Rings of Exchange

The Rings of Exchange
By Morpheus




Trisha took a sip of coffee as she looked around her neighbor's living room.  She'd been living next to Deb and Ryan for two years now and this was the first time she could ever remember being invited over to talk.  Of course, Trisha had been friendly with her neighbors but friendly wasn't quite the same thing as being friends.  However, it looked like that was changing.

Trisha looked at Deb who sat across from her sipping on her own cup of coffee.  She couldn't help but feeling a bit intimidated by Deb, though it certainly wasn't anything that Deb was doing to cause this.  However, the fact is that Deb was 6 foot 2 and extremely athletic, towering over Trisha by eight inches...not including her high heels.

On the other hand, it always struck Trish as amusing that Deb's husband Ryan was only 5 foot 4 and with a very slight build.  As a result, Deb towered over her diminutive husband and obviously enjoyed doing so.  Ryan didn't seem to enjoy this much though and actually appeared intimidated by his own wife at times.

After tearing her eyes off Deb, Trisha glanced down at herself and knew that she certainly couldn't intimidate anyone...or impress them either.  She was thirty-eight years old and had put on a lot more weight than she was comfortable with, especially over the last ten years.  She wasn't really obese but her figure had gone from slender to chubby.

"You're probably wondering why I invited you over," Deb finally said, setting down her cup of coffee and giving Trisha her full attention.

"I assumed you just wanted to get to know your neighbors better," Trish answered, now wondering what else was going on.

Deb just grinned at that and responded, "This isn't to say that I'm not happy for the chance to know my neighbors better, but there is another reason.  I've noticed that you just don't look very happy most of the time when I see you.  I know this isn't any of my business, but are you having problems with your husband Ken?"

Trisha blinked at that before responding, "Not really..."  She paused for a moment to consider how much to tell Deb before finally continuing, "I'm just afraid that I've gotten a little too frumpy...if you know what I mean.  He's never said anything about being unhappy with me, but I just can't keep his eye as well as some of those younger and sexier women."

"Oh, I see," Deb nodded her understanding.  "Would you believe that I used to have some serious problems in my relationship with Ryan?"

"Really?" Trisha asked.  She looked Deb over and smiled.  "I'd imagine it must have been difficult for him accepting that you're so much taller than him..."

Deb suddenly burst out laughing and when she stopped she grinned broadly.  "Not quite.  You see, Ryan used to be a lot bigger than me and he liked to push me around."  She frowned, looking slightly angry for a moment.  "When he got drunk, he'd sometimes even hit me.  I suppose I could have left him but in spite of how things were, I did love him.  Then someone gave me something that changed everything."

"This does sound rather hard to believe," Trisha said carefully.

"I know how it sounds," Deb told her with an amused smile.

With that, Deb reached for a small decorative box on the coffee table and pulled out a pair of silver rings that were connected to each other as though magnetized.  Deb pulled the rings apart and then let them go and they snapped back together.

"Magnets," Trisha said, wondering why her neighbor was pulling out a pair of magnetized rings.

"Not quite," Deb said, looking Trisha in the eyes and saying, "I know this will be hard to believe, but these are magic rings.  If two people wear them at the same time, they become linked to each other and they can exchange some of their traits.  This was how I fixed things with Ryan.  I used these rings to trade height and muscles with him."

With that, Deb held the rings out and dropped them into Trisha's palm.  She looked at the rings, thinking that they looked like just plain silver rings.  She pulled them apart and felt them snap back together when she let go.

"If they get separated, they always find their way back to each other," Deb explained.  "It's part of the magic."  When she saw that Trisha was still looking at the skeptically, she said, "Just humor me for a few minutes."

Trisha nodded at that, "I can do that."

"Like I said," Deb continued, "these are magic rings.  If two people wear them, they can exchange traits.  However, there is a catch and a risk.  You see, whoever is wearing the master ring is the one who controls everything.  The person wearing the other ring has no control and can't even take their ring off until the person wearing the master does."

"So which one is the master?" Trisha asked.  Both rings looked absolutely identical to her.

"I don't know," Deb admitted.  "That's part of the problem.  You see, once you both put the rings on, one of them will turn gold and that will be the master ring.  If you use this with someone, you have a fifty percent chance of being the one in control of all the exchanges and a fifty percent chance that the other person will."  She shrugged and admitted, "I didn't think I had anything to lose but you might feel different.  I thought these might help you with your problems."

After a few more minutes, Trisha left the house with the rings in hand, thinking that it was quite a story but still feeling more than a little skeptical.  Of course, she thought it would be great if it was real...if these rings really were magic.  However, she certainly wasn't going to hold her breath.

Once back home, Trisha set the rings down in a safe spot and went to work preparing dinner for when Ken returned home.  She frowned as she worked, her thoughts turning to his secretary Janet.  Janet was a young, gorgeous, and stacked blonde who would draw any man's attentions.  She was also well aware of this fact and was more than happy to use her assets to get what she wanted.  Unfortunately, she'd been using all of her considerable charms to flirt with Ken in order to get a promotion.

Trisha trusted Ken and knew that he'd never betray her for Janet, however, she didn't trust Janet in the least.  Trisha suspected that if Janet didn't get the results she wanted from Ken, there might very well be some kind of sexual harassment claim with her requiring some kind of 'compensation' to keep quiet.

"If I was to use those rings on anyone, it would be her," Trisha muttered to herself.

Not only was Trisha jealous over Janet's looks, she was pretty sure she wouldn't feel guilty over taking anything from that woman.  In fact, the more she thought about it the more she realized that Janet would be the perfect person to try the rings with.  After all, not only did Janet have the kind of body Trisha envied, but Trisha was pretty sure that she had absolutely nothing that Janet would want.  If Janet did end up with the master ring, she probably wouldn't be willing to use it against Trisha.

"Now if only magic was real," Trisha mused to herself.  However, she already knew that real or not, she wouldn't be able to resist trying it out.

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Trisha was standing just down the hall from Ken's office, feeling excited and embarrassed at the same time.  Here she was, sneaking around without her husband knowing it just so she could plant a magic ring on his secretary.  She felt more than a little foolish for doing this but at the same time, she couldn't help but feeling almost like this was an adventure.  The fact that there was no such thing as magic was almost beside the point.

Then Trisha saw Ken coming out of his office with a hand full of papers and she stood back, making sure that he couldn't see her.  She watched as Janet stuck her chest out and intentionally bent over to show more cleavage, obviously flirting with Ken.  But to Trisha's delight, Ken's eyes may have settled on Janet's chest for a moment too long, but he didn't respond to her attempt to flirt and only gave her the papers then went back into his office.

Trisha waited for several more minutes before Janet got up and left her desk and then she made her move.  Trisha quickly went to Janet's desk and dropped an envelope right on her keyboard.  It had one of the two rings inside and merely said, 'from an admirer' on the front.  After this, she went back and waited.

"I feel like some kind of spy on a secret mission," Trisha mused to herself with a chuckle.

Janet returned a few minutes later with a cup of coffee, taking her seat and then noticing the envelope.  Trisha watched from hiding as Janet opened the envelope and removed the ring.  She stared at it for several seconds, obviously not very impressed.  After all, it had been a rather plain looking ring.

"Just put it on," Trisha muttered impatiently.  She still didn't believe it would really work but she found herself caught up in the moment anyway.  After all, a voice whispered from the back of her mind, 'what if?'.

Janet turned and stared at the door to Ken's office for a moment, looking quite smug and pleased with herself.  Trisha felt a surge of anger, knowing that the secretary thought the present had come from Ken.  Of course, she quickly reminded herself, Janet had to think it came from someone and Ken was the logical choice considering how hard she'd been going after him.  Then Janet slipped the ring onto her finger with a smirk.

Trisha smiled faintly and then turned to go find some privacy so she wouldn't feel like quite so much a fool when she put the second ring on and nothing happened.  A minute later, she found herself in the ladies bathroom that was just a little further down the hall.  Once she was alone, she put the remaining ring on her own finger and gasped in surprise as it immediately changed from silver to gold.

"It works," Trisha exclaimed in amazement.

A moment later, Trisha realized that there was something else to be amazed about as well.  The ring was talking to her...or more accurately, it was downloading quick instructions on how the rings worked directly into her mind.  She suddenly knew that Deb had been completely correct about how they worked and there was even more that her neighbor hadn't told her.

One thing that Trisha noticed immediately was that she could feel her link to Janet, that she could sense the other woman from a distance.  She knew that she could even exchange any of their traits with little more than a thought.  The sense of power that Trisha felt at that was amazing.   However, Janet seemed completely unaware of their link or the power Janet now held over her.

For a brief moment, Trisha considered removing the ring so she could play with the way she'd become linked to Janet, then she realized that this wouldn't be a good idea.  If she removed the ring it would only reset the link so that when she put it back on, Janet might end up as the one in control.  There was certainly no way Trisha was going to risk that just to satisfy her curiosity.

Trisha licked her lips eagerly as she considered what she was going to do now.  She'd been so skeptical of the magic rings actually working that she'd never bothered making any plans beyond getting Janet to try one on.  Her developing plans were disrupted though with the realization that she could sense Janet coming towards her.

"This could work," Trisha thought aloud.

Janet came through the bathroom door just a minute later, barely glancing at Trisha who she didn't even recognize.  She paused in front of the mirror to touch up her makeup while Trisha watched her.

Finally, Trisha asked, "Do you know who I am?"

"Should I?" Janet asked, glancing at Trisha and giving her a look of disdain.

"I'm Ken's wife Trisha," she said.  "And I would appreciate it if you stopped flirting with my husband.  He's already spoken for and not interested in you."

With that, Jane looked Trisha over again with another appraising gleam in her eye before giving a predatory smile.  "Don't blame me because you can't keep your husband's interest," Janet told her with a smirk.  "And I wouldn't say he's not interested when he's giving me jewelry."  She held up her hand to show the silver ring she now wore.

Trisha glared at Janet with a growing anger.  She'd given Janet a chance to walk away with just a warning but now that option was gone.  Trisha had tried being nice about this though she was actually grateful that she didn't have to be now.  Janet had just made sure she wouldn't feel guilty for what she was about to do.

"Ken didn't give you that ring," Trisha told her coldly.  "I did."

Janet was startled at that and demanded, "What do you mean?"

"I mean, I've always wished I could be taller," Trisha responded, looking up at Janet who was 5 foot 10 and then giving a mental command to the ring.

Almost as soon as Trisha had told the ring what she wanted, she felt herself beginning to grow.  Her clothes became tighter as she grew four inches taller though she watched with delight as Janet's clothes became looser since she was losing the same amount of height.  In mere seconds, the two of them had exchanged heights and now Trisha was the taller of the two, looking down on a stunned and confused Janet.

"Not quite as tall as Deb," Trisha muttered to herself, "but I definitely like."

"What the hell did you do?" Janet demanded frantically.

"I brought you down to size," Trisha teased the now shorter woman, enjoying this turnabout.  "Now for a little more…"

With that, Trisha gave the ring another command and felt the extra fat fading away from her.  In mere seconds, all the extra weight she'd gained over the past ten years had disappeared, leaving her slender and with clothes that were now loose in several important places.  On the other hand, Janet was gasping in horror as her body put on thirty pounds and made her clothes stretch to the breaking point.

"Oh God it hurts," Janet exclaimed, popping the button of her pants which were now painfully tight.  Then she stared at Trisha with a look of horror and even fear.

"We're not done yet," Trisha said, giving the ring yet another command and feeling her muscles suddenly becoming more firm and toned.  She now felt as though she went to the gym on a regular basis and felt even lighter and more energetic than she had by just giving away her fat.

Janet staggered slightly feeling the weight from her new fat even more than she had before.  However, the increased fat had hidden the muscle tone so there was no visible change for her other than that she slumped over a little.

A moment later, Trisha continued by giving the ring another command, exchanging the rest of her physique with Janet. Trisha's breasts had gotten a bit smaller when she lost the weight but now they grew larger again, gaining the size and firmness that Janet had enjoyed before gaining the weight.  Trisha had also taken Janet's nice ass at the same time.

"What are you doing to me?" Janet demanded, starting for the door but Trisha blocked her way.

"You've got a fantastic body," Trisha told her coldly.  "Or at least you did.  Too bad you used it to go after my husband. Now I'm just making sure you aren't able to do that again."

Trisha had already gained more than she'd intended from Janet but she was exhilarated by how fantastic she now felt. She looked over her body, especially at the firm round breasts she now possessed.  She couldn't help but wanting even more.

"You've got such lovely hair," Trisha said, even as her hair changed from a mousy brown to a lovely golden blonde and grew longer.  "And such a nice complexion…"  Then she grinned and held her hands up, watching as her short fingernails lengthened and formed into manicured shape.

"Please," Janet begged fearfully. "Please change me back…  I promise I'll leave Ken alone…"

"Oh, you'll leave him alone all right," Trisha responded with a smile. "But there is one more thing I want from you…"  She paused dramatically before adding, "Your youth."

And with that, Trisha felt a subtle change shift through her entire body.  However, her attention was actually on Janet who quickly aged from twenty-five to thirty-eight right before her eyes.  She knew that she herself had just become thirteen years younger.

"Very nice," Trisha mused, turning to look into the bathroom mirror.  "Oh God, I look fantastic…"

Trisha couldn't resist posing and looking over her young, sexy, and busty new body.  There was no doubt in her mind that Ken was going to enjoy this.

Janet had taken advantage of Trisha's distraction to sneak out of the bathroom and run away, though she had no idea that this meant nothing to Trisha.  After all, Trisha was still linked to Janet and could switch more traits with her from this distance if she wanted to. However, she already had everything she wanted from the secretary.

There was one feature of the rings that Deb had neglected to tell her about but which Trish was now well aware of thanks to the rules the ring had given her.  The rings not only had the power to exchange traits between people, it could also make it so everyone else thought this was perfectly normal.

A minute later, Trisha left the bathroom and walked back towards Ken's office, feeling quite pleased with herself as she did so.  To her amusement, when she reached the office, she found Janet sitting at her normal desk and working as though everything was perfectly normal.

Trisha had used the rings to make Janet think that this was all perfectly normal, to completely accept that she was plain and frumpy rather than sexy.  Trisha wondered how much Janet actually remembered about what had happened or if the rings had made her forget about the encounter in the bathroom entirely.

Janet looked up at Trisha, her expression being a little wary and envious but not outright hostile like Trisha would have expected.  Trisha suspected that even if Janet didn't remember everything consciously, at least some part of her mind remembered which was why she was so wary.

"I bet Deb did this to Ryan," Trisha mused, knowing that she'd have to ask her neighbor about this later on.  Then to Janet, she said, "I'm here to see my husband."

Trisha went to the office door then paused for a moment, glancing down at the ring on her finger and then removing it and carefully putting it in her pocket.  There was no longer anything that Janet had which she wanted and as long as she continued wearing the ring there was always the chance of accidentally exchanging something with a stray thought.  Before Trisha had left Deb's house, Deb had warned her to especially not wear it to bed because there was no telling what her own dreams might to.

"No sense taking chances," Trisha told herself.

She couldn't see any way to recover the ring from Janet at the moment but that was all right.  Without someone wearing the ring she currently had in her own pocket it would be completely useless.  And from what Trisha knew of the rings, as long as she kept this one secure then sooner or later the other one would return to her and she could pass them both on to someone else who could use them.

A moment later, Trisha stepped through the doors and smiled at the look of amazement on Ken's face.  His eyes went wide at the sight of her with a moment of surprise though that look quickly passed as the magic of the rings did their work and make him accept her gorgeous new body as perfectly normal.  However, the look of surprise was quickly replaced with one of obvious attraction.  It was an expression that she absolutely loved seeing there.

"Sometimes I forget just how gorgeous you are," Ken told her with a smile.

Ken grabbed her and gave her a kiss, a kiss that was more passionate than any that they'd had in several years.  Once they broke apart, she made sure to lock his office door to ensure their privacy and then turned her attention back to him, more than eager to try out her new body.

"You have no idea how much I've been dreaming of this," Trisha whispered to Ken. "No idea."  Then before he could ask what she meant, she silenced him with a kiss and soon they both forgot everything else.


THE END