“I might’ve not been completely honest with you…” Sarina stated looking a little shameful as she turned towards Becky, who was waiting less than patiently to get her mouth back. “That’s Becky but she’s also Sarina… She's two people in one and it’s my fault.”

I looked at her confused for a moment before I realized who she was. “So you’re Sarina’s mum, the lady in the photograph?” I asked with hesitation. Sarina looked down, while Becky looked at me with a bit of anger.

 “Yes, that was the last photo taken of all three of us before this whole mess. My name is Julie by the way,” she introduced herself properly.

“So why did you introduce yourself as Sarina?” I inquired. “I didn’t know you, you could’ve gone by your real name.”

“You heard them say the name Sarina at the airport and that’s who I am at the moment. This is my daughter’s body…” she was ashamed to admit it and Becky didn’t look too pleased. I wanted to ask her a followup question though she raised her hand and interjected. “Let me explain from the beginning, as best I can.”

Julie told me how she had died a week after Becky’s twenty-first birthday only she didn’t stay dead. Some force unknown to her had brought her back, the problem was she didn’t have a body. She roamed aimlessly, unseen, in Sarina’s house and accidentally possessed a doll she once gifted Sarina, she was stuck as that for about a year and forgot she was even a person, she ‘fell asleep’ as the doll and only woke up once Sarina said her name, reminding her that she was Sarina’s mother. She wanted to get out of the doll and she jumped into Sarina’s mirror, where she lived as her reflection, whenever she looked at it. Though as time went on she got more powerful and she was able to move, despite Sarina’s directions. Sarina never caught her though as she could only do it when her back was turned. Eventually Sarina got a pet rat, which was always in the reflection. This allowed for Julie to finally escape the mirror, taking the rat’s place.

Julie described how she felt when her heart started to beat again, to be alive again. She said it was similar to the charge I felt when she transformed me. She continued the story of how she lived as her daughter’s pet for a few months and how she spent that time trying to tell Sarina that she was Julie. Sarina kept trying to justify someone was playing a prank on her. One day Julie managed to do something that made Sarina question if her mother was actually her pet rat and when she did, they had switched bodies.

“I’ve been in Sarina’s body ever since, I felt terrible about taking it but I didn’t know how to swap back. Though when I took this body my spirit gained a connection to it, that’s when I discovered I could use magic,” Julie-Sarina explained. Becky/Sarina looked at her with a sour face, it seems that losing her body was still a sore point for the real Sarina.

“So how did this arrangement begin?” asked pointing towards Becky/Sarina.

“Like I said, I didn’t know how to give Sarina her body back and I knew enough of her life, I kinda took over. Sadly the only person that knew any different was Becky. I told her some of the truth, about using magic… it’s like I told you before we started experimenting…” Julie-Sarina went quiet. “Then the rat got sick, my only daughter was dying in the body of a rodent. I had a better understanding of my magic by then, much like how it’s been growing now. I managed to pluck Sarina’s spirit out of the body of the rat, but I couldn’t put anyone else in there. I tried to put Sarina into my body but all I could do was turn her into a body part and that was no life, so I merged her with Becky.” She looked over at Becky and returned her mouth to her. So that she could speak.

“She didn’t exactly merge us….” Becky said coldly. “Yeah, we’re just sharing a body… though Sarina hardly let’s me take control…” She said cheerfully. “That’s because you asked my mum if she could turn us into a dog…” She said to herself as her two minds interacted aloud. Becky turned to me and sized me up. “So, mum, are you going to tell your friend here why you really brought me through the computer? I mean swapping out bodies so you can turn Becky’s body into theirs can’t be the real reason.”

Julie-Sarina looked at me with a guilty look then back at Becky/Sarina. “She’s right… I didn’t. I lied about not being able to change your body back. The truth is the little computer experiment was to see if I could bring a body out of the machine, to see if I could separate Becky and Sarina. It didn’t exactly work. And I also wanted to see how you would react to staying in a woman’s body. It seems that the only issue with it is your identity and your family.... Which is perfectly understandable.”

“Wait, that’s a guy?!” Becky/Sarina yelled as she made more of an effort to cover herself up. “I’ve been naked this entire time!” I wasn’t sure if it was just Sarina yelling or Becky or both.

 “Oh calm down, he’s rather respectful,” Julie-Sarina defended. “When he was in this body for a bit…” she raised her hand to stop her daughter from responding. “I didn’t have my genitals and my magic switched us back the next day. So no I can’t do that for you,” Julie-Sarina explained before her daughter could ask. “He was a gentleman. Same as when I turned myself into a puzzle, he avoided looking at my privates.”

Becky/Sarina gave her mother another dirty look. She didn’t like her mother referring to her body as hers. She then looked at me. “Then why is he naked now?”

“We’ve got no clothes that can fit them,” Julie-Sarina shrugged. “Also I would’ve brought you over with clothes but my magic doesn’t work like that.”

Becky/Sarina gave me another glare, she didn’t like me, at least one of them didn’t. “Okay so you tried that and yet you still brought me over knowing your little plan wouldn’t work.”

  Julie-Sarina looked over at me and back over to Becky and I didn’t like where this was going. “Well, I was thinking, maybe I can give you a break from being two people, anyway.” I wasn’t liking where this was going. She turned to face me. “There are now three bodies yet four of us, so we can swap things around. Do you mind if you host Becky for a little while, I think Sarina could use a break?”

I bit my lip and studied Becky, trying not to look anywhere except her face. She in turn was studying me. It seemed like two souls in one body took its toll and while I wasn’t too thrilled to share my body with a stranger I had experienced some weird things over the last two weeks. “If Becky wants to, I guess I could…” I hesitated.

 “Fine... “ Becky/Sarina said. “Yay!”

That’s all Julie-Sarina needed to hear as she reached out towards us. We were both lifted off the ground and a tunnel, like the one I first entered the computer through, connected our hearts together. I could feel both hearts beating at separate paces but they slowly matched their rhythms. When they did a glowing ball of energy left Becky’s body and flew into mine.

 “I’m free…” Sarina-Becky laughed. “Finally my head is clear….”

“That’s a little rude!” My body snapped against my will. “We’ve been bestfriends since we were kids and have been sharing a body for the last year now. Now we’re separated, you’re happy?” I found myself not being in control of my body as I took a backseat just observing the world. ‘Oh yeah, Julie didn’t know it’s like that. We can take control of individual parts of the body but only one of us can take the pilot’s seat.’ Becky told me internally. ‘Unfortunately for you, I have better experience at this.’

“Sorry Becky… it’s just that… you know how it is…” Sarina-Becky apologized. “It’s just been forever since I had my own mind. My own human mind back,” she looked down at her body, disappointed that she was still Becky so her life wasn’t fully hers again. “I’ll take good care of your life while you’re gone.” She turned towards her mother. “Can I please go back home now?” Julie-Sarina nodded and the two of them left the room.

‘She’s not going to miss me,’ Becky said as she started touching my body. ‘Let’s see what your story is roomie.’ She began to pull up memories of the last two weeks and beyond that. ‘You and Julie certainly had fun, I never got to be milked….’ Becky sounded disappointed. ‘You laid an egg as well!’ She said as she replayed the memory. ‘All I got was Sarina stuck in my head and a few cosmetic changes… After Sarina, Julie wouldn’t change me anymore. I would’ve loved to experience some of this.’ I couldn’t stop Becky from scrolling through my mind and so I decided to see if I could do the same to her. ‘Sorry roomie, doesn’t work like that. I can only access your memories because they are physically tied to your mind, my memories are with Sarina.’

Julie-Sarina returned a while later. I wasn’t sure how long it was exactly as I was forced to recall my memories with Becky at the helm of my mind.

“So, is everything alright in there?” She asked, concerned for my state of mind.

“Yep, Becky and I are just getting to know each other,” Becky said, hiding the fact I was no longer in control. “I do have a question though, with your magic can you see where either of us are in the body?” I hoped the answer to that was yes.

“Hmm, I never really checked before….” Julie-Sarina began to scan me as Becky gave me back the driver’s seat for a split second. Though before I could say anything she had taken over again. “Nope, all I see are your two spirits intertwined,” she looked at me with suspicion. “Why did you ask?”

“It’s a little embarrassing but Becky is my crotch at the moment… I was just curious if you could see that. Just in we detached body parts again.”

“I see, well I’ll keep that in mind,” Julie-Sarina pondered. “Thanks for making me aware, I wouldn’t want to accidentally separate one of you.”

‘Don’t worry, I can’t actually send you to a body part. You need to choose to possess it,’ Becky assured me. ‘Though this is good, Julie doesn’t know I’m the one in control, means we can have some fun.’

‘Our Isolation ends tomorrow, she’ll be changing me back so I can organize a flight home.’ I informed Becky, hoping she’d give me control again. I wasn’t sure how to take it myself.

‘Oh… okay… you know I’ve never been a boy before and I’m interested in visiting Australia.’ Becky scanned my memories again. ‘You know, now that Sarina is free, there’s nothing stopping Julie from keeping us this way…. Though I’m sure she’ll do the right thing.’