INTRODUCTION & DISCLAIMER - With Richie and Troy still stuck in each other's bodies, how are they going to change back? And if they do change back, will things go back to normal? Find out by reading the seventh and final chapter of 'Body Swap With Sister's Boyfriend'.
Please be aware that this story contains toilet scenes and references to menstruation which may not be to every reader's taste. Only characters aged 18 and over are in any sexual situations. All characters and events depicted are fictional, with any similarity to real persons living or dead coincidental and unintentional. Please enjoy the end of this series and rate and comment.
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A warm and sunny Sunday, albeit with many dark clouds gathering out to sea, meant many people were out and about enjoying themselves in South Queensland. The Gold Coast beaches, suburbs and theme parks were filled with people, and many people had headed to the Hinterland for a day out in the mountains. The Sunshine Coast's beaches were packed, as were parks and picnic areas in the Logan, Ipswich and Toowoomba regions.
Brisbane itself was packed, from the beaches in the east at Wynnum, Manly and Moreton Bay and west to the mountains, the Mouth Coot-ha lookout having a bank up of cars with so many people wanting to spend the day up there. In the CBD, the Queen Street Mall and surrounding city streets were filled with people, as were the trendy cafes and restaurants around the Eagle Street Pier and other riverfront locations. So many people were out on bicycles that Brisbane might be mistaken for Holland or China, the cyclists sharing the paths with the many runners and other people on roller blades. On the river itself were many boats, some private craft and others commercial vessels ferrying passengers around to see the sights of Brisbane such as the attractive city skyline, Story Bridge and the cliffs of Kangaroo Point.
Especially popular were the many fine parklands around the Brisbane CBD. The historical and beautiful Brisbane Botanic Gardens at the southern end of the city were jam packed, as were the Roma Street Parklands near Spring Hill at the Western side of the CBD.
But most popular of all was Brisbane's Southbank region, directly across the river from the CBD. People were everywhere in the cafes, shops and restaurants, enjoying picnics and barbeques and Southbank's famous man-made beach, always very popular, had many people enjoying a swim in the warm autumn day. Another attraction in this area -- the giant Ferris wheel close to the riverbank -- had a long queue waiting for admission.
It was to Southbank that Jodie Mitchell was currently driving. In the front passenger seat was an elderly aunt of the family who Jodie had agreed to give a lift to as she was now too old to drive. In the back were Dakota and Troy. At least Jodie, Dakota and the elderly aunt thought that the sole male occupant of the car was Dakota's boyfriend Troy. None of them had any idea that it was not Troy at all, but Richie -- Jodie's son and Dakota's twin brother -- stuck inside Troy's body.
Jodie glanced into the back of the car, seeing that Dakota and 'Troy' were holding hands. At least they weren't all over each other like they normally were. Jodie cynically wondered if they had so much fun together last night that they now couldn't be bothered. It seemed a pretty sound theory.
Richie and Dakota had of course spent many hours together in the back of their parents' car but never holding hands and of course never with Richie in Troy's body. Crossing the bridge and arriving in the Southbank area, their mother found a parking space and backed her car into it, and the quartet exited the car, all carrying various things for the barbeque lunch. Richie wore Troy's shirt and jeans with sneakers, the elderly aunt a dress. Jodie was wearing the same blouse and short skirt along with sandals, while Dakota's tall teenage figure was attired in her white blouse that showed off much of the cleavage of her fabulous D-cup breasts, her torn blue jeans and white sandals on her pretty teenage toes. Dakota had again tied her back into a high ponytail, wearing the same white hair bow as she did earlier.
Jodie's eyes looked to the right and immediately she was a group of nine very familiar people approaching. These of course were the eight members of the Mitchell family who had driven up from the Gold Coast, plus young Ashley's boyfriend Jamie. Ashley, looking so pretty in her ibis tee-shirt and jeans with patched cartoon animals held Jamie's hand, and Jodie wished that her own daughter's boyfriend was more like Jamie and intelligent and studious.
It didn't take a degree in psychology to work out that things seemed tense within the group that had arrived from the Gold Coast, and Jodie was an astute woman anyway. She could see as everyone greeted each other that her son seemed to be the problem, and as Jodie looked at 'Richie' she could see that again something seemed amiss, but just what she could not pinpoint. Her husband did volunteer the information that Richie had been somewhat unwell that morning and would have to take it easy, but Doug said nothing more wanting to spare the dignity of his sister-in-law and niece with Cheryl and Ashley obviously having borne the brunt of Richie's bizarre antics.
"Hello Jodie," came a voice that she had come to dread in all the time she had been married to her husband, that of her mother-in-law, Betty. The tall blonde looked at the grey-haired woman in front of her with a smile as fake as a three dollar note on her face.
Jodie put an equally fake smile on her own pretty face. "Well hello, Betty. And hello Bob." Jodie and her father-in-law did not dislike each other, but they did not particularly like each other either, they were more indifferent to each other. The father and daughter-in-law could in theory sit next to each other for a 16 hour flight across the Pacific to America, and not exchange a word.
Bob nodded curtly at his daughter-in-law. "Jodie."
"Jodie, I must say how nice you look today," said Betty. "Wearing such a short skirt at your age and the mother of two adult children, not every woman as old as you are would look as good as you do or have the bravery to go around wearing such an outfit in public, but you do and I must say how much I admire that."
Jodie fumed but said nothing, as did none of the other people in the group, all of whom looked at the sky, the ground, or the adjacent Queensland Performing Arts Centre. Betty then looked at her tall blonde granddaughter Dakota, or Jodie Mark Two as she always mentally thought of the girl.
"Good morning Dakota, I haven't seen you in a while," said Betty.
"Good morning Grandma, yes, it has been a while," said Dakota.
Betty looked disapprovingly at her granddaughter's blouse that showed off the teenager's bra strap and enormous boobs, but it was Dakota's fashionably ripped jeans of which she also disapproved that held her attention more.
"Dakota dear, I think you might want to go to the store where you brought your jeans and ask for a refund," said Betty, the same false smile on her face. "I don't know if you noticed but that pair is full of tears."
"They are made like that," said Dakota bluntly, not appreciating her grandmother's criticism.
"Well, well, well, you learn something new every day," said Betty. She turned to her daughter-in-law, clearly blaming Jodie for allowing her daughter to go out in clothes that she disapproved. "You know Jodie, when I went to school there were girls who had holes and rips in their jeans and other clothes too. Do you know who those girls were, dear? They were the orphans from the local children's home."
Doug was about to speak up to get his mother distracted before his wife succumbed to spontaneous human combustion, but never got a chance.
Troy in Richie's guise had been listening to all of this. He had known that Dakota had little time for her paternal grandmother, and it was obvious to even the unintelligent Troy that Grandma Betty could not stand Jodie. Troy thought about Gary and Cheryl's wedding pictures which he had looked at the previous day, mainly because he thought the younger Cheryl looked so hot in her wedding dress. In one of the three photos on display Gary and Cheryl were posed with their parents, and the look on Betty's face was one clearly of delight and pride.
But it was a different story with Doug and Jodie's similar wedding photos at their own house, again which Troy had looked at mainly because Jodie looked pretty hot in her wedding dress. In the equivalent photo with their parents, Betty was not smiling and looking directly at the bride, clearly not happy with the situation. And the comments this morning from the Mitchell matriarch showed without any doubt she still did not like Jodie one little bit even more than 20 years later.
At Troy's own house, his mother, sister Kaley and other female relatives often enjoyed watching soap operas and reality shows, and would impersonate the call of a cat when any of the female characters or contestants said or did anything catty, which of course happened often.
And as usual, Troy's brain went into reverse and his mouth into overdrive, Troy making a cat noise with his mouth, and a clawing motion like a scratching cat with his hand. Everything went silent, everybody glaring at him, Doug putting his hand to his face and wondering when his son would do or say something sensible this week, or even just keep quiet.