Wishing Walls: The One

Sorry for the delay. My cat just wouldn't let me do ANYTHING yesterday and honestly, I was having a lot of trouble getting motivated. I had several different ideas for today's captions but ultimately this was the only one that I could get started writing and felt satisfied with. Hopefully this is just a momentary funk and I can get back to a good work flow. Helps if I could think of something to write during that downtime I have at work as well.

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The Whitewood mall echoed with the sounds of outdated pop music and the sounds of low conversation as the two young men walked past the darkened andd gated shut storefronts that filled it's tiled corridors. One was large than the other, a mop of sandy blonde hair that hung a little too low to look stylish and clothes that looked as if they'd once been designer fashion but were now wrinkled and worn. The other was shorter with messy brown hair and showing the first signs of roundness to his otherwise average frame beneath fairly standard young adult male apparel. Both of their eyes were red, though one was clearly from being high while the other's were still watery with fresh tears that threatened to fall at any moment. They were Alex and Sam, roommates, friends, and headed for the mall's foodcourt, the only thing in the mall that wasn't on the verge of closing and the primary reason why anyone came here at all. They looked deep in discussion, though in reality Alex was doing most of the talking.

"Dude, she left you, it's been four months, get over it already!" Alex moaned as he and his friend Jared wandered through the dying mall. He was fed up by his friend's constant moping over the messy break-up his roommate had the misfortune to suffer through, and now they were wasting valuable time that could have otherwise been spent playing video games or getting drunk (or high) in the failed temple to consumerism.

"You just don't understand, Alex! She was...she was the One!" Jared half-sobbed as the two stopped by the elaborate fountain that sat in the middle of the largely deserted mall. He had truly loved Lisa, but that hadn't been enough, apparently. She had left him because of...well, she actually hadn't given him much of a reason, but it hadn't taken her long to hook up with another guy at the college. The last four months had been nothing but hell, especially because avoiding Lisa was impossible due to some of the same classes in the same buildings. Watching her laugh and giggle with the new asshole had been torture for Sam and his once atheltic body had gone soft and lumpy as he stopped working out and had been nothing but spending his days wasting away indoors, subsisting on soda, pizza, and other junk food. And occasionally getting high with Alex.

"Yeah, the one that dumped your sorry ass!" Alex growled, "Listen, I've put up with the whining and done plenty of things to try to take your mindd off of it, but enough is enough, man! Get over it, or get a new friend!"

Jared merely just sniffled at the ultimatum as he blinked back hot tears. Alex just...He just didn't get it. Jared's roommate was the definition of a slacker, someone coasting through life on his parent's money and using it to just sit around in the small house they shared doing whatever and whose closest relationship was with a porn magazine. Meanwhile Jared had known what it was like to be...loved! To have someone beautiful hold him close, to feel her skin on his as they held hands, as they kissed. As they made clumsy but satsifying love. Lisa has made him feel...whole. Sam eye the large fountain and the small piles of change within it, and he was hit with a sudden, cheesy urge to make a wish. He reached into his pocket and fished out his wallet, digging around for a moment before pulling out a quarter.

Alex seemed to realize what his friend was about to do and let out a harsh chuckle at the sight, "Dude" he started, "You're not seriously going to do that, are you?" 

Sam ignored his friend as he closed his fist tightly around the coin and brought it close to his lips as he whispered "Please give me the perfect girlfriend. A beautiful one that will never leave me! Make her my true One!"

And with that, he flipped the coin into the sloshing water with a PLORP, and watched as it sank to the ceramic bottom of the fountain's pool. For a moment there seemedd to be a silver flash of light that engulfed the entirty of the mall's atrium, shimmering over both Sam and Alex, but it was gone just as quickly as it appeared, seeming like nothing more than just a glare from the skylight overhead. Jared's 'friend' just laughed at the futile effort before sitting down on the side of the fountain, a hand outstretched in a mocking manner.

"Wow. Like, WOW. Wasting money on a freaking fairy tale. Maybe you should wish for a spine so that the next chick doesn't leav-" Alex started before he felt his body seize up, almost as if he was choking! He tried to reach out to Sam, but it was no use. He was paralyzed! All he could do was stand there, frozen and staring at Sam's back as a tingling sensation began to spread across his body, and with it...changes.

Alex wished that he could wince as the tingling became more and more intense. His limbs shortened as his body shrank in size, what little trace of masculine muscle they had turning soft and toned as the ruddy texture and almost sickly pale skin became smooth and healthily tanned. His facial features softened as the bones began to re-arrange themselves into a softer, kinder and definitely more feminine face. His sandy blonde but greasy and messy hair lengthened even further as it took on a brighter sheen, cascading down into waves of golden blonde locks that rested on top of his swelling chest and framed his vision. Alex's abdomen pinched together, the layer of flab from sitting around playing video games and getting high vanishing into a taut midsection as his pecs ballooned outwards into a pair of bountiful breasts that were neither too large nor too small on his new shorter frame. Alex could only imagine what the slurping feeling was between his legs as he watched his one outstretched hand seem to crumple into itself as it turned smaller and far more dainty. The young man only truly understood what was happening to him as the fingernails he could see magically became painted, and he felt a tickling feeling on his face and the feel of wax as lipstick coated fuller lips. The final changes were his clothes, the cooler air of the mall causing his new nipples to turn hard for a moment as his shoulders, arms and new cleavage became exposed to the air currents as his slacker clothes became a stunning red dress. And then his legs shivered as his pants disappeared upwards, turning into a pair of lacy panties .and his clothing transformed into a stunning red dress that clung to his newly feminine figure in every appreciable way. The feeling of cold metal slunk around his slender neck as bangles adorned his wrists and earrings pierced his lobes. The change had taken only moment,s but for Alex it had felt like hours as tihe tingling feeling subsided as his body once more became animated.

"-e you!" Alex gasped in a much more melodic voice as air rushed back into new lungs before breaking out into a fit of adorable little coughs as he was free from the paralysis. He looked downw into the cleavage he now possessed, his blue eyes and new face going wide with terror as he realized he had become a sexy blonde woman!

Sam, hearing the strange voice and coughing, turned to face the woman that had been sitting where his so-called friend had been just moments ago. She...she was stunning! But where had she come from? The mall's atrium was too large for someone like HER to have just snuck up on him...Or for Alex to simply run off. He looked around for a moment in confusion before his eyes locked back on the blonde beauty. But why did she look so...scared? Was she hurt?

"Uh, w-who are you?" He asked dumbly, not knowing what else to say, "H-have you seen my friend, um, Alex around here?"

The soundd of Sam's voice triggered one last final change as Alex felt the tingling return...Though this time it felt as if it was inside...his...skull...And then his, or rather her eyes turned a rich and healthy brown, a far cry from the veiny red and faded blues of the former slacker. New memories filled her brain, replacing and re-writing old ones as a new personality took hold. Instead of Alex, the slacker who mooched off his parents trust fund and spent his time getting high, there was now only Alexis; former sorority star and cheerleader of Whitewood University, who now majored in cosmetology. Cynicism and casual cruelty were replaced by kindness and a naivety towards life and others, a desire for experiencing life and spending time outdoors rather than wasting it on video games and getting high on those awful, awful drugs! And, of course, the love and devotion she felt towards her boyfriend, Sam, who was so cute when he looked confused like that.

"Alex? Who's that? I'm Alexis, silly!" The blonde beauty giggled, "Oh this would make a PERFECT picture, take one of me, please?" She cooed in her soft and melodic voice as she crossed her legs and flashed a soft, winning smile up at her boyfriend as she posed.

"Wait, I...I don't..." Sam stammered, but then his already wide eyes threatened to pop from his skull as he looked at his coin, laying motionless at the bottom of the rippling pool of water. Did...did the fountain that they'd walked by so many times in the past really just grant him a wish? Did it really just change Alex into...Alexis? Sam fished in his pocket for his phone and quickly brought up his pictures, which were now filled with selfies and glamour shots of him and this new wonderfully sexy woman that seemed to be madly in love with him. There was no sign of Alex (or Sam's ex) at all. In fact, the pictures went back so far that they'd bee dating for years!

"Don't what, baby?" Alexis said with a giggle as her smile only slightly faltered with impatience. Oh this silly boys, she mused to herself, always so flustered!

"Um, uh..." Sam's mind flopped over itself as it wrangled with this new information. The wish had...ERASED Alex from existence! And instead had deposited this gorgeous woman in his place, one who was clearly madly in love with him and was physically perfect in every way; shorter than him but not crazy short, busty but not outrageously, and a face with those deep brown pools that he felt like he'd get lost in for hours. And even HE felt better! Sam lowered his phone and looked down at himself, and gasp as he saw that HE had changed as well! Gone were the beginnings of his flabby stomach, his abs still defined and not erased from months of laying around eating pizza and other junk food. Sam didn't feel so tired as well, as with no Ex to pine for into the late hours of the night he was back to getting a full night's rest! and his clothes had changed as well! Instead of clothes wrinkled from a lack of proper care, now he wore a set of neatly and tightly pressed jeans and a stylish t-shirt that was emblazoned with the university's logo on it. Sam looked again at the coin in the fountain, utterly amazed at how complete the changes to he and Alex and the rest of reality had been. All of his problems had been solved with one simple coin into the fountain! But...could he really leave Alex like this? Maybe he should use another coin and wish for his friend back? Sam looked at the blonde whose pretty face was turning into a sexy pout.

Sure, Alex had been a bit of an asshole, but he had at least TRIED to make Sam feel better at first. But then he'd given up and had just turned into a jerk, thinking that bullying, of all things, would make him 'get over her' when it had just made things worse...And Alex, er, Alexis DID seem a lot happier AND healthier than his roommate ever did...And they BOTH seemed happy together...

"Baby..." Alexis whined, "Take my picture! And then let's go eat! I promise you'll like dessert when we get home..." The busty, sexy, gorgeous and kinda rich blonde said with a suggestive giggle. The flirty look, the feeling it gave him made Sam make a decision.

"Oh, sorry, uh, babe!" Sam said, bringing up his phone and snapping seeveral pictures of his sexy girlfriend.

"Yay! Thanks baby!" Alexis giggled again before pulling her beloved boyfriend in for a long, passionate kiss by the fountain.