A little experiment and it's results

As she continued to stare at the subtle changes Ben unintentionally gave to himself as well as the implications. An idea popped in her head.

With him still preoccupied, she quickly left the park. It didn't take long for her to quickly buy what she needed and get back to the Rust bucket. And with a new light purple glitter covered notebook begin copying, some of the spells from her book. Quickly but meticulously, after all she didn't want her handwriting to be noticeable which was a little easy since she decided to copy them symbol by symbol instead of straight translating.

She had just finished a few of the spells she had already translated and tossed in a couple dozen of the ones she hadn't translated yet, and placed the note book along with a unicorn pen in Ben's duffel bag with his sumo slammer cards. Just in time to see Ben entered the rest bucket as she walked into the kitchen.

"hey Ben have a good walk?"

She raised an eyebrow in curiosity as the only response from her question was some inaudible grumbles and a nod. As she sat down at the table and watched Ben move around the kitchen looking for something to eat. She started planting some more memories in his head:

'About two years ago when looking for some possible antique/retro games at a yard sale, Ben came across a weird looking book. Normally he would've ignored it but as he passed by it the weird symbols on the cover seem to glow with a purple light. At first he thought that it was just a weird holographic effect but when he picked up the book he couldn't seem to get it to repeat that no matter which way he tilted it. Either way his interest was piqued. Plus it was only 1 dollar so it wasn't like he was losing out on anything if it was something stupid.

But it wasn't something stupid, it was something that intrigued him. And thanks to the budding willingness to study thanks to his red haired rival/friend, he started working to translate it.'

Now with the backbone of this new set of memories Gwen started giving him actual information and not just fabricated memories. Showing him memories of decoding the book much in the same way she did with the one she has. Actually importing the knowledge she has gained so far with her translating. then she decided to add one more detail to help with any inconsistencies.

'The book was very old. And while at first he could look through it just fine. It didn't take long until some of the pages started crumbling away if he wasn't careful with them. So with a hastily purchased notepad and pen.

(he didn't even notice how girly the notepad looked until after he brought it home and the unicorn pen was the only one on sale that he could afford.)

He started slowly writing down each one of the spells in the book before it was nothing more than a pile of dust and a book cover. He was unfortunately unable to save all of it, but he was able to save at least 60% of the book onto his notepad. And started working even harder to translate everything on it.'

She gave herself a satisfying internal pat on the back as she finished the implanted memory wondering what Ben was going to do with the new memories.

Right away she noticed new sparks of purple energy arcing around Ben as he stopped what he was doing, and seem to stare off at nothing.

Gwen raised an eyebrow as the sparks of energy we're now starting to change Ben's clothes. His cargo shorts. Started shrinking and shifting until they were now yoga pants. Very tight and revealing yoga pants the same dark green as his shorts were. Apparently to make up for the sudden loss of pockets a small dark green fanny pack appeared at his hip. She tore her eyes away from Ben's butt. To notice his sneakers had now become flats. In fact they looked identical to her own shoes right now oddly enough. And while his shirt hadn't changed it now seemed to drape over his body a little bit more. As the sparking energy based changes finally stopped she looked him over real quick to see if there were any more changes at least from his back. And noticed his hair was now a little longer and tied in the beginning of a ponytail.

Before he turned around she quickly cast her spell to dive into his mind and found a very interesting discovery. He had added more memories.

'He had worked on the notepad very diligently translating The notepad.

(up to where she had)

And then somehow managed to keep going. Not being able to translate the whole book mind you but he was able to translate a few more of the spells with only the information she had already given him.

(boy wasn't that a bit of a surprise)

She also began to notice another interesting outcome A lot of his old memories were starting to shift accounting for all the other alterations.

His Mindscape even seem to shift and become much more orderly and a lot less jumbled or fractured. Now Ben's bad grades we're not because he wouldn't apply himself but because of low self-esteem that he had already had because of bullies. His boastful attitude now was him trying to emulate his red haired rival/friend.

Gwen was equal parts curious and intrigued by the fact Ben's mind maybe even realizing that the red haired girl wasn't real added in the memory of her moving away. So as to account for the fact that she wasn't real.

(bullet... dodged?)

But with the false bravado came a need to back it up. So came the karate classes.

(which she already knew he took)

And yoga.

(something Gwen knew most of the women in her family practiced but she's pretty sure Ben didn't until now.)

With this final bit of information she finally left Ben's head.

"So... Ben, I don't think I ever asked. What's with the yoga pants do you practice it?"

Ben stopped opening a TV dinner he had pulled from the freezer only to turn to face her a quizzical look on his face. Showing Gwen his face was now softer and more feminine if only slightly.

"You know what Cous... I don't think you've asked that before... huh? But anyway yeah I practiced yoga all the time with Mom. I need to get back into that I've been kind of slacking ever since we went on this trip. Let's see if I can still..."

Without prompting she moved around a bit in the kitchen until he had enough room to bend backwards. A pretty fair distance. Then after straightening himself back up he then raised one of his legs being careful not to hit anything. Up and up until his leg was now resting against his shoulder. A feat she was pretty sure he wasn't capable of doing a few moments ago. As his foot reached the floor again he gave a slight wince.

"oh yeah definitely need to start yoga again that was way too stiff."

Gwen gave Ben a genuine smile.

"You know with flexibility like that you'd probably make a pretty good gymnast."

Ben bashfully scratched the back of his head and blushed.

"come on Gwen you're the gymnast, I don't think I could bring myself to do something like that in front of a crowd."

Gwen giggled as she pictured Ben in a female one piece leotard.

"I don't know you'd look pretty good in a leotard."

She was a bit surprised when instead of being embarrassed or his face gaining even a hint of blush, turned back to the frozen TV dinner but with his head turned just enough to look at her he then reached out and gave his own ass a slap.

"Come on Gwen don't be jealous it's not my fault it would look better with my hips. By the way after I eat this, do you want to compare our spell books finally? I know you wanted to put in the work yourself, but I really think if we work together we could really translate both of our books a little faster. Plus I've had mine for three years and I think you've already surpassed what I have been able to get through and only a month I think I could use the help."