Sarah could hardly believe what she saw in her compact. A boy's face stared back at her, a little boy's face from the look of it. He was kind of cute, as little boys go, and had typical long-enough-to-be-messy brown hair, brown eyes and a face that would grow up to be handsome. But it wasn't her. She screamed as she dropped it, imagining her lilting feminine voice coming from a little boy's mouth. Everything seemed smaller somehow, her lips were thin and her carefully trimmed eyebrows were bushy.
The most troubling thing of all was that it looked somehow kind of normal. In a twisted way, she looked as much like a bull dyke as a little boy, with her cleavage and long legs clearly visible in the cheer uniform she'd had to wear that day. Sarah hurried home, desperate to try to make this new face and head work with some makeup and quick styling. Her makeup, however, was nowhere to be found, and her numerous hair ties and clips were gone as well.
She stared at the mirror in her room, on the vanity devoid of anything that was usually covering it. Sarah felt like crying, and as she watched the little boy's face scrunch up and begin to tear up in the mirror, she let the tears flow, jumping onto her bed and digging half-heartedly in her purse on the bed for her cell phone.
Punching in the correct keys by memory, she smiled as her boyfriend Biff's custom ringtone came from the earpiece. After a short moment, his voice answered. "Yeah?" She frowned at his greeting; where was the "Hello, sexy?" or the "When we gonna fuck?"
"I'm sad, baby. What are you up to? Can we rent a movie?" Biff's voice laughed from the other end. "Why are you askin' me this? Don't you have some girlfriends to bug?"
Why was he being so mean? "What's wrong, baby? Don't be so mean, I didn't do anything!" She nearly started crying again right there. His next response forced it. "I'm not your boyfriend, dog-face. Call someone else." Click.
The wish must've changed reality. Biff wouldn't want a girlfriend with a boy's face. She cried into her pillows, wondering what the little boy who had her face was doing...
