I decided to sample on of the vials. I mean, they were ointments, meant to be but on the skin. What harm could they do?
Being unable to decide on a color, I finally picked th rainbow vial. After all, it had as many colors as possible.
I took the vial, walked to the bathroom and took a shower. After climbing out and drying off, I rubbed the rainbow ointment into my arms, over my chest, and on my face.
I went through the rest of the as usual-studied, played Donkey Kong Country and Super Smash brothers with Eric, cooked supper, then went to bed.
I woke up, half asleep, and walked clumsily to the bathroom. The showered again, then toweled myself dry and started brushing my hair.
That's when I noticed a big clump of hair in the brush.
I was now wide awake. After taking out the clump, brushed again and saw another clump. Then another.
Panic seized me. Baldness ran in my family; my dad and both my grandfathers were bald so I knew it could happen to me. But I didn't expect it for years and years. Quickly I wiped the steam from the mirror, and gasped at my reflect. Now my hair was the least of my concerns.
For I had a little red nose.
It wasn't much just a red dot on the very tip of my nose. But the red was spreading, and and soon my entire nose would be red.
Alarmed I ran out of the bathroom, the towel still around my waist. "Eric!" I cried.
"What is it Josh?" Eric stepped out of his bedroom and rubbed his eyes. When he opened them, they went wide. "Josh, WHAT the f--k happed to you?"
"I don't know!" I cried. "I just took a shower, and now my hair's falling out, and I've got a red no-ah ah AH AH AH AH_CHOO!" I sneezed.
Eric's eye went even wider. "Now you've got a BIG red nose!" I reached up, and felt a round perfect sphere, nearly as big as a tennis ball. "That's a neat trick, how are you doing it?"
"I'm not doing it-ha ha ha," I laughed involuntarily. "I don't know what hap-ha ha-happening-ha ha-to he Ha Ha Ha Ha HA HA HA. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"