The Fountain of Youth - Chapter 3

I threw my head back and let out a heavy sigh. “You’ve got to be kidding me” I whispered under my breath. Even though there was no one around to see, I was red and hot in my cheeks. There was something so humiliating about wetting the bed, and I felt like a child. I was dumbfounded, and just sat there in my piss soaked clothes for way longer than I’d care to admit, no idea what to do.  It was unlike me to wet the bed, I never had problems when I was younger even. Must’ve been the dream. 

With one motion I threw off my covers. My pajama pants were soaked, and my sheets had barely any dry spots left. Luckily, the travel cot I was sleeping on was a material that didn’t absorb any water, but that also mean there was pool of piss on the floor of my tent. The time was 4:45am, and no one would be up until 6am at the earliest. That’s when Tony usually gets up, he always says ‘some people say science never sleeps, I say science never sleeps in’ which was cute, and funny how annoying Karisa found it. I wasn’t going to be able to get back to sleep, but at least I would have time to get cleaned up.

I stripped my clothes and used a towel to wipe up the on the floor. Then I grabbed all my sheets, pjs, and blankets and threw them in a big garbage bag. I made sure to seal it tight, just so no pee smell would get out and alert the others of my accident. Afterwords I figured I would just pack up, and start getting ready for the journey back. We had to do a bit of a drive to the airport before Karisas private jet would pick us up and take is home. Good thing it was a private plane too, didn’t really want to have to check in a garbage bag of piss soaked clothes. I threw on some shorts and laid out my outfit for the day to put on when I finished cleaning.

Once my bags were packed I went out for some fresh air, and opened the tent to air it out. I started putting on my shoes but the felt really loose, which I figured was just due to wearing them out over yesterday’s hike. As I was getting out, I saw Karisa outside her luxury tent working on something. I walked over to her and said hey. She turned around and stood up startled, and flush in her cheeks. 

“Oh! Hey Nicole...didn’t know you were up” Karisa said very nervously, she was holding a towel in her hands and covering her legs.

“Yeah I...had a bad dream. Why are you up?” I questioned. Looking around her I could see she had her sheets on the ground behind her, and they looked wet.

“Yeah same...bad dream…” Karisa said looking down. There was an awkward silence and I could tell she was waiting for me to leave. I turned around to walk away but decided to come clean.

“I wet my bed” I said, the butterflies in my stomach going wild. 

“No I didn’t! I just...wait, what did you say” Karisa jumped to conclusions.

“I said I wet the bed, I had a dream I was back in school and peed my pants, and when I woke up...I was covered in piss.”

“Oh my god” Karisa said with some relief, “I wet the bed too!” She removed the towel covering her legs, revealing soaked silk pj bottoms. “That’s so weird, we both wet our pants and we both wet the bed...”

“Yeah, and we both went in the water” I said, putting the pieces together. Somehow the water has had an effect on our body, and it was changing us. We both stood in silent shock before I said “We should tell Tony.”

“No! You can’t, if this every gets out, my reputation is on the line. It was bad enough as it is, wetting myself yesterday...yeah I played off strong but I needed to make it seem like no big deal so Tony wouldn’t think he could get to me through it you know?” Karisa said, paranoid.

“Oh my Karisa, don’t be silly. Tony isn’t out to get you, he’s a scientist not a scandalous person. Besides, you’re the reason we’re all even here, and I know he wouldn’t blow the relationship over a few silly accidents.” Karisa looked down, still unsure. “But this is not just a coincidence, it has to be related to the water. We need to talk to him so he can check us out and maybe reverse any effects” I said. 

“Reverse? What if he changes my back my freshened skin? And the free Brazilian?” She reacted strongly, but I was confused.

“What do you mean?”

“Oh look, you have it too! See how soft our skin is? Like a babies bottom!” She walked up to me and touched my face, I followed her hand and touched it too. I didn’t have a single wrinkle or blemish, no breakouts or blackheads. My skin was flawless. Then I remembered what she said about her ‘Free Brazilian’ and put my hand near my crotch. My eyes grew wide as I realized...all my pubic hair was gone. 

I took a step back and looked at at Karisa, shocked. The Fountain worked. We both looked flawless and younger, like our skin had never seen oil or any crease. 

“Okay. Let’s get dress, and we’ll go talk to Tony together when he gets up. Deal?” I asked.

“Deal.” Karisa collected her wet belongings and went into her tent. I walked back to mine, my shoes still feeling really loose. 

Once getting in my tent, I noticed the pee smell was still faintly there, so I would have to get that out when we got back home. I started getting undressing, and inspected my crotch area when fully nude. It looked like hair had never even grown there, not even a wax job could remove that much hair. I put on a pair of leggings for the travel day, and when I tried to put on my sports bra it felt loose.I took it off and looked down at my breasts, and after I grabbed one, and immediately I noticed something. They felt smaller. 

My heart started racing again as I thought through what it could be. Sometimes my hormones will cause them to swell, but never to shrink…this was something else. Cautiously I put on the loose bra and finished getting dressed. When I got outside, Karisa was waiting for me. 

“Nicole...did your clothes feel...smaller?” She quietly asked. I didn’t answer, all I said was:

“We need to talk to Tony. Now.”