Fluffy Summer

I could not think of a good title for this one at all. I'm also still not entirely happy with the ending, but it's better than the first draft of it that I wrote, I guess. It's also a little long for being a caption...



Edit: I have this caption in "text with image" form below per a request to make it easier to read.

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Lucas sighed to himself, watching the buildings zoom by from the passenger seat of his roommate's car, listening to him half-mumble the words of the song on the radio. Ever since he looked up beaches on the map and realized how close their campus was to one, Kip had hardly talked about anything else—well, apart from complaining about his oncoming finals. And now that those were over, there was nothing that could stop him going to that beach and dragging his roommate along for the ride.

His thoughts were interrupted by a fist lightly bumped against his shoulder. "Hey, come on! You look like you're goin' to a funeral," Kip said. "It'll be fun!"
"This isn't really my idea of fun," his roommate replied. The two of them had been assigned the same room by the college for their freshman year, more or less arbitrarily, and they couldn't be much more of a contrast. Kip was a tall, muscle-bound jock with endless enthusiasm and poor studying habits. Lucas was a bit on the short side, not overweight but hardly fit by any meaning of the word, and liked almost every variety of "sitting quietly indoors" that existed. Despite all that, they'd gotten along surprisingly well as roommates, with hardly any real arguments or difficulties sharing a room. Largely at Kip's initiative, they had even developed something closely resembling a friendship, which even Lucas had to admit he enjoyed. Yet—there was always stuff like this, where he got dragged along for whatever crazy idea his roommate latched onto this particular week.

Before long, they parked and got out. Kip was in white swim trunks and a tight tank top deliberately chosen to show off his prized six-pack and abs, as if his fierce green eyes, short dark hair and handsome, rugged face really needed any help. Lucas had chosen a long, dark t-shirt and a blue pair of trunks bought entirely at his roommate's insistence a couple of days before, when he would rather have been studying for his last final.
"Aw yeah! Feel that sun!" Kip stretched. "I bet all the cute girls'll be out in this!"
"I just feel exposed..."
"Really? You're covered from the knees up, man!"
Lucas crossed his arms. "I burn easily."
"So we'll buy some sunblock! C'mon!" Kip lightly grabbed a forearm and led his roommate along toward the sandy beach for a few steps until he started heading that way under his own power. Once they were there, their first stop was a beachside stall selling various necessities and amenities—including sunblock, of course. While Lucas was busy trying to remember whether a higher or lower SPF gave better protection, his friend went poking around through the store's other wares.

"This, please," Lucas said, finally choosing a tube that seemed promising.
"This too! I'll get it," Kip said, slamming his choice onto the counter not quite hard enough to make the whole stand shake. Lucas looked first at the purchase, and then his friend, with a mixture of confusion and curiosity. The thing was a white volleyball, decorated past the point of its intended use to resemble some sort of rabbit whose lower half was pink with white polka dots. While the cashier quietly rang up the check and took his money, Kip said, "What? It's cute. Girls love cute things! They see me running around with this, they'll at least be curious!"
"I guess I would be, too, if I was one," Lucas snarked.
"Hey, not funny. I just bought you sunscreen," he said, holding the tube out toward him.
"..Which I wouldn't need if I wasn't here," Lucas replied. "Thanks anyway." He stepped away from the shop enough to be out of the way, then half-bent over and started applying it to first his legs, then his arms. Meanwhile his roommate held a hand up to his brows, shielding his eyes from the sun as he surveyed the beach. As soon as the half-spent tube was in his pocket, Kip grabbed his hand and started leading him off in the direction of a little food-court-ish area with wooden tables in the middle and a few various food stalls scattered around.

"Look, there's *loads* of cute girls over there!" he said in a half-whisper that failed to lower his usual volume much.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm sure they won't disappear in the next thirty seconds!" Lucas said, pulling his hand out from his roommate's grasp. "Anyway, what're you gonna do? Just gawk at them?"
"No, I'll..I dunno, flex a little bit. Try to get someone's attention," Kip said, stopping to turn and talk.
"Yeah, sure. Show them you can lift a volleyball?" Lucas teased, poking the weird rabbit-thing in what might have been its 'nose' or its 'mouth'.
"Maybe I'll pick up one of those tables. Actually, maybe you should hold this thing—I don't really need the extra help," Kip said, halfway pushing it toward him.
"Keep it. I'm not really looking for dates right now," he said, shaking his head and waving for it to be pulled back.
"Oh, alright." He pulled it back, holding his arms around it as if in a hug. "I'll find someone to give it to." Then Kip shuddered slightly, as if a sudden chill had hit him. He looked down, realizing how he was holding the thing, and moved it to under his arm—the whole time having a slightly confused, almost dazed expression.
"Hey, uh, are you okay?" Lucas asked, giving a slightly concerned look.
"Sure, I feel great! Just, had sort of a weird feeling for a second there..." Now that he was really looking at him and watching him speak, however, Lucas could swear there was something a little off in what he was seeing. The color of his hair looked too light, maybe—which was perhaps a trick of the sunlight gleaming off it. Or..maybe he didn't seem to be quite as tall as usual, which was simply an absurd thought—people aren't just suddenly shorter, Lucas told himself.

His attempt to figure out what was different involved looking at Kip just long enough to qualify as staring. "..What?"
"Uh, nothing." Lucas shook his head, and turned toward the tables again. Maybe he could at least get something tasty to eat, he thought, and began leading the way. It was only a few steps, however, before he heard his roomate stop again, and turned to see the very end of another slight shudder.
"Whoo! What was that?" Kip said. "Same thing again."
"Are you cold?" his roommate asked, looking carefully to see if anything was off this time.
"No, it's..I dunno...like a weird tingly feeling in my back, all down my spine." Indeed it was—the sense that he was shorter than he should be was a little stronger, and his hair was definitely lighter colored than before, now. Furthermore, Kip's usual rugged, semi-shaved beard seemed thinner than before, and his hairy arms and legs were a bit..less so. "Wah, there it is again!" he said, halfway fighting off the latest shudder—and this time Lucas caught sight of a subtle, yet definite, downward motion of his roommate's head as he lost no less than an inch of height.

"Mnngh, it's not going away this time, either," Kip said, unconsciously closing his arms around the bunny-volleyball again. He was still shrinking, and his beard and body hair were thinning too, but slower than during the shudder a second ago. "I better not be coming down with something, maan, my summer vacation just started!"
"Um.." Lucas was pondering how to break the impossible news to his roommate that he was, in fact, shrinking, when he felt a strange sensation across his scalp—a not entirely unpleasant, tingly feeling like someone was gently running their hands through his hair—and, at the same time, the tickling of soft, increasingly long strands trailing down across his cheeks and the back of his neck, the slight weight of hair hitting his shoulders and flowing nearly all the way down his back all at once.
"W-what?" Lucas said, grabbing a lock of his suddenly very long hair in front of his eyes to confirm it was real.
At the same time his roommate raised a hand slightly to point, saying "Dude, your hair!"
"I-I noticed! Why did my—" Lucas's question was cut off by a sharp, involuntary intake of air as he felt a sensation not unlike someone running a feather from the nape of his neck all the way down the center his back.
"Y-you too?" Kip said
"I-I guess so. Hey, you're um, sh-shrinking!" Lucas finally blurted, just as his roommate's eye level sank down to his own.
He leaned back a bit in shock. "Wha—no way! Wait—I, you're..but.."

"I am shrinking!" Kip concluded once his brain finished short-circuiting. "Why am I shrinking?!"
"I, I dunno, but..y-your hair's different too," Lucas pointed out, fighting the urge to shudder again as the ticklish feeling spread out from his spine across the rest of his torso, and up to his face, down his legs, and across his arms. Looking briefly down, he was able to quickly confirm that his body hair, too, was thinning and shortening, and much more rapidly than his friend's had.
"M-my hair?" Kip reached a hand up to grab it. "How—wait." Now that his wrist was in front of his face, he finally noticed—just as the last of his body hair vanished, leaving the skin of his face and limbs looking soft and smooth. "Wha..?" Not able to process this much at once, he lowered that hand to get a better look at his whole arm and blink at it in confusion as his height continued to diminish.

That wasn't all that was shrinking, Lucas noticed, as he also looked at his roommate's arms—and his stomach under the tank top, and what of his legs the now-overlong trunks didn't hide. His abs were quite faded, barely visible at all; the once-solid muscle of his arms and legs had diminished to a merely 'slightly athletic' look; and he even seemed a little less broad-shouldered, with a smaller, softer face. As for his head-hair, its color had faded to a bright off-white, and while it hadn't grown quite so drastically as Lucas's own, it did look a bit longer than before, and was clearly still growing, too.
"Mngh.." Just as the tingling faded across his skin, leaving it as soft and smooth as that of the shrinking man in front of him, Lucas felt a much sharper version of the same placed exclusively between his legs. He squirmed them slightly back and forth, feeling some heat in his cheeks as, quite against his intuition and will, whatever was happening down there felt rather pleasant.
Kip had problems of his own, his eyes widening as he registered the slender, weak shape of the arm he'd been staring at for the past several seconds and snapped his head downward to look at the other arm, finding much of the same. "M-my muscles!" he said, in a voice that sounded...less mature than before. "Lucas!" he exclaimed, excitedly reaching up to grab his roommate's shoulders and dropping the rabbit-ball to the sand below in the process. "W-what happened to my muscles?!" He wasn't getting shorter anymore now, but his eye level was just barely at the top of his friend's chest, so he had to actually look upward to face him.
"They..shrank? I-I dunno what to tell you," Lucas said. "Aah!" He felt something pressing against the top of his head, and suddenly he was a few inches shorter. "Th-this is all just, impossible..mnnf.." His blush deepened as he stared slightly less down at his roommate's face and found it to be..extremely cute.
"W-what's going on, w-with you?" Kip asked, finally noticing the reactions to the weird feeling between his legs. His voice sounded higher in pitch and less mature still.

"I..I'm..mnnh.." There was a sharp tug now, as the very small bit left between his legs pulled inward. "I th-think we're, turning into gh—" Lucas gasped, feeling another tug and shrinking another couple of inches, too—the pressure was on his shoulders this time, alongside his roommate's tiny hands, and it caused them to pull inward, sharply narrowing his frame. His throat felt strange for a second while he caught his breath, and then he said, "Girls," in a deep, womanly alto tone that caught them both by surprise.
"W-whaa..y-your voice.." Kip said, his astonished expression as bright, soft hair trickled down past his cheeks to frame it only making his small, round face cuter. "My voice!" he realized finally, sounding like a young boy as he did.
"Aa~aah!" Lucas felt one final motion between his legs, a tug that terminated with a strange yet deeply pleasant fuzzy sensation and a slight upward push as the equipment necessary to make her prediction come true rapidly formed into place. At the same time, she shrank several inches more, until her eye level was about at the small boy's forehead.

"W-what happened?" Kip said, an adorable look of concern on his face.
"I-it. I. I'm." Finally, Lucas couldn't take the cuteness, and burst out into a giggle. "Eheheh..heehee..!" Her chest felt tingly, and she wobbled back and forth as her hips began to push outward to either side, her butt plumping out behind her—all of which made her current stance increasingly awkward to remain balanced with.
"Lucas! Wh-what's so funny?!" Kip demanded, his voice now completely out of the male range. His hands still on her shoulders, he swayed with her as he tried to keep them both upright. "Wha-aa~aahrrf!" Another attempted question terminated in an unexpected, canine noise as his ears suddenly pushed their way out past his hair, white fur covering them in an instant as they flopped down across either side.
"Aaawwh~!" Lucas couldn't help herself; it was like looking into the face of a confused puppy—and a cute girl—all at the same time. Before she could even think about it she leaned forward, wrapping her arms around the tiny boy, costing  both of them any semblance of balance and ultimately knocking him over onto his back underneath her.
"H-heey!" was all he managed before he hit the sand. And then Lucas could feel the tingling in her chest grow stronger, as her nipples pressed forward against her shirt, slowly expanding the flesh around and behind them—beginning to form a small pair of breasts. At the same time, she could feel that her roommate was still male—at least for the moment—but considerably smaller in that department than she would've expected him to be before he started shrinking down.

"G-get off of me..rrf!" Kip barked involuntarily again, and then let out a high "Aah!" as the thing between his legs shrank some more. "Lucas! Wh-what's gotten into you?!"
"Heheh...you're just too cuu~ute!" the new girl exclaimed, followed by a strange sort of chittering sound from her throat as she felt her own ears stretching up and up and up, tingling as bright white fur grew across them—in under a second, they had become huge, floppy bunny ears, which promptly fell across the top of her roommate's head. At the same time, Lucas's budding chest expanded at least a cup size and a half, eagerly growing out to press against the flat chest of the boy who would quite soon be a fellow girl.
"C-cute!? B-but I...I..Mnf..rrf!" Kip's manhood shrank twice more, and then with a high, girlish gasp, it was gone. "N-no..!" she said quietly—but it was done now. "Aah, rrf!" Lucas's gigantic new ears could pick up the sound of a tail pushing its way out from the other girl's back, its fur quickly swishing through the sand. Then her own body gained a tiny bunny tail, in a swift push from her lower back that ended just as quickly as it began.

"Mnrgh..t-this feels so weird..!" Kip complained as her own chest slowly pushed forward into Lucas's still-growing pair. At the same time, their clothes began to rapidly reshape themselves. The bunny-girl could feel her trunks shrinking into a tight bikini bottom, her shirt removing itself from her stomach, arms, shoulders, and just most of her in general as it became a matching top. Meanwhile the adorable puppy-girl's trunks shrank to a frilly bottom adorned with cute ribbons, the top turning into a slightly more modest, equally frilly top around her slowly-forming breasts. Hairpins—including an adorable bone-shaped one—and a yellow flower ornament appeared in Kip's hair, and Lucas was sure she could feel her own hair being rearranged slightly to accommodate some similar cute decorations. A bit of her shirt's collar was left behind around her neck to turn into a little necklace, which hung down enough to just barely touch the other girl's neck.
Lucas felt a slight buildup of pressure from her already-huge chest. "Mnn~nnhh..aah!" The pressure popped as they grew even more enormous, eclipsing the smaller girl's pair by quite a bit as they, too, seemed to reach their final size, their owner blushing brightly as she involuntarily yipped in pleasure at the wonderful new sensations coursing through her.

"Heheheh..w-wow.." Lucas slowly pulled herself up onto her knees, and after panting softly for a moment the other girl did the same.

"W-what happened? Why am I so tiny?"
"I dunno. I-it feels kinda nice though, doesn't it?" She reached over and rubbed one of Kip's puppy ears, and found the fur just as soft as it looked.
"Rrf..h-hey! Don't just do that!" she said, swatting the hand away; her tail, however, continued to whip back and forth, kicking up more sand, from the moment Lucas's hand had touched her onward.
"But you're so cute!" the bunny-girl protested, as if that meant something.
"E-enough of that! Why, why are you so huge?!" she demanded, poking the generous chest her roommate had wound up with.
"I...guess I was just made that way? By whatever happened to us.." Lucas half-muttered, finally remembering there were other people and looking up and around to try and gauge reactions. However, everyone was just going about their business—not even looking in the two girls' direction. As if nothing had happened at all.

"Nobody noticed this?" she said, waving slightly to her own new figure.
"I, g-guess not," the dog-girl agreed. "H-hey Lulu."
"Huh?" She responded to the name despite knowing it wasn't quite her own.
"Um..y-you're cute, too," she said, blushing brightly again and her tail still wagging.
"Awwh, Kiara!" Despite hearing a different name come out of her mouth, the bunny-girl found it quite natural, proceeding to reach over and pat the top of the shorter girl's head a couple of times. "Hey, let's get some popsicles!" she said, popping up onto her feet.
"Um...o-okay," her roommate said nervously, slowly standing up herself.
"Oh! Don't forget your little friend," she said, bending over to pick up the bunny-ball and offering it over.
"Thanks..." Kiara held it in her arms, against her belly, and slowly followed her energetic roommate the rest of the way to the food court, looking back and forth with a slight nervous air as she wondered whether perhaps all these people had seen what just happened, but for some reason didn't think it was at all unusual? Whatever the case, they were soon sitting across from each other at a previously-empty table, enjoying some popsicles.


"S-so what happened?" Kip asked. "And..why?"
"I dunno. Maybe..your little bunny friend had some part in it, 'cause we both touched it before all this happened? Or that sunblock could've been magic," the bunny-girl said, reaching her free hand to where a pocket might be—but of course the contents of her pockets had vanished when the trunks turned into a bikini bottom. The cash for the popsicles had been...well-hidden elsewhere, and come to think of it she'd acted just as though she'd known that all along.
"Mmnh," the dog-girl mumbled through the treat in her mouth, before carefully pulling it out to speak again. "Maybe someone...um...h-heard me talking about cute girls, and thought this'd be funny to do this to us."
"Yeah, could be," Lulu agreed. "Well, I'm happy at least. You just turned out so cute, after all!"
"H-heheh.." Her roommate looked off to the side, blushing again. "You're um..pretty good-looking yourself."

After eating in silence for a moment longer, Kiara continued. "You know something, um..the more I think about it, the more it feels like we've always been this way?"
"Yeah, me too!" the bunny-girl agreed. "And the new names? I mean, we know what happened, but it sure seems like nobody else noticed, sooo..."
"It's convenient, at least." The dog-girl shook her head slightly. "I dunno how I would've explained me looking like this to anyone I know."
"Heheh, not to mention buying a bunch of new clothes to fit us. Then again, we might do that anyway!"
Kiara's face lit up, her ears raising slightly and her tail's usual wag picking up the pace a bit. "Yeah!"

It didn't take them long to stop thinking about what had happened and start enjoying their new lives. They left the beach much closer than they'd entered it, and found their dorm room the way their new memories said it should be—including its closets being full of clothes fit to their gorgeous new forms.