This choice: Something else happens (Reader’s Choice) • Go Back...Chapter #5Something else happens (Reader’s Choice) by: sdaze   "First though we need to figure out how these things work." Emma said while she held up the earrings.
"I think that's kind of obvious." Steven said as he pointed at his new female body. "They make people swap bodies or at least they did before they stopped working."
Emma shook her head. "No, I think there is more to it than that. You didn't swap eyes and you got her accent. Why didn't that woman you swapped with, accuse you of stealing her body?" Steven shrugged. "I think we need to experiment." She opened the desk drawer and pulled out the notepad she usually carried when making her rounds. "I'll take notes." She looked over at Liz. "We'll need another person to swap with."
Liz leaned over towards the PA intercom. "Who did you have in mind Emma?" She asked. Emma smiled.
"Actually I was thinking of you, luv."
"Me?" Liz asked somewhat surprised. "What if I get stuck in Steven's body? What will Eric think when I tell him?" She was worried about her husband's reaction. Emma took another look at Steven's body.
"Oh I don't think he'd complain." She turned back to Liz. "Do you?" Liz looked at Steven herself.
"Well the boobs are a bit smaller but I don't think he'd have a problem with anything else on that body." She winked at Emma.
Steven stood up. "Who says I want to be in Liz's body?" He asked Emma. Before Emma could respond Liz butted in.
"What's wrong with my body? You'd still be younger than you were as a man." She poked one of his breasts with her finger. "Just remember, I've got three years on you sunshine." Steven scowled at her silently.
"Good," Said Emma whilst clasping her hands, "Now we've got that sorted out. Lets see if we can reproduce what happened originally." She unclasped her hands and handed an earring to Steven. "Put that on." Steven put it in his ear. She walked over to Liz who was taking her own earring out. "Okay Liz. You know what to do."
She handed Liz the earring. Liz was about to put it on when Emma stopped her. "Wait a second till I get my notepad." She leaned over to grab it.
"Hurry up Emma, for some reason, I really, really want to put this on." Liz was having to use all her willpower to stop herself.
"Hmm, just like Steven. Okay luv stop resisting." She started scribbling down notes. Liz put the earring on and everything in the office went a little fuzzy for a few seconds.
Liz looked at her hand and saw the other earring but it wasn't actually her hand. It was the hand of the young woman Steven had swapped with.
"Liz why did you just give Steven the earring?" Emma asked while leaning over her pad.
"I didn't, he did. We've swapped." Liz said with a slight Polish accent. She looked at Steven again. "And he's put his glasses on my head."
Emma and Steven in Liz's body, looked at Liz somewhat confused.
"That doesn't make sense." Emma said looking at both of them. "You are still in your own body Liz. Steven is in the body he got earlier."
"Yeah, it didn't work. I'm still stuck as this woman with these huge tits." Steven said looking down at Liz's large breasts while grabbing them.
Liz was getting frustrated. "Those are my tits, I mean breasts." Emma shook her head.
"Liz, luv we've worked together for years, I know what you look like." Liz was about to tell her Emma she was wrong again when she worked out what had happened.
"Your memories have changed." Liz told them. They both looked at her sceptically. "When Steven swapped at the car boot sale. That woman must have had her memories changed so she though Steven's body was her own. That's why she didn't accuse him of stealing her body." Emma scratched her head.
"Which would mean, the person who puts the earring on second remembers but the first person doesn't." Emma said thinking it out. She leaned over and noted the discovery down.
"But that doesn't make sense either." Steven said as he put his hand on his hip.
"Why not?" Asked Liz in the young sexy body.
"If the earrings change our memories, how come you didn't recognise me when I turned up in this body," he thought about it for a few seconds then pointed at Liz, "that body I mean. This is bloody confusing."
"You're telling me, I'm the only one that remembers it right." Liz said as she sat her body back on the desk. She kept her legs together unlike Steven.
"I see what err, Steven is saying. Even though I find it hard to believe, that body was a stranger to us." Emma said.
"I see another problem." Liz said.
"What's that?" Emma asked.
"Our ages. If people's memories change, then I imagine the records will too and I'll still be thirty eight. It won't make any difference to the average age of the workers in the shop."
"I thought you were about twenty five?" Steven asked Liz, convinced her current body was her original.
"Oh the age goes with the body. That does help then." Liz said. She turned to Emma. "You better write that down Emma."
Emma wrote that down. "So how old are you Steven?" She asked.
"I'm forty one. I don't know how old this body is, probably about the same, maybe a bit older." He said as he examined the back of his hands.
"Cheeky bugger, I just told you it's thirty eight because that's what I was before we swapped." An annoyed Liz told him as she stood back up again.
Emma had the top of the pen in her mouth as she thought about it. "Again Steven should think he's thirty eight but he still remembers being forty one. There must be something else we're missing." They all thought about it silently.
"I've got it!" Liz practically shouted. She put both earrings on. Everything seemed to go fuzzy again. "I remember Steven said he put the earrings on to try and change back. Did it work?"
"You've got my body now. We must have swapped again." He thought about it for a second moving his eyes from side to side. "No we haven't, have we?" Liz shook her head.
"You are just remembering the swap properly now." Liz said.
"So who is who?" A confused Emma asked.
"I'm Liz." Liz said from the young body. "Your memories aren't affected any more. I've swapped with Steven and you remember our original bodies."
"Yes, Steven has your body. Okay so that's what happens when the second person puts on the earrings, so what happens when the first person puts them on?" Liz took off the earrings and handed them to Steven. He put them in his ears.
"Has anything happened?" Steven asked.
"Not that I can tell." Emma said.
"Me neither." Liz confirmed.
"Typical." Steven said as he removed them. "They never seem to do anything when I wear them."
"Hang on." Liz told him as she moved her sexy body towards him. "We've cleared out everyone's false memories, so maybe it does something else if the first person wears them before the second."
Emma nodded. "You'll have to swap back to find out."
"If we can." Steven said somewhat dejectedly. He handed Liz an earring. She put it in her ear. "Well here's hoping." Steven said as he put on the earring. Everything went fuzzy. Steven found the earring in his hand. He was back in his young sexy female twenty five year old body again. His glasses were back on his nose. After the previous swap he knew he was the person with the correct memories. He turned to Emma. "Let me guess. You think we haven't swapped?"
"Liz?" Emma asked. Steven shook his head. "Steven. That makes sense you were swapped before but now you must be back in your original bodies even if I remember that body as being Liz's"
"Okay." Steven said. "Liz was the first person to put on the earring, so she needs to put them on." He gave them to her and she put them on. Everything went fuzzy again.
"It just did what it did the last time." I remember I'm back in my original body.
"You are not." Emma told her. "As far as I remember that is Steven's body."
"Okay. It only affects me." Said Liz as she handed the earrings back to Steven. "Put them back on." Steven nodded. He put them back on and once again everything went a little fuzzy.
"Right, so you are back in your original bodies?" Emma asked. Both Liz and Steven nodded.
Steven said "I can't believe I'm thinking of this as my original body. I was a man. It seems like such a distant memory."
"Oh don't be so melodramatic Steven." Liz told him as she rubbed his shoulder. "You're a pioneer. The first of many people who'll be getting swapped around here shortly."
Emma finished writing her notes. "I think I've got it all worked out. If one person each puts on an earring, they swap bodies mostly. The eyes stay with the mind they belong to. The first person to put on the earring and everyone else thinks there hasn't been a swap and their memories are adjusted. The first person gives their earring to the second person but doesn't remember doing it. The body's age seems to go with the body. The mind seems to think it is the age of the body. That could get weird if there is a big age difference."
"It's going to help us massively with the staffing issue though." Liz interjected. Emma nodded.
"Only the second person is unaffected by the change in memory. If the first person puts on both earrings they are the only person made aware of the swap. If the second person puts on both then everyone becomes aware. I think that's about it."
"Now what?" Steven asked Liz.
"Now, you are going to get changed into a company uniform. Don't think swapping bodies is going to allow you to get away with skiving off work."
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