"So what is it?" asks Charlie.
"I have no idea, but it's pretty cool."
Tia is a friend of Charlie. They have been together through thick and thin, and right now Tia is showing him an artifact that the college just got delivered to them for study. Tia eyes the strange object up and down, trying to figure out what she is even looking at.
"You're studying history, and you can even figure out what it is this?" Charlie laughs.
"No one can. That's why it's here, so the historical body of the school can find out any clues about it origins. All we know about it so far is that it originated somewhere in the US, meaning it might have been around even before the English discovered the new world."
Charlie nods, following along, he himself is going to music, but even he can't deny that Tia's field of work is incredible. Unlocking the past and finding secrets that none even knew existed. It makes him almost regret not going into history himself.
"Tia, if you ask me, I would say that it almost looks like a music box."
Tia laughs. "Yeah, I guess you're right, it kinda does look like one."
"No I mean... look at it, just look at the little crank underneath it."
Tia turns it over and looks at the bottom of the artifact, and sees a small T-shaped object on the underside."
"Huh, I guess it does look like one."
They pause for a moment, staring at the box as if it would reveal its secrets any second now. The box itself is made of some kind of stone, showing symbols of stars of many different sizes. The most interesting of these markings is that some of the stars have wings and hexagonal patterns on them.
Charles speaks up. "So... what would happen if we tried to twist it?"
"We are not twisting it."
"What? Why not?"
Tia sighs, "If this is legit, then this thing is more than likely nearly 500 years old, it will snap the very second you try to move it."
"Oh come on, I want to know what it sounds like."
"Okay sure, and once you break a priceless artifact, I will make sure I dig my own grave as the school blames me for your dumbassry."
Charlie chuckles. "Yeah, okay, fair enough."
Tia gets up from her seat with a huff.
"Look, I am going to get some tools to help me figure this out. Please don't touch the artifact while I am gone."
"Gotcha don't touch the artifact."
Tia squints at Charlie for a second, before going through the door and leaving. Once the door clicks shut, Charles instantly grabs some gloves and sits down at the table. He picks up the artifact, staring at the potential crank.
"Now I just need to be careful..."
Charles knows that Tia will kill him if he breaks the artifact, but he just can't help himself. He needs to figure out what will happen, what it would be like to discover a secret from a past no one knew existed.
What if it was the discovery of the century?
With a shaky hand he puts his fingers on the crank, it feels like cold metal. He begins to twist the crank as slowly as possible, terrified that he is going to break it, he pushes and pushes until...
Click
He sits there frozen. He hopes to God that was a good sound. He looks at it to make sure it wasn't broken while still holding the crank. Once he is sure that the box is fine he pushes a little harder.
Click Click
It seems to be working! He keeps twisting the crank a little faster now, hearing the sound of the box winding up, he goes until he feels absolutely sure he has reached the limit. While holding it still for a second, he takes a deep breath and let's go of the crank.
A slow melody begins to play from the box which then rapidly gets faster. Charlie stares at the box wide-eyed. He can't believe what he's hearing. The music... it sounds... jazzy, like it has a swing to it, sour notes, the whole package. Yet it's nothing he has ever heard before.
As a musician, Charlie is able to comprehend the sheer impressiveness of the music, its intrinsic diversity in its chords and rhythm, its incredible flow; Everything about is perfect. How could such an ancient artifact be able to produce such music in the first place?
He even begins to tap his foot to the rhythm, feeling the notes slide into his ears, feeling the pulsing of blood rushing through his body, as he continues to listen to the incredible sound. He feels his vision begin to cloud. The more he engages with the music, the more he becomes unaware of reality and his body. He fails to realize that as he listens to the box, his member pulses within his pants.
And just about 2 minutes later, the music begins to slow down, and the song seems to end. Charles snaps out of his haze, contemplating what just happened. He never knew music boxes could have an ending to their songs. He guessed this was just another thing that made it different from the rest.
Right when the box stops playing, he hears the door open and sees Tia walk in.
She looks at Charlie and stares at him as she sees him doing the exact thing that she had told him not to do just a few minutes ago.
Charlie stares at her. He didn't know what to say.
"Uhhhhh."
Tia quietly walks over, grabs the box from Charlie's hands. and examines it for a second.
"Well, at least you had the decency to wear some gloves."
***
Charlie wakes up to the sound of his alarm. It's the morning after he had listened to the music box. And he remembers hearing the music in his dreams.
"Man, what a crazy day yesterday." Charlie says yawning.
Charlie stretches his arms high into the air and then starts to get out of bed, only to see that he has morning wood, nothing unusual, it is normal for him to be horny in the morning, though he can't help but feel like his bulge is a little fuller then usual.
Peeling his underwear back he stares at his cock wide eyed, it's a little bigger! He is sure of it. His dick is usually 6 inches long. He moves it around with his hand to look at it from different angles, checking it making sure that his eyes are not playing tricks on him. But no matter what angle he looks at it, there's no denying it, he's a full inch larger now at 7 inches.
As much as Charlie wants to check out his new equipment, he needs to get to class. Charlie starts to get up from bed and slips his jeans over his boner, feeling the fabric move across his bulge, Charlie blushes, he swears that it feels more sensitive than usual. Once he finishing getting dress he begins to start humming the tune from yesterday before stopping himself.
"That's weird," he says out loud. "Must have gotten the song stuck in my head."
He walks over to the bathroom and starts to brush his teeth, as he does so, he starts absentmindedly humming the song. Again, he stops himself mid brush. Staring at the mirror in confusion, sure memorizing a song for him is not an issue, but to be able to sing every single note with such ease and perfection AND without practice is impressive even for him.
He spits out his toothpaste and looks at himself in the mirror. He decides to test himself by singing the song. Once again, it's perfect. It's like he has rehearsed the whole thing a hundred times. Every single note that he heard yesterday, perfect sung, without mistake. A feat that could impress even talented musicians.
Once Charlie finishes washing up, he heads to the kitchen and begins to make breakfast. As he does so, he starts singing again.
Charlie keeps catching himself singing the song over and over. While he'a making toast, pouring milk, eating yogurt. He starts to feel his throat getting soar, yet he is still not making a single mistake; no voice cracks, no added notes, perfect! perfect! perfect!
This is all starting to freak out Charlie. A part of him feels like something isn't right, yet at the same time, it feels... good to hum the tune, with its vibrant sound and harmony, all of it makes him feel even more in love with the song. He even once in a while brushes a hand over his crotch as he hums the tune.
Trying his best to ignore his emotions, he heads towards the door, slaps himself a couple of times before moving onwards for his classes for the day.
***
Charlie sits in his economy class, bouncing his leg up and down. He can't pay attention to a single word coming out of the professor's mouth, his eyes are focusing on his teacher's heaving chest. He feels his cock grow inside his pants.
Hypnotized by even the slightest jiggles when she moves, he has a wanting to bury his face inside her beautiful sweater puppies.