On her way back home, Karyn found that her new bigger breasts were becoming increasingly irritating. She was just glad that she had her bag in front of her. She was using it to help control the new monsters, a job which the bra she was wearing was making an ok stab at, but not with nearly enough success for her taste.
When she got home, she noticed her mom's car in the driveway. Sometimes she was at home when Karyn came home from school, and sometimes not. The light was on in the kitchen. Karyn walked inside and was about to walk straight to her room, but a look at her mom caused her to stop, and she instead walked into the kitchen.
"Mom?"
Her mom was bent over, looking for something in the refrigerator. She looked up upon hearing her daughter. "Yes, honey?" she asked.
"Mom, what happened to your hair?" said Karyn in a rush.
"What do you mean?" Her mom replied quizzically.
"It's blond," Karyn replied, pointing.
"Of course, it is," her mom replied, looking at her askance. "Were you expecting me to dye it today or something?"
"But, it used to be brown," said Karyn almost desperately, trying to bull her way through this.
"Karyn, I haven't dyed my hair brown in years, not since you were a little girl. Are you feeling nostalgic or something," replied her mom, somewhat confused.
Somehow whatever had happened at the school seemed to change more than what she had thought. She wondered what else was different. She had remembered about her offhand wish on the way home. Was that somehow responsible for all this? No, that was impossible.
"Karyn?" her mom said, reached out to hold her daughter shoulders comfortingly. "Is something wrong?"
"It's nothing, Mom. I just need a little sleep, that's all," replied Karyn, pulling away and backing up out of the room. She needed time to think.
"Okay. But dinner will be ready in another hour or two. Don't sleep too long," her mom replied, still looking slightly concerned but accepting Karyn's explanation for now.
Karyn took another look at her mother, and then ran up the stairs to her room and closed the door. |