Jennifer had hung up the phone well before Kyle had finished describing what was going to happen to her. She had to finish getting dressed after all. There was no time to waste thinking about stupid, pretend curses. The story had scared her when she was younger, but now the more she thought about it the more silly it seemed. Anyway, if the curse was real she was sure that there would have been other victims of it wandering around the town. Since she had never seen anyone with the curse on them there was no way it could be real.
Finishing getting dressed she grabbed her backpack and rushed out to catch the bus. She got there just in time and luckily one of her friends, Lizz, had saved a seat for her. Lizz motioned for her to sit down and Jennifer slumped down into the seat next to her.
"I swear it's like the world hates me today," Jennifer grumbled, realizing that she had forgotten to grab anything for breakfast.
Lizz rolled her eyes, "Tell me about it. I'm grounded because my parents finally found out that I'm failing math and science. They're treating me like a little kid!"
Being grounded was much worse than getting a prank call from a creep so Jennifer said nothing about her morning, though if it had been something worse she would have told Lizz all about it. Instead she tired to be sympathetic, "Parents can be so stupid some times."
"Yeah, I mean it's just math and science, two of the most useless classes if you ask me. I mean when am I ever going to need to know any of that stuff?"
Jennifer would have replied, but she realized that in addition to not eating breakfast, she had forgotten to brush her teeth judging my the gross taste in her mouth. The last thing she wanted was to go through the day with killer bad breath, "Hey, Lizz, do you have any gum or anything? I didn't brush my teeth this morning and it tastes like something crawled into my mouth and died."
Giggling Lizz looked through her backpack for a pack of gum, "Don't breath your roadkill breath on me!"
The pair of them dissolved into giggles.
When Lizz recovered she handed Jennifer a stick of gum.
"Sugarless, right?"
"Of course, it's supposed to whiten your teeth too," Lizz started giggling again, "So it's just as good as brushing your teeth."
Jennifer popped the stick of gum into her mouth and began chewing.
"Anyway," Lizz smiled just like she always did before launching into a particularly juicy bit of gossip, "Did you hear about what happened to Tiffany the other day?"
"No, waah happent?" A little drool ran down the corner of Jennifer's mouth as she spoke.
Lizz didn't seem to notice as she launched into her story. Only half listening, Jennifer searched through her backpack until she found some tissues to blot her mouth. Something felt wrong with her face.
Brushing her fingers across her lips she thought that they felt a little soft and puckered. Maybe it was that new lip gloss she had started using that week, she might be allergic to it or something.
"Hey, Lith ith thomething wron with my lipth?"
Jennifer's eyes widened as she tired to talk. Her lips were all soft and floppy feeling and she could hardly get them to move properly.
Stopping her story Lizz looked at her and...