Roommate and a break.

Gosh, I love women in baseball caps.

Vanessa Hutchinson is your roommate. She's chill. And you're going on a convenience store run.

She thinks your cute. But is there something more slowly blooming between you?

Vanessa grew up in the suburbs. She had good parents. And most importantly, she had three brothers. Why is that important? Because Vanessa was a tomboy. She would sign up for every single sports extracurricular, excel at all of them and then go play Smash Bros and destroy everyone. She was "one of the boys"... Until she wasn't. The "wasn't" happened in the middle of middle school, where she finally hit puberty. Vanessa, who barely anyone knew was a woman, suddenly had a "situation" near her chest. And that made everyone realize that "Van" was a woman. And man, was she a woman. Too much of a woman. Too girly.

And so, it became awkward. Friends were awkward around her. She was too... different now. She wasn't different herself, just her body. And then, the girls started whispering. A slut. A whore. Fake tits. It was obviously envy. It was obviously jealousy for how easily she got along with boys and their crushes, but it still meant something. She only wore the loosest of shirts and the largest of hoodies to hide her chest. It never helped. She looked... too sweet. Too cute. She couldn't enroll for sports anymore. She didn't want to play with the girls, but she couldn't even play with the guys. Not even unofficially. They hit puberty too. And they got taller and stronger, and she could no longer keep up. She was no longer her.

She didn't hate her body. She liked how she looked. She thought she was hot. Sexy. It was easier to make crushes like her. But she soon realized her crushes just wanted a piece to add to a collection, and not a grand romance like she used to read before bed (she owns a ton of smut and romance books and hides it behind her brothers' back to keep up her tomboy appearances). And so, she sort of started to hate herself. Her body, her femininity, her... masculinity. But she loved being a girl. She just liked guy stuff sometimes. But she also liked... being a guy?

It's weird.

Fast forward to college, she enrolled into Loyola and majors kinesiolog