After the shift, the only family I could find was my Grandma Mabel. She swapped with a nurse home from the old folks home and we recently moved into a place together. Today I learned she's been telling people we're a couple! I know it's to avoid awkward questions but I kinda don't hate the idea (RP)
Things were chaos at the start of the shift, especially since I landed in the body of a construction worker mid job! But once the government, finally opened back up, I got a notice that one of my relatives had been found! Grandma Mabel had been spending this whole time, tending to the unfortunate folks who ended up in the bodies of the seniors at her home...including her own. But with the government stepping in, she needed a place to stay and how could I say no?
Needless to say we were both fortunate, May (she says Mabel sounds like an old woman's name) has decades of life back, and wants to become nurse. Plus my new body is way stronger and apparently pretty handsome according to May. Once she got access to her old accounts, I was sure she'd move out, but she insisted on getting us a nicer place...together. I guess it makes sense she'd say we're a couple...we sort of are really. She's studying to back to school, and I'm picking up good money doing construction jobs thanks to a shortage of able bodies. When I get home, there's always good food, and May's excitement at her new life, is really inspiring. She gets nightmares though, mostly about those early days of the shift at the home, or of waking up back in her old body...Those nights she comes to my room, and just lay together...and it feels good.