As she sat down with her lunch tray, she heard her collar noisily clatter, attracting all of her friends' attention. She held her breath as she waited to see if Kyle's curse was going to come true.
"That's an odd thing to wear today," her friend Jill remarked.
"I hope you're not going to keep it on during practice," Claire said as she speared her salad with a spork.
"Did somebody give it to you?" Liz asked.
"Yeah," Jennifer answered sheepishly. She was concentrating on detecting whatever sensations the curse would cause. Her eyes focused on her arms as they continued to clutch her tray. So far she didn't notice anything unusual.
Liz continued questioning her. "Who gave it to you? Do you already have a new boyfriend?"
"Anybody who's crazy enough to give her a noisy bell collar shouldn't be going out with a cheerleader," Claire remarked. "I can't believe you're even wearing it."
"I, uh... I promised to wear it for a week before I give it back," Jennifer said. Her friends exchanged confused glances and Jennifer's face turned red.
"Alright, whatever," Claire said. "But if it throws off my timing during our jumps I'll blame you."
They finished their lunch and headed out of the cafeteria. Jennifer stopped at her locker to grab her books for the next class, feeling somewhat relieved. She hadn't felt anything strange since her friends had started talking about the collar. Maybe the curse wasn't as powerful as Kyle thought it was. Maybe it counted the collar fusing to her neck as the full extent of the transformation.
As she bent over to pull a book out from under a stack of binders, she heard something tear. At the same time she felt something moving under her skirt. She dropped the book and threw her hands behind her. They groped around and detected some kind of lump in her skirt.
She looked around at the bustling crowd of students, then closed her locker and ducked into the nearest bathroom. She entered a stall and closed the door before pulling down her skirt to find out what the strange thing was.
Jennifer had a half-foot tail poking through her panties. It was covered in long brown hair, with white at the tip. She gasped in shock, realizing that the curse truly did work. And if it kept going as Kyle said, she would definitely complete her transformation before the week was over.
She lifted her shirt up, searching for more changes. Her waistline was also growing some brown fur, but it wasn't very pronounced. Other than that, she couldn't find anything different.
"Okay," she said as she lifted her skirt over her new tail. "As long as the changes stay inside my clothes, I'll be fine." She exited the stall, returning to the hallway to get to her next class. As her collar chimed, she grabbed it with one hand to stop it while hurrying down the hall.