After having diapered Bobby, who was far fussier than normal, from Colin's emerging memories of taking care of his... son, he found himself covered in baby powder from Bobby having kicked over the nearly full bottle. Good thing he'd been getting ready for a shower, he thought to himself as he set Bobby down in his crib, only for the infant to wail the moment he had.
"Hush, Bobby, hush," soothed Colin, immediately picking Bobby back up and holding his son close to his chest and bouncing him gently. This action slowly seemed to calm the screaming babe until Bobby seemed to have tired himself out and Colin could lay his son back down in the crib, where Bobby curled himself up into a fetal position and moved one of his thumbs into his mouth, which Colin replaced with a pacifier as soon as he found one that was clean.
With Bobby put down for a nap, Colin felt he finally could take the shower he'd been denied. After all the baby powder, and grime had been washed from him, Colin dressed himself and found his clothes a little on the tight side--especially around the shoulders. Damn it, he thought he'd been balancing out his workouts to avoid having to buy a brand new wardrobe. After that he braved the living room where Bobby had made a mess of things and cleaned it up. By the time he was done with that, he heard Amanda's car engine pull in and turn off.
Amanda entered the house calling for Colin, who happily swept her up off her feet and kissed her.
"Colin! Any more and we'll be giving Bobby a sibling!"
"Would that be so terrible?"
"While I appreciate your looking after Bobby while you're looking for work, eventually you'll have to apply for something--and the cost for childcare is highway robbery these days for one kid--let alone two," said Amanda sensibly.
"Maybe I'll get a job that lets me work from home--that way we don't have to worry about how much child care costs," he offered, not thinking about what that might mean for taking care of two children so close in age, but more focused on talking his wife into throwing caution to the wind and just doing it.
"One can dream--speaking of jobs, have your heard back from any today?"
"Phone didn't ring, but let me double check," said Colin as he left to retrieve his phone from the living room. He picked it up and entered his password which brought up a screen he'd never seen before once the phone had opened--some sort of app was open and had a notification he needed to check.
Colin opened the app's notification to find it took him to a "Daily Wish Log" which listed just one thing that confused Colin the moment he read it: "I wish that I didn't have to look after my son Colin." Which was listed with "Wish granted by exchanging ages between subject Robert and subject Colin, reality altered to match." Switching ages? Reality altered? Wish granted? What was this thing saying? Well, if this was a wishing app, perhaps making a wish might clear things up for him.
Colin quickly and without much thought typed in: "I wish I understood what the first wish did." A counter with a generic thank you popped up and Colin figured it was part of the "show" of the app to really sell it was a wish granting application instead of an excuse for the Tech companies to mine your personal data. However instead of an ad popping up like Colin had expected a bright white light shined from his phone right into his eyes, blinding him temporarily as suddenly his head ached and images appeared in his mind's eye. Images which his mind quickly began to comprehend as memories--actual memories from a little over an hour ago when he'd been the ten month year old baby and Bobby... Bobby had been his Dad. How they'd transformed as mirror images one one another--him growing older and his Dad growing younger until reality had reset and Colin had become the father and Bobby his son--which meant that in reality Amanda his wife was actually his.
Colin fought to hold back the vomit which threatened to spew form from his mouth with that realization. Thank god all he'd done was kiss her. After forcibly swallowing back down the threatening puke, Colin's mind began to wonder why had his father not wanted to take care of him? His reality altered mind here seemed to answer the question as the new reality shared his own frustrations with fussy Bobby interrupting his job search--he must have been just as much of a pain, and he'd been repaid in karma by the wish app simply switching their ages so that Colin would be the one looking after Bobby and Bobby wouldn't have to look after anybody.
Colin wondered-- if this app really had aged him up and given him memories as if he had really lived to his thirties instead of really having been born a few months ago... what else could it do?