My name is Megan. I'm thirty two and I'm a scientist for a laboratory you haven't heard of yet - and won't, if we can get this project back under control. I'm writing about the first time we tried the drug in people, instead of test tubes and the labs - and how it led to the wildest experiences and also the most awkward meetings of my life.
For every drug, there comes a time to try it in humans for the first time. When we've done all we usefully can in the lab, however promising the lab results, we never quite know what will happen in a real human body, and it's a nerve wracking day when we first find out. Start with a very few - say, three - young, healthy people, and...
Looking back, it's lucky we began with three heterosexual young women. It's usual to start with student volunteers, who want the generous "expenses" payment. But we were lucky we started with girls this time, and heterosexual girls too. Here's what happened.
It was ten pm and Jayne, the nurse, was in the office trying to explain: "No, no, their vital signs are all fine. They just seem *restless*. Very restless. Agitated. Come and see them." It was not half an hour since I'd seen Miss A, Miss B and Miss C tucked up in beds in our sleep laboratory with our little pill inside them and clean white linen outside them, ready for the first night of the first study. Jayne seemed worried - we went...
... and found the sleep lab empty, bed clothes scattered on the floor and - I noticed without understanding - a creamy white night dress, too. And over there, eggshell blue pyjama bottoms. Hang on...
"We've lost them!" said Jayne, looking at the beds. "It's worse than that," I said, as I picked up the night dress and held it out to her. She looked horrified. "We've lost them, and they're not even fully clothed."
Late at night, the three story building empty apart from the two of us, Len the ageing security guard, and three half naked, "agitated" young women. Oh, and Mark, apparently. Mark is a colleague from another project. I don't know why he was working late, but I found him in his office, sitting at his desk, and strangely reluctant to help search. He looked up at me, glanced under his desk - obvious in hindsight, but of course at the time I couldn't know why - and said "No, I said I've seen no one. Look, if you still can't..." he paused, swallowed and glanced under his desk again "... ask me later." I gave up on him and ran on.
We found Miss A with Len from security. Actually, I found her, bent over his desk in the lobby, blue pyjama top on but naked from the waist down, and (here scientific language won't cover it) TAKING IT DOGGY STYLE from a very happy, grunting, Len. I stared as he thrust to and fro. He looked sheepish but also defiant when he saw me in the doorway, and carried on. She didn't seem to see me; she had her eyes half closed, and looked not so much agitated as flustered and desperate, gripping the edges of his desk. I couldn't help but look down at his wiry pubes crashing, again and again, into her creamy, soft backside and thighs. She buried her face on his desk and her blonde hair fell around it, concealing her face. Suddenly he seemed to come, with a louder grunt, and stopped, panting, his body still pressed behind her.