John and Carrie left the transformation center to explore the rest of the sights that Toon World had to offer. As they walked out, John held the door for another couple that was on their way in. They were wrapped so tightly around each other they were practically wearing each other's clothes.
"So," Carrie heard the man whisper to his companion, "will you be bad or just drawn that way?"
The woman kissed him hard at the suggestion, then replied, "We'll have to play patty cake later to find out."
Carrie looked over her shoulder as John pulled her forward and saw the couple approach the toon at the customer service desk. She smiled and nodded as she pointed to a pair of chambers to her right.
For the rest of the day, Carrie was distracted and detached. Her mind kept drifting to the toon's comments about doing as she had done and, "becoming a complete toon," or that after the process was completed, "what emerges is no longer flesh and blood - you look, feel, and act like a cartoon because you are a cartoon."
'Was that what the couple who had entered the center as they left had decided to do?'
'Were they now permanent inhabitants of Toon World?...'
'What did they look like?....'
'How did it feel?...'
Then, as they took the Acme Manufacturing Company tour, her thoughts drifted again. John was studying the instructions on a box of Dehydrated Boulders intently. "Can you believe this stuff?" he said, "It's so cool here. I wish we had more than two weeks."
Carrie thought to herself, again.
'We could have all the time in the world here... if we were toons.'
'What would we look like?....'
'How would it feel?...'
Carrie pushed those thoughts aside and went on with the day. She managed to avoid them for most of the time, only an intermittent thought passed though her mind whenever they met a particularly attractive toon.
That was until she sat at dinner with John at Tony's Restaurant, sharing a plate of spaghetti, of course. A couple of toon's walked in. A very particular couple of toons. The woman was a dead ringer for Jessica Rabbit, long legs, a curvy body. She exuded sensuality as she walked. The other was an anthropomorphic rabbit who couldn't help but act goofy at every turn. Then Carrie noticed subtle differences between the toons in front of her and the images she remembered from the movie. Jessica's facial features were a bit different but no less alluring. Carrie knew she'd seen them before - on the human woman who she'd seen at the Transformation Center!
The couple made their way to a table in the back. Two other couples - human couples - sat there.
"Sandy!" one of the women at the table exclaimed, "you look so terrific! I love it!"
As the conversation quieted down, Carrie found herself eavesdropping on the conversation at the back table. The Roger and Jessica lookalikes were draped over each other in the same way they had been at the Transformation Center. "So," the other woman asked, "how long's it gonna take to change you guys back?"
"Oh," Sandy said quietly. She paused a moment, steeling her will before continuing. "They're not going to be able to turn us back," Carrie's heart was pounding so hard in her ears, she barely heard the rest. "We went for the full treatment," Sandy continued. "There's nothing of our human bodies left. We're toons forever."
Carrie's jaw dropped, literally, to the floor. Using both hands, she managed to scoop it up and excused herself to the ladies' room. She wanted to go back to the table and hear more of the conversation, but John met her in the lobby having already paid the bill.