(A bit more "lore" in my universe where an illegal fountain of youth drug is available to the public. All characters are and remain over eighteen years of age)
I was home from college for the summer. Being my first week back, I planned to go out and reacquaint myself with the nightlife of my hometown. Mom, unfortunately, had other plans in the form of hosting a week-long family get-together. Being the reliable son that I am, I was expected to help her with the hosting duties. Our guests were Grandma Ruth, Aunt Agatha, Aunt Rani, and her daughter Rian.
Though I was happy to see all of them, I really was looking forward to seeing Rian again. She and I were what you might call "kissing cousins." And by "kissing," I mean bouncing up and down on my lap at a drive-in movie. Unfortunately, probably considering that our house would be packed, the opportunities for us to sneak off somewhere and have some fun without getting caught would be zero.
Or so I thought.
Everyone arrived early Friday afternoon. By the evening, we had ordered a pizza and had a pool party. That is, if you could call it a party. It was only slightly more lively than a funeral. The only real upside was sneaking peeks at Rian's cute little ass in her bikini.
Mind-numbing 90s pop-country music from a Bluetooth speaker provided a mediocre ambiance. Despite being at the pool, only Rian and I actually did any swimming. We tried to get the others to join us; swimming by yourself isn't a lot of fun, but they were content just to sun themselves in the deck chairs or sit under the circular table beneath the parasol. Eventually, even Ri abandoned me to sit with the others, and I followed soon after.
"So," Rian said, standing up suddenly during a lull in the conversation. "Who wants margaritas?"
"Are you still bartending on the weekends in that bar near campus?" my mom asked Ri.
"Oh, off and on. I have a lot of irons in the fire. So... is that a yes on the drinks?"
"Okay. Just make sure to go easy on the tequila," Aunt Rani told her daughter. "Some of us aren't as young as we used to be."
Rian pointed at me. "Yo, David. I need your college boy muscles to help me deliver the drinks."
I shrugged, "Sure." When she got up, I followed after, catching another gaze of her little butt.
Once in the kitchen, Rian groaned and slumped against the porcelain countertop of the island.
"Oh my god, this is soooo boring," Rian said, putting her face in her hands.
"It's... not that bad. It's nice to catch up."
Her brows knit together.
I put my hands up. "Okay, yep. That was a complete lie. It's pretty bad."
"Hold on." Rian stepped out of the kitchen and returned a moment later with her duffel bag. "So... what would you say if I had something that could make this party a little more interesting."
"Knowing you?" I crossed my arms. "I'd be a little concerned."
"Asshole. But I'm serious." Rian unzipped the bag and pulled out an unlabeled pill bottle. She unscrewed the cap and shook a few pink pills out onto the countertop.
Leaning in to get a better look, I saw that each round pill had twelve small ridges placed equidistant from one another and another two longer ridges in the center, giving it the appearance of a clock.
It all clicked; I knew exactly what they were. An illegal street drug called Renew, or more commonly Nus. When taken, it will temporarily make a person younger not only in body but in mind as well. It won't wipe out a person's memories of being older, but it does come with a definite attitude adjustment, which is one of the reasons they are very illegal.
I pushed myself off the table so hard that I nearly tripped backward.
"Jezus, Ri. Nus? Are you fucking serious? Don't you know how illegal these are? Where did you even get these."
Rian crossed her arms. "Okay, seriously? Coming from the guy who sold me pot all the way through high school?"
"That's... okay, that's a fair point. But that doesn't answer my other question. Where did you even get these?"
Rian gestured to herself. "Um, hello. Biochem Major, remember?"
"Wait, so you mean you made these?"
Rian nodded. "Yeah. I sell them. Have to pay for tuition somehow."
"Fuck me. My cousin is Walter fucking White. Okay, sure. Fine. So how exactly do you plan on using these to liven up this party?"
A sly, devious smile stretched over Rian's face. She gestured with her chin at the window where both our mothers, aunt, and grandmother sat by the pool.
"What? No... no way! You aren't serious, right?"
"Totally serious. This party would be a lot more fun with people our own age, yeah?"
"I... guess. But okay. So you dose them and bring them down to our age. That's fine for now. I guess they might even enjoy it. But when it wears off, and they remember what we did, we would be in so much trouble."
"I already thought of that. Biochem Major, remember? I've tweaked the recipe."
"Tweaked it how?" I asked, though I don't know if I was ready to hear the answer.
"Well, it already does the personality changes, right? I just made that a little stronger. When it wears off, anything that happens while they are on it will be filed away as a mostly forgotten memory and will be rolled into some event that happened earlier in their lives when they were originally at whatever ages we set them at. That's what my tests show, anyway. I call this new drug Nus-X."
"Okay, well, that's a stupid name. But you tested it. I'll be honest, Ri I still don't think..."
That's when Rian hooked her thumbs under the straps to her top and pulled her black bikini top up, and revealed her perfect little tits. They were B-cups, barely, with cute little dime-sized nipples.
"Got your attention? Good. I know that you wanted to get your hands on these this weekend. Unfortunately, you aren't going to get a chance with the aunt brigade in every corner of this house. With my idea, they will probably be slightly more... relaxed on things like that."
I closed my eyes and sighed. Were I thinking properly, I might have said no. Unfortunately, my blood started to flow to the wrong head. "Okay. So they won't remember?"
"Nope."
"Y-yeah, fine. Let's do this!"
Rian pumped her fist in the air. "Yes! Okay. First off. I need to use your weird brain. I know you know how old everyone is. I'd like to keep this an eighteen-plus party, so I must get the doses right."
I have an eidetic memory. Of course, being a student in the medical field, she knows what that is. But she likes to make fun of me for it whenever she can.
"Yeah. Okay. Well, your mom is forty-two."
"I already know how old my mom is, genius."
"Fine. My mom is forty-four."
"Okay."
"And Aunt Agatha is thirty-eight."
Rian had pulled a piece of paper and pen out of her bag and was already scribbling down a bunch of math involving ages and milligrams that made no sense to me as a computer tech major.
"And Grandma Ruth?" she asked.
"Wait, what? You're going to dose grandma?"
To make her point, she pulled up the left side of her top to reveal a tit.
"Sixty-two. She's sixty-two," I answered.
With all of the numbers written down and her formulas figured out, she pulled an honest-to-god mortar and pestle from her backpack and went to work on crunching up four sets of pills. From the amount that went into each dose, I had a fairly good idea of which dose went to which of my relatives.
"So, how much are you giving them? I mean, how young are they going to get."
With a devious smile, Rian shrugged. "You'll have to wait and see. The surprise is part of the fun."
After that, Rian started blending up the actual margaritas and poured them out into six glasses. Into four of them, she poured the ground-up pills and mixed them in. With each one, she said the name of the person it goes to.
"I know you won't forget because you have that weird brain. But it's important that the right glass gets to the right person to get the doses right, understand?"
"Yeah, okay. Let's just get this over with before I change my mind." I loaded the drinks up onto a serving platter and lifted it up on my palm.
When we walked outside, the ladies cheered when they saw the drinks.
"Is everything okay? You were in there a while," Mom asked.
Rian pointed at me. "Yeah, klutz dropped the first batch. Had to make a new set.
I handed out each glass, making sure to get the right glass to each person. When I handed mom's glass to her, I hesitated and didn't let go.
"Uh, honey? Can I have my drink, please?" Mom asked.
"Huh? What? Oh, sorry! My mind was elsewhere," With a bit of internal turmoil, I relinquished the glass.