“Mom! The Wi-Fi is slow…it keeps cutting in and out” Kendra Nichols called out to her Mom.

“I know Honey but I can’t do anything about it” Natalie Nichols called back out. “I’m not on currently”

Natalie got up and made her way to her daughter’s bedroom.

Kendra was 15 and stuck at home during the pandemic shutdown. Natalie ran a pair of secondhand clothing stores and had been deemed non-essential and her stores were closed. She was bored out of her mind and they were only on their second week.

Kendra had just turned 15 in February and was finishing up her freshman year. It didn’t look like they’d be going back to class so she would be doing her entire last grading period from home.

Natalie opened the door to find her daughter sitting crossed legged on her bed with her laptop open in front of her. Kendra had on a pair of green and black plaid lounge pants and a gray long sleeve shirt. She was barefoot and was flexing her pink painted toes. Kendra had braided her long brown hair into two pigtails out of boredom.

“So what’s up?” Natalie said coming in.

Kendra shrugged “I’m reading an article on the Civil War and I need to write an essay on it. I’ve got to read two chapters in To Kill A Mockingbird and answer review questions…10 questions in Algebra…I just don’t feel like doing anything” she smiled sheepishly.

“I know…I know it’s different and hard to be away from the structure of school and your friends; just your normal routine and rhythm” Natalie said sitting down on the edge of the bed.

The 39 year old crossed her right leg over her left. She wearing just a pair of black shorts and a red t-shirt. She hadn’t showered or done her hair; she was lucky to brush her teeth. Her short blondish brown hair was messy and needed brushing “I read To Kill a Mockingbird again for the 3^rd time just last year”

Kendra’s eyes lit up “Perfect! Why don’t you answer my questions” she laughed.

“Oh I don’t know honey…this is your work…” Natalie said.

“You’ve made me help with your shop for years without pay Mom!” she laced her fingers together “Please….pleeeeeeezzzzzzeeee help me!” she batted her eyes”

“You love hanging out in the shop” Natalie shot back playfully.

“Yeah probably more than you do” Kendra teased.

“Because you get to do the fun stuff like picking out what goes on display. You don’t have to do inventory or pay bills” Natalie said.

“I’d do inventory” Kendra volunteered. “I’d do a ton more around the shops if you’d let me”

“Then finish your schooling and you can take over when you’re old enough” Natalie said.

“I can take over and you could go back to school! You’ve always said you wanted to go to college so bad” Kendra said. ”If I run the store full time, you could go to college then”

“We’re talking about years from now” Natalie said, her narrow green eyes blinking nervously.

“No we could be talking about right now. You can do my schoolwork to get you back into the groove and I will go to the store and do the inventory while it’s closed right now”

“You’re just trying to get out of doing your homework and it’s…”

“Absolutely going to work haha!” Kendra finished for her. “Admit it! It’s intriguing to you. You can log in as me, you don’t have to turn on the camera. Our voices already sound a lot alike if you have to talk”

“Talk?! They’d see right through me!” Natalie said standing up.

Kendra got up too. She was 2 inches taller than her Mom, 5’6” to 5’4”and laughed “You are thinking about it! Come on Mom! Let’s do it! C’mon!!!! It’ll be fun!”

“I’ll think about it” Natalie said heading out blushing bright red.

Kendra laughed as she sat back down on the bed. She fiddled with her assignments but nothing was due until Friday so she put it off.

Natalie was playing on her phone when Kendra came down. She looked over the top of it and saw her daughter’s smirking face “Yes…?”

“Well I’ve been thinking; if I want you to do something for me, I should do something for you first. So I downloaded the inventory sheets and since the store is in biking distance. If you want me to, I will go down there and do your inventory for you and if I do a good job, maybe you would trust me enough and be grateful enough to sign in and do a few assignments for me” she smiled big at the end of her sales pitch.

“You know I hate inventory” Natalie said skeptical.

“I know…but I didn’t mind when I helped you with it last year. This is the perfect time to do it” Kendra said.

“You’re really trying to get out of doing your schoolwork aren’t you?”

“It’s so boring doing it online, I’m going crazy. I just can’t concentrate. I need to be up and doing something and you need to be just reading history and English and throw in some Algebra and other stuff too. I’m going to fail if I have to do the whole grading period like this” Kendra pleaded.

“Don’t say that” Natalie said.

“Then you’ve got to help me pass Mom! I will go right back to it in the fall when we’re back in real school”

“So…” Natalie put her phone down “What would you say to having me take all your classes and do your final exams for the year?”

“Um, duh…Yes!” Kendra said enthusiastically.

“Alright…I’ll do it…it might be exciting too. A certain thrill to posing as a high school student at 39 haha!”

“And I will do everything at the store! I will scrub everything down, do the inventory, restock…whatever needs done! As long as I can get out of this house” Kendra said.

“Great…we start tomorrow” Natalie said.

Kendra could just smile.

When Kendra got up the next morning, she found her Mom in the kitchen wearing a pair of her lounge pants and one of her tops “Mom?! What are you doing? Are you wearing my clothes?!” She laughed.

Natalie put her arms out “What?! They fit me perfectly and I figured that if I was going to be like you, I should dress like you right?”

Kendra nodded approvingly and stuck out her bottom lip “Not bad…” she walked around her Mom in a circle “Not bad at all haha!”

As Natalie ate a bowl of Trix cereal, Kendra headed upstairs. Natalie heard the shower running and about 15 minutes after the water shut off “So…how do I look?”

Kendra stood in the doorway to the kitchen and Natalie’s jaw dropped. Then she began to laugh “You look perfect honey! Absolutely perfect!”

Natalie got up and went to her daughter. Kendra was wearing one of her Mom’s long tan skirts, one of her Mom’s green long sleeved tops along with a pair of her socks and Chuck Taylor’s. She flexed her ankles outward and put her arms out with a big smile on her face.

“You even did your hair and put on some makeup” Natalie noticed.

“Pulled back into a bun at the base like you do Mom and you always wear some makeup…see, two can play this game” Kendra said.

“Touché” Natalie laughed and looked her daughter up and down from head to toe nodding approvingly “It’s a good look for you”

“I think we should dress like this for as long as we’re doing this” Kendra said with an air of defiance.

Natalie crossed her arms over her chest and cocked her hip out “Oh I am down…I get your wardrobe and you get mine”

“Um, mine looks more comfortable” Natalie said.

“Oh I don’t know…these flowy bohemian skirts…your whole hippie chick look isn’t bad” Kendra countered.

“Too bad you can’t take the car” Natalie said.

“I’d prefer to ride my bike” Kendra said “But first let’s get you signed in”

Kendra gave her Mom all her class codes and her school email and passwords “Have fun”

“You too” Natalie called out as she climbed up and sat cross legged on her daughter’s bed.

The skirt allowed Kendra plenty of room to ride her bike to the store. She unlocked the back door and disabled the alarm before she rolled up her sleeves and went to the cleaning closet in the back. She drew out a bucket and filled it with a soapy bleach mixture and went to work scrubbing down everything.

Her cleaning took up most of the first day but she also stacked everything in different areas as she cleaned to set up an easier time to do her inventory counts.

Natalie settled in with her back against the wall and the lap top before her. She pulled her own hair back and logged in. Seeing ‘Welcome Kendra’ pop up on her screen gave her a little tingle of excitement though she dismissed it as silly.

She watched a video on Algebra just to remember what she was doing but it came back quickly and she checked after she turned it in seeing she got 10 out of 10 “Sweet haha! This is easier than I thought.

She skimmed the novel and it all came back. She wrote out several paragraphs about the symbolism in the book as well as an essay on the overall tone of the book.

The questions on the first year of the Civil War was also simple to her and she was breezing through her day. With only science to go, she had only been doing school work for about two and a half hours. “I’m going to be done in no time and Kendra will be at the store all day; maybe this isn’t so bad after all”

When she logged on to the Science class she realized it was a zoom classroom. She turned her camera off but the teacher saw that she had logged in “Hey Kendra is here too…hope you’re doing good”

Natalie blushed but the teacher kept talking. She listened to the lecture on Geology wanting to get on the mic. She heard other kids talking but she was hesitant until the teacher asked a question and no one answered. She knew it. The teacher was waiting, the quiet pause was driving her mad.

Finally, she toggled her mic “Plutons” she said in a clear and high voice. Her heart was pounding so hard just saying one word, her whole world was rushing, she could feel a pounding in her head.

“Thank you Kendra” the teacher said.

“Good job K!” said someone else.

“It’s so good to hear your voice” came another comment.

Natalie thought her voice sounded higher than usual but she chocked it up to her nerves but it obviously fooled her classmates thinking that she sounded just like Kendra.

Kendra was finishing up. It had been 8 hours of hard work but she didn’t care. She had put on some music and gotten into it. It felt good to work hard. Just as she was wringing out her rags, the phone rang.

“Hello” she said. Her voice sounded deeper but she chalked it up to having been breathing in the bleach solution all day.

“I thought I saw lights on down there…it’s Jill at the nail salon across the street”

“Oh hey…yeah just doing some cleaning while we’re closed down” Kendra said.

“Yeah me too” Jill said.

Kendra made her way to the window and waved seeing Jill wave back.

“When this is all over we’ve got to get together for lunch” Jill said.

“Oh that sounds great!” Kendra said, her voice still sounding deeper, smokier playing along “It’s a date Jill”

“Talk to you soon Nat!” Jill said still waving from her window.

“She thinks I’m Mom” Kendra laughed but knew she was wearing her Mom’s clothes and from across a street with her voice sounding like it did, it wasn’t a real stretch.

“Shit…the way my back and knees hurt after scrubbing all day, I even feel like Mom” she told herself as she locked up to head home.

Once back, the two of them were both quite pleased with their days. They ran their full days past each other.

“So…want to do it again tomorrow?” Natalie asked.

“Um, let’s see…of course I do!” Kendra laughed. “I’m loving it”

“Me too” Natalie admitted as they hugged “I had a lot of fun today being you haha”

“Jill called over today…she thought she was talking to you; I didn’t tell her any different” Kendra said blushing a bit.

“Well, I did answer a question in Mr. Smith’s science class and everyone thought it was ‘Kendra’ answering so…”

They both laughed about it before Kendra went to shower. She smirked as she took down her Mom’s robe and put it on to go back downstairs.

Natalie was just eating another bowl of cereal at the table when she got there. “What?”

“Oh, nothing…just surprised you didn’t make dinner” Kendra said.

Natalie just shrugged and mumbled “I don’t know…just didn’t feel like it”

Kendra got out a bunch of vegetables and began chopping them up, making a big salad for herself and putting the rest in Tupperware “You can have the rest for your lunch tomorrow” Kendra said to Natalie as she took a seat across from her.

“Um…I’ve been using your phone today” Natalie admitted. “You left it in your room and people were asking school questions so I was answering”

“That’s fine” Kendra said. “I’m tired…would you mind if I asked if we go one more step?”

“What would that be?” Natalie asked.

“Switch rooms” Kendra said.

“Oh…okay…yeah…we could…” Natalie said.

“Great! I’m going to bed” Kendra said heading to the master bedroom.

“Sure” Natalie said. She stood in place for another minute “What is happening?” she asked herself, laughing a bit at herself as she went to what was her bedroom for the time being. She wasn’t upset about it. She was having more fun than she cared to admit.

The next morning, Kendra was up bright and early. She showered and did her hair and makeup and headed to her closet and picked out an outfit much like the one she wore yesterday. A long blue skirt, a cream colored top along with a blue cardigan sweater, low ankle socks and the Chuck Taylor shoes again.

She pulled her hair back into a tight bun at base of her neck and looked even more put together this morning.

Natalie looked more disheveled than yesterday. She was barefoot and in a pair of gray cotton shorts and a black tank top. Her blondish brown hair was a messy rat’s nest. She yawned and mumbled “Have fun at your store” as she shuffled by.

Their eyes locked for a moment as Kendra went out the back door to get her bike. Today, she reached behind and brought out Natalie’s bike. She nodded and hopped on pedaling to the store.

Natalie grabbed a Dr. Pepper as she went to her room to log in, she drank down half the can.

As her computer booted up and she made her way to her classroom account, she brushed out her hair, it seemed longer but she thought it was just because she was overdue for a trim with everything shut down. She smirked mischievously.

She went into Kendra’s drawers and put on a pair of her panties and one of her bras. She put on a fresh tank and a pair of tighter black shorts. She also pulled out a pair of silver hoop earrings that she had admired and put them into her ears “Wish these were mine” was all she said as she played with the earrings and began to work.

Kendra got to the store and let herself in. She continued to organize her piles going through tops, bottoms and then accessories.

As she went through the accessories, she found a really cool pair of silver hoops “A little bigger than mine but still super cute” She put them in her ears and went to the mirror to check them out “Wish these were mine” was all she said as she moved her head back and forth checking out different angles in the mirror.

She looked around the store “I wish this was all mine. I wish I was grown up…I wish this was all real! All of it! Me having the big room…having my own business and Mom being the kid in high school. She seems to be enjoying herself too” she called out to the empty store. She looked down at herself, dressed like she was and chuckled “If only”

At home, Natalie was cruising through her assignments and looked around the small room. She sighed “I wish this was all mine. I wish I was a kid again….I wish this was all real. All of it! Me being the kid again and her having to deal with all the adult stuff I hate. I wish I could go back and go to college this time. She loves the store more than me…it should be hers” She looked down at herself dressed in Kendra’s clothes and chuckled “If only”

Kendra looked at the mirror and leaned forward. Her ears felt warm so she examined them. They looked slightly bigger, longer somehow. Her hair, tied back in her bun began to lighten in blonde streaks as the bun grew smaller as less hair concentrated there. Her hair was shortening up. A few baby hairs flew away as the shift loosened up the front.

“Ah!” she exclaimed as her forehead grew wider and lines moved across the previously taut and smooth skin “What the fuck?!”

Small lines etched in alongside her eyes as they lightened from brown to green. Her eyes shrank down small and narrow just like “Mom?!” she said out loud recognizing the changes to her face.

Her nose grew larger, her cheeks shifted and pulled down and her lips began to thin and crease as she stumbled backwards.

“UNGH!” she managed to get out as she ran her tongue over her teeth even as they shrank down and shifted inside of her mouth. Even her tongue moved differently as it too shifted and shrank.

Her hands came up to her face as her chin and jaw shifted and her neck compacted, the skin growing a bit looser as it did.

Kendra spun around, the quiet empty store seemed larger somehow. She had shrank 2 inches shorter to 5’4”

“What the fuck?!” her voice sounded deeper; it sounded like her voice did yesterday she quickly realized. “What the actual fuck!?”

She felt her shoulders and upper back tighten up underneath her sweater and cream colored top. She thought she could feel her upper arms growing a bit thicker inside the top. Her forearms tingled and she pulled up her sleeves revealing arms that weren’t her own.

Her fingers and hands now began to change “Ahhhhhh!” she let out as her hands aged before her eyes. Her nails shrank back and thickened, her fingers got shorter and veins appeared across the backs.

Kendra’s shoulders hunched forward as the tingle ran across her chest “I’m turning into Mom…I’m turning into Mom…how in the hell am I turning into Mom?”

Suddenly her shoulders rocked back and her back arched jutting her chest forward just as her breasts grew larger.

Kendra blushed hard. She had put on one of her Mom’s bras even though it was too big on her. She had been a 34B but now, she felt her breasts press up hard against the cups filling out the 36C bra Natalie wore.

“Oh Fuck me” she gasped as her stomach puffed out softer and wider. “This isn’t stopping…”

Her long skirt was fitting better, tighter around her waist even though her Mom was in good shape for a woman pushing 40, the clothes already fit pretty well before but now, they were made for her.

Kendra’s teenage body was aging up, changing into a full woman’s body, a more mature body that showed motherhood and years on it.

She blushed again; knowing full well that she was wearing her Mom’s panties, knowing that now her ass began to grow larger inside them. Her hips shifted outward as well as she now fit the size7 panties perfectly.

“I know what I said…but now that it’s actually happening…but if this is happening to me while I’m here; then what’s happening to Mom at home…she’s in my room, she’s in my clothes…she’s going to turn into me!”

She turned back to the mirror and saw her Mom standing there in full. Her stomach lurched; a deep throbbing sensation pulsated out from her lower abdomen like no period cramp had ever hit her before.

Kendra pressed down hard on her abdomen feeling heat just pulsating off of her body. Beneath her skirt and panties she could feel her skin shifting and moving, refolding and opening. Her clit shifted forward and closer, pulsating, pounding, throbbing away as moisture built up lubricating the changes.

Then the feeling began to ease up. Kendra let out a long breath from pursed lips and then took several deep breaths to steady herself.

As she did, her thighs began to grow. They widened and thickened, coming together at the top beneath the long skirt. Her knees popped and her calves tensed as the changes ran down through them.

“I’m going to be the adult…it’s what I wished for…no more school for me because I’m going to be an adult. I’m standing here in MY store…I’m 39…” as she talked to herself she bent and loosened the laces on her Chuck’s using her feet to kick them off and stepping on her socks, she peeled those off as well.

Kendra felt the sudden coolness of the air and floor on her feet and she lifted up her toes in response. She hiked up her skirt and wiggled her pink painted toes just as she felt an odd itch run over the soles of her feet.

The initial panic and rush of fear at what was happening was now giving way to excitement and fascination "My body has turned into Mom’s body. This is amazing”

She eased her toes back down as they shrunk down smaller turning into her Mom’s toes. Her nails went plain as they changed shape atop her stubbier toes but she was now Natalie from head to toe.

She let out a deep throaty laugh and walked in a circle sashaying her long skirt as she did.

After Natalie had let out a long frustrated sigh after her little rant about wanting to be a kid again, she felt her whole body get cold and a shiver ran up her spine causing her to shake. “Oh…oh what was that?” she asked as she leaned back against the wall. “That was weird” she added as she scooted forward until her legs dangled off the end of the bed.

Another chill ran through her followed by her ears feeling very warm “Did I pinch something putting in my earrings?” she asked as she put her feet to the floor and got up. She walked to the mirror that hung on the back of the door.

Natalie stopped dead in her tracks. Her eyes narrowed and her brow furrowed in confusion in what she was seeing. Her brain kicked into overdrive “Something is very off…what the heck am I seeing? I’m…” she thought before she vocalized a very loud “OH MY GOD!” with her hands flying to her face in shock as her knees bent dropping her down.

Natalie ran her hands through her hair; her very long and very brown hair “AAAAAHHHH!!!!” she screamed out bouncing up and down.

She felt a slight tugging at the corners of her eyes so she leaned in just about as close as she could. Blinking she watched her green eyes darken to brown. Her jaw dropped as the slight age lines at the corners of her eyes smoothed out completely and her eyes began to grow larger and wider as her eyelids lost their double fold and opened wider.

Her lashes and brows thickened as she slowly moved back but she couldn’t bring her jaw back up for nothing.

Her forehead narrowed and smoothed out completely as well as her hairline shifted down. “Oh God…oh my God” she managed to say as her nose shrank down and turned to a pert upturned end and her cheeks rose up higher and rounder.

She quickly recognized the face that was taking shape in the mirror before her. “Kendra…” she whispered as her chin and jaw shifted. Her mouth went numb; her whole face went numb; her whole body went numb “What’s happening to me” she managed to say as her teeth began to grow and shift, sliding into new positions. Kendra’s two front teeth were large and kind of prominent. Natalie pulled her upper lip back and clearly saw her daughter’s teeth.

Her lips plumped, her tongue grew slightly larger as even her ears shrank up smaller making the silver hoops look larger.

Natalie’s neck extended, her skin tightening up as it did. “I’m turning into Kendra” she said a tickle running up her throat “But if…oh shit!” she said realizing that her voice had risen higher. It sounded different inside her head too; higher and more nasal sounding.

In her black tank top, she could easily see her shoulders clearing of her usual freckles as they spread a bit wider. Her upper back twitched, popping out wider.

She felt an odd sensation run over her and she shut her eyes against a wave of dizziness that crashed over her. Natalie shook her head upon opening her eyes noticing things were slightly off, lower. “Did I just grow taller?”

Natalie’s exposed upper arms trimmed, even her forearms shivered as they took on a different shape. Her wrists popped just before she splayed her fingers out. The backs of her hands smoothed as they grew a bit larger. Her fingers smoothed, lengthened and straightened; her nails grew out longer past the ends of her fingers and a light pastel pink polish coated each one in turn.

Natalie felt her whole back twitch and her shoulders hunched forward. One second she was staring at her knees then her shoulders pulled her back up and her back arched and she was looking at the ceiling.

As her arms pulled back, her chest thrust out. Her daughter’s bra had been tight; a bit too tight in all honesty but she didn’t care; wearing it had made her feel more like her. For a moment as her chest thrust it felt impossibly tight, the fabric in the middle strained, then, Natalie’s breasts shrank.

With a quick muscle contraction, the whole size and shape of them contracted as well. Down from her 36C to her daughter’s 34B. The bra fit her perfectly now that her arms relaxed and she was able to regain a normal stature. Her breasts sat higher, they were perkier and showed a youthful defiance of gravity.

“Oh shit…I’m a kid! I’m growing so young…I won’t even be able to drive if I’m actually 15 again” Natalie said looking down.

She pushed her hair back out of her way which had fallen as she dipped her head. She gasped quite loudly as she watched her slight pouch of a stomach flatten out, pulling back totally flat.

Her hands grasped at her belly, slapping at the now form fitting tank top, hitting nothing but firm abdominal muscle.

“But if I’m turning into Kendra here…what’s happening to Kendra down at her store?” she thought, never noticing the wording her mind gave to her.

Natalie’s shorts shifted all across her waist and rear, settling differently on her upper thighs as her body continued slimming down.

Her eyes widened and her hands shot behind her as her ass clenched, firming up and shrinking down dramatically. It sat up high and tight as her hips narrowed and shifted in as well.

Natalie’s stomach muscles compressed and a deep pressure began to build in her lower abdomen, throbbing downward “Oh fuck” she said quietly.

Natalie pressed down, her knees bent, buckling a bit as she realized what was occurring “Oh god, oh god, ohmyfuckinggod!”

Her knees came in together and she bent forward at the waist, she sucked in air through her teeth. Goosebumps broke out over her body and her skin tingled as every nerve went on high alert. She felt her skin shifting, refolding and changing shape rubbing up against her panties. She was super sensitive, like a hair trigger ready to go off as her body tightened up, her clit shifting almost causing her to explode.

But just as fast as it began, it subsided. She began to stand back up. She shivered, clearing her head and taking several deep breaths adjusting to the new reality of her changing body.

Her shorts began to loosen on her thighs as they trimmed and thinned down. Her skin glowed with a youthful vigor, smooth and clear.

The changes moved down her legs. Her knees popped and her calf muscles tightened and rose up higher.

All that was left of her own body was her feet. Natalie was barefoot; her rather flat and wide feet looked out of place at the bottom of her young legs. An itch ran across her soles making her lift up her toes, currently plain, as her arches lifted and her heels healed up.

Natalie’s toes lengthened and straightened much like her fingers had done. The skin healed as her nails shifted and grew larger atop her larger toes. She wiggled them, spreading them apart as the pastel pink nail polish topped her toes as well.

Natalie squealed. She realized it was one more of joy and excitement than anger and fear “I know this isn’t right but God it feels soooooooooooooo right” she said as she walked around her room quickly. She checked her mirror and checked out herself looking down as her hands ran all over her body, a youthful energy building up. “What is Kendra going to say?”

Kendra paced the store “What am I going to do?” she said running her hands through her shorter blondish brown hair. She kept checking the mirror to see if she was changing back somehow. As the minutes passed by, she stubbornly remained looking exactly like her Mom.

“Fine!” she sighed and sat down to put on her socks and shoes, tying them quickly but mentally noting that they were more comfortable to her now.

She hopped on her bike and began to pedal home. It was tougher going home; her breathing labored and her legs ached as she rode home. Once there, she parked it next to her daughter’s bike. “Maybe I shouldn’t have ridden this bike today…maybe that was what triggered this” she thought trying to not dwell on her words; her wish.

Natalie was still in her room when she heard the back door open “Mom?!” she heard call out in a deep and familiar voice to her. “Mom where are you?”

Kendra made her way to the base of the stairs when she heard a door open and footsteps coming her way. Her heart was pounding as she saw a shadow approaching the top of the stairs.

Part of her wanted to faint, part of her wanted to scream, part of her wanted to run up the stairs and hug, part of her refused to move at all. But she couldn’t stop her eyes just going up and down, taking in every detail of a body she knew all too well.

Natalie opened her door and came to the top of the steps. She froze in place upon looking down the stairs. Her jaw dropped, her eyes widened and slowly her hands came up to her face. “Kendra honey I’m so sorry…I was just sitting in your room and a thought just popped into my head and I…I wished that I was you…”

Kendra’s mind played out a record scratch “What? You did what?!”

Natalie stuttered.

“No…I was at the store and a thought popped in MY head and I wished that I was YOU!” Kendra said.

“What? You did what?!” Natalie said coming down three steps before stopping again.

“I just told you…what did you say? Are you saying that we BOTH! Wished that we were each other” Kendra said.

Natalie came the rest of the way down but stopped on the bottom step, her hand still on the bannister, she smiled.

“What?” Kendra asked.

“Well; you look great!” Natalie said blushing.

“Oh!” Kendra backed up a step and blushed “Thank you very much…I feel great. And you look absolutely amazing yourself!”

“Oh…thanks” she looked down and tucked her long brown hair behind her ears. She bounced a bit and came down off the last step.

“You’re taller!” Kendra said “I was getting really used to being taller than you”

“I guess I didn’t want to give that up” Natalie shrugged and smiled.

Both of them examined each other intently. “You look exactly like me…down to every last small detail” Kendra said putting her hand to her Mom’s check to examine a small birthmark.

Natalie returned the favor noting that a small scar along her chin was now no longer hers but on her daughter’s chin.

“I think I am you” Natalie said.

“And I’m you” Kendra replied.

“You are totally pulling off my look” Natalie said.

Kendra swished her long skirt “I know right! I love it…it’s my new style I suppose” she laughed.

“So we both wished for this?” Natalie said “Why?”

“Because I hate school and I love working at the store and you love school and hate the store haha” Kendra said.

“I don’t hate the store…” Natalie said.

“No…you just want what was my job there…dressing the mannequins and picking out clothes to display. I want to do the grunt work, the cleaning, the behind the scenes stuff and…you are so much better at school” Kendra said.

“So…that must mean that you would not want to swap back then right?” Natalie asked sheepishly.

“No! I want to stay like this…don’t you?” Kendra said.

“Well duh! Of course I want to stay like this but…” Natalie said.

“But nothing. It’s settled young lady. We’re staying like this” Kendra said. “You can help me adjust and I will help you adjust. This is the absolute perfect time to do something like this. We’re stuck inside for the next month. It is the ideal situation for us to slowly adjust and adapt to our new situations”

“Well…if you insist…Mom” Natalie said.

Kendra just smiled “That’s my name…”