I'll admit I was hard, but I was surprised by Irina's tears. She looked genuinely heartbroken. I told myself that she shouldn't have used an untested magic recipe to tamper with my life and that what she had done was just plain wrong. Somehow, a part of me was unconvinced.
She left my place but I got a text from her just a few minutes later.
"I'm sorry, I never would have baked you that cookie if you didn't say you wanted to be with me."
I didn't reply.
"Please don't be mad anymore."
"Fuck that. Stop texting and driving," I sent.
I had told her I didn't want to change. I told her, and the fact that she cooked up a cookie to change me just made me furious! Then again, it was me who told her out of the blue that I wished I was lesbian or bisexual so that I could be with her. That part was true, but I hadn't been serious, how could I know she could whip up a magic cookie to do just that!
The last thing I wanted to do was check in to an emergency room. I could not even imagine how they would react, the questions they would ask, the investigations that would follow. No, I needed to trust Morgana to fix this, and if that meant waiting for a month, I had the funds to hunker down and wait.
To take my mind off of this mess for a little while, I decided to go for a run along the coast. I realized I would have to wear something to accommodate that extra fleshy baggage between my legs, and I had some rather snug leggings. I figured if I wore some baggy running shorts over them I would be fine. I donned my gear, went for my run, and it actually went very well. At times I almost forgot that I had a penis down there, snugly supported by my black leggings.
Irina knew better than I cared to admit, that I had been sincere when I told her I wanted to be with her. Also, it was me who gobbled the cookie up in a haze of euphoric gluttony. It was just so tempting!
How was I going flaunt my goods on Instagram now? How would I wear a bikini or even casually wear yoga pants? My wardrobe had little else, although at least with winter creeping in I had a coat that would conceal most any bulge. I dreaded to think what would happen if after the next full moon Morgana could not put things back to normal down there.
This situation put a real damper on my sex drive, which was a relief. What had I been thinking, spreading my legs for a pure stranger like Denny? It was a miracle his big cock didn't rip that little condom to shreds. There had been enough precum sloshing around in the reservoir of that thing to get me pregnant three times over!
After my run, I took a shower of course and then I decided to veg out in my place. As had become my habit, I went right to Instagram. I had about a dozen new followers and tons of new messages. I checked them out, and there was one from Irina. The preview text said "Please don't be mad at me, I just.." I didn't open it to read the rest.
There were a few messages from guys and girls. I noticed one of the girls had a rather sexy avatar, and her note, redolent with hearts and the phrase "So sexy, deliciosa!" made it clear where her mind was, and that was fine by me. I went to her profile to see what her account looked like.
She didn't use her Instagram to flaunt her looks but from what I could tell she looked fine indeed. She had a kind of Mediterranean appeal that I always envied. Rosa was her name, and I gave her a follow back and browsed her pictures for a while.
I wonder if she can suck cock like Irina? Probably not, but she's still very pretty. Let's keep moving on,
I thought.
Wait a second, who cares about how she is in bed? What am I thinking? I'm just admiring her beauty, just as she did with me. Except I'm not bisexual and she probably is. Lucky for her.
An hour flew by tending to my account and chatting with people. I was surprised at how much my life was beginning to feel normal again.
Then the dopamine high from my run finally faded away and I couldn't forget my problems anymore.
A feeling of sadness had been slowly tightening its clutches on my heart. I sat there browsing through the images of strangers, feeling so enervated I didn't even care about people messaging me in real time. I realized I had to stop lying to myself, not just about how much more I was looking at sexy women on Instagram, but over how bad I was hurting. I wasn't speaking to my best friend, I was mad and it was justified and I didn't know if I could forgive her. If I didn't, I'd be losing my best friend. If you've ever lost a best friend, it's a terrible feeling, probably on par with heartbreak.
The pain in my heart would not go away no matter how much I tried to distract myself. I had tried running, but I was so drained now I couldn't imagine even getting up from my futon. I was on Instagram starting to follow feeds for random things like sports car photography, anything to take my mind off of things.
As I scrolled through my main feed, a terrible photo of Irina came into view. It was a close up selfie, her pale skin was red and blotchy, her cheeks were streaked with mascara, and she was hunched over a book. "Heartbroken but not giving up. Gotta study."
That's strange, I could have sworn Irina was not taking any classes. Whoa, look at all the comments, there has to be dozens, no hundreds of well-wishers. Way to call attention to yourself, Iri. You're such a drama queen. I better give you some time to come to your senses, maybe I'll call you tomorrow.
I turned on Netflix and got ready for a marathon of something, but nothing appealed to me, so I started rummaging through my DVDs. I could not forget the pain I had seen in my friend's face, and I knew it was a reflection of my own sadness, but worse. I felt bad for her, and I wanted to take that pain away from us both. I picked up the phone and called her.
"Jeanie!!" she shouted into the phone.
"Hey blondie. I was gonna call you sooner, I knew you were upset. Uh, I should have told you that I wasn't mad at you anymore-"
"You have every right to be mad at me! I was the one who was out of line!"
"Look, we can put this all behind us, okay?"
"Right!"
"I want us to stay friends. Actually, I need us to stay friends, besties! After all, we're going to be coven sisters, right?"
"Well, since you want to, then yes we will be sisters, absolutely." She yawned. "I was so worried you would flip out or try to weasel out of it."
"Hah!" I laughed, completely missing the sinister undertone of her words. "Hey, are you alright? Sounds like maybe you didn't get enough sleep."
"Yeah, I've been studying."
"Studying, right, that reminds me! Since when are you taking classes?"
"Not for school, silly. I'm reading arcana with Morgana. I've been a research assistant since last night, reading up on your situation and the way the ingredients in that recipe might have interacted. It's been very difficult to narrow things down, but Morgana is worried that she may not have given you the best advice, so she's trying to get a clue by researching old sex witch arcana. I've been helping her. We both ate a, err, um, a no sleep cookie but it, um, we didn't get it to full potency."
I could tell she was leaving something out but decided not to delve deeper.
"You stayed up all night?" I asked.
"Yep!" she yawned, "Just about."
"Wow! Thanks." I thought my situation was an emergency, but it still floored me that they prioritized helping me over sleep. I can't say for certain that I would have done the same for Irina unless had to be honest with myself. The fact that this all had gone on without my knowledge actually floored me. I couldn't get over the fact, and thanked Irina profusely. After a little back and forth, she said Morgana wanted to talk to me.
"Hello? Thank you for doing all this for me," I said. I wanted to make sure she knew that even though I was in distress, I could be calm and I was also perfectly able to appreciate what they were doing for me.
"Thank you for keeping it together, I realize it's scary," she replied. "Most image conscious women would have lost it and ran screaming into the night. Do you mind if I put you on speaker? It's just Irina and I."
"Of course I don't mind."
Morgana had a charming way of speaking, as though she were a high class heiress who lounged about on sprawling estates being fed caviar and crackers, only she seemed to have warmed to me immediately.
"So, what's all the research for exactly? The magic negation
will
work, right?"
"It almost certainly will, and by that I mean a ninety-five percent chance. That chance of success could diminish though, with each use, ah, but it's not clear whether that use includes arousal or actual, well, climax. So far the arcana seems to corroborate my theory, which by the way was based loosely on one of the laws of life." As she spoke, it dawned on me that the witch with the high class accent was actually some kind of nerd! It was kind of a mind fuck to think of someone with her mental caliber dressing and talking as she did, but I needed to focus more on what she was saying so I put those thoughts aside.
"Uh, what law?" I asked when I noticed she had stopped talking.
"If you don't use it, you lose it. There's some conflicting anecdotes here and there, but that's always the case with arcana. Since you're up for a chat, however, I'd like to ask you a few questions. Irina, take notes in your book of light."
I heard a thump of a book and some shuffling of pages, and then Morgana posed a question.
"The spell Irina used was aimed at your gender orientation. Do you think your sexual orientation has changed?"
"Well, no."
"Hmm. How about your feelings toward men?"
"I'm not interested in feelings when I can
feel
this freakish growth between my legs. Men, women, whatever, I don't know who would want to sleep with me. How could I explain it? So no, I don't think I've changed, I just don't want a man to see me this way."