The Fairy Tale of Jacob McCoy: Changes

Jacob’s birthday evening was nice. Turned out his cake was Alice in Wonderland and tasted divine. He also got a new watch, chocolates, stud earrings (obviously from Ryan) and a Super dry T-Shirt. But today was a Thursday, another day on the school bus. On today’s timetable is PE, History, Chemistry and Maths. Thursdays were very boring.
In PE, everyone had to play Handball. Poor Ryan was always told to go in goal. Jacob tried his best to not get involved with the games and stay out of trouble. In the changing rooms, both Jacob and Ryan always stay out of sight when getting changed. Last time Jacob was in sight, a homosexual male called Stuart started talking about how cute he looked without his shirt on. It was very embarrassing. “I do not want that to happen again,” Jacob whispered to Ryan on that day.
After break was History. The teacher paid no attention to what the lesson was about (Rosa Parks) and talked about his holiday in Egypt. Ryan eventually fell asleep while Jacob daydreamed at the clock and scribbled on a piece of paper until the lesson ended.
“Oh no! We have Chemistry next!” Ryan exclaimed. Jacob groaned.
“Mr Pedora. Great! We better be grateful it’s not an hour and a half.”
They miserably walked to their next class and slowly took their seats at the back of the classroom. As soon as everyone was settled, the lesson began.
“Alright students!” Mr Pedora boomed as he got up from behind the desk and began scribbling on the white board. “I want you to start a new page in your books and complete activities 1-5 on pages 43-44!”
Everyone opened up their exercise books on a clean page and opened the Chemistry GCSE book to the right page. Ryan nudged Jacob for his attention and whispered: “Hey. Remember yesterday with him and Ms Houston?”
Jacob put his pen down. “Yeah. I’m just a little curious though, what they meant in finding the right student.” He caught Mr Pedora’s eye from the other side of the classroom and continued with his activities.
Half an hour past and Mr. Pedora began walking around the classroom, spectating everyone. He then approached Jacob and Ryan’s table. “How is it going here?” he asked. Ryan looked up at him but Jacob kept his head down.
“Everything is fine sir, w-we are up to the end of activity 4, hopefully done before the end of the lesson,” Ryan said quite quickly, also stuttering a bit. Mr Pedora stood up, straightening his tie and walked off. Ryan sighed of relief and looked at Jacob. “He always scares me when he walks up to us like that,” he whispered.
Jacob took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. “Yeah. Tell me about it,” he said as he put them back on and yawned. “Ryan, is there anything on my back? Something seems to be pinching me a bit.”
Ryan looked behind him and shook his head. “Nope. Nothing is there, I get that feeling sometimes.” Ryan suddenly gasped. “Maybe there is a ghost in the room! Just having a bit of fun of course, pinching random people.” He chuckled a bit and Jacob grinned, yawning again.
“Yeah well, this “ghost’s” pinching is awfully making me feel tired, guess I’ll have a good night sleep tonight.”
Chemistry finally ended and the boys headed to the cafeteria. Ryan picked up some more cheese and onion pasties and sat in a corner. Once Ryan ate all of his pasty, he noticed that Jacob only ate half of his and left it.
“Jac. What’s the matter with your pasty?” Ryan asked, wiping crumbs off his mouth.
Jacob glanced at him then back at his pasty. “I don’t know, feeling a little sick. You can have it; I’m just going to get myself some water.” With that, Jacob walked to the water dispenser as Ryan snatched the remaining pasty off his plate.
They didn’t go out to the field due to what happened yesterday with the Spud gang and waited to go to Maths. They walked to their classrooms slowly and split up to their sets. Jacob sat down in his seat and unsurprisingly Chloe sat next to him.
“Hey Jacob!” Chloe shouted gleefully. Jacob felt hot under the collar.
“Hello Chloe,” he said. Chloe starred at him curiously.
“Are you feeling alright?” she asked, placing her hand on his shoulder.
“No. No I’m not!” Jacob said than ran out of the room and straight to the boys’ lavatory. He splashed his face with water, soaking his hair as well. His head was pounding really hard, causing his body to heat up and vision blur. He noticed that his hands were shaking like a leaf and looked in the mirror. Last thing he saw was his eyes narrowing shut and fell to the floor with a thud.


It felt like a moment has passed when Jacob opened his head. The pain in his head was dying down and his sick feeling inside was disappearing. He got up and stretched, rubbing his eyes and yawning.
“Did I just fall asleep in the bathroom? Something must be wrong with me. When I get home I’m going to ask Emma to call the doctors, fit in an appointment.”
Jacob wiped his glasses and put them back on, but to his surprise, his vision wasn’t clear with them on. He took them off and put them in his pocket. He looked around then gasped in fright. Everywhere looked a lot different then how he remembered before he passed out. The sink he was splashing the water on his was taller, so was the door. The square tiles on the floor was bigger too. Jacob felt his teeth start chattering and hugged himself. He spun in a circle, looking around.
“Why is the room bigger? How am I supposed to get out?”
Fear was crawling up him. He scratched his head thinking what to do until he felt something weird on the end of his ear. “AHHHHH!” Jacob screamed. “MY EARS! THEY’RE POINTY! WHY ARE THEY POINTY? WHAT IS GOING ON!”
Jacob was petrified, walking backwards into a wall. He slid down to sit on the floor. He noticed something yellow pointing out from behind his back. He immediately stood up and looked at his back. His pupils shrank at the sight. He had grown yellow fairy wings!
“Oh crap!”