of feeling my member pulsing to full strength, with each pulse it shrunk and was pulled within me. Feeling my penis disappear shook me out of my stunned silence.

"Wha... what is happening!?" I said. She remained silent. I probably wouldn't have heard her if she had said anything because I was shocked at the sound of my voice. As I spoke, my voice changed from normal to a much higher pitch. Hair blocked my vision as it grew out at an astonishingly fast rate. Feeling a large rumble throughout my body, I saw my chest begin to expand. My shirt was pushed out as two breasts of impressive size filled out on my now more slender form. With that the green light faded and my body was still. I quickly surveyed my body to check the damage she had done. It became very clear what had happened after a few moments. I was now a woman.

I was shaking at what I had just witnessed. I couldn't explain it, but I knew that I had been transformed somehow. The old lady was still standing there with a smile on her face. "How?" I asked. "Why?" I had to remind myself that the young girl's voice I heard talk just then had actually been my own.

"I give you gift, boy," she said. "You think women have easier life than you. Now you can live just as they do and find out for yourself if true."

I stood up and angrily said, "I don't want to be a girl! Change me back!"

She laughed. "No. This is great opportunity for you. Embrace it and live as woman now."

"You mean you are just going to leave me stuck like this?" A sick feeling came over me. Was this really happening? Feeling faint, I collapsed against the wall and put my head in my hands.

"The change will not last forever. Is only for one day. Tomorrow night, you go back to normal."

Thank God. I would be able to hide at home and nobody would ever know. Relief poured over me. For the first time since she grabbed me I started to feel close to calm. I stared at my new feminine hands, half expecting them to go back to normal any second.

"But beware," she warned. "If you take the seed of a man into your womb, there is no going back. You will be woman forever."

"There is no way I'm having sex with a man," I told her.

"More than just body has changed. The mind changes slower, but soon you will even think like woman."

I didn't like the sound of that. What did that mean? On the outside I was definitely different, but inside I felt the same as before. I doubted that whatever change she mentioned would affect me too much. Maybe I'd start to crave a ton of chocolate. I suddenly realized that while I had been thinking, the old lady had begun to walk down the alley.

"Hey, wait! I'm not done talking about this." I shouted. I got up and hurried after her. I stumbled more than once. My body was unfamiliar and my shoes were slipping with every step. The old woman turned a corner when she reached the end of the alley. I was only a couple seconds behind her, but when I turned the corner, she was gone. It was as if she had disappeared. It reminded me of a scene out of some cheesy movie. If I hadn't already witnessed my own body transforming like I did, I wouldn't have believed that someone could just vanish like that. But now I knew that magic actually existed in the world. Anything seemed possible.