“You sure you’re going to be okay this week by yourself?” Mark Reynolds asked his wife Rebecca as he packed his bags.

“Of course; it’s been a few years since you had to travel for work, but it’ll be fine. I’m short a kid anyway” Rebecca teased.

“I hope Kendall really likes her camp” Mark said.

“She’d better; it cost enough…” Rebecca added shaking her head.

“Is Cora still upset that she doesn’t get to go too?” Mark asked.

“She is and she’s pouting” Rebecca informed him as she sat down on the edge of the bed.

“She’ll get over it” Mark mumbled. Kendall was 12 and heading off to her first week long camp to see if she really wanted to pursue theater and drama. She had been an extra in the Nutcracker last Christmas and had been obsessed ever since.

Their other daughter Cora was 10 and never wanted to let Kendall get too far ahead of her in anything. “I told Cora she had to help me out with Jake and Eli this week with you gone and you know how she likes to boss them around so it perked her up a little bit”

“Hopefully the weather will be nice for you; I can’t imagine being cooped up all week with those two hurricanes” Mark smiled wryly. Their sons were 6 and 3 and like all boys, full of energy.

Rebecca snorted out a laugh “We’ll be fine” She stood up; she was a very small woman, just 5’1” and just over 100lbs. Her almost black hair was cut in a short pixie cut that accentuated her small features. Mark came over and hugged her tightly; she put her head up against his chest and he rested his chin on the top of head. Playfully, he reached down and gave her butt a squeeze.

Rebecca popped back smiling “You’d better get going; you know the wait times at the airport anymore are horrendous”

After Mark had left, Rebecca checked in on the boys who were watching a Monster Truck rally on TV. It was still holding their attention, so she headed back upstairs to her daughter’s room to check on her.

“How packing going?” she asked popping her head inside the door.

“Uh…fine I guess” Kendall Reynolds said rolling her eyes.

“Do you need any help?” Rebecca asked.

“No Mom, I’m fine” Kendall said.

“I don’t want you to forget anything” Rebecca replied.

“I won’t; I’m fine” Kendall shot back as she stood up. At 12, she was already an inch taller than her mother, a fact that she enjoyed to no end. The fact that she was also rail thin and flat though, didn’t make her happy. “I’m sure you’ll go through my bag whenever I say I’m done anyway”

Rebecca smirked; she was planning to do just that “You’ll understand when you’re a Mom”

Kendall rolled her eyes again “I’m sure I’ll be a much cooler Mom than you are”

“You know what; you probably will be” Rebecca replied biting her tongue. “You’ll see” is all she followed up with as she turned and left the room.

“That girl” she said to herself going back downstairs “She has no idea what it’s like but then, no 12 year old does or can…I’m sure I was just as cocky at that age with my Mom”

Rebecca sat down on the couch and her 3 year old Eli climbed up on her.

“Are you hungry buddy?” she whispered to him as she kissed the top of his head.

“Uh-huh” he nodded.

“How about you Jacob; you ready for dinner?”

“Yeah” he replied.

“I’m going to make spaghetti” Rebecca announced as she got right back up. “I never do get to sit for more than 30 seconds anyway…” she thought as she went to the kitchen.

Cora was at her friends’ house a few doors down so Rebecca sent a text to the Mom to send Cora home in about a half hour.

“Mom!” she heard Kendall call out from upstairs before she could even start the water boiling.

“Coming! I’ll be there in a second” Rebecca replied and headed back upstairs. She went in and was immediately confused “Why would want to pack your boots? It’s June honey…they’re too big and bulky and if you need something for a role, I’m sure there’s a prop department”

Kendall looked down at the pile of shoes “I know Mom, jeez what do you think I am? I was going to ask if I should take two pairs of sneakers or just one. I already have flip flops and sandals packed”

“Do you have jeans and a sweatshirt? It’s going to get cold at night”

“Mom: You’re worrying too much and if you keep it up I’m going to scream” Kendall said.

“Okay…what do you want my help with?” Rebecca said putting up her hands.

Kendall finally cracked a bit “I don’t know” she shrugged and threw her hands up in the air then she sat down heavily on her bed.

Rebecca sat down next to her and rubbed her back “It’s your first time away from home for more than just one night; we’re both nervous about it but you’re going to be fine”

Kendall nodded “I mean I want to go but…”

“It’s okay to be a bit scared” Rebecca reassured her daughter “But you’re going to have a great time and 10 minutes after you get there; you’re not going to even think about us poor saps stuck at home. You get to get away from your brothers and sister and try out for a play”

“I know; it’s what I wanted and what I begged you and Dad for and now, part of me just wants to stay home” Kendall admitted. “I mean what if I don’t like it, what if I don’t make any friends and spend all week alone like a loser, what if I suck at it?”

“You won’t” Rebecca said firmly. “Don’t get down on yourself and doubt yourself. Believe in yourself. You’re funny and outgoing and I know you’ll make friends and whatever part you get, you’ll do good at it. It may not be the lead; not everybody can be the lead…”

“I know that Mom” Kendall interrupted “But what if I suck anyway”

“Then, it’s only a week and you leave and don’t see anybody from there ever again or…” Rebecca smiled “You do fine and make friends that you keep in touch with until you go back again next summer”

“You’re so upbeat about this; I wish you could go and I could stay home” Kendall said.

“You need to try out something new this week; test yourself” Rebecca replied.

“Did you ever go to something like this?” Kendall asked.

“No! Me…no…never got up on stage in front of anybody; I was too afraid to do that” Rebecca admitted.

Kendall laughed “See, you could go to get over your fear of public speaking!”

“But if I go then you have to stay here and take care of your brothers and sister for a week” Rebecca teased her.

“Me?!…be the Mom!” Kendall laughed “That would be so easy!”

“Easy?! Really? You think so!” Rebecca asked.

“Well compared to what I’m going to do this week, yeah, I think it would be so much easier to stay at home all day with these guys”

“Oh you are so naïve; there is nothing easy about raising four kids” Rebecca laughed, her stubborn streak kicking in.

“Oh I don’t think so” Kendall replied, who was just as stubborn as her mother. “You have it so easy it’s hilarious”

“Oh I wish you knew what it’s like” Rebecca shook her head. “If you were to spend a week here in my role…you’d have a whole new appreciation for what I do and put up with around here”

“And I think if you had to spend a week in my shoes, you’d realize how hard kids have it these days. Maybe it was easy for you way back in the 90’s when you were growing up but kids today have so much more pressure”

“I doubt that; I remember growing up and thinking how hard it was and how much better it would be when I got to be an adult, then I did get to be an adult and all I could think of was how stupid I had been wasting my childhood by trying to grow up too fast” Rebecca replied. “Being a grownup is no joke or easy task”

“I wish we could switch places” Kendall said flipping her long blonde hair back away from her face “I wish you were the 12 year old and I was the adult”

“You want to switch places with me? Fine; I wish I could switch places with you too; you’ll find out real quick how foolish you sound” Rebecca retorted. “You try being the Mom around here while I lay around and complain: Don’t be so ungrateful and so full of yourself”

Rebecca could feel the heat rising up the back of her neck and knew that her cheeks were flushed. She stood up and straightened out her black top and tan shorts. She smiled and tried to lighten the mood “Well, now that that’s out of our system, we can get back to packing you up and dinner”

Kendall was still thinking about what they had both said “I wish I could switch places with you too” she could still hear her Mom saying it clearly and for a moment; she imagined it. She saw her Mom, short and skinny and flat with long black hair looking up at her and it made her smile and giggle.

“What’s so funny over there?” Rebecca asked as she looked through what was already in the bag.

“Nothing” Kendall said standing up now as well. She came over next to her Mom who was bent over digging through the bag and thought “She’s already shorter than me”

Rebecca stood back up and felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She turned to her daughter and stopped “Is she that much taller than me now? Talk about teenage growth spurts” as it seemed that there was more than an inch separating them.

“Time to get a haircut Mom…getting a little shaggy in the back” Kendall said. There were slight wisps of curls at Rebecca’s back hairline.

“I just got it cut a week ago” Rebecca said as she put her hand back. Her brow knitted in confusion as the usually flat cut spot now did feel shaggy. She clenched her fingers and pulled outward taking hair with her as she went “What the…?” she murmured.

Rebecca turned to her daughter “Something’s wrong” she said quietly. She looked up at her daughter who now registered that their height difference was more than it had been previously.

“Mom?” Kendall asked in a shocked and curious tone.

“Um…” Rebecca hummed and pursed her lips nervously. Her heart was racing and her brain was spinning trying to make sense out of what was going on. Suddenly, Kendall looked down and took a step back with her hands going to her hips. The button on her tight shorts popped and the zipper began to undo itself downward. To Rebecca, it looked like the flesh on her daughter’s waist was pushing outward and getting larger forcing her shorts open.

“Mom?! What’s happening to me?” Kendall cried as she grabbed the waistband of her shorts and tried to pull it back closed but was unable to. She let go and moved her hands to her hips which also seemed to be growing and pushing outward against the now very tight shorts “Ungh!” Rebecca moaned out as her clothes got very uncomfortable on her body.

“Ooo!” she let out a quick little exclamation as her ass began to expand and tear her shorts along the sides.

Kendall’s t-shirt now began to rise up exposing even more of her stomach. The shirt pulled tight across her back and sides and her upper arms. Kendall was putting on weight as well as growing taller; much taller than her Mom.

Her legs were sprouting and spreading. Her thighs quickly rounded and swelled tearing her shorts to shreds. Her lower legs thickened and her feet began to grow “Mom!” she called out, her voice dropping lower on the O sound.

Rebecca was speechless, her jaw worked up and down soundlessly as she too took a step back. As she did, she felt her shorts begin to slide down like they were about to slip off her hips. Rebecca looked down and swallowed at the sight of her legs shrinking and thinning before her eyes “What in the world?” she said, her voice pitching higher on the last word.

Their eyes met and both could feel them adjusting up or down to maintain contact. Rebecca wanted to scream but knew if she did it would scare the boys so she clamped her hand over her mouth before breaking eye contact and looking down.

Rebecca’s feet were shrinking. They narrowed and her toes grew smaller as the skin softened and all the flaws and blemishes built up over the years faded away. The callouses and rough skin were gone and a mint green polish appeared on her smaller toe nails.

Her eyes drifted over to Kendall’s feet which were now much larger than hers and larger than what she had been. Rough skin now marked her heels and her toes were longer and bumpier with wider and thicker nails minus any polish, just the slight white ends of her nails stuck out.

Kendall was antsy and bouncing back and forth shifting her weight between her feet as her legs continued to grow larger. Her shorts were a ruined mess, barely holding on by strips of fabric. Through the gaps both could see cellulite building up on the backs of her full and round thighs as her hips and ass continued to push outward.

Kendall’s stomach now pouched out with a layer of matronly weight. Her body now showed the effects of being a mother four times over. She was soft around the middle as her panties pulled tight around her expanded features.

Rebecca’s hips had become non-existent. They were narrow and flat and her rear pulled up high and tight as her thighs separated and trimmed down to straight and skinny little girl legs; no sign of a mature curve remained.

Rebecca’s shirt puffed out as her back and chest diminished and the shirt suddenly grew big and loose on her body. Her stomach was flat and smooth beneath the black top she still wore. She felt her bra loosen across her back and felt the straps lift off her shoulders.

Rebecca’s hand came off her mouth and both of them flew to her chest. She squeezed and pushed down and felt her breasts diminish below her pressing hands. They weren’t large; just a 32B but now, she could barely even detect buds there and no sensation was forthcoming.

Kendall’s shirt began to tear like her shorts as her size continued to grow. The side seams of her shirt split open even before her breasts began to enlarge. Her shoulders rose up and her upper arms inflated as her breasts began to push out.

Her jaw dropped as she stared down at her body. Her height was slowing down but she was now 5’8” and her breasts were growing large and full. Gravity took ahold of them and pulled them down and away as they filled out slicing her shirt to shreds.

Kendall’s face was filling out. Her cheeks were rounder and less pronounced and her chin and jaw came out and down. Her hair began to rise up and dull in color. The vibrant blonde cooled to a sandy shade as her hair stopped at her shoulders and bangs swept over her forehead. Her ears lengthened and her nose grew wider.

Kendall’s lips plumped and her teeth filled out and went straight across even as creases and lines burrowed along the corners.

A pair of wire frames appeared in her hand in the blink of an eye. Her world went blurry as her blue eyes changed and aged making her put on the glasses just to see more than a few feet in front of her face. More lines etched around the corners of her eyes and dug in across her forehead.

Rebecca watched as her daughter turned into a woman; there was no denying it from how her body had changed and how her face looked “It’s our wishes Kendall” she said wincing at how different her voice sounded “They’re coming true!”

Kendall took in her wider and larger body and looked almost a foot down at her Mother who looked very different and was still changing. Her face was pulling up and in, it was much more heart shaped than before and she looked much younger.

All wrinkles and marks were smoothing out on Rebecca’s face. Her cheeks rose up and popped out as her chin came to a small point and her jawline angled up. Her nose shrank down to button sized and her brown eyes seemed to enlarge and brighten as her features became younger.

“That can’t be” Kendall said “But it’s true…you look like a little kid!”

“And you’d pass for my Mom now” Rebecca admitted just before she suddenly pulled her thinning lips inward and a muffled “MMMM!” came through.

Rebecca’s teeth were shrinking and spreading out but just as they went crooked an old sensation returned to Rebecca’s mouth. Metal braces clamped down and she felt the tug of wire settle in “Braces?!” she said to the ground.

Kendall’s hands hurt; she flexed them out and took in the sight of her bare nails and rougher hands. She also noticed the gold band that sat on her ring finger and she stared mesmerized at it.

Rebecca’s tiny fingers were now topped off by the same mint green nail polish that adorned her toes. She rang her thumb over the bare spot left behind by her ring disappearing from her “I can’t believe this” she said. All the time she had been changing, her black hair had been growing out longer and longer to the middle of her narrow back, and now she flipped her head back and forth and noticed the weight of it. “I’m a kid again…”

Rebecca looked up at Kendall and saw the shock on her heavier face. Her daughter’s body had filled and spread out and she very much looked like a Mom of four, but she didn’t look anything like she had before.

Kendall stood 5’8” and weighed around 170. She wasn’t fat but she wasn’t tiny like her Mom had been. Full thighs, a round ass and a solid stomach under heavy breasts emphasized her look and her older hairstyle and signs of wrinkles sold the age of 39 to a T.

Kendall looked down at her now tiny Mom who frankly looked even younger than 12 due to her small stature. She stood just 4’9” and weighed only around 80 pounds. Her clothes hung on her waiflike frame and her dark eyes and long jet black hair accentuated her tiny heart shaped face.

“This is impossible; you can’t be…you’re not…” Rebecca struggled to find the words. She flipped her hair back nervously as she began to pace. “I’m not leaving my babies with you; I’m not 12 and you’re not…”

“39; but I am somehow. I can’t describe it but I know deep down that, somehow I’m your Mom now”

“No, I…” Rebecca put her hands up to her temples and pressed down. She tried to remember her wedding but it was gone as was growing up with her own Mom and Dad who she now saw in her head as her grandparents.

Rebecca looked up at the wall and saw a large R above the bed where a K had been. She got down on her knees and dug into the bag. The clothes there had changed; they were a few sizes smaller than before. She picked up a black flip flop and examined it.

“That wouldn’t have fit me; that’s not even mine” Kendall said seeing what Rebecca was holding.

“No, it fits me now. These clothes are mine…my size and I’m smaller than you were” Rebecca looked around “Why can’t I remember my life? What did this do to us?”

Kendall cautiously moved to the hallway. She dashed across in just a few steps followed by Rebecca. She opened up drawers and found large panties and 38D bras “My clothes in my size; not your old sizes. We really switched places Becca”

Rebecca didn’t even flinch at being called that by Kendall. She was more interested in the school picture hanging on the wall of a girl with braces and long black hair.

Kendall striped off her old torn clothes and quickly put on clothes that fit her body. She caught a few glances at her full naked self but didn’t linger; she was in a hurry. “Come on” she shooed Becca back across the hall to her own room.

Becca stumbled as she went back in. Kendall stood nearby as she took off her oversized adult clothes. She sighed removing her useless bra; she replaced it with a training bra in a youth medium and put a purple shirt on over it. A pair of small white panties and some green shorts completed her rushed look as the boys were beginning to make a lot of noise downstairs in the living room.

Kendall rushed down but Becca lingered upstairs. She heard the boys quiet right up when confronted by their “Mother”. She put her small hands out again in front of her face and patted down her flat chest “I can’t be this small again” she said but rushing to the bathroom mirror confirmed it. Becca looked at her small features in awe.

“Settle down you two” Kendall said coming downstairs.

“Yes Mommy” Jacob said bouncing up off the ground.

“Mommy!” Eli said putting his arms up to be picked up.

Just as she picked him up, the front door opened. “Hey Mom” Cora said.

“Oh…shoot honey, I got um sidetracked and I haven’t even started dinner yet”

Cora sighed dramatically and folded her arms “Whatever Mom” she said as she stomped upstairs.

Becca came out of the bathroom and saw her “Sister?” ran through her mind upon seeing Cora come upstairs.

“Aren’t you done packing yet?” she said in a snooty tone.

“Don’t take that tone with me young lady” shot out of Rebecca’s mouth confusing Cora even further.

“Whatever; who are you? My Mother now? Shut up Becca…I hate that you get to leave and go to camp tomorrow, you don’t have to rub it in any more than you already have” Cora said heading to her room and slamming the door behind her.

“I didn’t mean that, I’m sorry” Becca said going to her sisters’ door. The door flew open and Becca was confronted by her new reality. She was looking eye to eye with her 10 year old…sister. As hard as she wanted to think of her as her daughter and she knew that she was, everything in her mind pulled her in a different direction.

Cora folded her arms over her chest and stared down Becca. She puffed out a stream of air to blow and errant strand of blonde hair away from the front of her face.

“I know you wanted to come too but the youngest age is 11; we can both go next year” Becca offered.

“No, by next year you’ll be on to something else; something more expensive that you’ll get to go do and I’ll have to stay home again. You’re the favorite anyway” Cora closed the door in her face.

Becca stepped back blinking rapidly “What’s going on?!” she thought. “Cora is as big as me! And I didn’t, no couldn’t, think of a better thing to say to her”

She went back to her room and went over the list of items she needed to pack while she went through the bag. She realized that she was nervous about going. “This is so weird” she kept telling herself. She went back to the bathroom and grabbed her brush. Just as she picked it up she heard a voice from downstairs call out “You’d better not be packing up any of your bathroom stuff yet! You’ll need to use it in the morning and you can pack it then!”

“How in the world did she know that?” was all a bewildered Becca could think as she stared at the brush in her hand.

Kendall was cooking with one hand. Eli refused to be put down so she balanced him on her left hip and cooked exclusively with her right hand. Boiling spaghetti and stirring the sauce while avoiding the splash bubbles wasn’t so difficult, but making a salad was proving harder.

“Give Mommy the carrot” Kendall said as Eli swung forward and grabbed the carrot off the counter before she could chop it. “No not in your nose honey” she said taking it away at the last second before her 3 year old shoved the tip into his nostril.

She was getting a pain in her right hip from the angle she was standing at while cutting up celery and carrots and tomatoes “Can I put you down yet?” she asked.

“No!” he yelled and grabbed her around the neck harder “I want Mommy time!” he declared.

Kendall smiled in spite of herself. She knew what had happened and who she really was and how old she really should be, yet so much of her mind was convincing her that this was real now and normal. She felt closer and more protective of Eli and Jake and Cora and Becca, impossibly protective to her previous mind.

She heard doors slamming and her daughters’ talking “I hope those two can get along” she thought. As she was checking the pasta to make sure it wasn’t overdone, she heard footsteps going down the hall above her. “That girl” she thought before she yelled out her motherly warning to not pack up too early as if it were second nature to her.

Kendall scared herself with her motherly instinct kicking in so strong “This is not my body or my role or my age” she had to keep reminding herself. “I’m hoping that whoever changed us into this changes us back after this week…I think I put that in my wording back there” she hoped. But looking at the ring on her finger gave her stomach a tight twist. “I’d better turn back in a week…”

“Girls! Time for dinner!” Kendall called out “You too Jacob, get in here”

Becca came out of her room at the same time as Cora came out from hers. Becca blushed and was unsure of what to say to make up with her sister so she stayed silent as Cora went down the stairs.

Becca followed a few steps back and gathered Jacob up as she cut through the living room “Come on Jake, Mom said it’s time to eat”

Jacob got up and tried to trip his oldest sister. “Hey! That’s not very nice, stop it!” Becca said as she stumbled.

“Ha ha…learn to walk before you cross that stage” Cora said seeing the incident.

“Mom; Jacob tried to trip me” Becca whined.

“I don’t want to hear it from you” Kendall said without even looking around “You need to get everyone their drinks Becca”

Rebecca stopped as Cora and Jacob took their seats. She looked up at her Mother, her Mom hanging open at just how easily they had swapped places “Do you want milk or juice or water?” she asked her siblings.

“Milk” Cora replied “Cold”

“Water” Jacob said.

“Fill your brother’s sippy cup with apple juice hun” Kendall told her as she continued to flit about the kitchen gathering up utensils.

“What would you like Mom?” Becca finally asked.

“I’ll grab a Diet Coke” Kendall responded. Becca made her way to the cupboard to get out the glasses and felt a lump form up in her throat. She stretched out her arm and got on her tip toes but could only reach two glasses.

“Let me get that for you honey” Kendall said getting down another glass for her. She smiled and their eyes met. Kendall’s look was one of quiet mischief and triumph to Becca.

“Just because you can reach everything now…” Becca whispered “Those glasses weren’t on the second shelf earlier. I had them on the bottom shelf”

“Well it’s my kitchen now and I obviously arranged it for me so…I see a step stool over there so you can help me put them away later” Kendall replied in a hushed tone.

Kendall finally got Eli to sit down on his own and she dished up plates for the boys and herself while Becca got their drinks. Cora got her own food and Becca was last to fill her plate. Becca scooched back and felt her feet lift off the ground so she wrapped them around the bottom rung and dug into her food, eating as fast as possible.

Jacob and Eli went to the back yard to play after they ate leaving the three girls together. “Cora” Kendall said “I know you’re still upset that you don’t get to go to Drama camp but that doesn’t mean Rebecca is our favorite. You have to realize that there are age limits at these places for a reason besides making your life miserable. Next year, you can go to a camp too and it doesn’t have to involve your sister at all”

Cora brightened. “Not everything is a competition between you two” Kendall reminded them as Becca sat by silently taking in her Mother’s words. “You’re going to start playing the flute; maybe you’ll want to go to a camp for that” she reminded Cora “Or if you get more into your swimming”

Becca ran her fork over her plate swishing about the last few noodles until she heard Cora say “Thanks Mom” and get up from the table.

Kendall sighed and ran her hands through her hair. She got up and went to the window “Not so hard Jake! Throw it to your brother softer”

Becca swung her feet a few inches above the floor “You’re really getting into this aren’t you?”

“I have to honey or the house will fall to pieces, it’s not an option to slowly ramp up to being a Mom” Kendall said.

“I told you it wasn’t easy” Rebecca said making sure her Mom met her eyes.

“Yes, you did, but we’ll see how you feel about being 12 after you head off to camp this week” She replied “I get it that…Jacob! If you don’t stop that you are coming inside this minute!” Kendall looked around “What was I saying?”

Rebecca hopped down out her seat and started to help clean up the kitchen “I was saying that I’m already right about it not being easy being a stay at home Mom like you thought it was and you were telling me that my time would come”

“Exactly” Kendall replied.

“So I have a weird question for you” Becca said.

“What’s that?”

“Do you, um…”

“Spit it out honey” Kendall encouraged.

“Do you, or can you remember giving birth to me?” Rebecca asked.

Kendall stopped and a clear image popped into her head. She heard beeping; a heart monitor, she felt pressure and pain throughout her body but it was centered in her lower abdomen. She could feel a hand on her forehead and another she was squeezing with all her might as she bore down. She was sweating profusely and more exhausted than ever but then she heard a sound of a baby crying and a sudden relief of pressure on her body.

She was crying and looking around but the room was hazy to her tired eyes. “Yes” she said almost crying.

Becca nodded and left the room.

“Becca!” Kendall called out after her but decided to let her go.

She watched the boys play for another half hour before making them come inside for bath time. Jacob went first but refused to brush his teeth and then when he did, the brush wasn’t in his mouth longer than three seconds “Get back here and do it right” she called out but he was off running down the hall in just his undies and she was on her knees scrubbing Eli’s hair “How much grass can you get in here?” she asked.

Kendall helped Eli get ready for bed including getting him in his pullup for the night. “Jacob! Why are you still in just your underwear?”

“Can we watch a movie tonight before bed?” Jake asked.

“It’s already almost 8; you won’t finish one if you start it” Kendall said.

“We just want to watch one” he came back with.

“Alright” she gave in and carried Eli downstairs while Jacob ran ahead and went for the DVD’s. “Paw Patrol” Eli yelled out.

“I want to watch Pokémon” Jacob called back.

“Paw Patrol!” They yelled back and forth until Kendall stepped in and decided it for them “Paw Patrol or nothing”

They all settled in on the couch and curled up around her. She tried to get to her phone but couldn’t reach it so she laid her head back and watched the cartoon.

Rebecca had retreated to her room trying to piece together one more time what had happened to her. “My life has been like, reset. I’m 12: I’m not married and I’m not a Mom…I’m just a stupid kid again. I have to do whatever my Mom says again and if I don’t switch back to my real age…” she shuddered “I’ll be back in school again and have to do middle school and high school again and watch…Ew…that’s too gross to even think about” but a picture of her Mom looking lovingly at her “Dad” that popped into her mind was just too much.

Tears formed in Becca’s eyes. She was frustrated and upset and nervous about what this meant and what the future held for her both immediate and long term.

She threw herself face first on the bed and cried into her pillow, all the emotions of being 12 building up in her. She calmed down and fell into a fitful sleep.

Eli was soon breathing deep against Kendall’s chest. She let him lay like that for 15 minutes before she picked him up and carried him to his bed. She tucked him in and kissed him on the forehead feeling her heart swell with love for him. “Earlier I was just annoyed by him as my little brother but now…” she thought.

Jacob was starting his Pokémon movie when she came back down “No…no, no, no mister. It’s going to be bed time”

“Aw Mommy” he whined.

“See you’re getting tired already” She tapped him on the shoulder and led him up to the room her shared with Eli. She tucked him in and sat on the corner of the bed while he got comfortable “Goodnight Sweetie” she said giving him a kiss.

“I’m exhausted” she thought as she went to Cora’s room. Cora was reading a book; she was a good student and enjoyed reading Harry Potter books even though they had only given her the first three.

“Bed time soon…9 o’clock. Brush your teeth okay” she said from the doorway.

“Okay Mom” Cora said looking up with her big blue eyes.

“You doing okay now? Not still mad at me and your sister?” Kendall asked.

“No” she said but the words didn’t match her eyes to Kendall.

Kendall cocked her head and gave her the look.

“I’ll get over it” Cora replied rolling her eyes.

“Don’t you start that too; I have to put up with enough eye rolls from your sister” she laughed.

Kendall peeked in on Rebecca and saw she was asleep. She covered her up and kissed her cheek. Becca was sweaty and hot but not feverish as Kendall checked her forehead instinctively. “Been a long day” she said softly with a smirk. “Can’t believe our lives were reversed just a few hours ago; it feels like it’s always been this way if I don’t stop and think about it”

In her room and by herself for the first time since they had switched places. Kendall sat down hard on the corner of the King sized bed she shared with her “husband”.

She looked at the nightstand and saw a picture of her 15 years earlier posing with Mark on their wedding day. She put her hand up and examined her ring finger. Memories clouded her mind and made her stomach twist up again and she shoved them to the side “Not now” she told herself.

She put her hands on her heavier thighs and slowly brought them up over her stomach to her very large breasts. She could see her reflection in the mirror above their dresser and she considered her face and hair, adjusting her glasses up a bit on the bridge of her nose. She could see fine with them but just looking out over the top of them made the whole world go fuzzy.

She stood and took off her top exposing her bra and matronly stomach which she pinched and smirked at. Stretch marks that she hadn’t noticed in the heat of the moment now became visible to her eye. She shimmied her way out of her shorts and craned her neck over to see the cellulite on the back of her thighs.

She smirked again and sat back down. She rubbed her feet and thought about painting her toes but pushed it off for the time being. She was more interested in pulling up her phone. She saw a text from Mark was there, sent about 15 minutes earlier, so she called him.

“Hey honey how’s it going?” Mark asked.

“It’s going good; just fine. I love you and I miss you” Kendall said.

“I love you too but I’m sure you enjoy having the bed all to yourself” Mark laughed.

Kendall laughed back, the conversation felt natural to her, comfortable. “How was your flight?”

“Delayed an hour but not bad besides that. I got a Buick Encore as my rental for the week”

“Let me know how you like it…we’ve talked about getting one of those”

“It’ll be too small, I can already tell you” Mark came back “Four kids…nah”

She filled him in on their night and they just generally chatted about their mutual worry about Rebecca being away for the whole week. “She really is a very sensitive girl” Kendall said “She puts up her tough front but, well, you know”

“I do. She’ll be fine once she gets there but I won’t stop thinking about her all week either” Mark admitted.

Small memories and things that Mark had done for her and with her came and went in her mind “Call me tomorrow and let me know how it goes dropping Becca off” Mark told her before they said their goodbyes.

Kendall took off her bra and knew what she’d see. Part of her mind knew every nook and cranny of this body and shielded her from the blow of going from flat 12 year old to very busty 39 year old. “If we don’t change back before October; I’ll be the one turning 40”

She put on a long shirt and went to her bathroom. As she brushed her teeth thoughts ran through her mind “What if we don’t change back? Am I really married to Mark then? Did I really give birth? And if I didn’t where did the memories come from? Did I get part of Rebecca’s mind and memories? Are we kind of the same person now? Are we parallel to each other or completely switched? What if we do change back? Will I remember everything from this week?”

Kendall passed out more than fell asleep; she was exhausted but no sooner than she was out, she heard a call for “Mommy!”

Up without hesitation, Kendall headed to her son’s room. A rainstorm had begun and Eli was afraid of thunder. She opened the door and found him up on his knees with his arms out. She picked him up and heard “I’m up too Mommy”

“Come on Jake; you can both come to my bed” She said leading the way.

Every time she tried to turn over, she hit a different pointy body part from one of the boys. An elbow here, a knee there, a foot up by her face; her alarm was going off before she knew it.

Once again, Kendall was up without hesitating. She put on her glasses and went down the hall to Rebecca’s room. “Time to get up” she said swinging open the door.