“Ugg!” Even though he knew it was coming, Vance couldn’t help but recoil from the shock of breathing with someone else’s lungs, seeing through their worse eyes, feeling their constricting clothes pinch their soft, doughy skin.

Vance wasn’t the best student, but he didn’t have to be. That is, until he had to be. Swimming in the fall, track in the spring, making varsity three years running, he was an-star athlete, full stop. But his world came crashing down when he got into a car accident after senior prom, severely injuring his foot. It wasn’t enough to hinder regular movement, but the bones never healed correctly, and was unable to put pressure on it for extended periods of time. With such limitations, his scholarships dried up. If he wanted to attend a good college, he only had a few months to come up with a plan. In this case, a desperately drastic plan.
  
Valerie was unpopular, chubby, and very noticeably female. Underneath the nerdy glasses and rounded cheeks, Vance recognised she was cute, but that didn’t make him feel any better; for his plan to work, he would still have to give up his tanned, chiseled body for her apple-shaped one. You see, Vance had managed to get a hold of a spell that would allow him to swap bodies with someone, someone with brighter prospects than he, and despite her appearance and gender, Valerie had the brightest out of anyone. The appearance WAS throwing him off, though. But he knew that with his wonky foot, he wouldn’t be able to exercise all too well, and with the high-calorie athlete diet being hard to shake, he feared he was heading down the path of getting soft around the edges anyway. So if he had to, why not make sure his future was secure? The spell was one-way and permanent; he couldn’t go back and undo his decision, but Vance felt there was other no choice but to dive straight in.
 
Vance held firm that he had made the right decision, but that didn’t stop him from despondently poking at his sizable midsection. Now, the only time he’d be running would be to the buffet, and he’d look like a beached whale floundering out of the pool in this state. 'Hopefully, it’ll all be worth it,' Vance tried to persuade himself as the top button of his blouse popped off, exposing Valerie’s plump (admittedly sexy) boobs. 'Or, I guess MY boobs…' 

Valerie would probably fare adequately in Vance’s handsome body. But in her body, he didn’t have to settle for okay- he was ready to EXCEL. It wasn’t in the field- or body- he had in mind, but that wouldn’t stop him from giving it his all.