After her practice Jen went straight home. She was a bit too shaken and exhausted to do anything after what had just happened. Entering her house, she saw her dad, still lazing around, his work laptop in front of him, while watching some streaming service.
'What does he even get paid for?'
"Oh, welcome home sweetie! How was your day?"
"It was-", Jen interrupted herself. There's no way she was gonna lie in such a stupid way. "- not very good..."
"Oh- huh? What happened?", her father replied. This was out of the ordinary. Usually Jen would just say 'okay' or 'good' and disappear as fast as she had entered.
"Oh it's uhm", Jen stuttered. She didn't want to admit it. "I got talked down to because of... my body"
Her father stood up and walked towards her.
"Oh, I'm so sorry... Don't listen to them, alright? You're lovely as you are. Your mom and me will always love for how you are.", her father ensured her and hugged her.
Jen felt like crying, both because of how much these minor changes had already affected her life, but also because of how embarrassed she was.
"Did anyone outside the cheerleading squad see it?", her father inquired.
'Oh, so only they know about it...', Jen thought to herself. Thinking back, she could feel conflicting memories pop up. Times when she was out swimming with friends, she had both the memory of that, but also memories of her staying home at the same time. The curse had seemingly not only altered the present and put the memories of it in everyones head, but actually rewritten history completely. She only remembered the -real- part because she was excluded by Kyle's curse.
"No, no one else saw."
"Oh, that's good to hear. Hey, about I make us pancakes for dinner?"
"Sure, thanks", Jen supressed her tears. At least she had some support from her parents. "Anyway, I'll go to my room. Call me when it's ready. I've got to... do homework.", Jen said and went for the stairs.
"Oh, sure thing!", her dad replied. Homework? He knew that his daughter wasn't very academically gifted, so this was also out of the ordinary. In fact, she was a bit more open to him than usual. "Jen, sweetie?"
"Yes dad?"
"Is everything okay?"
"Oh,", Jen said, somewhat puzzled "uhm yeah-" as soon as Jen said those words, she realized her mistake. She had let her guard down. "I've... got to go!"
Jen hurried upstairs to her room. She closed the blinds and looked at the mirror. And there it was; now she had two large wolf ears atop her head. "Fuck!", Jen said, careful not be too loud as to be heard by her father downstairs. She carefully lifted her hair at the sides of her head, and sure enough, she still had her human ears. "Well, I guess it would look weird to have a human skull but without the ears...". However, she could now also hear from the top pair. With some conscious effort she could even slightly move them. She couldn't remember how this was supposed to work anatomically though. If there were ever scans done of her, they probably were done at a point in time where she wasn't old enough to remember.
"Well... shit..." Jen said and removed her skirt. Sure enough, all of the hair she had shaven off an hour ago had regrown. There was no difference. She was stuck with this pelt. Panties would for now be a no-no from now on. Well aside from cheerleader practice the day after tomorrow; friday. She tried to remember again, since she underwent another change.
Thinking back, she was still on the cheerleader squad. Instead of atavism, she now had an undiagnosed genetic defect, midly put. Not like there'd be a real disease that could have such an effect. It seems though, that she was now even less popular with the other girls, though it seems that some boys found the ears cute, so at least it wasn't all downsides.
She put the skirt back on, and sat down.
"Time to do that stupid math assignment... and no more lying from now on!"