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“Oh, Mel?” Josh said as he paused midway out the door. “There’s some new sort of nut snacks in the back. Boss says he wants you to put ‘em out this morning before he gets in this afternoon.”
Melody rolled her eyes. “And why didn’t he have you do it during night shift?”
The tall, lanky boy shrugged. “Iunno.” Then he left, getting on his bike and pedaling away before his coworker could retort.
“Typical,” she muttered. Three years working at her tiny town’s Gas-n-Eats gas station, and Josh hadn’t changed. He hadn’t changed since high school. Still the same slacker loser who’d be stuck in the middle of the deep South in his parents’ attic for the rest of his life. It wouldn’t surprise her if their boss, Bruce, had asked Josh to put the snacks out and he’d just procrastinated until Melody’s shift.
Melody sighed. She needed to get out of here. Hence the gas station job – she was building a nice little nest egg so she could move out of this shithole and somewhere with more of a nightlife than Uncle John’s Tavern , where the only music that played was the latest and greatest ‘non-woke’ country hits.
Maybe she’d be able to go somewhere that was more tolerant of her and her girlfriend’s ‘lifestyle’.
Melody shook her head. She and Jenny would escape later. Now, in the present, she apparently needed to shelve some fucking nuts before Bruce got in and fired her.
She stomped her way to the back. Sure enough, there was an entire pallet of Madame LeBeau’s Magick Mixed Nut Snax right in the middle of the floor, with a note taped on it that very definitely said for Josh to shelve these.
“Fucking Josh,” she growled.
Stomping her way back out front, she grabbed the well-worn sign she’d made – In Back Doing Inventory. Sorry :) – and taped it, again, to the front of the register. As she walked back to the storeroom, she caught her reflection in one of the security mirrors, and frowned. Once again, she wondered how she, a 5’2” 110-lbs tomboy with the stringiest black hair in the world, had landed the 6’ bombshell and former cheerleader like Jenny.
Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, Melody pushed the backroom door open and grabbed the box cutter. She sliced the plastic holding the ‘ Snax ’ (really?) boxes together and then cut one of the boxes open. Inside were 24 packets of the Magical Mixed Nuts . Pulling one out, Melody raised an eyebrow at the mascot character emblazoned on it. A squirrel - was this Madame LeBeau? - with dark green fur and wearing a witch hat smiled brightly while waving a wand. Normal, right?
Wrong. This cutesy cartoon squirrel had an absolutely massive rack and visibly buff arms, complete with a flexed bicep.
“I know sex sells, but really?” she muttered.
Well, it wasn’t her place to question her corporate overlords. Right now, she was supposed to be shelving these ‘ Snax ’.
So Melody walked out to the front and quickly looked around. Good, nobody had come in while she was in the back, which meant she could shelve these ‘ Snax ’ in peace. One by one the packages slotted into the empty spots on the shelf with the other nut snacks, all 24 quickly filling the shelf out.
Though it was a little weird that the oversexualized squirrel on the packets were a different color on each one. And it didn’t seem like there were any different flavors or anything.
“Well, that wasn’t too bad,” Melody mumbled. “Fucking lazy-ass Josh. Should kick his ass next time I see him.”
She turned to head back to the storeroom to throw the empty box away, when she heard something shift inside it. Looking down, there was a single packet of the mixed nut ‘ Snax ’ left. Strangely, it was the one she’d first grabbed back in the storeroom, the one with the dark green squirrel lady.
Melody looked back at the shelf. Nope, it was full, which couldn’t happen with just 23 packets in there. Even so, she double-checked. As she thought, there were three rows of six packets each - 24 in total. Melody checked the box. The side said it contained 24 packets.
Huh. Must’ve been an extra put in by mistake.
Of course, there was the question of what to do with the extra packet. She could just put it in the back with the rest of the pallet, but then they’d probably always just have one extra. That, and Josh would probably just eat it.
And fuck Josh.
Instead, Melody took the extra packet and tossed it into the checkout area, then took the empty box back into the storeroom, dropping it by the back door to take out to the dumpster later. Then she returned to the register and checked her watch.
8:27. Literally less than half an hour since she’d gotten in. Twenty-seven minutes to grumble at Josh and do the job he was supposed to have done.
Fucking lazy bastard.
Taking her sign down, Melody started waiting for customers to come in. It was a slow day - Thursdays usually were - allowing her to complete some of the online college coursework for her classes tomorrow.
Around 10:30, just after Ms. Neumann came in to get her weekly pack of smokes, Melody started feeling hungry. Not hungry enough to go grab some lunch, but enough she wanted a little snack.
Or maybe a ‘ Snax ’?
Shrugging, she pulled the extra packet out and quickly scanned it, dropping a couple of bills into the till to pay for it. Opening the bag, Melody was assaulted by the aroma of the mixed nuts - cashews, almonds, walnuts, peanuts, and a few pecans.
Popping an almond into her mouth, her tongue tingled pleasantly at the lightly honey-roasted flavor. Weird fetishy mascot aside, these Snax were pretty damn good.
She was about to reach in for some more when her muscles all tensed at once. Not in a bad way - it almost felt good! - but definitely weird. Looking down, Melody noticed that her arms were a bit more defined. Her legs, too, or at least her calves, since her thighs were still hidden by her shorts. She looked like one of those sexy fitness models now. She looked back at the bag of nuts.
“Did… did these do that?” she wondered aloud.
Cautiously, she brought out another nut - a cashew this time - and ate it. This one was a little spicy, and as soon as she swallowed, she noticed a strange tightening in her chest. Looking down again, Melody could see her once-puny A-cups actually grow in front of her eyes, stopping at just over DDs. Just about Jenny’s size.
“Holy booba, Batman!” She poked her new tits a few times, making sure they were real.
Not only were her newly engorged boobs real, but it seemed that her bra and work polo had grown alongside them, considering she wasn’t tearing through either with her new flesh.
Melody fished out another almond and chomped down. She watched as her muscles grew, from ‘fit’ to ‘lightweight bodybuilder’ in a manner of seconds. Lifting her shirt (and maneuvering her new tits out of the way), Melody saw she had actual abs now! What would take most people years of strenuous workouts she’d just done with a single nut.
“Fuck, that was sexy,” she moaned a little.
Taking a cashew and eating it, Melody stared at her tits. Sure enough, they started growing again, from DDs to Es to Gs then straight out to JJJs - nearly a foot of breastflesh in a manner of seconds! She bounced on her heels a few times, watching her new mounds jiggle each time.
“God, I can’t wait until Jenny gets her hands on you girls.”
Melody looked down into the package. There were plenty of nuts left, including some types she hadn’t tried yet. She picked out a walnut and stared at it.
“I wonder what you do…” she said before popping it into her mouth.
She swallowed, then had to steady herself as her viewpoint shot up six whole inches! Goodbye, slightly below average height, hello not having to stand on something to kiss her girlfriend! And, thankfully, her shorts and shirt continued to grow right along with her, meaning she wasn’t showing off any ‘inappropriate’ skin.
Melody was deciding between trying a peanut or a pecan next when the door jingled open. She quickly folded the package of Snax sort of closed and stashed it under the checkout area, just in time for Mr. McGraw to walk in, nod at her, then make a beeline for the beers, just like he always did on Thursday.
Which was weird, considering Melody was now the same height he was, and had head-sized boobs and a body most of the football players at the local county high school could only dream of. Did he just not notice in his haste to grab his weekend beer, or did whatever magic that kept her clothes growing with her also make it so people just dismissed any differences in her appearance?
A minute later, Mr. McGraw came back, carrying an 18-pack of beer. He looked closer at Melody as she rang him up. “Say, did you do somethin’ with your hair, Mel? You look a little different today.”
“Uh, no,” she answered, truthfully.
He blinked, then shrugged. “Must be th’ lights or somethin’.” He grabbed his beers and left.
Melody let out a breath in relief. Seemed like people could notice something was different, just not what.
She briefly considered just throwing away the rest of the nuts, but then remembered that there were two she hadn’t had yet and her curiosity got the better of her. She grabbed the bag from its hiding place and unfolded it, carefully reaching in and grabbing a peanut.
“What’s next?” she mused. “Butt? Hair? Something weird? Time to find out.”
She popped the peanut into her mouth, chewed a few times, then swallowed. Looking down, she waited for whatever change would come. Moments later, she felt an odd, half-tickling, half-itching sensation on her hands and feet. Melody watched as what looked like dark green hairs started sprouting from the backs of her hands. No, not hair – fur . The dark green fur soon fully covered both hands, leaving her looking like she was wearing furry mittens, while thick, yet soft, padding had formed on her palms and the undersides of her fingers, while short, thick claws came out of her fingertips. She flexed her hands a few times, then picked up a few small items, finding that, despite the fact she know had paws, she hadn’t lost any manual dexterity.
So, that was good.
Remembering she’d also felt the sensation in her feet, Melody quietly slipped her sneakers off. Sure enough, he feet were now paws as well - same dark green fur, same pads on the bottom, same claws. Wiggling her toes, she actually felt that her new paw-feet were somehow more dexterous than her old human ones had been.
She stood up and looked back at her hands. “Okay, weird. I’m turning into some sort of monster girl by eating nuts. Cool.” Her shoes felt uncomfortable, so Melody kicked the other one off.
She should probably stop now, she thought. But the burning curiosity of what the pecans did overwhelmed her, so she dug her hands (paws) back into the package and fished one out.
“Hopefully this doesn’t kill me,” she said, then closed her eyes and threw the nut in her mouth.
She opened her eyes seconds later. She hadn’t felt anything. No weird sensations or sudden growth spurts. She looked down, and felt something tickling her back.
Bracing herself for whatever weirdness had occurred, Melody looked behind her, and saw… hair?
Yes, her hair had grown. Once just down to her neck, her hair now reached just between her shoulders. And… was it fuller now? And shinier? And maybe had a little wave to it?
“Okay,” Melody said, turning back around. “Almonds give me muscles. Cashews are boobs. Walnuts make me taller. Pecans make my hair sexy, and peanuts… are turning me into a werewolf or something.
“I should really stop.”
Thankfully a customer stopped in, a tourist whose husband was outside pumping gas. She grabbed a few drinks and snacks - including a packet of Magick Mixed Nut Snax .
“Hey, are those good?” the tourist asked as she pointed at Melody’s bag of Snax .
“Uh, yeah,” Mel answered as she rang up the tourist’s items. “I think you’ll be surprised by the taste.”
The tourist smiled as she left, and Melody idly wondered how far the two would react to the changes.
Still, that was their problem. Right now, Melody needed to throw away her bag before she was tempted to go further down this transformation rabbit hole. Or werewolf hole. Or whatever-animal-she-was-turning-into hole.
She picked up the open bag and moved to throw it away, but she paused just over the trash can. She’d already gone pretty far. She had paws for God’s sake! And she doubted that whoever Madame LeBeau was would be able to reverse this… whatever was happening to her.
And a not-so-small part of her wanted to see what would happen if she went even further.
It didn’t take long for that part of Melody to win out, and she dumped out a bunch of the nuts into her hand and tossed them back. She gripped the checkout counter as she crunched down on her snack, just in case the sensations overwhelmed her.
Almost immediately, she felt a rush of energy. Her arms and legs doubled in size, then again. Her tits surged forward, stretching well past the end of the alphabet. She shot up a foot, then another, then another. Her hair didn’t seem to grow any longer, but did seem to get wavier and fuller as the transformation progressed, while the fur on her hands and feet crept up her arms and legs. There was a weird sensation just above her muscle-bound butt. She looked behind her, and watched as a tail emerged from between her shirt and pants. It was wide and fluffy, almost looking like a squirrel’s tail. In seconds, the tail grew until it was about 4 feet long.
Melody took stock of herself. She was now around 9 feet tall, with arms that looked about 50” in diameter (unflexed!) and 60” thighs, all covered in that soft, plush dark green fur. Her tits swelled out over 3 feet in front of her, drooping only slightly. Her chest and shoulders were about 3 feet wide now. She took a closer look at her hair. It was nice and thick and super wavy, like those 90s supermodels.
Strangely, her clothes still fit somehow, despite her outrageous proportions. And her new tail.
“God damn ! That was intense!” she breathed. “So I guess I’m a weresquirrel or something?”
Melody tensed when the door opened and Dave walked in, all swagger and cologne. He’d tried to date Jenny all throughout high school, and had an intense grudge against Melody once he’d learned the two were dating. He thought that, somehow, him being the lead quarterback of the football team overrode someone’s sexuality.
Melody watched him like a hawk (or squirrel) as he wandered through the aisles, and barely held back a snarl when he approached with a pack of beef jerky.
“Of course I’d get you ,” he scoffed.
“You know I work day shift,” she shot back as she rang up the jerky. “Now, is there anything else? Please say ‘no’ so we can get on with our days.”
Dave moved like he was gonna say something, but Melody leaned forward, glaring down at him. Instead, he dropped a 20 on the counter and waited while she counted out the change. One that was done, Dave snatched both the money and the jerky, then left, grumbling all the way.
Melody let out a breath she hadn’t realized she’d been holding. Then she smiled. Normally Dave was a massive jerk to her, always complaining about how she ‘stole’ Jenny away from him. But with her new size, it was almost too easy to intimidate him into backing off.
She looked at her bag of Snax . There wasn’t much left, probably just another mouthful.
“Papa didn’t raise no quitter,” she said, then dumped the last bits into her mouth and crunching them down.
She smiled as she felt herself grow. Nine feet became 10, then 11. Her tits surged from 3 feet to 6 to 9. Her muscles exploded outwards - her arms rocketed to 60 inches, then 70. Thighs bloated into 80 inch columns of steely muscle, and her shoulders widened to just over 5½ feet! She was now wider than she’d been tall less than an hour ago! The fur continued creeping up onto her stomach and chest, where it lightened into more of a forest green, fully covering her body in just seconds.
There was a weird tingling sensation as the fur reached her face. Melody raced over to the bathroom and threw the door open, bending down so she could squeeze inside enough to look at her face in the mirror. She stared as her nose and mouth lengthened into a very definite snout, complete with whiskers. With a ‘ pop ’, Melody’s human ears disappeared, and large squirrely ones appeared on top of her head, just poking out of her thick, shiny hair, which continued to grow until it reached the small of her back. Melody smiled, and saw that, yes, she did have those long squirrely teeth, though thankfully they weren’t the gigantic cartoonish buck teeth she’d feared.
“Wow. Weird.”
Melody squeezed out of the bathroom and stood up, quickly rising towards the store’s 16 foot ceiling. Her growth slowed, then stopped at a monstrous 14 feet tall. Twelve-and-a-half feet of boob sat proudly on her massive, mountainous pecs. She raised an enormous 80 inch arm and began flexing, only to stop less than halfway as her bicep rose above her head and touched the ceiling above her. In fact, she heard the ceiling creak and crack as her bicep touched it! A little more effort and she’d probably tear right through!
“Holy fuck, that’s hot! I’m like some sort of super sexy amazon squirrel girl!”
A 7-foot shoulder span tapered in slightly to a 6-foot wide torso, before flaring back out to her 6½-foot wide hips. Above her boulder-like bubble butt rose a 7 or so foot long and 6-foot wide squirrel tail that just brushed against the ceiling. Her 90-inch thighs and 85-inch calves supported the massive body.
And, most miraculously, her clothes still fit!
The giant squirrel girl carefully made her way back to the register, taking extra effort not to bump any of the shelves with her monstrous legs. Once there, she had to kneel to see the register. Or, really, anything below her except squirrel boob. Not that that was a bad view.
It was 11:39 now. Just over an hour since she’d eaten that first nut and now she was nearly three times as tall, and probably a dozen or more times heavier - all of it fuzzy muscle and tit.
She looked up when the door opened again, then smiled widely when she saw Jenny walk in. She was wearing that cute crop top and cut off jeans that Melody knew she didn’t wear anything beneath – perfect for a lunchtime quickie.
“Hey, babe!” Jenny called, lifting up a grocery bag, “it’s close enough to lunch and I thought I’d bring ya- Whoa!”
The human girl’s eyes went wide when she spotted Melody. “Mel? What the fuck? How?” Jenny pinched her arm. “Ow! Damn! Well, I guess this ain’t a dream, but– how?!”
Melody held up the now empty bag of Snax . “Third aisle.”
The bag in Jenny’s hand dropped to the floor and she raced to grab a packet of her own. By the time the blonde came back, she was already munching on a mouthful of the magical nuts. Melody could just see the beginnings of her girlfriend’s growth, including the dark purple fur that had started growing on her hands and flip-flopped feet.
The squirrel amazon smiled and settled in to watch the show.