Jen hastily excuses herself and runs off to the bathroom. Once in there, she locks herself in a stall and arms herself with toilet paper and a plunger. She sits on the toilet and waits for the trip to be over, also pondering why her teacher threatened to expel her for not wanting to go to the zoo.
Suddenly, Jen hears a squeaking at her foot. Looking down, she sees a grey rat looking up at her and twitching its nose. Jen has always liked rats, so she picks this one up and looks at it. It is male, and looks to be in adolescence (sorry if I misspelled that) for a rat. It seems fairly clean for someone who was living in a dingy public bathroom. Suddenly remembering the curse, Jen drops the rat, who squeaks indignantly, as she is feeling sick.
Feeling an itching situation all over her body, Jen looks at her arm. She sees white hairs sprouting out of it. "Oh no, oh please god no." Jen says, as she sees the hair thicken and start to resemble fur rather than hair. Jen suddenly takes off all of her clothing and watches the fur cover the rest of her body, except her hands and feet. As she looks at it, she can't help but notice how pretty the fur is, noticing that it has a pearly, iridescent quality when it hits the light. Suddenly, she feels a few strange popping sounds coming from inside her. Looking at her body, she sees her bones rearranging themselves and her hands and feet becoming paws with claws replacing her fingernails and toenails.
Feeling a pulling sensation at the base of her spine, Jen looks back and sees a long bald tail sprout out from her rear. Twirling the tail around, Jen is suddenly stricken by the new feeling.
Feeling a change beginning at her furry head, Jen reaches up with her paws and finds that her ears have moved to the top of her head and are now rounded. Feeling a tugging sensation at her face, Jen feels as her lower face pushes out into a muzzle and new whiskers grow in. Suddenly assaulted by her new olfactory senses, Jen fails to notice as the last few changes take place and she shrinks down to the proper size of a rat.
"Well, isn't this just great" Jen thinks to herself. "I'm a rat. But at least I don't look so bad." Turning to the rat who started it all, Jen says "Well, we might as well get this over with then, have at me." "Oh no love" says the other rat. "What, why not?" Asks Jen. "Well love, you see, it's like this. I have a certain attraction to rats of a more... masculine persuasion if you catch my drift." Says the other rat in a perfect British accent. "WHAT!? YOU MEAN MY ONLY HOPE FOR GETTING OUT OF THIS NICE BUT STILL RATTY BODY HAPPENS TO BE HOMOSEXUAL?" Jen shrieks, whiskers twitching and tail waving. "'Fraid so." Says the other rat. "But that's ok, it gives you time to enjoy your new body. Being a rat isn't so bad, there's lots of things to do, like eat cheese and dodge humans." His speech drifts off as he notices that Jen has fainted.