She's lost her mind. - Mizuki

She's lost her mind!!! - Aya

She's lost her mind. - Toshi

She's lost her mind… - Hikaru

I have soooo not lost my mind. - Ichiko

"What have you done to yourself?" Toshi asked me. She stared me down as though she could change me back.

"Nothing much. Just an experiment. You know how these things go…" I said as though I were oh-so clever.

"This is creeping me out, Ichiko. Turn back." Aya said.

"Actually it looks like it'd be fun. We should ask Rika if we could all be boys!" Mizuki put in. She acted as though she was serious about her statement and I shrugged.

"Do you want me to go ask Rika?" I offered. Before anything was said, a sudden shift in the atmosphere caused a quick blindness and when I could see again, all of my best friends had turned into guys. Aya and Toshi were looking at Mizuki with daggers in their eyes.

Hikaru had barely noticed and decided not to make a big deal of it. She sipped her milk through a straw and yawned. Rika retreated into the shadows with a big smile on her face.

Gym class occurred somewhere between lunch and our other classes of the morning. This was the only class that all of us had together. Out of habit we went to the girls' changing room. I heard a few squeals as I was working on opening my locker and I looked up to an army of blushing, furious faces.

"Oh, wow. This isn't the guys' changing room." I said, backing out in haste. Aya had gone straight to the boys' locker room anyway and was standing there surveying all the uncomfortable male specimens.

"Stop staring." Toshi muttered to her. Mizuki held her hands on either side of her temples and kept her head down. Hikaru simply walked in as though nothing were out of the ordinary and changed into the regular uniform. It was quite snug on her, but no one seemed to notice. And I ducked behind a row of lockers when I spotted Tetsushi and his evil friend, Komatsu. Unfortunately they parked their pale bodies not two feet away from where I was hiding. I tried to ignore their conversation. Sort of.

"Tetsushi, I thought you dumped that bitch last month." Komatsu griped.

"Don't call her that. She's still my friend." Tetushi replied defensively.

"Then how come I saw you guys kissing after assembly yesterday?"

"We didn't kiss. I haven't kissed her in over a month. What are you talking about?" Tetsushi seemed genuinely puzzled. The spell erased his memory of yesterday, no doubt.

"I know what I saw. Ask me or anybody else who saw you. It was like you guys were back together."

"Whatever. I can't be her boyfriend anymore. I'm still not ready. Whatever you saw the other day, I am not back together with Ichiko." Tetsushi stated. He sounded sad, which made me feel a bunch of different things. I was glad that he cared, even if it wasn't the same.

But naturally I felt sorry that he was still wrestling with himself about growing up. Suddenly I heard Yasuake and his deluded friend Kyou stumble onto the other side of the same row of lockers.

"If you're not interested, why won't you let me have her? You can't prevent me from asking her out, you know. Just because she's a good pal of yours." Kyou said in a low, venomous tone. Yasu grunted and sat down on the wooden plank beside him.

"Listen, Kyou…if you really like her…I guess you should try to ask her out. I won't stand in your way." Yasu finished changing and left the locker room. I heard Kyou run after him shouting.

"Fine. I WILL ask Mizuki out!" He yelled to his retreating back. Mizuki put her hands down and stared at Kyou with her jaw agape.