Karyn walked into the address she had been sent to, she had been to a salon once before, but this one seemed off the map, sceret in some way. It was way more fancy that she ever thought to afford or apporach but here was where she was supposed to meet Mrs. Holloway. The place had a glow to it, as if touched by something unreal. The one thing she didn't like was that it had many mirrors. Each one reflecting a different her to herself. Nobody else seemed to notice, but she never seemed to look at the same person when she saw herself in the mirror. This one a dirty blonde, this one a red head with blond streaks or the reverse of that, this one tan, this one pale, this one with small green eyes, that one with big blue ones, curly hair, straight, she had lost all sense of self image. Still nobody seemed to notice, everyone seemed to see what they saw when they saw her, which was at base a pretty girl. This had one other effect, guys of all types were hitting on her. On the bus ride she got a guy who was clearly into red heads trying to spar with her in the way he expected to with a firey red head, and then later a guy who who cat called her like one would a blonde. All the attention was both baffling and unconfortable because she never knew what that person was seeing when they saw her, much less did she know how to handle the attention.
Mrs. Holloway came in from the back of the room.
"Karyn, welcome! what do you think of my little shop?"
"This place is yours?"
"For now it is yes. I was just a Great Clips an hour ago, but I've had my way with it. Just think about what I can do with you."
"about that...something's different."
"Oh dear, what's the matter?"
"You mean you can't see it?"
"No what do you mean?"
"It's my reflection, I seemed to be constantly shifting between two versions of me. I'm a red head and then I'm a blonde and then I'm something in between, and nobody seems to see the same me."
"so you did mix magics. What did I tell you not to do!"
"actually it was you that did it."
"I what?"
"A couple of weeks before you came, my friend got this rock that grants wishes and I accidently wished for the hair and breasts of Sarah McMillan. I used to be a flatchested redhead. "
"and now with that and my own magically enhancements....I see. Well that's easily fixed, explains why you are on the team actually."
"Oh thank God, wait what?"
"You wished for part of Sarah for yourself, that made you more like her, magically, it already pushed you towards what the magic was trying to do, so when it had to pick a person for Cheerleading, you were the path of least resistance. Already on the way to what it wanted to make you."
"What does that mean?"
"quite simply this"
Mrs. Holloway put a mirror us to Karyn, then another, then a third. in them she saw the three versions of herself, the blonde, the red head, and a third...a mix. The blonde looked like she did before Mrs. Holloway affected her own spell, and the red head looked like her before her wish. She didn't quite recognize the mix girl, whose image kept on changing as she shifted her gaze.
"So this is you at lets call it "low power". Then I come a long and super charge you, that's what I do. I improve things."
Both girls, the red head and the blonde grew prettier, smiled more, the blonde began to look more like Sarah, her face a blend of the two girls, quintessential cheerleader. Her clothing changed to something far more fashionable, her smile was blinding, her make up perfect, her hair full but straight and deeply long. Her body, what she could see of it, was perfection itself, fantastically sexy, all curves, and firm. Her eyes blazed with the confidence and pride. It was the Miss Americafication of Karyn.
The other Karyn, the one that was more originally her, was uncanny to watch transform from her average face, to a cuter one, not so far out of reach with the aid of make up and management, to a truly beautiful wild looking girl. Her hair spun out from her head from a short mess to a jungle of curls and waves, her eyes pieced out from pale lightly freckled skin an emerald green and her lips stood out as red against the white of her skin, seeming larger. Her body was thin, but had a grace to it, there was while everything was right with the other her, there was nothing wrong with this her. Her breasts fit her frame, thought they were not extra large, her waist fit, and her legs long.
She tried to speak but found the words caught in her mouth.
"So this is you." She pointed to the stunning red.
"and this is the magic already in you." She pointed to Miss America.
and that is what the magic wanted to do with those situations. referring to the current images.
"Resulting in this mess here." She pointed to the certain mirror, which did not change.
"So what I need you to do is make a choice. Which one of these would you rather be, because right now, you are both, and that is eventually going to manifest in a split personality and all sorts of trouble for you."
There was a silence. Karyn knew how to speak, and felt that she could, but when she did it was as if her mouth was full, like she had too many words in her mouth. When she finally said something it sounded like "I caun't liumm sptake."
"Oh sorry, that's me. I split you into what you could be and they both want to talk at once. Just look at one of the side images of yourself, focus on that, it should allow you speak, to become more that version of yourself."
Karyn did this, looking first at the Sarah-ized version of herself, because that version seemed more perfect. As she stared into her face she felt a change in herself. The face went from uncanny, to normal, from a stranger, to a common welcome image, she saw this face as her and felt a surge of pride as she did. Her first shock were her first words.
"Oh my, how wonderfully strange." Her voice was higher, softer, she enunciated each word with perfection.
"I sound different. Is this my voice?"
"Do you like it?"
"It's fantastic! I remind myself of the finest regality." She sighed sensually, a sound which could melt a man.
"Your word choice is also a bit elevated. How do you feel?"
She took collection of herself in the mirror. Pride filled her, awe, confidence as she thought of what she might do, as if anything was possible.
"I feel perfect, invincible," she looked down "sensual" but what she meant was sexy. She felt in many ways better than she ever had before, at the peak of herself and as she thought of her old self, of others as well. She saw the flaws in others, the weakness that she lacked, she had never noticed before how low her tastes had been, how much better the world could be. Like being on top of a mountain, all other things felt small to her, but it was more than that, she wasn't just at the top of the mountain, she Was the top of the mountain.
"Good, one last thing. Tell me your name."
Karyn was caught off guard.
"Kara...."was what came out.
"a side effect, Sarah is a part of you now, and now that part is elevated. It has it's affect, you are part Sarah, and part Karyn. a Perfect mix, made-"
"Perfection" Kara interrupted. Giving herself one last look over in the mirror, displaying herself. Many would scoff at this action to read about it, but to see it was extraordinary, breathtaking, and unforgettable.
"Ok now the other side." Mrs. Holloway touched the mirror and it froze. Karyn suddenly felt that confidence fall away from her, and she felt naked. She yelped.
"Sorry, I know that can be a bit jarring. Here." she pointed to the other her, the red headed Karyn. "try this."
Karyn looked very willingly into the other mirror, expecting to feel that confidence she felt before. She did not. The same effect happened, at first she saw this image as alien but the more she looked particularly at the eyes, those green eyes, she felt herself blend into the mirror. She didn't even notice when she went up to brush a lock of red from her face, that she was now herself again.
"I'm me again!" She felt an energy and happiness at the thought, like returning home to family after a long time away.
"Oh this voice is different too!" she found her words came out with a quickness and energy behind them, each word burst out overtaking the next. She sounded cheerful, as if there was a music in her way of speaking that made you not want her to stop.
She found her smile on her face, then made a face with that smile.
"I look how I always hoped I would."
she grabbed her chest.
"and these are sooooo much more manageable."
"So tell me about yourself, how are you?"
"I fell fine. I mean, I don't feel like I own the world like I did as Kara, but I finally feel like I fit into it. I feel.....at one with myself, and with the rest of the world too. "why not" that's how I feel, ready for anything, fearless. Did you know I've never been kissed...I should change that, where's Jon? Silly me, he's Jen now, Oh well plenty of fish in the sea for both of us, or I could just kiss her anyway...wow I'm open minded."
"and mouthed it seems." Mrs. Holloway noted.
"Yeah sorry about that, it's just so exciting, like I'm everything I hoped I could be at the same time. I love this hair too, it's wild." She ran her hands through her fingers and said roar to the mirror, which made her laugh. Her laugh was like a giggle and a chuckle where having the best sex of their life's together.
"oh, I like your laugh."
"Thanks. Made it myself." She laughed again. They both did.
"Ok, that's enough of that." Mrs Holloway froze that mirror as well. back to her morphing self again, the laughter stopped.
Time to make a choice.
