Keep your eyes on the Road

 

John and Sara had been childhood sweethearts, and not long ago had gotten engaged and moved in together. They spend several weekends away looking at locations trying to find the perfect romantic spot where they could get married. However this was proving tricky, as neither could agree on a venue, there was always something that one or other found fault with. 

It was on one of these trips that the pair got into one of the most heated rows they ever had, Sarah had, had enough and demanded that John take her home right there and then, she felt he was being too unreasonable with his latest venue turn down. As far as she was concerned it had ticked all the boxes, including almost everything he had suggested previously. Driving along the cliff road, the row intensified, with each hurling abuse at the other, and in the midst of the row a deer shot out and ran across the path of their car. John swerved to avoid it, and lost control, the car plummeted down the cliff coming to rest in a ravine near the bottom. It was a few hours before a passing car saw the damaged guardrail, and alerted the rescue services, and it was several more before  they were rescued. Both were in a bad way, and due to a breakdown in communication were rushed to the local hospital, which unfortunately it was not sufficiently resourced to deal with receiving two critically injured casualties at the same time. The medical team had to quickly assess which one should be treated first, and as Sarah was deemed to be less injured they set to work on John. However it was around an hour later when the machines they both had been hooked up to started beeping and alarms sounding, and then they flatlined. The next thing he remembers was transferred to the ICU department of the region's main hospital, where he remained for a week before being being taken off the critical list and moved to a private room and a month after the accident was free to go home.

Coming home to the apartment which he had shared with Sarah, brought back all the memories he had with her, the good and the bad. His family, and hers, felt he should not  be staying there alone so soon, and offered him a chance to stay with them a while, which he declined, they then insisted they stay with him  at least the first few nights. Having shown that he was ok and it was safe to leave him alone, his relatives left him alone after the third night  Going to bed, John took out one of Sarah's chemise, and dressed her pillow in it, spritzed some of her favourite perfume on it , and went to bed snuggling it. It was during his sleep he could have sworn he had heard her voice, saying 'Finally we're alone, i thought they'd never leave', but he thought no more about it. Although he knew Sarah was gone, he could not yet bring himself to box up her things and put them away, or throw them out, and he kept up the  routine of going to bed and dressing up her pillow etc.  It was the morning after the seventh time he had done this he woke up to find that the nightie he had put on the pillow, was now in a heap over by the laundry basket. Again the same thing happened and after he came to actually wearing the nightdress John wanted to know what was happening so set up a camera to record the activity while he slept, perhaps he was sleepwalking or the likes. For the next few times nothing out of the ordinary happened, so he turned the camera off again. Waking up the next time, not only was he in the nightdress, but now his legs had been freshly shaved, and his toes had a bright pink coat on them.

John was at a loss to understand what was happening, there was no way anyone could have gotten in overnight as all doors and windows were securely fastened, and a chain was on the door also. So he set the camera up again. This time however when he woke up and watched the playback he got a huge surprise. About an hour after he had gone to bed, he had gotten up,  gone over to Sarah's wardrobe, and taken out a pair off her panties, a bra, and one of her favourite little dress, and put them on. He then put on a pair of her heels. He had gone into the kitchen made some food and then into the lounge, and sat down to watch her favourite shows on Netflix. A few hours later he had then gone back to the bedroom, undressed, put on the nightshirt from the pillow and gone to sleep.  This happened over the course of the week. It was on the Friday that things were slightly different, the routine this time involved him, getting done up in full make-up, painting his fingernails etc, in a manner reminiscent of Sarah getting ready for one of their date nights, on the video he heard him shouting out 'C'mon Bugaboo, we'll be late if you don't hurry up', not only was that her nickname for him, but he sounded remarkably like she did. Watching on, the video continued with 'her' getting frustrated waiting ready to go out, and him not appearing. He then saw himself go to where Sarah had kept her vibrator, and lie down on the bed and use it in a manner like she would have.

Over the course of the next month John started to notice some changes to his appearance when he woke up, he could have sworn that his hair was getting longer, and he was slimmer than he remembered, and every couple of days his legs would be freshly shaved, and his nails freshly painted etc, and he was always in a nightie when he woke smelling of Sarah's perfume. Not only that he was having strange vivid dreams that involved going out and about during the day, but not as John but as Sarah, where he was dressed and acted exactly like she would, including all her little mannerisms. The strangest of them all occurred frequently and was where Sarah was out on a date, and ended up having sex with a guy with a massive cock, this particular dream felt so realistic John almost felt like the cock was inside his body and he was the one screaming out in ecstasy "Oh Fuck , yes, yes harder , oh that is soo good, its even better than John ever was" as guys with massive cocks pumped cum inside of his pussy.  John began to wonder was he actually dreaming about being Sarah, out of some sort of guilt, was his mind trying to compensate in some way.

However John soon came face to face with the true nature of the situation, after receiving a call to come down to the hospital, as there was someone there, who had just woken from a coma and wished to see them. After getting dressed and getting a lift down to the hospital and walking into the room, there sitting propped up in the bed was John, but for some reason was convinced they were Sarah, and could not understand why everyone was calling her John, and why she was in what looked like it was a male ward. It was now at this point after seeing his body in the bed that 'John'  came to realize that he was actually in Sarah's body and had been since leaving the hospital. Things started to make a bit more sense, everything that had happened to him while he thought he was sleeping, were actually really happening, it was as if his mind was trying to protect him from the truth and gradually introducing him to his true plight.

The doctors were initially puzzled at this, they had never seen a situation where two people had switched bodies like this, yes there were rumours of voodoo magic and body possession and the like, the only possible cause was that when they had both flatlined simultaneously, the spirits left both bodies got confused and were dragged back into the wrong bodies. As it would be unethical to force a similar situation both John and Sarah were going to have to get used to being the other person.