Christmas At St Clare’s Magical School For Girls

“I don’t think we should be playing with that.” said Olivia. As a prefect, she always thought it was her duty to be responsible. Unfortunately, this took the form of telling us not to do anything fun. It’s a shame, because she was really quite kind otherwise.

“Shove it, Olivia!” laughed Ava, playfully. She snatched the package from Evelyn’s hands. “I want to see what it does!”

It was Christmas evening at St Clare’s School For Girls, and Evelyn had just received a parcel from her great Aunt. It had arrived quietly in the evening, separate from all the other presents, and had come with a short note, written in a flowing old-lady script.

“My dear Evelyn, this flute has been in my care for nearly a century. I’ve heard of your troubles this past year, so I loan it to you with the hope you use it wisely. Point the end of the flute at a bully and play a note to change their tune. Do not get carried away with it, girl. ~~ Mildrid”

So it was we were now we huddled in the common room, wondering what it actually did.

“We must be very careful.” warned Evelyn, “My great aunt is perhaps the most unusual woman in our family.”

Ava chucked at that. She thought that Evelyn was the most unusual woman in her family.

“We should hand it in to Professor Tumut”, said Olivia. “She’ll be able to tell us if it’s dangerous.”

“And she’d never give it back!” complained Ava, “Let’s just try playing it first, quickly, see what it does.”

“Who should we point it at?” I asked. “I don’t want to risk something bad happening to me.”

“Try it on me then!” said Ava, opening the box and handing the flute to me. “Don’t be a wuss, Sophie!”

I hesitantly took the cold brass instrument. “Um, I don’t know. Maybe Evelyn should be the first one to use it?”

I glanced at her, but she shook her head. She was as worried as I was.

“What about Charlotte?”

I looked at the ditsy girl sitting to my left.

“Me?” said Charlotte “But I don’t know how to play the flute.”

“I don’t think you need to know how.” I said “I think you can just blow across it?”

“Oh, okay.” said Charlotte, unfazed. She was pretty used to us telling her answers. Barely passing her classes, she was quite different to the rest of us. I mean, Ava failed plenty too, but that was just because she didn’t try.

Charlotte took the flute and raised it to her lips.

“Point it at Ava first!” I said nervously. Whatever this thing was going to do, I didn’t want it doing it to me.

“Oh, right, okay.”

She turned a bit, pointing the end at Ava, who grinned.

“Fire away!” laughed Ava and threw her hands in the air.

Charlotte blew and a soft, airy note sounded… then she slumped forward, unconscious.

“Oh no!” shrieked Olivia “What do we do!? She’s hurt!”

Evelyn, however, reached out and gently brushed Charlotte's lips. “She’s still breathing.” she said. “I wonder what happened? Did you feel anything, Ava?”

We turned to look at Ava, and found her mouth wide with shock. She was looking at her hands like she’d never seen them before, wiggling them in front of her eyes. I tapped her on the shoulder.

“Oh! Hi!” she said, her voice strangely bright. “Um, this is weird!”

“What happened?” Olivia whispered.

“Well, um, when I blew into the pipe, I guess it put me into Ava’s body?” said Ava, scrunching up her face. She reached down and squeezed her breasts. “It feels really weird.”

“Oh, you’re Charlotte?” said Evelyn, as if this was as normal as a stroll down to the kitchens. “Do you know what happened to Ava?”

Charlotte shook Ava’s head. “Noooo, I can’t feel her or anything.” then she giggled and patted herself down “Or can I?”

“Ha ha”, I said, “Can you get back to your own body?”

Charlotte scrunched up Ava’s face again as if straining. “Oh no! Does that mean I’m stuck?” she suddenly looked very worried. “I don’t think I want to be Ava! She’s too short!”

Olivia picked up the flute and pushed it into Charlotte's new hands. “Try blowing it again. Point it back into your body.”

Charlotte did so, and a moment later her body sat up again, giggling.

“Ooooh, that was fun!”.

Ava, meanwhile, just blinked. “What happened!? Did it knock me out?”

“Charlotte took over your body.” I said, “I think this is a kind of possession flute.”

“Oh my god!” said Ava, grinning. She felt herself up. “What did she do? I can’t remember a thing!”

“She was only in you for a minute.” said Olivia, biting her lip and squeezing her legs together. “And now that we know what this does, we should definitely hand it in to Professor Tumut.”

“Are you kidding?!” shouted Ava “I’ve got to try it! Who’s turn is it to be possessed next?”

She looked at each of us, her ratty face beaming with excitement.

“Come on guys! It’s easy! You just wake up a minute later, no harm done!”

I shivered. What would Ava do inside my body? She didn’t have much of a filter in her own -- she’d probably make me run around the common room singing or something.

“I’ll give it a go.” said Evelyn “But I do want a turn after. I think whoever gets possessed should be allowed to choose who they possess next.”

Ava looked around at us, pleading. “What do you say, girls?”

Olivia bit her lip. I could tell she was curious... and since there hadn’t been any harm…

“Very well” said Olivia “As long as Ava uses her turn on Evelyn.”

I shivered slightly, wondering what it would be like inside Olivia’s body. I’d get a turn in either her or Charlotte, right? That could be really fun.

“I’m in too.” I said, swallowing nervously.

“I’ve already had a turn!” chirped Charlotte.

Ava grinned again and wasted no time pointing the flute at Evelyn.

“Please don’t do anything weird!” said Evelyn.

Ava blew an ugly note and her body slumped forward. A second later, her trademark grin grew on Evelyn’s innocent face.

“Wow!” said Evelyn’s voice. Ava’s sharp way of speaking sounded very odd coming from Evelyn’s floaty and soft register. It was like she was a whole other person.

Evelyn’s body suddenly stood up.

“Wow!” she said again. “I’m so tall!”

Ava made Evelyn jump up and down, laughing as Evelyn’s bust wobbled in a way Ava’s never could.

“This is amazing!”

“Take it easy, Ava.” said Olivia, “That’s still Evelyn’s body.”

Ava stepped over to her own sleeping body and dug through the pockets of her robes.

“I can’t feel my old body at all!” she said. She grabbed one of her own small boobs in Evelyn’s hand and laughed. “Haha, look everyone, Evelyn’s feeling me up!”

Olivia’s eyes went wide and she glanced around the common room to see if anyone was watching. Luckily it was pretty deserted because of Christmas.

“Stop it!” hissed Olivia, “That’s…”

“What?” said Ava, Evelyn’s voice sounding smug. “It’s my own body! Who says I can’t touch it!”

A naughty look flashed across Evelyn’s innocent face, then Ava bent down and kissed herself on the lips. I felt a strange sensation grow between my legs.

“Ava!”

“Kidding! Kidding!” she said, “I actually only wanted my mirror.”

She pulled out a small pocket mirror and let her old body flop back onto the couch. Looking at her reflection, Ava tried moving Evelyn’s face into all sorts of expressions. Usually Evelyn was very gentle and quiet, she never made faces, but now…

“Oh man! She looks so funny when she frowns!”

Ava turned and made an exaggerated frowning face at me and Olivia.

“Hey, I didn’t get to do any of that stuff when I was you!” said Charlotte. “I want another turn!”

“After me!” I said.

“I think that’s enough Ava.” declared Olivia “Evelyn shouldn’t miss more than a minute or two.”

Ava pouted and stuck Evelyn’s finger up at Olivia, but went back to her seat. I chuckled -- it was really weird seeing Evelyn act like this.

I watched closely this time, wanting to see what happened to Evelyn’s body as she came back to awareness. Ava took the flute and aimed it at her own body, then she stuck her finger up at Olivia again and blew.

It was instant, one moment Evelyn’s face was frowning, then it relaxed and glanced around. Evelyn blushed to find the gesture she was making at Olivia and quickly dropped her hand back into her lap.

“Wow.” she said quietly. “That really was instant.” Then she smiled. satisfied.

“Did you have fun, Ava? I’m glad you got to see what it was like to have my body.”

“She had a lot of fun!” laughed Charlotte.

Ava meanwhile was pushing herself back up, rubbing her shoulder. “I shouldn’t have let myself fall like that.” she said “I think I must have clipped the armrest or something. Owww.”

I laughed at her.

“Serves you right.”

She stuck her tongue out at me.

“So is it my turn now?” Evelyn asked, the dreamy girl surprisingly focused. She was keen.

Olivia sighed and nodded. I wonder who Evelyn would choose -- Charlotte may be kind of dumb, but her body was like a exaggerated version of Evelyn -- a bit taller, blonder, and bustier. On the other hand, Olivia’s more stern and solid figure might appeal to Evelyn. I smiled at the idea of the responsible and focused girl being controlled by somebody so airy and dream-like.

Evelyn picked up the flute and smiled at me.

“Are you ready, Sophie?”

What?

She raised the flute to her lips and blushed. “It is okay if I have a turn as you?”

I shut my open mouth and steadied myself. That’s okay, I thought, just means I get to definitely pick Olivia.

I nodded at Evelyn and watched her blow a note.

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A second later I awoke to find myself cuddling with Ava on the other couch. It was like no time had passed at all -- just suddenly my body was in a different position. Evelyn had kicked by slippers off and loosened my tie, I noticed, and my right hand was on Ava’s--

I yelped and jerked my hand back. I stared accusingly at Evelyn -- I hadn’t expected anything like that from her.

“I made her do it.” said Ava, grinning. “And you think I got touchy when I was inside her.”

I gasped.

“It was nothing like that.” said Olivia, quickly. “They just played a prank at the end.”

Charlotte giggled. “And she flashed your boobs in the middle.”

“Evelyn!” I said, shocked.

Evelyn shrunk down her seat a bit. “I knew you wouldn’t mind, really. We’ve compared our boobs before. Besides, it was like it was my body.” She smiled shyly at me. Grrr.

I huffed a little and redid my tie. I didn’t really mind, but it still felt a bit… odd? I imagined my body standing up and flashing Olivia without me there. I tried to get it through my head. That had just happened -- I had stood up and flashed everybody. But I also had been asleep… I glanced down at my body. Nothing had changed about it, yet for a minute or two it hadn’t been mine at all.

I looked up at the others and raised the flute. Conveniently, it was already in my hand from when Evelyn had blown back into herself.

“Fine then.” I said. “You’re turn, Olivia.”

Olivia went red and shuffled in her seat. She squeezed her legs together again and shut her eyes tight.

“Very well.” she said, biting her lip. “Have fun…”