“Hey, Kyle! Come check this out! They got a muscle belt on sale over here!” Eric shouted, as he glanced over at a nice, thick leather belt which was rolled up and placed inside of a plastic box on the shelf. The two teens were wandering around the magic shop when Eric, the nerdier sixteen-year-old, spotted the strange item and picked it up. “It even comes with an app, which you need to install! Why would you need an app to use a belt?”
The clerk walked up to the two boys. The old man, who looked like he just came from China, strolled up to Kyle, who was short and stocky. Kyle was more of a jock, who loved sports, while Eric was the bigger nerd, who was into computers and video games.
“The belt works on Wi-Fi and requires an app, which you can install on your smartphone. You can control your muscle settings with the app. Are you boys interested in trying out this item? It is a brand new, upgraded version of our muscle belt, which had been out for many years already.” The man said.
Kyle was a little more skeptical about the functionality of the muscle belt where Eric was more excited. In fact, he had already downloaded and installed the app, and he was reading the instructions.
“Dude! With this thing, I can add more muscle to your frame, and shrink you back later! You can have the biggest legs during soccer and the biggest arms during wrestling practice! This looks amazing! You should get this!” Eric grinned, showing Kyle the app as it was already running on his iPhone.
“What? Who says this thing really works?” Kyle mumbled. “The only way to gain muscle is by lifting weights in the gym! No belt can do that for you!”
“May I give you an offer?” the Chinese man said calmly. “We’re running a special today. Normally, the muscle belt sells for $29.99 but I will let you have it for fifteen Dollars!”
“DUDE! Fifteen bucks!” Eric cheered. “Come on!”
“I don’t believe it! This is a scam!” Kyle grumbled.
“Here!” the man said, as he opened the plastic box, removing the belt and handing it to Kyle. “Go ahead and place this around your waist. Nice and tight!”
Kyle reluctantly took the belt and put it on, tightening the buckle so the belt fit nice and snug around his waist. Then, he tapped a small On-and-Off-button, which was near the edge of the belt buckle.
Eric glanced at the app on his phone as the Chinese man told him to register the app first, and to enter the secret product ID code for the belt, which Kyle was wearing. Once he had done that and the app was activated, Eric’s app was presented with several options on his screen. It listed a long range of muscles and muscle groups, and each group or muscle name had a green slider bar next to it, which he could adjust with his finger. He could make any bar longer or short.
“Oh, let’s try the one next to biceps…” Eric whispered.
The buckle on Kyle’s belt lit up, giving a blue color, as it received instructions from Eric’s cell phone. Next, Kyle felt his arms tingle a bit. He gasped as he looked on, only to see his biceps gradually increase in size, right before his very eyes! Kyle’s biceps suddenly grow much bigger, harder and thicker, ballooning into huge mounds of rock-solid muscle, as Eric looked on with a wide grin on his face.
“Ohhh, YEAH baby! I made your guns grow!” Eric cheered.
“Holy shit!” was all Kyle could say, as he felt his arms become much bigger and heavier, all thanks to Eric and his smartphone app, which now had complete control over his muscles!
“YASSS! I’m buying it!” Eric cheered, as he handed the Chinese man his credit card.
The boys walked to the front counter where the Chinese man rang up the sale and presented Eric with the receipt.
Kyle wanted to remove the muscle belt, but the belt buckle release wouldn’t come off and he was unable to switch it off using the power switch.
“Only I can unlock the belt around your waist, and I am the only one who has control over the power switch!” Eric smiled, as the two boys walked out of the magic shop.
“Uhh… How long am I supposed to wear this thing?” Kyle asked his friend.
“As long as I tell you. In the meantime, I wanna try out some more things with this belt! Let’s see what all this thing can do!” Eric chuckled as he looked over the app on his phone. Suddenly, an entire new screen popped up on the app, presenting Eric with a long list of options. The belt could do a lot more than just grow Kyle’s muscles!