Barbara Matthews sat down at her desk and closed her eyes. She rubbed her temples as she eased back into the soft comfort of her opulent leather chair. Her feet ached, her knees ached and her back ached “Damn it all the Hell” she whispered to herself.
Opening up her eyes, she looked around her large office “Is it even worth it anymore?” she asked herself.
She glanced around the walls taking in the pictures; all of them portraying a younger and happier version of herself. “Those were the days” she shook her head.
One picture in particular got her attention; the one from 30 years earlier on the first day of owning her own restaurant. “I was so young” she said to herself shaking her head “And so skinny!” she laughed.
She realized how little she laughed these days; it had been years since she had actually just gotten in a kitchen and cooked at one of her places “Frankly…I miss it” she admitted to herself.
Barbara kicked back in her chair, leaning back and stretching out her legs “Those were the days but I can’t go back no matter how much I’d like to”
Barbara was more than just a small time cook these days, she was CEO of her own brand and corporation; more mythical figurehead than ordinary woman. Her restaurant had taken off and after slowly gaining a good reputation and a few locations everything had taken off.
TV appearances had led to more locations and a need for a full business staff which only got larger after her Food Network show led to a line of kitchen products from pans all the way to rugs and towels.
“I’m not even a person anymore…I’m the brand” Barbara reminded herself.
She was lost in thought when her secretary buzzed her telling her that everyone was arriving for the 10 o’clock meeting.
“Thanks Sue; I’ll be down in a minute” Barb said over the intercom.
She stood up and smoothed out her tailored business suit; black jacket, white blouse, black skirt and low black heels. She prodded at her soft belly though as she buttoned her jacket “Way too soft” she scolded herself taking in her heavy legs as well “You’re not too fat; you’re just way too short” she joked as she grabbed walked to the door.
On the other side, the chaos of the offices were going on. Her secretary was waiting along with several other assistants “Good Morning everyone” she said smiling “How’s everybody doing?”
Nods and smiles came out along with a few “Great thanks” and other pleasantries.
“Good…hopefully this won’t take up all of our day today” she said as she marched down the hall to the conference room with all of them falling in line behind her.
“Kelly honey” she called out to one of the assistants.
“Yes Ms. Matthews” Kelly Andros answered with a smile hurrying up next to her boss.
“How’s your car? Did it get fixed?” Barb asked the young woman.
“Yes, I finally got it back yesterday” Kelly replied surprised that her boss remembered her personal problem.
“it’s just good that you weren’t hurt in the accident” Barb said looking up to the tall and skinny young woman “If you need anything you let me know; you know we’ve got plenty of lawyers around here if they’re trying to stick you with a bill”
“Oh I will Ms. Matthews and thank you for offering to help, that means so much to me” Kelly replied genuinely impressed and moved.
“Anything you need or want…remember that” Barb said as she got to the doors.
The room was filled with attorneys, both her own and ones for the company she was buying out. Barb went around greeting all of them, shaking hands and passing small talk.
Once the meeting began though, she left it up to her business team and said little. As the finer points droned on and on, she caught Kelly out of the corner of her eye. She found herself fascinated by her watching her take notes.
The young woman had long thick brown hair pulled back with a silver clip at the base of her neck. Her big brown eyes had long natural lashes and her nose was small and pert and upturned at the very tip.
She wore light makeup, very professional and nothing overt.
Her small hands were delicate with long fingers topped off by pink nails that Barb watched as they flew between an iPhone and a yellow notepad. Her light blue top rising and falling with her breath.
Kelly also wore a cream colored skirt to go with nude heels under the conference table but Barb knew Kelly was a nervous foot tapper and imagined her heel going up and down on the carpet.
She realized she was bored and daydreaming, drifting off as she watched one of her employees and she shifted in her seat trying to regain her focus.
It worked for a few minutes.
Barb once again got bored and found herself once again watching Kelly but this time an odd thought popped into her head “What if I were Kelly?” and for a brief moment, the passage of an inhale and exhale, Barb imagined what it would feel like if she were Kelly Andros.
The thought of her long hair, her tall and thin body made her blush “Where in the world did that come from?” she thought as she cleared her throat.
Just that simple of a gesture made heads turn her way.
Barb blushed and grabbed for a bottle of water. She waved her hand dismissively as she took a drink and everyone went back to talking.
But like an itch that can’t be reached, a small itch started back up in Barb’s mind “But if I’m Kelly than she would have to be me” she thought and despite part of her brain telling her to “stop it” she turned her head and pictured Kelly looking like her.
Kelly now sat lower in her chair, short and heavy with short bottle dyed blonde hair, blue eyes and make up needed to cover up the wrinkles of the 58 years she now carried in her place.
Kelly’s cute small blouse had been replaced by Barbara’s large black jacket and white blouse in Barb’s vision and as she pursed her lips, licked them absent-mindedly, Barb clearly saw her own features moving several feet away from herself.
Barb shook off the weird thoughts she was harboring with a renewed “Concentrate! What are you thinking today?”
But she also had to admit to herself that the fantasy was fun to her.
Kelly could tell her boss was watching her but she had no idea why. She paid attention to the fullest degree and took diligent notes but still felt that her eyes were upon her for some reason “Hope I didn’t do anything wrong” she worried.
After 2 hours, the meeting broke up with most people scattering to head to lunch. Barb went back to her office.
Sitting back in her chair, she tried to shake the thoughts from the meeting “I’ve never thought anything like that before in my life” she told herself “Why on earth did that pop into my head?”
But as she closed her eyes, she saw her body deflate down and change into Kelly’s.
Her eyes popped open and looking annoyed with herself, she sat up straight in her chair “Clear your damn mind Barb” she scolded herself “You shouldn’t be thinking like this”
Barb busied herself for the next hour purposely trying to push the odd thoughts from her head but when 1 o’clock came around, everyone who was in on the meeting came for the wrap up and Kelly stood smiling across the room once again.
Barb avoided eye contact with her; she focused on the attorneys and her secretary Sue but even as she tried so hard, her eye wandered down and she found herself looking at Kelly’s foot.
Clad in a nude heel, Barb could see her right foot out of the corner of her eye even as Kelly was otherwise obscured from her vision.
But that one foot, dangling as her legs were crossed caught her attention. Somewhat large, but yet smooth and matching the color of the shoe, Barb examined it while the thoughts returned “What if that was your foot? What if every time you looked down, that was the foot you saw?”
The follow up meeting adjourned and Barb was left in her office alone. She caught up on her emails and made her customary calls while reading and approving the reports she always did.
The day was coming to an end when she picked up her phone from her desk and dialed Kelly’s extension.
“Yes Ms. Matthews” came the happy reply.
“Could you come to my office Kelly for just a quick second?” Barb asked.
“Of course” Kelly replied “I’ll be right in”
Barb hung up and sat back; a few seconds later, the door opened and Kelly stepped in, closing the door behind her.
“What did you want to see me about Ms. Matthews?” Kelly asked approaching the desk. She walked tall and straight with an eager look on her face.
“I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your work here Kelly. I really think you have a great future here and I just wanted to let you know. I should take more time to tell employees when they’re doing a good job, I know it helps some days to hear a kind word before going home”
Kelly broke into a wide smile “Wow; thank you…that does mean a lot to me hearing that from you. I really like working here”
Barb stood up smiling. “Well I can see you working here for a long time and moving very high up too” She gestured to her chair “Maybe even to that seat itself”
“I would never…no, I…” Kelly sputtered.
“This is my company and I will be the one who chooses to occupy that chair when I’m done with it” Barb said. “Keep up the good work and I could definitely see you behind that desk in my shoes”
As she smiled, her mind flashed a vision of Kelly literally in her shoes and with her feet as well. “Ha” she laughed at herself now just letting the silly visions play out “Not going anywhere obviously so I might as well enjoy them” she thought to herself.
As they both stood Barb asked “So I wanted to ask you a few questions about the meeting earlier. What did you think about their counterproposal?”
“Well, I think we should stick to our original number” Kelly replied. She rocked her right foot back onto the heel of her shoe “They’re on shaky ground and need us more than we need them”
“I agree” Barb replied before going into more detailed questions which Kelly answered confidently, becoming more and more relaxed the longer they talked.
“How would you announce this?” Barb asked.
“Well, if I were you” Kelly began “I would do the press conference personally. Put your face on it, your personal stamp of approval and assure everyone that the tradition will continue on”
The words she said rang in Barb’s ears. She sighed “I need a break” she laughed.
“I wish I could help you out there Ms. Matthews, I really do” Kelly said.
“I wish you could too Kelly” Barb said.
An odd smile appeared on Kelly’s face, a faraway look in her eyes even as her eyes scanned Barb up and down.
A thought had popped into Kelly’s mind; out of the blue she thought “What if I switched places with Ms. Matthews? What if I were Barbara Matthews and she was stuck as me?”
“Um…yeah” Kelly said popping back to full attention “Anything I can do to help, I’d be happy to do it”
Barb smiled and turned “Would you like some water? My throat has just been dry today” she added as she headed to the mini fridge in the corner.
“No thank you” Kelly replied as she watched her boss walk away from her. Her eyes fixated on her ample ass moving and jiggling beneath her black skirt as she crossed the room “What it feel like to have that on me?” she thought suddenly. Her eyes picked up on the rolls on her sides, her thick calves and upper arms as she got out a bottle of water, cracked it open and took a long drink.
To Kelly’s mouth, she could taste it; the cool refreshing water rehydrating her dry mouth. She could imagine herself as Barbara clearly, her red lipstick leaving a slight mark at the mouth of the bottle as she replaced the cap.
Barb walked back and Kelly questioned her own sanity “Why am I thinking this?”
But the thought wouldn’t go away “Her money, her power…” Kelly thought as Barb said “So I need a break and you need a promotion”
“What’s that? A promotion…I…” Kelly was caught off guard. She laughed nervously as Barb chuckled and took another drink.
“Have a seat” Barb laughed as she waved to her large leather chair behind her desk “Try it out!”
“I couldn’t, no…I can’t…” Kelly protested.
“I insist” Barb said.
“Well…” Kelly shrugged her shoulders and rolled her eyes in modesty “…If you insist” she chuckled as she made her way around the desk. She grabbed her skirt at the bottom hem and sat down. “Wow…this is nice” she admitted easing back a bit. “Comfy” she wiggled her shoulders as she sat back, a smile on her face.
As she sat down, Barb saw Kelly changing. Her body inflated, her clothes changed, her face and hair changed and she soon saw a vision of herself behind the desk.
Kelly looked up from her seat to Barb who was standing on the other side of the desk. In her mind, she saw Barb changing. Barb grew taller and younger and much thinner. Her hair grew out long and thick and brown and her face turned into Kelly’s and soon she had a vision of herself standing before the desk.
“Wow…what if” they both thought simultaneously “What if I switched places with you?”
Underneath the desk, Kelly lifted her right foot placing all the weight on her heel and with the front of her foot elevated in the air, it began to change.
Kelly’s foot began to widen pressing out the sides of her shoes even as her feet shrank back smaller.
Her toes came away from the end of her right shoe while on the left, they pressed down against the end as her heel shifted forward widening out as it went. The tops of her feet plumped as her toes shrank back short and stubby with plain nails.
Kelly’s brow furrowed as she suddenly realized that her shoes felt weird on her feet, like they no longer fit.
Barb saw Kelly shifting in her seat and pushing back just as she felt a pinching in her toes which quickly ran down the length of her feet back to her heels which suddenly popped up and out of her low black heels.
She could feel her feet squeeze then pop loose and free. She stumbled, losing her balance slightly as her skin came to rest on top of the rigid backs of her shoes.
Barb looked down and saw toe cleavage. Lines clearly showed the beginnings of her toes, almost as if her toes were now somehow longer than they always had been. As she was examining, she also noticed that her feet appeared slimmer, longer and softer “What the…” she said confused.
Just as she was starting to slip her feet out of her black heels, Kelly was seeing her feet. She was startled and dumbfounded at the sight “Those aren’t…AH!” she let out a quick scream as her size 9 nude heels vanished; instantly replaced by a pair of low black heels, size 7.5.
She had just enough time to see her plain nails and differently shaped toes before the black shoes covered them, fitting her feet.
Now she scrambled back, pushing the chair back but not getting out of it.
Barb heard the commotion but couldn’t take her eyes off her feet and she let out her own “OH!” as her shoes changed shape, color and size in the blink of an eye from her usual low black heels to a much higher and larger pair of nude heels that felt like a perfect fit, holding her narrow feet flawlessly.
Kelly lifted her feet up; she slapped the toes of the shoes together as her jaw hung open in shock hearing the leather slap off each other.
Barb’s jaw also hung open as she squirmed, cautiously moving her feet around in the new shoes that she recognized but couldn’t bring herself to comprehend the meaning of seeing them on her own body. Her random thought from earlier rang back in her head “What if those were your feet…what if every time you looked down, those were the feet you saw?”
“No!” Barb thought, her hand flying to her mouth “Do I really have Kelly’s feet?! I’m wearing her shoes and those don’t look like my feet as far as I can see” she lifted her right foot up and slid it out so she could see her toes. She gasped upon seeing the long toes topped off by pink polish.
Kelly looked up now at the sound of the gasp coming from the other side of the desk. She saw the look of shock on Barb’s face as she continued to look down at the ground “Does she have my shoes?” she thought “My feet?!”
Still holding her legs out straight, her claves began to fatten up and shrink down. Her ankles puffed up as her lower legs compacted down, thickening as they went.
Watching her legs inflate, Kelly’s brown eyes widened, her mouth went up and down but no words came out until finally “Oh My God!” shot out loudly startling them both “Ms. Matthews!” the words sounded afraid and on the verge of tears “What’s happening?”
“I…I don’t know” Barb responded even as she began to lift up taller. Her calves were thinning and growing longer which along with her higher heels, was lifting her up higher before their eyes.
Kelly’s thighs ballooned out softening as they expanded. Her cream colored skirt was immediately in danger of bursting at the seams. She felt her inner thighs come together and then squish up as more and more flesh stretched out on her body under the very tight skirt.
Relief came in the form of her cream colored skirt changing into Barbara’s black one even as her legs and hips and ass all grew larger, filling out the skirt second by second.
Kelly’s lower half felt very odd to her as it changed, inflating while at the same time shrinking down shorter. Her ass spread and swelled even as she felt her panties change.
Barb was still searching for words when she felt her skirt slip. Her ass was lifting and tightening up as her hips slid inward and her thighs shrank down drastically in weight while at the same time growing longer.
She held on to the waistband of her skirt, biting her lip nervously as she dwindled away down below. Her legs, never a favorite part of her body, changed dramatically from short and heavy to long and lithe. Just when it looked like Kelly’s skirt would burst, it suddenly appeared on her own body.
Barb sucked in a breath as the skirt was still super tight on her body but it became a better fit and more comfortable with each passing second as her body was changing rather quickly into Kelly’s.
Barb’s thighs separated for the first time she could remember. Her ample hips and ass were receding, pulling up and back and in, changing her down to her posture and stance. Her lower back arched above her round tight bubble of an ass and she stood up straighter than ever before.
Barb’s hands flew frantically around her waist and hips slapping at her new curves and clothes.
Kelly was amazed that this new skirt was also growing tight on her expanding and fleshy body. Shock kept her seated as her ass spread out and filled the chair from arm to arm. She even felt her body rising up as the expansion of her back side rose her up higher in her seat.
Kelly shifted uncomfortably in her seat feeling her thighs rub together as a deep seated tingle ran through her abdomen and up her spine out to her fingers and toes. She shivered all over and felt her hair raise up on end as an intense warmth built up and then went suddenly cold.
Under her larger panties, Kelly’s skin folded and shifted. Her whole area plumped up and hairs poked through the previously shaven skin.
The panties on Barb’s body suddenly tightened up, snapping into place on her tight ass and firm hips. The cut was higher and different than anything she’d ever worn but as she looked down at her disproportional body, she was gaining a body that could pull it off while losing one that never would even try.
She shivered as she felt a tingle race from her abdomen up her spine and out to the tips of her fingers and toes. A warmth spread, burning warmer and warmer until sweat broke out across her upper lip and brow “On my God” she muttered pressing down on her pubic area as a cramp came and went “Oh…I haven’t had one of those in a while” she realized as her body revitalized and rejuvenated. Hairs pulled back and in leaving a smooth surface as her pubic area lowered down and her skin refolded and shifted. It lifted up and out pink and moist, quivering in its readiness.
As Kelly’s ass reached its maximum girth, her stomach and waist had to rush to keep up. Her entire torso began to quiver as it changed shape to keep up with her lower half. “Whoa…this is nuts” she said feeling her back spread out.
They were equal in height for a brief moment while Barb composed herself from nearly having a spontaneous orgasm. Her upper half was trimming and slimming and stretching out. Pounds melted off instantaneously; her bra loosened and her top fluttered around her as she shrank back.
Kelly noticed that she was now shorter than Barb. Her body was compacting down and spreading out as weight packed onto her frame. Her stomach came out, lifting up the bottom of her light blue top as her waist slid outward. Side rolls of fat formed as she continued to lose inches in her height, down from her usual 5’8” to Barb’s height of 5’2” all the while watching Barb grow tall and skinny before her.
“You’re taking my body” Kelly finally said.
“Um…well…yes, it does look like that” Barb replied. “We do seem to be switching places…I mean, you’re looking like me while I’m turning into you”
“But…but…” Kelly sputtered as her blouse got dangerously tight. She could feel the straps of her bra beginning to dig into her shoulders and back while her top tightened around her upper arms and sides lifting higher up and exposing more of her now alabaster colored round belly
Barb’s stomach went flat and her waist came in tiny and narrow. Her stomach became exposed as her shorter shirt lifted up with her now longer torso.
Barb now stood a full 5’8” and her weight had decreased dramatically. She was still slimming down when she felt her large breasts become constricted under a much smaller bra and Kelly’s light blue top.
“Ah!” she exclaimed which was met by Kelly’s own “AH!”
Kelly grabbed the bottom of her now white blouse, tugging it down over her waist, tucking her large belly in with the additional size. Her bra felt odd; it fit around her but wasn’t anywhere close to full with her small breasts, but as her changes continued, that would soon be fixed.
Barb’s smaller chest and slender sides rose up and down under her new top but her breasts were squished and uncomfortable until they too began to shrink down in size. “Oh My” she said as she felt them getting lighter and lifting up. The bottom of her bra was up, unable to come down to her chest as it was pressed up against her gigantic boobs. Finally she felt a pop and a snap they gave way and the underwire came flying down to her chest.
Barb’s breasts; sized 40EE were rapidly shrinking, losing mass and size as she looked down, her mouth agape with shock once again “I can’t believe this!” she said, her hands coming up but hovering above them as they decreased under her clothes to a 34B. Her nipples puckered as they shrank and her areolas diminished in size from half dollars to dimes “Ah…oh my god…my…my chest…my boobs! My boobs are gone!”
Barb’s hands now came down and fully engulfed her small breasts, easily cupping and squeezing them through her clothes.
“Oh No…they’re not gone at all” Kelly said feeling a twinge of pain between her shoulder blades as her breasts began to grow out, rapidly filling in the cups of her 40EE bra. Weight, flesh and mass built up, pushing her weight forward in the chair.
“Whoa God…so heavy” Kelly said. Her hands were up, holding on as they filled up with her now massive breasts. She felt her nipples engorge and grow under the heavy bra and her areolas spread out wide and dark.
Kelly’s fingers were still very long and slender as they held on but a numbness passed through them briefly before they felt on fire like when warming back up from the cold.
Kelly’s upper arms plumped out taking on weight and nearly doubling in size as her lower arms shrank back thicker as well. Her wrists fattened up as her fingers shrank down; short and stubby like her toes. Her nails, painted pink and manicured went clear and came back closer to the tops of her fingers as her hands aged.
Barb’s hands had been clenching her small, pert breasts when the numbness passed through them as well. Her fingers elongated, all lines and spots of age vanishing as pink nail polish appeared on her growing nails.
Her arms trimmed down tremendously, her upper arms felt half their original size as they grew longer to fit her newfound height and her blouse fit her body properly.
Kelly’s face had already begun to fatten up as her body had changed. Her neck had thickened and her cheeks were rounder. Now her chin came down creating a slight doubling if dropped down too low along with her jawline weakening as her skin began to wrinkle and loosen.
Kelly’s lips thinned as lines etched in around the corners; her teeth shrank down causing her hands to fly to her mouth.
“Mmpfh!” she hummed as her tongue shrank back running over her shifting teeth.
Kelly’s cheeks drooped with age, round and full though as her nose same inward. It broadened at the top and her upturn, turned down flattening out as her eyes narrowed and lightened in color from brown to blue.
More lines appeared at her eyes and across her brow and forehead as her lashes and eyebrows thinned. Her silver hair clip disappeared allowing her long thick brown hair to fly free one last time before it began to recede and pull upward into Barb’s blonde bob. Her hoop earrings vanished, replaced by the diamond studs worn by her boss.
Kelly couldn’t move; she could hardly breathe. She looked up from her seated position watching in awe as Barb finished up her transformation.
Barb’s chubby face had already begun to change as her body changed. The weight loss had already trimmed her chin and cheeks creating angles she had never possessed before. Her chin and jaw came out strong and firm as her neck elongated and trimmed. Her skin tightened with youthful vigor as her lips plumped and her teeth grew larger inside her mouth, shifting and changing even as her tongue grew longer.
Barb’s nose came in at the op and developed an upturn at the end as her eyes widened and darkened from blue to brown. Her lashes and eyebrows thickened as her forehead went smooth and tight. Her ears grew and Kelly’s hoops appeared in the lobes “I think even my filings changed” popped into her head as she explored her mouth.
Her bottle blonde bob grew out wildly at first into a mane of long thick brown hair that quickly pulled back, tamed by a silver clip.
“Whoa” Barb said succinctly, taking a staggering step back. Her high, nude heel wobbling slightly due to her unsteadiness. “You look just like me”
“I think I am you” Kelly said struggling to comprehend what had just happened “And I think you’re me…I mean, you look exactly like me from like, head to toe, you look like me”
Barb looked down to her toes now clad in different shoes “This is so weird…so impossible…I…” her eyes traced up her long lean legs to her flat mid-section and over her very small breasts. Stray strands of her long hair came over her tiny shoulders and into her peripheral vision as her hands probed her face.
Kelly licked her lips and lifted herself out of the chair, surprised by how much more effort it took and how her body felt and moved.
Kelly blinked hard “This can’t be” she said her voice sounding different to her ears. She felt her weight settle on her body, her feet could feel the extra pressure and pounds of her body, her heels dug into her shoes. “Mercy” she added walking up closer to her own body now worn by a different person.
Stopping and cocking her head, she felt the lightness provided by having much less hair “Why would I say that…I’ve never said mercy before?”
“I…I don’t know” Barb replied with a shake of her head. Barb tapped her foot nervously before rocking back on her right heel and letting her right toes wave back and forth as she saw her old body approach her with an examining eye.
Kelly spotted small markings on Barb’s cheeks, spots she knew she had but even those had transferred over and across to Barb.
Barb’s hands rested on her flat stomach, gently but firmly pressing down, amazed at how it felt “I’m so thin!” she thought. Her eyes moved to Kelly’s stomach, round and out despite being covered by expensively tailored clothes “How…why?” she finally asked.
“I don’t know…I thought you would!” Kelly shot back looking up at the now much taller woman before her.
Barb’s thoughts played back through her mind, her mild obsession with Kelly all day had been the reason she had called her into her office in the first place.
Kelly too was aware of her own thoughts of becoming her boss but had never imagined a possibility it would come true.
Both women kept their thoughts to themselves as they looked with wonder at each other and what had just happened to them.
“How can I even?” Barb said “Our clothes too…can you believe this even down to our clothes?!”
The phone on the desk went off causing both of them to jump. Barb started to move but stopped “Shit…you need to get it…I can’t sounding like this”
Kelly blinked but went back and picked up the phone “Yes”
“Mr. Vandenberg has some papers you need to sign before you leave tonight, can I send him in?” she heard Ms. Matthews Secretary Sue say on the other end.
“Yes, of course, send him right in” Kelly said shrugging and pleading with her eyes toward Barb.
No sooner had she put the phone down than the door open and the company’s lead attorney walked in “Sorry to disturb you but I need to get these filed before 5 at the courthouse so I’ll need your signature”
“Oh, of course” Kelly said returning to the chair. She backed her ample ass back into her seat finding it even more comfortable upon returning to it. “Are these finalizing the Reston deal?”
“Yes” Carl Vandenberg said stacking papers before him while Barb blended back.
“Fell free to discuss anything you need to” Kelly said “Miss Andros is my new personal assistant, everything can go with her”
Carl nodded and smiled “Congratulations Miss Andros, I’ve heard good things about your work”
“Um…Thank you” Barb replied.
Kelly picked up a pen and began to sign amazed to see how even her handwriting was different as she signed Barbara Matthews on the line.
“That makes it official” Carl said shuffling up the documents “Thank you Ms. Matthews, I’ll get these filed and everything should be complete”
“Thanks Carl, enjoy your evening” Kelly replied as he exited.
“Well I just signed and never hesitated about what to write” Kelly said.
“It looked like my signature perfectly” Barb admitted. Curious, she grabbed a pen and a scrap piece of paper and wrote out Kelly Andros and Barbara Matthews in a hand she had never seen before. “I can’t write like myself even when I try to”
“So what do we do now? Are we going to, you know, switch back to our real bodies?” Kelly asked standing back up.
“I have no idea” Barb replied.
“So until we do, I’m you and you’re me?!” Kelly said.
“Yes…we have to, you know, keep up appearances at the very least” Barb replied “But I guess I get to be your personal assistant now”
“Well I have to keep you close” Kelly replied. “I don’t know how to be you!”
“I think you’re already doing a good job at it though” Barb replied “You sound like me and not just in voice…you have my cadence and sayings, you speak like me”
“I noticed that you sound like me too and you’re doing my nervous little tick with your foot” Kelly said pointing down at her heel which was rocked back.
Their eyes met and a subtle feeling washed over both of them. Kelly thought “I kind of like it in here” while at the same time Barb thought “I’m fine with staying like this forever, I already know it”
Kelly cocked her head slightly thinking “I’m fine with this aren’t I?”
They smiled at each other knowing that they were never changing back. “Have a nice night Kelly” Kelly said.
“I will see you in the morning Ms. Matthews” Barb replied before they walked out of the office together.