Ashton stared at the screen a moment, then grinned. "OK. I'm curious about how this works. Change my hair color to red and see what happens."
Matthew scrolled through the options and found that he could click on the hair on Ashton's image to highlight it. A list of options came up, allowing changes to length, style, and color. There was even a selection to make it dyed or natural. "That's sorta weird. What difference would it make if the color is natural or dyed? It's still the same color and picture."
They picked medium-length naturally curly hair of copper-red, and made it natural. The picture of Ashton changed a lot more than expected. His hair altered, but his eyes became green, and freckles covered his face. "Now that is really freaky! I look like I'm Irish." As they stared at the ginger version of Ashton, another menu appeared. This one had options for altering reality and awareness of the changes.
"Now that is really strange. I guess it must be part of some online game where you create characters." Ashton grinned and had Matthew select settings that would alter reality, but leave them both aware of the change. "Let's see what it does."
Matthew clicked the 'SUBMIT' button. The screen flickered and all of the options vanished, leaving the image of him and the red-haired Ashton looking back from the screen. "Looks like it did nothing at 'al, wouldn't you know." A thick Irish accent startled them both. Matthew turned to stare at the real-life red-haired boy on the bed next to him. Ashton was frowning and staring down at his arms and hands, which were covered in pale, freckled skin. 'Feck! It worked for real?" He scramble dup and ran over to look in the dresser mirror.
He still looked much like he had before, but the coloring changes were pretty dramatic. And complete. He pulled off his shirt and then stripped completely to stare at the wisps of red pubic hair around a moderate uncut cock. That made Matthew happy, though also surprised him. He'd snuck peeks at Ashton before in the bathroom and locker room at school, and thought he was circumcised.
As it turned out, Ashton had been circumcised, but now that he was Irish, the custom had not been followed. Both of them suddenly remembered that Ashton's family had just emigrated to the United States from Ireland at the beginning of the school year. They also remembered the 'real' past, but a few phone calls and some Internet research confirmed that Ashton had always been as he was now. Even his Facebook page showed him as a redhead, with lots of pictures of him in Ireland.
"This is fecking awesome!" Ashton grinned down at his naked body, then looked at Matthew. "OK, then. MY turn! I get to change something about you, OK?"
Matthew flushed, still distracted by Ashton's nude body. "Um, yeah, I guess." After all, this was some kind of weird game program. They should be able to change anything back, right?
They sat down on the end of the bed again, this time with Ashton so close their arms brushed. "So, let's do something different than just hair color." Ashton peered at the options. "There's lots of things to choose from." He was excited in more ways than one, his nice-sized cock starting to come erect. Matthew was pretty sure that something had changed mentally in Ashton as well, since the boy was now getting a hard on while sitting naked in another boy's bedroom. But then, Ashton should be aware of that as well.
Some of the options looked a little risky, even scary, considering how much change a different hair color had caused. Even so, Matthew was caught up in Ashton's excitement, and was pretty sure he was close to some serious physical contact. So he decided to go with Ashton's pleading and let the ginger select options that would alter Matthew's...