Anya paced back and forth nervously. She was excited, scared, nervous and giddy all in equal measure. It had gone against her usual instincts to do what she had done but depending on how the rest of the night went, it may have been one of the best happy accidents of her life.
Just a few hours prior, she had been sat at home enjoying a day off from work and finally catching up on the most recent TV series all of her friends had been talking about. She had a few hours left before her partner, Adam, would be home from work and although she knew he wouldn't have minded watching through the rest with her, she always preferred to try and finish these things on her own so she could just focus on enjoying them and not whether Adam was bored out of his mind. He'd never said as much to her, but it was just easier doing things this way instead of having the awkward conversation neither of them particularly wanted to have.
They had been together for a few years now and were comfortable enough with one another that neither of them wanted things to change which had meant learning to manage any niggling annoyances they had about one another. Anya was sure Adam had his own grievances about her, but there was an unspoken rule between them, it seemed, that as long as it wasn't anything major, neither of them needed to hear it.
Anya had been idly playing with her phone when she saw a message pop up from her friend Kacey.
Kacey: Hey! Just sent you something via email. Make sure to open the attachment. Thank me later 😉
Kacey had an annoying habit of sending random things to Anya and then pestering her until she responded, like a child trying to show an uninterested adult their favourite toy. Most of the time it was just a picture, a dog riding a skateboard or a cat flying a plane for instance, but Anya knew she'd never get peace until she looked at it and humoured her friend by responding with exact information about what she'd been sent. She'd been caught out before when she'd tried to just ignore it and sent a generic response back, saying something about 'cute dog' when it was actually a picture of a tap-dancing rabbit. Since then, if ever Kacey thought Anya was trying to bullshit her or blow her off, Anya would just get the response 'cute dog'. She at least found it a little amusing, especially when another picture accompanied it with an actual dog in it.
She opened her emails and waited for Kacey's message to load. Weirdly, there was no accompanying text to the message, just the attachment and the title 'For You'. Doubly weird was that the attachment itself was a compressed folder named 'change.exe'. Something about this seemed fishy to Anya, so she exited her emails and messaged Kacey back.
Anya: Why is the attachment a compressed folder?
Kacey: Just open it, trust me 😁
Anya: You've not been hacked have you?
Kacey: You got me, I confess. I'm a dirty rotten scoundrel hacker! How did you work it out?
Anya laughed at Kacey's virtual sarcasm.
Anya: A hacker would be more polite. It's definitely you.
Kacey: Duh! Now go open it! 😄
Feeling at least a little better, Anya went back to her emails. She hesitated for a moment remembering all of the times she had been warned to never open email attachments that you weren't expecting or didn't know they weren't exactly what they said they were. Against this better judgement, she clicked on the attachment and chose the option to extract the files within. Interestingly, there was only one and within a second it was done. She was suddenly automatically redirected to her home screen which she now saw had an extra icon it, a white circle with a red border and a plus and a minus symbol in it that was named simply 'Change'.
Anya suddenly felt a little panicked. Why had she opened that attachment? What the hell had she just installed on her phone? She went back into her messenger and quickly typed back to Kacey.
Anya: It's installed some sort of app, what the fuck Kacey?!
Kacey: Oh cool! Have you opened it yet?
Anya: No! Of course not! It could be anything!
Anya's phone started to vibrate as it suddenly flashed up on the screen that Kacey was calling her.
"Hello?" she answered tentatively.
"Hey!" came Kacey's voice. "Thought you'd finally make your damn mind up if I called instead," she laughed.
"So, it is you who sent me this then?" Anya replied, still a little cautious.
"Yes! Conclusively, yes! Now the app won't work with your phone on so I'm going to hang up."
Without saying another word, Kacey had hung up on Anya. Anya's phone flashed up another message seconds later.
Kacey: Now as Shia Labeouf would say, 'just DO IT' 🤣
Anya grinned as a gif of Shia Labeouf started flexing on her screen. Strangely put at ease by Kacey's persistent belligerence, Anya swiped her message away and hovered her finger over the apps icon for a second before pressing it. Her screen went white and then a second later a welcome message loaded onto the screen.
Welcome to Change, a revolutionary new concept in self actualisation. To begin your journey of self-discovery, choose which option below applies to you:
Male
Female
(Please note this is an early version of this application and more options will become available shortly)
From what Anya could tell, the app looked to be a self help guide or tracker or something. She picked female and was redirected to a new screen asking her for more information.
The aim of Change is to help you to explore what you want to be. Real change can be tricky and time consuming, but Change is designed to make the process as easy as possible by giving you the tools to make real, impactful changes to yourself.
The free version of Change focuses on a single area of change (more areas can be unlocked for use by purchasing a Change+ subscription). Our extensive research shows that the most common desire for change in women comes from the increase or decrease of bust size. It can be very difficult to fully visualise what that change will look like, however. Enter your cup size below to begin exploring what Change could do for you.
