addie turns into a frog because rayas is an idiot, wow

Rayas and Addie were always close. The two of them bonded in elementary school over both being picked on for their species. But even long after the childhood teasing was over, the two stuck together as friends. Of course back then, Rayas was drastically different from her current self. For one, she didn't even go by Rayas, she went by her legal name of Andrea. Perhaps more importantly, however, is that her personality was more feminine and bubbly. It wasn't until high school that she adopted the name “Rayas” and became more of a tomboy that tried a little too hard to be seen as punk. Although despite the nose piercing and studded collar, Rayas was considerably closer to a lazy stoner type than a punk. Addie surprisingly didn't mind this, although privately she  found herself wishing Rayas was more like her old self a couple of times. Back before “the shift”, as Addie sometimes called it, the two briefly dated. Maybe it was the break up that caused it in the first place, but ever since then, the two seemingly lost interest in each other romantically even as they continued being friends.

Currently, the two were on a walk in the middle of the woods. They weren't really saying much, just Rayas occasionally commenting about how she was hungry. Rayas's other two roommates, Hayden and Cedar, were back at home, presumably playing video games or something. Addie was actually surprised Rayas had agreed to join her when she said she was going for a quick walk considering she had a short attention span and preferred sleeping on the couch all day to going outside nine times out of ten. Just as Rayas was about to announce she was bored and head home, she noticed a frog hop across a pile of leaves in front of them.

“Woah! Addie, check it out, there's a frog here in the woods. That's kinda weird, right?”

“I guess it's kinda weird, yeah. I mean, it's January, you don't usually see them outside like this unless you're in the summer.”

Rayas stops for a bit as a smirk comes across her face. “Hey maybe it's a magic frog,” she said in jest, “you should give it a kiss and see if it turns into a princess.”

“Ha ha very funny Rayas. Come on, let's keep going.”

“Nah I'm serious, I'll give you five bucks if you kiss it. I just wish I had my phone on me...”

Addie rolled her eyes. “Oh please, I'm not going to kiss some feral frog we found in the woods. It's probably sick considering it's out here, and even if it isn't, it's still gross.”

“How about ten? Twenty? Seriously I wanna see you kiss that frog. I ain't leaving until you do it.”

Addie let out a long, exasperated sigh. “You are so immature sometimes, ya know that? But fine, whatever, give me twenty bucks afterward and then we can just get out of here.”

“Hey no need to be such a buzzkill,” Rayas said as she walked up to the frog before picking it up and holding it in front of Addie.

“Now come on, just kiss the top of its head or something. You'll get your twenty bucks, promise,” she said as she was trying to contain her laughter.

“I can't believe you're making me do this...” Addie grimaced and hesitantly puckered her lips slightly before gently kissing the frog.

Right as Addie was about to recoil in disgust, a blinding flash of light sent both her and Rayas stumbling backwards and landing on the ground. Taken aback, the two eventually got back on their feet, albeit slowly. The wild frog had seemingly disappeared, although a sinister anthropomorphic frog man in a suit had taken its place. He towered over Addie, who was nearly six feet, and had a hefty build to him. The two could barely make out the man's face, only really being able to make out a crooked smile that showcased yellowing teeth. He glared at the two ladies for a bit as he rolled up his suit a bit, revealing several large warts adorning his hands.

His deep voice bellowed. “Oh wow, I can't believe you two actually fell for this. I mean, kissing a frog, are you kidding me? Especially at your guys’ age...”

His breath was foul smelling, even to Rayas, and the two stood in a silenced shock.

The frog man stifled a belch before continuing. “Well what were you expecting, a prince? Come on, let's at least have a little fun here. I don't have all day.”

Addie eventually worked up enough courage to speak to the strange man. “Okay well... who are you, what do you want?”

“Wow, you kiss guys you don't even know?,” the frog laughed.

Rayas, who previously wanted to remain silent, couldn't help but angrily retort at the frog. “Hey, fuck off! It was just a dumb dare, okay, now leave us the fuck alone!”

The man was briefly caught off guard by Rayas speaking up. “Quite the angry one we have here, I guess! Well don't worry, I won't be here for long. Just have to return the favor real quick before I leave...”

All of a sudden, the frog man's disgustingly long tongue unraveled out of his mouth and collapsed onto the ground right next to Addie. Rayas quickly ran away and cowered behind a nearby bush as the tongue slowly slurped Addie, who was paralyzed from fear. She was fully covered by saliva from just one lick. She tried to wipe it away, but it was... a tiny bit thicker than normal spit. It was more like a thin layer of slime had fully enveloped the stinkbug. She wanted to let out a cry for help, but found herself unable to, instead leaving her in a confused state of disgust and panic. Slowly, her body began changing from the layer of mucus-like slime coating her. She could feel her face rounding out more as her skin began to shift color to a dark green. As the slime thickened over her feet she felt them transform too, until eventually she developed fully webbed feet.

Her belly began to swell as she found herself bloated with gas, Addie letting out a couple of wet, swamp-smelling farts as her stomach ballooned. The transformation continued as her skin, still covered in slime, finished darkening into a dull ugly green. Her hands had developed small but noticeable warts on them. Her sense of hearing momentarily ceased, not that it mattered much as the only thing she was able to hear was the faint laughter of the frog man and the sound of her gas, as her antennae disappeared in favor of small bumps on the side of her head. She tried opening her mouth to call out to Rayas, but all that came out was a nasty burp. Her tongue, however, had increased in length and stuck out towards her breasts. Her stomach finally finished swelling as a final plrrrrrt escaped from her backside. She quickly tried to grab her tongue in a feeble attempt to stuff it back inside of her mouth, but it kept sticking out.

The sinister sorcerer laughed as the transformation completed, leaving Addie a chubby, slime covered, gross frog similar to the one standing in front of her.

“Wow, you probably came out the grossest of them all! Oh well, tough break kid. Tell you what though, since I feel bad for how ugly you look, if you can manage to get your true love to kiss you within the next 48 hours, I'll change you back. But if you can't... enjoy spending the rest of your life as a frog! It was nice getting to know you two, but I better 'fuck off' as your friend put it. Ta-ta!”

Just as Addie finally managed to roll her tongue back inside of her mouth in an attempt to say something to the man, he quickly vanished in a puff of green smoke.

Rayas slowly made her way out from beneath the bushes to face Addie. “H-holy shit.”

Addie menacingly glared at Rayas, furious at her for having caused this. “Choose your next words very carefully so I don't punch you right now,” she said in a much lower and groggier sounding voice.

Rayas awkwardly took a couple steps back. “Okay, yeah, this is... really bad. And totally my fault. I'm really sorry, Addie. Let's just get back to the house, I'll explain what's going on to Hayden and Cedar and they can help us fix this. Everything's gonna be alright, okay?”

Addie clenched her fists and let out a deep breath. “Fine.”

The two made their way back to Rayas's house in silence. Rayas didn't want to risk angering Addie any further, not that Addie would want to talk to her much anyway. Rayas stopped in front of the door, Addie grumbling behind her.

“Okay, you wait here. I'm going to explain the situation to Hayden and Cedar before they see you so nobody freaks out,” Rayas said in a reassuring voice.

“Whatever.”

Rayas quietly opened the door and shut it behind her, leaving Addie outside. Suddenly, she ran into the living room in a panic. “OKAY SOMETHING REALLY BAD JUST HAPPENED ADDIE'S A FROG NOW BECAUSE I DARED HER TO KISS A FROG IN THE WOODS AND IT'S REALLY GROSS ALTHOUGH KINDA FUNNY PLEASE DON'T TELL HER I SAID THAT THOUGH SHE'S PRETTY PISSED AT ME ANYWAY SHOULD WE GET THE POLICE INVOLVED WHAT'S THE NUMBER FOR 911”

Hayden quickly got out of his chair and rushed to Rayas, a concerned look on his face. “Okay, calm down Ray. Slow down and tell us what happened, I'm sure we can fix it,” he said, trying to be as gentle as possible.

“Did you seriously just say what number is 911?” Cedar replied without getting up from the couch.

Rayas took a deep breath. “Okay. Well, while me and Addie were in the woods we saw a frog. And so I told Addie I'd give her twenty bucks if she kissed it, which she did, totally hilarious by the way, but then all of a sudden this evil frog man showed up. Actually wait, he was the frog all along I guess? So he didn't really show up in the traditional sense, there was this light and then BAM he was there, ya know? Well anyway, dude's a giant so he licks Addie with his huge tongue. And while normally I'd kick his ass and stop him, I didn't want to get involved so I backed off. But then Addie starts turning into this ugly frog, and then the evil frog dude is all like 'oh you have to kiss your true love in 48 hours or else you'll be a frog for the rest of your life.' So yeah Addie's a frog now and we need to find her a girlfriend like, right now.”

The two simply stared at Rayas.

“Here I'll show you,” Rayas said as she gestured them towards the door. Cedar reluctantly got up from the couch to join Hayden by the door. Sure enough, when Rayas opened the door a frog wearing Addie's clothes stood in front of them.

“Uh, hey,” Addie awkwardly greeted them.

“So... Rayas was right about the evil frog thing?” Hayden asked.

“Yeah. Did she mention the part where she hid in the bushes while I was being transformed?” she replied while looking directly at Rayas.

Rayas blushed. “I, uh, might have embellished the story a bit.”

“Okay well, we need to figure out a way to get you back to normal. We need to find your true love and have her kiss you, yeah? So do y'all have any ideas?” Hayden said.

“Maybe we should set up an online dating profile,” Cedar replied with a smirk.

“I know you're being sarcastic Cedar but honestly it ain't a bad idea, Addie have you tried dating websites before?” Hayden asked, not realizing how the question could be embarrassing to answer.

“...Um, maybe like once or twice, also could you use a fake name for me?” asked a flustered Addie.

The four of them made their way back into the living room. Hayden moved a chair to the middle of the room for Addie to sit in. Rayas and Cedar sat on the couch while Hayden was busy taking photos of Addie. Cedar opened their laptop and hit “create new profile” on the first website they found.

“Uh... this might be a little embarrassing but... do you think you could try, sucking in your gut a bit? These pictures aren't very flattering.” Hayden said, trying to sound as nice as possible.

Addie rolled her eyes and sucked in her stomach while Hayden took more pictures on his phone. Addie couldn't suck her stomach in for very long, however, as her gut quickly jiggled back into its flabby state while she burped loudly.

“Nice one Addie!” said Rayas, causing her to instantly turn a crimson red.

“These pictures are a little better... I think.” Hayden muttered to himself quietly.

“Maybe you should take a picture of Addie wearing her maid's dress. I mean, somebody's going to be into that, right?” Cedar said. “Help me fill out your dating profile Addie. What are your hobbies?”

“Cleaning, I guess.”

“Hmm... I don't really think women are going to believe you're into cleaning based on how sweaty you are in these pictures. I mean, no offense. How about gardening? A lot of women like flowers. Plus it'd explain the sweat...”

“I don't know anything about gardening, Cedar. And do you have to mention how sweaty I am...”

“People lie about these things all the time, don't worry about it! And hey look on the bright side, you still smell better than Rayas.”

“Hey!” the skunk shouted.

Addie giggled a bit, the first time she felt like laughing since the transformation.

“Hey there you go! Great picture Addie. Girls will think you're fun to be around.” Hayden said as he went to show off the picture to Addie, not realizing that Addie hadn't seen what she fully looked like yet.

“Oh no, I look like THAT? This is hopeless...” Addie groaned as she got up from the chair to lie down on the floor.

The three attempted to lift Addie’s spirits the rest of the night, but nothing worked. Cedar posted the same dating profile on over a dozen websites, but nobody responded. Hayden and Rayas tried to get Addie to play video games with them for a while but eventually Hayden went to his room while Rayas played on her phone. They all held out hope somebody would be interested in Addie’s profile, but they also knew things were not looking good.

After several hours, and just as Cedar and Rayas were about to go to bed, an abrupt “ding!” from Cedar’s laptop alerted the dozing bat.

“Oh, Addie, you got a notification! Someone wants to chat with you!” Cedar excitedly said.

“Woah really, gimme that!” Addie bolted up and quickly took Cedar’s laptop from their hands. “Oh wow, she’s pretty cute, actually. And she lives nearby! Oh man, this is great.”

“What’s she look like?” asked Rayas, without looking up from her phone.

“Her name’s Opal. She’s this sheep woman with big poofy hair. Very pretty smile, almost like she’s a model or something,” she replied. “Anyway, Cedar is it alright if I use your laptop for the rest of the night?”

“Sure. I was about to head to the attic anyway. You two love birds have fun. Night.” Cedar yawned and left the room.

Addie turned to Rayas. “Hey Rayas, can you give me some privacy? I’m gonna be here for a while.”

“Uh… I sleep on the couch so, where am I supposed to sleep for the night?”

“After what you did today you’re lucky I’m not making you sleep outside. Go sleep on the beanbag in the game room or something, I don’t care.” Addie said with a stern voice.

“Fine… forget I said anything. Goodnight Addie.”

Rayas grabbed her phone and her charger as she headed to the game room. Ironically, it used to be Addie’s bedroom before they moved out, so there were still a couple of old posters of hers that decorated the room. Rayas felt bad looking at them.

After nearly a half hour passed, Addie finally replied to the sheep woman that messaged her. She was extremely nervous, as she didn’t want to mess up what felt like her one chance to transform back into her insect self. To her surprise, the sheep responded almost immediately.

“oh good you messaged back haha, was worried you wouldnt, you seem funny! plus abbie is a cute name, never seen it spelled like that before :)”

“Really Cedar, ‘Abbie’ is the best fake name you could come up with?” Addie mumbled to herself. She hadn’t actually checked out any of the dating profiles Cedar helped her create. Still though, she was glad somebody was showing interest in her. Addie wasn’t actively searching for a girlfriend before today, but she wasn’t opposed to the idea either. The apartment Addie lived in did get lonely sometimes, hopefully Opal didn’t mind she wasn’t actually into gardening, she thought. Addie considered explaining the situation to her, but didn’t want to risk weirding her out. Plus, the whole situation would probably sound fake anyways. Instead, Addie just played it cool and tried to act as natural as possible. She was surprisingly easy to talk to, almost as if the two had known each other for years, and two shared many of the same interests. After a couple of hours of chatting, the two had agreed to meet up a nearby cafe the next day.

Addie was so excited that she barely slept that night. The meetup wasn’t until later in the afternoon, but Addie woke up at six in the morning to prepare for her date, much to the annoyance of everybody else.

“Ugh… it’s way too early for me to be awake, what gives?” Cedar half-yawned as they drowsily descended from the attic, having been woken up by all the noise Addie was making.

“Sorry Cedar, I can’t help it, I’m meeting Opal today!” Addie gleefully proclaimed.

“Who?”

“You know, the sheep woman from that dating website.”

“Oh right, yeah, I remember now.” Cedar yawned again. “I need my coffee.”
Another half hour passed before Hayden and Rayas woke up as well, Rayas looking even more sleep deprived than Addie. Addie was still all smiles when they woke up though. And now that everybody was awake, Addie began rummaging through a box of Rayas’s clothes next to the couch as the four of them gathered in the living room.

“You seriously just toss all your clothes in a box? Are these even clean?” Addie said as she leaned in to sniff a shirt she picked out.

“I mean, yeah? I sleep on the couch, it’s not like I have a closet in here. And those are clean... ish.”

“Do you guys just not use my old closet? Anyway, I don’t want to wear the same outfit as all my photos. Besides, everything is way too tight. So it’s cool if I take something, yeah?”

Rayas looked at Addie. She had a point, the hoodie Addie wore during the two’s walk looked more like a crop top from all the weight she gained. It was a miracle Addie’s clothes didn’t rip at all during the transformation. Rayas knew her clothes would be a tight fit too, but would probably feel a little more comfortable at least.

“Uh yeah, sure.” Rayas awkwardly responded after realizing she was staring at Addie for too long. “I think I have a dress shirt at the very bottom. Closest thing to fancy date attire you’re gonna get.”

Addie took the shirt and a pair of jeans she found and headed to the bathroom to change. Cedar ended up having to help Addie out of her current outfit with a pair of scissors, but after a while Addie returned to the living room wearing Rayas’s clothes. It was still a tight squeeze, but she was just happy she could manage to get them on.

“Aw, I’m just so happy for you two, you two are going to make the cutest couple, right Ray?” Hayden said as everybody looked at Addie.

“Uh-huh.” Rayas hesitated a bit.

“What’s the matter Rayas, you feeling okay?” Hayden asked.

“Huh? Oh, yeah, I’m fine. Just tired.”

“Well, you’d still be able to drive me to the cafe to meet Opal, right?” Addie turned to Rayas.

“Uh... of course. Yeah, totally. Can do.” Rayas said, shifting around a bit and scratching the back of her head.

“Great! It’s only a couple of hours from now but maybe you can get a nap in. I need to finish getting ready, I’ll be changing in the game room if you need me!” Addie rushed to the back of the house, feeling overly excited.

Around a quarter past two, Addie appeared from the game room and rushed in the living room. She smelled of cheap deodorant and the shirt she borrowed from Rayas didn’t go down all the way, leaving her chubby gut exposed. Her pants were tight around her waist, creating a bit of discomfort for the frog. Nevertheless, she maintained a wide grin on her face as she announced she was ready for her date.

“Come on Rayas let’s go!” Addie called out as she raced outside to Rayas’s car.

“Coming.” Rayas responded in a less enthused voice, slowly making her way outside.

Cedar and Hayden noticed Rayas was considerably less excited about Addie going on her date, but they figured that Rayas felt a combination of guilt and worry that Addie would be made fun of for her appearance. Rayas gave the two a sheepish goodbye as she closed the door behind her and got in her car.

The two got in Rayas’s car. It was beat up and outdated, but Rayas couldn’t afford anything flashier, not that she’d want something flashy anyway. The two drove for about five minutes, Rayas uncharacteristically quiet during the drive,  before parking at the lot of a small cafe.

Just as Addie was getting ready to exit the car, Rayas put her hand on her thigh. “Um, actually Addie, there’s something I gotta tell you,” Rayas nervously said.

“Okay but make it quick, Opal’s waiting for me, and the sooner I can turn back the better,” said Addie, her hand still on the car door.

“...That’s the thing, Addie, um… Opal doesn’t exist.”

Addie stopped and pulled her hand away. “W-what?”

“Nobody was clicking on your profile so I thought I’d create a fake one so you didn’t feel bad. That sheep woman is just some lady’s picture I found on the Internet. I just thou-”

“What the hell Andrea?!” Addie interrupted Rayas. Addie only used her real name when she was really pissed off at her. She was trying to fight back tears in her eyes as she continued. “First you get me turned into this ugly frog because of a stupid fucking dare, then you decide to fuck with me and get my hopes up that I’ll be able to change back by creating a fake dating profile and leading me on all night, are you fucking kidding me? What the hell were you thinking?” Addie buried her face in her hands to avoid looking at Rayas.

Rayas stood there, looking at the sobbing Addie with a blank expression on her face, her mind racing as a wave of emotions momentarily left her speechless. But after a while, she cleared her throat and began to speak.

“It’s because I didn’t want you thinking nobody wanted you, Addie. I felt awful seeing you lying on the floor waiting for a message that wasn’t coming so I just… wanted to make you feel better.”

She took a deep breath as she thought carefully about what she would say next.

“Look, you are one of the most kind and wonderful people I know and you’ve always been there for me. And we are going to find your true love and change you back, I promise. We still have a whole day left and we are going to get through this. And even if you were stuck like that forever, which you’re not, it wouldn’t matter. Stinkbug, frog, whatever, I don’t care. You’re still the amazing person I’ve always known. I love you, Addie.”

Addie looked up at Rayas and smiled. “I love you too, Rayas.”

Addie went in for a hug, but Rayas instead pulled him closer, closed her eyes, and kissed her. Rayas didn’t know what came over her as a million more thoughts raced through her mind. She quickly opened her eyes, and to both her surprise and delight, Addie was back to her usual stinkbug self.

Rayas quickly pushed Addie away. “Oh my god, it worked! I mean, I have a girlfriend. I mean, I’m happy you’re back. I mean, FUCK!”

Addie eagerly looked down almost squealing in delight as she confirmed that she had transformed back into her former self.

“Rayas, you did it! Oh my god, I’m so happy right now!” Addie went in for another hug but Rayas kept trying to move out of the way.

“Uh yeah, but, if you changed back then that means I’m your true love… but I have a girlfri-”

Addie wiped her eyes again as she cut the skunk off. “Stop worrying so much. That frog man never specified it had to be romantic, did he? It just means we’re closer than ever. And don’t worry, I’m not going to say anything to your girlfriend. Although I suppose now I can tell you that she and I kissed during your Christmas party…”

Rayas calmed down a bit. “Yeah, you have a point there. It just means we’re the best of fri- wait you WHAT?” Rayas suddenly exclaimed as she realized what Addie had just said.

“Hey, we were under the mistletoe,” Addie giggled. “Besides, now you two are even since you’ve both kissed me.”

“Yeah, and now we’re even too, right?” Rayas asked.

“Not quite… you still owe me twenty bucks, remember?”

“Oh about that… I kinda… don’t actually have twenty dollars. I don’t get my paycheck until next week…” Rayas said with an awkward smile.

Addie lightly punched Rayas in the arm then laughed.

“Ow!” Rayas yelped, rubbing her arm.

“There, now we’re even, dork. Now come on, let’s go home.” Addie smiled.

Rayas smiled back. “Hey Addie, I’m glad you’re back.”

“Me too, Rayas. Me too.”