Hadley stared into the darkened interior of her older brother's room, mentally goading herself to go through with what she'd had been thinking about for the past couple days.
In one hand, her right, she held a medallion she had found on the side of the road, lying in the gutter. In her other hand, she held two pieces of clothing, a pair of boy's underwear that she'd sewn a tail to and a shirt for a girl of about eight years of age, and a set of ears that were part of the same costume as the tail.
Glancing down at the two garments, she thought about her brother's comments and how it was just a phase her fifteen-year-old brother was going through. She thought about the medallion and what the Internet said it could do. And than she thought about the underwear, which were perfect for a boy of about two years old, with red fire-trucks printed over them and what appeared to the tail off of a dog sewn just below the waist ling in back.
"Not all girls are dogs," Hadley thought as she took a deep breath and knowing her brother was a really heavy sleeper, had been since he'd been about five or six, she took a step across the threshold and into her brother's room.
Pausing, mentally getting her bearings, the twelve-year-old girl glanced about the darkened room, wishing that her brother kept the curtains open, but knowing that because he slept nude, she knew that he would never do such a thing. When she was certain that what she was doing was right, Hadley turned toward her left and glanced over where her brother's bed was and unaware that she was doing so, began to tiptoe over.
When she felt the mattress press up against her leg, Hadley stopped for a moment and leaning forward, she shifted so the stuff in her left hand so that it was pinched between her upper arm and her body and than gently began feeling her way across the bed.
Quickly locating her brother's sleeping form, Hadley paused when she realised she had no idea how it was that she was going to apply both the amulet and the items to her brother and for a moment, just stood there. Finally, hissing in frustration, she turned about and slowly felt her way back across her brother's room. When she ran into the wall, she felt her way along it until she came to the closet door.
Opening it just a crack, Hadley stuck her hand in, dropped the garments and let loose a series of curse words. Locating the switch on the wall, she flicked it and started to blink as the soft light flooded her night-accustomed eyes.
When the spots had vanished from before her eyes, Hadley glanced over at her brother's sleeping form, making sure that he wasn't waking up, but at the same time sure that he wouldn't. As she did this, she reached down and careful not to touch the amulet to anything, she picked up the items she'd come in with and than tiptoed back over to her brother's bed.
"If this works," she thought as she laid the shirt, underwear and ears on the sleeping form of her brother. "You deserve this," and touching the amulet to her brother, Hadley made sure that it touched every item she'd brought in with her.
Immediately the changes began and silently wishing that there was no sheet covering her brother from the waist down, Hadley watched as her brother began to shrink down in size, his hair grow in length, his features become more effeminate and his white, fur-covered ears disappear for a moment and than reappear on top of his head, poking out of his now full, auburn hair.
Smiling, Hadley listened as her brother grunted with discomfort in his sleep and then watched as he rolled over, exposing the white, fur-covered tail that now extended out of his tailbone. Excited that it worked, Hadley drew the medallion away. Seeing the hair on her brother's legs disappearing, she thought, "Pleasant dreams," she tiptoed back across the room, clicked off the light in the closet and than slipped out of the room.
As she crept back to her room, Hadley wondered what other changes the medallion could do and storing it in a secret location only she knew off, she lay down on her bed and stared up at the ceiling. As she lay there, Hadley pondered over how their mom and dad would react to having two girls instead of one and after a moment, Hadley rolled over on her side and hugging a body pillow closed, she shut her eyes and allowed herself to drift off, anxious for the morning to come and to see what it would bring.