Body Improvements - The rarely seen Body Swap episode of Home
Improvement
By Caleb Jones & Eric ___
Chapter One - More Power
Invention week on Tool Time was just a few weeks away and Tim had built
one of his wacky high-powered inventions from a used C.A.T. Scan machine
and other miscellaneous used equipment he picked at a sale. Tim was hoping
to develop a super C.A.T. Scan which could totally analyze the human body
even on an atomic level and pinpoint any problems to be corrected. The fact
that he was totally unqualified to develop such a product did not phase him at
all. They didn't call him the Toolman for nothing!
It was time for the latest show to begin taping and he lovingly and
reluctantly put the machine back into the storeroom behind the set. The show
went off without a hitch ... except for the plate glass window Tim walked
through and the power stapler he had souped up which had nailed a objecting
Al to the wall. The complaints grew louder when Tim called Al a sissy. As
usual, though, the audience loved it all and the show was the customary hit
with everyone except the insurance company. Tim would be very shocked if
he discovered that the climbing ratings that made him grunt with manly
pressure were the direct result of the morbid curiosity of people wondering
what ghastly accidents would befall Tim next!
As the stagehands took down the non-permanent parts of the set and
cleaned up for the next day, Tim went into the storeroom to make an
adjustment he had thought of while a muttering Al plucked the staples and
glass from his clothes. A bit later, Tim was almost finished when he dropped
a wrench and it accidentally shorted out the machine.
A bolt of energy flared out, barely missing the startled Toolman and
passing through the wall.
Tim's heart started beating again after the very close call. No telling what
that energy burst could have done to him but it would probably be bad! This
was one time his clumsiness didn't wind up hurting him or anyone else. For
the 1313 time Tim resolved to be more careful. But hey, was that ever a really
great bolt of energy! He grunted with manly pride and his mighty muscles
swelled.
He locked the door and went home to tell his wife all about his brilliance
and to lift a few cool ones.
Heidi and Al were running through a little prank they planned to play on
Tim on the next show, switching a slippery release coating for instant glue.
Al's bearded face was grinning - he was going to get back at Tim or die
trying, and the beautiful youthful Heidi was giggling. They finished and were
about to leave when a strange energy pulse came out of the wall and hit them
both in the head. As they staggered outside to their cars the ringing in their
ears increased until they thought it would drive them right out of their heads.
As though they rehearsed it, both placed their hands to their ears to block out
the sound, but it did no good. They both were glad they lived close by the
studio. It was strange, Heidi thought, it was almost as if she was being
driven out of her head. She stumbled into the house and her husband Scott
greeted his gorgeous young wife with a kiss and she collapsed in his arms,
desperately putting her lovely petite hands over her ears.
Her last words before she fainted were "What is that awful noise!"
Al was not so fortunate -- he drove his car right through the garage door
as he tried to park his car. The neighbors found him unconscious with blood
streaming from his head into his beard. Very concerned, they immediately
called for an ambulance.
Chapter Two - Al has a wonderful dream he never wants to wake up from...
The doctors at the Tim Taylor Emergency Room at Memorial Hospital were
used to Al being around the hospital, but he usually was escorting Tim with
an emergency injury from the set. Today Al was the patient, however. He
had been unconscious since crashing his automobile and the medical staff
was worried. If he stayed unconscious through the night he could lapse into a
coma. They called Al's mother to come down and help Al by talking to him.
They had tried to call Tim but he had been "fixing" his phone last week and
the Taylor family hadn't realized that the ringer on the phone had accidentally
been disabled during the operation. They were all too aware of the prank
callers ringing the phone and then hanging up at all times of the night, not
realizing it was just another 'benefit' of Tim's handiwork.
When Al woke up, he was confused by his surroundings. He was in a
strange bedroom. It was more feminine than he was used to, though he
found it rather pleasant to the eye. There was a nice aroma surrounding him
and he realized it was perfume. Had he somehow gotten lucky and forgotten
it? He remembered the crash and reached one hand up to his forehead. It felt
fine. He seemed to have a bit more hair than he remembered. He made a
mental note to get a haircut. And he also noted a need to cut his fingernails.
As he had checked his head for injuries, his nails could touch his skin
without the rest of his fingers touching himself. How long had it been since
he clipped them, anyway?
Al was about to take a look at his ragged fingernails when he heard someone
approaching the bedroom. He wondered what the woman he had gotten lucky
with looked like. He was hoping for a tall blonde like Sharon Stone. A tall
blonde walked through the door all right, but he bore no resemblance to
Sharon. He was Heidi's husband. She had brought him around the set a few
times after the wedding. He seemed like a nice guy but not the kind of guy
either Al or Tim would hang around with. It figured that a good looking
woman like Heidi would marry someone equally good looking. He never
really had a chance with her, Al thought with some regret. If the truth be
told, he had been carrying a torch for Heidi since she had joined the show
four years ago. He could never vocalize the words but he would have loved
to get in her pants. But she had married this guy and had a baby and she was
apparently quite happy, so Al considered himself lucky to just be her friend.
He was about to ask her husband where Heidi was when he set the tray of
food down. Al watched with surprised helplessness as Scott leaned over and
kissed Al full on the lips. He would have belted the guy but his punching
hand was still under the sheets and he was stunned to realize that he was
enjoying the kiss. It made his nipples tingle. "What the hell is going on?" Al
thought loudly inside his own head. Why is Heidi's husband kissing me
better than any girl has ever done ... and why am I feeling so excited in my
nipples? For that matter why are my nipples feeling anything at all? They had
never sent any feeling like that before. The man's hands helped provide a
vital clue as they ran up and down the blanket on his chest and wrapped
themselves around two large fleshy mounds on Al's chest. Al realized hands
were squeezing his...tits. He desperately needed to clear his head. But it was
pretty hard to clear your head with a sensory overload coming in from a body
that you didn't recognize anymore. Then Scott whispered in his ear. "Heidi, I
love you!"
"What???" Al managed to squeak out in response. It wasn't his voice. He
had heard it thousands of times, though. He was speaking with Heidi's
voice! Desperately he looked down and saw a lovely curvaceous form under
the sheets, which the guy drew back, exposing two impossible breasts and
sending the sensual mounds of flesh on his chest moving like Jell-O. They
certainly looked real. This had to be a dream! What else could it be? If it were
an elaborate practical joke it was beyond anything he had ever heard of...He
stared in wonder as rather large nipples swelled up and poked out from the
fleshy mounds. No, It had to be a dream. Al thought a little resentfully that if
he had an accident induced dream why couldn't he have been fucking Heidi
instead of being inside Heidi's body?
"You up to a little nooky?" asked the great looking guy. His hands expertly
manipulated the sensitive tips of Al's new chest and one hand snuck under
the sheet. Al Borland felt something no man had felt before and desperately
wanted some more of it.
"Sure!" said Al recklessly, hearing Heidi's voice leave his lips. He felt so
giddy and so good - why not lay back and enjoy this fantastic dream. His
body was already moving like it was on auto-pilot anyway.
Chapter Three - Heidi hears the horrid truth from her own two lips...
Heidi heard a strange woman's voice murmuring a mixture of reproaches
and endearments at her. Then the same voice asked sharply: "You told me
that my son was coming out of his coma, doctor!"
"He is!" the doctor said impatiently. He'd seen quite enough of this crabby
old obese woman in the last few days. While they were arguing, Heidi
opened her eyes and blinked them in the bright sunlight. Hovering above her
like a moon was the face of Al's mother - god, was she ever fat! I seem to be
in a hospital room, but where's my Scott and why is Mrs. Borland here
visiting me?
Heidi felt just awful, aches and pains all over - and somehow so much
heavier. What a headache! She felt her face itch and gasped when she
scratched it - she felt a full grown beard. On HER chin!!! She raised her
hand...but it wasn't her arm and hand! It looked so awful... so hairy and fat!
She croaked out her distress and Al's mother came flying over, plopping
herself down on the bed. Heidi felt the bed groan under the weight and felt
like she was going to fly up and go crashing through the ceiling. Heidi
clutched the sides of the bed as it shivered. The doctor tried to drag Mrs.
Borland out as Heidi cheered silently.
"I've warned you before. You can't sit down on sick people's beds like that
- you put your son's roommate in intensive care yesterday." He called for
help to shift the massive woman who refused to budge.
"Son?" Heidi thought. I'm no son to anyone! Al must have gotten sick as
well. She tried to introduce herself to the doctor and straighten out this
confusion. She said "I'm Heidi..." but all that was heard over the commotion
was 'Heidi...'
"Oh, that nice lovely girl from your show. She's been by every day to see
how you're doing. Too bad she's married." Al's mom was talking
nonsense.
Seeing the confusion on the patient's face, the doctor and four husky
orderlies forced the bulky woman out of the room. Heidi tried to get out of
bed but she was too weak. She felt herself to see what was feeling so wrong
about her body. For a moment, she had thought she had a beard...her hands
told her the truth. She did! She somehow now had a big barreled chest and
her tits were gone - her lovely, lovely tits! She stifled a scream - her hands
also found out that she had a man's dick. Could Al's mother be right? Was
she now, in some crazy way, stuck in Al Borland's body? "AM I GOING
MAD?" she gasped - she even sounded like Al. She collapsed back on the
pillow weeping. The door to her room opened and her true self walked in as
perky and as beautiful as ever.
The mouth Heidi was using dropped. She was indeed mad. Her body
walked over to her and sat in the same seat Al's mom had occupied, crossing
nylon-clad legs as if she were still inside. The lovely eyes of her visitor stared
back at her with a strange look in her eyes.
"Have you said anything?" this impostor asked her.
"No, "
The beautiful girl nodded her head. "Good! They would just think you're
crazy and lock you up! "
"You're in my body! Are you Al?"
Her former face grinned at her. "Sure am, Heidi! I don't know how I ended
up in your body and you in mine though - do you?"
"No, unless it was something Tim did!"
"I don't think we can blame this on him for once." Al said to her in his now
lilting voice. " I had a headache and the last thing I remember is heading for
my garage - that's where you were found in my body."
"I went home right after the show and I had this horrible headache!"
"Funny I had one, too! Like I was being driven right out of my skull."
Heidi got excited. "Hey that's just what mine was like! Al, why didn't you
just tell people you weren't me?"
"Because people would have thought I was crazy! You've been in a coma for
six days. For a while they weren't sure if you were going to make it or not -
so I just kept my mouth shut and -ahem- ...carried on."
Heidi looked at 'her' suspiciously. "What do you mean by... carried on?"
The lovely face Al showed to the world flushed a little with the thought of
how he had carried on with Scott. Sex with Heidi's hubby had been great!
Better than great even. It had been the best sex of his life. To cover up, he
looked at the slim watch on Heidi's slim wrist. "Gosh, look at the time! I've
got to get my daughter from day care and prepare Scott's supper! He gets
crabby if he's kept waiting." The lithe young body sprang out of the chair,
her bosoms jostling as she kissed the man in bed on the cheek and headed out
the door.
"What do you mean 'your' daughter, and exactly what else are you doing
with my husband besides cooking him dinner, Al...???"
Al didn't stop - "We'll talk more when you get out of the hospital...Al."
Then the vision of a sexy female in a miniskirt was gone with a flash of long
and lovely legs and a closing door. Only the sweet smell of her perfume
remained behind.
Heidi sniffled - I sure got short changed in this exchange, she thought. I'll
get Al for this! What else can go wrong? Al is prancing around as me, living
my life in my body while I'm in the hospital in his fat middle-aged body. I
can't say anything to stop him because people will think I am a crazy man and
you can bet Al will keep his - my mouth shut! Can this get any worse?
Tim "the Toolman" Taylor walked into the room.
Chapter Four -- Tim visits Al. Or does he?
Tim came in, his homely face framed in smiles. He punched the patient hard
on the upper arm in a manly salute and Heidi looked resentfully at him. "So
glad you made it little - I mean big buddy! Hey I saw them dragging your
mother out of here. What happened - did she get on an elevator and exceed
the maximum weight allowance?" As usual, he grinned and chuckled at his
own joke. "For once you can't blame me for her being upset or you being
hurt!" Actually Tim was a little uneasy, remembering that flash of energy
before Al drove off, but he kept his mouth shut. Heidi said they both had
been fine when he left work that day. It had to be a coincidence. "I just saw
Heidi leave, too -- man, did she ever look terrific in that miniskirt!" Tim went
into his patented grunting sounds. Heidi knew Tim was devoted to his wife
and just meant it as a compliment, but the reminder that she no longer was
pretty and was now Al brought tears to Al's eyes.
Tim saw the person he thought of as Al start crying and was embarrassed
and hurriedly left. It wasn't a manly thing to do but Al was still under the
weather, so he would forget he had seen the tears. Al was normally a tough
guy with a heart of gold and Tim respected the rare times that tears were
called for. And he knew any man would prefer to shed them alone. At least
a bachelor like Al would. His wife seemed to appreciate a few tears from him
on those rare occasions. It seemed to bring them closer. Still, it never
looked manly to cry.
Tim had second thoughts about his new invention. He paid for the parts out
of his own money -- and if the thing worked it would be worth a fortune. He
could just bet the little sneak running Bedford Tools would try and steal it
from him. So Tim had moved it home. He would work on it in his garage --
it should be safe there. He had forgotten all about the bolt of energy from
three days ago. When Jill saw the machine though, she almost called the
police.
"Honey... its perfectly safe!" he assured her, as usual. And as usual; his
attractive wife was not reassured.
"Safe??? Just like the dishwasher that hurled dishes that almost decapitated
me, just like the saw that chased me around the house cutting everything in its
way until it blew up the illegal fuse box, just like power floor scrubber that
practically drilled a hole to China..."
"Hey, I got big bucks for that one remember!"
"Yeah, from the oil company -- they use it for getting through granite! I
wonder what horror this monstrosity will inflect upon your family this time?"
Tim huffed and left his unappreciative wife to work on his brilliant new
invention.
While their youngest son worked on a homework assignment at the dining
room table with a girl from school, the oldest son, Brad came in with his
beautiful blonde girl friend. Jennifer looked like a cheerleader and she was.
In fact she was the head cheerleader. She was giggling with suppressed
excitement. Brad was planning to sneak them up to his room and they were
going to do a little exploring! Jennifer felt so grown up. Her girlfriends
would be so jealous! Here she was with the hottest guy in school and doing
something her parents would hit the roof about and the first girl in her class to
get into a BOYS bedroom. Well, except for Cindy, but she had to leave
school for about six months. But she had a lot more self control than Cindy
did.
Across the way, neighbor Wilson was playing host to his niece - the woman
was talented and well informed just like her Uncle. Jill was in the kitchen
fixing dinner and made a quick trip to the bathroom to check her lipstick.
Tim was in the garage deciding (as usual) that a little (or a lot) of power
boosting could fix the prior mishap with the energy discharge. Another bolt
filled the house with its energy, spitting out through the porch and into
Wilson's home.
Chapter Five - Heidi and Al reflect on the new lives they now lead...
"I want my body back, Al..." Heidi says, hearing Al's deep voice say the
words.
"Al ???"
"I want my body back NOW, Al!" the portly male insists, wiping away tears
from his eyes..."Take you hands away from my boobs and throw the switch
to change us back, Al..."
"Al ???? NOW, Al !!!"
"Oh, All right, Heidi... Just five more minutes, please?"
"Five more minutes!... Just five more minutes..." Al looked at Heidi and
saw his mother standing beside his former body. The image of his mother
finally woke him up.
Al stretched out in the double bed, his arm brushing against the body of
Heidi's husband Scott. It was still strange to see a much taller and larger and
very handsome male body in bed with him but he was rapidly adjusting. He
had good reasons for adapting so swiftly. Right now for example, he was so
relaxed! Last night had been another marathon session of multi-orgasmic sex
with Heidi's husband. After the variety of ways Scott had used his maleness
on Al's feminine Heidi-body, the sight of it lying flaccid between his thighs
no longer bothered him. In fact, Al found himself wishing it would get bigger
yet again.
Al had never suspected life could be so wonderful. He drifted back to sleep
and dreamed of spending the rest of his life in the incredible female body he
now occupied. He felt a bit guilty. But it wasn't as if he had stolen it from
Heidi. Maybe God had put him here. He didn't know how, but now her
wonderful body was all his to enjoy. Every luscious square inch of this new
body was now under his control. It was his to do with what he would. And
for Scott to do with what he would as well. As Al recalled what Scott did to
this new body last night yet again, a satisfied expression appeared on his
luscious lips. Al lazily drifted between relaxation and sleep, and his slender
fingers moved closer to the sensitive spots his husband Scott was so fond of
caressing during their lovemaking. His movements woke up Scott and soon
they were both wide awake and revisiting the highlights of the evening's
activities. Even his new beautiful baby girl was well behaved and quiet all
night.
If this was what his life was meant to be from now on, Al decided he could
definitely grow to love it. Living with Scott was a quantum leap up from
living with his mother!
...HEIDI
Oh great, here comes "Mom" again. At least I can get out of here now. I am
going crazy in this hospital. It's weird enough spending two days pretending
to be Al so the staff don't think I'm a lunatic, but I can't stand this odious
woman hovering around me. I feel like I am a landing field for a blimp!
Maybe if she were my real mother...no, even if that were the case I still
couldn't accept her presence. She must suck out all the air in the room every
time she enters it. For the thousandth time since she awoke in this horrid,
stocky, and male body, she stroked her chin, ever hopeful her soft silky skin
had returned, and still disappointed to find a rough beard growing out instead
like a thorny bush! She ducked into the bathroom and brushed her teeth with
the toothbrush the hospital had provided, having tossed out the one Al's
mother had brought from their home. She still shivered at the thought of
using Al's toothbrush. Intellectually, she realized his stuff was now hers as
long as she was stuck in Al's blimp-like body, but she drew the line at using
his toothbrush. That was way too personal, and she didn't want to get to
know Al that well. She took out his organ and took a piss. At least it was a
lot faster to use the bathroom with this thing. No more pantyhose and bra's
to worry about, either. Heck, with the beard on Al's face, she didn't even
need to do any shaving anymore.
She suddenly realized she missed all those things now that she had lost them.
She wanted nothing more than to wear a dress and heels and walk down a
street with a swing to her hips and make-up on her face. She missed the smell
of her perfume and the taste of lipstick on her lips. Old spice deodorant just
didn't smell the same. She had to get her body back! And soon! God! What
if she was stuck as Al forever! The thought chilled her to the bone through
even this covering of blubber. Perhaps the worse moments had come when
Tim had come by with tapes of the shows 'he' had missed. It was pure agony
seeing her beautiful lost body, wearing her costumes and moving gracefully
around the set with the impostor Al obviously drinking in all the admiration
from the men in the audience! And then to hear all of Tim's jokes about how
AL was so fat it had taken a crane to pull him out of his wrecked car! No one
had laughed louder than 'Heidi'. God, Al must really be burrowing deep into
her life and identity, the former Heidi thought bitterly.
She looked at the bathroom mirror. Al was still looking back at her. If they
didn't change back soon, she was going to get rid of this hair on her face.
She liked men with beards but she certainly didn't want a beard of her own.
Why had this horrid change happened to her? She had always been nice to
people, and she went to church regularly. God must have been looking the
other way the day this strange switch happened. This was the sort of trouble
Tim should be getting into, not her...
Of course! That was it! Somehow Tim had to be involved! Wherever things
were broken, Tim wasn't far away, and what could be more broken than
having your body torn away from you without permission. As soon as she
could get away from Al's manipulative, possessive mother, she was going
over to Tim's home and see how he had caused this disaster. He had to be
behind it! If he wasn't... then I may never get back. She fought back tears.
She had been giving Al's tear ducts quite a workout ever since she had
awoken in his corpulent body. And why not. Al is living my lovely life and
I am stuck in his miserable one! And with this strong male body of hers, she
could show Tim the real meaning of more power... with her fists! -- if he
didn't help her get her true body back!
Chapter Six Tim and Jill go up a hill and Jennifer and Brad come tumbling
down...
Tim began to wake up, his head pounding, but the headache was going
away. Somehow, he was feeling better than he had felt in years... decades
even! He looked up and saw his son Brad sleeping on the other side of the
bed. Tim couldn't recall going into Brad's room. . Brad began to wake up.
Tim watched as his son stretched. He was getting to be so big, so
handsome. When had Brad gotten so good-looking? Tim felt some strange
feelings as the young man looked at him. His body began to tingle in
unfamiliar places as the young man spoke to him. "Oh, HI! You must be
Brad's new girlfriend. I'm his mother, Jill Taylor." Brad cleared his throat
as though he was having trouble using his voice.
What the devil was Brad trying to pull this time, Tim thought? He was
certainly not his mother and Tim was NOBODY'S "girlfriend." For starters,
neither of them had tits, or...Tim's train of thought derailed as his hand ran
over his flat chest and rolled over two soft mounds of flesh instead. He
could tell they were covered by a bra. He would have wondered why he was
wearing a bra, but the more important question was why he was groping a
pair of breasts on his own manly chest!
Jill was astonished. Her voice sounded all wrong, it was far too deep,
deeper even than when she had gotten that cold last winter. And now, Brad's
girlfriend was feeling herself up right in front of her. Jill watched the
beautiful young woman in astonishment as she realized she was getting really
excited simply by watching another female touch her tits! But she wasn't
getting wet. Instead, there was a strange, powerful pulsing occurring in her
pants. Looking down, she saw she was somehow wearing one of her son's
shirts and her lovely, soft tits were gone. She almost freaked out as she
realized her pants were bulging and throbbing below the waist. After twenty
years of marriage she knew what was causing it although she had never
expected to feel one attached to her own body. That explained the strange
feelings of excitement, though not how she had gotten a body which could
experience them. She couldn't resist covering the area with her hands and
feeling the intensity double. She suddenly had an irresistible urge to take this
girl in her arms and have her way with her. She wanted to pick her up and
fling her on the bed and ripped off her clothes and fuck her brains out! God,
what was she thinking about this innocent child in front of her. This had to
be some sort of nightmare.
The girl wasn't helping any by continuing to rub her breasts and now her
crotch right in front of Jill. And now she was grunting with excitement.
Except for the pitch of her voice, her grunts sounded just like Tim during
foreplay. Exactly like him! She would know those grunts no matter what
body they came out of. She had to know.
"Tim...???"
"Uhhhnnnnnn," the teen-aged girl grunted, then looked again at the young
man jumping up from the bed. Even speaking with a young man's voice, Tim
could somehow recognize the way his wife Jill spoke his name. "Jill! Is that
really you?"
They both hugged as they realized the other was their spouse, then they
quickly pulled away from each other. Jill was surprised to feel two firm
breasts press into her flat chest, and Tim was shocked to sense an excited
male organ pushing out at him.
Then, the combination of love they had for each other combined with the
raging teen-age hormones and suddenly they were all over each other despite
the incredible strangeness of it all.
Tim felt he never had wanted anything so bad in his life as he wanted this
young man clutching him so close. It would have been too unmanly to
contemplate if Jill hadn't somehow become the boy in his arms. Becoming a
sexy girl helped him ease up on the manliness for once. And it really felt too
good for him to give it much thought. All the body parts seemed to fit and
that was all that mattered. Jill had to have the beautiful blond girl that was
somehow her husband - she would kill anyone who tried to stop her.
Hurriedly, they undressed each other marveling in the young bodies they had
so mysterious acquired. Never look a gift hot rod in the mouth Tim decided
even if it belonged to his wife, as kisses rained down on his magnificent tits.
God, it was weird feeling the wetness grow below instead of the usual
firmness. Jill just wanted the beautiful body in front of her - her new dick
had a mind of its own. God how the girl screamed when she entered. This
had to be a dream. Just a dream, Then passion washed over them both as
their minds were overwhelmed by the long forgotten emotions and hormones
of their teenage bodies..
Chapter Seven -- Mark and Shanna, boyfriend & girlfriend -- A change for
the better?
Mark smiled shyly at Shanna - he couldn't understand why she seemed so
friendly to him. She was one of the most popular girls in school, a real class
leader besides being as cute as button. Whatever that means? Buttons
certainly were anything but cute. Right now, she was dressed in a miniskirt
and boots with a tight blouse showing off her budding breasts. True, her
grades were not very good so he happy to help her with geometry. It gave
him a chance to be with her. Occasionally, their hands brushed together and
he felt an unaccustomed surge of excitement. Shanna must have noticed it as
she wore a superior smile on her lovely lips.
Then a flash of light hit them and consciousness faded. Mark woke up with a
terrible headache which faded quickly. Hair seemed to fall in his face. Hair,
what hair? He had a crewcut and it never got in his way. He pushed it
impatiently away wondering if one of his father's or brother's dumb jokes
was being pulled on him while that flash of light had distracted him. They
had never gone as far as putting a wig on him though. Often Mark felt like he
was adopted, he was so different from his father and brothers - even his
mother. He gasped a high pitched gasp. Across the table from him was
HIMSELF. The boy who looked like his twin was staring at him with
opened mouth astonishment.
"How did you do this?" asked the fake Mark in front of him with a very
shaken voice. It was HIS voice saying the words.
Mark looked fearfully down and found himself wearing a mini-skirt and
boots. His legs were so shapely and covered in nylon. He somehow was in
Shanna's body. These were her clothes and her... breasts!
"Dad! " he yelled in a soprano voice. "Dad! What did you do now?" No
answer. "Shanna? he shyly asked the body that had just been his. She
nodded positively.
He felt very queasy and suddenly cramps hit him and his groaned a little -
"Shanna, are you - is your body sick?" he asked fearfully.
The person in his former body just grinned. " No. I was having a few
cramps before this happened so what you must be feeling is my peri--... but I
guess now it's 'your' period! Believe me, you're welcome to it! It's the
worse thing about being a girl."
Mark felt tears come to his eyes. " It's not fair! I'm not a girl"
"Tell me about it. Look I'm sorry , but I didn't do this to us. You are
definitely a girl now. Stop looking at me like that! Do you think I want to be
YOU?"
Mark swallowed with Shanna's throat. "Of course not... nobody would."
He started to cry, finding it easier to so in this very different body.
Shanna was all concern and came over and put a comforting arm around the
cute girl she had just been. "I'm sorry, Mark, I didn't mean it! If I didn't
like you, would I be here? You're so smart and I'm just an air head people
follow because I'm popular. It won't last. My friends are getting into boys
big time and boys don't look to girls for leadership."
She felt so warm and somehow so strong holding Mark in these stronger
arms she now had. Mark turned up a cute, tear-stained face and she found it
impossible not to kiss him. That felt really strange. Mark was afraid and
attracted both at the same time.
They backed off - their bodies were not ready for this, they both felt. Shanna
looked at the clock. Shit! "You'll have to go home right now! You're
already a little late. My mom and dad will kill you if you don't get my body
home soon."
Mark was confused. "But I'm already home!" he protested.
"Not any more - now I'm home - look, until we can get our bodies back I'm
going to have to be Mark Taylor and you have to be Shanna Laclede!"
Mark gulped "You're right! I guess I have to go home to your folks."
Shanna nodded vigorously. "Right, and go to class for me tomorrow.
Fortunately, we're in the same rooms so you know where to sit. Don't trust
my younger sister, she hates me for being the oldest."
He nodded. "Where's your room."
"Damn! You've never seen it. Second one to the right - don't mess it up on
me!" she ordered. "Where's yours?"
Mark told her and she nodded. "By the way - watch your period - you will
probably need to change the tampon in about 2 hours and every six hours
after that. I'm afraid you will get to know my body pretty well soon. There
are instructions in the tampon box on how to put them in. I was about four
days through with it so it should end sometime tomorrow."
Feeling really disoriented and confused, Mark slowly gathered up Shanna's
books, shyly threw her purse strap around his shoulder and left. It felt
incredibly strange to look back and see Shanna in his body staying in his
house and waving at him from his doorstep while he left for hers. The inch
high heels on her boots made it a little difficult to walk, but Mark got better
after a time. The miniskirt was drafty and his panty hose rubbed silkily on his
legs as he walked to his new, and hopefully temporary home as Shanna.
Talk about uncomfortable, the bra Shanna's body was wearing kept digging
into his new flesh somehow. He had no idea how to fix it, though. He soon
arrived at Shanna's, and for now his, home. Her mother embraced him
warmly, asking how the date went with Mark. Strange... Mark thought they
were just studying together. Why did Shanna tell her mother it was a date?
Shanna's father, an elegant man, stood up and kissed him on the cheek. He
had to deliberately keep from pulling away from the stranger who was now
his father. But soon Mark found himself in a discussion of myth and reality
which he found fascinating - nothing like that was ever talked about in his
home. About all he heard at home was his mother lecturing his father on
what was broken around the house, or dad boring him with talk about Tool
Time.
Chapter Eight - Jennifer and Brad... husband and wife??? !!!!!!
An hour earlier at the Taylor house, the people the world would identify as
Jill and Tim Taylor picked themselves off the floor. Tim of course from the
garage floor and Jill from the downstairs bathroom where she had been
touching up her makeup. They recovered from the bolt later than the teens
around the house as they were both closer to it and not as young.
Brad looked in the mirror and his mother's face stared back at him. He saw
her mouth gape and with slender dish pan hands touched the glass - his
mirror image mother did the same. "No fuckin' way!" he breathed. It was
his mother's voice and despite himself he felt shocked to hear her use such
language. He moved his hand to his mouth and watched the hand in the
mirror do the same. It touched his mother's lips and smeared some lipstick
on them. Brad looked down at his hand and saw the red color coating his
fingers. He also saw a small pair of breasts sticking out from the T-shirt that
covered his upper body. He had seen those clothed breasts every day since
he was an infant. Even from this new perspective, he knew them as his
mother's breasts.
He was somehow in his mother's body.
Stunned, Brad sat back on the toilet seat. Unfortunately for him, the lid
wasn't closed and his new rear fell in and he got wet. Then he started
laughing - his prissy mother had a wet butt because she sat in toilet water.
Then it hit him - it was his butt now and it was wet. He was in his mother's
body - it was almost to bizarre to think that she could be in his body. But it
would make sense. And how did it happen? The only answer to strange
accidents in the Taylor house hold was one word. "DAD!" he screamed with
his mother's light contralto and rushed out into the garage after wrapping a
towel around his far too wide and dripping butt.
Brad found his father looking around like he was in more than his usual daze.
Then he spoke and his words had a gentleness to them his father never had.
"Mrs. Taylor you're dripping wet, and I seem to be stuck inside your
husband's body."
A flash of intuition hit Brad.
"Is that you in my dad's body, Jennifer... oh, and I'm not my mother, I'm
Brad!"
The body before him gasped. "Brad?"
Brad nodded his mother's head vigorously, hair spilling around his
shoulders. He looked at the invention in the garage "This must have caused
the problem!"
"Can you get us back our real bodies, Mrs... Brad?" She looked like she
was ready to cry. It was a disturbing feeling to see reflected on his father's
face.
"I don't know. I can take a look - Dad was explaining a little of it to me. "
It was odd to see the motherly figure of Mrs. Taylor crawling around under
the strange device and Jennifer had to stifle a laugh.
"Fraid not! It's shorted out. It's going to need some parts."
Jennifer hugged Brad and did that ever feel strange. She laughed. "It just
occurred to me - we are man and wife."
Brad swallowed. His... tits? were tingling and he felt a strange dampness
down below, but he knew he hadn't gone to the bathroom. And it wasn't the
wet pants, either. "That's right!" he said looking up at the taller body in front
of him and without warning he was kissed. He found himself responding
and grew even more excited when he felt an erection poking him in the belly.
He somehow didn't even mind that... poke since Jennifer was the one doing
the poking.
"Let's go upstairs!" Jennifer said after taking a deep breath, with a hint of a
grunt in her voice..
Brad pressed his new soft female body against the male one and nodded. It
felt right.
Chapter Nine -- Wilson and his niece Willow learn to handle a new twist
from life...
Wilson slowly regained consciousness. He hadn't been psychically hit this
hard since his studies with the Maharishi Yogi Barishi. An evil student had
tried to transfer Wilson's memories from the teachings into his own mind to
pass the course. It had taken a great deal of mental control and spiritual
power to resist and repel the intruder. This attack was different. It was more
of a mental avalanche instead of a psychic attack. It had been too powerful,
too forceful. It had swept through his mind and torn it apart, then it put him
back together and faded away. The pain had been tiny and slow at first but
soon accelerated into a mind-numbing, throbbing pain which left his body
moments after producing a total incapability of thought during which he had
blacked out. He looked around. Somehow he had traveled from the
bedroom to the kitchen. He could smell the tofu roast his niece was
preparing for dinner and her perfume lingered strongly through the kitchen
although she was nowhere to be seen. He hoped she was unhurt by the
powerful force that had laid him low.
Wilson felt almost euphoric after his collapse. He hadn't felt as healthy and
vibrant for the last two decades as he did now, despite a healthy diet and
exercise. He almost felt thin. And as the shock wore off, he was beginning
to realize that some important parts of his body were feeling very different.
His chest seemed swollen and sensitive...and somehow bouncy, and a draft
unexpectedly chilled his legs.
He worried about Willow, his niece. If the psychic blast attached her as it hid
him, then she could be anywhere. Suddenly, the kitchen door burst open and
a mad sight almost drove Wilson insane. In all the years, and all the sights he
had seen on the many journeys he had made, none could prepare him for the
shock of his own body flailing clumsily through the doorway. The shock
grew even greater as his duplicate body stared at him and called him Uncle
Wilson. Only one person called him Uncle... Willow. But if Willow was
occupying his frame, than who was he. There was only one possible
answer. He looked down at himself and saw... her body. He was
somehow inside the body of his niece and she was now him.
And he thought Tim Taylor was the only one who got into trouble. At least
he hadn't become Tim. He felt sorry for Willow though. She had lost not
only her femininity to him but also her youth. She was about twenty years
older as long as she was stuck inside of his body Willow stared at him and
began to cry. This was unnerving even to someone who had seen as much in
his life as Wilson had, and watching his own body in tears was too much for
the strange new feminine chemistry of his new body. He couldn't stop
bursting out in tears himself as his female body joined in the flood of tears.
Willow tried to stop crying as her own body with her Uncle Wilson inside
started to cry as she did. Naturally he was doing a better job of it than she
was. Tears flowed down her former face, ruining her mascara. If her Uncle
couldn't get himself together, than she had to. She was somehow the man
of the house now and it was up to her. She concentrated and turned off her
own tears with far more ease than usual. Then she put an arm around her
uncles new body. It was so strange to be comforting her own softly
weeping body, to feel it tremble and begin to finish up the crying jag. Her
emotions had been on edge for the past few days. She would have to check
her calendar, it was almost time for her period. Only now Uncle Wilson
would be the one to get it. He always was showing off to her about how
much more he knew, but now she knew something he didn't... and some
things he would have to learn in order to deal with them. As she looked
down at her pretty body, she felt strangely attracted to herself all of a sudden.
An unfamiliar swelling seemed to be taking place below her waist. She
wondered if she had hurt something male down there, then realized it was
probably a normal reaction of her new male body she would have to adjust
to.
As the last tears exited the eyes of the slender female body he now possessed.
Wilson began to feel better. It really helped to get all the angst out of his
system. He was feeling a lot better now emotionally, but he was beginning
to get a headache. Then the first cramp started. Great, he thought, I lose
twenty years but get a body that has something wrong with it. Wilson had
studied hundreds of subjects, but women had always remained a mystery to
him. Even now that he was one of them, the mystery remained. This was
Willow's body. She might know what was wrong with it. He started to tell
her about the symptoms he was feeling when another cramp hit him.
Willow went upstairs and came down with a small medicine container which
she handed over to him. Midol, said the label on the body. Wilson seldom
watched television and never read women's magazines, so he only had a
vague memory of hearing the name somewhere. He looked at the label and
read that it relieved premenstrual pain among other things. "I see..." He
was relieved. If it was something his new body went through each month,
then he could get through this as well. Another cramp quickly made him
question his resolve, though. He hope the Midol would kick in soon. He
expected he would get quite an education during the next week or so, if he
couldn't figure out how to reverse this strange exchange. Strange
Exchange... It would make a good title for an article in a psychiatric
newsletter. He might even get an entire paper out of it and get the final
credits he needed for that degree in Clinical Sociology from the local
university. He couldn't help but giggle uncontrollably as he wondered which
body they would give the degree to now.
Chapter Ten -- Parental influence...
Things were wild in Brad's bedroom. The bodies of two energetic teenagers
were rolling around naked on the bed. They had never felt such passion!
Jennifer's body giggled smugly, grunting in a most non-feminine manner.
"Just can't get enough of me, can you, Brad? -- I mean Jill! "
"Oh, shut up and kiss me, my sweet little Tim ... or should I call you
Jennifer now, Tim. Third time is a charm... " Jill in her son's body felt
strong and masterful.
Meanwhile in the master bedroom, the former Brad now enjoyed the latest in
a series of orgasms surging through the body of his mother. As Jill Taylor,
he had just had sex with Jennifer who now resided in his dad's body. Both
had been surprised at the excitement these grown-up bodies had! It had been
very strange kissing someone of the same sex they were used to being,
especially an older person, but by closing their eyes and imagining an
attractive partner, they soon got over it. Finally they lay back, satisfied. It
was kind of cool being in charge and adult they thought, but what had
happened to their own young bodies? Could they get them back?
"We better go see what happened to...us?" said Brad with motherly concern
in his mother's voice.
Reluctantly Jennifer agreed and grunted OK.
Brad was startled. She sounded just like his dad. They dressed and Brad
without thinking about how he knew how to do it, used some residual
memory from the brain of the body he now occupied and made up his
mother's lovely face. He didn't want her to know that he had been making
out with her body. That would be way too embarrassing!
The apparent Mr. and Mrs. Taylor opened the door to Brad's bedroom and
were shocked to see their former selves having sex! Brad hadn't even had a
chance to have sex in that body yet. How dare his mother do it with his body.
The gasp Brad made went unheard by the hormonally driven teenaged
parents! Embarrassed, he shut the door. Jennifer looked furious.
"How dare your dad use my body to have sex! I was a virgin! He got to
have the first time instead of me!"
"Well, It was my first time, too! " Brad said. Somehow, it wasn't as tough
to admit he was a virgin as long as he was a woman to the world. He
actually felt proud of the fact. "They got our young, virgin bodies, while
we're both stuck old -- and you're stuck ugly!"
"Well, thanks very much, MRS. TAYLOR!"
"Sorry, I was just kidding! You actually look pretty good for a man of your
age, Jennifer! Lets not argue! I hate it when my folks do that! Look, I think
I can fix the machine -- but lets use the time to get back at those two for
taking our virginity!"
Jennifer used Tim's manly lips to grin at Brad with.
"We could make them go to school !!!"
"That and more!"
"All right!" they high-fived each other and kissed just like Tim and Jill
usually did, without knowing it, and opened the door.
Two very guilty looking teen bodies looked up from the bed.
This is going to be superb, thought Brad inside his mother's body. He and
Jennifer arranged their new faces in suitably grim and serious expressions
and slammed the door against the wall! The two startled parents stared
guiltily at their true bodies while trying to hurriedly cover up their nakedness.
Tim forgot he had breasts to cover up now, so Jill grabbed a pillow and put it
in front of his bouncing tits.
"Brad! Jennifer! I am shocked!" said the real Brad with all the authority he
could imitate with his mother's voice. Brad, your father and I trusted you --
and as for you young lady I have a good mind to tell your parents how you
enticed our little boy."
The two young bodies stared in wonder at 'Mrs. Taylor.' Now It was
Jennifer's turn to play parent.
"Yes, you two, for shame! I've never been so shocked! To think that a son of
mine would behave in such an irresponsible manner! You two get dressed
right now, and Jennifer, you go home and think about what you did! You're
hardly behaving like a young lady!"
'Brad' and 'Jennifer' stared bewilderedly at each other - who were they - had
they just fantasized about being Tim and Jill - Tim and Jill were right there
and behaving like - well two shocked parents. "
"Sorry mom! " Brad said automatically, his body's reflexes taking over his
actions hurriedly dressing.
'Jennifer' started to cry uncontrollably. "Please don't tell my folks!" Tim
may not be sure who he really was right now, a teenage girl or a dislocated
adult, but he sure didn't want this body's folks told about what happened.
"God! the lectures I'll get. I would be grounded forever!" Tim whined in a
wonderful Jennifer impersonation.
The 'teens' looked at each other. They would dearly have liked to talk things
over, but with two stern authority figures standing right there they couldn't.
Tim was startled by the way he was putting on panties and bras like he had
done it all his life! Then on went the short miniskirt and tight blouse baring
the midriff which the original Jennifer had worn to be more seductive. Shit!
Is my hair ever a mess! Tim thought and hurriedly ran the brush he found in
the purse through it. His lipstick was all smeared and without conscious
thought he fixed it.
"I'll drive you home, Jennifer!" said 'Mr. Taylor' to her real body, thinking
at least I get to drive a hot car, that's something out of this deal! I sure hope
Brad can fix the machine. It would awful to be stuck so old and ugly! Then
she grinned to herself -- it was sure great to make adults sweat! Now the
high heeled shoe is on the other foot. How dare Mr. Taylor steal and use her
body like this anyway? He deserved a little payback. She hustled her former
self down the stairs and was annoyed to see 'Jennifer' crying. I can't believe
my body is acting so wimpy, Jennifer thought.
Tim was feeling even more bewildered that usual and was horrified to find
himself so submissive! It was weird to sit in the passenger side of his own
beloved hot rod! He stared with crystal clear blue eyes at his wonderful
machine. 'Could that have cause the problem? Naw! Impossible - maybe he
was really Jennifer? Maybe he was dreaming the whole thing? Tim was so
confused.
Jennifer peeled the car out onto the street and Tim thought - Show off!
You'll ruin the tires ... and how reckless!
Jennifer in Tim's still horny, homely body couldn't help but think -- boy this
car is hot! Then she sighed, looked at her hot body in the seat next to her and
thought, so am I!
They pulled up in front of Jennifer's house and it was weird for both of them
- Tim felt himself feeling very frightened as 'his' new folks told him to get
ready for bed and Jennifer feeling very strange to have her folks treat her with
respect and to watch her own lost beautiful body climb the stairs to what had
been her room!
Meanwhile, back in the Taylor house, Brad was enjoying lecturing his
mother in his former body the way she used to do him.
"God! What a bitch," thought Jill, still dazed and confused and uncertain of
who she really was thought "Is that all she can do? Nag, nag, nag -- why
can't Mom show a little understanding -- you would think she was never
young once herself!
The person they both took to be Mark walked into the kitchen and said "What
did Brad do, Mom?"
"Your brother was in bed with her girl friend! Your father and I walked in on
them! I have never been so shocked in my life!"
'Mark's' face grinned delightedly -- pretty hot goings on in the Taylor house
-- much better than her boring old home! "Shame on you, brother!"
"That's right!" nodded the head of Mrs. Taylor as she agreed.
"Didn't you have the sense to at least lock the door!" said 'Mark'.
'Brad' snickered and 'Jill' looked offended.
"That's not what I meant and you know it!"
Randy, the middle brother walked in and sighed -- his mother was at it again
with his brothers and he could hear his dad peel recklessly into the garage --
just another typical day in the Taylor house, he thought.
Meanwhile a certain pretty dentist was surprised to get a call.
"Really, I had no idea poor Al was in a coma -- his mother never called me!
And you say Al, was murmuring for me all during his coma? I'll go right
over and see him and comfort him! Thanks for calling me."
A lovely slim hand put down the phone with self righteous satisfaction. The
mind behind two beautiful eyes was thinking 'I certainly want the new Al to
have a chance for happiness, that's the reason I called my - I mean his old
fianc?e. It certainly wasn't because I want to get him so tangled up
romantically, he wont interfere with my new life or try and get it back from
me!"
"Heidi..." called a thrilling male voice.
It was her husband! "Yes, dear." Said the apparent Heidi, smiling.
"The baby is sleeping! Are you game for a little fun!"
He was delighted to see the enthusiasm with which his spouse greeted the
suggestion!
Chapter Eleven - It's Tool Time!
That night was the strangest night that ever happened to those in the now
scattered Taylor household. While Tim and Mark did their best to pretend to
be the young women they appeared to be inside their unfamiliar new homes,
Brad and Jennifer stayed up late and then made out on the couch after the
"boys" went to bed. A very confused Jill had watched her body constantly
for any sign that someone else was inside her body but Brad was too good an
impersonator for her to catch him in a goof. Jennifer erred several times, not
being as familiar with the family and Tim in particular but Jill was unable to
determine whether it was her husband's natural clumsiness or someone
dealing with a new body.
The next morning the two "parents" rushed the young men in the household
off to school. Poor Jill had woken up with a hard on and dreaming of
Jennifer. Even more confused and stunned by the unwanted reactions of her
new body, she started to actually consider believing that she might really be
Brad. Maybe she - or rather he, Brad - had gone insane? she wondered.
Logically, it was impossible to people to switch bodies! That sort of thing
only happened in the movies and TV. Unable to tell the difference between
what she knew to be true and what the world and even her own body was
telling her was real, she picked up Brad's books and went to school. She
could only console herself with the thought she would probably see that
gorgeous Jennifer today! She made Jill feel so strangely masculine, but they
were feelings she was starting to enjoy.
The apparent Mr. and Mrs. Taylor relaxed around the kitchen laughing at
how they had fooled the grown ups and enjoyed relaxing around the kitchen
with some coffee and doughnuts. Brad wolfed down four doughnuts until
Jennifer warned him to be careful or he would put some unwanted pounds on
his new figure. Brad almost choked on his doughnut, he liked the way his
breasts felt but he hardly wanted them to get bigger. And his mom's waist
was already pretty thick. Not to mention how wide his hips were now. He
found it so incredible to realize that he was born from those very hips yet
now they were his. He started to panic when he figured out he could give
birth to another brother someday if he got stuck in his mother's body forever.
The prospect was so grim that he put it totally out of his mind. It was too
much to think about.
They went upstairs and Jennifer helped Brad get into a nice outfit from his
mother's closet. He needed some help with the underwear as well. Bras
were a lot easier to get off than to put on, he discovered, even if they were
fitted to your body. He gave her some advice on how to shave her face.
After a few grunts, owes, and curses while Jennifer cleaned up, they were
finally reasonably presentable. Jennifer groaned as she looking at Tim's
homely face in the mirror, dabbing toilet paper on the shaving cuts on her
face. "I sure hope you can fix the machine soon. I would hate to go through
life with this old man's face!" Brad knew of no chores his mother was
supposed to do, so he decided he had better accompany Jennifer to the
studio. After the show, he could pick up parts for the machine, but he wasn't
in any particular hurry - he enjoyed being the adult and ordering the kids
around, AND he enjoyed making out with Jennifer despite her looking so...
male!
His mother's body felt so comfortable somehow! He was even getting used
to having breasts, and when Jennifer kissed them it was quite indescribable.
There were some major positives to being a woman, he thought. His real
chest had never felt anything like the chest he now had! Before they left,
Jennifer watched a highlight reel from the show and exclaimed " My God I
hope I come out of this alive!" On the way to the studio, Brad tried to keep a
wildly driving Jennifer from breaking too many speeding laws, but she just
grunted and told him to cool it - that he was being a sissy.
Tim Taylor was scheduled to film a show in front of a live audience today
and now Jennifer would have to take his place. It was a good thing his dad
had a reputation as a well know klutz, Brad thought, it might help them get
through the day while shooting the show. At least he knew the way around
the Tool Time set. Brad had seen many shows of course, as the son of the
star of the show, but this was his first as the wife of the star. Everyone was
much nicer to him. The stagehands fetched him coffee. The lovely young
Heidi wandered by and chatted with him about her "darling baby girl." Brad
had a hard time keeping from checking out Heidi's tits barely hidden behind a
tight blouse. He might have boobs of his own now but Heidi had the boobs
of a goddess. And Brad was still enough of a man deep inside his motherly
body to appreciate them.
When Heidi said she had to go to her dressing room and change for the show
"Jill" asked if she minded some company. Heidi seemed to hesitate a bit
then agreed. The female costar of the show and the wife of the Toolman
proceeded to Heidi's little dressing room. Brad watched as Heidi took off
her clothes exposing her breasts, covered only by a flimsy bra, to her friend.
Al was surprised by his attitude. Here he was undressing in front of Jill
Taylor of all people and he felt quite comfortable. She was just a woman like
he was now, after all. She had children like he had now and a husband who
loved her like Scott loved him. He took off Heidi's bra and cupped her
breasts. He had yet to learn the secret of making the bra fit comfortably and it
hurt his breasts in some places. He noticed Jill staring unabashed at his
chest. "I wish I didn't need to wear a bra, Jill. It seldom feels very
comfortable. It's better than having them bounce around all day, though."
"I know what you mean, Heidi." Mark said tugging his own bra away from
where it constricted some sensitive flesh." He looked down at the small
mounds on his mother's chest. "Of course, you have more to bounce around
than I do." They both giggled and laughed and Al finished dressing Heidi's
body and they left the dressing room for the stage.
When they entered the studio, Jennifer greeted them and took Brad off to the
side. "What were you doing with Heidi in that room, Brad, you were gone
for quite a while. He didn't answer and she tapped her foot and waited.
Finally Brad answered. "I didn't do anything, Jennifer. Relax! I know you
don't like it when I look at Heidi, but you have to admit that there is little I
could do with her as long as I look like this. You are much more my type
right now than she is. We were just making 'girl talk'. At least I think that
was what it was, since I've never talked 'girl to girl' before.
Jennifer calmed down after hearing that, grunted, and took Brad in her strong
manly arms and gave him a big kiss. After a few minutes, they had to stop
since the backstage crew had begun to applaud their ardent embrace.
Embarrassed to be caught in public kissing a man, particularly a man who
looked just like his father, Brad blushed and dragged Jennifer to the set. He
told Heidi that Tim was a bit under the weather and that he said it was O.K.
for her to take the spotlight on today's show.
Al was astonished. He had never been given a chance to star on the show
before, and now that he was Heidi, he was getting to be the headliner for one
show. He was nervous, but he had an idea. They had been planning a show
featuring repair work a woman could easily do and it could be bumped up to
today's filming. "Tim" nodded his agreement and "Heidi" danced off to
make the arrangements. Brad slipped his arm around the waist of his
husband/girlfriend, still a bit surprised to hold onto someone taller than
himself. They were both pretty happy. The show looked like it would be
one Jennifer could pull off after all. It would be still be tough though, since
she didn't even know the difference between a Phillips head and a regular
screwdriver.
As they got ready, Al thought to himself, "I wonder why Tim keeps checking
out the script with Jill... He usually ad-libs his way through the show. I
hope he shapes up in the next half of the show. I may have to make a joke
about Al's mother... I mean my mother... if he doesn't say something funny
soon. At least he has been getting some humor out of the act of pretending he
doesn't know which tools are which." Little did he know how real "Tim's"
lack of knowledge was.
Jennifer was pleased by the way she was fitting in with the show. She had
managed to memorize the script and felt the show was going well. If she
could figure out what she was supposed to "wrench" with, she would be all
set. At least Brad was able to help her figure it out. Between the two of
them, and Heidi's able aid in correcting the things she didn't understand, the
show went well. When Heidi asked her why she kept getting stuff wrong,
she got a little upset and said "You may understand this stuff, Heidi, but most
women get lost around it."
"Oh, I see, Tim, you're playing dumb so I can explain clearly to the
audience."
Jennifer was surprised for a moment, but she wasn't dumb. If Heidi wanted
to supply an explanation as to why she didn't know everything Tim Taylor
should know, she knew enough to take advantage of it. That's right, Heidi, I
may be the Toolman, but today you are the ToolWoman and it is up to you to
take the women in our audience through the steps. The audience burst out in
applause and the rest of the show went along quite well. Afterwards,
"Heidi" gave "Tim" a manly slap on the back and congratulated him on a
superb show.
"I wasn't sure where you were going for a while, but you sure pulled it off,
Tim. Jet me know your plans ahead of time next time though, O.K.?."
Another slap on the back from "Heidi" and Al left for his new home and
family.
Brad ran up and kissed Jennifer, telling her how great a show it was. They
hugged and went home.
Chapter Twelve -- We are all just players on a stage...
Flushed from the excitement of getting through the show successfully "Tim"
and his "wife" headed over to the hardware store and picked up some parts
for the machine in the garage. The man ignored the pleas from the attractive
woman beside him to slow down and take it easy in the hot rod.
"Women!" he thought and grunted manly.
Meanwhile, in the home of Al Borland, his mother was arguing with whom
she naturally thought was her son Al.
"So