“I found it first!” Demi snapped, tugging at the strange suitcase that had been dumped in their front garden by some mysterious man.
“No, it’s mine!” Mitch shot back, pulling harder. He knew he was stronger than Demi and figured he would win soon enough.
As they wrestled over the suitcase, the zip suddenly burst open. Something heavy tumbled out and hit the ground with a loud thud—a golden statue of a man.
They froze, staring at it. Its eyes began to glow.
Before they could react, a strange sensation washed over them—and suddenly, they were staring at each other… from the other’s body.
“Ahhh! I’m you… I’m a woman… cool!” Mitch exclaimed, instantly cupping Demi’s breasts with his new petite hands.
“I’m a man… I have a… oh my God!” Demi gasped, shoving a hand down her trousers and feeling Mitch’s manhood.
“Pretty big, isn’t it? Wait—that means… I have a…PUSSY!!!” Mitch trailed off, eyes widening.
The two of them stared at each other, bewildered, as the statue lay silently on the ground.
“Leave my boobs alone, Mitch! This is serious! What are we going to do?” Demi scolded.
Mitch shrugged, still distracted by his new curves. “I don’t know… maybe go to our rooms and, uh, just see what comes naturally?”
“Mitch! Stop thinking about my body for one second, please!”
Weeks turned into months. Demi and Mitch tried their best to live as each other — swapping wardrobes, faking their mannerisms, covering for each other’s jobs, friends, and family. They laughed sometimes, cried often. For Mitch, Demi’s body was now more of a pain than it was “cool”; when you have a woman’s body, you have to deal with everything that comes with it. Still, they both clung to the hope that one day the statue would glow again and put things right.
But the statue remained silent.
Neither of them thought to check the battered suitcase still sitting in the corner of Demi’s room. If either of them had bothered to open it, they would have found the instructions an old book — the true key to reversing the swap.
Instead, the book waited quietly in the dark, as Demi and Mitch stumbled through their borrowed lives, never realizing the answers had been within reach all along.