Athena's first priority was making sure she actually went to school. Yesterday she had spent the whole day at home cleaning under the influence of the old maid's dress. Her favorite dress, she tried to remind herself. She needed to at least see what was happening to everyone else, even as she tried to stop whatever was happening to her.
The teenager took a breath, and looked at each item of clothing she had. Every single one gave her a... a feeling. Like when she looked at the Victorian dress on the floor, it still said "old maid" to her. When she looked at the System of a Down shirt, it said "angry punk" to her. When she looked at the cheerleading outfit... well, that one wasn't a surprise.
So, she reasoned, if what she'd worn so far had made her age up to 18 already, the first threat to achieving her goals was accidentally aging any more and accidentally graduating high school. Every outfit choice came with some level of danger, but whatever consequences she had to bear, they had to come with maintaining, or ideally decreasing slightly, her age.
So what was the youngest-looking outfit in Athena's closet right at that moment?
