Kyle wasted no time in saying “Transform” once the question had left Jake’s lips. Jake cursed silently to himself until an awful idea struck him. He was in love with Kyle, like it or not, but he could remember everything thanks to Kyle’s curse, which, he supposed, wouldn’t be so bad if he could just bend his body a little more upright without it being uncomfortable.
Jake thought for a moment, figuring out how to word everything, before saying anything. He moved into a kneeling position so his double-stacked torsos were both upright, and used his lower arms to rub the small of his upper torso’s back as he tried to lean it back. It was uncomfortable, and gave him an idea.
“For your transformation, you’ll become a humantaur just like me, except your body will be what I consider the perfect match to my own. Meaning that you can bend your torso farther back so it’s comfortable to walk like a humantaur when not standing upright, that people will still recognize you as Kyle Perkins and think you’ve become some kind of freak, and that your brain will be rewired to be my ideal significant other who is madly in love with me, while retaining all memories of being Kyle Perkins, except they’ll be suppressed, so you always feel like a prisoner in your own body. Your rewired brain, meanwhile, will be so in love with me that your first desire will be to use the curse on me again and transform me so that I can comfortably bend my torso too instead of having to lean forward, so that no one will freak out at me being a humantaur, and so that I’ll have the ability to change wherever I go to adapt to my new form.”
Jake heard Kyle gasp and wimper after he had finished speaking, and felt a small pang of guilt for the misery he’d be putting his love through, but he was still angry and knew he shouldn’t be in love with Kyle. He sat cross-legged and leaned his lower torso onto the kitchen counter, holding the phone to his ear with his upper hands and listening intently to make sure he heard every second of Kyle’s transformation. He wouldn’t want to miss this, and he knew he’d love the result.