As had become my morning routine, I stood naked in the front of the mirror and studied myself. In just a few days, thanks to the miracle drug Potentialli, my body had transformed from a disgusting, overweight couch potato into a majestic Renaissance statue. I could have been the model of Michelangelo's David, if David also had a huge penis. Maybe I was being narcissistic, but I spent a few moments tracing the veins of my arms.
"It's a pretty magnificent body, Dan." My wife Sarah came into the bathroom and hugged me around the waist. Her head reached the middle of my chest, and she gently kissed my defined pecs. "Can you do that thing where you flex each muscle independently? Yeah, like that. So hot." She ran her hand down my stomach and traced the length of my penis. "I'm never going to get used to this monster."
She looked up at me, a sly grin on her fast, her eyes bloodshot and baggy. "You wore me out, mister. Six times. I'm calling in sick so I can sleep off the Dan flu."
"That sounds great. I've been working from home, but I need to go in today for a meeting. I still haven't figured out what I'm going to tell the folks at work."
"Tell them the truth. There was a story about Potentialli on Sixty Minutes this weekend. A bunch of Senators' wives suddenly look like bikini models. It's nothing to be ashamed of." She snorted. "You're suddenly the hottest guy in the city, and you're embarrassed. Typical Dan. Go to work. Let me sleep. Then come home and wake me up." She slapped me on my bare ass and went to bed.
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As usual, Sarah was absolutely right about work. Everyone was happy for me, if a mix of jealous and weird about it. All day long, people made up excuses to come by desk, and more than one person "accidentally" bumped into me in the hallway. An intern challenged me to a pull-up contest, but gave up after thirty. I later found out that HR had to crack down on a private chat speculating on the size of my dick. Apparently, some actor had been bragging about the effect of Potentialli on his manhood on TikTok. He was the new lead candidate to be the next Batman.
Around three, I asked my manager if I could go home to check on my wife, but really, I was just getting bored. I had finished all my work for both today and tomorrow. I didn't want to get too far ahead or it would make the rest of the team look bad. Though I had not heard from Sarah all day. I had texted her at lunchtime but not gotten a response.