Calvin lost track of how long his body experienced pain upon taking the Fertility/Growth Pill. He had assumed that the damned thing would make his balls hurt, as that is what he'd read online, along with a few who reported that their faces and muscles usually hurt after taking it.
It was even observed that sometimes the Fertility Pill affected bone development, changing the very structure of someone's bones as a side effect, though minimally in most cases.
For him, however, the pain was everywhere. Thirty years, and there was no way to accurately predict the effects of the Fertility Pill or even determine what could make them more severe.
He pulled up his phone again and read the list of side effects.
‘Nausea, headache, stomachache, frequent erections, muscle growth, increased libido, muscle aches, for women(breast growth, larger gluteus, thighs and hips and sometimes mild muscle growth), for men(muscle growth, enlargement of private parts and increased semen production). Do note that the extent of these side effects is random as the main purpose of the drug is to improve fertility and not objective beauty.’
'Improve fertility, my foot!' Calvin muttered under his breath. He'd managed to keep himself from throwing up. He drank water, took mints, and had multiple breathing exercises before ultimately passing out that afternoon.
……
In the evening, his eyes fluttered open. The hostel room was dim and quiet, a stark contrast to the chaos that had plagued him before falling asleep.
His head had stopped hurting, and his mind had gone quiet. There was a slight irritation here and there, but nothing disturbing enough for him to mind.
He checked his phone… ‘Two hours to the party.’
There was a text from one of his friends in their chat group. A boy named Jimmy. He wore glasses and had the charisma of a child who loved quests and adventure, “Are we still on for your quest for love? I got the lavender-scented candles and finished rigging the gymnasium. It's looking cool, by the way.”
“I still think we shouldn't go through with this,” came Asher, a girl they all knew was smitten with Jimmy. She acted cool, and that's exactly why Jimmy remained clueless.
“If we don't help, he'll do it himself,” Anna replied with a sighing emoji.
His friends weren't all on board with his plan. Some of them believed he was rushing it, while a few others(Jimmy, in particular) were okay with it. The only constant was that they were all there for him, which was more than he could really ask for.
He got out of bed and walked into the bathroom, where he paused to stare at himself in the mirror. Without clothes on, he looked fairly the same as he always had, right?
He sighed… a part of him hoped he would buff up and look like some kind of hunk by evening, but alas, geeks like him didn't always get that kind of luck. He went closer to the mirror and gave his jaw a closer look. It looked as though his jawline now existed… looking somewhat sharper, yet not at the same time. The same could be said about his dick. He didn’t see much of a change, even though it felt as though there was.
Alas, tonight was the night for him to shine. He showered, dressed up, and set his plans into motion.
The party was to be held inside the gym that had an indoor basketball court, yet upon entry, it looked nothing like what he remembered. The walls were draped with dark shades of blue and ribbons with a recurring wallpaper that looked like wet rocks.
“That wallpaper reminds me of that filth we drank with the pill,” a voice suddenly echoed beside him.
Calvin nearly jumped out of his skin at the voice. The person who’d just spoken broke out in a laugh, but it was only half a minute later that she tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and blushed a light shade of red.
“How do I look?”
It’s only then that the man realised that he’d been staring way too long. “Anna?” he asked, his voice barely present.
“Who else could it be?” she fussed, “I haven’t changed that much, have I? I made sure to use as little makeup as possible.”
“Anna?” came another voice. The one was deeper, even with the surprise in its voice. Calvin turned to behold someone he was certain was supposed to be Jimmy. The short boy with glasses, curly hair and eyes that had only ever known books and the pages of comics had grown at least half a foot taller, had a sharp jawline and the defined frame of someone starting out on the swim team.
“Jimmy?” came a third person.
The last member of the gang, Asher, much like Anna and Jimmy, was different as well. Calvin could easily overlook Jimmy since he was a guy, and he wasn't the least bit interested in guys. The girls, however, had both transformed in ways that didn’t feel fair.
Anna had decided to wear a blue silky dress that hugged her body quite nicely while also showing enough of her new features without being too scandalous, like her chest, which was now a couple… or four times the size Calvin was used to.
He didn’t want to scan her body any more than he already had, but her waist and hips had done a similar transformation, creating a curve no man could ignore.
Asher, for some reason, was an even more exaggerated hourglass, and for the first time since knowing her, she was acting more obviously in front of Jimmy. She tucked her hair behind her ear and leaned in close, invading his personal space and talking to him as though Anna and Calvin weren’t around.
“I’m wearing the pin you got me,” Asher told Jimmy, getting close enough that Jimmy had to hold her back.
A chuckle left the man. “I can’t see you well when you’re that close.”
"Oh, but you've always been blind, haven't you?" she chided.
"I'll have you know that my eyesight has improved a bunch since taking the pill," Jimmy laughed, trying to get Asher to back up so he could properly voice his compliments. The whole scene made butterflies flutter in Calvin's stomach.
“They’d look cute together, wouldn’t they?” Anna whispered. Calvin stared a bit longer at two of his best friends interacting like a teen couple in a budding relationship, with Jimmy too clueless for his liking.
“Yeah… if they can get any further than that,” he scoffed.
“Asher’s going on the offensive tonight.”
“She’ll need all the luck she can get,” Calvin sighed.
Anna looked back at the pair having a casual conversation.
Whatever the Fertility pill had done had made Jimmy taller than Asher, which now resulted in the boy making fun of her. After pouting, the girl then went on to acknowledge that he was now capable of taking on a protective boyfriend role, a comment that made Jimmy blush.
The changes had brought them closer in such glaring ways, and Asher wasn’t about to lean out of what would clearly help her ensnare her target.
“I think they’ll be fine. You, on the other hand, will need more luck, but before that, you haven’t answered my question.” A cute pout bloomed on Anna’s face.
“What question?” he narrowed his eyes.
“How do I look?” she nearly cried out. All the hours she'd spent choosing the perfect dress, as well as the money that had gone into procuring a new bra, were being visibly tarnished by this one hard-headed idiot. "Seriously..."
Author's Note: The introduction is a little lengthy. However, it concludes in the next chapter, mainly because I'm trying to layer this story and give it a vivid world. It's easier to appreciate life when you can see it well. That's a message for readers, though. Calvin's not about to see just how vibrant his life actually was while he was chasing his crush.
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