“Hey Noah…what’s up man?!” Adam Williams asked his 13 year old nephew.

“Hmm…nothing” Noah Croft responded with a shoulder shrug as he walked on by.

“What’s up with him?” Adam asked his sister Kate, Noah’s Mom.

“He’s been having a rough time at school lately” Kate told her younger brother. “Bullies for the most part”

Noah was a tall and skinny kid, more interested in Sci-Fi and Anime than sports in a school where sports ruled.

“That sucks” Adam said shaking his head.

“What makes it worse is that some of the kids picking on him were his friends back in elementary school but now…they’re the worst ones. I mean, kids who have spent the night here and came to birthday parties are the ones he hates the most. I know people change and kids fall into their little cliques but…” Kate trailed off biting her lower lip “I just wish there was something I could do to help him”

“Maybe I could help” Adam offered.

“I know my little brother was head jock and mister popular through school” Kate teased “What do you know about being picked on?”

“Unfortunately, I did my fair share of picking on kids when I was his age. Maybe I can help him with, you know, some ways to stop them” Adam said.

Adam William was 6’3” and 200lbs. He had played Football, Basketball and Baseball in school. He had been both Homecoming and Prom King before heading off to college where he had walked on to the Football team at the University of Washington before getting his degree and then going on to law school.

“I know he’s always looked up to you but now you might come across as more like one of his tormentors to him Adam” Kate told him. “He’s a gentle soul…wouldn’t hurt a soul”

“I know he is” Adam countered.

“So if all you’re going to try and teach him is fight techniques, it’ll be useless; he won’t fight those kids” Kate said.

Adam sighed “And if I teach him to be a smartass to them, it’ll just get him into more trouble”

“Don’t you dare! Do you want to get him beat up?” Kate chided him.

“No…I just wish I could help him. I mean, I wouldn’t be afraid of those kids” Adam said.

“Well you’re 30 dude…you’d better not be afraid of a bunch of 13 and 14 year olds” Kate laughed.

That was when an idea popped into Adam’s head “I wonder…” he thought.

Later on, Adam snuck upstairs and knocked on Noah’s door “Hey…can I come in?” he asked.

“Yeah, sure Uncle Adam…what’s up?” Noah asked sitting up on his bed and taking his earbuds out.

“Well, your Mom told me you were having some problems at school with some kids picking on you” Adam said as Noah turned beet red.

He hung his head.

“No, don’t…don’t get upset at me or your Mom” Adam said “I may have something that could help you out”

“What, are you going to go beat them up for me?” Noah asked sarcastically.

“Well, in a way…yes” Adam replied.

“You can’t do that; you’d get arrested for being an adult beating up a bunch of kids” Noah said.

“No…not like that” Adam said “But what if I told you that I can take care of your bully problem for you once and for all and you get a little extra out of it too?”

“Go on, you’re not making much sense right now” Noah said.

“What if I told you that I know of a spell that could help us out”

“A spell…come on” Noah started to get up.

“No. Trust me and hear me out…it works. I know it does. I promise that it does” Adam said.

“You’re making stuff up” Noah said until Adam put his hand up.

“The spell would let us switch bodies” Adam said to Noah’s deadpan look of skepticism.

“You would turn into me and I would turn into you and stand up to your bullies for you. Once your bullies were put into their place; we’d swap back” Adam said. “So like I said, you’d even get something extra out of the deal…you’d get to be an adult for a few days until I took care of your problem for you”

Noah’s 13 year old mind turned immediately to his Uncle Adam’s house, car and gorgeous girlfriend Natalie.

“There’s really no way for you to lose if you agree to do this with me” Adam told his nephew.

“This is crazy…there’s no way…” he started.

“Just say you agree…if I’m lying then no harm no foul, but if I’m telling the truth, then you get your biggest problem solved for you”

Noah looked around and let a confused sigh out through his nose “Yeah…okay. I’ll switch bodies with you”

“Awesome” Adam said looking around as he pulled out his phone “I’ll just look up the spell and then, boom, we can do this”

Noah was confused as he sat on the side of his bed but he stood up next to his uncle as he typed and scrolled on his phone.

“Here it is…okay” Adam cleared his throat.

“Noah William Croft needs the help of Adam Henry Williams.

Noah cannot stand up to his bullies without the help of Adam.

Switch their bodies; Noah will become Adam and Adam will become Noah until the test is passed.

Once the goal of this spell has been achieved, Adam will return to his body and Noah will return to his.

We invoke this spell for this specific task…

One person to another, bodies travel lightly

Switch their bodies and their lives ever so slightly

Complete the task at hand to complete this spell

Until it’s done in each other you shall dwell”

Adam coughed when he was done “That’s it” he said dropping his phone on the bed and stretching out his neck.

“Uh…I don’t feel any different” Noah said.

Adam let out a deep breath. He could feel a slight tingling in his cheeks and a burning in his ears.

Noah looked across and up at his Uncle. “His chiseled good looks always had gotten him through life easily” Noah thought. He was looking when Adam blinked, then blinked several more times rapidly. When he stopped and Noh could see his Uncle’s eyes, they looked different. The shade of blue seemed paler but more than that, there was uncertainty in those eyes; doubt and fear resided there, he could feel it in him.

Part of Noah immediately felt bad for his Uncle, part of him wanted to try and do something to protect him just from the look in his eyes “He’s easy prey” he thought instinctively.

Adam felt a wave pass over him. He blinked several times as his heart and stomach seemed to rise up inside of him a random thought “I’ll never be like that” bubbled up inside his mind.

Adam slouched. His shoulders drooped and his hips shifted taking his posture inward and downward. He knew he was 5 inches taller than his nephew but all of a sudden, Noah looked like he could take care of himself without any of his pathetic help.

Noah was standing up straight, his shoulders back and his spine rigid. There was a look in his eyes that Adam knew he didn’t possess; confidence.

Noah now felt a strange sensation. He felt like he was lifting up off the ground, but he knew his feet were still planted firmly there “Am I growing?” he asked. Looking down at the ground and his bare feet and then over to his Uncle.

“Um…yeah…I, uh, I think you, um…are” Adam said slightly confused as to why he was talking like that.

“Ha-Ha” Noah said as he grew from 5’10” to 6’3” “This feels amazing” He looked over “Check it out; I’m taller than you!”

“Um…yeah you are” Adam strained a smile out as he felt his stomach drop along with his entire body. He was shrinking from 6’3” to 5’10” but he could also feel his muscles and physique beginning to change. His strength was transferring to Noah.

Noah put his arms out and watched them as they swelled up. Biceps popped out and strained his black t-shirt. His shoulders rose up and his chest began to define and strengthen. “Oh My God” Noah said watching his muscles grow.

Adam felt his hair grow out. He had always kept it cut very close but now, as he received Noah’s shaggier hair style, he felt it brush against his ears, neck and forehead. He felt an itch on his forehead and reached up to scratch it only to find it littered with bumps of acne.

He brow weakened as his cheeks dropped. His ears shrank at the same time that his nose changed shape, thinning and getting longer at the end. His lips thinned and his teeth began to shift.

Adam clamped his mouth shut and ran his tongue over his teeth once he felt the braces clamp into place. A dull ache settled in and the taste of metal filled his changing mouth. His chin and jaw weakened and came in, leaving him with the face of a kid.

Noah’s chin and jaw came up and out, jutting out strong and confidently. His lips plumped as his teeth straightened and his braces vanished. His nose broadened and his cheeks rose. His brow thickened as his skin cleared and his hair lifted up to a shorter cut.

His blue eyes shone forth with confidence and assuredness.

Noah’s shirt was growing tighter and tighter on him as his arm and chest muscles bulged out. His chest was now visible underneath his previously huge shirt as nearly 80lbs of weight and muscle packed onto his frame. He flexed his powerful hands.

As Noah’s shirt inflated, Adam’s deflated. His shirt had been rather tight but not anymore, it now hung on his scrawny frame like a sail. Adam’s muscles deflated and disappeared leaving him with skinny arms and a sunken and hairless chest. His chest caved inward as his hips shifted in and his ass went flat.

Losing 5 inches and 80lbs along with over half his life as 17 years shifted from him to his nephew left Adam in a state of shock “I didn’t think it would feel like this” he thought as his tan cargo shorts gaped away from his thin stomach and dropped down his legs.

Adam’s thighs thinned and his calves turned from muscled to skin and bone. He grabbed at his shorts and held them up momentarily. He could see his feet changing shape in his white socks, getting narrower and smaller under the cotton fabric.

There was one last change though that made him gasp.

Noah’s grey shorts pulled tight at his waist as his stomach, hips and ass all grew larger. The leg holes tightened as his thighs muscled up and he felt power course down through his previously weak lower legs as well. His bare feet grew larger and changed shape as they turned into Adam’s feet.

Adam felt an odd numbness in his crotch. His right hand went down and grabbed his penis just as it began to shrink down. It lost girth and length and his testicles rose up higher. He swallowed hard and clenched down on his smaller package.

Noah felt the same numbness and he looked down to see his pants starting to bulge and lift up. His hand went down as his testicles dropped and his penis grew longer and thicker.

They both looked up and saw the other standing before them “Ah!” they both yelled and jumped back.

“Uncle Adam?” Noah said in a deeper voice. “Is that really you?”

Adam nodded and looked up at his former body. He was intimidated by it; he was much smaller and weaker than the man who stood before him “It’s me…I’m you”

“And you’re going to take care of my bully problem huh” Noah said looking his former body up and down “I can’t believe I was that scrawny and skinny”

“Yeah…I mean, that’s the plan” Adam said trying to sound confident “I can take care of those guys” he said as Noah’s personal tormentors faces came into his mind.

“I’m sure you can” Noah said.

Adam moved his hand and his shorts dropped off and fell to the ground, weighed down by his keys and wallet and not having anything to stop them “Um…we need to switch clothes anyway” he said.

“Yeah” Noah said taking off his shirt. “Whoa…nice” he said taking in his muscled and hairy chest. He almost ripped his shorts and briefs as he took them off.

Noah smirked seeing his new upgraded equipment. A quick nod and glance over at Adam as he undressed quickly confirmed it; He had literally taken Adam’s manhood.

Adam had squirmed out of his boxer briefs and tugged on his oversized blue shirt before taking it up and over his head. He looked down at his skinny and pale underdeveloped body; a body that was not even finished with puberty was his now. He stole a glance at his old equipment while knowing full well what he now had downstairs. There was a man and a boy in this room, and he was no longer the man.

Noah put on his Uncle’s clothes and looked in a mirror while Adam got redressed. “Their names are RJ, Cole and…”

“Nathan…” I know. Adam said. “I know who they are”

“Good” Noah replied.

“I uh…” Adam continued as he realized that most his own knowledge and experiences were no longer accessible to him. He looked up and cocked his head.

Noah looked down and smiled realizing that he had additional skills and knowledge pouring into him.

“Do you know how to drive?” Adam asked him.

“Yeah, I think I do” Noah responded with a laugh. “I think I also know more than that”

Adam tried to remember law school and found it was gone “I need to get back to my own body fast” he said.

Noah laughed and clapped him on the back “You take care of those three and you can have it back”

“Are you two okay in there?” a voice they both recognized said from the other side of the door.

“Yeah Mom” Adam said surprised at how easy it was to call his sister Mom.

“We’re fine Kate” Noah added, smiling at getting to call his Mom by her first name. “We’re just talking now”

Kate opened the door “Noah; you need to finish up your homework okay”

“Yeah Mom, I know” Adam replied.

“You should be on your way Adam” Kate told Noah “He’s got 3 pages of Math and he needs to read a chapter in Lord of the Flies before tomorrow”

“Yeah, I’ll get going” Noah said fishing his car keys out of his pocket “Good luck tomorrow” he said as he followed his Mom out the door, towering over her by nearly a foot.

“Did you have any luck in there?” Kate asked.

“Oh Yeah…I had lots of luck…I think it’s going to turn out just fine” he said while thinking “for me”

“You didn’t tell him to do anything crazy” Kate asked as they descended the stairs.

“Nope…not at all” Noah said slipping on Adam’s shoes by the front door “Don’t worry about it; he’s a good kid and he’ll get through this” He opened the door “I’ll call and check on him okay”

“Sounds good” Kate said waving as Noah walked to his car. He knew how to drive, he knew his uncle’s job; for all intents and purposes, he was his Uncle Adam. He slid behind the wheel of the brand new Audi A8 and drove off.

“What just happened? It wasn’t supposed to be like this…I don’t know if I can do this” Adam said still stunned in what was now his room. He had just given up his body; his whole life and now he didn’t feel any of his old confidence at all. He felt just like Noah. He knew what Noah knew and not only did he have Noah’s body, he had his attitude as well; the fear was real.

Adam looked at his reflection in the mirror and seeing the skinny and awkward boy looking back at him did nothing to restore his confidence “I have to do this if I want my own body and life back” he kept telling himself but the longer he looked and the longer he thought about it, the more frightened he became.

After a few minutes, a new thought came to him “I need to finish up my homework” He went to his desk and whipped through his math questions, they were all review from what they had gone over in class before he made his way back to his bed and read his book, jotting done notes as he went.

Noah pulled into his garage and parked next to the black Mercedes that was already there. “Natalie’s home” he thought.

“Hey honey” he said coming in the side door.

“What’s up love?” the pretty blonde said from across the room. She wore short white shorts and a flowy yellow top as she crossed the room. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down and in for a kiss.

“Missed you” Noah said smiling and putting his hands on her waist “I stopped by my sister’s for a few minutes; my nephew Noah is having a rough time with some bullies and she wanted me to talk to him”

“Oh that was so sweet of you” Natalie told him.

“I think it’ll work out for the best” He said with a smile “What’s for dinner?”

“I thought we were going to The Blue Bistro tonight” Nata lie said.

“Oh yeah, we are…I nearly forgot; you ready?”

“Just let me get some sandals on” she said.

Noah patted his wallet “I could use a beer” he said.

“Me too” Natalie readily agreed as they headed back out for dinner and drinks.

The next morning, Adam awoke with his usual sense of dread about the day. He stomach ached a bit like always as he got ready. He tried to keep telling himself that today would be the day he told RJ, Cole and Nathan off. He had been telling himself this for months but hadn’t been able to work up the courage, so why did he think that today would be different.

He didn’t see them as he made his way to his locker to get his first set of books and folders; it was when he rounded the corner that they were heading his way. “What’s up Lara?” RJ asked using the nickname they had come up to go with his last name of Croft.

Adam just shook his head and looked at the ground.

“Did you forget your name Lara?” RJ asked again giving his shoulder a shove.

Adam shot to the side stumbling, surprised that he could be pushed aside that easily “Leave me alone” he managed to say rather weakly.

“What did you say?” Cole asked coming up closer.

Adam could feel his blood flowing “This is it; stand up to them” popped into his head “I said…”

A fist hit him in the stomach and took his breath away with an <oomph>

“You didn’t say anything loser” RJ said towering over him as he bent in half. “What do you think this is? Some kind of movie where the nerd stands up for himself and somehow wins and we all run off and respect you and fear you for the rest of school?” RJ shook his head and chuckled. “Nah…Real world doesn’t work like that dork ass…so shut your fucking mouth and get bent loser” RJ knocked Adam’s arm making him drop his books as a few girls stopped and watched the scene. Cole shoved him against the wall and the three of them walked off laughing and calling him everything and anything they could think of.

Adam looked down as a thought came to him “It’s hopeless; you’re never going to stand up to them, that was your one chance” He shuddered once as a wave passed over him. Adam was never going back: Adam was now Noah forever. Noah gathered up his books and tried to ignore the other kids who had stood by and watched him get picked on, like always.

Noah was in his office going over some paperwork. He had come in a little early knowing that he had a client meeting at 9. At 7:37, he felt a little restless so he got up to get a cup of coffee. “I should be on my way to my first class” popped into his head and he remembered the day before “Oh wow…it seems like that was so far away…it feels like it was only a dream now” he thought.

Noah took a sip and shuddered. He closed his eyes and could almost see a scene perfectly playing out. He saw his nephew getting pushed around and made fun of like always. Adam opened his eyes and looked around the break room “It’s over” he knew. Noah was now Adam forever; his uncle had failed and would never stand up to his bullies “It’s hopeless for him” was a new thought that popped into his head.

“Hey Adam; you ready for the Plybon meeting at 9?” Adam heard a voice ask from behind him.

“I am…you going to be in there too?” he asked his colleague Steve who had just come in.

“Yeah…I’m running their numbers on the buyout of their concrete company…” Adam heard as he settled in for the day.

RJ moved away over the summer and Cole broke his leg badly at football practice so his parents decided to home school him the next year. Nathan and Noah got back to being friends during the next year at school. A girl named Abby started sitting with Noah at lunch and as they talked, they had a lot in common…