Hooked Up

I turned around to look when I heard my mom snore in the seat behind me on the bus. Okay, so technically, it wasn’t my mom. It was my roommate Nick inside my mom’s body. She had come to my college for a surprise visit and Nick let her in to wait for me. She started cleaning my side of the room when she found this magic totem I had bought.

The guy who sold it to me promised it would allow me to hook up with any women I wanted; I just hadn’t decided who I was going to use it on. It was probably best I didn’t after the damned thing ended up causing a body swap between Nick and my mom. We all tried to figure out how to use it again, but it wasn’t working a second time.

So we had to go find the strange old man who sold me the damned thing. The bus was about a two hour ride there. I was happy when Nick fell sleep. It was weird seeing him make my mom’s body move and act like a nineteen year old wannabe frat boy. It was only slightly less weird to have Nick’s body be acting like my 50 year old mom.

When we arrived, the old man’s antique shop seemed more dilapidated than ever, and he immediately recognize me. I explain what happened, and he nodded.

“Yeah, the totem hooked up their minds. They’re linked now!” He explained.

“They’re each other’s bodies!” I protested, “You have to reverse it!”

“UNLINK two minds?” He sounded shocked, “What do you think I am? Some sort of magician? I’m sorry, but it’s simply impossible!”