Finally, Jason looked down at himself. And gasped.
Instead of the usual white t-shirt and briefs he normally slept in, Jason was now wearing a tie-died tank top and blue boxers that stretched down to the knees. But it wasn’t the clothes he wore that shocked him.
Overnight Jason had to have at least gained forty pounds. His arms and legs were thicker. with a rather noticeable beer belly stretching the waistline of his boxers. And yet he could still see the wide toes of enormous feet that he knew would fit perfectly into those clown shoes lined up in neat rows.
Now Jason was suddenly aware of his skin tone; instead of its usual tan it was a ruddy pink color. At the bottom of his field of vision. Gingerly he touched his nose, and felt a perfect, rubbery sphere a little bigger than a tennis ball. He gave it a squeeze.
HONK!
Jason stood up and walked to the dresser; with his new girth and big feet he could only move at a funny waddle. Despite what he was expecting, Jason’s jaw dropped at the reflection looking back at him.
On Jason’s pink face white ovals surrounded his eyes and a white muzzle had formed around his mouth. The ovals around his eyes stretched up to his forehead and were topped with wide black eyebrows, giving him a surprised look. The look of surprise was accented by his eyes being outlined in black and topped with a vertical black bar making them look like exclamation marks. Inside his muzzle Jason’s lower lip was black and stretched halfway down to his chin with a little black circle on each end, forming a smile that mad his mouth look open all the time. Jason’s cheeks were blushed a rose-red with three black freckles that suited his chubby face quite well. And at the very center of Jason’s face his red nose stood out, big, round, and shiny.
And the worst was his hair. It had always been thick and curly; now it was even more so, bright red stretching out halfway across his shoulders-at east around the side and back of his head. But on top-Jason's hands went to his scalp; it felt bare and smooth. “Oh no, I’m bald!” he cried in horror.
“Don’t be silly, big brother, heheyaha.” Jason turned and somehow, he recognized his little sister Susan. “Well, we're supposed to be silly, heheyaha, we’re clowns.” She gave her nose a squeeze. Honk! “But your hair started falling out when you were twelve. heheyaha and you are just now starting to notice?” She waddled up to her brother and poked him in the nose. Honk!
“Yeah, yeah, heheyaha,” he replied. Jason suddenly became aware of how deep and goofy his voice sounded, and an involuntary giggle crept into his speech.
He looked at Susan. His sister's face and hands were milky white; she was probably like that from head to toe. The rest of her ‘makeup’ was rather simple and elegant looking, with high arched black eyebrows on her forehead, eyelids shaded baby blue with curly black eyelashes, her cheeks were rouged a soft red, and her lips were a bright red cupids bow. Her nose was a round ball a little smaller than Jason’s and covered with sparkling red glitter. Susans formerly blond hair was now bright red with silvery highlights and done up in curly twin-tails. The fingernails on her hands were the same red as her nose and likewise covered with glitter.
Susan was wearing a pink set of coveralls and a white long-sleeved covered with pink polka-dots. A pair of bubble-toed sneakers that matched her shirt were on her feet. She looked like a living clown china doll.
“Now, c’mon, heheyaha,” Susan continued in her silly voice. “You heard Dad; heheyaha; we got to have breakfast then get the rest of the circus set up for tonight, heheyaha. Just be glad we are not hoboes, heheyaha; those poor clowns must help clean out the animal pens.” She held up her nose and her face screwed up in what looked like a disgusted expression.
Quickly Jason waddled to his closet. He put on a tie-dyed long-sleeved shirt, a pair of baggy blue jeans, and slid his oversized feet into pancake-toed sneakers. It seemed casual enough-for a clown, anyway.
Jason followed his sister to what he guessed was the dining tent. He waddled inside and saw...