Alex and Nat both headed to the home of Dr James. They didn’t ring first, they were just going to hope he was home and demand that he change them back to their own bodies. As they travelled across London by bus, Nat noticed how many looks Alex was getting in her body. She didn’t understand as normally no one paid her any attention. Nat leaned into Alex and asked, “How do you do that?”

“Do what?”

“Get everyone to look at you”

Alex looked around, ‘was he really unaware of the attention that was on him,’ thought Nat. Alex shrugged and replied, “I don’t know, I didn’t know anyone was looking at me.” Nat couldn’t believe he was oblivious to the attention he drew, she looked at him and saw an air of confidence in her body that she hadn’t seen on herself before. Was that really all it took? To just look confident, surely it couldn’t be that simple.

Before she could ask more questions to try and understand, they reached their stop. They got off the bus and walked down the road towards the large town house where Nat had been only the day before. They climbed up the steps to the front door and Alex banged on it loudly, showing his frustration at the situation for the first time. The door opened and Dr James was again in a three-piece suit, this time paired with a light blue shirt and a midnight blue bowtie.

Alex didn’t let the doctor say anything, grabbing the lapels of the doctor’s jacket and trying to push him backwards into the house. However, it didn’t have the impact he was hoping for not having the strength he normally had from his own body. Still clinging to the jacket, he resorted to shouting into the doctor’s face, “Change us back!”

Nat put her hand on Alex’s shoulder and calmly said to him, “he can’t do anything if you don’t let go of his jacket Alex.” Alex reluctantly let go and Nat turned to doctor and firmly repeated Alex’s words, “Change us back.” The doctor simply waved his arm to guide the pair inside the house and back to the sitting room where Nat had previously drunk the Tea that had got them into this mess. Alex and Nat sat side-by-side on the sofa with Dr James opposite them.

“I made your desires come true,” Dr James said simply facing Nat in Alex’s body, “isn’t that what I promised to do.”

“I didn’t want to be Alex!” Nat exclaimed, “I wanted to be more like him, the confidence, the success with men, but not to become him!” Alex looked at Nat, how had he not known this about his friend before today. He wanted to say something to her, but it would wait until they had their own bodies back. He turned back to the doctor and said to him simply and plainly, “Change us back now, Nat didn’t need your help, she’s my friend, if anyone is going to help her, it’ll be me.”

The doctor got up and left the room in silence, after a short while he returned with another tray of tea. He poured the cups and once they were both ready told them, “Drink these and you’ll both be restored.” Without hesitation, both Alex and Nat drank their cups of tea. They didn’t ask what was in it, they just believed it had to return them to their own bodies. Once they had finished every drop, they were asleep within a matter of minutes.

Nat was the first to wake up, she again felt the silk sheets from Alex’s bed beneath her. ‘Not again,’ she thought to herself. She then felt a hand on her shoulder, she turned to see Alex looking back at her, “Did it work?” he asked. She looked down and was delighted to see her own body once more, “It did!” she exclaimed. The two hugged, both relieved that they were no longer in each other’s bodies.