This story is part of the BigMystique universe and takes an incidental character from their story “It’s only temporary” and imagines what happens to the main character Tabitha’s sister Melanie, whilst Tabitha is being altered. I liked exploring how the ripples of Tabitha’s new reality affected her sister.
Enjoy and make sure you read the original story too.
https://thechangingmirror.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10437
Part 1.
Melanie is sitting in the school hall and dance studio of Huntley Middle school where she is a year 5 form teacher and teaches Maths. It is one of the meetings she holds each term where she meets parents.
She has lightened ombre brown hair that moves to a subtly golden blonde at the tips, her hair is slightly wavey and worn down. She has a yellow baggy cardigan over a loose-fitting white t shirt with a high round neck. She is a size 12, 5ft 10in and has a modest 36b chest, her skin is pale, and she is lightly made up, but not enough to cover her light freckled complexion. She has brown tortoise shell glasses to compensate for her long sightedness that seemed to come on with all the studying she did as a teen. She has a small pearl necklace and single pearl studs in her ears, she is so committed to her pupils and realises that this is a difficult age for them when they are 10 or 11, support and intervention now can make all of the difference to them. She puts in long hours trying to support the parents and the kids. She is 28 but is so conservative in how she dresses she looks early 30’s
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She is dating Richard, 35 an accountant with the housebuilder Bovis. They have been dating about 2 years and are about to get engaged and move in together. They are very aspirational and a typical middle-class couple, with dreams of settling down and thinking in the future about starting a family, but under no desperate rush. Melanie’s career is especially important to her and so is the profile of the school in the estate she teaches on, she loves all the organising of the school fairs, charity fundraising. She also runs a dance and movement class in this very hall after school for the pupils. She is well on her way to becoming a pillar of the community. She adores her younger sister Tabitha and really supported her through college and into her time at university.
The desk she is sitting at is positioned at the edge of the hall adjacent to the wall hung, dance mirror. She always liked sitting there for meeting parents as she could see them come into the room through the opposite door and did not need to turn around, she could spot them approaching with a sneaky side glance in the mirror. It also meant she could check her hair was free of stray hairs without getting out her purse mirror.
She was just getting ready for the final appointment of the day, waiting to see little Jazz Parker’s mum Lucie about her daughter’s increasingly poor attendance, spending ages with her trying to ensure that her chaotic homelife could be calmed to allow Jazz to concentrate in class better, Lucie was typical of a lot of the mums on the estate. A single mum of 26 with two kids the oldest of which at 10 was the result of a childhood pregnancy. Both kids have different fathers and Jazz the eldest is mixed race. Jazz has so much potential but needs to be encouraged by her mum but Lucie is not much more of a kid herself and works hard doing nails at the VanityVale beauty and hair salon on the parade of shops. The kids are not getting enough support and unfortunately this is starting to affect Jazz in class. If only Lucie would spend more time thinking of her kids and less trying to look like she had just walked off the set of “Love Island”. If she had her way, she would ban that program as most of the mothers all that that Love Island look about them.
Not for the first time Lucie was late and Melanie glanced down at her plain leather strap on her Apple watch; 6pm, she sighed. If Lucie didn’t hurry up and get here soon, Richard would be along to collect her in his company Lexus in a few moments. She had arranged for him to come over and cook dinner tonight, he was a great cook and with a bit of luck he would stay over, they could have a snuggle up and she would do some marking whilst he cooked the meal. What a dream man he was.
She heard the door from the corridor open and expecting to see the long blonde hair of Lucie walking across the hall she glanced up in the mirror. But instead she saw her Richard’s reflection instead. She did a double take and whipped her head around to look at him face on.
You are so early and “What are you wearing?” Whilst Richard may have worked for a firm of Builders he didn’t know one end of a hammer from the other, but there he was standing in front of her in a builders uniform. Not that builders have official uniforms but he wore heavy industrial boots with scuffed metal toe caps, dusty cargo pants, and around his slim waist was a massive tool belt. He was wearing a Bovis construction T shirt which hung off his narrow shoulders and skinny arms. He looked like he was going to a fancy dress costume as a builder wearing clothes that were too big for him. “you look ridiculous”, she commented.
As he walked across the hall the noise of the metal reinforced boots clicked loudly on the wooden floor, He sat down across the table. She pointed at his get up with her finger, “ What is this and where is your suit that you left to go in to the office today??” He looked puzzled at her “well I was on site, wasn’t I? Not going to wear my suit to a site visit am I?”
As he posed that rhetorical question the strangest sensation or vision of her sister sitting in an office came to her, with a man standing over her. Yet it wasn’t quite her sister, she looked different, shorter, much much shorter and she had big tits, it wasn’t her sister, but then again, the more she thought about Tabitha the more she couldn’t remove the memories of this short curvy woman with her rack always proudly on display.
Just as soon as the vision of Tabitha had entered her head it faded away, gone. She heard Richard speak to her again.
“You know I work on site a lot of the time Melanie”
She reached into her memory, something seemed off kilter, not quite correct, her boyfriend who wasn’t any good a t DIY, was now, as far as she could tell, really good at DIY, always doing jobs around the house and of course when the building crews were short, he often helped out on site. That was completely normal, so seeing him in building clothes was a common thing. How could she have got it so wrong.
She shook her head as if trying to clear a fog or re order memories in her brain.
“you know how short they have been on siter this summer Melanie, it is only right that I help the lads out on site.
She nodded, it all made perfect sense, as she rationalised it, what had initially seemed ridiculous now felt surprisingly normal.
This summer they had been really short on the construction site and he had been working so many days on site, it was true and whilst she knew she had been moaning that he was more of a builder than an accountant and it wasn’t right. She glanced at him and realised that the all the days he had worked this summer had given him such a deep dark tan. His hair looked different to when she’d seen him yesterday, his conservative cut and deep dark natural brown colour looked different. She looked at it, a deep high fade leaving him with no hair at all below his ear line and ultra-short on top with bleached blonde tips. The longer she looked at it the more familiar it became. It was a typical style amongst the 20 something year old lads on the site. He hated having long hair doing such a sweaty job.
As much as she knew that Richard was a rough working class lad, she was still ambitious for him. “You need to make sure that they don’t take advantage of you working on site and you need to get back to your bookkeeping course and try and get off site, for when we get married”
Then that vision of Tabitha came back into her head, she was still sitting in an office with the same guy sitting in front of her and this time she could see a laptop….he was moving sliders across a screen and oh when he moved the slider in the vision the pain in her own head became real. She rubbed her temple. “Please make it stop, its killing me”
The pain eased for a fraction, and she tried to hold onto the original thought, the desire, the hope, that Richard could get off the building site and get into the office.
But then the pain hit her in the head again and that desire evaporated. Rich had been a builder since they met, that memory was so clear to her now. She looked at his upper body which now filled the tight T shirt. Her boyfriend was very muscular and loved gym work and lifted weights and to be honest it was something that she liked about him from when she first met him working on the extension to the teacher training college.
Her friends thought they were such an odd couple Rich the 19 yr old builder and Melanie the trainee teacher but she loved his body and that mattered more than anything else to her. She had encouraged him to bulk up through the 4 years that they had been together. Working on the sites and gym work had certainly done that.
Tattoos now swirled around his massive guns up giving him two full sleeves and then went around his chest and then exploded onto designs that wrapped around his neck and extended down onto the top of his hand. A single diamond ear stud fired into his left ear. Memories of the vanilla skinned Richard faded.
“Richard…something seems really weird, like something isn’t right but I just can’t put my finger on it”
“Richard??? Who do you think you are my mum??” he laughed at her “It’s been Rich since we met”
She shook her head again.
“Something is wrong, something doesn’t seem real.”
She noticed the last rays of sun fading through the hall windows and suddenly longed to be outside again in the warm sun. She rubbed her neck and could almost feel the warmth of the sun on her skin, she looked across at her reflection in the mirror. She expected to see her usual pale freckled skin but the skin she saw reflected back at her was a deep dark bronzed tan. A tan cultivated by Mediterranean holidays, weekly sun bed sessions and topped up with fake tan.
Rich …. look at my skin what’s happening to me?
“What do you mean?”, looking at the deep bronze colour he loved, “it is always like that”
She felt a momentary flash of fear as he seemed so oblivious to something so different. But the more she tried to hold that thought the more it seemed so utterly bizarre that she’d ever thought that. She’d knew she’d always loved to tan, why would Rich think anything else?
She looked down at the round neck of the t-shirt under her cardigan. The white scoop seemed to be dropping lower and lower as she watched it, random thoughts raced through her head. I can’t wear this top, it’s too low and what will the other teachers think, its not professional, its too cheap looking. She felt an urge to adjust her cardigan to cover up and to give her a more respectable look.
She stared down at the small cleavage that the scoop neck revealed and realised that it was much bigger than she remembered, she blinked, and it seemed bigger again, she glanced sideways at her reflection, her breasts were an obvious addition to her side profile and then glanced back at her cleavage. Her cleavage was now deep and her breasts rode firmly on her chest in the way that silicon implants do.
Her white ribbed top was now cut to below the level of her nipples and proudly showcased her 36E boobs. They looked bolted on and we’re beautifully spherical. She took off the Cardigan and realised that the loose fitting t shirt she thought she’d put on was actually a very tight ribbed top that clung to her chest wrapping under her boobs and was fitted tight on her chest and down to her waist. The clingy fabric showcased her assets, and why not? £3000 for a boob job at 19 and who wasn’t going to show them off. It wasn’t that being 36B was that small, but more that being skinnier than her sister had meant she had never had Tabitha’s huge rack and she was jel of her little sister. So with some of Rich’s bonus she had had them upgraded. Rich was a tit man and willingly paid for them so she proudly supported the sort of boobs that were obviously fake and a bit trashy but she loved them.
The vision of the guy with the slider came back into her head. She could see the pain in her sisters face, she looked unhappy like something bad was happening. She saw the man gesturing to her and moving the slider on the laptop again.
The movement of the slider corresponded with a further pain in her own head pain. “Rich……what is happening? She put her head in her hands.
End of part 1