Post by kingfaraday on Aug 27, 2017 11:21:25 GMT -6
Linden
By Alena
Over the summer, a party was held at one of the seniors’ homes. This girl, Lemmy, was the most popular and attractive girl in the school, and she invited everybody who graduated, though she didn’t exactly expect them all. One of these stragglers included Kyle Swift, a pretty much nothing-special kind of guy known for having no significant features whatsoever. From his normal brown hair to his boring brown eyes, to his excessive habit of wearing bland shirts. The other was Linden Snow, a girl with too many characteristics, including her completely dyed-blue hair. She was also short and underdeveloped though actually quite cute. Most never bothered with her though because she was too cynical. She was wearing a black tanktop, with jeans and sandals. Kyle and Linden had been friends since kindergarten, but never dated.
“So, why are we going to this again?” Linden asked with little patience.
“I never said you HAD to come with me…” Kyle responded as he parked about a block down from the house. “The only reason I’m going is because this may be the last time I’ll ever get to see Lemmy.”
“Why bother…?” she mumbled under her breath. “You don’t have the guts to talk to her anyway…”
“I heard that.”
“Good.” Linden almost laughed as she stepped out of the car.
“Well, why are you following me here, if you don’t want to be here so much?” Kyle asked while giving her an odd glance.
“While you’re busy gawking at her, I’ll find something more productive to do.”
“Like what?”
“That’s a secret.” She said with a devilish grin. Kyle sighed and walked ahead. Linden stood there for a moment and reached into her pocket to reveal a small vial. “You’re going to let me have so much fun tonight. I’d kiss you if not for my fear of contamination from you.” She said in a babyish voice to the little vial. Then she stuck it back into her pocket and ran after Kyle.
Kyle knocked on the door. It opened up to reveal the captain of the school football team, Russell, and his girlfriend, a cheerleader, Valerie. Russell was tall, buff, and had slick, combed back hair. Valerie was about a foot shorter, had long blond hair, a perfectly endowed body and a red swimsuit that left little to the imagination. As Linden walked up, she could see Kyle already had his eyes glued to Valerie. She gave him a look of disgust, but he didn’t care… let alone notice.
Russell looked at the two of them and started cracking up. “Well, well, well… I didn’t expect you to show up.” He said and started laughing again. Valerie started giggling obnoxiously with him for no reason. They both apparently had one too many drinks.
Kyle gave a slight look of confusion, said, “Uh, hi.” and then walked right passed them. The two started laughing even harder. Linden raised an eyebrow in similar confusion, and started to pass without saying a word.
“Hold it, girl!” Valerie growled at Linden, ceasing the pointless laughter in an instant. “What are you doing here?”
“I was invited… like everyone else…” Linden said shifting her eyes. “Why are you here?”
“Well, it’s because I…” then Valerie proceeded to ramble on about all the reasons she was perfect in every possible way. Russell started laughing.
Linden walked by both of them muttering, “There’s my first target…”
Kyle and Linden stepped into the backyard together, whereupon they discovered a giant in-ground pool filled with teenagers. “Oh yeah, I forgot the invitation mentioned there was a pool… If only I’d remembered… I would’ve brought some swim trunks.”
Linden on the other hand was filled with glee. “This is perfect!” she said a little too loudly. Then quieter, “This will make things so much easier.”
Kyle gave her a sideways glance, but he really didn’t want to know what she was talking about. Then his attention was dragged away when he noticed Lemmy stepping onto the diving board. She had a white bikini with a strapless top. Then with her long dark wet hair, sexily running down her back, and shapely body looking smoother from being wet, he was in heaven. Linden watched as Lemmy adjusted her top and jumped off into the water.
“Uh, wow! I… I need to sit down…” Kyle said trembling with joy as he searched for a chair.
Linden tried to ignore him and walked over to the pool. She slid off her sandals, rolled up her pant legs and dipped her feet into the water. She watched as Lemmy swam across to the other side to climb out, then walk around to the board again. “She’s easily amused…” Linden thought to herself as she started to kick her feet back and forth. She reached into her pocket again to pull out the vial. “I’ll just wait a little while… I want to make sure nobody suspects me of anything.”
A half an hour passed, and whoever was cooking started serving food. This caused the pool to grow quickly empty. Linden just watched everyone in case they were looking. They weren’t. She pulled her feet out of the water, twisted the top off the vial and tossed the whole thing into the pool. The vial sank quickly to the bottom, and the small amount of clear liquid inside spread throughout, but didn’t change the appearance of the water at all. Linden grinned again. She grabbed her sandals, and walked as far away from the water as possible.
Kyle meanwhile was sitting back in the chair, with a hamburger and a can of soda. He was talking to a friend of his named Seth. Seth had glasses and a goatee as well as long dark hair, not to mention he was fat. Somewhat of a nerd, he was also a bit of pervert much like Kyle. Linden never liked Seth. But she walked over after getting a burger and sat down with them. “Having fun, boys?” she said in suspicious tone.
They both turned to her and said with dazed looks in their eyes, “Lemmy’s hot…”
“I should have known…” She said abruptly. Then she whispered, “But not for long…”
“I saw you over by the pool before watching her too, Linden.” Seth said with a goofy smile. “Do you like her too?”
Linden had to hold herself back from jumping up and beating the snot out of him. Instead she sarcastically lied, “Oh yes! Who doesn’t love Lemmy? Lemmy the great! Lemmy the beautiful! Lemmy the ultimate sex goddess! I can’t go two seconds without fantasizing about her!”
Whether they believed her or not, it sounded cool. Kyle and Seth let out a victorious shout and slapped five. Linden bowed her head in shame. Unfortunately for her, the pool remained empty for about an hour. For a while, she was worried that what she’d done was a waste of time. Then Russell and Valerie came out of the house and went into the water. Linden’s head shot up as she watched intently for results. Nothing happened right away, but eventually the pool was filled with at least twenty people again, including Lemmy.
Then something did finally happen to Valerie. From what Linden could see, her body grew taller, and her already flawless figure actually started to fill out even more. Her hair just got longer, and her face became straighter. At first, the reaction wasn’t to Linden’s liking, but the change wasn’t done.
Ironically, nobody was really watching, so they didn’t notice… not even Russell. But Valerie nearly went into shock as she ran out of the water and stared down at herself. “What…? What’s happening to me…?” she shrieked. This grabbed the attention of everyone around.
Quickly her hair changed from it’s luscious blond color into a into a pale gray. Her face shriveled and granted her bags underneath her eyes. Her face fell loose and flabby. The rest of the skin on her body held closer to the bones, and she became skeletally older looking. Her rib cage and most of her bones were very visible. Her breasts drooped into non-existence and back hunched forward. Soon there was no longer a seductive young teen, but an emaciated elderly woman well into her nineties with a bikini barely holding on. Linden snorted a laugh.
Valerie stood motionless as she waited for herself to wake up. She didn’t. Russell’s eyes bulged. “What in the hell just happened!?” He screamed. Kyle and Seth stood up to take a closer look. “No way…” They mouthed simultaneously. Everyone in the pool just stopped moving as the atmosphere grew silent. The old Valerie was surrounded by blank stares from every direction. Lemmy stood motionless on the ladder and then looked down. “Was that the water that did that?” she shouted. With that, the pool cleared immediately.
But it was too late. Of the ten or so girls that were in the pool, they all joined a similar fate as Valerie. One at a time, it seemed gray hair to wrinkly face to withered body to weak back. “What’s going on? Why is this happening?” Kyle asked loudly to Seth expecting him to know. “And moreover, why is it only affecting the girls?” Linden was trying to hold in her excited glee.
Then Lemmy finally started to age as well. In a similar fashion, the transformation started out just fine, but then went too far. Her hair stiffened and whitened, as her body quickly began to sag. Her back slouched like all the others, and her skin shriveled and covered itself with age spots. Her hands started shaking unceasingly, and it was becoming difficult for her to stand on her weak legs. Soon her youthful beauty faded as an aged old hag took it’s place.
“NO! LEMMY!!” Kyle screamed at the top of his lungs. All of the others guys had a similar reaction towards all the girls. A few even felt sick from noticing they were still wearing swimsuits. The girls, now elderly women, just stood staring at themselves in complete shock. They didn’t know what happened, how it happened, or why it happened, and it was scaring them further to think of what was going on.
Linden now just burst into hysterical laughter. Kyle’s head shot around and he stared at her down on the ground. “What’s so funny? Don’t you see what’s happening?”
“I know, isn’t it funny?” Linden answered immediately.
“No, it’s not funny!” Kyle said angrily. He turned back to Seth and demanded again, “Why did this happen to them? Especially Lemmy!”
“I don’t know…” he replied weakly. “Maybe there’s some chemical in the pool that under certain circumstances is capable of corresponding with the dual X-chromos-…”
“You know what; forget I asked.” Kyle interrupted.
Linden stood up and grabbed Kyle’s shirt. He instantly turned around to see a horrified look in her eyes. He gasped in terror. “Linden? What’s wrong?”
“I… I feel… I think I’m getting old too!” she screamed in his face.
“Linden…? No! Not you too!” Kyle demanded with a determined look in his eyes.
She started to snicker, and then begin laughing completely. “You fell for it!” She said continuing to laugh.
“Why is this so amusing to you?” he yelled.
“Why? Because it’s justice?”
“Justice?”
“Those girls were luckily born with beauty and were able to boast it their entire lives.” She explained with a now serious face. “They go about and put themselves on display to make themselves feel good. But then there are girls like me. I’m pretty too, but I still look like I’m thirteen, so nobody ever acknowledges me. Not even you, Kyle! You who I’ve been in love with since we were in second grade. You know, before looks mattered to anyone.” Her eyes began to fill with tears. Kyle suddenly felt really guilty. “But when we got older, you never noticed me; you treated me like a little sister. So I made them older to see how much you’d like these ‘beautiful’ girls when they look older.”
“You did this?” Kyle was too surprised to be angry.
“Yes… I did this.” Linden shot back. “And I’m glad!”
“Tell us how to fix this!” he said as he turned to see old women and angry teenage boys staring at the two of them.
“Why should I? So you can stare at Lemmy some more?”
“No, because they don’t deserve this! They’re only… well, technically only teenagers!” he argued. Kyle got a few angry looks from the elderly for that comment.
“I don’t care! It’s not my problem anymore!” Linden started to walk away, but was halted by a disturbing sensation… she was suddenly covered in water. Linden turned swiftly around to see Russell standing there with a damp, empty bucket. Her eyes widened in fear.
“You wench! You’re the one who did this to Valerie! Like hell I’m just going to let you leave here with no problems at all.” He shouted with an angry voice.
She started to shiver in complete terror. Kyle looked at Linden, then to Russell and then back to Linden. “How do we cure them?” Kyle asked very empathetically.
Linden aged quickly past the point of any youthful beauty. “No… I can’t tell you…” Her hair grew out past being blue and turned white. Most of it started to fall out, leaving the short, stale hair of a grandmother.
“If we know how to save them, we can save you too, Linden!” Kyle attempted negotiation. “Do you want to be an old woman?” Her face wrinkled in an instant, and quickly covered itself with age spots.
“No… but I…” Linden’s voice sounded deeper and very hoarse. Her body started to shrink and wither. Her arms and legs became thin though flabby, and her tanktop slid off one shoulder. “But…”
“Linden! Stop it! Look at yourself, do you really want to live the rest of a very short life just so you can show up all these girls?” Her back hunched, and she leaned forward as her legs grew weaker onto Kyle. Linden stared down at herself. Her hands were disgusting; her waist went straight down with a flabby stomach though still an immensely skinny body. She never imagined this would happen to her as well. Now she was as old as all the other girls… which was nearly one-hundred years old.
She hesitated for a long time. But finally said slowly, “In order for us to return to normal, someone who is at least half the age than the affected must kiss them.” She wished she hadn’t that, although on the other hand she was relieved she had.
Valerie slowly made her way to Russell and smiled. “What are you waiting for? Change me back!” she commanded with her wrinkly old face in his.
He made a disgusted look. “Hey, uh… Linden, are you sure there isn’t any other way?” Valerie shot an evil look at him. “My God, you look like my grandma!” Finally, she couldn’t take his insults anymore, smacked him as hard as her weak hands would let her and then kissed him. Even faster than the original transformation, Valerie reshaped into her original age. Her skin smoothed out and regained shape. Her body straightened out and her face became youthful again. Her hair returned to a regular blond and was thus fully returned to her normal age.
Russell separated and looked at her. “It worked…? You’re young and hot again! I’m so… happy… but feel so… sick…” He held his mouth and ran out of sight. Valerie frolicked joyfully after him and a now youthful manner.
One miscellaneous boy commented, “That’s nasty! I ain’t doin’ that!” After that, his really old girlfriend attached to him, and instantly started to make out. Soon after, all the affected girls did the same to their boyfriends. And many who didn’t have boyfriends just picked any random guy they could find open.
Kyle turned back to Linden after watching this happen. He stared into her pale eyes covered by sagging eyelids. “I’m sorry…” Linden just blurted out.
Then completely to her surprise and the surprise of everyone else around, he without a second thought grabbed and kissed her. As if she wasn’t startled enough, he wouldn’t release her either. Suddenly, the entire transformation retook place, with them still locked together. She returned to her normal size, as her back straightened out. Her feet regained strength and held her up higher to him, and her hands lent a tighter grip as they rejuvenated. Any age spots and wrinkles vanished from sight. Her face refreshed itself with her sweet young look. Her hair partially grew back, but it was her actual hair color of brown… which nobody even knew it was brown.
When Kyle released, all he saw a smiling, though shocked, face from Linden. “Wow.” She said feeling completely disoriented. Then Seth ruined the mood by commenting, “Geez… it took you long enough… it takes you until your nineties for your first kiss!” A few people laughed including Kyle. Linden actually smiled at the bad joke.
“Hey…” One random girl said to another. “Does anyone realize that we were really old for about fifteen minutes?” The other girl shook her head and said, “I’d rather not think about it…” There was a long pause. “Race you to the water!” The two girls dashed and jumped in.
Linden completely let go of Kyle and shouted, “You morons! That’s what made you old in the first place!” Two elderly women popped their heads out of the water.
“Well, I guess Lemmy will seriously need to have this pool cleaned out.” Kyle said.
“Hey, where is Lemmy?” Seth asked curiously.
“You know… I actually don’t care.” Kyle said honestly. Linden moved closer to him again. “She probably found somebody to kiss her and return her to normal. I can’t imagine she’d stick around afterward though. With a girl like her, it’s never ONLY one kiss…”
“That’s a shame… I actually thought she looked even better like that.” Seth stated in a daze. Kyle and Linden gave him a very disturbed look. “What!?”
“Well, anyway…” Linden explained. “If she hasn’t, she only has a little less than an hour. After one hour of being affected, it’s permanent.”
“This is Lemmy, we’re talking about… I’m sure she’s fine.” Kyle ended it with that.
With or without the host of the party, it went on all night. Everyone left with a smile on their face, and the party itself ended a complete success.
Meanwhile, inside the house, an elderly Lemmy was dozing on her bed without a single clue as to what happened or what was going on…