A small grin on your face, you follow behind the group of women heading into the store you'd never heard of. A small part of you felt like you should be careful with this device, that you shouldn't just go all in swapping strange things. On the other hand, a much larger part of getting excited by the idea of swapping something with a woman. It wasn't exactly something a boy like you often got to experience, after all.
Paying little attention to the actual clothing store itself, you discretely follow the women inside and pretend to browse the clothing racks as you observed the group of women. There were five in total; a skinny blonde in somewhat revealing clothing, a brunette who dressed more conservatively, another blonde who was a little curvier than the first, a redhead who seemed to be the tallest of the group, and a black woman who seemed to be the curviest. Though their ages seemed to vary a little, they were all adults, a good few years older than you. You couldn't recall having ever seen these woman before, so they likely lived somewhere else around town, and weren't part of your parents' friend groups. That did of course mean it would be difficult to find them again if you ever wanted to swap back, but considering you had a remote that let you swap anything with anyone, "swapping back" wasn't exactly the biggest thing on your mind right now.
You were about to move a bit closer to get a better look so you could decide which one you wanted to try swapping with first when you suddenly hear a voice behind you. "Can I help you with anything, young man?" Turning around, you are greeted by the sight of a young woman in what appears to be the store's uniform. You assumed she had seen you come in alone and wanted to know if you needed assistance in your shopping, but the slightly stern, slightly confused look on her face seemed to paint a different picture.
"Uh, no thanks," you say awkwardly, a little caught off-guard by the employee's sudden interruption. "I was just..." Your voice trails off as you look back to the clothes rack you had been pretending to browse through. Dresses. The entire rack was filled with dresses. In fact, taking a quick glance around yourself, you realise the entire store is filled with nothing but women's clothing. It was no wonder you'd never heard of the store before, a boy like you had no reason to shop here. Now it made perfect sense why the employee was looking at you strangely.
"Sir?" the employee asked. She probably thought you were some sort of pervert or something, considering the way you were staring at the group of women, but came over to confirm what you were actually doing here. After all, there were valid reasons for a boy to be in a clothes shop for women, even if they weren't particularly common.
In a moment of panic, not knowing what to say to the employee, you reach for the remote in your pocket and press the button. In an instant, time draws to a halt, giving you a moment to think through what you want to do. You definitely didn't want the employee thinking you were some sort of pervert, even if your reasons for being here were less than pure. Of course, while the remote was the reason you were here, it could also be your ticket out of this mess. Sure, you could just give some sort of excuse to the employee, like saying you were looking for a dress for your girlfriend or something, but after she'd caught you staring at the women, you weren't sure that was going to fly.
What you needed was a blatantly obvious reason for being here, to the point that the employee wouldn't question you being in the store in the first place, and wouldn't have any reason to believe you were lying. The obvious option was just to turn yourself into a woman. Swapping genders with one of the women you'd been following, or the employee herself, would certainly sort that out. After all, there was nothing wrong with a woman browsing dresses in a women's clothes store, right? You could also get a little more creative than simply making yourself into a woman, of course. Perhaps you could actually swap lives or something with one of the other women, leaving them to deal with the problem. That'd even let you stick around if "you" were forced to leave or go home. Alternatively, you could stay yourself, but swap clothes with someone. Even if you were still a boy, the employee probably wouldn't have a problem with you being here if you wore women's clothes. Then it would be normal for you to be shopping here, right?
Of course, regardless of what you wanted to swap, you needed a target first. There were, of course, the women you'd been following earlier. They weren't too far away, and were spread out enough that you could probably target whichever one you wanted without getting them mixed up or anything, but you had kind of wanted to get a bit closer before deciding on which one you wanted to swap with. After all, you could only really see their attire, hairstyles, and general body shape from over here. Swapping lives or something with them could also be a bit risky, since they were in a group, and there was more of a chance of you slipping up in front of them. Perhaps you could swap with the employee herself instead and let her see how it felt to be made like you didn't belong here. If you swapped something like lives or jobs with here, you'd even have no problem getting close to the group of women, since you could just claim you were helping out a customer. However, you'd just gotten home from school, did you really want to suddenly jump into someone else's job, a job you knew nothing about?
Glancing around the store to check for other potential options, you spot a woman shopping by herself on the other side of the store. That would make her ideal for getting away from the employee, and her being alone meant you wouldn't have to pretend to be someone else if you became her. She wasn't exactly your ideal when it came to swapping though. You couldn't get too clear of a look at her from where you were standing, but she seemed a bit older, and had more of a "mum" body compared to the women you'd been following. It was better than nothing, but you'd been following the women because they were attractive. You weren't sure you wanted her to be your first swap.
Unfortunately, those seemed to be the only targets available. You thought there'd at least be another employee around, but you couldn't seem to see them, perhaps they were in the back. The only other "people" in the store were the mannequins modelling various clothes that you briefly mistook for another potential target, but after a moment, you start to wonder if calling it a mistake was in itself a mistake. Would the remote let you target something inanimate like a mannequin? If you swapped with the mannequin, you could definitely get out of trouble, though you'd probably have to be careful. You didn't want to end up stiff and immobile yourself, after all. Though if the remote did work on inanimate objects like mannequins, what else could it work on? Could you swap clothes with the clothing rack in front of you, for instance? How would the remote handle a target like that? Maybe now wasn't exactly the best time to be experimenting with things you didn't fully understand, but a big part of your was becoming rather curious.
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