Paul closed the door to his dorm room and sat down on the couch in the common area to think about what had just happened. He had been on his way back from class when he saw an old woman spill her groceries in the middle of a crosswalk. Being a decent enough guy, Paul had helped her to gather her fallen groceries and finish crossing the street. He would have felt like an asshole if he didn't.
As a reward, the woman said she had given him the power to swap anything with anyone just by thinking about it. Paul had at first thought she was just a strange woman, but as he walked back to his residence hall he started wondering if he had simply misheard her or just imagined the whole thing. He had been smoking pot with some of his buddies earlier, after all. However, by the time he had reached his building, Paul was beginning to think he should test to see if he actually had been given this power ... just to be sure.
Paul focused on the nearest people, who happened to be the proctor for the building, an average looking guy with a neatly trimmed beard and short hair, and a cute redheaded girl named Kelly who lived in the room across the hall from Paul's, and tried making a swap. Paul's eyes practically bulged out of his skull when Kelly's hair was pulled into her scalp, darkening and taking on the proctor's short hairstyle. The proctor's hair, meanwhile, grew out and lightened, forming into Kelly's long and wavy red hair.
"No way, man," Paul mumbled under his breath as he undid the swap. He couldn't believe what had just happened. And so, moments later, he was sitting on his couch trying to figure out what to do next.
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