Friends Change
Izz woke up. He felt strange as his eyes opened. He still felt ill but not so bad but still weak. He saw Elisa stare at him in shock. He wondered what was wrong with her.
"Look in a mirror. You'll see what I mean." she said worriedly.
He looked into the mirror and gasped. He was no longer a Psammead in appearance but a human. He had fair skin, black spiked hair, kind eyes, slender and strong muscled.
He wondered if he would be okay.
Leah came downstairs hearing Elisa being worried.
"What's.... wrong?
Who're you?" she said seeing Izz in human form.
"L-Leah it's me Izzard.
The sickness did this to me." Izz told her scared. She looked into his eyes and saw Izz in them.
"It is you!
The change is complete!" she said still in awe at her friend.
"All this is overwhelming first thing in the morning. Maybe this was meant to be." Izz thought. The only thing that remained of his Psammead body were his bat like ears. David and the others were in awe too at Izz in human form.
Elisa was very quiet as they sat around the table in the kitchen while breakfast was getting ready. Izz knew it was to do with him being a human.
He wished she'd understand that this wasn't his fault.
"Don't worry Ozzard she'll come around.
Remember she was like this when we first found her?" Carley told him.
"Yeah you're right.
I hope so too." he said as he wore a black dressing gown around him since his normal pyjamas were Psammead size.
"Let's get him some clothes.
He knows humans don't run around naked, right?" David told them. Leah nodded seeing Izz eat pancakes with his hands. They sighed. He would take longer to adjust to being a human.
"Izz?
Humans don't eat with their hands. We use things like forks and knives." David told him.
Izz blushed at that.
"S-Sorry." he said sadly.
"It's okay. You can do that in here but not outside where other humans can see. They wouldn't understand." Carley reassured him.
A smile came over his face.
Leah then had some clohes for him on Carley's bed.
He was amazed by these garments.
He looked different than usual. He then looked in the mirror at his human self. He liked it but he sort of missed being his Psammead self.
"Would my family like me as this, really?
I wish I could just be myself.
If only....." he thought sadly.
Elisa had heard his thoughts and felt sorry for her brother. She wished there was something she could do to help him.
"Izz you ready?" he heard Leah say.
"Yeah I'm coming!" he replied leaving the room.....