The ring began to glow, in it's gem an answer to Ethan's question.
“You must live with this body for one year.”
“One year!” Ethan gasped and in his head he heard a voice.
“YES ETHAN SUMMERS! YOU MUST LIVE...” he then heard a sigh. “So look kid, you're the first person to put me on for like... what year is it?”
“Uh... 2023.” Ethan awkwardly answered the voice, looking around the room for the source.
“Hey kid, on your hand.” Ethan looked at the ring, the gem now had a eye peering through it. “That's better, so you're the first person to put me on in close to a hundred years. I usually make much harsher goals, since usually everyone who's used me before did it for selfish reasons, but you... you just put me on out of nowhere and now your in the body of your own mom.”
“But a year.” Ethan groaned.
“Yeah, it's the rules, the wizard that made me set them down, then gave them to a king to screw him up. Look, I need to explain the rules...” Ethan went to pull the ring off of his finger, “WOAH, WOAH DON'T DO THAT!”
“Why not? I put you on, maybe if I take you off...”
“It doesn't work like that! If you take me off, weird stuff can happen, at least you would be stuck in this body permanently. At worst...”
“At worst?”
“At worst your body could vanish, leaving you trapped in here as the original owner took control, leaving you just a passenger behind her eyes.” Ethan went to say something, but the ring continued. “I know, you're in the body of your mom, and it's a year, that's the least amount of time I can give you. At the end of that year of time, you'll get three choices, get your body back and return this one, keep this one and let the original owner have a copy back, or return this body to swap for another.” Ethan sat down on his bed, “That last one would see your mom get this body back, and let you try on another body for a year more while they wore yours.”
“But what am I going to do, I'm a woman now.”
“Yeah about that, see no one is going to see you any differently, in their sight your still you, even if you went topless with this body, no one would think it's indecent because to them, your a man. Further than than, this body will act as a man's, save for some of the shaving being different, you're not gonna have periods or have to deal with any of that womanly stuff, unless you keep it, then it's good luck kid.”
“So, I, Ethan, am still Ethan to everyone else, but to myself, I'm in my mom's body? And I don't have to do lady stuff with it?”
“Now your getting it kid. Oh, and anything that you do to this body will transfer back with it, so if you work out and put on some muscle, that's going back to her when you're done, and the habits you form, how many days you work out an so on, will be part of her new habits.”
Ethan got up and looked in the mirror, “She did say that she was trying to loose weight recently, I could do that for her.”
“See I knew you were a good kid, now one last thing. I, the ring, can't be lost, I'll always be right here on your hand, but no one will be able to see me but you. The only way I can be lost is if you pull me off and put me somewhere, again, don't do that, bad things will happen. Now....” The voice cleared it's unseen throat. “DO WHAT YOU WILL ETHAN SUMMERS, IN ONE YEARS TIME I SHALL SPEAK WITH YOU AGAIN!” The ring's light faded and Ethan stood there looking at his mother in his reflection.
“I can make this work. Wait, that means.... I'm going to have to see mom naked.” He shuddered. “No, Ethan, this is your body for a bit, she won't know it, your a man, you can deal with it, she's just a woman.” He stared at himself, “No... she's my mom, I'm my mom.” Seeing his reflection look defeated he sighed. “Man, this is going to be tough.