Author's Notes: Hello everyone! If you're reading this for the first time, welcome! If you're a returning visitor and thinking "What the hell happened to this story?", don't worry. Long story short, I was unhappy with the way that my newest story was going, because I was limited by the standards that I had already set in my previous stories. Therefore, I decided to go back and change my other stories. This new version features many plot changes, with some new parts added in and other parts taken out. The main difference is that I switched the drugs from being a syringe to a pill since it seemed kinda ridiculous that nobody in these stories has a problem with needles.
Aside from that, normal story rules still apply: All characters are fictional, all characters involved in sex are 18 or older, etc.
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Kailee laid on her bed, holding a small glass with a blue liquid inside. Well, the liquid itself wasn't actually blue; it was just water, with the blue pill that had formerly been sitting at the bottom of the glass having finally dissolved after almost an hour. Kailee had a problem with swallowing pills, so she was thankful that it was dissolvable.
She had been waiting a long time for this Friday night. Her parents were out of town to be at a friend's wedding, and she was 99% pretty sure her sister wouldn't be home for awhile either.
So, of course, who else but her sister Jenna came into the room unannounced just as she was about to drink the solution. Kailee tried futilely to hide the glass behind her back without spilling it, but Jenna spotted it right. "Um, what is that?" she asked.
"Nothing!" Kailee replied. It was probably the worst answer she could have given, but it was all she could think of.
"Yeah, sure looks like nothing." Jenna said with an eye roll. "Don't tell me you've started taking drugs. I don't know what that stuff is, but it probably isn't good for you if you're not telling me what it is."
"Actually, it IS good for me- and why are you even home?" Yes, that was it, put Jenna back on the defensive!
"Because Jalen had to go to Solo Ensemble this weekend and she didn't bother telling me." Again, the eye roll. "You aren't that great at deflecting questions, you know that? Now can you tell me what you're hiding behind your back?"
Kailee was hesitant. If she didn't tell Jenna, if she just pushed Jenna out of her room, locked the door, and tried to deflect her questions all weekend, she would surely tell her parents when they got back, and that was the last thing Kailee wanted to happen. Maybe, just maybe, if Kailee told her, if she showed her, then she might keep quiet.
"Alright... will you promise not to tell Mom and Dad?"
"Well, I don't know. If it's serious, I might have to."
This was the answer Kailee had been expected. She knew her twin, though, and so she was sure that once Jenna saw this, she was almost sure to keep her mouth shut.
"Ok..." Kailee pulled out the glass, wiping away a little bit of liquid that had spilled over the side. She could tell that Jenna was both confused and scared of its blue contents. "This is a pill that I bought online, and I received the package about a week ago. I was waiting for our parents and you to be gone so I could use it."
"So you're saying that it IS dangerous?"
"Supposedly not. Assuming the website I got these from wasn't a complete sham - and I have my suspicions about that - then this... well, I don't really understand the complicated science behind it, but basically, it replaces your body's cells with new ones to slow down aging.
Jenna was definitely confused by this. "Um, how does replacing your cells slow down aging? Is it even possible to slow down aging?"
"Well, you know how our body's cells have been replicating quadrillions of times since we were born? Well, over time, some of those cells become defective, and while a few cells out of trillions isn't a big deal, those cells will then replicate, and create even more defects." Kailee explained slowly, "Eventually, those cells will become so defective over the decades that they'll stop reproducing altogether, and that's how people die of "old age" or "natural causes". What this drug does is take your cells and perfects those defects, basically resetting them, which somehow slows down your aging- or at least that's what I understood from the description. 'Make a forty-year-old look like barely twenty', that was the slogan."
Jenna stood there, clearly confused. "But that's not how cells work! How does resetting their defects slow down aging? This is clearly a scam, Kailee, and you- wait a minute, how much did you PAY for this?!"
Kailee's face reddened, but said nothing; she had payed a large amount of the money she been saving up over the years.
"Damn it, Kailee, you've made stupid mistakes before, but this has to be the biggest! What were you thinking?"
"The reviews, or at least some of them, looked like they were real people." Kailee said as she tried to keep her cool; she had never expected to have this conversation after all. "They claimed it had worked for them. Now, some of these reviews were complete bullshit, claiming that this 'superdrug' did a lot more than just slow aging. I didn't have to read them to know to just tune those out."
"Ok, let's assume that's true. Why wouldn't put a drug like this- one that can slow aging, for God's sake- be everywhere right now?" Jenna countered. "Wouldn't everyone be clambering over everyone else to try to get some of this?"
Kailee paused for a moment, before replying "I think you just answered the question yourself."
"Wait, what?"
"Think about it; common sense would show that if everyone heard about this miracle drug, everyone would want it, and the suppliers would surely never be able to make enough for everyone willing to buy it- and that's not even counting the poor people who can't afford it who would probably try to steal some or something. Even if they did make enough, it would cause some serious moral and societal issues, and so the best course of action would be to keep the drug as hidden as possible while charging a high price, so that they could still make a profit off of whoever does find it. Besides, if the drug was a sham, or was even harmful, their customers would have no reason to keep quiet about their product, which is exactly what the producers don't want."
"Well, ok.. I guess that makes sense..." said Jenna. "But that doesn't mean that we know its safe."
"Hey, if you're so unsure, why don't you watch?" countered Kailee. "If something happens, you can get help."
Jenna was about to reply that her being there wouldn't make a difference if it killed her, but then stopped herself; clearly, Kailee had made up her mind, and nothing short of physical force would stop her. "Alright, fine... but are you sure that the pill still works when its dissolved? Not all pills work like that."
"Yeah, the package came with instructions. It works when dissolved, and it's all ready to go. The only thing to do now..." Kailee said as she leaned back onto her bed. "Is to just... do it, I guess."
"Ok..." Jenna was still uncertain about this, so she asked "Are you SURE about this?"
"Yes, I'm sure."
"Alright... go ahead."
Kailee sat on her bed for a moment, staring at the contents of the glass. She then closed her eyes, sighed, and quickly gulped down its contents.
For a moment, neither girl moved, both waiting for something to happen. "Feel anything yet?" asked Jenna.
"No, not yet."
"Do you know what's SUPPOSED to happen?"
"I, uh... no, I don't. All I know is that something is supposed to- wait a minute, I feel something..."
"What?" asked Jenna, with a mix of anxiety and curiosity in her voice. "What do you feel?"
"I don't know..." replied Kailee, looking at and lightly rubbing a spot on her lower left arm. "It feels... strange, I guess."
"Oh gee, thanks Captain Obvious-"
Suddenly, the area of skin changed color, becoming slightly more toned and smooth. This change then started spreading slowly outwards, no more than a centimeter per second.
Needless to say, both Kailee and Jenna were extremely freaked out about this. "Oh my God! This is NOT okay! We need to get help!" Jenna said as she frantically looked around the room for something that might help.
"No, wait!" Kailee said without taking her eyes off the skin. "It doesn't hurt, and I don't think a doctor can help me anyways."
Jenna couldn't have disagreed more, but seeing as this change was going too fast for anyone else to come help, she did nothing.
The change went up and down Kailee's arm (neither of them realized at the time, but the change was also affecting the cells under her skin as well), and suddenly Kailee had a look of terror on her face. "Uhhhhh... I can't feel my lower arm now." If she didn't have second thoughts about this before, she sure did now.
The change picked up pace, and soon reached her neck, and suddenly Kailee found that she couldn't move or feel the rest of her body. As the change went up her face, her face began to freeze, and she finally went unconscious once it reached her brain.
Jenna, who had completely lost it at this point and had no idea what the hell was happening to her sister, tried to wake her up by shaking her, but that didn't do anything. She was about to call 911 when Kailee regained consciousness. By this point, the change had covered her torso and most of her right arm.