It took less time for the package to arrive than it had for him to examine the bottle, make sure that everything was in order from the factory seal still being intact to the official company logos and warnings on the product were correct.
The big delay now was getting up the nerve to go through with his plan.
It's been over a week now since it arrived. Why am I so scared? he wondered.
All his life, he had been a nerd.
From the day he first had to start wearing glasses in kindergarten to the moment when his fellow students realized that he'd rather read a text book than a comic book, Gerry had been different.
Video games didn't interest him, except for the educational ones.
Only classical music appealed to him.
Beyond PBS and the evening news, television seemed like a cultural wasteland.
But now all that would change if he just drank the contents of the bottle in his hands.
But do I dare?
Gerry had already started doing background research out of curiosity as to how TransFun could keep the promises they made when the ads first started when the catalyst, or more precisely: the final straw, happened.
At first he couldn't believe it when one of the ladies in his Senior Class asked him out on a date!
Gerry thought he was dreaming.
But Rose assured him she was interested in him, and would like to see Gerry socially.
The closer the moment to "the big night" came, the more nervous Gerry got, which was natural, considering he had never been out on a date before, let alone was also a virgin.
Granted, having a date didn't guarantee the other problem would be corrected, but it was a start.
Hopeful, Gerry went to the restaurant for the date, only to find Rose was already there with her boyfriend: the high school quarterback!
Gerry wasn't sure what was worse, that she had broken their date or had lied to him in the first place, but later decided what was really the worse part of that night was when he got home and a video of her turning him down and the quarterback threatening to kick his ass if Gerry didn't leave immediately had been posted on the Internet and was already going viral among local users was the last straw.
That night, Gerry thought about what he really wanted in life.
Not just all his hopes and dreams, but his secret desires as well, for despite his upbringing, there was one fantasy that Gerry hoped beyond all logical reason might be fulfilled one day.
Now the opportunity had come at last, if he could just find the courage to break the seal and drink the bottle's contents.
I've paid good money for this, he realized, for what he wanted cost Gerry almost a year's worth of his allowance savings.
Standing naked in front of the full length mirror in his bedroom, the door closed and locked despite the fact that his parents were out and about that Friday night, Gerry finally broke the seal and drank the contents of the small bottle in his palm down in one gulp.
Licking his lips in anticipation, Gerry stared at his mirror image as the changes began.
Soon I'll be...