Staying Out of Spite

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Staying Out of Spite

"Oh, Samantha wants to go shopping this weekend. That sounds fun! 'Sure, let's go!'" Ricky smiled as he replied to his best friend. His face fell as he realized what he was doing, "God damn it! What's gotten into me?" He collapsed back onto the bed. He didn't know what he was more mad at, his sister Kelsey or the fact that he was beginning to [like] being her. Just the thought of her smug look as she proclaimed that "she didn't need to swap back, she loved how things were," made him flush with anger. Of course he wasn't any better proclaiming that he loved being the beautiful older sister and wasn't ready to swap back yet. He let out a sigh. Ricky suspected Kelsey wanted to swap back as much as he did, but before they could agree one of them would do something to wind the other one up. Then they would inevitably say something rash and extend the swap another week. They'd been swapped for two months now and Ricky was beginning to worry that he was now intentionally extending the swap. Whenever the deadline was approaching he'd seek Kelsey out to make something happen.

Two months ago Kelsey and Ricky were having another argument. This time it was over whose life was easier. Ricky was a scrawny nerd who was bullied while his older sister was Ms. Popular, an absolute knockout beauty, captain of the cheer team as well as class valedictorian. In other words, Kelsey was Ms. Perfect while Ricky was a loser. It's not like he was awful in school or didn't have any friends, but he was always in his sister's shadow. His talents lay outside of school. Ricky was good with computers and hoped to do something with them in the future. However, his school had no classes involving them so he didn't really have anything he excelled in academically. He was awful at sports too, which when combined with his nerdy interests, led to him being the brunt of a lot of the jokes. He was miserable and his sister just didn't get it.

"You have no idea what it's like! Everyone fucking worships you. I get bullied constantly!" Ricky was fuming.

"And you have no idea how much pressure I'm under! Do you know how hard it is to maintain my looks? My grades? I wish I could take it easy like you! Just play around on computers all day!"

"I play around on computers to take my mind off the fucking bullying. I wish I could be smart and popular like you. Your life is 10 times easier than mine!" Kelsey looked about to shout but then smiled. Ricky felt a chill.

"Oh, really? How about you put your money where your mouth is?" Ricky's anger dissipated and instead he was just confused. Kelsey ran upstairs and returned with a strange idol. "This can let us swap bodies. You can see how hard my life is while I coast through yours. First one to give up loses, deal?" Ricky's spirits soared.

"Fuck it, I'm in." Kelsey had them sit down and used the idol to swap their bodies.

The next week Kelsey and Ricky pretended to be sick, and considering how weird they were acting in their new bodies their parents bought it. They used this time to teach each other about their lives. Ricky had to learn the insanely complicated social structure of friends and enemies, cheer leading routines, make-up, feminine hygiene, clothing and mountains of school work. Kelsey's lessons were absolutely brutal and she accepted nothing less than perfection. The most taxing part was learning years of insanely high level course work Kelsey had been taking. Luckily he had Kelsey's insanely intelligent brain and was able to pick up on skills quite quickly and memorized information like nobody's business. He wouldn't admit defeat or show her a smidge of weakness. He just smiled and worked his butt off. Meanwhile Kelsey had to learn how to avoid getting her butt kicked, verbally abused, programming and robotics. He was younger than her by 4 years so she had a much easier time. Kelsey was surprised that being a boy wasn't simple like she expected, but it wasn't nearly as complicated as what Ricky had to learn. She kept prodding him saying things like "See, it's hard to be a girl. Sure you don't want to give up?" which of course steeled his determination to stick it through. After the week was up the two of them went to school and took up their new lives.

Ricky hated it. Acting like a confident, social, kind and graceful young woman took a toll. His first period was hell. He had to shower and look at his sister's naked body and act like it was his own. Every time he wanted to admit defeat one look at his sister's smug face would turn his frown into a smile as he pretended he was loving every moment. Of course it wasn't all bad, he got to change and shower with a bunch of attractive older girls. He also got to experience what it was like to be popular and have people care what he had to say. His 'daddy' bought him pretty much whatever he wanted, though he was restrained by having to buy things Kelsey would like clothes and shoes. It was nice. Kelsey pretended that she was worry free but he could see the bullying was getting to her at times. He asked around his new friends and tried to get any with younger siblings to help out. He was used to the bullying but he didn't want Kelsey's pride to cause her to suffer like he did. It wasn't fair. Much to his surprise, they were more than willing to help out. Even more surprising was that many of them had a positive view of him from when they visited.

Ricky found himself feeling super frustrated and angsty after a couple weeks. Kelsey seemed to be the same way and they continually got into fights. It came to a head when he caught her masturbating to pictures of his cheer teammates. He got pissed. He'd been respecting Kelsey's body as much as he could and hadn't touched it yet. He of course went back to his new room and spent the next 20 minutes masturbating vigorously and loudly. When he was done he felt incredible and it was the first time he'd actually liked his new body. It opened a door for him. He liked being a beautiful girl. He liked his insane curves. He liked getting dressed up and looking cute. He liked making himself look even better with make up. He like hanging out with his girlfriends and the guys in their group. He liked being smart. He liked being athletic. He liked being social and outgoing. Sure the periods and sexism sucked, but they were just a price he had to pay to continue being Kelsey. They began exploring their bodies more and more, not realizing the effect it was having on them in accepting and growing to love their new selves. Of course this stared an arms race between the two of them. Kelsey listened to porn without headphones to let Ricky know what was up. Ricky bought a dildo. He wasn't sure about a dick-like object at first but it felt amazing. Kelsey kissed a girl in his class. Ricky got himself a boyfriend. He originally planned on landing a girlfriend when he realized that his body was definitely not attracted to girls. He met Jim through his friend Clarice and thought he was super cute. They began talking and before he knew it Ricky realized her was majorly crushing on the guy. When Jim asked him out he could barely hide his excitement. He hadn't planned this or even done it to spite his sister, he was just enjoying his new life.

4 months in Ricky realized they'd stopped discussing swapping back. There was no hostility or snide comments at each other. They were just happy living their lives. Their relationship had improved leaps and bounds as well. Ricky had become the kind, helpful and cheerful big sister. She'd started thinking of herself as a girl several months ago and began to hang out with Kelsey and even gave advice or helped with homework. Kelsey had become the lovable younger brother. After a long chat the two of them decided they didn't want to swap back. The new Kelsey texted her boyfriend that night. She'd been holding back because she didn't want to lose her sister's virginity, but now that this was her body she was going to get laid.