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Chapter 13
"Guys? Are you here?" It was a familiar voice but obviously it could belong to one of two people. I took a peak over the edge and saw Luke and Sam standing in the clearing talking to each other. They'd obviously spotted our packs and knew we were around somewhere so we couldn't just hide.
"What do we do?" I asked Josh.
"Follow me." He replied with some urgency. We ran across the glade and I saw where the cliff face curved around away from the clearing but the foliage was much denser here. "We'll have to jump down here and walk back down to them." He jumped off the cliff and I heard a few branches break as he dropped down. I jumped as well but I clearly wasn't as graceful. I bounced and crashed through the branches as I made my way down and by the time I'd reached the ground I felt like Brandon's buddy who had clearly hit every branch on the ugly tree when he fell out of it. I saw Josh walking to the clearing ahead of me where he greeted the twins and I rushed to catch up.
I smiled at them as I made my way closer but for some reason they were looking at me with their mouths wide open, then I noticed Josh looking at me with a horrified expression.
"What the fuck?" Sam asked still looking shocked.
"What?" I asked looking down at my body, and then it hit me. I couldn't see my body past my pecs and I knew I'd made a big mistake. "Umm...would you believe I got stung by a bee?" I flashed a weak smile but I knew I'd blown it. I didn't know what to do; should I shrink back down or just stay like this and try to make out nothing was different?
"Ok, what the fuck is going on here?" Luke asked with a mixture of annoyance and awe. "There's no way you've been hiding that body in the few short weeks we've known you so what's the deal?" I looked to Josh for help as I really didn't know how to play it. He just sighed, started to grow himself and then tried to explain.
"I've got super strength and I can get buff, he sucked me off and now he can too. Any questions?" I had to admire his honesty but I was still unsure about how this would go down.
Sam then pointed at Josh and said. "Alright you, drop `em and get hard; I wanna look like that too!"
"Wait, you're not gay." Luke protested.
"I don't give a shit! I'd suck you off if it got me a body like that." I had to smile at his honesty as well.
"It doesn't work like that I'm afraid." Josh said and then explained how it was all down to his love for me when I drank his cum that transferred the power, but now his emotions were under control it wouldn't work anymore.
"Shit! So do you have any emotionally unbalanced cousins?" Sam asked hopefully but Josh just laughed and shook his head.
"You know you can't tell anyone about this, right?" I asked them.
"Well it's not really the sort of thing you bring up in polite conversation is it?" Sam answered. "We'll keep it secret, but can you shrink down a bit please, I'm starting to feel slightly emasculated." Both Josh and I went back to our regular size but I realised I'd left my shirt up in the glade.
"Watch this." I said as I prepared to jump up to the top of the cliff. I leapt up hoping I'd used enough power but slammed into the cliff face like a cartoon character splatting into a wall. I managed to get a purchase and climbed the rest of the way up, trying to hide my embarrassment as I heard the others laughing their asses off below. I grabbed my shirt and leapt back off the cliff to the ground, hoping I didn't make a fool out of myself again but thankfully my legs didn't betray me when I hit the ground. The twins were still laughing as I landed. "Shut up!! It's not as easy as it looks." I could still feel my face going bright red as they carried on laughing at me.
"How come you guys came up here anyway?" Josh asked.
"We were bored and wanted to see if Alex wanted to come out to play but his mum said he was up here in the forest, so we came up for a walk, then we noticed this pathway and decided to take a look as we'd never been this way before." Explained Luke.
"Did you guys do something to those huge trees down there?" Asked Sam. "They always seemed to block the way so we never knew this was here."
"Yeah, I moved them over a bit to make it easier to get up here. I probably should've moved them back to hide all this away." I answered. We spent the next hour or so bringing them up to speed on what had been happening between us and even gave them both piggy back rides to the top of the cliff. They saw the crumbled remains of the statues and I told them about my cathartic experience exorcising my demons. Both twins surprised me by hugging me and told me they never realised I was hurting so badly, and I explained that I didn't either.
"So how are you going to tell your parents tomorrow?" Sam wanted to know. "Are you going to surprise them like you did with us or tell them gently?"
"Honestly? I have no idea." I replied. "I was hoping his grandpa could break it to them but I think it's something I'll have to do myself."
"We could come round and give you some support, at least then they'll know they're not the only ones keeping the secret." Luke suggested.
"You just want some free food you greedy bastard!" Sam said with a smirk.
"If I have to eat a burger or two so I can support my friends then dammit I'll make that sacrifice." He replied. I loved that these guys were so supportive so we agreed to have them come along. We decided to head back down to the farm so I could phone my parents and ask about the barbecue. They agreed and we quickly worked out the details before I hung up. After that we took the twins over to see Josh's training room. They had the same reaction that I did when Josh first opened the door. They were expecting loads of destroyed junk but were surprised and impressed by the incredible sculptures he'd created. Luke even tried out the drums, amazing us with some skills he'd never told us about. Josh then took Sam into the house to see his comic collection, leaving me alone with Luke surrounded by the sculptures.
"So how are you feeling about all this now?" I asked.
"It's weird, I was freaked out before and I think Sam was too, but since we've been just talking I can tell that nothing's really changed. You're still the same guy we met on his first day in a new school and Josh is amazing now that he's starting to open up more. You've definitely hit the jackpot with him."
"I was worried you might be jealous as well," I said, "I know how you work out to look better and now I can get bigger with no effort at all, not to mention ridiculously strong."
"I work out to keep fit and active, I don't think I'd ever want to be huge or anything like that as it's a lot more effort than I want to put in. At least now I know you can spot me without any trouble if I need you to." I hugged Luke and thanked him for sitting with me that first day, and then went in to find where the other two had gone.
When we entered Josh's room they were talking about their favourite characters and Josh surprised me by liking more of the powerless, vigilante characters. I would have thought he could associate more with all the super strong ones but he seemed more impressed with people who developed their skills rather than used their powers.
"We should definitely go to a comic-con; you guys would be great at cosplay." Sam suggested.
"I dunno; I don't really wanna draw attention to this." I replied.
"Think about it, you could put on a costume where no one would know it was you and you could be whatever size you needed to do it. Then when you change your clothes you could also shrink back down and no one would know it was you." I was actually beginning to like his idea.
"Count me out of that." Luke said, "I can't think of any twin superheroes."
"What about the Wonder Twins?" Sam asked.
"Isn't one of them a girl?" Luke replied.
"What's your point?"
"Well you don't have the tits to pull that off and there's no way I'm dressing up as a chick." Luke retorted.
"We'll find you a costume with a mask so it can look like you're not even related to this muppet." I giggled.
"Yeah, then I won't have to look at your ugly face."
"We're identical you idiot!" Luke said in despair. Me and Josh just cracked up as Sam turned red.
Finally we decided it was time to go home, knowing we'd see each other the next day for the big revelation to my parents. Josh told me everything would be fine and kissed me goodnight, then I walked home for my last night as my parent's little boy.