“Okay.” Jake said definitively, “What happened to you?”
“I don’t know.” I replied.
“Okay, well, let me look at you fully.”
“Huh?” What the heck does he mean? I thought
“You know. C’mon, shirt, shoes, off.”
“Are you crazy” I exclaimed.
“Dude, do it.” Reluctantly, after about five minutes of arguing, I pulled the new shirt I had bought off. None of my old clothes fit me anymore.
“Mhmm, mhmm” He poked my stomach with his fist. Naturally, Jake wanted to be a doctor so I guess I am his first patient. “Just as I thought. Bodybuilder physique, 3 inch growth spurt. You did something, didn’t you?” I put my shirt back on and looked away, and then a mischievous smile crept onto Jake’s face. “Tell me.”
“Tell you what!? I don’t even know what happened. I just found this green box in the woods and touched it.”
“What box?”
“Here, look for yourself.” I pulled the box out of my dresser and showed it to him. However, the box didn’t look the same. It was no longer green but an orange colour.
“Dude, that is nowhere near green.”
“I swear! It was glowing green, and then when I took it here a fingerprint scanner appeared.” I looked over at Jake, but he seemed to be distracted by the box. When I looked at it, the same fingerprint scanner that had appeared for me in green now appeared to him in orange.
“What –“ Jake said.
“The –“ I followed.
“Hell.” We said in unison. Jake looked at me with a panicked expression.
“Should I touch it?” He said, eyes wide.
“How am I supposed to know?”
“Well, it turned you into the Hulk,” he said sarcastically. “Maybe it’ll turn me into Superman” Then, fast as lighting, he pressed his hand against the cube. Just like that, he began to look drowsy. “Help…” He said before passing out.
Then, something weird began to happen. He began to grow, taller and taller until he too was 6 foot. Then, Jake, who had always been a little fat, began to turn into a shredded muscle bag, just like me. Suddenly, he jolted awake and hit his head on my bed post
“Ow!” He shrieked.
“Dude! You were right!” We looked at each other, then into the mirror in my bedroom. After admiring ourselves for a few minutes, we sat down on my bed and got to thinking.
“Okay, what do we know of for sure?” Jake asked. Me, writing the facts on my note pad looked up at Jake.
“First of all, the box was green when I found it. Then, when you showed up, it turned orange.” I stated
“So maybe something we were unaware of happened.”
“Ryan? Jake? Are you two okay?”
Mom! I mouthed to Jake before calling downstairs, “Yea Mom, we’re fine!”
“Okay, well, I’m bringing you guys a snack.” She called up. What am I going to do! I thought Mom leaves before me! She hasn’t seen what I look like yet. Jake darted to the washroom and I went into the closet. Then mom opened the door.
“Are you- What are you doing in the closet.” She asked
“Oh, well, uh, I was, um, changing! And Jake was in here. I wanted some privacy so I went into the closet.”
“Okay then… Well here’s some water and some sandwiches. Bon appetite!” Once she was safely downstairs, Jake re-entered my room.
“Whew! That was close! We need to be more careful.” Jake said quietly
“Definetly.” I agreed, “Now where were we?”
“The facts.”
“Right. We know that, somehow, this cube turned us into these weird gym-rats.”
“And that we don’t know where it came from.” Jake continued. I went to reach for the box, then stopped abruptly. The box was pulsating colours. Green, then orange, then green again. Two fingerprint scanners had appeared, one green, the other orange.
“Well, let’s do it.” I said. When I looked at Jake he merely nodded. I put my finger on the green and his on the orange. Then I felt a sharp prick on my finger. When I pulled away, I noticed the box had taken a blood sample of Jake and I. Then the cube began to glow brightly. It was so bright me and jake had to turn away to avoid being blinded. When the light died down, all that was on the table was a simple USB stick.
“Plug it in.” Jake said to me. I pulled open my laptop and flung onto my desk chair. When I plugged it in and opened it there was only one file.
Truth.mp4
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