Julia volunteers!

A few more brief, tense moments followed as you looked up to the group huddled in the kitchen. None of them even glanced your way, so at least it felt like they didn't see you as a threat. You even heard a couple giggles in the hushed conversation after a moment. Not what you were expecting... you weren't sure that anyone outside of Daniel understood the gravity of the situation.

After a while, the group disbanded, and everyone marched into the living area. It was about five feet away, so it wasn't very dramatic, but you still felt like you were on some sort of gameshow where you were about to be voted off the island or something.

"First thing's first," Daniel said. "We believe you, you're a friend, we'll do whatever we have to in order to make sure you're able to be safe and healthy. It's a difficult--"

"I'm gonna do it!" Julia blurted out, with a goofy half-smile as she looked at you. "I'll be a host. Like, two or three days to help a friend? And Ken said it'll be easier to help if he can monitor us both, so... yeah."

You sighed in immense relief. Julia wasn't really who you expected to pipe up, were anyone to speak at all, but you absolutely weren't going to complain. The fact that you'd be in her body and technically married to Ken would be strange, but it was going to be way easier to acclimate to a new form if Ken's able to play along, so to speak--although you would want to just hide indoors all day, you had to assume that wouldn't always be possible in these situations.

Your train of thought was interrupted as Julia came back over to you and patted you on the shoulder--the one without the bubble of slime on it. "So, uh... how does this happen?"

"Let's find some place a little more private, maybe?" Chloe was quick to interject, she was the one who really understood any of this. Blinking dumbly, you nodded after a bit, and stood up. Just down the hall was your room, and Julia followed after you, wiggling her fingers at Ken and the others as she went. Everyone except Ken looked concerned; Ken just looked curious.

Once you were in your sparsely-decorated room and had closed the door behind Julia, Chloe seemed to take charge, as you felt your body lose coherence--you felt, truly, like you'd lost all your bones, losing definition and turning green, although not the same glassy clear green that Chloe normally was. "Okay, listen up you two. I'm going to try to make this not weird. But, it's going to be weird. Julia, you'll want to sit down, open your mouth, and brace yourself. Jason, just stay relaxed, and don't try to move. By the time I'm done, Julia will just look like Julia, but Jason will be the main motivator of the body, while Julia's movements and speaking will take a supplementary role unless she really focuses for control for a short amount of time--you'll see, I guess. And there's way more that we'll discuss later, let's just start with that."

Julia nodded, looking a little nervous, but she sat down and opened her mouth as instructed. You didn't even really feel yourself making a movement--you didn't know how, with slimy appendages--but your blob-like form tumbled forward, landing on Julia's body before flowing up to her mouth and down her throat. Julia, in response, groaned and yelped, trying to vocalize her sudden protest to the intrusion only to be muffled by the slime. As for your perspective, it seemed to bend and twist until suddenly you couldn't see anything anymore, it felt like you were taking a nap...

...And then you awoke, and bolted upright. You were again solid, you felt it! But it was... different. You looked down, and Julia's yoga instructor body was in your immediate field of view, her toned body encased in her t-shirt and sweatpants from before. Your hands shot up to your new blonde locks, tugging at the long strands. "Ow."

"Hey, careful with my body!" You heard a voice, but it wasn't spoken... it just existed in your head. You looked around and down again, trying to figure out the origin, but all you saw was Julia's impressive breasts, and you blushed. "Wow, this is gonna be so weird... are you getting turned on by me, buddy? Am... am I getting turned on by me in that case? Weird! Let me try to... nope. I can't move, it's all you, Jason."

"Julia? How are you talking? I don't..." You stopped, listening to Julia's voice say your words. You spoke exactly as Julia would have, which was strange. Almost like Julia was functioning like a filter for your speech, even though it was what was on your mind.

You heard a giggle in your head. "This might actually be really fun! I'm talking in your head, silly. Or, my head. The slime said you're gonna be in control for the most part, so I can't speak unless I really focus I guess. I'll figure that out later. I'm not going to lie though... this actually feels really good for some reason. Is that a side effect of this whole slime thing?"

You shrugged, and stood up, taking a couple steps toward a nearby mirror. You were taking the steps, but you moved as Julia would, seeming to understand how to not just trip over yourself. Julia was sort of like a puppet you were pushing to go where you wanted, accentuating your intended movements with her own. You moved to get some hair out of your face, for example, and your hand expertly brushed it aside and behind your ear as if you'd done it a million times, despite never having long blonde hair like this.

The corner of your mouth seemed to twitch upward in Julia's signature half-smile, about as much control as she apparently could muster, as the girl continued to talk in your borrowed head. "So... are you going to take a peek? I know you wanted to in high school, I can definitely tell you want to now... or do you want to go back to 'our' husband? I bet he wants to know that we're okay."

Was Julia giving you permission to check out your new body? How do you pass that up? But, you had this suspicion that if you did right now and everyone found out that you were going to play with their bodies the moment you got in them, you wouldn't get any more takers later in the month...