Color - F.O.M.O.

“Ouch!” Alice exclaimed, walking straight into a lamppost in the middle of the street. This was, unfortunately, a pattern with her. She would get too distracted with her phone and end up walking into objects, people, tripping over the curb, and much much more. She blushed heavily at the giggles and stares from the crowd and quickly made her way to work.

But first…

“Hey there! Alice here, reporting in before going to work. I hope all of you are doing well. I’m going to have to go radio silent for a while. My boss reprimanded me for using my phone too much while on the job.” She gave a quick smile and uploaded the video as her new status.

Alice was having a bit of trouble at her new job. She was a bit of an internet addict, so you’d think that working at the local cell phone store would be amazing for her. It wasn’t. All the phones just taunted her and reminded her of all the time she could be spending online… but instead she was working this stupid job.

She went upstairs to check in, saying hi to the secretary along the way, a mutant with two heads.

“Hey Hana… how’re things today?” Alice’s eyes bounced from one head to another.

“Calm” Hana said, one head looking up to Alice while the other stared furiously at a computer screen, continuing her work. “We haven’t gotten many clients yet, so you might as well go prepare your workstation.”

Alice just stood there staring at Hana, holding a conversation and working at the same time. In fact, she stared so long that Hana noticed. “Is… there something you want to ask me?”

“Oh uh, nothing it’s just… so you… uh” Alice stammered over herself. “You can do two things at once right? Like work and talk to me? Cause you have two heads right? That sounds useful!” Alice said rapidly looking between Hana’s two heads.

Hana laughed “Well, you tested positive for the mutant gene right? If you mutate, are you hoping you end up like me?”

Alice blushed and put up her hands in denial. “No! No don’t make it sound so creepy! I just… ugh… never mind.” She turned away to head to her station, waiting for a client to arrive. It took thirty minutes for any sign of life to walk through the door. It was the same routine. Happy smile. Upsell a new phone. Log the sale. Send him on his way. She sighed heavily, her fake smile turning into an exhausted frown as soon as the customer left. This was her life, day in and day out.

When Alice got home that day she seriously thought about quitting her job. It just wasn’t worth all the boredom. She threw herself on the bed, thinking of how to word her resignation.

But suddenly, she started feeling hot. She thought it was just anxiety, but she just kept getting hotter. She was sweating through her clothes. She tried hard to catch her breath and then, CRACK, a loud sound came from her body. CRACK! CRRREEEEAK! Her bones ached and felt like they were moving inside her. 

“Oh god wait… is this it? Am I mutating!?” She quickly tossed off her clothes and jumped off the bed, trying to stagger to the bathroom. CRRRRRACK! Her hips popped and dislocated, expanding. CRUUUUUNCH! She bend over and felt her spine expand backward. She breathed heavily as a new torso started to form. SNAAAAAP! New bones started to form, protrusions from her new torso, a new set of hips, a new pair of legs.

“Nnnngh am I b-becoming a humantaur! That will just make my life harder. I wanted to have two leads like Hana NNNGH!” She spoke too soon as the sensation simply wasn’t going away. With a large BURST she felt two new arms explode out of her second pair of hips along with a very long tail. She started instinctively pushing as a budge formed at the tip. Eyes formed. A mouth formed. Soon a whole second head pushed out of her backside. 

She felt woozy as she felt two pairs of senses rush to her brain. “Maybe I was wrong. Maybe Hana will envy me hehe” She almost felt drunk, and then passed out from exhaustion.

The next day she told her boss what happened. She was offered the day off, but she decided she would go in anyway. She merely had to stop at a mutant clothing store first, and drop off some government paperwork to register as freshly mutated. The next few days would be filled with lots of doctor’s visits but she had a way to pass the time. 

As she walked into work she flashed everyone a big smile. Her boss even congratulated her. “Coming into work on the very day you mutated. Now that’s dedication!” He was very pleased.

“Oh a little mutation won’t stop me from doing my duty boss!” Alice said, more happy and animated than ever. Little did anyone know that her tail head and second arms were on her phone the whole time.