The Days of Transition. Part: Two
I look around my room trying to think of something that can hide my paws. Where are my gloves? I am frantically looking through my closet. I find some knit gloves that are pretty thin. That wont work. I toss them aside. More digging until I reach my camouflage gloves. "I hope these work..." I notice that my red claws are out. Go down! I am trying to figure out how they retract. I bang them on my desk, that doesn't work. "Come on! Go down!" My claws eventually slide back into their sheaths. "Finally. Now I hope you don't come out in the middle of the day." I slip my gloves over my paws. It completely covers them other than my pinky fingers. I don't have them anymore. "Sweet! it works." It feels odd that all but one fingers on my gloves are filled.
I go into the kitchen and fix myself a bowl of cereal like the previous morning. "Why do you have gloves on?" My mom questions me. "I...uh...My hands are cold." I shoot out. "Okay what ever makes you warm." My mom smiles and walks away. "Phew" I softly mumble. I finish my breakfast and set my bag against the front door again. I head to school in my moms boyfriends car. When I arrive at school one of my gloves is starting to come off. I quickly pull it back up to cover my paw. I walk inside, pull out my headphones and listen to music on my phone. "Hey man. Whats up?" My friend Mihir says. "Oh nothing. Whats up with you?" I counter. "Nothing much either. Hey why are you wearing gloves? We are inside and it is warm in here." He questions me, I think he is suspicious and on to something. "Don't worry about it." "Well okay then" He says with a sigh.
My day starts as normal until staff start to question me. "Take your gloves off." One staff member says to me. "My pa." I freeze after I was about to say paws. "My uh hands are cold. Can't I keep them on?" I say back. "Fine whatever." The staff member says with irritation. My heart is pumping at full speed. Man, any more close calls then I would die. I think to myself. The day continues on. Lunch rolls around and I go and get my lunch as well as my locker partner Omar's lunch. I hand his lunch to him. "Dude. Whats with the gloves?" He interrogates me. "Oh my god! Everyone is asking the same fucking question! Don't worry about it!" He takes a step back when I snap at him. I can feel my gloves getting tighter as I think my claws are starting to come out. "Dude it's just a question. You don't need to get... What the fuck?!" I look at him with a confused face. "What? What's wrong?" "Your eyes! They changed!" I get even more confused. "What do you mean?" "I mean that they aren't green anymore. They are red." My eyes widen really big. "WHAT?!" "Go see for yourself." I dash to the restroom and get in front of a mirror. I whip my face around to see what has made Omar freaked out. "Oh shit." It's true. My eyes changed from green to red. I run out of the restroom and back to the freshman wing of my school.
"The day can't get any worse. Can it?" I think to myself. Yep I was wrong. More later in the day in fourth block geometry, the small nubs on top of my head start to feel like they are being stretched and pulled. "Ahh" I wince in slight pain from the pulling sensation. I touch them to try to keep them down. Then they start to grow up just the slightest bit. I keep my glove covered paws on my head. I look stupid sitting here. "Why do you have your hands on your head?" Dakota asks me. The nubs are getting slightly taller and thicker. "Uhh... 'Cause I want to?" I gave him a really bad response. "Well you look stupid." "Well gee thanks." I put my jackets hood up and my paws down. So many people are asking me questions today.
Geometry ends and we head to the last class of the day, biology. I walk there on my toes exactly like a digitigrade animal and my legs and feet start to hurt while I walk. More questions are bound to happen. Biology goes slow as it normally does. I keep my hood and gloves on. I get asked a few more times about my hood and gloves and to take them off. The school day ends and I head to my locker. I grab my leather jacket and put it on while making sure that my hood and gloves don't slip off. I head home in my moms boyfriends car again.
Once I arrive at my home I run into my bathroom and shut the door behind me. I take off the gloves and hood. "Oh my god" I say to myself as I look in the mirror. The nubs on the top of my head are tall and wide and covered in black and red fur. They appear to look like wolf ears. "No no no no no! This can't be happening to me! Why are these changes happening so fucking fast!" I touch the nubs and can hear out of them. Currently I have double hearing through my human ears and wolf ones. I look at my paws and I find that the fur is going up my arms engulfing them in black fur. "Oh my fucking god" I am in utter shock now.
I walk to my room and suddenly my legs explode in pain. "WOW This...really....h-hurts" I collapse to the floor wincing and grunting in pain. It feels like my legs are breaking. "OH.... MY....GOD!" I scream out as the pain intensifies ten fold. I start to kick my legs and move in circles on the floor of my room. I am biting down hard on my lip and starting to cry from the feelings in my legs. My bones in my legs are shifting positions and elongating. The pain never seems to stop. I keep making circles on the floor and screaming and crying.
"AAHROOOOO!"
I cover my mouth with my paws after I let out a loud howl. I start to whimper and whine with pain from my legs. This goes on and on for about an hour. When I finally seems to stop I look at my legs and feet. "Oh no" My legs look exactly like hind wolf legs. They are covered in black fur. A red ring of fur is around what I think is my ankles. My feet are black fur covered feet paws. I stand up and walk around my room a little. I loose my balance a few times but I get used to walking again.
I am sitting at my desk doing the last of my homework when I feel moving around my lower back. I examine myself by pulling my pants down just a small bit. The nub that has been there looks a lot bigger. "Oh so what? You are going to grow too?" I predicted the future some how. It slowly extends and takes forever. It doesn't hurt, but I can feel it. The red covered nub keeps extending and gets even more and more fuzzy. It appears that the nub had grown into a tail. "Now how will I hide this?" I bet it would be uncomfortable sticking it in my shirt or pant legs.
After about six or seven hours I stop having the feeling of extension on the nub. It is about ten at night so I am alone in my room. I turn and look at my back. "AHH!" I scream as I look and find I have a red wolf tail with a black tip. I can move my new tail around. I brush it around my legs and it feels nice and soft. I try to grab it and hug it but I fail. I settle for stroking it. The next few moments are as well confusing.
I lose hearing in my human ears and feel them get smaller. Somehow they just disappear. I can only hear out of my wolf ears now. I look again at myself in the mirror. The sides of my head where my human ears were are blank spots that has black fur on them. "This is going to be tough hiding all of this tomorrow." I say and my new ears move a slight bit. "They move?" I am curious now. My ears move in a fashion that makes me appear confused. "I guess that's pretty cool."
My day has come to an end. I shut down my laptop, put on my sleepwear, and go brush my teeth. While I brush I have the bathroom door open. That was a big mistake. My moms boyfriend walks down the hall toward my area. I can hear his foot steps and my heart rate accelerates to top speed. I swiftly shut the door, but to my surprise I shut it in my moms boyfriends face. "Dude, What was that for?" "I'm...uh..." Shit I have to think of an excuse fast. "Using the bathroom!" No that's a horrible excuse. "Well I can see that." He points out. "I...Just want to be by myself. Please?" I am now pleading that he walks away. "I was just going to tell you that your mom and I say goodnight." Wow that's it? "Okay thanks" I say back to him with relief. He walks away and I walk out of the bathroom.
I enter my room as I push away my curtain and close my door. My dog follows me and jumps on my bed. "Hi Sofie" I pet her and turn off my light. I climb into bed and pull up my sheets. I am laying on my bed staring at my ceiling. I reach onto my nightstand and grab my phone. I wake it up and unlock it. I use my phone for quite a bit that night. When I finally get too tired it is three thirty in the morning. I'm only going to get an hour and thirty minutes of sleep now. I put my phone down and quickly fall asleep with my tail tucked in between my new digitigrade wolf legs.
Continued in part three.