All characters are over the age of 18. All the science in this story is utter bunk. This series of stories involves a very slow build-up which is just the way I like it. This is also my first attempt at writing fiction. Be warned, impatient ones!
I appreciate all the encouraging comments for the first chapter and feedback e-mails too! Thank you :)
Jill was still absent from school and James had no way of reaching her. Although he was eager to show her his progress, he was getting a little worried about her wellbeing as well. He really didn't think that he'd be able to get her contact information from the school. He did know the general area where she resided. Perhaps he could go over and just ask around? While he was busy considering brute-forcing the problem, a solution presented itself. His Mom called him down from his room and asked him to run an errand to his aunt's house. James didn't particularly want to be distracted right then, but being the dutiful son that he was, he grumbled a little before heading out on his bike. Just as he was about to leave, something struck him. His aunt's neighbour was none other than Mrs. Madsen, the Physics teacher.
James immediately rushed back into the house and ran upstairs to his room. He prepared a phial of Adam B and set off again. He had a plan.
He reached his aunt's house in record time and completed his delivery. He then pedalled to the end of the street to keep a discreet watch on Mrs. Madsen's house. There was a car parked in her driveway. So it did appear that someone was in. James mulled over his instinctive plan as he waited. Now that he knew what his Adams could do, he wanted to see if he could push things further. Not only had Arlene and Joanne become
aroused under influence,
they readily accepted to go out with him. He had heard that Joanne had had at least two boyfriends. But he was certain that Arlene Lin was completely inexperience with the opposite sex. She was not the socialising type and preferred to keep to herself. So her change in attitude was very much out of the ordinary and he could only conclude that this was because of Adam. That said, Mrs. Madsen was a different kettle of fish altogether. Not only was she not the friendly type, she was also married. Her personality was almost legendary for its prickliness. She simply never seemed to be happy and had earned herself the nickname, Grumpy. It didn't help that she was particularly short either.
James was now armed with Adam B and ready for an acid test of his conclusions. Changing Mrs. Madsen's personality would be the ultimate field trial. Speaking of whom, there she was.
Grumpy had just stepped out of her front door and it looked like she was going to do some gardening. James liberally applied his scent all over himself and set off. He adjusted his angle of entry to seem as if he was just coming out of his aunt's driveway and stopped by Grumpy's picket fence.
"Hello, Mrs. Madsen!" he greeted as cheerfully as he could.
She looked up from her work and he could see a momentary look of annoyance pass across her face before she caught herself.
"Hello, James. Here to visit Carla?" she asked. (Carla was his aunt.)
"Yes. I had to drop something off."
"I see," she replied. "Well, good to see you."
She went back to her work dismissing him.
"Do you mind if I ask you a question?" prompted James. He wasn't going to gotten rid off that easily.
She sighed audibly. But she looked up at him again. "Not at all. What did you want to ask?"
"Do you have a degree in Physics?" he asked lowering his voice.
"What?"
He repeated himself without raising his voice. He needed her closer for Adam to work.
Exasperated, Mrs. Madsen removed her gloves and came to stand near her gate on the other side of the fence from James.
"Do I have a what?" she asked him again.
"Do you have a degree in Physics, Mrs. Madsen?" James asked again leaning forward.
"Of course I do. Why?" she asked pointedly.
He wasted some time as he parked his bike and came to stand next to her across the fence.
"Is that what you wanted to study?" he asked.
"Yes, of course. Well, I actually preferred to study History. But I thought that Physics would be more beneficial in the long run. I did like the subject."
"What would you do if you had the chance to make that decision again?" he pressed. "Would you still choose Physics over History?"
She took a deep breath. Was it beginning to work?
"What is this all about, James?"
"My Dad wants me to change majors and I don't want to."
"Hmm," she murmured as she regarded him thoughtfully. She was inhaling and exhaling deeply now.
James reckoned that he had her. He feigned a cough and forced himself to cough repeatedly.
This woke Mrs. Madsen up. "You'd better come in and have a glass of water," she said, opening the gate.
Still coughing, James hurriedly nodded his thanks and wheeled his bike in. He then went inside a teacher's house for the first time in his life.
Mrs. Madsen got him a glass of water from the kitchen and asked him to sit down on the couch. She seated herself across from him.
As he drank from the glass, James glanced at his host. Short and in her early forties, Grumpy was typically bespectacled, and while she preferred a severely tight hair-do when she was teaching, she had (literally) let her hair down today. He hadn't really concentrated much on her chest before and this, he reasoned, was understandable as she wasn't blessed in that department. But that said, he could see her chest rising and falling as she breathed deeply. She did seem to have a nice figure, albeit a naturally skinny one as opposed to a gym-toned one. James noted her rather average angular face, but with large eyes decorated with long eyelashes. She was wearing a demure top and a pair of loose shorts for the garden.
While James was discreetly, or so he thought, scrutinising her, Mrs. Madsen was doing the same to him. She had no idea why, but she found James' presence both unsettling and intriguing. He seemed to have an aura about him today that she found magnetising. He was a gangly teen, but smart for his age. From all accounts he did very well at school. Funny how she had never noticed how dark his eyes were. Oddly enough, his brown hair was a perfect match for his cargo shorts. He was also wearing a shirt over his T-shirt and had left all the buttons open.
Mrs. Madsen realised that she was staring but could not tear her eyes away from James. She realised that he was looking her over too and squirmed in her seat.
James placed the glass on the coffee table.
"Feeling better?" she asked him.
"Yes, thanks."
"That's good," she said bending forward to collect his glass.
As she came closer, James noted that her pupils were slightly dilated and that her breathing rate had gone up. She was inhaling deeply. Noisily. She seemed like she was primed and ready to go. He decided to see if his hunch was right.