“Steaks will be done in about 10 minutes” I called out to my wife who was inside the house.

“Sounds good” she replied “The corn is done and there’s just a few more minutes left on the potatoes”

“James and Linda should be here any minute now” I called back in over the sizzling sounds of my grill.

“Yeah…Linda texted me a few minutes ago and said they were just getting off the highway” Anna replied as I heard her getting out the plates.

I heard the voices of our friends as Anna opened the front door for them. I waved through the window at them as I took the steaks off the grill and came in through the back door.

“Hey…How’s it going Mark” James called out.

I shook his hand while balancing the plate in my left “Good…good…how are you doing” I replied.

“We’re just fine; those steaks look good” He replied.

“I think the whole dinner is going to be good” I replied. “Hey Linda” I greeted her and stepped over to give her a quick hug. We had known each other for close to ten years now and a get together without our kids around was rare but always appreciated. “I know you’re not a big red meat eater, but I have small steak here for you” I told Linda.

She smiled “You know me all too well, but Anna’s salad looks delicious”

Anna was already pouring glasses of wine for each of us as we settled in at the table.

Talk ranged from kids to work to sports to the news as dinner went on.

“Beautiful Summer night…” James said as he stood up taking his glass with him. All the windows in the kitchen and dining room were open to let in the refreshing breeze. He opened the sliding doors and stepped out onto the deck.

“I think James has the right idea” Anna said as she went out to join him with Linda and I right behind.

We settled in on the deck chairs and continued our evening of talking and drinking.

After a half hour, I kept looking inside at the dirty plates on the table before I got up and said “I’m going to go clean up the kitchen a bit…at least get a few of those dishes soaking”

“Okay” Anna said taking another sip.

“Sounds like a good idea” James added as he too took another drink.

“I’ll give you a hand” Linda said as she got up.

“Thank you” I replied. “I see who likes me around here” I teased the other two.

“Nope…don’t like you at all” Anna said.

“Not getting up right now, my glass is too heavy” James laughed as he settled deeper into the cushion.

I just smiled and shook my head and went inside. I held the sliding door open for Linda as she did a quick little leap inside the house. I pulled it shut and we went to work clearing off the table.

It was a warm summer day, so I was just in a pair of army green cargo shorts and a black T-shirt while Linda was wearing tan shorts and a white tank top. She had kicked her brown flip flops off when she came in the door and she had her shoulder length blonde hair pulled into pigtails to keep her neck cool.

“Oh that fan feels so good; I think it’s muggy out there tonight” Linda said as she gathered up some utensils.

“Do you want some ice water instead of another glass of wine?” I asked her.

“Oh, I’ll get some later” she said with a dismissive wave of her hand. “I don’t need it yet”

I smiled as we continued to clean up. I went to the window and asked my wife “Do you want me to close up and turn on the air conditioning for tonight?”

She looked over and said “Yes…please. I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep if we don’t cool the house off some”

I started to close the windows after I flipped on the AC and as the windows shut, I could no longer hear James and Anna’s conversation out on the deck. I turned around to go back to the table for one last load and found that when I spun around, I bumped right into Linda.

“Oh…I’m so sorry” I said as I caught her by the upper arm. Luckily, she didn’t drop anything.

“It’s okay…it’s my fault. I should have swung further out around you” she said as she eased the plates down to the counter “Close one though”

“Yeah…I…” I suddenly lost my train of thought as I looked at Linda. Something seemed different but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. She was wiping her hands off on a kitchen towel and looking downward to the floor. I watched as she tilted her head slowly to the right.

“What in the…” she said as she leaned over. She was staring at her foot and a look of confusion was settling in on her face “What’s going on?” she said slowly.

I looked over at her foot and saw what had her so perplexed. Her toes were painted a dark burgundy color but it appeared that the polish was lightening and disappearing. As we both watched in wonder, her toe nails became clear and opaque.

“That’s weird” I said.

“Tell me about it” she said as she looked over to me and then back down. When she did she said “Now what” and she bent down.  Linda put her hand down to rub her big toe, but just as she touched it, she jerked her hand back as if it had touched fire with a quick “Ooo, it moved on me!”

Linda hopped backwards and did a little jig with her arms clutched tightly against her chest, her hands balled up into fists below her chin. She stopped and looked down and so did I. “Ow…it feels like my feet are…growing” she said in a tone of disbelief.

My eyes widened as I stared down and watched as Linda’s feet grew several inches longer as well as widened. Her toes began to reshape themselves, also growing longer and thicker as her nails shifted and moved. “What the Hell!” she exclaimed.

I took a step backwards but as I did, my attention was brought to my own feet. I stumbled slightly as it felt like my balance was off. I stopped and reset my feet beneath me but as I did I looked down and slowly said “Oh Shit”

I felt a rippling sensation run through my feet and when I looked I saw my feet contracting and scrunching inward, diminishing in size all around. I could feel my heels sliding forward against the wood floor. My soles shifted and grew softer as the tops of my feet grew smoother and smaller. My toes shrank and pulled back, changing shape as they went. My nails shrank too and changed shape becoming smaller and thinner before they were obscured by a deep burgundy colored nail polish that appeared and spread out to perfectly cover them.

“What the hell Mark…did we just switch feet?” Linda said with panic in her voice.

“Uh…I think we did…oh shit…uh…” I stammered as I looked down and began to move my much smaller and delicate feet. A thought flashed through my mind “I’m going to turn into Linda” and my mouth dropped open and I stared across the way at her. “I’m going to look like that”

“What” was all she said, her eyes wide with fear and anticipation. “My legs feel funny all of sudden; like they’re sore or…” her voice trailed off as she looked down “AH” she said and I looked over to see what she was reacting to.

Black hair had begun to poke out of her previously smooth skin. Her calves and thighs were now quite hairy as they began to grow longer and heavier.

“Arrah” she moaned as her legs grew. Her muscles and fat changed and redistributed changing first her calves and shins; then her knees dimpled in and became less pronounced followed by her thighs. Linda lost the soft roundness of her thighs as they changed. They grew longer and took on a masculine build as she gained my legs. “I’m turning into you…I’ve got your legs…why do I have your legs? All we did was bump into each other”

I shook my head as I felt a pressure building in my legs. It felt as if someone was squeezing them and pushing down on them. Muscles were contracting and fat began to build making my legs rounder and softer. The hair on my legs simply vanished, leaving behind nothing but smooth skin. My legs were shortening to Linda’s length and changing into her shape. My calves were slimmer, my knees reshaped into hers and my thighs filled out.

I ran my right hand across my smooth inner thigh. I felt the skin tingle under my fingertips as it continued to expand and soften. My legs were rapidly becoming Linda’s and as a consequence, I realized our heights were leveling off with each other.

I was 6’3” but Linda was just 5’5” and as our legs changed so did our height. I was several inches shorter and she was now several inches taller as we stood across from each other watching our bodies transform into the others’.

Linda shook her head slowly back and forth and put her right hand up towards me. “What is happening to us? I…I just can’t believe this; no one will ever believe this”

“I know” I mumbled still looking down at my legs as they settled in and stopped twitching.
Our moment would be short lived as we both felt simultaneous movement in our hips. We both moved our hands as my hips began to shift outward and hers started to pull in. “Oohhh” she sighed out and she made a visible face of discomfort, scrunching up her nose and brow as her hips narrowed and shifted.

“Whoa that feels so weird” I said as my hips slid outward. As they went, my whole center of gravity shifted. On top of that, I felt additional flesh and weight building on my back side. My shorts shifted as my body took on its new form, accommodating for my new asset. My hands moved from my expanded hips to my expanded ass. Through the shorts I grabbed the additional mass. I squeezed and released, feeling it bounce back.

Linda squinted as she felt her ass lose weight and size as it flattened, matching her hips and thighs. She closed her eyes and said “Oh no…”

I looked over and saw the dread and doom in her expression and realized that the only thing that hadn’t changed for us below the waist was what was causing her reaction. “Um…I have no idea what to say to you right now…but…uh…”

She nodded “I know and I don’t know what to say in return” she opened her eyes and gave me a knowing look. “We’re about to get to know each other way more than we ever thought we would”

“Uh-huh” I said as I felt a tingling numbness begin in my penis. It spread from the tip down the shaft and into my testicles. My curiosity took over and I undid the button on my shorts. Despite my fear and confusion, I was fully erect and my boxer shorts were tented up. As I undid the button, I was able to witness the beginning of the end as that tenting started to drop and pull back flat. I pulled out the waistband of my boxers and watched as my pubic hair shifted and shuffled and pulled in tighter.

Everything was getting smaller and smaller. My penis was pulling inward until the shaft was gone and just the cap remained and my testicles pulled up and up taking all the skin with them. With a pulling sensation that made me swallow hard, my testicles popped backward and disappeared back into my body. New folds of skin began forming as the head of my penis continued to shrink and become folded inside my reforming skin. With a slightly wet sound and feel, Linda’s vagina, clitoris and vulva were mine and I assumed that meant I now had a functioning uterus and fallopian tubes as well.

My fingers gently brushed off of the moist skin and I pulled them back quickly out of respect for their former owner who was having issues for herself.

“Aw shit…I feel nauseous” Linda said with a slight lurch forward. Her hands went to the front of her tan shorts that were already fitting poorly on her. She undid the button and stared working them off her long hairy legs. Once over her thighs, she let them drop and she pulled her simple white panties out as she felt a rushing sensation. Her pubic hair curled and lengthened and sprouted out in additional places just before she saw a slight nub of flesh appearing at the top of her changing vagina.

“Oh…my…God…” she said as the nub began growing longer and thicker. Its girth and length quickly spread outward. Linda’s hands sprang upward in shock almost as if she were afraid to touch it as it grew outward.

She threw her head back as testicles dropped out of her and additional skin caught them as they all dropped. She screamed against pursed lips and a clenched mouth. Her head pivoted back and forth; she reached down and grabbed her shorts and bolted from the room.
I didn’t know what to do except gather up my undone shorts around my waist and follow her down the hall and into my bedroom.

“I didn’t know what to do…I need to get out of my clothes and into some of yours” she said on the verge of tears “Oh my God I have a penis!”

Linda stood at the foot of the bed. She dropped her tan shorts and white pantie to the ground “Give me your boxers and your shorts…hurry”

As I took off my shorts and underwear I got my first full look at my legs. My bottom half was now Linda’s and it hit me “Holy Shit” I mumbled.

“I know right…How can we stop this Mark?” she pleaded as she took my clothes from my outstretched hand.

“I don’t know if we can” I replied. I glanced over and saw my legs on her body and I shook my head in disbelief. She swiftly stepped into my boxers and shorts and brought them up to her waist. “Ugh” she said as she reluctantly poked at her penis to get it to stand upright so she could at least zip up her zipper.

A trail of hair was rising out of the top of her army green cargo shorts up to her belly button that was beginning to change now as well. Her stomach got a bit looser and grew outward as more of my weight came onto her frame.

Linda lifted off her white tank top and tossed it in my direction on the bed. She shook her head in frustration as she reluctantly unhooked her 34B bra from behind her back “You’re going to see them soon enough” she said as she slid off her bra.

I lifted my black t-shirt off over my head and handed it over to her. As she took it, she suddenly stood up straighter and her eyes opened wide once again. She dropped her chin and watched as her breasts began to recede. They pulled up at first before they lost mass and pulled backward.

Linda leaned forward trying to get them to last at least a moment longer on her but they continued pulling backward despite her efforts until just puffy nipples remained. As a few black hairs sprang out of her flat chest, she closed her eyes and exhaled loudly and her shoulders slumped.

She arched her back though a moment later and put her hand to the small of her back. “Mmm” she hummed as her spine elongated and she gained additional height. She bent forward at her waist and when she stood back up, she was 6’3”.

I felt my spine compress and my shoulders pull in and down. As I felt it, I could feel myself sliding downward in height. I was shrinking down even further against Linda’s newfound size. I now came up to only her chin as I reached my new height of 5’5”. “Wow” I said “You look so tall to me”

I looked down at my bare chest and stomach as my stomach came in and tightened up and smoothed out.  With Linda’s stomach and waist, it made my hips seem even further out.
I detected movement and felt a stirring in my chest. My hands hovered as I felt my skin tighten around my nipples right before they stiffened and rose up. With a slight puff outward, mass began to fill in and build up pushing my erect nipples out. More and more weight came in as my breasts expanded and rounded and grew. I threw my head back as they came out and formed into Linda’s shape and size.

She had already picked up her bra and was now standing behind me “Here” she said as she hastily pushed my arms forward and slung the bra around them. She quickly pulled it back into place and she snapped it closed before she lifted up the shoulder straps onto my shoulders. As she did, she gasped slightly in surprise as a star pattern of freckles burst out of my skin across my shoulders matching her pattern exactly. “You’ve even got my freckles” she said towering over me “Cover yourself up” she said as she put on my t-shirt and I picked up her tank top and slid it down over my body.

Linda lifted her shoulders and lifted her arms out straight as they began to change into mine. More muscle came in on her longer arms and her broader shoulders.

“Shit” she said and raced to get her rings off her finger. “Shit, shit, shit” Linda held up her wedding and engagement rings as her hands began to change. Her palms pulsated once, and then grew outward. Her fingers thickened and lengthened as her nails shortened back and became wider. Darker hair came out along her arms and down her wrists.

My arms already felt smaller and shorter and I suspected I had already lost some size in them when I shrank but they did shrink even smaller still. They were definitely smoother as I ran my right hand over my left arm.

With a slight shutter, my hands began to shrink down in size. My fingers thinned and shortened and my palms contracted down. I watched in awe as the lines on my hands rearranged themselves into Linda’s patterns. While my fingers shrank, my nails grew. They changed shape to become more oblong, then grew out beyond the ends of my fingertips for the first time in my life as Linda’s fingernails.

Linda hastily reached up and yanked the hair ties from her pigtails. Her hair fell loose to her shoulders and she ran her thicker fingers through it and gave it a shake and said “I wonder if I’ll ever get to do that again”. She popped out her earrings and quickly placed them on the corner of the bed for me to see. She unclasped her necklace from around her now changing neck.

Her neck was elongating and a bump was rising in the center as she gained my Adam’s apple. She ran a hand over the hard lump that she was unaccustomed to having. Her eyes widened slightly at the realization that with that change, her voice had likely changed now too.

Linda opened her mouth but no words came out at first. She was hesitant to hear what was going to emanate from her. “I have to…” she started to say before she stopped in shock at hearing the deep man’s voice that came out of her.

I looked over and up at Linda’s face. It was still her face but everything else had once been mine, including that voice “Don’t be…oop” I stopped too; my small delicate hand now went to the smooth front of my throat before it crept up to my lips. I licked my lips and steeled my courage enough to say “Nothing can possibly prepare you to hear someone else’s voice coming from your mouth” in Linda’s pretty female voice.

“No” she replied and swallowed hard on the word. “Nothing can prepare you for anything that has happened to us tonight”

I sighed as I saw hair begin to poke out on Linda’s upper lip and chin. It was coming in quickly in my shade of brown with even my few strands of gray in the middle of her chin. I pointed to the large mirror that sat on the dresser that was behind her back.

Linda turned as she rubbed her fingers across her chin. She uttered a simple “Hmm” as her chin and jawline began to reshape and form itself into mine. As the hair continued in along the sides of her mouth her upper lip spread out wider and her mouth itself began to change.

Linda licked her lips and by the look in her eyes, her lips already tasted and felt different. As she brought her tongue back in, she choked a bit and gagged and said “Gah…my tongue just changed shape inside my mouth…uhmmmeee…my teeth” she said while keeping her teeth parted.

I looked over and watched as with her lips pulled back and her teeth parted, her teeth began to grow and shift inside her mouth. Her two front teeth widened and pushed all the others aside as they too began to change and shift “Ah…this feels so weird” she said. She closed her mouth and rubbed her fingers over the area.

While Linda’s face was changing into mine, mine was beginning to change into hers. I watched as my goatee disappeared as each hair pulled back in leaving nothing but smooth skin behind. It was the first time in 15 years that I didn’t have facial hair. My hands came up and I poked my cheeks with my fingernails as I was not yet used to having them yet.

I was shaking slightly at the thought of what I was going to see in the mirror. I saw my head on Linda’s body but that was already changing as my chin and jaw began to reshape and reform. I felt my jaw pop and heard it echo inside my head. I felt an all-around pressure building as my whole head compressed down into Linda’s size and shape.

Slowly, my upper lip thinned and shifted position taking my whole mouth in a different direction. The coloring of my lips changed becoming a paler shade of pink. I now fully understood the freakiness that Linda had just experienced as the texture of the inside of mouth changed along with the position and size and taste of my tongue. My teeth felt on edge like they were all loose simultaneously, my gums tingled as my teeth began to shift and change size and shape. I couldn’t help but hold my mouth open as they changed into Linda’s. “Oh God” I said as my mouth settled down.

My cheeks began to change and rise up slightly as Linda’s lowered, I knew that when I smiled from now on, I would be seeing Linda’s smile and the way her cheeks crinkled and formed around her mouth.

Our ears swapped next; hers came down and grew longer as mine came out slightly on my now smaller head. My fingers went to the lobes and ran over the slight dimples where her earrings would go soon.

I felt an unmistakable pulling on the end of my nose as it now began to turn into Linda’s. I knew that Linda didn’t like her nose and thought it was too big, but I always liked it and thought it was what distinguished her face so I was happy to be getting it and it now fit my face perfectly as that was where it belonged.

Linda’s fingers gently ran over her own nose as it disappeared, changing into my nose that now fit her face better. She lightly scratched the left side, feeling the rough skin that was now hers.

Realizing that our eyes would be next, I slid my glasses off and quietly handed them over to her. She took them with a smile of resignation. “I guess I’ll be needing these for now” she said as she put them on.

I could tell that they threw off her vision for the moment as she stood up a bit straighter and shook her head when she put them on.

My vision was also blurry without them but that was when I noticed that my eyes started to focus in again and everything was clearing up. I blinked rapidly and noticed that my eye color had gone from green to blue. My eyelashes were actually noticeable to me as well as the fact that my eyes had changed size and position and had become Linda’s eyes. I squinted briefly and saw her familiar slight lines form up in the corners along with just the slightest of bags beneath them.

“Wow” I said in an understatement and I brought my fingers up to the corners of my eyes and I pulled them down. My eyes shifted and I saw that Linda’s eyes had narrowed and turned green in color and I knew that she now needed the glasses more than ever.

My eyebrows lightened and shifted along with my forehead and hair line in anticipation of our final physical switch. The part in my hair shifted from right to left as my hair lightened and began to lengthen. I felt and saw it begin to sweep over the right side of my forehead. It was a bit messy as it changed but I instinctively began to tuck my hair behind my ears as it grew longer and longer and filled in more and more. Soon it was brushing my shoulders.

Linda watched as her own eyes changed before her new eyes. The world had turned blurry and watery behind the glasses but in an instant, everything went clear, including the fact that she now had green eyes instead of blue. She watched her eyebrows rise up and fill in as her forehead changed just before her hair began to retreat backward into her scalp.

Linda’s hair darkened at first before gray began to filter in along the sides as her hair went from long and feminine to short and masculine, completing her look and her physical transformation.

It was at that moment that my shoulders sagged and I exhaled deeply as the reality started to hit home. I was staring into a mirror and I was no longer seeing my own face before me. “I’m Linda” I muttered as I gazed down at my body. I could look down my white tank top and see cleavage. I looked further and saw smooth female legs topped off by dark painted toe nails on small feet. I had fingernails with length and long blonde hair. I was a woman…I was Linda…and she was me.

I turned my head and took in the sight of the tall man next to me, so familiar and yet no longer me. Emotions built up inside; everything was there: Fear, anxiety, curiosity, excitement and an overall sense of incredulity that it even happened.

“What are we going to do” Mark said as he turned to me.

“I don’t know; nobody will ever believe what just happened to us”

“We can’t tell James and Anna! They will freak out if they found out about…this” he said waving his arms up and down.

“What do you mean? You mean I have to go out there and be you” I said bringing my hand to my chest.

“Yeah and I have to be you I guess”

“But…” my mind swirled “That means I have to leave here tonight with James and act like I’m his wife!”

“You are his wife” Mark said succinctly. “Look at yourself”

“I have looked at myself and I’m looking at myself. This is freaking me out Linda…I mean…Mark” I said.

“Get used to it Linda. You’re going to hear it a lot…it’s your name now and you’ll have to respond to it”

“But…you don’t know my job and I don’t know yours and…”

“We have to act and be the other” he said again. “The alternative is way worse if you think about it”

I looked behind me at the discarded jewelry. I sighed and picked up the earrings and began to put them into my ears. I grabbed the hair ties and began to pull my ling blonde hair back and up into a ponytail. “That was relatively easy” I said as I glimpsed in the mirror “Maybe I got some of your muscle memory…I hope”

Finally I picked up the wedding band and diamond ring. I looked at Mark and he gave a slight nod as I slipped them onto my finger. I closed my eyes as I did it and didn’t even realize I had them shut tight until I opened them back up.

“Shit…I only hope this starts to make sense soon” Mark said as he wandered out of the bedroom and went down the hall. “We’d better get outside before they get suspicious” he said and made my heart jump.

I had to will my legs to move and start walking. I noticed how Linda’s body moved. I felt the sway of her hips, the way her weight fell on her feet and legs, the swing of her arms, the feel of her hair moving against me. I was in a daze as I walked into the kitchen.

Everything looked slightly different to me before I realized that everything looked bigger now, higher up. “I’m ten inches shorter now” I reminded myself as I saw Mark open the sliding glass doors and give me a weary smile.

He stepped out and I heard ‘my husband’ say to Mark “Thought you two weren’t coming back out…we were going to come in and check on you, but we decided against it”

Mark laughed and said “Well everything is cleaned up for the most part and we were just talking a bit”

“Where is Linda?” James asked.

“She said she needed to hit the bathroom before she came back out…”

“I’m right here” I said as I stepped out. I felt the warm deck wood against my bare feet and I wiggled and lifted my toes as I stood just outside the door.

Mark caught my eye as he went over and took the seat next to Anna and I quickly sat down next to James. I crossed my legs like a lady as I sat.

“Hey cutie” he said and for the first time in my life, a man put his hand on my thigh. My eyes widened but luckily darkness had settled in and no one saw my wide eyed reaction. He ran his hand back and forth on my thigh twice before I took his hand in mine and held it.
I reached for my glass of wine to try and calm my nerves. I felt an unmistakable feeling of panic just sitting in my chest “He has no idea I’m not really Linda and why should he, like anyone has ever heard of two people just…poof…swapping bodies” I thought to myself as I took a long slow sip of wine.

“You took your pigtails out” Anna said disappointed “I love the pigtails”

I swallowed hard, I was about to answer my wife as her best friend and not her husband “Yeah, but they were getting loose and it was too much hassle to put them back in tonight. I couldn’t get them lined up”

James squeezed my hand and I responded with a squeeze back.

I was pretty quiet and held back for the most part in the conversation for the rest of the evening. I could feel a headache starting that was most likely a result of the stress of changing bodies with Linda. My mind was racing. It sprang to full attention when I heard my husband say “Well, it’s getting late…we should get going don’t you think Hun?”

“Oh…uh…yeah…I guess it is getting late”

Anna got up and grabbed everyone’s glasses and I watched James shake hands goodbye with his wife, who would be staying there as I left with him.

I walked over to Mark and leaned forward to give my former body a light hug. I rose up on tip toe and whispered “Good Luck…”

He leaned over and said “We’re going to be just fine…don’t worry, we can pull this off” before he said much louder “You’re welcome, it’s at your house next time”

“Of course” I said back with a laugh.

I embraced my wife Anna. It was weird to get a platonic hug from my wife. For one thing, I was now only a few inches taller than her so our heads came together evenly and feeling her chest push up against my own breasts gave me the weirdest set of butterflies in my stomach.

I got to the door and found Linda’s shoes, pair of size 8 brown flip flops. I stepped into them easily and felt the fabric settle in between my big toe and my second toe. I wiggled my toes as they settled into the worn in groves and indentations that came with them. With a bit of desperation in my eyes, I scanned my home for one last brief moment before I cheerily said good night and walked out the front door and down the walk.

I settled into the passenger seat like I had been there before, my temples pounded and I closed my eyes. When I reopened them I had a thought about my day at work, only the thought was around a legal case that I had been working on. I was confused…I wasn’t a legal assistant; Linda was. But I knew what file she had been working on and the details of the report I or rather she, had turned in before she, or I left for the day.

As James backed out of the driveway, I began to wonder if we had changed more than just bodies in there.

I shook my head as I settled in for the drive home.

“Are you feeling okay?” James asked.

“I have a bit of a headache” I admitted.

“Well just sit back and relax…when we get home take some aspirin and lay down” he added.

“I will…I mean I’m fine; it’s just a headache” I reassured him as I thought I didn’t want him worrying about me.

As I closed my eyes and allowed myself to relax a bit, more thoughts came into my mind. I suddenly knew my way around St. Louis even though I had never been there; Linda was born and raised there.

I opened my right eye only as I watched the highway cruise by. I listened to the radio and realized that I wasn’t just Linda physically; I was turning into her mentally too.
And if I was getting her thoughts and memories, then she was getting mine. “At least we both won’t get fired” I thought and almost chuckled.

The drive home took twenty minutes and by the time we got there, I could have recited off Linda’s relatives, teachers and most of her co-workers.

I had been to James and Linda’s house many times over the years so I knew it well enough, but now as I stepped into the house, I knew it better than I should have.

I barely hesitated to step out of my shoes as I went down the hall to the closet. I opened the door and grabbed the aspirin without even looking; I just knew the bottle would be there.

“I was allergic to aspirin a few hours ago, but not now” I mumbled to myself as I popped two into my mouth and stepped into the bathroom to get some water.

While I was standing there I took in the sight of myself in the mirror once more. I heard James still down the hall in the kitchen putting some things away. I slowly closed the door with my foot, never taking my eyes away from the reflection. I just stared into my blue eyes. I saw my nose and I turned my head slightly to the right to get a profile view in the mirror “I don’t know why she hated it…I think it looks fine. If it looked different or was smaller; then I wouldn’t be me…I wouldn’t look like Linda anymore”

I took a step back and bent forward at the waist to get another firsthand look at my legs. I was getting excited about being Linda I realized. There was something exhilarating about being in her body to me all of a sudden. The doom and gloom of the swap was leaving me, and leaving me curious.

I popped my head out of the door and yelled “I think I’m going to take a shower if that’s okay with you”

“Sure, I don’t care” James replied.

A crooked smile crossed my lips as I closed the bathroom door.

“Hmmm” I said softly as I took the bottom of my tank top in my hands and moved the garment back and forth as I did a gentle sway with my hips. I lifted the shirt up to reveal my stomach and chest.

“Hello” I said as I rubbed my fingers over the small tattoo I had gained with Linda’s body just over her right hip. I gave it slight pinch and as I felt the sting I reminded myself that just like with a dream, I pinched myself and I didn’t wake up.

I took in a deep breath and caught a reflection of myself smiling in the mirror as I reached up behind my back to unhook my bra. “Mmmm” I hummed to myself as I undid the garment and shifted my arms to take it off. The straps gave way and the bra dropped away from my chest and fell to the floor.

My mouth opened wide as I stared at my breasts “I have boobs” I said in my mind. I had seen Linda in a bikini over the years, but I had never seen the whole body. My hands naturally came up. I rolled my nipples between my thumbs and forefingers and they promptly stood at attention for me. They were larger than Anna’s and they were a light brown in color.

“Huh” I said as I undid the button on my tan shorts. I pushed them down and felt them brush off the tops of my feet before I stepped out of them, kicking them aside. I hooked my thumbs beneath the waistband of the panties and began to shimmy them down my legs.
I looked down at my smooth area. Dark brown, almost black hair stood out above my vagina. It was well trimmed; I ran my fingers through the soft but wiry hair. “This is Linda’s hair…not mine” was my first thought before it hit me “No…it’s my hair, it’s my body…I’m Linda now”

I let the panties drop to the floor; I stepped out of them and bent down to bundle up all my dirty clothes. I dropped them by the door and started the water. As the water heated up, I returned to the mirror and took in my face as I undid my ponytail. I turned my face back and forth to each side, taking in my profile from a first person vantage point.
“This is me now…I’m Linda” I said it out loud for the first time. My stomach did a little flip at the thought “What if we don’t ever change back?”

I looked down to my feet “What if I’m stuck as Linda forever?”

I turned around and stepped into the hot shower. I could feel the hot water stinging my skin. I put my head under the stream and noticed the extra weight that came on with long wet hair. I grabbed the bottle of Herbal Essence off the shelf and worked up a lather. I filled my mouth with warm water and spit it out at the door before I rinsed my hair out.

I saw sponges and wash cloths but I decided to take a more hands on approach with the bar of soap. I enjoyed lathering up my hands and working the bar over every inch of my body. From scrubbing all around my face and neck, down over my shoulders and arms, casually massaging and scrubbing my breasts and running my hands over my stomach, I kept working slowly over every inch. I worked on my butt, even slipping the soap and my hand between the cheeks before spending quite a while on my thighs and calves. I scrubbed all the way down to the bottoms of my feet and stood under the water, feeling the drops dance on my skin.

It was then that I got a mischievous grin on my face “What if I do change back…I won’t get an opportunity like this again” as I looked down. I rubbed the fingers on my right hand gently under the water and set my feet a little bit wider.

I started out slowly with just two fingers gently probing my vagina. I parted the lips and let them go deeper inside. I gasped at the sensation; something I had never felt before. I liked it though and soon my fingers were probing deeper and deeper and going a little bit faster.

“Uh” I moaned and bent my knees more.  My fingers came out and ran higher up. I knew the instant I found my clitoris. I couldn’t have stopped my fingers if I tried to or wanted to; a basic primal need consumed me at that moment. My fingers rubbed faster and faster, my breathing came and went in hitches and moans, my heart was racing in anticipation and abject pleasure.

My breathing suddenly dropped into a guttural sound that I was helpless to control. It was a few seconds later that my world exploded in a new wave of ecstasy. I felt something that I couldn’t believe and had never thought I would feel first hand: I had just had an orgasm as a woman. Muscles that I didn’t even knew existed, twitched and flittered, contracting and clenching and sending an awesome feeling radiating outward through my entire body. My toes curled, my fists clenched, my knees buckled, my spine sang, my stomach fluttered, my mouth watered and I broke out in an all-consuming sweat. I was panting and smiling involuntarily as I said a single word “Wow”

I tried to take deep breaths but I kept hitching as my body recovered. I saw that I had my left hand planted firmly against the glass and began to stand back up straight. I put my head under the water and let it run all over me until it began to cool.

I knew which towel was mine and I grabbed it, still smiling and thought “Maybe it won’t be so bad if I’m stuck in this body” until the other voice inside my head rang out “You know that means you’ll eventually have to have sex with James” I pressed the towel into my face as I thought about fulfilling my wifely duties but I was also surprised that it didn’t weird me out either. “I know that part of my mind is Linda’s now too. I’m more Linda than Mark now…I just have to let the Linda part take over at some points and go with it”

I dried off slowly, enjoying the feel of my skin before I padded over to the sink and grabbed a brush that was lying on top. I worked the brush through my shoulder length hair and thought “First time I’ve ever had this much hair…” before I grabbed my toothbrush. I held it up and examined it for a moment. Some of the bristles on the sides were worn down so the original Linda had been using this one for a while before tonight.

I contemplated the brush for a moment “This has only been inside Linda’s mouth but since I now have Linda’s mouth, I guess it’s okay” I put some toothpaste on and went to work.
I realized that I made some pretty goofy faces while brushing my teeth as I saw myself baring my teeth with foam dribbling out of my mouth in a face I was still getting used to seeing in front of me.

I hadn’t brought any clean clothes with me into the bathroom. I tilted my head as I recognized the fact that I would have to walk naked to my bedroom and get something on for bed. My husband would most likely be there and even though it was something he had seen thousands of times before, it was the first time I would be naked in front of him.

I put my head and shoulders back and walked out with my dirty clothes under my arm.
“Are you feeling better?” James asked as I entered our bedroom.

I smiled and played it as cool as I could “Yeah…a bit. My headache is better but it’s not totally gone yet” I said as I dropped the dirties into the hamper.

“Well, get some sleep and you’ll feel better in the morning” He said as he turned onto his back.

“I had fun tonight, didn’t you?” I asked as I opened the top drawer and pulled out a basic pair of light blue panties that I quickly stepped into.

“Yes I did, we’ll have to have Mark and Anna over here sometime soon” he added.

I opened another drawer on instinct and pulled out a purple night gown. I put it on over my head and let it fall down to almost my knees; with a quick adjustment of the shoulders, I smiled and climbed into bed. “Good night, Honey…I love you” I said without even thinking about it.

“Night…I love you too” he replied and leaned over and gave me a quick, firm kiss on my lips.

Luckily for me, he had already turned away when my eyes popped wide open at being kissed.

I calmed myself down and reminded myself that I was his wife now and the feeling of weirdness passed quickly.

I turned onto my left side and felt James snuggle up behind me. I felt his foot rub up against the bottom of my foot, his knee ran against the back of my thigh, and his hand came to rest on my hip. It was oddly comforting in a way and I quickly drifted off to sleep.