She took a step towards the school, and immediately staggered, and fell forward. pinwheeling her arms, and shuffling her feet, she managed to right herself, then glared down at her feet with a deep simmering rage.
"REALLY?!" She shouted into the sky. "As if this isn't enough? High heels." She burned at the injustice of not having someone to take out her anger on, then burned with even more rage as she found an unfamiliar memory in her mind of her slipping into them herself that very morning.
"Damn you Leonard." She cursed. She turned, and started to trot awkwardly back to the house when her phone buzzed in her pocket.
She slipped it out, and recognizing Leonards phone number opened the text.
"I don't think so."
"Fuck you." Jon fired back immediately.
"Go home, and I'll make that a reality."
Fury tingled from the tips of her ears to the soles of her feet, now jammed in obnoxious chunky black heels. She couldn't tell how high they were, only that they were too high.
With a huff she turned back to school, and started mincing back. However, with each step she noticed that it felt funny to walk in her careful little mince. It was her caution that that felt unnatural, and as she relaxed... Or perhaps just directed her anger elsewhere, she found herself settling into a natural and practiced strut. The tap of her heels started beating out a steady confident rhythm.
Her nose itched, and when she reached to scratch it, she saw her nails painted in a dark chipped polish, the color of black jade. Shaking her head in exasperation she scratched. She forgot her anger as something cold and smooth and unfamiliar greeted her touch. A bewildered 'Huh?' left her lips, and she paused as she rubbed the strange intruder. It was cold, and smooth, and hard. Something steel, or maybe ceramic? She crunched her face up as bewilderment gave way to annoyance. "A nose ring!" She stated to no one but herself. Her second hand went to her nose where she felt a curved band of metal pierced her septum, coming out of each nostril, and ending in two bulbs of metal on either end. She tried to slide it out, but the bulbs kept catching on the small septum piercing and wouldn't come out. She tried to force it, but only managed to painfully stretch her nose, and relented.
Again she considered returning home, but trudged forward with determination, She reached the school with plenty of anger left burning away at her very short fuse. She fussed with the ring the entire time.
"Hey babe" A startling deep female voice interjected as she fiddled with her locker. A warm body came close behind her and hands wrapped around her middle.
"Hey Jon." She replied evenly, startling herself at how naturally she accepted the occrance. She clasped the hands around her hips in her own small palms as the person leaned over her shoulder and planted a kiss on her cheek. It felt good.
"Rough day?" The feminine voice said.
"How could you tell." She snapped.
"I just can." The curious woman she called Jon responded.
It wasn't until Jon turned around to face this person holding his identity that the shock set in.
"Mrs... Mrs.Black?!" Jon stammered. He looked up and down the figure recognizing the red headed mother of Karyn, in clothes she immediately recognized as hers... Or at least as hers when she was still Jon. It was comically absurd.
A sultry red headed adult woman, showing her years, and weight around the middle wearing a men's pair of athletic jeans, sneakers, an Atari print T, and an unzipped hoodie.
"Did... did something happen to your mom?" 'Jon' wearing Mrs. Blacks body asked, concern in her voice.
"N-no. Sorry. Are you ok? Do you feel well?"
"I mean... Same as always." The bewildered older woman responded.
"Nothing's different?"
"Not that I can tell. What's wrong babe?" Mrs.Madison reaches up to brush Jon's hair from her face.
Jon recoils back. The bashfully stammers. "S-sorry Jon. I'm not in the mood today. I have to get to class."
"What? You're Always in the mood." Mrs. Madison holds her hands out in bewilderment. "What's going on?"
Jon just kept walking, trying to shake the terrible image of Karens mom living her old life, and acting like her new boyfriend.
