Suddenly, as Charlie sat on the toilet, he felt as if his body was being prodded with hundreds of needles, and as he watched, the mother's body began to change.
Her breasts deflated until there were no breasts at all, and her feminine frame turned into a masculine one. Then Charlie felt a weight in his pants. He looked down and saw a bulge forming.
He stood up and looked at himself in the mirror. The woman he was in had become a man, a male version of herself.
The sky must have turned orange. It turned out that staying by himself didn't do any good at all. In fact, it might have made things worse.
There was another knock on the door.
"Dad? Are you sure you're okay?" the daughter asked.