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“Sure,” he said helplessly.

Tania pushed herself up to face him.

“Really?”

“Yes.”

“Promise me.”

“I promise.”

“No, really, really promise me.”

“I really really promise.”

Lee felt like that would have been a great time to end the bit, but Tania still looked like something was on her mind.

“Tania,” Lee said, with a hint of admonition. “We’ve been going out for a pretty long time, and I have no idea what you’re trying to get at, but I like to think… I want you to know you can trust me enough to just say it.”

This seemed to bolster Tania’s resolve, and she straightened herself up, pulling Lee with her so that he was in a sitting position on the bed as she knelt over his waist.

“Lee,” she said. “Babe. I love you, and I’m about to show you something, but you have to promise you won’t freak out.”

A vague sense of nebulous dread filled Lee, but only in the same way he would have felt if anyone asked him not to freak out because they were about to show him something. Tania had been nothing but perfect the entire time they had been together, and he was determined to accept her regardless of whatever bizarre flaw she was about to reveal to him.

“I promise I won’t freak out.”

Tania took one of his hands and guided it beneath her shirt, pressing it against the naked skin just below her panties.

“Lee. I really am a worm. I… I control this body, but the real me is in here.”

“Wh-” was as far as Lee got before he felt something twitch beneath Tania’s skin.

He didn’t pull his hand away. He didn’t scream. He didn’t freak out. He just looked up, and saw the desperately anxious expression on his girlfriend’s face.

“That’s me,” Tania said again. “In this body. I’m… I’m inside her. Controlling her.”