"Do you fucking mind?" The businessman piped up behind us, sticking an annoyed face out from in front of his laptop.
All three of us turned in alarm and immediately tensed.
"I'm trying to work, if you want to be weird immature dipshits, go sit somewhere else." He hissed. "Quietly."
I stared at the man, processed his harsh words, and nodded solemnly. "Sorry, sir, we were..."
"I don't care." He barked. "Just shut the fuck up."
Michelle, mortified, had her head in her hands, and I could see tears creeping down her face.
"Hey... 'Chelle." Steph put her hand on her friend's back, shooting the business guy daggers, though he had gone back to his screen and didn't care.
That upset me. A lot. I sat through the awkward silence and made a wish.
I wished the business guy would turn into a frog. And nobody else would care. Or see it.
Immediately, the business guy let out a strange noise and his eyes bulged out. He stared down at his stomach as it quickly expanded and snapped off the
buttons of his small overpriced shirt. As his neck thickened, he frantically grabbed at the top button and tie of his outfit, his glasses falling off and
smashing on the floor, trying to free his neck as his hands grw big and webbed.
Steph gasped as she turned to see his skin turning green and amphibious, his body swelling all the while and tearing his clothes, as did a shocked Michelle.
As his face distorted and started to turn into a frog, both girls leaned away, as if it was contagious, and reeled in horror. His body began to shrink
rapidly, and in moments he was struggling in oversized clothes. Soon enough, he seemed to melt into his outfit, his clothes falling away to reveal a little
green frog, sitting on a food court stool and staring up at us with wide and fairly terrified amphibian eyes. He opened his mouth and croaked, then grabbed
at his neck with big webbed hands and seemed to pull into himself. Watching the giants.
Steph quickly looked around the food court. "Oh fuck, Joe! What did you do?!" But the other two people sitting in the far corner were busy with themselves
and could care less that a man had just turned into a frog in broad daylight.
"Joe!" Steph protested. "Ring or no ring, you can't just..."
"He deserved it." I said flatly. "And I wanted to see if I could do it. And nobody will notice anyway. And I can change him back." At this, the frog seemed to brighten. He clearly understood.
There was a surreal moment as the little frog sat there, unsure of his fate. Trying to take it all in. He tried to speak again but only croaked.
"Wow..." Michelle finally said in wonderment, gently and slowly crouching down. "Look at him!" Much to the frog's alarm, she scooped him up in her hands and held him gently, carefully, raising him to her eye level. "See, Mr. Frog?" She smiled. "This is why you can't be mean to people. You never know who they are. Now... we'll change you back, but promise me you'll be nice from now on, okay?" She leaned in closer. "Or my dark wizard friend here and I will find you. And next time... being a frog is the least of your concerns."
The frog reeled back, eyes wide in horror, and nodded frantically, letting out several alarmed croaks.
"We have an understanding, my lord. The mortal will be cautious in the future." She turned to me, and the frog in her hands glanced at me nervously. "Now change him back."
"Uh..." I blinked, and then put on my best evil wizard face. "Yes... yes, my apprentice. He's lucky... this time."
And with that, Michelle set the frog back into the pile of his own clothes and stood next to him, hands on her hips.
I quickly wished him back to normal, clothed to save further humiliation. He morphed back to a man, growing in size, returning to human, and sitting there in his chair sweating profusely and trembling. His clothing hardly out of place, glasses still busted. A bewildered look on his face.
"Remember this." Michelle pointed at his chest. And with that, all three of us rose and began to walk away. He said nothing, only sat horrified.
"Did... did you guys just do that?" Steph whispered, taking a look back at the businessman nervously glancing at us from his screen as we walked away. "Because that was fucking awesome."