....that his hair was changing from a sandy brown-red to a neon red. Josh leaned in closer, and saw that it was also growing fuller and thicker-at least on the sides. On top though it looked thinner-much thinner, he could see could see his pale scalp through the hairs growing on top. Josh knew of several boys with the clown gene that had gone bald, some fully most only partially. Now it was happening to him.
And strangely enough, Josh didn't mind. 'Dad is bald; both my grandpas were bald,' he thought to himself. 'Guess it was bound to happen to me anyway.'
As Josh continued to examine his reflection, he noticed his lips were fuller and wider, and red as if he were wearing lipstick. The end of his nose was redder too, and looked like it was beginning to plump up. Josh giggled at the thought of having a bulbous red clown nose as big as a golf ball, if not bigger.
Josh then tried to picture how he'd look when he was fully a clown based on what he'd seen so far. 'Oh my,' he realized with a shudder, 'I'm likely going to look like Pennywise from IT!' He'd seen the mini series based on the Stephen King novel and while it hadn't made him afraid of clowns like it did so many others-Pennywise was SUPPOSED to be scary, after all-it had given him nightmares. He only hoped if he looked like that he wouldn't frighten anyone.
Josh closed his locker and walked to his next class. After school was over, he walked home, did his homework, ate dinner, watched TV with his family and went to bed.
He woke up the next morning to find...