This choice: His parents used their retirement funds to buy younger bodies • Go Back... Jake, half haphazardly got up out of bed and walked over to the vanity desk his parent's gifted to him on his birthday after the sale. He looked at his reflection, like he did every morning and squeezed his breasts, reminding him that this was still real. The one upside to the swap is that he did find this body to be attractive, he just didn't like being in it, especially as it aged. After staring into the mirror for a few minutes he put on a bra and shirt as he was heading out to by Chloe a birthday present for her. The caused him to pause for a moment as he lifted up his shirt again and looked at the horizontal scar and ran his finger over it. He couldn't believe Chloe turning 18 tomorrow.
He walked by Chloe's door and saw that she was in virtual space. "Morning, Mud," the sign on her door greeted Jake as he walked by. He still hated that term and missed when Chloe would call him mum. It was a generational thing, now that people's parents could be either gender her generation decided to combine mum and dad. She only started calling him Mud after she learnt the full truth though.
"Morning, Chloe," he replied, not knowing if the sign was set to auto response or not.
He went downstairs and heard two unfamiliar voices laughing in the kitchen. When he entered the room he saw two people he had never seen before making out with each other and drinking his parent's expensive wine.
"Who are you?" Jake snapped annoyed at their audacity.
"Oh hey sweaty," a tanned skin man with a shaved head, wearing a tank top and jeans greeted him. "Your father and I have some news to share with you."
Jake was flabbergasted as a petite woman with long wavy blonde hair, wearing a pink tank top and mini skirt gave him a smile. "As you know I retired last week but rather than settle down, your mother and I decided to use my retirement funds on new bodies."
"But you're 70 years old... these bodies look like they are in their 20s..." Jake began.
"Don't worry about the age gap, we did a trade down system, where you hop to a body five years younger than you until you reach your target age, providing you have the funds," the man answered.
"Which I did," the woman said with a smile. "Some people need to remortgage their house for bodies this good but these two were discounted, I think this body was arrested for a DUI and a hit and run."
"Mine was charged with assault with a deadly weapon."
Jake had heard about criminals being able to get lesser sentences for selling their bodies, though some did it just to get away from the recognition, their criminal records remained but people were less likely to associate them with it in new bodies. "I don't care about that," Jake said not even convincing himself. "Have you heard of brain degradation?" It wasn't something Jake had to worry about this body was similar in age to his old one.
"That was an issue with your time, when they physically swapped brains. We got electronic transfers, so our minds are as young as we are."
"We even got the premium package where these minds are paired with each other," the girl pulled out their phone and opened up an app. "So we can..."
"Switch, anytime..."
"We, want...."
Jake looked back and forth at the two confused for a moment as he struggled to keep track of the person talking. "Degradation isn't just about the age, it's about the knowledge too, a brain can only get so full."
"You can delete things now, I wiped out knowledge of my previous job, so that freed up a lot of space..." the woman said as she expanded the phone's projector until it covered the entire table. "It's really amazing what you can do with this stuff now. We've got complete control over our own minds."
"Not complete control, there's still some restrictions," the man responded. "But as you can see, we've got the ability to wipe information, swap as we wish, we can even adjust personalities."
"This all sounds a little dangerous, you know what happened to me when I used the clinic without thinking..." Jake took a step back.
"Such a Zoomer attitude, not wanting try new bodies..." the woman taunted.
"Why what happened to you at the clinic? Does this have something to do with why you have a man's name?" the man looked at Jake who froze in horror wondering what else got deleted.   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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