Wiping his brow Louis now surveyed the grounds of the retirement home. For over 10 years the grounds keeper had maintained the flowers, plants, and trees adorning the home, with the weather finally warming he now examined the grounds. "Well the flowers could use some work," he mumbled. "And I'll have to mow but other than that not too shabby." Pausing, he now glanced at the tree growing nearby.
"Dont remember you," he stated rubbing his chin. Examining the tree he could see it appeared relatively young and in good health. "You look like you're growing pretty good. Let's see if I can help that along." Grabbing a hose, Louis now grabbed his trusty can of Miracle Grow as he now doused the tree in fertilizer.
For Andrew and Kyle there visit to the sauna was proving to be far more awkward than either man had realized. After sharing an awkward kiss both men had pulled away, their faces red and becoming redder under the intense heat. Wipong his brow, Andrew now cautiously glanced at Kyle.
It was curious but Kyle appeared more toned than only a moment before. Studying him carefully he noted a more defined and flatter stomach with more definition in his bulky biceps. Findings himself a tad more comfortable pointing out a man's physique than actually being with a man, Andrew now decided to complement him. "I think you might have been on to something with the sauna," Andrew stated. "Check yourself out. You have a washboard stomach."
"I was going to say the samethjng sir," Kyle replied. "I had no idea you had an actual six pack." Surprised Andrew now stood, shocked at the definition of his muscles.
An actual six pack, Andrew hadn't sported one of those in years. After passing 30 he had slowly but surely lost his abs, replaced by a solid yet middle aged physique. "Your right, " he stated in awe chuckling he now turned to Kyle, the two men a bit more comfortable talking about their workout regiment.
As the conversation continued, Andrew felt not only a tremendous surge of energy but an uneasy feeling wash over him. Kyle's face looked smoother, less rugged than when they had entered the sauna. The formerly 40 year old man now looked like he could go a day or two without shaving. If Andrew had been told to guess the man's age, he would have lut him closer to 20 than 40.
A slight panic now began to build inside Andrew. Had the tree made them even younger? Trying not to appear worried, Andrew now touched his own face, shocked at its touch. "Feels like I could skip out on shaving too, " he thought.
Andrew now tried to study himself and Kyle as his companion continued to talk. His muscles were definitely more defined. While still bulky, they no longer had that middle age bulk to them. Andrew now possessed the body of a body builder. A body he had so cherished in his physical prime.
Looking at Kyle only made Andrews heart drop. Kyles faces appeared to be on the precipice between boy and man. No longer was his thick chocolate hair receding, instead it now cascaded down his scalp resting along his defined shoulders. Andrew would now describe him as boyish handsome, a candidate for big man, on a college campus.
"My god," Andrew thought in alarm. "He looks barely 20!" Doing some quick math in his head, Andrew now calculated the age difference between the two men. Obviously they were still growing younger, however, before he had planted the tree he had been 45 while Kyle had been 40.
"If he's 20," Andrew thought. "Then I can't be more than 25." The business man now shuddered, 25 and quite possibly younger than that. In the corporate world he would be a mere boy trying to fit in with the more established men. How could he run a business if he looked fresh out of business school?
Andrew now began to worry, gazing at his friend and wondering what his next move should be.