Living as a Skunk: chapter four
My awakening came on swift wings, as cold rain poured down from the sky and totally drenched my fur. On the bright side I did wake up and didn't ahve to worry my mother.
"Hey, well, maybe I won't even have to tell her about what happened." I thought to myself, until I looked at myself. The patch of fur on my arm where the bolt had hit me had changed color to a flourescent green. "Well, that's gonna be a little hard to explain." I grimaced, knowing I would have to tell her what happened. After standin in the rain for a few minutes and deciding the propper word choice, I called her up.
"Hey mom, how ya do..."
"Where are you young man!" she shattered my ear drums in her earth shaking voice
"We've been through this before, I'm not young, and technicly, I'm not a man!"
"Just...where are you now?"
"I'm at the school still."
"And exactly why are you there?"
"Long story, I'l explain when you get here."
"Ok son..."her voice full of anger...and worry. As I stood there I tried to wring out my tail, since it was growwing quite cummbersome with all the water in it. As the excess water fell to the ground with a spoosh, I sat back on my tail as I waited for her.
She arrived about 10 minutes later, by this point, I had no dry spots left in my fur.
"Boy it's really opuring isn't it, HOLY #@$&! What happened to your arm! Did you contract a disease or something?!"
"Now, now, mom it's not that bad. Here's what happened." as I explained what happened her eyes grew wider and wider until we pulled up to our house.
"What did you do? You really asked them to keep your skunk form forever?"
"Yes mom, yes I did, I thought about it and, becoming a skunk is one of the best things to happen to me! I became smarter, I got closer to my friends, I got good grades, I made a whole bunch of new friends, and I made it into the chess club! Now you and I both know, those feats would've never happened if I had not become a skunk." as I gave my speal, she had that look in her eye, that look that says she knows who I am, who I've become, and all around understanding.
"While we may never find out what the cost you paid for this body, I'm proud of you" words I had been waiting to hear all my life "And I'm glad you're growwing up into a strong...Skunk furry!" she looked at me and smiled "and seeing as how you made such good grades, I've decided to buy passes for both of us to attend that convention you wanted to attend anmpro, ancro..."
"ANTHROCON?!" I blurted out "Oh mom..." the water that had previously covered me disappeared, and welled in my eyes as I began to weep. " I...I...I love you so much mom. I don't know what I'd do without you!" I gave her the wettest, most full of love full-on fur hug of all time as I sat there crying. She held me in her arms like every mother does.
"Oh John, I love you to." this moment was probably one of the happiest I'd ever had. Little did I realize the cost of staying a fur meant much more to the people of the fandom, and the people at the convention then I would've ever thought. Little did I realize, all the lives of anthrocon furs were about to change, forever, and all because of me...