"So, Claire, you know I really like Mark. I know you and he did something to me and my gang. Ballet's not really my thing, but I got to know Mark a lot better. I just wanted to say thank you, and to ask if there was any way Mark and I could continue -uh- to be friends--actually more than friends," Steve Ontiveros said with wide shiny hopeful eyes.
"Well, Steve, I know you remember what happened, but you're back to normal, you're not--"
"Look, I've been attracted to Mark since our lockers were next to each other in Little League. I think I still have his jockstrap. I just couldn't admit it, until now. You and he somehow made it possible."
"Actually, it's the Chronivac, and it really isn't mine at all. I just helped."
"Could you help a little more?"
With a conspiratorial look in her eyes, Claire assented to Steve's request. She didn't see the gleam in his eyes, or notice him following her about a block behind as she went over to Jeff's house.
Steve peered through the window as she recovered the Chronivac from its hiding place and programmed in a more Steve friendly mindset for Mark. Now all she needed was to have him use the Chronivac, and when he was reset to his new baseline, he'd be amenable to Steve's advances. She returned the Chronivac, and waited until Jeff got home. Then she talked to him about Tony, and the planned camping trip as a pack of wolves. Steve grinned, as he spied from his hiding place in the bushes. When Jeff and Claire left, Steve's delinquint habits reasserted themselves, and he slipped into Jeff's room by forcing his window.
In about 20 minutes, Steve had aced the tutorials. He had revisited his original baseline, and modified it slightly. He then carefully editted every profile on file. He was going to make Mark his lover forever, and he was going to be accepted into Mark's circle of friends. His fingers sped over the keyboard. He even changed Jeff's memory to include that his window hadn't worked right for months. Steve snickered, as he added to Mark's profile a desire to bear children, he could imagine his Marky with a vagina under his nut sac, a fully functional hermaphrodite. With the Chronivac, Marky could make Steve's fantasy a reality. It was getting late. Steve heard a door close. He shut down the Chronivac, re-hid it, and slipped out the window, as the door knob turned...