Halloween Teen

Chapter 2
Part 2

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Chapter Description: More changes as the spell runs its course

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"Why’d ya say THAT?" Damon asked.

"Cuz..." Maggie answered without really answering at all.

"She might’ve heard you!" he protested.

"As if! She didn’t hear me. Besides, she’s kinda skanky!" Maggie elaborated.

"Nuh uh! She’s ~real~ popular and hangs with all the cool kids" Damon said in Joleen’s defense.

"Popular? I wonder ~why~?" Maggie asked rhetorically as she raised her eyebrows "I told you she was a slut-bag! You think she’s pretty?"

"I dunno... why?" Damon replied.

"Cuz, I just wondered." Maggie prodded Damon for more "So...do ya?"

"Yeah... I guess so" He answered reluctantly.

Maggie made a face "Hmmmmph! She’s fat!" she spat out.

"Well, she may not be as skinny as you are now but I don’t think she’s ~fat~" He explained. In fact Damon liked Joleen’s well proportioned curves.

"Her hips are too big!" Maggie shot back.

"Are not!" he protested.

"~WhatEVER~!" Maggie said and turned her head the other way.

"Are you mad at me?" Damon asked.

"Mad? Why would I be mad? I’m not mad" Maggie replied unconvincingly.

"You’re acting funny is all....." he told her.

Maggie reflected a moment and then spoke. "Well..... like, look at what’s happened. I’m 16! Too young to vote! I’m afraid to drive my own car ’cuz my driver’s license is for a 39 year old! We can’t find that witch to change me back and all you care about is that little tramp!" Her lower lip started to quiver. "I don’t wanna be stuck like this...... "

Maggie put her head on Damon’s shoulder as a tear streamed down her cheek. Damon put his arm around her to try and comfort her "It’ll be alright. We’ll find that witch and she’ll change you back. She’ll probably be back at the drugstore at the same time tomorrow waiting on you"

Maggie choked back her sobs and seemed to capture herself for a second. "I keep having these funny feelings. Like chills or something. I’m worried that, like, I’m changing more than on the ~outside~... ya know? I look sooooo ~young~ ...too young!" Just then another chill tingled her spine. She was quickly gaining the emotions and impulses of a 16 year old girl!

"How do you mean?" Damon asked.

"I dunno... You really think I’m too skinny?" Maggie asked changing the subject.

"Huh? What’re you talking about ~now~?" he wondered aloud.

"You said I was skinny and that ~Joleen~ was perfect" Maggie complained.

"I never said that Joleen was perfect!" Damon replied truthfully.

Maggie sniffed "So I AM too skinny!?"

"What?? Hey... no I didn’t mean that either... I didn’t say either..." Damon said as he tried to recover from his unintentional gaffe.

"Yes you did!" Maggie replied through her sobs. "This sucks! That witch coulda made me a supermodel or something but she tricked me into being a scrawny teenager! I think I even have a gnarly zit coming on!"

"She didn’t trick you at all.... you just didn’t believe her and humored her and did it to yourself! Besides, I told you that you were kinda a babe didn’t I?" Damon countered.

Maggie’s sobs lessened. Damon HAD told her that! Her mood took another swing and she began feeling better about herself. "Ummm Ya know... I think I’d feel better if I had some cool clothes that fit and stuff. Let’s stop at the mall."

Not wanting any more arguments or crying Damon did as she suggested. He figured if it made her happy it was worth the effort and plus maybe they’d luckily run into the witch there. It was worth a shot anyway. On the other hand he didn’t see much need in her buying clothes for a 16 year old body that should soon be gone anyway. He just hoped that they wouldn’t run into Joleen again just yet! The mall was decorated for Halloween. Orange and black were everywhere. Maggie went into one of the stores that mainly catered to young people and quickly picked out a few outfits.

"Why so many?" Damon asked.

"I dunno... I couldn’t make up my mind!" Maggie said as she smoothed her new skirt and spun around while looking at the mirror. She had picked out a short skirt and top that allowed a peek of her belly button and a pair of clunk slip on shoes to wear now. In her sack was bell bottomed jeans, a tank top, and a pair of tennis shoes. She also had purchased a black dress that she thought she looked good in along with a pair of heels. While admiring her reflection wearing her purchase it stunned her to see herself as a teen. She realized she was becoming more comfortable with the situation and that confused her. Another chill came over her.... She felt dizzy and had to sit down.

"Whoa....." she said shaking her head "I must’ve, like, spun around too fast!"

Damon took her hand. "C’mon... we better you get you home" he said.

As she started to rise she spotted Joleen across the way amongst a group of other teens. There was no ’snapping’ back from that last battle with her mind falling fLouder into teendom. She was impulsively caught in the moment! She was just about ready to mention seeing "that skank bitch" when a devilish grin crossed her face. "Ummm Damon, hows about us taking in a movie while we’re here? The cinama’s just across the hall and there’s lots of cool stuff playing. We’ll just be bored at home and it’ll, like, take my mind off stuff"

Damon frowned but didn’t want her causing a scene if he disagreed. Besides, he figured it was dark in the cinema so who’d see them. "OK" he said "What’re we gonna see?"

Maggie looked across the way and saw that Joleen was watching them. "Oh... I dunno... We’ll figure it out when we get there" she said as she tugged on his hand getting between him and Joleen so that he couldn’t see Joleen amongst her friends. She let him get ahead as she held his hand and then followed making it appear he was leading. She shot a look toward Joleen just making sure she saw the display. Joleen quickly looked away and began talking to her friends. Soon they all looked toward Damon and Maggie. Maggie knew she’d gotten their attention! No way was she going to let a girl like Joleen have anything to do with Damon... he could do much better she thought. It was then that another chill ran down her spine. She squeezed Damon’s hand tightly as the tingle raced through her.

"What’s wrong?" he asked.

"Just one of those chill things again" she replied rather matter-of-factly as they continued on.

"Ooohh... Let’s see the Excorist!" she exclaimed upon seeing it was showing.

"But you said it was too scary?" Damon replied.

"But it’s Halloween eve! You’re supposed to see scary stuff!" Maggie explained.

Damon shrugged and asked for two tickets.

"You kids got ’ID’?" the man in the booth asked "It’s rated ’R’"

’Kids? Dammit Maggie thought. She was about ready to complain when another chill hit her. Kids? So what if she was 16 they could still watch a stupid old movie! Maggie thought about that for a second. ...She only looked 16! The man was just being stupid! She was growing more frustrated as another chill hit her. It wasn’t fair that they couldn’t see a movie just because it was R rated she thought. She had an idea. Men are stupid she figured.

"I’m sorry, sir, but we forgot our ID’s but we’re really 18..... really we are" she said sweetly as she batted her eyes "Couldn’t you make an exception and let us slide? Please....Pretty please?"

"16 dollars for two tickets" he said "Next time don’t forget your ID’s" he finished with a wink.

"Cool! He thought we were 18!" Maggie said as they made their way to their seats.

Pretty soon the movie started and slowly built into a terrifying ride. On some scenes she would look away and bury her head on Damon’s shoulder. She decided that this movie was a little more intense than she expected. As the terror level increased so did Maggie’s chills. She began clinging to Damon as the movie scared her a little more with each horrific scene. Once the movie finally ended Maggie sat silently in her seat still clinging to Damon and trying to collect her thoughts.

"You’re shivering!?" Damon said.

"That was, like, soooo scary" she said "I bet I can’t sleep tonight!"

"Yeah, but it wasn’t that bad" Damon replied "It won’t bother me"

"I wish I was as brave as you!" Maggie told him as she got up from her seat.

She made Damon uncomfortable the way she was clinging to him but he could tell she was visibly shaken by the movie. "Maybe it’s part of that witch’s spell or whatever that’s making you more scared or something?" he asked.

"Huh? Oh.... I almost forgot cuz that movie was, like, so scary!" she answered.

"Well don’t be forgetting that you’re not really 16!" he replied worriedly.

"~WhatEVER~.... Besides.... What’s wrong with 16?" she argued.

Before Damon could reply, Joleen and her friends approached. "Oh.... ~hi~ Damon...." she sang "and... ummmm Myrtle, right?"

"It’s Maggie!" Maggie tersely corrected the girl as she felt another chill.

"OK... So, were you guys, like, checking out The Excorist?" Joleen asked.

"Ummm yeah... " Damon answered torn between talking to his dreamgirl Joleen and just getting Maggie away from there quickly. He could tell by her body english that she wasn’t happy.

"Was it good?" Joleen asked as she brushed against Damon.

"What do you care?" Maggie blurted out "You just want in Damon’s pants!"

"Whatever do you mean?" Joleen asked mocking surprise that she’d pushed Maggie’s ’hot button’.

Maggie felt another chill. "You know! Bitch! Damon can do better than someone like YOU!"

"Uh!" was Joleen’s well thought out reply.

"Tramp!" Maggie called her quickly escalating the situation.

"I’m a tramp? You fucking whore!" Joleen shot back.

That started a series of chills down Maggie’s spine but she was too busy pulling at Joleen’s hair to notice!

 

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