Character Reference:
Core friends:
Morgan - 21, started college late. Overweight, dark brown hair and brown eyes. White, about 6 feet tall. Gamer/nerdy type.
Caleb - 18, tall and blond. Skinny, and has a boyish sense of style. Baseball-tees and college sweatshirts. Nerdy. White.
Alan - 18 Sporty, athletic. Average height and weight. Prefers athletic or "athleisure" clothes. White with dark hair.
Victor - 19 Latino, average height, athletic and into rap music.
Non-core friends:
Seth - short, 5'4'' with acne. 18. Nerdy, scrawny, and known to be weird.
Jakob - Originally from an Eastern European country, but adopted to America. Has slight accent. Pale white, dark hair, icy blue eyes. Weird and prefers dark clothing.
Andrew - Nerdy kid, blond, film buff, sarcastic and prideful. White
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At the dining hall, Morgan and Caleb seemed to be a bit more comfortable in their new skins, but only marginally so. Morgan at least had come to the realization that even if someone were to look at him, there's no reason they'd think he was a body-swap victim. At most, all they'd see is a kid who normally presented as a grungy nerdy guy suddenly looking a bit more put together and clean.
Caleb was still awkward, but when the two sat down for breakfast they were surprised to be joined by their friends, Victor and Alan. The two were grinning ear to ear as they set their plates of food down.
"So... is that you in there, Morgan?" Alan jested, holding back a snort. Caleb flashed Morgan a look.
"Yes... what's so funny?" Morgan asked.
"It's just... why would you two agree to swap with them and not just with each other?!" Victor laughed, Alan's handsome face contorting to a familiar crinkle-eyed laugh Victor usually did.
"Well, we didn't really-" Caleb began, but Morgan cut him off.
"We thought it would be different!" Morgan barked, a bit too loud. Some other students nearby looked around, but most were too tired to really care. "Like, woah look how much skinnier I am, right?"
Victor and Alan seemed to accept that answer. Caleb looked annoyed, but didn't push to end their charade.
"Victor here could use some legwork, he's focusing too much on arms I think." Alan said from his latino friends body. He flexed his arms, but kicked his legs like a toddler.
"That's what you're in there for, dude. You gotta set me up and get me on a regimen." Victor said, a mouthful of eggs obscuring his words a bit.
"Hey, by the way... how long do y'all wanna stay switched? I was thinking we should go back to normal for classes, but I'd almost like to see what it's like to be an ECON major." Alan said.
"I'd be down to take some of your classes, my guy." Victor responded positively.
"I don't know. Won't we have to wait for Seth and Andrew? I think they wanted to take this for a while?" Morgan said, trying to be coy about the threat.
"I'd certainly love to get back to being me..." Caleb muttered.
"What about bringing others into this? Isn't family weekend coming up?" Victor asked.
"Oh, shit! That's right!" Alan said, suddenly excited. "My little brothers coming up. What if we gave our siblings some chance to see what college can really be like... as us!"
"Don't you think it's better to keep this whole thing contained?" Morgan asked his jubilant friends. "Like, this is some weird almost magic shit. And unless Seth agrees to it, there's really no way we can do it for ourselves..."
"Aw, we'll get him on board." Alan assured.
"Yeah!" Victor chimed in.
"Um... by the way..." Caleb piped up. "Have y'all seen Seth or Andrew? Like, do you happen to know what they might be doing with our bodies?"
"Oh man, I think they went to Morgan's room to spend the night. You know Jakob wanted to hear about what happened? I guess Seth was going to bring him into our little group but he was busy or something." Victor explained.
"Yeah, Jakob is cool and all, but I'd rather not have his body. We got the best deal, I think." Alan said, pretty much looking right at his own body.
"Totally bro, honestly I just feel the same but like... white." Victor explained. "How about y'all?"
Morgan cut in before Caleb could mope. "I actually have been enjoying some of this. Being skinny feels so weird, especially when the change is so sudden. Like, if I had lost weight the normal way, I'd be used to it. But suddenly be skinny is a mind-fuck!"
"I bet. Man, we should maybe get some really different folks involved. What about some girls?" Victor pondered.
"Umm... do you really want to have a vagina?" Caleb asked, pointedly.
"Are you saying it's emasculating?" Alan asked. "Because I think having some other guys whole entire junk and using it to pee is like... well, I don't even know."
"You think it's gay or something to use someone elses penis while in their body?" Morgan asked, a bit incredulous.
"I don't mean it in an offensive way!" Alan tried to quickly put out the fire.
"No, don't worry. I just think it's not 'gay' or 'emasculating' to use the equipment that comes standard with the body. It might feel different to be a woman in a way that we can't comprehend right now, but I think I'd rather use plumbing I'm used to, at least in the general ballpark, than something entirely foreign to me." Morgan ranted.
"I see your point." Alan conceded, a bit defeated.
"Yeah, I agree." Caleb added. "I'd rather be swapped with a nerd than with a woman. I've seen too many bad body swap movies to like what they experience. And besides, as a guy at least I can still try and have sex with a woman with the tool I'm used to. And honestly I wonder what an orgasm is like for Andrew..."
Victor and Alan looked at each other knowingly.
"Wait..." Caleb said, staring at them.
"You didn't!" Morgan yelped.
"We agreed! I told him it was ok, and he said the same. We were curious, and we got horny like normal right before bed!" Victor explained. The table erupted in laughter, and for the first time Morgan and Caleb felt a bit better. They were joking with the guys like any other weekend.
After breakfast ended, they even went back to Alan's room to play some video games.