Freddy McMillan, Sarah's 8 year-old brother, went straight to the kitchen the moment he got home from school, and began staring at the top of the refrigerator. Too high for him to reach, his mom had put his Nintendo Switch up there as punishment when she had received an email from his teacher saying that he had missed an entire week of homework assignments. Maybe if he stared hard enough, his young mind reasoned, the prized game console would just fall into his hands.
And he was in this position when he heard a strange thump coming from upstairs.
"Sarah?" Freddy knew that his sister was the only other person who was home, as he left the kitchen to investigate.
He didn't hear any response, so he continued up the stairs and knocked on her bedroom door. "Sarah, I heard a noise!" he called through the wood. No answer. Not sure what to do, he opened the door, only to find his sister's body collapsed on the floor, a green scarf around her neck.
"Sarah!" he cried in a panic, as he rushed in to try to wake her. But the moment Freddy's hand touched Sarah's shoulder, his world shifted.
Sarah's eyes blinked open, and Freddy was looking through them.
Freddy stood up in Sarah's body, feeling extremely disoriented. It took him several seconds to understand the unfamiliar sensations he was experiencing, but eventually something clicked into place.
"I'm in Sarah's body," he marveled, as he looked down to see his own form now collapsed on the floor. There was a moment when he almost knelt down to try and wake himself up, but another thought took over instead. "Sarah can reach the top of the fridge!"
Completely unconcerned with any greater philosophical question about why or how he had ended up in his sister's body, Freddy raced back down the stairs and retrieved his Switch from the kitchen, plopping Sarah's body onto the living room sofa as he turned on the console. Loading up Donkey Kong Bananza, he settled Sarah's body back into the cushions, unconsciously assuming his standard gaming position with his legs crossed and his elbows on his knees, completely oblivious to the fact that the body he had taken over was wearing a skirt. If anyone else had been in the room, or indeed in the house at all, then Freddy would be giving them quite a show.
But Freddy's mind was singularly focused on the task of making a gorilla smash a landscape apart, and paid no mind at all to the compromising position he had placed his sister's body in, until about half an hour later when he woke up on the floor of Sarah's bedroom, once again in his body. He quickly and quietly slipped out the door before anyone saw him there, and descended the stairs. Had he been having some strange dream?
But when he reached the living room, he found Sarah sitting on the sofa, looking slightly disoriented, and holding his Switch. All other thoughts left his mind.
"My Switch!" he cried has he pulled the console from his sister's hands and took up position on the sofa beside her, crossing his legs with his elbows on his knees as he picked up the game exactly where he'd left it off while in Sarah's body.
Sarah, for her part, wasn't sure how she'd gotten downstairs, or what she was doing with her brother's video game console, and had just stood up to return to her bedroom. But the brightly-colored screen caught her eye, and she found herself sitting back down on the sofa next to her little brother, completely absent of any self-consciousness as her legs lifted themselves into a crossed position, matching Freddy's posture despite her skirt, and watched over the boy's shoulder in an unfamiliar fascination as he continued his game.
