Thursday, July 9, 2020

Wishing to Fall

I  was in the mood to write a gradual sort of change, and the end result was waaaay too long to fit in an ordinary caption. In the end the only thing I'm not really happy with is the title, but I couldn't come up with anything better. Hope you like it.



Reed looked in the mirror one night, before he went to bed. The person looking back wasn't unattractive—tall, buff, with sharp, handsome features and short, dark brown hair. But the face—sad, tired, lonely. Tonight, like many nights before, had been a failure. He had no trouble getting dates, but never felt much of a connection. Somehow, every girl he found himself sitting across the table from him was incompatible—completely different interests, beliefs, ideals. Often—more often than not—they were attractive, and found him attractive, and sometimes seemed to think that was enough; Reed wasn't inclined to agree.

For this much bad luck, he had to think: Maybe the problem was him. Yet he was always trying his best to be a good date, treat her nicely and have as much, and as meaningful, a conversation as possible. Not pushy, not overly passive or disinterested...

Tonight, after the date, he'd gone out drinking with a friend. Hugh was physically his opposite: A bit on the short side, a little overweight, perhaps, but..they had quite a bit in common. They'd met in college, hit it off, and been friends ever since. "Dude, you're just trying too hard," he'd said. "It's a first date. Just have a good time yourself, show her a good time, and worry about getting to know her if she asks for a second one. Works great for me!" He punctuated this with a chug and a burp.
"Yeah, sure. When's the last time you even had a date?"
"Cold, dude. But—seriously—last month. We had fun, even if we weren't interested in each other in the end. I still got her digits."
"What, her ears not pointy enough for you?" If there was any interest the two of them didn't have in common, it was Hugh's specific attraction to certain...non-human features. Or, to put it much more bluntly, his catgirl fetish. Reed was pretty sure he had a body pillow hidden in that closet he wouldn't let him open up when they were in his apartment together.
"Hey, hey, it's not a must!" Ever since the revelation that cat-people, and by extension catgirls, were real, his interest seemed to have shifted out of fantasy and into his actual wishlist for a potential partner. Just—supposedly—not too high on that list. "Anyway, look, some of my old dates still hang out with me 'cause I don't go into it with that kinda pressure on my mind."

Shaking his head, Reed sighed at the mirror again. I just want to fall in love with someone, he thought—and quickly added, ..who loves me back. Was it too much to believe that that sort of thing was real? He had to admit that Hugh was right, too; his way of dating probably wasn't going to forge romantic relationships when it didn't even seem able to build friendships. Maybe dating just wasn't the right way to go for him. But then..what was?

He turned away from the mirror without an answer. But, unseen to him, his reflection turned back around to watch him walk back to his bed, holding a hand up to his chin and rubbing it, thinking. By the time he'd turned around where he could see it again, the mirror was back to normal, his reflected self in the expected position once more.

The following morning, Reed got out of bed as he always did and groggily stumbled over to the shower, nursing a reasonably mild hangover headache. It washed away in the hot water, thankfully, but as his head cleared he noticed something a little bit odd. He was washing his hair, and as he ran his hands through the shampooed locks they seemed to find more to comb through than he was quite used to. After rinsing, he brushed at the freshly-cleaned mane and found it reaching very nearly down to his shoulders in the back, bangs hanging nearly long enough to get in his eyes in the front and the sides falling low enough to brush across his cheeks. Somehow, in the course of a single night, he'd gained several inches of length in hair.

A look in the mirror while he toweled off brought further strangeness into view; his hair color was off a shade or two. Its usual dark brown had faded to a lighter tint, still pretty dark but noticeably different to eyes expecting the usual one. And yet...his first thought, looking at the altered hair, was that it looked...nice. Even though he had no idea how it had happened, it was hard not to just shrug it off and move on with his day; if it bothered him, haircuts and even dyes were readily available. It was more or less out of his mind by the time he went to work.

Reed worked at a gym, a mixture of physical trainer and nutrition coach with a number of regular customers. If his job didn't involve his constant presence at a place full of fitness machines, he probably never would've maintained his physique. Around lunchtime, he found himself pulling at his tank top a bit, as it felt a little loose around the shoulders and waist. Thinking back to the morning, he was almost sure it had been pretty tight on him then, but there was always a bit of doubt, and it slipped his mind again when it was time to get back to work. Separately from that, one of his regulars a little while after lunch seemed to have..grown a few inches in height, he thought? It seemed to him that way because they had always been right at the same height, but Reed's eye level was around the man's chin now. People usually didn't grow so much this late into life, and neither of the commented on it—it seemed like an odd thing to bring up, and unimportant to his work, as the man was no less fit than before.

His phone rang as he got to his car after work. "Yoo!" It was Hugh. "You got a hot date tonight?"
"No. I'm thinking about giving up on that for a while," he admitted, sitting in the car. Locks of hair a paler brown than that morning just barely brushed across his shoulders as he leaned his head to one side to keep talking on the one while using his hands to throw his stuff in the passenger seat.
"Cool. Let's get chicken wings. I'm buyin'!"
"Hahh, okay," Reed said. "I gotta go change first."
"A'right. See you there!"

Between setting the phone down and starting to drive, Reed took a moment to readjust the seat, pulling it forward, and then move the mirrors a bit, angling the rearview one down some. Satisfied that he could drive comfortably now, he took off for home, throwing off his clothes and taking a quick shower to wash the sweat off once he got there.

This shower proved at least as strange as the one in the morning. As he ran the rag across his body, it kept picking up hair. It was as if he was shedding, the hair from his face down steadily thinning out more and more through the course of the shower until it was quite nearly gone. He ran a hand along an arm from the shoulder down, then both hands down his sides; it wasn't just hairless but soft, smooth, wonderfully pleasant to the touch. This was...again, bizarre, but he rather liked it.

After toweling off he absently ran a comb through his hair, neatly brushing some light brown tresses down to a few inches past his shoulders on the sides and back, and stared at his face. He'd gotten so used to having at least eternal stubble; it looked rather good this way, fully smooth with soft hair framing it at the sides and top. It looked...cute? And, he liked it that way. While he wondered why he liked his face looking cute, he didn't feel particularly worried about it, either; much like the other things he'd noticed throughout the day, he liked the end result too much to really complain.

The hem of the shirt he pulled on fell several inches farther than usual, and like his tank top it was kind of loose on his shoulders and waist. His boxers and pants, on the other hand, seemed slightly tight on the hips and upper legs, but not quite enough to be uncomfortable. With that, he was ready to go out for dinner.

Hugh stared at him as he walked in and sat down. "Whoa, what happened to you?" he said finally after a pause almost long enough to be awkward.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Reed said.
"You uh..like...and," his friend said incoherently, gesturing back at him in a vain effort to make this more clear. "I mean, look at your hair," he settled on finally.
"Oh? Yeah," he said, unconsciously reaching up a hand to run through it. "It was long like this when I woke up this morning. You like it?"
"I..?" Hugh looked confused and flustered for a second, before responding, "I guess so? I mean, it doesn't look bad on you, but..back up a minute. Your hair grew that much overnight? And, is it just me or is the color different too?"
"Yeah, it is," Reed nodded. "I don't really know why, but I like it. I'm thinking of letting it grow out even longer, honestly."
"Oh? Well, uh..cool. I guess." By this point it had become clear to Hugh just how little his friend was bothered by the hair, and he wasn't quite perceptive enough to pick out the other, stranger changes right away. Anyway, he was committed to helping his friend feel better, and pestering him about the bizarre changes wasn't going to accomplish that.

Indeed, Reed drove home from that encounter feeling a lot better. At least he had a friend who understood him, he thought. At a traffic light he had to pause to adjust the mirror again; he could've sworn he'd gotten it right that afternoon, too. He walked into his apartment building, enjoying the feeling of a gentle wind caressing his hair, blowing it out behind him and then letting it fall back down onto his upper back. Later that night, he threw off his pants and climbed into bed feeling optimistic about tomorrow, paying little mind to the hem of his shirt trailing halfway down his thighs.

The next morning, when Reed sat up, he felt the weight of hair as far down as his upper waist, nearly long enough to touch the bed beneath him. Running a hand through it to examine it, he found its color even more faded than before, the brown starting to wash out entirely, and..smiled. It was weird, but he kind of thought a pure, pale white would be ideal. He stood up and stretched, arching his spine back quite a bit farther than usual but finding it quite easy to do so. His body overall felt oddly loose and limber, he thought, and wandered over to the room's mirror out of a sort of idle curiosity, pulling his loose t-shirt up and off of him with ease before tossing it away behind him.

"Huh.." The body that greeted him that morning was very different from the one he'd seen two nights before. His skin was smooth, soft and hairless, sure, but also gone now were his well-defined biceps and abs. His limbs looked no less athletic, sure, but they were far slimmer than before, and there was only a faint, barely-visible six-pack left to his belly. And...looking carefully, he thought his body overall seemed trimmer than before, like his frame had been taken in a couple inches or so. No wonder his tops were getting so loose, he thought, and then—thinking back to how long they were getting—turned and looked for a measuring tape to confirm something else.
Putting his foot on the tab and drawing it up until the top was about at the top of his head, he locked it and turned it where he could see the result. Indeed, over the past day or so he'd lost more than a foot of height. And yet..looking around, he felt quite comfortable with his newly diminished stature. Perhaps, the bizarre thought came to him, he'd simply been far too big before; wasn't this a lot better? And..much like everything else..it was. He sauntered off to the shower, aware he'd spent enough time on self-examination and it was high time to get started with his day.

In the shower, Reed ran his hands through his long, luxurious hair, enjoying the feel of it, until his fingers finally happened to brush across his ears, making him jerk and shudder just slightly at a weird feeling. He paused, carefully poking his hands through the hair to try to identify the source of that, and quickly determined that his ears were covered in fuzz—short, soft hairs that were pleasant to the touch. They also seemed to enhance the physical sensitivity of his ears themselves by quite a bit, which explained why that first unexpected touch had caused such a reaction. Further probing found his ears were bigger than usual, and their upper tips tapered a bit oddly. Did he..like, this, too? Well, it wasn't too bad, he decided after a bit.

A few people questioned his change of appearance at work, but at the same time those questions were unusually easy to deflect, he thought. The changes were, admittedly, quite drastic by now, but everyone still seemed to recognize him right away and also seemed more interested in letting him work than trying to figure out any of the how or why. At lunch his hair was longer than it had been when he woke up, he observed, finding it necessary to brush it back to avoid sitting on the very ends of it. And his ears, covertly examined in the middle of the lunch break when nobody was looking, were bigger than before, the fuzz a little longer, too.

The last traces of masculine muscle had disappeared by the time he came home for another shower and threw off his clothes to look. His body looked so soft, and smooth, and..lovely, he thought. His hair's color was almost entirely gone, clearly approaching that snowy white he'd found himself wanting that morning. Tugging at an ear, Reed was able to pull it out past his hair to look at it; it was getting pretty big, the fuzz now looking almost like white fur on it, and was taking on an increasingly triangular shape. With a slow grin creeping across his face as he realized the end result of this strange transformation, Reed went over to the phone to send his friend a couple of texts.

After the shower, the reply came; Hugh was happy to meet him at another restaurant to let him repay the favor of the night before. So, once he was fully clothed again, Reed headed out to meet his friend, taking care to adjust the mirror and seat for possibly the final time.

They wound up meeting in the parking lot, Hugh coming out of his car around the same time as his friend. "Duude, what even..?" he said, both of them readily noticing how very much he'd shrunk. Hugh was now the taller of the two, by three or four inches—enough that Reed had to look up just a bit to be looking him in the eyes and not the chin.
"Yeah, I know. Something really weird's happened to me over the last couple of days," Reed admitted. "Honestly, I uh, wanted to talk to you about it?" He waved toward the restaurant.
"Y-yeah, okay."
On their way in, Reed found his tongue idly sliding around his teeth for a moment, and noticed something different about them, too.

"Alright, so..look," he said once they were seated. "I think I know—not exactly why and definitely not how, but...okay, so check this out." Reed pulled back his hair a bit to show the odd-looking ears, then opened his mouth and pointed out some fangs in his teeth. "See that? And..with the long hair, and shrinking..."
"You, y-y-you're..?" Hugh leaned back, eyes wide in astonishment.
"Uh-huh. It seems like I'm turning into a catgirl. Orr, at least a very catgirl-ish guy."
"No way. Noo way," he shook his head. "I mean—I know, you know I've always, but I'd never..."

"Hey, don't think it's your fault. Not that it could be either of our fault, anyway, but...look. Night before last I wished, pretty hard, that I could fall in love with someone. I wonder if this is..something's idea of how to grant that wish?" Reed said, leaning toward his friend slightly.
"Yeah? Well, i-if so it's kinda, screwed up isn't it? I-I mean, someone totally transforming you just to suit what I like?"
"No, no," Reed shook his head. "I like this too. Like I said yesterday, it's—somehow I enjoy this? Every new thing I noticed that's happened to me, I like the way I look more. I'm, even, starting to envision what the 'end product' might look like. In the sense of, eagerly anticipating it."
"R-really?" He nodded again. "That's uh..good? I mean, it doesn't seem like whoever's doing this is giving you a choice in the matter?"
"Maybe they are," Reed shrugged. "So the more I keep approving of it, the more it continues.

"Did you notice my uh, voice is different since we came in?" Indeed, the deep, male tones of his voice had steadily been melting away throughout this conversation, and by now the pitch of his speech was a high tenor at the lowest.
"Wh—no way! Already?"
"Hmm, I wouldn't say that," Reed said. "I mean, it's been two whole days before it changed at all. But it is going pretty fast, huh? Aa~aah," he sang quietly, listening to the tone change ever so slightly even mid-note.

They ordered their food; Reed found himself craving seafood, so he went for that. Maybe being a catgirl was going to be more than skin deep, he thought, and then remembered just how flexible and limber he felt. Maybe a test would be in order, but..later.

"How're you gonna, deal with this, though? I-I mean, is your job gonna accept you suddenly looking totally different, and like, being a girl?"
"I don't know. But I already looked pretty different today, and didn't have too many problems. I think there's supposed to be stuff in place for this kind of thing anyway. Guess I'll have to research it pretty soon, huh." His voice grew more feminine-sounding almost by the word, sliding toward a low, mature alto. He could feel his ears moving ever so slightly now, their fur reporting movement through the soft hair as they slowly stretched themselves up and outward.

Halfway through the meal, Reed leaned in, a sly grin on his face. "Hey.."
"W-what?" Hugh blushed in spite of himself; the combination of that voice with the cute face, pretty hair, and those ears...!
"I think it's probably gonna finish tonight. Can I, come to your place? It's hard to explain but, I really don't wanna be alone for the...big change."
"Um..sure...but..are you sure? I mean, isn't this kinda playing into the hands of...whatever's, doing this to you?"
"That's okay with me," he said, leaning back again but not losing the grin. "I like their plan so far."
"Um..okay, then. Sure."

By the end of dinner, Reed had fully grow a tall, triangular pair of white-furred feline ears. They stood up and turned flexibly at the slightest command, twitched around involuntarily when he wasn't paying attention, and seemed to pick up on sounds and movements of air far better than they ever had as human ears. Again—he quite enjoyed this. His hair was only faintly tinted in color, and fell all the way down to his hips now, he found as he walked out to the car; his boxers and pants felt especially tight against his hips and thighs, which seemed to have rounded out even more over the course of supper. His height seemed to be the same as it had been when he'd gotten up that morning, as no more adjustments were necessary in the car. Before long, he found himself following his friend up some stairs to his apartment.

"So, uh.." They stood awkwardly in the living room, Hugh rubbing the back of his head nervously. "..Now what?"
"I guess I just need to wait," Reed said. "Can we sit down?"
"S-sure."

After the cat-eared man took a seat on the couch, his friend went out of his way to take a separate chair across from him. No sooner were they settled, and one or both of them about to say something, when Reed detected a faint tugging sensation between his legs. "Oh. Um.." It made his cheeks feel...warm. He hadn't physically felt any of the changes before now, but now he was keenly aware of something shrinking away down there. "T-there it goes," he mumbled, squirming in his seat slightly.
Then: "Aah..mmngh.." He gasped, a high, girlish gasp, at a slightly sharper tug, and then a quite feline "Mrr~roow~wrr..!" came from his lips as he felt his manhood actually melting away, pleasant tingles accompanying the vanishing of things he'd had down between his legs his entire life. This was followed by a girlish "Aa—aa~aAAaahh..!" as new equipment formed into place all at once, even more pleasant tingles coming from her womanhood as all the necessary parts gently pushed themselves up into place to cement her body's complete change of sex.

"HFff, fff...oo~oh, that felt...nice," she admitted, still quite enjoying the way all that had made her feel. Looking over at her friend, she saw him blushing furiously, and found it...very cute. He looked pretty good overall, she thought; part of her wondered how she hadn't noticed it before, but then she also hadn't been a girl before.
These thoughts were interrupted by a pushing sensation from the new girl's lower back, something making its way out from the base of her spine. "Aah!" she cried, startled, scooting herself up in her seat a bit to turn and look at the source of the sensation. Right away she saw it: A line of soft white fur making its way out past the hem of her shirt, a cute feline tail to match her ears. "Mmh, mrr~rrow?" She found herself making more feline noises as the new appendage twitched back and forth, feeling the air play across it as it continued to grow longer and longer. She put a small, delicate hand around it and felt the fur brush through her fingers as it steadily grew out, until finally it was done, a luxurious white tail which was at least no shorter than one of her arms. But it was a little hard to measure with the way it kept twitching around excitedly back and forth.

"Ooh, uh..r-really cat," she said, turning around to her friend again. The expression on his face now was priceless; he'd been flustered before but what was there now was clearly the face of a man whose deepest fantasies were coming to life right in front of him. So..he liked the tail too, she concluded, a sly grin playing across her face once again right along with a blush at the realization that her new form was being admired in that way.

But then, once again, she was interrupted by another rapid change. This one came in the form of a tingling at first, all across her chest but especially right around the nipples. It drew a shudder from her first, then a small "Mrrnh?" at the strange feeling of her nipples slowly spreading out wider and longer. Then, as she felt them pushing forward, drawing little bumps of skin out behind them which revealed quite how sensitive they now were as they brushed against the cloth of her oversized t-shirt, she let out a much more human "AaaAAaa~ah!" and began to squirm in her seat all over again. "Mn, mmMmnh..!" Her newfound womanhood was starting to enjoy this too, she found, as a second wave of pleasure hit her from down there and drove ever more heat into her cheeks. The little bumps, meanwhile, steadily expanded out, gaining both more height and width by the second. The bumps were starting to visibly tent out the front of her shirt, displaying to all her new sex if everything else didn't make it clear enough.
"Mmh, mrrRroo~ow..!" She felt her ears lowering to the sides, her tail flicking around even more furiously than before. Her new breasts, already big enough for some adults, just wouldn't stop filling out! "Mrrnh, aah, a~aah..!" They continued to push their way forward, deeply sensitive skin pushing against her shirt, and she gave in more and more to the deeply pleasant feelings this gave her. "Aa~aahnn..!" The growth, in fact, seemed to accelerate now, as her entire being seemed to want, need, the sensations to continue, her body to end up with not merely a nice but an amazing figure that would drive any of the girls she'd dated before to envy. And, indeed, her body seemed to acquiesce this desire in other ways too, her male-sized bottoms squeezing tighter against the hips spreading out, butt puffing back behind her, and thighs steadily thickening, giving her the lower third of a generous hourglass figure she was clearly destined for as the globes on her chest continued to grow..!

"MrRREEaAaAooOOo~oow!" Just when she thought she couldn't take it anymore, Reed finally felt her breasts give one final, violent push, this also drawing the loudest, most excited noise from her throat yet, as they expanded an entire cup size further, ending as a large, generous pair of globes fit to drive any man wild. But, as she slowly opened her eyes and took in the world again—for the first time as a fully-fledged catgirl—she couldn't help but feel there was only one person she really wanted to drive wild. The pleased, mischievous smile appeared on her lips to stay this time as she looked across the way at her friend, having some very different thoughts about their relationship from those she ever would've considered having just a couple of nights before.

"Hh, heheh," she giggled softly, pushing herself up onto her feet. There was some difficulty balancing there, but her new tail seemed keen to help her along as she took a couple of steps forward, toward the chair. "Hey, how do I look to you, huh?"
"Uh, um.." The slowly increasing proximity of the gorgeous catgirl left Hugh too flustered for words. Seeing this, she paused, drawing herself fully upright—and pushing at her pants with a hand, letting them slip off her hips and expose her slender, soft legs from the lower thighs down. "Well?"
"Y-you're..I-I mean, if I'd just, if I didn't know you and just, like, we'd just met, I'd say...um.."
"Yes?"
"Y-you're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen," he said quietly, seriously. "Real or not. Or...like, imagined even. You're just..perfect."
"Good." She nodded, and strode closer, letting her hips sway ever so slightly.

It was impossible to really play coy with her tail whipping around behind her excitedly and her face burning with a deeper blush the closer she got to him, but...it didn't really matter anyway. Her friend was sufficiently stunned that he neither fled nor resisted when she got right in front of him and leaned down and forward before falling directly onto him, pulling her arms around him and one knee on either side of one of his legs, and immediately pressed her lips onto his, initiating a long, passionate kiss that he took very little time to return, followed quickly by reciprocating the embrace as well.

Eventually they broke it off, but she took care to stay barely an inch away from his face, enjoying everything from his expression to the sound of his beating heart to his scent, which she seemed to have a better sense for as well, at least a little bit. "Ah, um.." he stammered after a second. "A-are you sure?"
"Sure what?"
"I-I mean, uh. W-with a body like that, you could, you could probably have anyone, y-you wanted..like.."
"Well, I don't want anyone," she said, and then leaned half of the scant inch between them forward to whisper: "I want you," and deliver another lengthy, paralyzing kiss.




A month or so later, Hugh came home to his apartment to find the white-haired catgirl standing there in what could generously be called about a tenth of a maid-uniform-costume, tugging at the edges of it a bit nervously. "Hey."

"Uuh...y-you're home early."
"Mm-hm." He was already showing some marked improvements, the part of her brain she used for her job noted; a month or two more and he might even be showing some muscle. Not that his body was what the rest of her really cared about, as she blushed up at him, feeling her ears lower steadily to the side again. "My last appointment canceled, sooo I..you like it?"
"It's uh..it makes a statement, all right," he said, coming closer. "I think, like, maybe it relies too much on the body wearing it to really look good. On you, though..yeah. Totally."
"Heheh." She strode up to him, letting her tail whip around freely, and pulled him down into a hug. "You're getting better at playing it cool, dear~, but you still need some practice."

The kiss which followed was no less exciting for either of them than the first one; if anything, it was even better, especially if one included in consideration what it led to.

2 comments:

  1. I like the gradual change in this one.

    Maybe you could have titled it "Wishing for Love"?

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    1. Maybe. I think I felt something like that sounded too generic, although I admit this title is only less so by being a bit more odd.

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