Jeff found the textures of the flooring felt weird under his scales as he made his way from his carpeted bedroom, down the hardwood floor hallway to the vinyl floor kitchen. He was looking down at the floor as he slithered marveling at how natural it felt. Only when he saw the kitchen chair did he look up. His jaw dropped on the table at his place was a small metal rack with a plastic ball suspended from it. The ball was spinning madly as the hamster inside ran as fast as it could to escape him. Jeff's jaw dropped. That was dinner? His stomach rumbled. His kid brother Dwight sat at his place with steak and potatoes on his plate. Dwight was smirking.
"What's so funny, twerp? You wish you had hamster for dinner?"
"It's guinea pig," Dwight answered, "And mom said I can have the skeleton when you regurgitate it."
"Ma!" whined Jeff.
"Jeffrey, Dwight raises those guinea pigs to feed you. It's only right that he can have the regurgitated bones to assemble into a skeleton for extra credit," said Jeff's mother, but she sounded a bit different.
Jeff turned to see a broad backed snake haired creature with a snake body from the waist down grilling. It looked more masculine than his mother. But it didn't hiss when it spoke.
"Ssssay, ma, how come you don't hisssss when you ssspeak?"
"You know I had my tongue bobbed years ago, biggest mistake, I ever made, honey. Don't even think about doing it. It efects taste and your sense of smell too," she warned, Then she shouted, "Jerry, come and get it!"
"Coming, snaky-poo!" shouted Jeff's father entering the room at a jog. He ran up to Jeff's mother as she turned around with the steak in the skillet, and pecked her on the cheek. Jeff's jaw dropped further - impossibly far. Oh, right, he was half snake. His mother was a dude from the waist up. She looked a lot like his Uncle Bert -perhaps Aunt Bert, now? He shook his head he had missed something. Wait sex chromosomes were reversed in snakes! Just like birds! XY was male in mammals, but in snakes and birds it was called WZ and indicated female. Gulp. Human male upper half, lower female snake half. Suddenly, Jeff didn't feel so hungry. The ball slowed down as the guinea pig realized it wasn't getting away and it was getting out of breath.
"C'mon, Jeff, eat up. Your boyfriend Todd's going to be here soon!" chided Dwight.
"Todd's not my boyfriend," said Jeff suddenly wondering if that was true or if his best friend was now something more than just a best friend.
"No eating until we say grace," said Jerry.
Jeff's mother served the steak to Jerry, and sat down in front of a glass jar containing a mouse. She was dieting again, thought Jeff. Had he really selected a year before reversion?
"Hey, Jeff!" shouted Todd strolling through the backdoor and putting his hand across Jeff's bare shoulders in a bit too intimate way.
"Oh, Todd, would you like something to eat?" Jeff's mother said.
"Nah, I already ate, but I love to watch Jeff eat."
Jeff felt fairly uncomfortable. He had thought- well, he hadn't thought this through properly. Maybe it would be okay.