A few minutes passed as everyone spent the time establishing who ended up as who. Even if you knew who got your body and whose body you’d get, it was always fun to figure out how the swaps ended up shaking out. After enough time, the conversations began to die down as grandma Elma stood up. Now, it was time to get the party started officially.
“Alright everyone, you all know the drill. It’s time to start the swaps,” Elma announced as she held her hand out and revealed a stone. She presented it for everyone to see as she held her hand out to Kurt to grab. Without second guessing, he grabbed it and immediately held it to his chest. Now came the fun part as everyone would begin to be swapped around.
As Kurt held the stone to his chest, the stone would do nothing for a moment before shifting from a regular gray stone color to a bright red color. This was when the stone’s magical abilities were activated as mentally he tried to envision the body he was meant to be in. In his mind, visuals of Carly’s body began to appear as soon things started to seem a bit strange. There was no fade to black nor did either of them pass out. Instead, in a blink of an eye their perspectives immediately shifted as they soon found themselves sitting in drastically different spots.
The swaps were always a bit disorienting as one minute a person was sitting in their seat in their own body and the next they were in a completely different spot in a completely different body. The second you took control of your new form, all of your senses would immediately hit you like a truck going 100 miles per hour. For both Kurt and Carly, their bodies rocked forward as Carly was just able to keep possession of the stone in her new hand.
The one downside to the Body Exchange was always the process of getting everyone into their proper bodies. Usually, people would end up shuffling bodies until they ended up in the body that they drew from the hat. For Ben and Tiffany, they didn’t have to deal with this along with Kurt as he went first but the rest of the family had to bounce around a little bit until everything was sorted. Soon, they didn’t reach this point as everyone was in their bodies and quickly attempting to get adjusted.
“Alright everyone, hope you all enjoy your new bodies until the new year,” Amanda announced to the group from Kurt’s body, officially marking the end of the actual swapping part of the Body Exchange.
