“Yeah,” Jordan said slyly. “You’ve always been very nice.”
“Why thank you,” Toby said almost blushing at the compliment.
“Take of your shirt,” Jordan ordered.
“Why?” Toby asked. He now looked a bit awkward. Jordan must not have phrased his sentence correctly.
“You will take off your shirt,” Jordan tried.
“Sure,” Toby said as if everything was understood. As quickly as he could he took off his shirt and set it folded into the table. Toby was not very attractive. His skin was pale and dainty. His muscles (or more appropriately his lack of them) looked like he never went through puberty.
Jordan felt badly. Here the boy stood, not caring but not attractive.
“You’ve always been very attractive,” Jordan said. “Twice as attractive as Hugh.”
As Toby nodded in agreement, his chest smoothed before ballooning back outwards. He grew taller, his face more manly. His arms swelled, his posture improved. A tear and his pants must have torn underneath. The new attractive Toby let out a huge yawn and stood up. He had to lean down in the small apartment, which had to be only 12 feet. Jordan thought that since Hugh was 7 feet, Toby must be 14.
And there he stood in nothing but boxers. Toby looked down at himself before apologizing.
“I’m very sorry Jordan,” Toby said. “I hadn’t realized that I forgot to put on pants.”
“It’s fine,” Jordan blurted out. “Since you don’t wear anything anyways.”
With that accidental phrase, Toby’s boxers fell off of him and sat at his feet. There he stood in all his glory.
“Yeah,” Toby said looking over himself absentmindedly. “I guess no one has ever cared too much.”
Jordan was giddy with his excitement. He whispered under his breath, “Every time Toby hears a word with the letter E in it, he will expand outwards.”
“What did you say?” Toby asked. He stomped over to Jordan and sat down, still slightly taller than Jordan. “Never mind.”
Even though Toby had said it, his body seemed to vibrate and then as if using a photo editor expanded outwards. Toby took no notice, but Jordan sure did.
“Let’s go to the park,” Jordan suggested. As Toby stood up to follow him out the door, he vibrates again and grew slightly. Where before he had to simply move his head, he had to lean his whole body slightly forward. The two left the dorm, one normally and the other crawling out of it sideways.