Swiftly Through the Air

"Wait," I finished, cutting off my friend. It took another couple of minutes before Ida answered the call, which was filled with Evan and Erin talking while I resigned myself to just being silent. When Ida finally did answer I immediately exploded. "What the heck Ida!," I yelled through the phone. "What on Earth made you put a tattoo of a Cutie Mark on my thigh! What did I ever do to you!" I continued like that for a while, shouting at my other friends from time to time and ignoring their protests. "Why did you let her Erin? Why didn't you tell me what they were planning!" I could tell that Evan was going to hang up, very soon, but I had other things on my mind and wanted to vent my frustrations. That's when Erin finally decided that he wasn't going to put up with it any longer.

    "Shut up!" he yelled, and I did so without thinking; Erin never got angry, ever. If Erin was yelling, you knew that someone had screwed up! Those to words were enough to get me back to reality. He had probably noticed, because he was already calming down again. "First off, Dale, I can promise you that my sister did not prank you! Second... what exactly is it that's happening to you? Is your hair changing color... or growing longer?" Hearing that sent a cold shiver down my spine.

    "Yes," I whispered, so quiet that I actually wondered if Erin could hear me. I did hear a sharp in take of breath, though I think it was from Evan.

    "Guys, come to my house as soon as you can," Evan said, then hung up. Erin only stayed a second longer, leaving right after saying he would pick me up, and Ida excused herself just as quickly, leaving me to myself. I knew that it would only take Erin and Ida a few minutes to get to my house, so I used that time to go into the bathroom, to check my hair again.

What I saw in the mirror didn't help to calm me down. Most of my hair was now ginger. Even more concerning was that my eyes had also changed colors. They hadn't exactly been normal to begin with, one being brown and the other being green, but now they had changed into a sky blue color that reminded me unsettlingly of one of Erin's ponies. Like Pinkie Pie, a voice at the back of my mind commented. I stood there for a while until my phone snapped me out of my thoughts.

I took the call and was greeted by Ida's voice coming from the phone. "Are you coming or not? We've been out here waiting for you for a few minutes now..."

    "Oops." I would have laughed, but I was still dumbstruck; Hair could be dyed, tattoos could be done, but I was pretty sure that eyes could not just change colors like that.

    During the car ride I was silent, just staring out of the window, wondering what the heck was happening to me? My friends remained silent as well. Erin just looked at the road, and Ida was staring blankly at her iphone with headphones in her ears. I noticed their hair and eye colors had changed, too. Ida's once aqua hair was... multiple shades of, blond? No, gold!? While her eyes had changed from hazel to bright green. Her brother's hair was dark brown, and his eyes had changed the other way round, from green to hazel.

    When we got to Evan's house, he only opened the door enough to show one of his eyes, which was now the same blue as mine.

    Ida gasped. "Why is you eye blue, why did they change color!" That caused a blink in surprise from my friends and I.

    "You didn't notice yet?" Evan asked. "Your eyes are green now." He examined the rest of us. "Your sister's are brown and apparently Dale's match mine. They changed at about 2:00 for me."

Erin and I blinked. He had called Erin Ida's sister, not her brother. Ida seemed to feel a bit more awkward about the slip-up, but Evan didn't seem to have noticed. He ushered us in, and Ida immediately burst into laughter once she got a good look at him. Evan's hair was a light brown, with an even lighter brown streak, and it was all on end. What drew the most attention, though, were the pinkish-red ovals right beneith his now bright blue eyes.

    "Oh my god!" Ida laughed. "Evan is wearing blush!" Though it seemed undeniably true, it still resulted in Evan slapping her. "Ow!" Ida shouted. "That smarts. Did your hand just spark?!" Evan tilted his head in confusion.

   "I didn't feel anything," he replied, not noticing a last remaining spark tracing along his hand.

    "Whatever!" I said, "We need to figure out what's going on!"

    "Okay then," Ida started, "What is going on!"

    "How are we supposed to know!" Erin shouted.

    "We aren't the ones who did this!" Evan shouted.

    "Neither am I!" I yelled back. "I didn't want anything of this!"

    "That's not what I meant Airheart!" Ida called. The bickering continued, but I stayed silent; what had Ida just called me? Airheart? I thought back to the dream and the voice at the back of my mind.

    "Oh no," I whispered.