Written by Jean-Luc Ottey 

      Oh dear…. It seems that today seems to be a rather blustery, winter day in the town of Oruijinshinaka. Snow has fallen on the roads, but much of it has been scooped up by the local clean-up crew, and young boys are out being paid to shovel snow off of neighborhood properties. The two best friends, Mellisa and Julianna, are having a sleepover together while Julianna’s parents are out of town for the weekend. While Josephine sits in her rocking chair while watching public television, the besties reside in Mellisa’s room sitting around talking about nonsense. Well, Mellisa is anyway. Julianna sits there on a beanbag while sipping on a soda while her sweater is tied around her waist.

“And there was this HUUUUUUUUUGE explosion! And everyone was in deep trouble and had to combine their robot parts to stop the giant beast,” Mellisa explained. She had recently gotten invested in watching shows featuring giant robots such as Gundam, Transformers, and Voltron, showing as if she has a huge obsession for it, even if she can’t fully follow everything. Julianna sat there, but she was so bored that she slowly closed her eyes. Unknown to Mellisa, Julianna had fallen asleep, but happily kept talking about the episode she watched until the very end. As soon as Mellisa stopped, she said, “So what did you watch on TV recently, bestie?” There was no answer, so she called Julianna out again. Mellisa crawls over to see Julianna sleeping, but still having a strong grip on her soda. Mellisa slowly pokes Julianna’s nose, making Julianna jolt and shout, “24! E-eh PI!! No! REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS!!”

“Bestie!” Mellisa giggled, “We’re not in class. And you’re certainly not in biology again.” Julianna looked around as her composure came back. She then grumbled and quietly groaned as she realized she fell asleep on Mellisa.

“Mellisa, don’t you want to do ANYTHING today?” Julianna queried, “If I wanted to be bored to death, I would have gone out of town with my family.”

“Oh,” Mellisa understood, looking up at Julianna, not wanting to make her best friend feel bored, “We can do something else, bestie. What would you like to do?”

“I dunno,” Julianna replied after sitting her soda, “Got any ideas?”

“Hmm….. We can, uh….. plaaaayyy a gaaammmmeeee~?” Mellisa pondered as an idea.

“A game, huh? What should we play?” Julianna questioned. Mellisa thought for a moment, but then quickly had an idea. She raised her finger high and inhaled wide, but Julianna quickly shot it down by assertively saying, “Not THAT game! Last time we did that, I couldn’t feel the lower half of my body for a week.”

“Oh yeah,” Mellisa giggled, “You are a big girl for tiny little me, bestie.”

“Sh-shut up and think of another game,” Julianna commanded with a fluster.

Mellisa pondered more as she tried to think of a game to play. She sat down with her legs crossed while her finger tapped at her noggin, asking it to conjure up a decent idea. A lightbulb hit as Mellisa suddenly had a rather silly idea.

"I got it!" Mellisa shouted, startling Julianna some, "What if we wear each other's clothes?" Julianna immediately spat out her soda just after hearing Mellisa's suggestion, but then began choking afterwards. Mellisa quickly patted Julianna's back as she slowly stopped coughing. After Julianna finally stopped, she looked at Mellisa and began to fight a hard urge to slap her. Julianna swallowed that urge then shook Mellisa up.

"Wheeeeeeeee~" Mellisa said with glee as she was being shaken up.

"How dare you suggest such a ridiculous idea like that," Julianna growled through her teeth with a face red as a tomato.

"B-u-u-u-h-beh-beh-bestie!" Mellisa stuttered until Julianna stopped shaking her.

She then continued, “I wanted to try it to see what it’s like to be like you.” Julianna felt a little uneasy at this idea and quickly began denying it. Mellisa looked at Julianna with big, sparkly eyes as she asked, “Pleeeeaaassseeee~?” Julianna continued to try and deny it and tried not to succumb to Mellisa’s adorable eyes.

“Dammit, fine. FINE,” Julianna gave in, “Just stop staring at me like that…. Next thing you know, people are gonna start shipping us.”

“Gonna start what?”

“Don’t worry about it…” Julianna quickly changed the subject and began to feel regret to agreeing to Mellisa’s idea. The feeling of someone in her clothes made Julianna shudder.

“So who’s gonna change first?” Julianna asked.

“You, bestie,” Mellisa said cheerfully, “Because it’s your turn to go first for the next game we play.”

“D’oh!” Julianna muttered to herself. In about 5 to 10 minutes, Mellisa had found a pair of her casual tank top/cargo shorts-combo, and Julianna quickly blushed in embarrassment. She quickly grabbed Mellisa’s stuffed toy and threw it at her head. Mellisa barely flinched when it bounced off of her head, but still held the outfit in front of Julianna.

“C’mon bestie, you gotta do it,” Mellisa giggled. She then kept walking forward until Julianna stepped a bit too far backward and ended up inside Mellisa’s closet. Mellisa quickly threw the clothes in with Julianna and quickly shut the door then said, “You can’t come out until you have the clothes on, bestie.”

“Ughhh….” Julianna groaned. Five minutes later, Julianna, unwillingly, finished putting Mellisa’s clothes on and said, “I’m done…”

“Come out, bestie,” Mellisa said but Julianna began to refuse. Mellisa then suddenly opened the door and said, “Come out of the closet, bestie. I want to see you in my outfit.”

“Ok, that was a poor choice of wording, and I’m not coming out!” Julianna yelled. Mellisa then happily grabbed Julianna’s arms and tried to pull her out. Mellisa always seemed to forget that Julianna was much heavier than her.

“I’m not coming out,” Julianna stated, “I said I would put the clothes on and-WOAH!” Julianna is then pulled out, but she lands on top of Mellisa, partially crushing her. The besties get up and Mellisa gets the chance to look at Julianna in her outfit.

“Bestie, you look adorable!” Mellisa cheered gleefully.

“I feel like a total dunce…” Julianna’s mind grumbled.

“Now it’s my turn! But that’s easy since I already have a white t-shirt on.” Mellisa stated. She then began to change from her house shorts to a long blue-jeans, and then put on Julianna’s sweater and black cap.

“Ta-da!” Mellisa shouted as she finished putting on Julianna’s clothes. Julianna thought to herself, “Huh… not bad…” A thought rolled into Julianna’s mind and she asked her best friend, “How do you feel in that thing?” knowing that because Julianna has worn that outfit for so long, her personality has probably rubbed off onto it.

“I feel snuggly in here, bestie,” Mellisa responded with a little shiver. Even though Julianna’s outfit was huge, she could not help but feel as if she was placed in a cramped box of some kind... “But oddly quiet… like someone has me trapped… How do you feel?” Julianna felt a little remorse for her little pal, so she cracked a small smile, placed her hand on Mellisa’s shoulder and replied, “Well if openly exposed is one thing, then feeling FAAAAABULOOUUUSSSS~ is what I’m really feeling? I dunno.” Mellisa giggled at Julianna trying to make sense of what she’s feeling. Julianna then tipped her cap off Mellisa’s head then said, “You don’t need to wear my clothes to know how I feel. I’d rather keep that from you so you don’t get hurt by me.” Mellisa’s worries slowly turned into giggles at Julianna’s statement.

“What?” Julianna wondered, confused of why she’s laughing.

“I’m no gonna get hurt by you, bestie. I look up to you.” Mellisa explained with a smile, and then pulled Julianna into a hug.

“Say, you wanna go downstairs and grab a DVD and maybe some ice cream?”

“Heh-heh, sure,” Julianna responded and followed Mellisa downstairs.

“Hey, ya’ think you can gimme my clothes back?”

THE END