Jim did spend the rest of the day doing chores; it appeared that his mom was really angry and making up chores as she went. He got through it, though, and then did his homework. Finally, before bed, he was able to spend an hour talking to Rebecca on the phone.
The first two days of the school week saw nothing really interesting happening. Jim had convinced Rebecca to become Beth occasionally between classes, so that Rick wouldn't be suspicious of her not being around. But they weren't really able to find any time together at school, just a few minutes here and there.
Wednesday morning, however, things went a bit weird. After having particularly vivid dreams overnight about Kim and Rebecca, Jim woke up a bit early, finding his body much more feminine than usual. The fact that he was just wearing a nightshirt made him doubt whether Rick had anything to do with it. But he should darned well be able to fix it, regardless, he thought. As Rick wasn't answering his phone, however, the only option was to leave a message asking for help.
Jim's second thought was to talk to his sister about it. He walked through the bathroom that their bedrooms shared, to her room. She appeared to be asleep, although her alarm had definitely gone off at least once.
Jim walked over, and shook her a bit. She seemed to sense that something was wrong, because she sat up immediately. Her first words were, "Who are you," but they were followed almost immediately by, "Wait... Jim?"
He nodded. "I don't know what happened, or how, but I woke up looking like this. I guess I'll shower and get dressed now, but I'll probably need your help getting out without mom and dad seeing me."
"What are you going to wear," she asked.
"I have a change of clothes. If need be, I can wear it to school, although hopefully I can get this taken care of before then."
While Katie went down for breakfast, Jim did as he said, dressing in jeans and the most casual top he had when he failed again to get Rick after the shower. He was just putting a change of clothes in his book bag when Rick finally called back.
As Rick was asking, "What happened," Jim's body wavered, and returned to its original form.
The "painted on" jeans Jim was wearing were a bit narrow about the waist, but too strong to burst, so in a pained voice, Jim responded, "Put me back! Put me back! Pants too tight!"
Rick did, but added a twist, putting him in the same clothes that he'd worn for his earlier date with Beth.
"Geeze, man, what are you doing? How does this outfit help?"
"Sorry, man. Still trying to imagine what that looks like on you."
"This is not speeding your opportunity to find out, either," Jim exclaimed.
Rick did his thing, and Kim disappeared again, once more leaving Jim with much-too-tight pants. In the same pained voice, he muttered, "Back to Kim! No change of clothes! Pants still too tight!"
Rick cast the spell again, leaving Jim as Kim in a relatively-normal outfit. He took the pants off, and said, "Ok, now back to myself."
Rick did so, although he finally let out the laughter he'd been holding onto for a while. Jim answered that by hanging up the phone.
Just then, his mom knocked on the door, saying, "Jim, is someone else in there with you?"
Realizing that she must have heard him speaking in Kim's voice, he said, "No, but give me a minute to put some clothes on." While he was saying that, he pulled all the 'Kim' clothes off, and threw them into the corner of the closet.
Mrs Bennet opened the door, and saw him holding a pair of boxers in front of his crotch. He yelled out, "Mom! A little privacy here!"
Seeing no girls immediately visible, she said, "Sorry, dear," and quickly closed the door.
I'm going to kill him at school today, Jim thought to himself about his friend.
As he was finishing dressing, Katie checked in on him via the bathroom. "Oh, looks like you don't need any more help with that problem," she noted.
"Some help you were, anyway, when mom walked in on me, and I was basically naked."
"Sorry, I tried to distract her, but when she heard a female voice for the second time, I couldn't stop her. Next time, I'll just tackle her," she joked.
He laughed, and they both went off to school.
