Back at home, Molly's wicked smile didn't falter. Victor was taking the changes really well. He was well on his way to becoming a lifelong friend of the reincarnated Nellie. Molly chanted another spell to alter reality one step further. From this point on, no one on Earth minus herself, Miles, or Victor will be aware that Victor and Miles ever existed. Tendrils of the spell's all consuming magic raced all over the planet...
“Did you just feel that?” asked Miles as he passed Victor an Erlenmayer flask full of microbial cultures to set aside.
“Yeah, I'm feeling the good vibrations too, Miles!” said Victor, his cooped up energy was causing the new redhead to dance in place, shake his body, tap his feet on the floor to the beat of Hamilton numbers...and just never the sit the hell still.
Miles sighed. “That's not what I meant.”
Truth be told, Miles was now more worried than ever. Something had clearly happened to Victor in the time between him being alone bathroom and him sashaying into class. He knew that Victor was mysteriously turning into a girl alongside him, but now Victor was ACTING like a girl...a very silly, high energy, melodramatic girl. He was making all of these weird in-jokes and references to things that simply flew over Miles's head. He *kneworseat Victor didn't know a damn thing about Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson or the Pitch Perfect movies or My Fair Lady earlier this morning.
It was at that juncture when matters went from bad to worse.
“Oh great. Prepare yourself, Victor. Adam is heading in our general direction.”
Victor had been distracted writing down notes in his flowery new handwriting when he saw Adam Ford standing right next to him with a devilish smirk on his face.
“Hey there handsome!” said Victor in his girlish voice with no hint of fear or intimidation. “Excited about microbiology as much as Miles and I are?”
“Actually” said Adam in a faux-tough guy swaggering voice, “I think I like what I see in front of me a little more.”
Miles was cringing. He didn't know Adam very well, but he knew enough to know that Adam was a bit of a creep towards girls, and the fact that Miles just acknowledged that he was turning into a girl made him cringe even more.
Victor however was smiling at Adam's presence.
“I like what I see too, salty goodness! I think you're going to need to use a respirator after I'm through sucking up all that oxygen” Victor said, winking at Adam.
Miles's jaw dropped. It wasn't a theory anymore. There was seriously something wrong with Victor. Adam was hitting on him, and Victor was hitting on Adam BACK.
The two locked eyes for a moment.
“Oh, you're that kind of girl, huh? I like feisty girls. Especially ginger feisty girls.”
“I'll claw your eyes out if you're not careful” said Victor as he brushed his hand over Adam's scruffy hair.
“Are you always this freaking cute!?” asked Victor. “Look at those dimples. I could get lost in them! I'm going to have to start keeping you more company.”
“Is that a promise?” Adam asked, surprised that he had gotten this far. He thought for sure that Victoria was going to tell him to piss off like so many girls before had.
“My word is my bond. Face it tiger, you just hit the jackpot!”
Adam and Victor continued to flirt with each other throughout the rest of the class, Victor's seemingly haven blown Miles and their schoolwork off. Both Victor and Adam were becoming very touchy-feely with each other without being overtly sexual, with Victor doing things like sitting on his lap and posing in a seductive way as Adam had him backed up against the wall.
Miles rolled his eyes. He guessed that he would have to finish the lab experiment by himself.