"I wish you were me and i was you", she said self-righteously, a glint in her eye as she looked at you.
"What?" you shouted, shocked by your mother's request, "you can't wish that!"
"Sure i can, maybe spending the day as me will give you some respect for your elders."
"No way!", you cried lunging for the packet in your mother's hand, hoping to avert the wish, unfortunately you were too late and you noticed your hand changing as you reached out with it; It was becoming thinner and less hairier and your short half chewed fingernails had started to grow longer. "Oh crap", you yelped pulling your hand back to examine it, before looking up and noticing that your mother was changing too, her body becoming noticeably taller and slightly broader. Your mom simply smiled in amazement as she watched the transformation, her now long brown hair gradually retracting into her scalp, her chest disappearing underneath her pink cardigan and her tight jeans seemingly growing even tighter as she continued expanding upwards.
Unlike your mother however, you weren't taking it so well and stood there in completely horrified as your own clothes began to loosen in places and tighten in others. You could feel yourself getting smaller, shrinking from your own 5' 11" inches down to your mother's 5' 4". Feeling your hair snaking it's way down your head towards your shoulders you grabbed at it in shock then almost squealed out loud as you noticed two large lumps swelling out from your chest. "This isn't happening", you told yourself as you felt your jeans, that were currently bunched up round your ankles, suddenly begin to tighten considerably around your waist and hips, so much so that the button at the top flew off with a loud pop, hitting off the adjacent wall and rolling to the floor.
After only a couple of minutes, but what seemed like much longer, the transformation was complete and you were left gazing down at a form that was definitely not your own.
"Well, that seemed to work", you heard your own voice say cheerfully. You looked up and sure enough where once had stood your mother was instead you, grinning like a Cheshire cat and looking positively ridiculous in a far too tight pink cardigan, jeans that stopped half way up his calves and a pair of strappy white sandals that were virtually hanging off his feet.
"This isn't funny, change me back", you whined, getting a shock when you heard your mother's voice replacing your own.
"I'm afraid not mister," your mother said sternly, her hands on her hip, "you've spent too long lounging around this house, living the life of Riley and showing little or no respect for all the things me and your father do for you, thanks to these wonderful magic sweets i think it's about time you learned a little lesson."
"Lesson? What lesson?"
"You're going to spend the rest of the day as me and vice-versa, then we'll see if you have a new appreciation for your elders."
"What? No way, you can't do that", you protested, horrified at the very idea of being your mother much less spending the day as her. "Give me back my sweets!"
"Uh-uh Edward, not until the end of the day," she responded calmly, waving a finger. It was quite a surreal sight seeing your own body acting all motherly but somehow you got the impression she wasn't going to relent.
Letting out a defeated sigh you let your hands drop down by your sides as your mother stood there smiling smugly to herself. "Now come on upstairs", she finally said, looking at her now ill-fitting clothes, "we'd better get changed before anyone sees us."
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