As Ty and Kent lay on their towels, Ty considered one more adjustment to the statue, in order to lure more people to look at it and to touch it.
“The statue needs a little inscription… Hmmm” he wondered. Then he used his powers to magically inscribe some text on the base of the stand, just below where the statue’s feet were standing.
Welcome to Sam’s Beach;
Where we offer sun, sand and much, much more.
Touch my muscles and you’ll be feeling great;
You’ll leave here feeling better than you’ve ever felt before.
“There… Now, let’s see what happens…” Ty chuckled, as he placed his head on the towel and closed his eyes.
One of the local teens, a boy named Jared, walked off the street with his towel around his neck. When he first stepped on the white beach sand of Sam’s beach, he immediately greeted the old man, who sat at the counter by the old, wooden concession stand.
“Hi Sam, how are ya?”
“Good!” Sam replied. “Today’s a nice day for a swim!”
“Yeah, I’m gonna dive in right away and… Oooh what have we here?” the boy said, the moment he spotted the statue.
He walked up to the statue of Kent and stared at it.
“Wow! He looks cool!”
“Yes! I just got it!” Sam explained.
“Who is it? Where did you get it from?” Jared asked him.
“I got it as a gift from one of my clients…”
“Oh… It has an inscription on the bottom…”
Jared was about 5 foot 6, and he was athletic but skinny. He wasn’t muscular at all, but he looked like a surfer, with black, short, straight hair and blue eyes. He bent down so he could read the inscription out loud.
Welcome to Sam’s Beach;
Where we offer sun, sand and much, much more.
Touch my muscles and you’ll be feeling great;
You’ll leave here feeling better than you’ve ever felt before.
“That is so cool!” Jared said, as he immediately pulled his cell phone out of his pocked, and dialed a few of his friends.
“Hey… You gotta come over to Sam’s Beach… He has this coolest statue of some muscle kid… I’m serious… Yeah! Yeah, surf’s great today… The waves are awesome… It’s windy but not too bad… I haven’t gotten in the water yet, but I’ll call you back after I’ve gone for my first swim, okay? Okay… Later… Bye.”
Jared hung up the phone and placed his towel on the sand along with his soft bag. Then he walked back to the statue and felt the urge to touch Kent’s chest. As soon as Jared reached out and touched Kent’s pectorals with his fingers, he felt a slight tingling sensation through his body.
“What the heck was that?”
Suddenly, Ty’s enchantment started to work on Jared’s muscles. His arms thickened just a little, but enough for anyone to notice that his biceps had increased a little. His chest filled out a bit, and his abdominals hardened just enough to be noticeable. His quads grew harder and thicker, and his calves pushed out by half an inch. It wasn’t much, but he definitely felt his muscles grow!
“Holy mackerel!” Jared gasped, as he looked down at his legs and arms. He immediately ran into the small building, where the restrooms were located, so he could examine his reflection in the mirror.
“The inscription on the statue was no joke!” he whispered to himself. “I must have gained a few pounds of muscle!”
He quickly ran out of the restroom and ran towards the towel, where his soft bag was. There, he fished his cell phone out of the bag, and frantically dialed the number of his friend, Shaun.
“Hey… Dude… Get over here… I touched this cool, new statue… and I gained ten pounds of muscle… I’m serious! Oh come on… I’m not making it up! Fine, you’ll believe me when you see me… Okay… See you in a few… Bye.”
Jared hung up the phone and decided to dive in the ocean. After all, it was going to take Shaun a few minutes to get there, anyway. Who knows, he might bring his little brother with him.
In the meantime, Ty was able to overhear the conversation, since he was laying just a few feet away from where Jared was. He chuckled to himself.
“Pretty soon Sam’s Beach will be filled with muscle kids and he’ll have the most popular beach in town…” he laughed to himself. “And all these kids are gonna touch the statue of Kent in order to feel their muscles grow…”
Who was going to touch the statue next?