You take a few drinks of the water, and after a while you are surprised to find that you are lapping it up like a dog. It doesn't taste particularly good, so this behavior confuses you. Shaking your head a couple of times, you head on back to your house. As you enter, your mom, who is sitting in the kitchen, gives you a strange look and says something about taking a shower. Sniffing under your arm, you don't notice anything wrong. You shrug at her, say you'll change your shirt, and walk upstairs. Taking off your shirt, you throw it in the hamper, then plop down on your bed and read, but not before applying several coats of deodorant to your armpits. You're getting to one of the boring parts of your book, so you're drifting in and out. Soon, it's 10:00, and you're reading by lamplight. But suddenly, a strange chill sweeps over your body, and an itch starts up all over your body.
You throw off your covers to take a look at yourself. What you see surprises you. Your skin appears to be writhing, and as you watch, little goosebumps pop up. Then, each goose bump seems to pop, and a tiny strand of fur pokes through. The fur grows in thickness, and it seems to you that a sea of black and white is sweeping over your body. The fur is black on your back, face, and the tops of your arms and legs, and white on your stomach and the undersides of your arms and legs. You run your hands down your furry body, amazed at the soft silky quality of the fur. As you move your hand, you do a double take as you notice the changes happening to it.
Your hand seems to writhe before your eyes as the bones reshape, and your fingernails are replaced by claws. The same thing appears to be happening to your feet. Soon, your hands and feet are nothing more than a set of paws. By this time, you are wide awake, but nothing about this change seems to be scaring you, on the contrary, you're pretty much unfazed. Even when your ears reshape and move to the top of your head, and your nose and mouth both push out into a muzzle, you just scratch absentmindedly at the furry snout that just sprouted out of your face.
Next comes a change that you can't help but notice. Your pajama pants completely shred off, leaving you naked, as an immense black tail sprouts out of your behind. Swishing the tail around in shock, you also notice that on either side, you can feel a new, well, 'feeling'. It just feels like there are two other 'things' there. Concentrating, you constrict both of the new things, and suddenly, a fine vapor sprays out of your rear. Well, not out of your 'rear', but out of the two scent glands on either side. Yeah, the two scent glands. You came up with that name after a huge white stripe appeared, starting at the top of your head fur, and running down your back to the tip of your tail. That settles it, you're turning into a skunk. Suddenly you notice that while all of these highly noticeable changes were going on, you were shrinking to fit normal skunk size.
After the last few changes complete, you, a newly formed member of the skunk kingdom, debate what to do. Considering the farcity of the situation, you chuckle a little bit, surprised to hear the human sound coming out of your skunk muzzle. Deciding that you can still speak, and that, at least, is a plus, you decide to get some sleep and try to figure this out in the morning. Burrowing under your covers, you wrap your tail around yourself and drift off to sleep.