Jen's grip on the receiver became weaker and weaker as her fingers slowly retracted into her hand. Soon they were too stubby to hold anything, and she left the phone drop to the floor with a surprised yelp.
Her eyes went wide with horror as she realized that the transformation wasn't stopping there. Her arms were getting shorter now, and she seemed to be gradually shrinking, as her clothes and surroundings seemed to be getting larger and larger, but even as she shrank in height her body seemed to get thicker and pudgier, her neck quickly disappearing. Within seconds she resembled a ridiculous stubby-limbed midget. Struggling to turn her head to view the changes, she watched in horror as her limbs fully retracted, leaving her limbless.
As her transformation reached its final stage, her remaining body was rapidly reshaped, her breasts flattening and blending with the rest of her flesh as her entire body squashed and smoothed itself into a perfect orb.
In her new form, Jen was unable to crane her neck down to examine her body, as she no longer had a neck or a body. But from her new position on the floor, sitting in a pile of clothing that would never fit her again, she knew the exact extent of her transformation. She was now a living ball.
From the phone receiver lying on the floor next to her, she heard Kyle's smug voice again. "Sounds like it worked. There's one last thing I'd like to add to the transformation though: I'd like to make it permanent, no matter what. I hope you won't take this too personally Jen, after all it's just a 'dumb joke'. Hopefully it won't effect your social standing too much!" With that, he laughed and hung up.
Jen was mortified. With tears welling in her eyes, and a lump forming in whatever remained of her throat, her panic-addled brain decided that she needed to get help immediately.
She found that she instinctively knew how to roll her body forward, and quickly fled through her bedroom door in search of her mother. Rolling around was strangely much less disorienting that she would have expected, but in her panicked state she almost forgot about the stairs she would have to navigate in order to reach the lower level.
Jen attempted to halt her momentum, but it was too late, she rolled right off the first step, ricocheted off of a wall and then bounced her way down the stairs and into the kitchen hallway. The entire experience was almost painless, like bouncing on a trampoline except that it was her own body that had an elastic quality. Her naked flesh only stung a little as it slammed into the hard surfaces, and the dazed ball girl, spinning out of control, simply let momentum carry her into the kitchen where her mom was eating breakfast.
As Jen's rolling gradually came to a halt, she found herself looking up at her mother. Her new size and position on the floor made the older woman look so much larger. Jen couldn't help but feel tiny and pathetic.
"Oh, Jen, you've become a ball." Jen's mother simply remarked.
Still on the verge of bursting into tears Jen could only manage to sob "Mom... I..."
"I suppose we ought to donate all of your clothes since you won't be needing them any more. I'll have to drop by the Red Cross after I take you to school." Jen's mom continued, casually.
Jen stared up at her mother in shock. "S-school?"
Jen's mother smirked. "Of course, dear. Did you seriously think I was going to let you stay home just because you turned into a ball? Honestly young lady, you'll try any excuse."
She chuckled to herself and then placed Jen's plate of toast on the floor beside her, before standing to take her car keys from the kitchen counter.
'Hurry and eat up, and then I'll drive you to school."
As the tiny ball girl's eyes wandered from her expectantly waiting mother to the plate of food lying before her, as she felt the chill of the cold kitchen tiles on her naked limbless flesh, Kyle's cruel words echoed in her head. This was her life now.