"No," Josh said. "Actually, I was hoping to speak to you."
"Oh. Right." Jake almost dropped the glass jar of coffee grinds onto the counter-top but made a last-minute save. Was Josh mad at him after all? Had he somehow figured out the secret of the watch? Had he liked what he had seen last night and come over in the hopes Jake might feel the same way? Jake was suddenly aware that he was naked apart from a woman's bathrobe. "Erm, how can I help."
"Well, last night, while we were, um, measuring, I got a really weird feeling in my junk. Like, really cold. And then it was smaller."
"Smaller?" Jake said cautiously. "Well, cold can make you smaller. But if you want a rematch I don't think-"
"No," Josh said, "you're not getting it. It's still smaller. I'm normally bigger than this. Okay, I admit I'm not nine inches, but I was eight, or pretty close. We should at least have been even."
Actually, Jake, thought, the watch said you were over eight. A devilish thought entered his mind.
"Maybe you measured differently," Jake said. "I know I can add another couple of inches to mine if I measure from the side." He came back into the sitting room and gave Josh his coffee. He didn't sit down, hoping the taller man would get the hint.
"No way," Josh said. "I'm worried - should I go see a doctor? I mean, could it be cancer, or something?"
Jake tried to suppress a chuckle. "No, man, it's probably just performance anxiety. You think it's gonna be smaller, so it is smaller. You've got nothing to be worried about - you're almost as long as me."
"Yeah, but..."
"Just a second. Gonna get changed. You drink your coffee."
Jake carefully opened the bedroom door just enough to slip in and rummaged through the sheets for the watch, eventually finding it twisted up in the duvet. He pointed it through the door into the living room and thumbed 'Settings'. The display shifted until it read '7.0' - the size Jake had last left Josh. He could restore the bodybuilder to his old size right now - or he could do something else.
His finger hovered over the '^' button.