Pool Party -Trade-

The pool party was that afternoon, and Lizzie and Abbe still hadn't been able to secure a good pool toy for the occasion.  Every toy was too expensive, or too ugly, or too... well, Abbe seemed to be a bit picky when it came to pool toys.

"Stop stalling, Abbe!" Lizzie moped as the two of them scanned the shelves of one last sporting goods store.  "Let's just pick one and get it over with!"

"It's the middle of summer, Lizzie," the blue wolf reminded her twin sister.  "If it were good someone would've bought it by now.  You were the one who thought it could wait until the last minute."

"Well, if all else fails..."

"We've been over this already.  Big, round balloons don't make good pool toys.  Besides, the last time we tried it I kept tipping upside-down and getting water up my nose."

Abbe turned around to scour the shelves again... and caught sight of something behind all the inflatables she'd deemed too ugly.  Rushing in, she dug through and uncovered it: a simple inner tube, black in color.  It didn't have any gaudy patterns on it, it was cheap, and it seemed in mint condition.

"Well!  This'll do."

"There's only one, though, and there's two of us."

"One's better than nothing."

Despite their searching, the one inner tube was the only worthwhile purchase they could find.  They bought it, somewhat reluctantly.

"...How many times in our life have we been short one of something?" Lizzie remarked on the way home.  "I mean, we could make do with just one inner tube, but we wouldn't have anywhere near as much fun as everyone el--"

The green wolf suddenly cut herself off.

"What is it, Lizzie?"

"I just had the BEST idea!  We CAN work with just one inner tube after all!"

"Alright!  Tell me all about it!"

When the two of them got home, Lizzie brought out an air compressor from the garage and began to set it up while Abbe unpacked the still-deflated inner tube and found its air valve.  Once they were both ready, Lizzie passed the end of the compressor's air hose to Abbe, who plugged it into the inner tube.

Lizzie then stood ready at the air compressor's controls, but didn't let the air flow just yet.  Abbe, meanwhile, held up the inner tube and made sure the hose was on tight... then did something with it that would've been completely insane were she not a toon.

She slipped the deflated inner tube into her mouth and swallowed it.

Now with the air compressor's hose sticking out of the corner of her mouth, Abbe gave her sister the thumbs-up.  Lizzie responded by flipping the air compressor on, and air started to flow through the hose and inflate the tube.

Abbe lay on her stomach as she felt the inner tube begin to expand inside her, a sensation that made a smile cross her face.  Her sister turned to watch.

At first nothing visible happened, but then the blue wolf's sides started to bulge out.  She let out a happy moan as she felt her body stretch into a more circular shape; it was exactly the sort of soothing feeling that came from being flattened.

Lizzie knelt down and checked Abbe's body from all angles to see how she was going, then lifted her up to examine her belly.

"How are you feeling, Abbe?"

"Great!  Keep up the pressure!"

As Abbe grew rounder and rounder to suit the expanding inner tube inside her, she began to change shape in other ways.  Her arms, legs, and tail were sticking flat to her body (but, inexplicably, not her head and neck), effectively stranding her on her belly.  Meanwhile, a dip started to grow in her back, quickly turning into a hole clean through her torso.

As soon as she noticed this last development, Lizzie gently picked her sister up and ran her hand around the hole.  Abbe laughed as she felt the green wolf's paw against surfaces of her body that normally wouldn't exist.

Finally, the air compressor shut off with a CLICK, signalling that it'd given as much air as it could.  Lizzie stepped back and admired her handiwork: her sister was now essentially a blue inner tube with a wolf's head, her other features smoothly plastered onto her sides.  She couldn't move a muscle from the neck down, but she didn't care.

Reaching into Abbe's mouth, Lizzie carefully disconnected the air hose and re-sealed the valve on the inner tube.  She tapped her donut-shaped sister on the side a few times; the doomp, doomp of the fully inflated inner tube inside her reached both their ears.

"All done!  Ready for some pool fun, Abbe?"

"Uh-huh!  I feel fantastic!"

Lizzie grabbed Abbe and carried her into the house, where a full-length mirror awaited them.  With all due gentleness, the green wolf slipped her sister over her torso and held her in position.  Together, the two of them looked ready for an afternoon in the pool.

"You look perfect, Abbe!  ...except for one little thing..."

Abbe blinked as her sister placed a hand under her chin... then yanked upwards, causing her to emit a yell of surprise as her head and neck were shifted to a higher position.

"There!  Now that your head's a little higher, you won't drown as we're floating."

"Thanks, Lizzie.  You think of everything.  Now let's hit the pool; I want to see how well I float."