“So…are you nervous?” Sarah Thomas asked her boyfriend Alex as they drove.

“Why would I be nervous?” Alex replied with a quick smile.

Sarah tilted her head “Come on…I can see it in your eyes. You are nervous”

“If I’m nervous it’s just because I want to make a good impression. This is the first time I’m meeting your family so yeah, it’s kind of a big deal”

“They’re going to love you though” Sarah told him.

“I hope so” Alex said smiling nervously “You’re important to me Sarah. It’s important that your family, you know, approves of me. I never want to have a Mom and Dad dislike me. It just leads to so many issues that we won’t have to deal with if tonight goes well”

“It’s going to be fine. Trust me: I know my family and I know you; you’re all going to get along great” Sarah reassured her boyfriend as they turned onto the street she had grown up on.

“There it is; third house on the left” Sarah said pointing.

“With the green shutters?” Alex asked.

“Yep…just pull in behind the red Toyota; that’s my sister Liz’s car” Sarah added.

Alex parked and took a deep breath before he got out. Sarah was ahead of him already heading for the front door.

The door swung open while Alex was still several steps away. He looked up to see Sarah jump up and into the arms of one of her sisters “KRIS!” she yelled as they embraced.

There was a blur as the two sisters spun around and talked at the same time as Alex came up to them.

“Alex! This is my baby sister Kris” Sarah said.

Kris stuck her hand out and rolled her eyes “Baby…nice”

“Nice to meet you Kris” Alex replied as he shook her hand.

“I’m 17 by the way…hardly a baby” Kris said as she tucked her light brown hair behind her ear.

“Always a baby to me Krissie” Sarah teased stepping inside.

“I’m even like, 4 inches taller than her too” Kris added.

“Doesn’t matter little sis” Sarah continued as more people began to converge.

Alex felt his heart rate pick up as he now spotted Sarah’s parents.

Sarah rushed to hug both of them while Alex hung back by the door and Kris. He watched them have their moment before Sarah smiled and turned his way “Mom, Dad, I’d like you meet by boyfriend Alex Evans. Alex; I’d like you to meet John and Natalie…my Mom and Dad”

John Thomas stepped forward with his hand extended. Alex was prepared and met him with a hearty handshake. Both men stood equal in height at 6’3” while John had the extra weight and gravitas of a man in his early 50’s to Alex slimmer build of a man in his mid 20’s.

“It is a pleasure to meet you Sir” Alex said.

“And for me to meet you as well” John replied.

“Welcome to our home” Natalie said.

Alex went to shake her hand as well but she closed up and gave him a hug instead. “We’ve heard so much about you! It’s so nice to finally meet you in person!”

“Thank you” Alex replied. “Your daughter is amazing. You did an excellent job raising her”

John laughed politely as Natalie blushed and waved him off “Oh…”

“Oh Alex” Sarah said “This is my sister Liz”

Alex turned and saw Sarah standing next to a very petite brunette, the middle sister.

“Hello” Alex said “Nice to meet you Liz”

They shook hands as Liz simply smiled and nodded and said “Same”

“She’s always been the quiet one…little Liz” Sarah teased.

Liz let her jaw drop and she blushed and slapped her big sister on the shoulder.

“I’m the loud one, Kris is the athletic one and Liz is the girly girl” Sarah informed her boyfriend.

“I’m not that bad” Liz said embarrassed by Sarah as she fiddled with the hem of her maroon dress. She also wore black, opaque tights and black flats with the long sleeved maroon number that came down to mid-thigh.

John engaged Alex in small talk about sports and the weather while the three sisters caught up and Natalie got out dinner. Alex felt at ease and thought it was going well as he would sneak glances at his girlfriend, catching her eye as often as he could.

Liz and Kris went to help their Mom and Alex and Sarah got a quick moment to themselves.

“You’re doing great…they like you, I can tell” Sarah told him.

Alex sighed dramatically and wiped his brow “Good!”

“Seriously, you’re doing fine” Sarah told him on their way to the dining room.

Alex’s eyes lingered on Sarah. She looked awesome in a blue dress and nude heels. Her wavy brown hair was down and swaying across her back and shoulders. She stood between her sisters and they lined up by height. Even in heels, Sarah was shorter than Kris by an inch but on the other side, Liz did look little in her flats “I wonder how tall she is” Alex thought “5’0”…maybe 5’1”

Alex and Sarah sat down next to each other with John and Natalie at the ends. Kris sat across from Sarah and Liz was across from Alex.

Alex cleared his throat as he scooted his chair in. Looking around, there was a definite family resemblance between all three sisters and their Mother. “Always look at the Mom” he had been told. “That’s what Sarah will look like in 30 years” Natalie was a very attractive woman for her age. Her brown hair was cut short and had flecks of gray in it but it only enhanced her looks. She wore her age well, her lines marked her life. She had a bright smile that all three girls had inherited.

“This meal looks incredible” Alex said.

“I’ve been talking up how good of a cook you are” Sarah added.

“Well then I certainly hope this lives up to expectations” Natalie laughed.

The talk ranged from polite topics like school, work and general family stories they told Alex about the girls growing up.

“…We always joke that Kris is the son you never had…”

“…HAHA…could you imagine?”

“No! Could you imagine Liz as a boy…now that would be funny!”

“No…it wouldn’t…I…I couldn’t take that”

Alex was trying to keep up with the wide ranging conversation. He mostly just smiled and laughed and took it all in.

His eyes kept pulling to Liz though for some reason. She was like a smaller, quieter version of Sarah; very attractive in her own right. He had caught her looking at him with interest too, but he knew he was the novelty item tonight. The stranger who everyone was looking at so he didn’t put much into it.

At a lull in the sister’s conversation; John spoke up “Could you please pass the salt?”

Alex and Liz both reached for it at the same time; their hands came together.

“Oh!” Liz said.

“I’m so sorry” Alex replied.

They both smiled as Liz passed it down.

Alex had felt something in his hand, a quick static shock and a completely random thought suddenly popped into his head “What if Liz and I switched places?”

He laughed to himself and shrugged “Where in the world did that come from?”

Alex continued eating. He was asked about where he had grown up and about his parents and siblings and he answered all of them but nagging away at the back of his mind the entire time were constant thoughts “What would it be like to be that size? What would it be like to look into a mirror and see that face looking back? How would that body feel if it were me? Would it just get familiar to me, just be nothing if I really were her?”

Every time he thought up a new question, he got mad at himself “Why are you doing this?!” he fought with himself in his own mind “You’ve never thought about this before in your life! Why now?!”

“Can you please pass the pepper?”

The request came and again both Liz and Alex reached for it. Alex looked up just in time to see their hands coming to the same place at the same time. He couldn’t jerk his hand back in time and he knew it. He could already see Liz beginning to smile. Just as their hands touched, he thought “I wish I was Liz!”

“I am so sorry!” he repeated to Liz’s laughter.

“No…we’re fine” Liz replied “Just working together on being prompt and polite”

As Alex sat back, he felt a severe cramp rip across his stomach.

He swallowed hard and clenched his jaw as the pain seemed to slink lower, settling in and digging at his abdomen. He thought he felt sweat break out across his brow “Would you excuse me please? I need to use the restroom” he said already standing up.

“Of course…last door on the left, right by the front door where you came in” John said.

Alex tried to smile but it looked more like a grimace as she shuffled out of the room and down the hall.

Liz pressed down on her stomach across the table and once only family was around she said “I don’t feel so good either. Something feels wrong”

“What is it honey?” Natalie asked.

“I don’t know…my stomach feels really strange and I just feel funny” Liz said.

Natalie slowly stood up as Liz went pale white. Her eyes widened and her breathing quickened “Mom?” she asked in a quizzical and uncertain tone of voice.

“Yes honey…what’s wrong?” Natalie said. John and Sarah were standing up now but Kris remained in her seat staring at her sister with a dawning fear creeping over her.

Liz was in obvious distress. She puckered her lips and began to shake slightly. She suddenly pistoned her legs, kicking her seat backwards and her hands went to her lap and began to feel around wildly.

A pained expression came over her pretty little face; it almost looked like she had gone into labor as she hissed out several short ragged breaths and then strained; her hips and legs locking in place “Hrnnngghhh!”

“Oh My GOD!” Kris yelled. She jumped back out of her chair pointing at Liz.

“Liz?!” Natalie said “Do you feel alright?”

“No!” she said in obvious distress, her eyes still shut tight “Something’s wrong!”

“Um…” John said not quite sure what to say or how to say it.

Liz opened her eyes and looked down. A moment of absolute silence passed, then a blood curdling scream.

Liz couldn’t wrap her head around it. It felt like something was growing out of her, something big. She looked down and saw a large bulge sitting in the front of her dress and tights. It felt cramped and contained, it felt like it still wanted to grow and get larger but was being held down.

Her hands scrambled and she didn’t care who saw what. She pulled back on the bottom of her dress and saw a noticeable lump twitching beneath her tights. She shifted her hips and it moved on her shocking her into a second yelping scream. It unfolded and rose up into a tent pole stretching out her black, opaque tights “No, no, no, no…what the hell” she murmured.

Liz grabbed the top of her tights and pulled down. Her dick sprang free and stood at full attention. “AAAAAHHHHH!” she screamed and quickly pulled her tights back up covering it.

Sarah’s eyes bulged, Kris looked away, Natalie nearly fainted and John’s jaw dropped.

“How in the…?” John began. He crept up closer but Liz swatted him back.

“Ohmygod, Ohmygod, Ohmygod!” Liz mumbled in confusion; panic creeping into her voice. She tenderly tapped at her erect penis before her hands slipped down to the extra mound at the base. It was tender to her touch.

“What’s happening to you?” Kris asked.

“I don’t know!” Liz replied suddenly bursting into tears.

She bent over sobbing. John came over and knelt down and put his arm around her “We’ll figure this out…you’re going to be okay…it’s going to…” he suddenly jerked back.

Liz lurched up, her body suddenly shuddering. She leaned forward and as John backed away, he could see her dress straining tightly over her back. A seam that ran along her shoulder began to pull away, the threads coming apart and he was intensely focused on it.

A sound of fabric tearing could be heard as Sarah peered down the hallway to the closed bathroom door.

Alex had barely gotten behind the door, closing it and falling forward as the strange sensation washed over him yet again. He clutched the porcelain sink with both hands, his knuckles turning white as he panted for breath.

“What the fuck is happening to me?!” he thought as he undid his belt, button and zipper. He dug at the front of his pants and boxers; something was going on and he had to see what it was.

“Holy fuck” he whispered in shock.

Alex could barely breathe and he was paralyzed for a second as he watched his penis shrinking and pulling slowly but steadily back into his body. “Ah!” he barely managed to say as his testicles rose up higher and higher, getting smaller as they closed in on his body.

He went numb as they pulled up and sucked inside his body. He felt an odd sensation, like someone unreeling a hose inside of him as his hands groped and tugged to no avail. “Shit, shit, shit” he said quietly through gritted teeth.

His penis was becoming dangerously small; just the head still stuck out when suddenly, his skin began to shift. Moisture flooded forward with an unmistakable aroma accompanying it. “What the fuck?!” The skin folded over his shrinking penis head as it cloaked itself in its new hood. It pulsated and thrummed out as his labia and vagina formed up “How in the fucking world do I have a vagina?!” he thought in a panic.

“Where’s my dick?” he wanted to scream but now he remembered where he was and what saying something like that would bring down upon him. Alex stared at the closed door in horror.

Sarah was torn; she wanted to check on her boyfriend but also couldn’t leave her sister. Everything was happening so fast and it was so strange “What is going on?” she thought to herself.

Liz felt her body pulsate. That same strange sensation that had been concentrated now spread out across her entire body in a warm wave. She dropped her right arm to her side, feeling her sleeve rip and give way across her shoulder. She heard fabric popping and could feel it stretching against her legs “What now?” she cried.

Tears flowed down over her bright red cheeks. She slid her right leg out forward and concentrated on her inner thigh. Her leg was round and curvy yet thin. The small black, opaque tights clung tightly to the curves of her legs but now she saw just a hint of her skin through them as they pulled taut. They thinned as her legs grew larger and larger. A small hole formed and she stuck her finger in it. Immediately the hole grew larger and larger, tearing a gaping hole in her tights where her flesh began to spill out.

Another tear started on her left thigh, a little higher up but it too opened up showing off white flesh.

The outside seam gave way, ripping open as Liz’s legs grew larger, longer and more muscular. Her delicate, small, feminine legs were changing. They looked bulky and now black hairs poked through as well.

“Dad! What’s happening now?” Liz cried as she saw herself quickly gaining height on her Dad. John had always been well over a foot taller than Liz but now, she could tell that she was growing bigger.

“I…I don’t know!” John said. Confusion was overriding every other thought at the moment for everyone as Liz continued to grow.

“Ah!” she exclaimed flexing and rolling her feet outward. Her shoes were extremely tight and bulging at the sides. Her growing toes could be plainly seen, outlined at the ends of her black flats. She grimaced and tried to get her feet out of her now way too tiny shoes.

Just a size 6, her feet were doubling in size and with a sudden pop, the seams at the ends of her shoes gave way much to her relief.

Liz watched as the shoes parted and her toes shot out suddenly free ranging way past the ends of her shoes. Her tights couldn’t keep up either and her toes were visible through the stretched fabric until that too gave way.

She wiggled her much larger and longer toes confused at why the nails were pale instead of covered in the lilac purple nail polish she had just put on the day before. “Those aren’t my toes…those aren’t my feet…that can’t be what mine look like” she said flipping her hair out of her face as she leaned over staring at the bulky and ugly toes sticking out of her shoes and torn tights.

“I don’t know what’s happening to my body?!” she cried. Tears streamed from her eyes as she stood back up straight but that only exacerbated the tightness of her clothes. She looked in shock as she looked down at her Mom and Sarah, they were both shorter than her. “How can you…?”

Natalie was also crying as she shook her head “I don’t know honey!”

Sarah’s jaw went up and down but no words came out.

Liz turned towards Kris who she was now equal to in height. Their eyes bugged out as Liz slowly passed her up, growing taller still. “I can’t stop! I can’t stop it! Why am I growing?!” Liz kept asking and pleading but no one in the room could or would answer.

The bottom of her dress had ridden up so high that the unmistakable penis bulge was plainly visible to everyone. Her hips began to slide inward and forward and her ass began to deflate. Her body was becoming boxy instead of curvy as her sleeves grew incredibly tight and the strain began to show.

Alex stood staring at the back of the bathroom door hyperventilating. The door was growing larger and larger to him. The whole room was growing larger. He looked to the mirror and watched his face and head drop lower and lower in the frame as the sink came up higher and higher on his shrinking body.

“What the fuck?!” he said to himself in a panic “Why am I shrinking?” I’ve got a pussy and I’m...oh God” he went pale white and stopped breathing for a moment.

“My thought…shit…I…Liz...oh man…oh no. That can’t be it. I can’t be switching bodies with Liz can I?” Alex thought.

He fumbled with his pants, shimming his hips to get them to fall off his diminishing frame. As they slid down, he got his first glance at his legs and he was petrified.

“NO!” His mind screamed upon seeing his smooth, soft, round thighs. They were small and slender and very feminine. His calves were tiny and hairless; rounded off and looking nothing like his own legs.

He easily slipped his feet from his shoes and the now huge pants. He stepped on his socks to slip his feet from them and had to suppress a primal scream as he was greeted not by his own bulk, hairy size 12 feet but by a very diminutive pair of soft, milky white feet with tiny toes topped off with lilac colored nails.

“Oh No…Oh God…she’s going to be so pissed at me! Sarah…Liz…everyone if they knew I had something to do with this!” Alex thought “I’ve got to play dumb! I’ll deny anything and everything and…and…I’ll just say I don’t know how or why because I don’t! This can’t happen to two people at random!”

He slapped at the now flapping front of his boxers and the small yet full legs that came out of them “No way” he kept thinking as he shook his head.

He reset his feet as his hips began to slide outward giving him a more feminine build as his waist pulled inward. His ass began to lift up and fill out nice and round and plump.

Alex’s face was a model of shock and surprise as his hands felt and groped his own sumptuous ass.

He looked into the mirror, a foot shorter than he had come in at, his face a mask of panic and fear knowing what was going on and how it would end for both of them. “I’m going to have to walk out of here in Liz’s body and face her in mine…”

Liz had grown a foot taller and her dress could not keep up. A tear shot down the middle of her back as muscles spread her back out wide and broad. Her shoulders popped next. The seams simply shot apart as she brought her arms down and in just as her muscles expanded out.

Her sleeves were detached but still tore further upon receiving Alex’s biceps. Liz had stopped crying, had realized it was pointless to keep shedding tears; now she felt more anger than anything else.

Her stomach lifted out and up, abdominal muscles formed up before she felt a numbness in her chest.

All eyes in the room were on her as she stood up, now as tall as her Dad and towering over her Mom and sisters “Mom?!” she asked as her hands went to her breasts.

They had already been made to look smaller on her now much larger and wider chest but she still put her hands up to them and gave them what would be their last squeeze.

Her nipples shrank first and she felt a wave of cold chills wash over her. Her dress was stretched out and the clasp on her bra had popped but she pulled them both out and peered down as her breasts shrank back to nothing. Just two small nipples atop pectoral muscles with black hairs poking out around the nipples and in the middle of her masculine chest.

Liz swallowed and felt a bulge pop out on her throat. She brought her hands up and ran them over her Adam’s apple as the first few hairs broke through on her neck.

As she had her hands up, she took in the sight of them; no longer small and dainty, her fingers were thick and wide, her nails cut to the quick and her hands showed marks and callouses, the marks of a man not caring about the appearance of his hands.

Flexing her fingers down until she balled them into fists, Liz felt strength surge through her like never before; she was ashamed a bit to admit that she was feeling a rush from it.

Alex’s button down shirt hung on him like a sail. He was a foot shorter and 100 pounds lighter than he had stepped into the bathroom at.

As his chest and back continued to diminish, the neck hole opened wider and allowed him a clear look at his small chest. It was pale white and suddenly hairless. No muscle definition remained as he brought a hand up underneath and rubbed his flat soft stomach.

Numbness hit his chest for a brief second before an explosion of sensation rocked his nipples. They stood up at attention, growing larger as his areolas spread just before flesh began to build up.

Alex spun his hand back out and brought them both up. The look on his face was one of pure shock as he felt his hands filling up with his breasts. They were round and sensitive and he moved his hands ever so slightly, squeezing them and jostling them about. They moved; they were fully functional and they were his.

Under the sleeves, his arms shrank down thin and trim. His muscles diminished into feminine arms and his hands and fingers began to change even as they held on to his new assets. “Oh God!” he whispered to himself. His nails grew out and lilac colored polish appeared changing the look even further. His fingers trimmed down thin and dainty as his hands smoothed out as they shrank.

He lifted up his chin as his neck and throat changed. The front went smooth and flat; the next he would open his mouth, it would be Liz’s voice coming out.

Alex spun back to the mirror as he felt an odd pressure on his skull and head. In a shimmering motion, his whole head shrank down, his facial features closed in just before they began to morph and change and his hair began to grow wildly.

Liz clutched at the sides of her head as her hair pulled in short and tight. Her hair restyled itself and Sarah gasped as it swept across her sister’s forehead, exposing her ears which now began to grow as well.

Liz worked her mouth and jaw up and down as it stretched out lifting up stronger and more prominent.

Ever since she had grown a penis it was apparent that Liz was turning into a guy, but now as her face rearranged itself, it was blatantly obvious that she was turning into Alex. Her big brown eyes narrowed and turned blue as her brow line thickened. Her eyebrows went bushy as opposed to her usual trimmed and fussed on brows. Even her eyelashes thinned out.

Her nose thickened and broadened as her cheeks dropped and spread out. Stubble began to poke through her rough skin on her cheeks, chin and upper lip.

The cute downward curve of her plump lips faded as her lips thickened and her chin came out round. She cautiously ran her tongue over her wider teeth and took a deep breath.

Alex stared intensely into the mirror as his small face and smaller features shifted. His chin came to a point as his jawline lifted making his face heart shaped instead of round. His lips thinned and curved downward at the corners as his teeth and tongue shrank down to fit his tiny mouth.

His broad thick nose trimmed; narrowing across the top and lifting up in a slight uptick at the end as his cheeks rose up round and high.

His blue eyes darkened to brown as they grew larger and more expressive under thicker lashes and trimmed eyebrows. His forehead lifted and smoothed as his hair exploded out into long brown waves.

With a sudden sigh, Alex realized it was over. He grabbed at his long hair and yanked at it feeling the pinch of his hair getting pulled.

He heard the footsteps coming down the hall then. His heart took off in panic as the door flung open.

Sarah screamed.

Alex screamed.

Their screams matched each other in pitch, both high and feminine.

Sarah saw her sister standing in front of her wearing an oversized button down shirt that almost came to her knees. Where Alex had walked in, Liz now stood.

Once they had both ran out of breath, Sarah grabbed him by the narrow shoulder and easily yanked him out into the hall.

Alex stumbled, surprised at how light he had become and how easily manipulated he was by his girlfriend’s hand. Once he got his tiny feet set beneath him he looked down the hallway and screamed again.

Liz was out of breath and unable to scream back. The shock of seeing herself was too much and all the air left her lungs. She tried to take a step and heard her clothing tearing even further. She felt her big toe pop through a new hole as she lifted her big heavy foot. The tear down her back lengthened as her new frame and gait took over and she moved zombie like down the hall toward the small woman at the end; the woman who looked like her.

“I don’t know…I don’t know what happened!” Alex cried overcome by emotion. He shook his head back and forth hysterically, his long hair flying around his face. He began to cower against the wall and slowly dropped to the ground tears running down his face.

Alex curled up into a ball as he heard more and more footsteps and felt the presence of more people standing over him but as he blinked through his tears, what he saw was his own feet, big and hairy and popping out of a pair of black opaque tights “I’m sorry” she sobbed.

The next thing Alex knew, she was being lifted up. John simply bent down and picked her up with ease, flipping her to make her stand.

Alex eased her leg muscles out and felt the ground beneath her bare feet. Now the smallest person in the room, she blinking looked up and around at the faces before her “Help me” she whispered out.

The first arms she felt on her were the ones she used to have. Liz wrapped his strong arms around her and hugged her reassuringly “It’s going to be ok Alex…we’re going to figure this out”

Alex looked way up into his old face and nodded.

Liz led Alex up the stairs to the bedroom where she closed the door behind them. Kris had followed. She had gathered up the clothing that Alex had discarded in the bathroom “I’ll leave this just outside the door” she said before retreating back down stairs.

Liz sighed and shook her head “I can’t believe this happened to us…I’m you and you’re me”

Alex looked up “I don’t know…this is impossible” she put her arms out, her sleeves flapping and covering her hands “People don’t just swap bodies”

Liz laughed a deep laugh “But we just did” she pulled off the torn sleeves of her ruined dress and cast them aside. She flexed her muscled arms taking in the full sight of them; the thicker hair on her forearms as she balled up her fists.

Alex sat down on the floor with his back propped up against the bed. She put her tiny legs out in front of her and waved her feet back and forth taking in how small they were “I can’t even see my pinky toe nail…it’s too small” she thought.

The sight of Liz adjusting better than her caught her attention. The large figure in the middle of room was easily tearing the torn dress off.

Liz just had to test out his strength. He reached up and took a handful of the dress and simply tore it off his masculine chest. He then repeated that by ripping the tights off as well “Ruined beyond repair anyway” he said tossing them into the trash.

Liz put his hand out and Alex took it “Let’s get you up and dressed” he said.

Alex simply nodded and felt herself lifted off the ground by one hand of her former body. She stood next to it “I can’t even comprehend being that big…it already seems so foreign to me…isn’t that weird?”

Liz smirked “I was just thinking the same thing about being that tiny…so no, it’s isn’t weird”

Instead of unbuttoning the shirt, Alex simply lifted it cleanly over her head, exposing her small breasts. She instinctively wanted to cover them but realized “You’ve seen these before”

Liz laughed “Yeah, there’s no secrets between us now” he looked down to where his penis and hairy balls were laying mostly outside of the tiny panties still trying to cover them. He quickly discarded them and walked to the door to retrieve Alex’s clothes.

He simply redressed while Alex searched for a new bra and panties and tried to pick out an outfit. Everything in the room was her size, it was technically all her clothes but something in her wanted to make sure she looked nice and presentable when she went back down stairs. She picked out a long cream colored skirt and a green top finished off with a pair of light brown flats that fit her tiny feet perfectly; even down to her toes fitting into the worn in groove spots.

They came down together to see the other four standing around the dining room table waiting. As Liz and Alex walked nervously in, all four came up to them and gave them a group hug…

The alarm going off made Alex open his eyes. Low sunlight was streaming through the crack in the curtains as he swung his legs out from under the covers. He sighed as he got up and stretched out his back as he walked to the bathroom.

Down the hall past his sister’s rooms he plodded before flipping on the light and closing the door behind him.

He stared into the reflection in the mirror, now so natural and normal to him. He very rarely thought of the life before. Two years had passed since he had switched bodies with his sister’s boyfriend. He had all the usual childhood memories but thought of himself as Alex. Thinking about being a female, about being Liz just didn’t make much sense to him.

Alex heard his Mom and Dad getting ready down the hall; their door opened and he could tell his Mom, Natalie, was on her way down to start breakfast.

Alex had an early class at Miller College and he needed to shower and shave beforehand.

Liz still checked in from time to time, more of a family friend who would come over for dinner every few weeks. They had bonded but had also went about their lives.

Anything romantic was just too weird, Liz had moved on and was dating a really nice guy named Jeff whom she had brought over for dinner as well. He didn’t and would never know the back story. She had dyed her hair blonde and introduced us as her cousins. Sarah had also moved on and was dating a guy named Ryan she met at work.

Alex’s phone went off with a text from his girlfriend Hailey. He smiled and text her back as he continued getting ready.

“Bye Mom…bye Dad…I’ve got an early class; see you tonight for dinner” Alex said as he came down the stairs and laced up his sneakers.

“Bye Alex” John called out

“Have a good day” Natalie added in “Let me know how your test goes”

“Sure…you know I will Mom” Alex said as he headed out the door, almost bumping his head on the doorframe like always.

“I don’t miss being short” he laughed to himself as he went to his car in the driveway. I wonder if Liz misses being tall…I might have to ask her next time she comes over”

Alex backed the car up and went to put it in drive but he paused for just a moment “I never would have thought that changing bodies would have worked out so well for all of us”