=::= Tally's PoV =::=

"Sorry mom," I replied. "I had my phone turned off last night and forgot to turn it back on until just a little while ago."

Mom sounded kind of sarcastic as she responded, "I thought you kids never turned your phones off? What was the big occasion?"

My girlfriend gave me a worried glance, so did Ms. Watson. Except I knew that was mom's joking-sarcastic voice, not the angry-bitchy-sarcastic one. And obviously I couldn't mention the coven meeting or anything like that, but luckily Ms. Watson already gave me and Beth and Jenny a cover story to use.

I replied, "Bethany's mom took us all out for dinner last night, then we went to see a movie. We all turned our phones off for that, and like I said I forgot to turn mine back on."

"Ok Tally," mom replied. "Sorry if I sounded critical. I'm just curious about how you're doing, what sorts of things you do there."

That made me grimace as I glanced around the living-room. It was a few minutes after seven and we all just finished washing dishes and stuff after dinner a while ago. Now Beth and Jenny were both practicing glamour spells, and I'd been doing that too until my mom called.

The others were keeping quiet, but they could all hear our conversation since I had to use speaker-phone to talk. I'd heard about headsets designed for demi-humans with ears in different places, but hadn't had a chance to buy a set like that yet.

At that point Bethany quietly excused herself, like maybe she felt awkward listening to me talking with my mom or something. She went upstairs while Jenny continued messing around practicing her spells and stuff. I was still doing that too, but I couldn't concentrate on the glamour spell while I was on the phone so I practiced the light spell instead.

I could do a light spell the size of a grapefruit now which was pretty cool. Like it was only four weeks since I first learned that spell, and I'd gone from something the size of a crab apple to a grapefruit. And I could do it while I was having a conversation, like I didn't need all my concentration and stuff to focus on the spell.

According to Amanda and Sadie the size of the ball you could make was a measure of your strength in the beginning. The next step would come on Thursday, when the twins were going to come over to teach us the teleport spell. Then I'd be practicing by poofing small objects around my bedroom, and I honestly couldn't wait.

"Uh, we're not doing anything interesting tonight," I said as I focused on my mom again. "Me and Beth and Jen were watching TV, Ms. Watson's reading a book? The usual stuff. Now that school's over we're kind of taking it easy tonight. How about you? What are you and dad up to? And Dylan?"

Mom replied, "Your brother left with some friends yesterday, they've gone on a road trip to Montreal for the week. Apart from that, it's a typical weekday for your father and I. Tomorrow the two of us will enjoy a quiet day at home. Do you have plans for the holiday?"

This was June thirtieth, tomorrow was Canada Day so lots of people were doing parties and there'd be fireworks and stuff.

I smiled, "I think we might go over to Niagara Falls? We were all talking about it anyways, except everything will probably be really busy. So maybe? Or if not, then we might just stay home. So I guess we don't really have plans yet, just some ideas."

Ms. Watson smiled but stayed quiet. Me and Beth and Jenny all wanted to do something fun, but Ms. Watson was the one who'd have to drive and pay for it all and everything and we knew she wasn't that excited about fighting big crowds and stuff. Technically Jenny could drive now since she got her license, but there was no way her mom would let the tall blonde take the rest of us on a trip on a busy summer holiday. Not when she'd only had her licence for a week.

"Well whatever you decide to do," mom responded, "I hope you have fun."

"Thanks mom," I grinned. "And I hope you and dad have a good day tomorrow too."

Mom replied, "Thanks Tally. How are things with you and Stephen? Have you worked things out with him?"

"Sort of," I sighed. "I don't know if we'll ever be best friends like we used to, but we still talk and stuff. He said it's rough hanging out with me, like because he wants us to be more than just friends, but I'm really not into him like that?"

"I'm sorry hon." There was a slight pause before she asked, "I'm sure you already know this, but it's the full moon tonight. You're not planning on using that spell again are you?"

"No mom," I grimaced.

I knew it was the full moon, in fact it was going to peak in the next ten or twelve minutes. Another wave of people around the world were about to make their hopes and dreams come true, but I wasn't one of them. And I was pretty sure my mom wasn't still hoping I'd turn myself back to my original shape, but maybe she was worried I was going to make myself even more fox-like or something.

"I got it absolutely perfect last month ok?" I told her. "I don't need to change anything else because I love how I look and who I am right now."

"All right hon," mom responded. "I was just checking. I'm glad you're happy."

She even sounded like she meant it, which was nice. Me and mom talked some more, then she turned the phone over to dad so he could talk to me as well. It was kind of nice, like there was definitely still tension and stuff between all of us but talking on the phone with my parents wasn't so bad now. Mom had come a long way, and dad was pretty cool about everything too.

On the other hand I still wasn't comfortable enough with them or my brother to move back home. Like Dylan left me alone at school the last couple weeks, but there was enough awkwardness and enough history with him bullying me that I wouldn't be able to relax. Plus it would make it way harder to practice magic, and way more likely that I'd get caught or something.

Dad talked with me for a little while, him and mom got my report card emailed to them so they knew I passed all my classes and stuff. My grades hadn't really changed in the past month, not that I expected them to. My parents were worried about it for some reason, but dad said they were happy to be proved wrong.

And he asked again if I was going to get a summer job, but I told him I probably wouldn't bother. Maybe next summer I'd have to do that, but for now I didn't need to. I was just going to enjoy the break, along with Beth and Jenny. I also told him I was reading some books on biology and science stuff, like I was still interested in learning about that which seemed to make dad happy.

Eventually he said goodnight and stuff, then turned the phone back to mom so she could do the same. Then we all finally hung up.

As I put my phone down Ms. Watson commented, "It sounds like your relationship with your parents continues to improve. I'm very happy for that Tally."

"Thanks," I smiled. "Me too. I still don't know about moving back home with them, but I kind of like being able to talk with them again like that? Like friends I guess."

My girlfriend's mom agreed, "It's important. And it's ok to be friends with your parents, even if you can't live with them. Maybe even more important, in the long run."

"I guess," I shrugged. Then I went back to practicing my spells again, more light spells and more glamours. We also knew the truth spell and healing spell but those were harder to practice since you needed a subject to cast them on.

Jenny was still doing the same, and her glamours were pretty good already. Like she could change her hair colour and style and length and stuff, and even make some changes to how her face looked. She couldn't make herself look taller or shorter though, and changing how her clothes looked was kind of hit or miss.

My glamours weren't so strong, I could change the colour of my hair and fur but that was it. Like I could make my hair and fur change to match a red fox like Sienna or Stacey. I couldn't hold it more than a minute or so though. I knew it was all a matter of practice and stuff, so I kept working at it.

It was almost eight when I realized Bethany hadn't come back downstairs yet. I figured if she left so she didn't have to listen in on my phone call, maybe she didn't realize it was done.

"I'm going to go see what happened to Beth," I said as I got to my feet.

Ms. Watson nodded, while Jen continued practicing her spells.

When I got upstairs I found my girlfriend's door was closed.

I knocked lightly and asked, "Hey Beth? You ok? I finished talking with my folks, sorry if it bothered you having to listen in on all that."

She didn't respond, and after a couple seconds I knocked again. "Beth are you ok? Can I come in?"

After another couple seconds I was almost starting to get worried, then she finally responded. She sounded a little quiet and maybe a bit uptight as she replied, "Yeah Tal, you can come in."

I opened the door and got one step into her bedroom before I stopped in my tracks as I stared in surprise.

"How cow Beth! I thought Jenny was doing great with her glamour spell, but that's amazing!"

Her hair had changed from a light platinum blonde to pure white, but that was literally the least amazing thing she'd done. Her glamour hid her normal ears while giving her the illusion of a pair of cute snow-white fox ears sticking out the top of her head. A long matching white floofy tail extended from her lower back, and it looked even thicker and floofier than mine.

Except my tail was swishing back in forth in happy excitement, Beth's glamour had hers curled down between her legs. That and the way her ears appeared to be folded back made her look nervous or upset.

Her face hadn't changed, but the most amazing thing was she'd made herself look shorter. Like changing your apparent height or body size was supposed to be one of the hardest parts of doing a glamour.

Somehow Beth had managed it though, she looked a couple inches smaller than usual. We were both five-foot-two, but right now she looked like she was under five feet. Like four-ten or four-eleven. It made her look adorably cute.

Her clothes looked the same, but that was another tricky thing to change with glamours and the outfit worked all right with the illusion anyways. She was wearing the same small white t-shirt and white shorts that she had on earlier. Though the shorts looked like they were bunched down underneath her tail, which was another one of those little details it was supposed to be really hard to get right.

It was wild and amazing and I found myself grinning as I stared at her. I was a silver foxgirl, or 'black fox' as she kept calling me. Now she looked like an arctic foxgirl, or a white fox. And while she was dressed in white, I was wearing black leggings and a dark-grey t-shirt.

She hadn't said anything yet, and I walked up to stand next to her. She was in front of her mirror, and turned to look at herself again. I did the same, but while I had a wide grin on my face she was scowling slightly at her reflection.

"I got friggin' shorter again!" she stated as she glared at the mirror. "I was trying to make myself taller! Why'd I get even smaller?!"

"Huh?" I asked. "I figured you did that on purpose, to help sell the glamour? Arctic foxes are a smaller species than the standard fox."

She tilted her head slightly as she looked up at me and asked, "Glamour?"

My heart skipped a beat and my eyes widened as a bunch of things suddenly hit me.

She'd been studying and learning about foxes for the past three or four weeks, especially arctic foxes. Her phone was propped up on her desk, where the camera would have a good view of her bed. The full moon peaked like ten minutes ago. And Beth was alone in her bedroom for the last thirty or forty minutes...

I slowly reached out and touched the base of her tail, and I felt the warm soft floof under my fingers. Her back stiffened and she gasped quietly, as her tail emerged from between her legs. I lightly ran my fingers down the length of it, and sure enough it was even floofier than mine. Her tail was bit shorter than mine though, just like the rest of her.

We ended up facing each other. Her cheeks were bright red while my heart was pounding and my eyes still wide as I stared.

I gulped, "Beth? Why'd you turn yourself into a foxgirl?"

She looked a little embarrassed as she shrugged, "You look really cute. Having a tail seemed kind of fun. You convinced me that foxes were neat. So I wanted to see what it was like? And I can always change back next month, right?"

"Yeah..." I nodded slowly. "Assuming your mom doesn't kill you first."

Beth grimaced, "She won't. She might ground me for while though."

After a moment my girlfriend added, "Let's go back downstairs? I may as well get this over with."

I just nodded again, then followed quietly as she led the way.

The two of us walked into the living-room and in the most casual tone ever Bethany said "Oh by the way, I just turned myself into an arctic foxgirl."

Jenny took one look at the two of us then burst out giggling, while Ms. Watson just stared quietly for a few long tense seconds.

My girlfriend's mom finally facepalmed as she sighed and shook her head.

Then Beth and I sat down together on the sofa. Both our tails ended up between the two of us, my tail pressed against hers and that was a new but really nice sensation.

She bit her lower lip, then she reached over and pulled my tail onto her lap and started stroking and petting it. I didn't even need two whole seconds to know what she wanted, so I gently pulled her tail onto my lap and ran my hand along the length of it.

Where I had a month to get used to those sensations, it was all totally new to Bethany. Her back arched and her eyes went wide as she squeaked, which sent Jenny into another fit of giggles.

I just smiled as me and my girlfriend looked at each other. She was still blushing from the new experiences, but I just felt amazing. Like I had to be the luckiest girl in the world or something.

A month ago I was still in the closet, living under my deadname and in my original AMAB body. Now I was a cute femme foxgirl witch, and I was girlfriends with another cute foxgirl witch. And life couldn't be better.

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