Audrey gulped very audibly over the phone. She could hear Carol's voice cracking slightly as she uttered those last words: "...aren't going to be able to recognize them in a few months..." She mentally pictured her daughter, her light hair framing her pale and delicate face.
The picture slowly changed in her mind as Carol went on to describe the changes that could ensue, and those that had already begun. Audrey snapped out of it, suddenly very angry.
"How in the world could this have happened?!?" she shouted into the phone. "Couldn't they taste the hormones or anything? My kid is such an idiot sometimes."
"You know they couldn't taste a hormone," Carol retorted. "If they could taste something different, I'm sure someone would have mentioned it."
Audrey calmed herself a bit, and the two parents began to have a heart-to-heart, or parent-to-parent, talk.
Meanwhile, Jen and Lisa were waking periodically during the night. Their dreams had been bothering them quite a bit, and they would wake up at random points to check their faces. Jen was dreaming of Karl a lot. She could see his mouth curling into a wicked grin as she was slowly enveloped in a tangled matt of hair.
"Ka-" she started, sitting bolt upright in bed, a motion that yanked the blankets off of Lisa.
"What was that?" Lisa asked.
"What was what?"
"You started to say something," Lisa replied, realizing now that Jen was only sleeping when she started.
"What did I say?"
"You said, 'Ka,' then stopped. Who were you talking about? My mom?" Lisa asked. It was a little weird, she thought, that Jen would be dreaming about her mother.
"No, just the guy who cursed me. I keep seeing him in my dreams," Jen slid back under the covers. "It's so annoying."
"There's nothing we can do about it," Lisa replied, "but out of a sense of curiosity, it would be nice to learn the name of the guy."
Jen looked at Lisa and decided that nothing bad could happen if she just said his first name. She opened her mouth and got the "ka" sound out, but her voice froze up afterwords. She tried several times, but was never able to get the whole name out.
"That's all right," Lisa said as she laid back down.
The girls awoke the next day feeling tired. Falling asleep, waking up, falling asleep, and waking up again had been their entire night. They looked at each other scrutinizing their faces for any sign of hair.
It was still only noticeable really close up, and some bleach could definately help Lisa out while it was still fuzz. The only really noticeable thing was that their eyebrows were definatley thicker, but not in a way that made them look awkward. The few fine hairs on the corner of Lisa's mouth stood out, due to their dark nature, but again, it could be fixed easily.
The two of them joined each other in the bathroom, carefully looking each other over and fixing their faces up. They were both rather silent that morning, taking mental note of the fuzz on their bodies. Lisa had developed it on her shoulders and neck now while Jen noticed it on the tops of her feet and around her belly button.
They had just stepped out of the bathroom when Carol came rushing up to them.
"Jen," she said, "your mother is coming to take you and Lisa shopping in the city so that she can see you both..." she choked a second before finishing with, "...one last time, before bringing you back to live with me."