The Chamber

My friend Robert asked me to step into the strange chamber in his basement. I asked what it did, but he only answered with the statement, “You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.” I wasn’t totally sure if I could trust him, but my curiosity got the better of me. I mean, my friend had a strange chamber in the corner of his basement!

And so I stepped in, there was a flash of light, and I stepped out. Everything felt strange and it seemed my perspective changed. Had I gotten shorter? Robert seemed absolutely floored.

“Holy crap!” He exclaimed, “It worked.”

“What worked?” I asked suddenly noticing the cute-sounding voice I now had. The fact that I had become a woman quickly became very apparently.

“The machine can change anything: your body, your mind, your clothes, your personality.” Robert explained, “I turned you into my dream girlfriend.”

Despite knowing I was really a guy; it seemed that Robert did, in fact, place in my mind that I was his girlfriend. It was hard to object, but I did. “I am NOT your girlfriend,” I demanded, “Or, I mean, I am...or I was...but I’m breaking up with you!” This was hard for me, because that jerk had used the machine to also make me love him, but I wasn’t an idiot; I knew he had used the machine to manipulate my mind.

I heard him mumble, “a few more adjustments,” before he talked to me more directly, “Sorry! Enough fun. Just get back into the chamber, and I’ll get you back to normal.”

The last thing I wanted was to be stuck in this body, but at this point, I knew I couldn’t trust Robert in the slightest...