Matthew woke the next morning and realised he had a problem - or more precisely realised she had a problem. Matthew had booked a spot on the snorkle tour, on a boat departing at 8am. All well and good. It was only 7am now and normally an hour was more than enough to get, ready, have breakfast and get to the small wharf the boat was leaving from.
Normally that is. Unfortunately an hour was not long enough to take off the skin suit she was wearing, that had changed her from the male Matthew into the very female Kim, let alone have breakfast and get to the wharf. Even if Kim told Matthew the way to begin taking her off, he would not have time to do that. It seemed her choice was to go on the tour as Kim or forego it altogether.
In vain Matthew checked the computer monitor. It was still ticking down to around 30 hours before Kim would become a human once more. Why had they decided to make their changes last for 48 hours? In hindsight it had not been very sensible.
'Damn it Kim!' Matthew vocalised in her now feminine voice 'Now I'm going to miss out on the snorkle tour!'
Immediately she felt 3 cramps in her right arm. The had worked out a way of communicating last night 48 hours. A single cramp meant yes and 3 cramps meant no.
'Are you saying there is a way I can still go?' A single cramp.
'Can you show me how to take you off quickly?' This time there were 3 cramps. That meant no. 'Then what do you mean?'
This time Matthew felt a single cramp in her left hand. That meant Kim wanted Matthew to point at something. She held out her arm and began to rotate. A short time later Matthew was pointing at Kim's pale blue bathing costume. 'You're kidding surely?' 3 cramps
She was not. After 10 minutes arguing. Matthew gave in. It was either go snorkeling as a female or not at all.