Jennifer brushes her shoulder length light brown hair away from her face, as she checks out her reflection in the full-length mirror on her bedroom wall. Her deep blue eyes scanning the reflection they receive, and finding nothing but perfection. A perfect tan, a face like one you might find on the cover of a magazine, and the body of a super model. Most people would say she is a very kind person, but a few would say she only cares about herself. After a few moments her eyes wander to the Halloween costume lying on the bed. A cute little cat costume she bought earlier in the day, for Anna's Halloween party tonight. She bought it from a small shop near the mall; the funny thing is she never noticed the shop before today. The place was really old, but it had large selection of costumes, and the old woman running the store was nice enough to find the size costume Jennifer was looking for. The old woman even gave her a small bottle of pink face paint and a set of instructions to make the costume look even more realistic. As Jennifer recounts the events at the shop the clock chimes six times, letting her know its six o'clock. "I better try this on, I've only got one hour before the party starts," she states out loud. She pulls out the instructions from her front pants pocket and reads them. "Okay step one, 'To increase the realism of the costume, disrobe all clothing except under garments.'" she reads aloud. She places the instructions on her bed, and pulls off her shirt tossing it on floor; next she slips out of her jeans tossing them on the floor as well. After a few moments she decides that she doesn't need her socks, slips them off, and tosses them too.

Leaning over the instructions, Jennifer reads the next step, "Alright, step two, 'Put on the lower portion of the costume first, shorts then feet.'" Again she does what the instructions state, picking up the shorts, she slips them on. She stops for a moment, after the shorts are adjusted, to marvel at just how much the white, dull yellow, dull orange striped material feels like real cat fur. Then she moves on to the feet, sliding them both on with ease. Again she stops for just a moment to wonder how the old woman made them look and feel so real. 'Even the pink pads on the bottom of the feet look and feel like a real cat's peds,' she thought as she brushes her hand over them. Now sitting on her bed, Jennifer reads the next step on the instructions, "Step three, 'Then put on the upper portion of the costume, shirt then ears.'" She grabs the shirt and pulls it on over her head. This time she doesn't stop, but she does note how real the material of the shirt feels. She quickly checks the clock, six ten, 'I better hurry,' she thought. She picks up the headband with the ears and slips it on, letting her hair cover her real ears, to keep the illusion of her costume. She mentally notes that even the ears feel real and moves on.

Still sitting on the bed, Jennifer picks up the instructions to read the fourth step, "Step four, 'Apply face paint to nose then attach tail to back of shorts.'" Setting the instructions down, she searches the top of the bed for the bottle, after a moment she realizes that it must still be in her pants front pocket and she gets up to fish it out. She walks over to where her jeans landed, grabs them off the floor, and quickly searches the front pockets. Finding the bottle she drops the jeans and walks over to the mirror to apply the face paint. She twists off the top of the bottle and discovers a brush attached to it. Using the brush she applies enough paint to cover her nose, with that done she closes the top and returns to her bed setting the bottle down as she picks up the tail of the costume. And quickly attaches it to the top of the shorts with its clip noting how real the tail feels and moves on to the next step. With the costume nearly complete, Jennifer leans over the instructions to read the final step, "Step five, 'Complete the costume by putting on the paws.'" After picking up the paws she slips them on one at a time and finishes the costume, marveling once more at how real the paws felt. She walks over to the mirror again to check out how the costume looks, but as she does an itch develops on her back. She scratches it while another itch begins on her stomach and then another on her neck, when she reaches the mirror she lets out a horrified gasp at what she sees. On her stomach and neck are small patches of white hair, and as she stares at them more patches appear on both areas.

Another intense itch on Jennifer's left hand forces her gaze off her stomach and neck. She immediately pulls off the paw to reveal that her hand too has patches of hair growing on it, the only difference is the color, which is a dull yellow. She quickly pulls off the other paw and finds more dull yellow hair on her right hand. She turns around to check her back, becoming more frantic as she spots even more hair. A new itch on her chest catches her attention now as she quickly yanks off the small shirt and her bra, finding that she can no longer see her breasts through the white hair. "This… this isn't happening," she mutters as her body changes before her eyes. Now Jennifer opens her mouth, as her teeth demand attention, and finds that they are growing sharper by the second. She removes the feet of the costume, discovering that her feet and legs are covered with the same hair as the rest of her body. A pulling sensation at her back causes her to quickly take off the shorts and her panties to find the problem, a small round bump slowly growing just above her buttocks. "No… this isn't real, it can't be real," she mutters as she touches the bump, and finds that it is indeed real. She sinks to her knees, closes her eyes, and begins to sob loudly, not from pain, because the changes are not painful, but out of blind fear of what's happening to her body.

While Jennifer sobs her feet start lengthening slowly, almost doubling their size. Her pinky toes merge with the ones next to them leaving four toes on each foot, as her feet become more rounded. Her toe and fingernails grow longer and sharper becoming claws. Soft pink pads appear on each of her fingers and palms as well as the balls of her feet and toes. The bump on her back grows becoming a nearly three foot long tail, as the changes near completion. Jennifer's ears are the next to change while she continues to sob, growing larger and more pointed. In the process of moving up the sides of her head, they knock the headband resting there off. The pink face paint on her nose becomes its' permanent color as it merges with her upper lip, while whiskers grow on both sides of her face. Her mouth and nose then push out slightly and form a feline muzzle. As suddenly as the changes started, they stop

Jennifer slowly opens her tear soaked eyes to survey her new body. The first thing she sees are her eyes, now green with slit pupils. She quickly scans the rest of her face and body as her eyes well up with more tears. The only feature untouched by the changes is her shoulder length light brown hair. Before she begins crying again, she simply asks herself... "What am I?"