Once upon a time, in a small suburban neighborhood lived Carrie. At 23 years old, she was composed, mature, and independent, enjoying an afternoon at her boyfriend John's house. It was one of those lazy weekends when the sun was setting at its own leisure pace. As she was cozied up with John, the moment was intruded by a boisterous entrance. In hopped Becca, John's 15-year-old sister, causing a small commotion complaining about John's forgotten promise to drive her to the shoe store. Annoyed by her interruption, John rebuked her, and Becca, seething but undeterred, darted out of the room in a huff. Carrie, after a blissful afternoon with John, was resting downstairs when crafty Becca managed to sneak up on her and steal her purse and phone. Carrie attempted a chase, but Becca's nimble maneuvers left her empty-handed. When Becca finally manged to leave the house with her friend, Carrie saw her chance. Staring at all of Becca's glamourous possessions, the opulence of it all made her crinkle her nose, unaware of the magic hidden in those objects. Undeterred by the sight of the exotic merchandize, Carrie was relieved to spot her purse and her phone and ran towards them with disregard to Becca's belongings. She tripped over a pair of glittery purple flip flops which slipped onto her feet and a handbag caught on her shoulder—things that started her unexpected transformation! A sudden pain in her feet preluded her shrinking stature bewildering her. In reflection of a nearby mirror, she saw herself metamorphosing into Becca, complete with a crop top, short shorts, an ankle bracelet — and the glittery purple toenails! Carrie struggled to fight this bizarre transition, but her efforts remained futile. To her horror, she could feel her relationship with John subtly shifting into the irritating sibling bond Becca held with him. "NO! John is, John is — John is... so annoying!" she found herself muttering against her will. Confused and disoriented, there she was standing in John's room, in her dainty outfit but with no recollection of her transition into Becca. Bemused by the presence of Becca's flip flops and handbag in her brother's room, she slipped them onto her petite feet and casually slung the handbag across her lanky frame. She snapped a picture of herself in the mirror, marveling at her trendy fashion taste. However, when she lay her eyes upon Carrie's purse and phone, she was furious. She had vague memories of them not belonging to her, and in her heightened disappointment, she stomped on the phone and threw the purse into the bin. Confused and uncomfortable in her new identity, she decided to distract herself by insisting John again for that long-awaited ride to the shoe store. After all, she still needed that pair of shoes, eager to heighten her heel collection, potentially to facilitate more surprising transformations. As Becca continued her pursuit for more glamorous goods, somewhere deep within her, Carrie was lost but not forgotten, a part of her that will always yearn for a simpler life and her old self a return to her precious love affair with John.