“Are you serious?” Maria asked after you’d explained what your new invention could do. It had been slightly awkward when you walked over to her parent’s house and asked to speak with her. You could tell she felt embarrassed by her current situation, but she was gracious enough to let you in. As the two of you spoke she seemed to relax a bit. You talked about the old days, about the pranks she would pull and the old inventions you had made as a kid. “Remember that thing you made that would make people fart with just a button?” she asked, barely holding back a laugh. “You remember that? Wow, yeah, it a directed, high-intensity sound that affected people’s bowels. I hadn’t thought of that in ages!” you replied laughing with her.
The two of you chatted for a while, catching each other up on bits and pieces of your lives since the last time you’d seen each other. It sounded like her life had been going great, then something happened and her luck had gone from bad to worse, “… and, well, this happened,” she said, pointing at her growing belly.
“Well, that’s actually what I was hoping to talk to you about, Maria,” you explained, but before you could go on she cut you off,“I can already see where you’re going with this and, you’re sweet, but you’re much too young for me. I know you’ve had a crush on me since forever, but this would never work.” You heart sunk and your cheeks were beet red. “No, no, no! That’s not what I was going to say!” you exclaimed, waiving your hands defensively.
“No? Do you have some sort of invention to rewind time or something?” she asked incredulously. For a moment you thought of explaining how complicated a time machine would be, but thought better of it. “No, no time machine, but I did invent a new body switching machine,” you explained, trying not be too obvious about how flustered you were. She was incredulous at first, but you went into detail about it and assured her repeatedly that it was real.
Finally, you took her over to your lab to show her the device itself. “Do you remember that show we watched about a boy swapped with a girl and how you asked me what I’d do if it happened?” you asked and she nodded. “Well, I’ve basically been working on answering that question for a long time now. Wordlessly, she placed a hand on the cold, smooth metal casing of the machine. “Wow, this is unbelievable,” she said softly.
“I was thinking you could take a little vacation from your pregnancy. Take a load off,” you offered. “Literally,” she replied, cradling her belly.
“I could swap with anyone?”
“Um, yes. I mean, I though you and I could swap,” you said blushing, “but, yeah, you could swap with anyone we can get into one of the pods.”
“Hmm,” she tapped her chin,” I really would like to swap with …
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