It's been a while since we last saw how Charlie was doing as Jessica Nigri, let's take a peek at what he's been up to!"How are you doing Cameron, my man?" Charlie said opening up Facetime.
"Not as good as you obviously," Cameron said. His dark messy room in the background was in stark contrast to the beach Charlie lied on. "I've been following you on Instagram after all, looks like you're having a great time in the Caribbean."
"It's been wonderful!" Charlie said rolling over onto his chest. "Being an adult is hard work, but a summer vacation is well worth it."
"Doesn't that hurt you?"
"Doesn't what hurt me?"
"Lying on your boobs like that, that has to hurt," Cameron said. His voice was worn and tired.
"Nope, they're quite comfy actually. It's like lying on two pillows attached to me, except bouncier," Charlie began bouncing up and down on his chest. He loved pushing his best friend's buttons as Nigri.
"Alright, alright." Cameron said. "Stop it, I was just curious is all. So how many days are left on your vacation?"
"Too little," Charlie said rolling back on his back. "I didn't actually plan this trip, it was all pre-planned by Nigri and her assistant months before I became her. If it was up to me I'd be here for another month or two, but sadly I have to get back to Phoenix in three days. Sucks!"
"Sucks to suck," Cameron said. "Still better than the trip I took with my family. Five days with my stupid cousins in Nashville was five days too long, I swear I wasn't meant to be born into this family. They're so embarrassing! Maybe one of these days I'll find a way to begin a new life like you did."
"Well keep me updated if that happens, but choose wisely. I didn't expect to be stuck as Jessica, it just sorta happened. Do I like it? Most of the time: yes. But her life is really intense, she's a fucking workaholic and I have to keep up appearances. This is why I need this vacation, it's literally just me on this trip, no one else. If I had to spend another second around her personal assistant and her uptight personality I swear I was going to strangle her."
"You're right. I was being mellow dramatic and a tad envious. The grass is always greener I suppose. Hey man, I gotta go. My mom's calling me."
"Sure man, talk to you later!"
"Later!"
The screen returned to Charlie's home screen, Lying back on his recliner his phone started buzzing. It was Jessica's PA, calling for the thousandth time that day. He hit the ignore button then powered his phone down. It was his vacation and he wasn't going to let anyone ruin it.
¿is what cameron a teaser to whats to come?also is part 9 next week
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Delete1-i think is more of a oneoff saying but hey you don't khow
ReplyDelete2-that entirely up to shifter it can be twomorrow,it can be next month or it can even be next year all i khow they might be short but hey it atleast he didn't drop the series still good chapter doe
It's a slow series, I agree. This one is a hard one for me, mostly because every entry requires a lot more of my time than most others, and the Comic Con trilogy was written during a time when I was procrastinating really really badly on doing things that had to be done. Now that my life has gotten significantly busier since the completion of the Comic Con trilogy this series has been harder to return to.
DeleteI'm working as hard as I can, but I only have so much time on my hands. I will let you know that part 9 is partially written already and is in my ever expanding list of drafts. So it could be out sooner than later! We'll see how much time life gives me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A quick peek into the life of a captioner. Most captions take me about half an to write, the Nigri series usually takes me over and hour or more. I usually only have an hour or less to spare right before bed to get to work on this project.
DeleteJust thought I'd explain why I take a while on the Nigri story.
Dang i was gonna ask for charlie to have his own blog
DeleteIn my opinion Why not focus on this
DeleteOn the weekend since sundays free (where i live anyway)2nd*anon* even doe that would be awesome shifter doesn't have enough time he works hard to keep this blog up a second blog entirely run by a character could kill him
lol thanks Contant! It's so easy to get hyper ambitious with projects that I wouldn't mind doing this, along with the countless other side projects I tend to work on, full time as well.
DeleteRight now I'm just doing my best to give back to the community all the while maintaining my sanity.
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ReplyDeleteOk,i think i exaggerated a little bit i think it would be cool for Charlie to have his own blog but it would be shifter double working on this and that one also the weekend thing sound great all weeklong just oneoff captions and on Saturday and sunday would be a new part but a man can dream..........
ReplyDeleteYou're free to work on your own blog you know! Google makes it so simple to set one up.
DeleteWould LOVE to see you detail Jessica's suffering and struggle from being controlled and puppeted around by some hormonal boys
ReplyDeleteI think that would be cool in a nightmare scene
DeleteOh god no. I am completely aware of the nightmarish implications of possession stories, and for a while I didn't even want to write them, but in the end I figured they are fun to write. And I'm not going to do a deconstruction of the whole genre on a blog dedicated to a specific fetish, maybe if this was a philosophy blog I would do it.
DeleteUntil this blog gains more traction in the liberal arts community I just want to keep it light (even if the implication isn't).
Also that wouldn't make sense everybody sees jessica as jessica but the only person that khows the truth is cameron and also charlie is not going out of his way to have sex or in any shape or form ruining her life.the spell replaced mind and soul is not traping anybody in there body.Also he's keeping appearances not because he wants to because he needs to.Not every story has to be dark and erotic for chist sake charlie is still a kid,shifter is making a series about somebody becoming there idol but it's not all fun and games the first three chapters talked about him fooling not khowing the consequences of there action for all we khow jessica could be dead but charlie redeeming by continuing her life like nothing happened.
Delete(Sorry for making it too long is just like what i said erotic or not it has to be writing with soul and that is what shifter is doing.) goodbye and goodnight
This is why I like writing this series. Exploring the consequences of somebody who just wanted to mess with their best friend gone wrong and seeing how he manages to live out his life dealing with those consequences is so fun to write. Not only did he go from male to female, but Charlie has to now deal with the struggle of being himself or being what the world expects out of Jessica.
DeleteBeing sexy is great and all, but when your new life depends on it you learn it's not all fun and games anymore. Especially if you're just an innocent teenage boy.
Man i just realized that both cameron and charlie never had girlfriends maybe in one chapter charlie tells cameron that he got a girlfriend in nigri's body And cameron gets super jealous
DeleteYou can just feel the underlying envy Cameron has for his friend. At least, that's what I gathered from my own reading. May not be what the author intentioned, but I sense the sheer resentment that Cameron's bottling up as he watches his best friend living a (from his perspective) a far better life.
ReplyDeleteNot helping the fact that he has the body of a woman he loves.
DeleteOne day those emotions will explode and is not charlie fault if cameron wouldn't annoy charlie that he "touched" her, he wouldn't be jealous of his best friend.
I'd be jealous as fuck if my best friend became Jessica Nigri too.
DeleteEverybody would
DeleteNot to peek or peer too much but...will Cam's bottled up resentment eventually turn to anger?
DeleteIt's your story of course, so I just wanted to know if you're going to take it in that direction and write on an eventual conflict between them.
Probably cameron's envy could cause serious consequences for not only him but also charlie as he is the only person that khows the truth and maybe gets so desperate that he tries the same spell on charlie to take her body for himself
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