Swap Rocks: All fun and games...

Sorry for the delay. Neat concept but I'm sort of just...floundering right now I feel. This isn't my best work but I needed to get something up for you guys since it's upload day. The story came easy but I just wish I could expand on it more, there's a LOT to unpack here that sadly I just didn't get enough room to do.

I think I'm stressing out over the GENIE'D! delays, plus work got a bit hard on me recently so I've just been...eh. My apologies if this is too dark for you and isn't all that good. I'm going to try to get something better done for Friday.

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Aaron sniffled as the hot tears flowed from his eyes as he stared down at the casket. Within it was his old body, his fifteen year old, male body. He wasn't sure what made him more sad, the fact that his body was dead, or the fact that his mom had died with it. The trapped teen felt a shiver run down his moms...down HIS spine as his father squeezed his left shoulder gently in what was supposed to be a warm gesture of comfort...but only served to send Aaron further into despair over the inescapable situation he now found himself in. It had all started off so innocently. Aaron's mom, Helen, had been desperate to make a connection with her rapidly growing son, who was more into hanging out with his friends until all hours of the night and barely saying two words to her when he actually was home. Their close bond that they had formed when Aaron was a little boy was falling apart and out of desperation, Helen had somehow gotten a hold of a 'Swap Rock'.

"Mom, there's NO way I'm doing this!" Aaron had whined when Helen had cornered him in his bedroom about it.

"Well I don't want to lose you! Aaron, we used to be so close I just...I want to have a real connection with you again! All you do is play video games and hang out with your friends...I just want to get to know who you are now!" Helen had pleaded with her son.

"Mom I can just-" Aaron started, eager to trot out any sort of excuse to get his mom out of his room so he could go back to, admittingly, playing video games and watching TikTok.

"Oh no mister! I'm not falling for one of those 'we can hang out!' tricks again! Swap bodies with me or you're grounded until I can't legally keep you in the house anymore" Helen's eyes narrowed as she caught onto her son's usual attempt to weasel out of something. With a groan, Aaron had gotten off the bed, shuffled across his bedroom and, upon instruction, placed his hand on the weirdly warm rock and closed his eyes...Only to open them again looking up at himself!

"Oh wow, it really worked!" His old body had said, meanwhile Aaron was suddenly dealing with feeling so...utterly exhausted. Was this what mom felt like all the time?

"Um" He stuttered in his mother's voice as his hands wandered across her body, "So we can change back, right?" Aaron did NOT want to be stuck in his mom's body!

"What? Oh yeah, sure. We just both have to hold the rock and be willing and then poof, we're back! It's linked to us now though so don't go trying to change with your father. Oh, and the magic on the rock doesn't let us tell anyone who we are, so no funny business mister!" Aaron felt what little hope he had deflate like the emptiness between his legs. Damn, tricking dad into this body would have been great! Oh well. After the two looked at each other in Aaron's closet mirror for a bit, the transformed teen asked his mom what, specifically she wanted to do with him.

"Huh? Oh, screw that! I feel great! I'm going out! Have fun cooking dinner! And your father has been horny lately...So have fun with that, MOM!" Helen had said with a laugh that sounded nothing like Aaron's, and the mom turned teenage boy bounded out of the bedroom, cruised down the stairs and darting out of the front door! But then disaster struck, as Helen had barely made it away from the house before tripping on Aaron's huge feet and falling violently to the ground, snapping his neck and dying instantly.

The next few days had been nothing but a whirlwind of grief. Grief for the loss of his manhood, losing half of his lifetime due to being so much older now, being stuck as a middle-aged housewife who had to grieve for her son...And being unable to explain what had happened! And his mom had been right, the Swap Rock wouldn't let him switch bodies with anyone else...So Aaron was just going to have to get used to being Helen! With the saggy boobs, the hot flashes and feeling tired all the time! And not to mention, fending off his own father, who was already whispering about 'having a replacement!'.

It had been all fun and games until someone had truly gotten hurt!