Giggling, Karen drops her skirt and thinks, "I'm a he-she," as she put the amulet back into Ziploc bag and then untangled her bra from the underwear she had bought and deciding that maybe she should hide the amulet, she started across her room towards her closet.
She had only taken a couple of steps before the world around her suddenly swam in and out of focus and stopping, she placed a hand to her forehead, which she noticed had suddenly broken out into a sweat.
Again, the world swam as a spike of pain drove suddenly into Karen's head and dropping the bagged amulet, she groaned and clutched her head. Sinking to the floor, the spike of pain doubling and this time travelling down from her head and into her torso, Karen gasped out, "What is happening?"
Another spike, this one going as far as her legs and curling up into a fetal position, Karen felt as if she wanted to cry, but found that she was unable to make even the slightest noise as she opened her mouth and nothing came out.
Struggling, forcing herself out of the fetal position, a prickling sensation adding to the spikes of pain, she reached a hand out for the amulet, sure that what was happening to her was tied to it somehow. And as she did, she watched as her arm shortened, what little muscle she had disappear to be replaced by what looked like baby fat and her hand shrink in size as well.
Sudden understanding coming to her, Karen attempted to cry out, "No," but all she could manage in the end was a whimper as she struggled against the pain and prickling sensation to a standing position.
Staggering forward, she grasped the amulet and as she began to shrink in size, she ripped the bag open and yanked the necklace out. Spying her bra, she touched the piece of jewelry to it and whimpering out, "Take it back. Please take it back," her transformation slowly finished and within moments, where Karen once sat now was a boy of about three years of age, wearing only Karen's shirt, as he other clothes had become to big and slipped from her small frame.
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Hours passed and Karen remained sitting on the floor, shock and horror at what just happened to her keeping her from doing anything but sit and stare at what at one point she thought was a cursed piece of jewelry until memories slowly faded and Karne could not quite remember how this object had turned her into a boy, only that it had.
A knock on the bedroom door suddenly brought her out of her trance and terrified of getting caught, Karen looked wildly about her room and dropping the amulet, unaware that she had even done such a thing, she hastily crawled across the floor and under her bed.
As the door to her room opened, Karne forced herself back into the corner and making herself the smallest target possible, she listened as the voice of her sister Denise started to call out, "Karen? Mom says..." and then stop when she realised that there was nobody in the room and hearing Denise commenting on this fact, Karen watched from her hiding spot as her older sister started to leave, but stopped instead, walked across the room and picked up the necklace.
Not even giving a second thought to what she was doing, Karen scrambled out from under the bed and in a little boy's voice, squeaked out, "Give that back. I need it."
For a moment, Denise could only stare at the little boy that had just crawled out from under her sister's bed and then, glancing at the object the boy was reaching for, she blinked a couple minutes, noting that the boy was wearing one of her sister's shirts. After a bit, she asked, "Karen? What have you done to yourself?"