Role Exchanger: Need The Hylands are walking home after a day out. Matt and Kelly Hyland are a very well to do married couple. They have been married for over five years. They are impeccably dressed. Matt who has taken over his father's business at only twenty nine years old is dressed in an extremely soft expertly tailored woolen blue suit. He is wearing a silk tie and an Italian made dress shirt. His shoes were also from Italy and made out of the finest leather. His clothing projected the power of his status. Even though both his suit and shoes are extremely expensive, by far the most expensive thing he wore was his Chopard watch. To Matt's right his lovely twenty-seven year old wife accompanied him. She is wearing an elegant Terani chiffon gown. It is strapless and extends to just above the knee. Since she is still breast-feeding her baby she does not like to wear anything too revealing. The dress is designed to cover her nursing bra that she wears daily. Long enough to be elegant, but not so long as to minimize her still youthful appearance. She is wearing tasteful peep toe pumps with a two and a half inch heel which showed off her manicured toes. Her makeup is expertly applied. Matt and Kelly are bickering but at trying not to show it while they are in public. In front of the couple a sixteen-year-old girl is pushing a stroller with their not quite two-year-old baby. The girl whose name is Allison is the Hyland's live-in nanny. It's her primary job to take care of young Laurence, who everyone calls Larry. She is a typical teenager who is working hard to save some money for college. She has taken a year off of school for this opportunity to make a great deal of money. She is dressed unlike the Hyland's somewhat casually in slacks and a pretty blouse. She would prefer slacks and a t-shirt but for the event they had just attended the Hyland's insisted she wear something nicer. Two-year-old Larry is sitting in his stroller looking around at the world which is still new to him. He has a pacifier in his mouth and is pretty content even though his diaper is not fully dry. But it hasn't been flooded enough to need to be changed immediately. Matt and Kelly lives had grown apart and that is why they constantly bickered. They were more like they were part time players in each other's lives only appearing together when one needed the other. Other than that they hardly spent any time together. Matt was off increasing the size of his business empire. He wanted to justify his father's faith in him to run the company. His father didn't care. Matt's father had learned that there is more to life than running a business and was happily retired pursuing his own interests at fifty-two. Kelly was following in her mother's footsteps by doing what they called charity work. What that really meant was holding huge fund raisers for this cause or that. She didn't really care about the causes, she cared about the social implications. It was while they were returning home that the role exchanger happened upon them. The role exchanger thought this successful couple should be happy. They weren't happy and the role exchanger decided to help them out by making them need each other more. "You know how I hate these things, Kelly," grumbled Matt. "Oh come off it, you love these things more than I do. It gives you a chance to show off," retorted Kelly. "Show off, your dress costs over $2000." "Don't talk to me about money," Kelly said with gritted teeth trying not to shout. "Your watch costs ten times that amount. Isn't a Rolex good enough for you?" "A Rolex may be good enough for some, but if you want real quality." Matt was thrown off the real subject. He loved his watch. Maybe even more than he loved his car or his house. It was the one thing he could take everywhere he went. Matt had convinced himself that he didn't want to go to Kelly's charity functions. Whether he did or not he really didn't know. But he had to go, he needed Kelly to accompany him to several dinners with investors and clients. The investors would bring their wives so he had to bring his. There was an unspoken agreement about these events. They would go to the events that each other needed them for, but they didn't have to be happy about it. "Quality, its just a watch, it is covered up by your shirt and suit, not everyone sees it. My dress on the other hand everyone gets to see. My only problem is...." Kelly trailed off.
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