Jon was taking a shower when everything went wrong.
As he was washing himself, he felt a sudden urge to look away from himself, and when he looked back he had changed.
Thick, wet brown hair fell into his view, and he could feel long strabds tickling his back as well. Even after he brushed them out of his face, he had found he would have to look up to see anything from now on, since he had shrunken tremendously to the tiny height of 4'10.
Somewhere he could vaguely hear a phone ringing, but it went unanswered as he frantically began examining himself, finding large, shapely female breasts sprouting on his chest, with two pink, erect female nipples. Most of his body was small, girly and hairless, but his waist was waspish and his hips massive, extending at least two and a half times the width of his now tiny waist. He would have trouble even walking through doors.
As he started feeling the parts of his body he couldn't see, he realized hands had long, slender fingers and were perfectly manicured. He now had buttocks to match his hips, he found. It felt like he had two basketballs strapped to his butt, but strangely, they didn't look fat, just extremely shapely, as if they were a natural part of his anatomy. He only seemed to be a guy where it counted.
He began hyperventilating, looking frantically around the bathroom filled with girly soaps and hair care products. *I can't let anybody see me like this. I look like a...like a girl..."
But he couldn't help it, a feminine, high pitched shriek escaped from his mouth before he could restrain it. Shortly afterward, a tall, pale man in black clothing with numerous piercings who was built like a body builder burst into the bathroom. Jon shrieked again, frantically covering himself in a bright pink bath towel.
"Jon?" The man said in a deep voice. Zoe could hardly believe how much Jon had changed. The parts of his body that weren't almost cartoonishly exaggerate were tiny and pixieish. Even his face was different, with a tiny jaw, big eyes with long lashes, and full, full lips. Her mother's wish had really done a number on him.* And everyone else... *She thought evilly.
"Zoe?" Jon gasped in shock.
"Yeah...."
"Zoe, what's going on? What happened to us?"* God, it sounds like I just breathed a bunch of helium*
"Jon...I don't know how to say this. It's just too weird."
"Go on. Please!"
"Well, it was mom. She found this weird rock in your room and...well, she made some wishes on it and they came true."
Jon could feel a cold chill running down his spine that had nothing to do with the water.
"What kind of wishes?" He asked the man that was apparently Zoe.
"Well, she wished that guys and girls would trade shapes. And not only that, but that guys would have to deal with being short and small and soft everywhere. And," Zoe continued, eyeing Jon's impossible hips. "that they'd have to deal with having huge soft hips."
*Oh God. *Jon thought, forgetting that he shouldn't even be able to remember the wish in his distress.
"Zoe...that stone. It's a wishing stone. Grandpa gave it to me." He explained slowly.
"Well I guess that would explain some things." Zoe replied, feigning ignorance.
"But Zoe, the thing is...wishes can't be reversed, only reinterpreted. We may be stuck like this!"
Zoe made herself frown. "But...Jon. There's something else you should know. Mom...she...she wished that the changes would last forever." Zoe watched in amusement as despair shone on Jon's face.
"What?! But..no, no, no. How could she do that? I can't live like this..I...I..." Jon was almost in hysterics. He couldn't stand being stuck in a world where the genders were not only reversed, but horribly exagerrated. He could feel tears welling in his eyes, but before he could begin crying the phone rang.
"H-hello?" He said in his new voice, choking back tears.
"Uh, who is this?" Asked a deep voice on the other end he didn't recognize. Although there was something familiar about it...
"*Karyn_?" He realized, shocked.
"Jon? What the hell's going on? I'm all huge and hairy and...what the hell did you wish?"
"I didn't wish anything!" He exclaimed, taken aback by Karyn's aggression. He could feel tears welling up again. "It was my mom, she...she..." He started sobbing and couldn't finish.
"Alright, look I'm coming over there. You can just tell me when I get there." Karyn informed him irritably over the phone.
"sob Ok. By-" He was interrupted by a click as she hung up the phone.
Zoe simply stood behind him, smirking at the scene.
