Fixed

“Have you finished making repairs to your machine yet?”Vivian asked.

“Actually, yes,” Thomas replied, “But I’m afraid I have some bad news. You and I won’t be swapping back to our own bodies.”

“What? Was their some sort of problem? Can the machine only switch the same two people once?”

“I know I freaked out when I first found myself in your body. The idea of being a woman terrified me; it still sort of does. But over the past week, I’ve been looking at you in my body -- mostly I’ve just been looking at my body. My body is old, out of shape, and dumpy. Being you may still be a little scary, but it’s still better than going back. So the machine is fixed, but I’m not going to let you use it.”

“You can’t do this to me! You can’t leave me stuck in your body!”