Tommy entered Sally’s room and shut the door. What had just happened? He/She was now Sally. How? She put her hands to her chest and felt two soft mounds apparently encased in a bra. This was real! She needed to look at herself.
There were two partially unpacked suitcases on Sally’s bed. Tom surveyed the contents. An item ‘She’ noticed immediately was a small hand mirror.
Tommy picked up the mirror and gazed at ‘her’ reflection. It was real! She had Sally’s face! How did it happen? She tried to recall the events leading up to the body swap.
Then revelation hit her! It had to be the strange mirror in the other room! She remembered now momentarily glimpsing Sally in that mirror, before apparently blacking out and waking body swapped! Perhaps all she had to do was look at her own body once ore in the mirror and they would swap back?
Tom put the hand mirror back down on Sally’s bed, before hurrying back down the hallway, to the room she had claimed when she was ‘Tom’. The door was open and she could hear her mother talking inside.
Tom burst into the room, not caring that she might be interrupting a conversation between her Mom and the now male Sally. “It’s the mirror!” She called out in a shrill half shout.
Linda turned to see who had barged into the room and interrupted her conversation with Tom. She glared at Sally. “I told you to go to your own room! You are supposed to be making yourself presentable young lady!”
Tom noticed a smirk on what had previously been her own face before the real Sally said “What do you want now Sally?” Emphasising the name.
“It’s that mirror Mom! That’s what made me and Sally swap bodies!” Tom pointed to the old mirror only to see it was covered over with a sheet.
Linda rolled her eyes, showing her exasperation. “I was having a conversation with your brother which you have rudely interrupted. Now go to your own room at once and I don’t want to see you again until you are dressed to go out to dinner! This is your last warning!”
Tom recognised his mother was getting angry and that she was only going to make the situation worse, but she was desperate to get her own body back. She decided to take a risk. She went across the room and pulled on the sheet covering the mirror. Her aim was to remove the sheet but unfortunately it caught on the framing and the mirror began to topple. Tom let out a girlie shriek as the mirror fell forward….