"Oh, great," Karyn heard Jon's mom say. "Now I'm in my mom's body."
"Jon?" Karyn asked.
"Yeah, it's me. Unfortunately."
"Well, at least you're possessing a person, and not an inanimate object."
"That's true," Jon said. "But I really don't want to be my mom."
"And I don't want to be your gothic sister," Karyn said. "Now we're even." She paused for a moment. "So, what do we do?"
"I guess I'll have to go to work."
"Doesn't your mom work at a law firm?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Do you know anything about law?"
"She's the receptionist, Karyn. How hard is it to greet people and answer the phone?"
"And what am I supposed to do while you're playing secretary?"
"Go to school."
"I'm not going to school like this," she said, touching her corset.
"Then change your clothes."
"That's not what I'm talking about."
"How long did you set the device for?" Jon asked, changing the subject.
"An hour."
Jon picked up the device from off the floor. "The setting says a day."
"Not when I set it. It must have changed when the device fell on the floor."
"So I have to be my mom for another twenty four hours? And you only have to be Zoe for one? That doesn't seem fair."
"What's not fair is that we have to wait at all to get back to normal!"
"Hey, if I didn't put a time limit setting on it, we might be stuck this way forever!"
At that moment, Jon's little brother Mikey walked by. "Can you please stop fighting? I'm watching cartoons."
"Shouldn't you be getting ready for school?" Jon asked.
Mikey looked disappointed, then said "Yeah."
"Then get upstairs and do it," Jon ordered, and Mikey ran upstairs. "Whoa, for a moment there I almost sounded just like my mom."
"She's not influencing you, is she?" Karyn asked.
"I don't think it works that way. I have complete control of her body."
"Good," Karyn said. "Because I don't want to start acting like your sister. Even if I only have to be her for an hour."
