↑ Jenny The Jenny

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“You should come, Angie,” Jenny says, “I’m just going to see Jack to give him back the game he left at my house then we can go do something.”

“Maybe we can go get a drink,” Angie replies glad Jenny didn’t notice anything.

“I don’t think so, you know how hard it is to not drink now that I’m pregnant,” Jenny rubs her slightly enlarged belly while saying that. “How about we get ice cream and then, like, watch a movie at your place?”

“What I mean is that Jack is why I want a drink. He really needs to know.”

“I know, and I’m gonna tell him soon before he finds out when his son has a tail.”

“Actually, how has he not seen yours? How do you even hide that when he sees you naked?”

“A lot of cosmetics and made-up scars, oh god, this is going to look terrible isn’t it?”

“It usually does when you lie to cover another lie. Fine, I’ll go, but then we get ice cream and burgers. I know this great place that makes really good veggie-burgers.”

“Sounds good,” Jenny says as her ears begin to peek out from under her hat. “OK, then, let’s go.” Angie gestured at her but seeing Jenny’s non-reaction she instead grabbed them gently.

“Be careful with those, you know some of these people will try to kill us,” she says while tucking them back in.

“Yes, they just sometimes pop out, and I’d like to be able to have them out. I can’t even hear that well when they’re covered.” They begin walking towards Jack’s house once her ears are hidden. “I’d also like to wear jeans without having to worry about hiding my tail. Not that I mind skirts, but it’s still annoying.”

“Hopefully, someday. I hear some other hybrids formed their own island, literally, they raised it from the sea.”

“I’m a simple jenny, just give me hay, water, and don’t try to kill me and I’m happy. Depending on how Jack takes the news, I might go there.”

“I think you might need more than that,” Angie replies.

“I don’t really need a lot, I just choose to live with people.”

“I wasn’t talking about that, but, uh, good to know you like that.”

“I thought you meant living outdoors and crapping in the woods, but whatever. Here we are.” They stood in front of Jack’s house a few blocks north of the center of town. Not really a ‘house’ but more an apartment, Jenny and him, they, were going to move in together soon, once they actually found a house. Temporarily, they each lived alone, mostly because both apartments were tiny. “Want to come in?” Jenny took a video game disc out of her purse that she was to return and looked up at Angie.

“I guess I should, huh?”

“Thanks, but I’m just going in quick anyway.” Jenny knocked on the door with Angie.

“Who is it?” A throaty bare voice responded from behind the door.

“It’s me Jack, here with Angie to return a disc you left at my house.”

“Oh, I’ll be right there,” he shouts before rushing to open the door. “Hey, Jenny, hi, Angie,” he greeted both before sitting on the couch. “Did I leave anything behind yesterday?”

Jenny ran and sat beside him to give him the game. “Yeah, you left this game at my place.” Suddenly, Jenny starts hugging him and kisses him.

Until then, Angie hadn’t been convinced as to the extent of Jenny’s memories, but that proved to Angie that they were all gone. The way Jenny acted to her and Jack showed she had absolutely no clue there was anything strange going on. Further, where did Jack even come from? Yet they both seemed to know each other and had an intimate relationship. Angie realized she didn’t turn Jim into Jenny, rather, took Jim to a world where he was Jenny. Angie, at first, was already skeptical of Jenny’s non-reaction, but now she was worried.

Angie sits by Jenny too, partially so she would stop making out, and also to do something. “I ran in to Jenny on her way to come here, so I joined her.” Angie pulled Jenny over and playfully messed up her hair so that her hat fell off, “then we’ll go watch a movie.”

Jack blinked rapidly a few times to wash out non-existent dust from his eyes, but the donkey ears were still there. “I don’t believe it,” he whispered. “You’re a donkey?”

He grabbed Jenny’s shoulders and yelled at her. Jenny meanwhile nodded and then covered her face with her arms, “don’t hurt me,” she whimpered.

He took a few breaths and turned to Angie, “and you, bitch, did you know?”

“Y”—she began to reply when Jack removed her own hat and exposed her wolf ears too.

“My God, everyone is a fucking liar! I bet you both have tails too,” he yelled as he reached in Jenny’s skirt to pull out her tail. He does so and then tries to expose Angie’s as well.

She swats away his hand, “no, get your fuckin’ filthy hands off of me. I swear I will murder you if you touch me.”

He throws Jenny, who is now sobbing, onto the couch and picks up Angie by her blouse’s collar. “Ok, your funeral.” Angie shouts that and sinks her fangs into his forearm and forces him to let go.

“So, what, you think if you just kill me this goes away? To be so entitled you can just use me,” Jack shouts as he pulls a knife from his pocket. “Humans have weapons too.”

He picked up Jenny and held the blade to her neck. “I’ll do it, I don’t care.”

Angie took a step closer and Jack touched the blade to Jenny’s neck. Jenny was just crying now, afraid to shout. Angie could see in her eyes that Jack would. “Fine. Don’t hurt her. Your son doesn’t deserve to die too.”

“Bitch, I don’t care about that monster, with a mother like that it was all a lie. Now, you two run, get away from here, pray nobody finds you. I’ll give you a head start, but I know where you are, where you went.”

“Ok, let her go and you drop the knife. Then you’ll never see us again.”

“Good, fucking bitch. On 3 I’ll drop the knife and push her to you and start running. Me being called Jack and her Jenny is a bad joke by a hypothermic amateur author.” He counted to three slowly and pushed Jenny to Angie while tossing the knife away. “Now run for your lives and never come back.”

Angie and Jenny, now without hiding their ears or tails, start running. Once outside in the alley, Jenny stops sobbing and looks briefly at Angie. They go onto the main road to escape into the woods.

They see squad cars heading for them as they run, along with civilians on foot with pitchforks. The forest is on the other side of town so they run with an increasing mob chasing them, all the while Jack’s blood shines on Angie’s clothes. Back downtown they saw posters depicting a werewolf-type beast devouring a man saying ‘Wanted’ but they had no time to pause, they had to keep running. The sun quickly set, it was winter, and despite that, with all the flames and lights, they could still be clearly seen.

They finally made it into the forest and they both escaped beneath the trees. A few police officers gave chase still, but they were mostly in the clear. Even moreso as the night advanced and they began to leave. “Jenny, I’m”—Angie began.

“No, it’s okay. I messed up. I shouldn’t have done any of it.”

“No, listen, I did that.” Angie took off her blood-stained clothes and turned back into a normal wolf.

“I don’t care why, I shouldn’t have been with him, I shouldn’t have kept it from him, I shouldn’t have pretended I’m a human.” Jenny also turned to her normal donkey form, but tore her clothes since she forgot to remove them. “I’m not going to need those anymore.”

“But Jenny, you did nothing wrong, you are human, literally too. you being pregnant, you’re both the same species. Humanity is just ugly.”

“I’m glad that when it was revealed you were there though. Maybe one day we can go back to society.” Jenny began munching on some grass as Angie laid on the ground.

“I don’t know, maybe soon like this, but never again like before.” Angie looked up at the moon and began to howl.

Jenny got up again, “yeah, maybe it’s a good thing, I don’t want to be around them anymore. And they call us the animals, I’m gonna go now,” she says as she goes behind a bush. “But I do want to get out of the forest,” she yells, “I don’t know how you feel though,” she says before braying.