Getting Ready To Meet The Parents

"So what am I doing today?" Tristan asked his girlfriend Mei as he tied up his hair almost as if it were second nature. "Going to the gym, doing some shopping at the mall, or just hanging out with your friends?"

"Not at all," Mei promptly responded, shaking her head as she looked down at her former body by virtue of how tall she now was. "My parents are actually coming to visit today, so today you'll have to pretend to be me while you're around them."

"Ooh, that sounds like a fun experience," Tristan smiled as he then adjusted his black top and his sweater, eagerly waiting to hear what Mei was about to say next. "Is there something I will need?"

"Well, as you could already imagine, they always speak Chinese with me," Mei said as she slowly took out the Remote Controller from her pocket. "So you know what that means..."

When Mei first acquired the Remote Controller from one of her close friends at her job, she and her boyfriend Tristan agreed to use it to swap bodies in order to have some fun pretending to be one other. Nonetheless, they soon discovered after a few days that pretending to be one another was more difficult than they initially expected because they realized that in order to really come off as each other, they had to be more like each other.

The solution?

It turned out that the Remote Controller could do more than just swap people. It could exchange memories, instincts, and abilities as well. Of course, the catch was that granting any memory, instinct, or ability to another person would then automatically erase it in the original person, but as long as the two affected individuals still remembered who they were, it was not a serious problem.

In the case of Mei and Tristan, they had already exchanged some a few key things in order to their act a lot more believable such as a lot of their personal mannerisms and their memories of each other's jobs. That being said, today's task required a whole different set of abilities.

"Basically," Mei started as she began to type on the Remote Controller, walking back and forth as she did so. "I will give you my ability to speak Chinese and I will give you the memories I have of my parents as well."

"Sounds about right," Tristan agreed, enjoying the view of how focused his girlfriend looked inside of his body as she type. "And what would you like in exchange?"

"Give me your knowledge of basketball matches, plus the memories you have your parents."

"Of course."

"In that case," Mei announced right after she finished writing the commands. "I will exchange them in three, two, one..."

The two of them suddenly felt a bit dizzy as the contents of their minds were rapidly modified.

"Gods, this is so strange..." Mei placed her hand on her forehead as she laughed in disbelief. "Now I can only think of my parents as Mr. And Mrs. Gao."

"你告诉我," Tristan responded with disbelief as well, not even realizing that he had just fluently responded in Chinese.

"Babe," Mei said, having a hard time not laughing from what Tristan had just done. "I understood absolutely nothing that you said."

"Oh my," Tristan gasped as he finally realized his new ability. "I just responded in kind cause I now remember how your parents raised me and all."

The two of them then bursted out in laughter at just how mixed up their lives were now becoming.

"So..." Mei said as she finally got a hold of herself. "Ready to meet the parents?"

"Sure thing 宝贝," Tristan responded. "It will be just like every other time you've seen them."