The Mysterious Rattle 09 (Patreon)

Original Idea: Sophiie93

Copy Editor: Angela

Melany was standing there, right in front of Chuck, and James had no idea what to say.

“Melany… w-what? Why?” He couldn’t get a coherent sentence out of his mouth. Was his going to get in trouble? Was chuck going to report this to the authorities? Was he going to jail as a kidnapper? Was his life over?

Melany broke the silence. “I… I just didn’t want to cause you trouble. I don’t want you to have to lie because of me.” Her right head spoke as her left head stared at Chuck.”

“D-don’t get the wrong idea Chuck. Shes not-“

James was interrupted by the sound of Chuck’s chair falling backward as he stood up abruptly. “Wow a real mutant!” He walked over to Melany and abruptly took her hand “Melany right? Oh man this is wild! How could you have been hiding such a magnificently beautiful woman here the whole time James! I’m so jealous!”

“Magnificently… beautiful?” Melany blushed. “I don’t think-“

“She’s just like those girls on the art sites, or the mutant adult sites! But she’s here, in the flesh, in our little Podunk town! And she’s staying with you! Should have let me in on this dude. Bro foul. Not cool.”

“I just, thought you would panic,” James said, stunned by Chuck’s reaction. “I didn’t expect-“

“Come on!” Chuck said interrupting again. “Like you don’t know me. Mutants are awesome! I have all those calendars and photobooks…”

“A-amazing? Calendars? Photobooks?” Melany’s head was spinning. Her tail rattled and Chuck’s eyes quickly darted down at it.

“Hey wait… was she there? At the house that night! Ooooooh so that’s why you stayed behind. Tricky tricky James.” Chuck’s eyes wandered up and down Melany’s body. “So have you guys known each other long or is this some “knight in shining armor” deal? You know how James is, thinking he can save everyone and everything.”

“Chuck!” James snapped. 

“Haha, same old James. So what you got? Two heads? Six arms? What else. Can I see them?” Chuck said walking around Melany’s body to look at it more closely.

Melany’s cheeks were beat red. “Look at what?”

“Your arms! Duh! How do they work?”

“W-well there’s nothing special about them.” Melany said bringing her six hands in front of her. “I just have too many.”

Chuck touched them one by one, asking Melany to make independent movements with each hand. “Wow, your coordination is amazing. And what about your heads.” He spread his arms apart so that one was in front of each face. “Can you see both in detail.”

Melany blushed even harder feeling like a bit of a lab experiment on an examination table. “Y-yes. It’s not hard. I uh…”

“Oh sorry, sorry. Am I making you uncomfortable?” Chuck said. “I’m just so excited!”

“Excited?” Melanie asked quizzically.

“Yeah! I never thought anyone would mutate in our little town. You are practically a celebrity.”

“A celebrity!” Melanie’s eyes glazed over with an amazed look. She felt, special, probably for the first time in her life.

“So what else can you do? Do you have full control of your tail?”

“Yes, but sometimes it moves independently based on my emotions.” Melanie’s right head said.

“Oh and I can do this!” her left head said. She stuck out her tongue which extended about twelve inches long and wriggled it’s forked tip.

“Haha she must be amazing with that tongue,” Chuck said nudging James with his elbow, “if you know what I mean.”

“OK, OK, that’s enough,” James said. “Chuck, Melany, Melany, Chuck. You both know each other now, everyone’s happy, phenomenal. Now, I mean this Chuck, can you keep your mouth shut? I don’t want anyone to find out. It would make things… complicated.”

“Oh yeah no problem!” Chuck said.

“I. Mean. It” James said emphasizing every word. Chuck was known for being a bit of a blabbermouth.

“Look, you don’t have to tell me twice man. I wouldn’t want to ruin the day of our town’s only mutant. My lips are sealed.”

The three spend the rest of the night talking but before long Chuck had to go home. “Hey Melany, if you ever get sick of hanging out with straight laced James here, you can always come over my place!”

“In your dreams!” James said, pushing Chuck out the door. He laughed and headed off home.

When James entered the living room again, Melany was already digging through the package of clothes. She pulled out a backless blue dress with one large ribbon at the base of the back, tailored to her dimensions. Her eyes sparkled. “C-can I try it on?”

“Sure,” James said. “Everything in that box is yours now. Anything you don’t want, we can return.”

Melany practically jumped for joy, running into the bedroom, leaving James to wait for her on the couch. However, after a moment she called out “Uh, James! Can you help? I can’t seem to get this ribbon tied”

“Hehe, even with six arms you can’t… woah.” James walked into the bedroom to find Melany with the dress half on, barefoot. James had never seen this much of Melany exposed. Her entire back was visible, from her shoulders all the way down to the base of her tail and if it were not for the skirt of the dress, her ass would be fully exposed. He felt like a pervert spying on a next door neighbor, or like a child seeing his first adult magazine, hoping the dress would just fall off.

“James!” Melany barked. “Stop spacing out and help me!”

“Right right!” He went over to Melany’s side and tied a large bow as quickly as he could before promptly leaving the room and returning to the sofa. Minutes later she stepped out of the room. “James? What do you think?”

James was nearly in shock. She looked radiant. The dress fit her perfectly. It was almost like a scene out of a fairy tale. From head to the tip of her toes clad in blue heels she was glowing. It was almost like she was a different person. “You look gorgeous,” he said, amazed and entranced.

“I uh… I want to sit on the sofa,” Melany said timidly.

“Well, come on,” James said patting the cushion beside him.

“I… I can’t… I’ll fall.” Melany’s legs were shaking. She obviously wasn’t used to heels. She took one step and nearly stumbled over.

James walked over to her and let her lean on his shoulder. “Haha, you don’t want to wear those heels inside if you don’t want to you know. This isn’t a formal affair silly.”

Melany giggled to herself as well. The two shared a laugh as Melany flopped on the couch. “Well if it made you laugh, it’s worth it.”