The first shock was seeing herself in the mirror that morning. This was the first time she had seen the "new" her naked. She had been operating on the idea that she was the least changed by the magic, and it turns out she wasn't as right as she thought. For years she had battled with weight, she was never really fat but she always had an extra 15-30 she couldn't get rid of. It was at it's worse when she was 13, she had blown up to a big 180, but then lost a good part of that settling around 150, but for a teenage girl of 17 who was 5 foot 5, she should have been around 130, or at least that's where she wanted to be. She also had next to no boobs, this mixed with the weight issue gave her enough body image issues so that she always wore that famous green sweater, which made her look like a tomboy. This was on her mind enough that when she had the chance to wish for anything, she made a wish for the hair and boobs of the girl she disliked the most, Sarah McMillan. The boobs thing was new, but also looked strange on her body. Now that didn't seem to be a problem.
Her body looked toned, on the scale is was exactly 128, and her breasts looked amazing, firm and proud. It seemed she no longer had the weight problem she did before. This was a strange but welcome blessing, that she spent no small amount of time wondering at in the mirror that morning.
The second shock was when she saw Jen at the mall that morning. All the other girls were there too eventually but Jen was the first girl she saw. Karyn was expecting Jen to show up a little less amazing that she had last seen her, because there was no magic to dress her and do her make up this time, but Jen actually looked better than she had the day before, and Karyn was shocked to find herself comparing her self to her friend. She looked amazing in those capris.
All the other girls looked different levels of good too, and there was talk about the change and if any of them were thinking of joining the team, but this is about Karyn and her thoughts, so that story will get told later, maybe even next.
When Sarah arrived the real talking happened, about the squad and more team stuff, but Karyn found herself distracted. She used to hate Sarah with a passion, but now she couldn't seem to do that. Sarah used to represent the things that Karyn wasn't, all the things she wanted to be but couldn't be, another reason for the wish she had made. It was envy that drove Karyn's dislike of Sarah, that and the fact that Sarah could be mean at times, but mostly the fact that Sarah had all the things that Karyn wanted. Even when Karyn got the boobs and hair she felt like a bad copy of a better version of herself. Now she looked at Sarah and she could only see how alike they were. They had basically the same body, Sarah was a little taller but only by 2 inches, same hair, same boobs. Karyn talked a little bit differently, but if she tried she could do a near exact impression of Sarah, so that people on the phone couldn't tell the difference. Now they were more alike than they were different, and as Sarah talked, and was friendly and engaged with what was being said, Karyn saw more of herself in her, and of Sarah in herself.
She had the thought, maybe I should be a cheerleader, if I used to hate her because I wasn't her, doesn't I make sense, now that I am so much closer to her, to actually achieve the thing I apparently wanted? Would being a Cheerleader make me happy? As Sarah talked about what it was like to be on the team, Karyn found her self imagining herself in the outfit, she imagined that life. The boys, the admiration, the confidence she had never felt before. She thought of Sarah and herself as like twins, as friends, she imagined being invited to parties. As this happened she began to smile.
She didn't think at all about Jenn and what this might mean to her, she didn't imagine anything but what good could come of this thing. Maybe she should have.
When Jenn asked if Karyn was thinking of joining she surprised herself by giving an emphatic "yes
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But what was going on with the other girls? What did that whole conversation look like? Find out next, by clicking.
