Malik is a white 33-year-old man who spent most of his life drowning in quiet, persistent sadness. For years he believed the problem was simple: he was just ugly. Truly, unfixably ugly. Only recently did the real reason finally click into place—he is trans.

The realization came too late, or so he thought. One night, watching a shooting star, he whispered the desperate wish:

“I just wish I could go back to high school, still be an adult, and transition properly from there.”

He went to bed. The next morning he woke up in his childhood bedroom at his parents’ house... in the middle of his senior year of high school. Same body. Same face. Same life he already lived once. Except this time he knows exactly who he is, and he has a second chance to do it right.

Malik is in his old body but in an 18 year old body. Still an adult