Janet was growing more than a little tired of the vanity of her room mate Patti and her constant obsession with how she looked. It seemed like Patti would spend half of every day primping in front of a mirror applying make-up or fretting over some minor imperfection. The blonde had inherited a fortune from her late father when he passed away two years ago and, as such, didn’t have to worry about where her next meal was coming from or paying her share of the rent. Although she and Patti had been friends since their high school days, Janet found her room mate changed a lot in attitude after receiving her inheritance. When Patti broke something now or had something go wrong, she’d leave a note for Janet not to apologize so much as to let her know what she broke and the money to replace it. If it wasn’t for the fact that Janet was struggling to make ends meet and needed Patti’s money to keep things together, she would have struck out on her own a long time ago. “Sheesh…you’d think she’d learn to pick up after herself…sheesh…” Janet grumbled as she picked up Patti’s underwear and shorts off the living room floor and carried them back to her friend’s room. A look of disgust crossed her face as she saw the mess that Patti had left in her room with various pieces of clothing as well as magazines strewn everywhere. Shaking her head, Janet picked up the stuff she was literally standing on and tossed it onto Patti’s bed. When she picked up one magazine, she stopped and glanced at the cover. It was one of those adult magazines where all the models depicted were extremely busty and posed in a series of shots that emphasized their ample sized chests. Janet saw that several of the classified ads that pitched bust enhancement creams had been circled by Patti with a red marker. “Hmmm… Patti wants to get bigger tits, does she? She sounds an awful lot like my boyfriend Alan, who is always bugging me to get breast enhancement surgery. He even said that he could get me the materials at cost from the company he works for if that would change my mind. Of course, when he found out that I worked at a rival manufacturing company that produced the same materials and I still wouldn’t have the surgery, he quieted down quite a bit,” Janet said as she tossed the magazine back on the bed and finished straightening up. About thirty minutes later, Patti came home carrying several shopping bags in her right hand while chatting away into a cell phone she cradled with her neck. After tossing her bags into her room, she went into the living room where she sat down on a chair opposite Janet with a happy look on her face. “Oh, Janet, I’m so happy. I met this really cute guy at a night club a couple of weeks ago and he is such a great guy. Great looking, cool place and a great sense of humor to boot. He’s even willing to help me out in making my body look better than it ever has before,” Patti said ruffling her blonde hair with her right hand. “Well, be careful. I know guys who have offered to help turn anyone they meet into their version of a living Barbetta doll only to move along when they get bored,” Janet said hoping to talk her room mate out of anything too foolish. Patti never let on that she heard Janet at all. “Oh, I think this guy is much more down to earth. He’s got a ton of money, a great paying job and is great in the sac. What more could a horny young woman want?” Patti said with a long chuckle at the end. Janet decided to drop the subject and let Patti prattle on about her plans for the rest of the day. Patti ate a light lunch before changing into the usual attire she wore when going to head off to the clubs. Janet bade her roomie a good night while she went to get ready for her date with Alan later that night. Janet was just in the middle of changing and deciding what outfit to wear when she heard the phone ring. A minute or two after answering, the brunette hung up with a sense of extreme frustration visible on her face. “Damn that Alan…. again he pulls this shit!” she hissed in response to hearing him cancel yet another date with her due to business commitments. It was the third time in the last two weeks that he had canceled at the last minute due to unforeseen circumstances and Janet was clearly vexed by his tendency to leave her hanging at the last minute. Grumbling mentally at the inconvenience and not feeling mentally like going out on the town like Patti had already done, Janet threw on her bath robe and sat down on the couch content to spend the night munching on popcorn and watching some movies she had taped recently. Later that night, Janet had dozed off on the couch for several hours when she was awoken by the sound of the apartment door opening. She sat up to see her room mate entering in with her usual big smile carrying a piece of paper in her right hand. Patti walked over to the fridge, got out a bottle of Canadian Ice spring water and walked over to her room mate almost skipping like a school yard kid. “That was the best date I have been on in a very long time. I’ve never been swept off my feet so completely…. every time we stepped on the dance floor felt like we were floating on clouds in perfect rhythm To make things even better, he’s going to arrange it for me to get bigger boobies and I won’t even have to go in some dumb old doctor to get it done. He’s given me the name of the place and time to pick up the stuff to give me big old titties… I even get to choose the way that I take the chemical. Isn’t that cool?” Patti said with a voice slightly slurred by alcohol. “Chemical….? That sounds a little hazardous by the sounds of things…..why don’t you convince your boyfriend to pay for a normal operation and save yourself any unnecessary hassles?” Janet said trying to convince her inebriated room mate to choose another path to her goal. “Pffff…. there’s no hazard at all to the stuff I’m going to use. According to Alan, he says the stuff is perfectly safe and I can use it as he gets it sent over to my place here. Whoof… I must admit he dances so well…. wore me out… hrrrrr…. " Patti mumbled as her eyes started to droop with the frenetic pace of her evening starting to catch up with her. “Your boyfriend’s name is Alan? Wow, that’s a bit of a coincidence to say the least. I wonder if your Alan has ever met up with mine especially since it sounds like they work in the same business. What do you think, Patti? Patti?” Janet inquired of her room mate before she noticed that Patti had passed out cold in the chair. Sighing out loud, Janet stood up and threw an afghan over her room mate’s slumbering body before heading off to bed herself with questions unanswered….. Over the next ten days, Janet worked quite a bit of overtime at her job and consequently saw very little of her room mate other than a wave the two exchanged from across the building parking lot as Janet left to go to work and Patti came home from partying all night. The only other contact the two had was the various Post-it notes that Patti would leave asking Janet to keep an eye open for a package or large envelope that would be coming via courier any day. “Patti’s looking for the stuff to make her boobs bigger already ? This Alan guy she’s seeing sounds just as anxious as mine…. hmmmm….” Janet muttered as she unlocked the apartment door and went to relax after another ordinary day at work. Before she could start preparing some stir fried rice for her supper, there was a knock at the door. When she opened up, she found a PPS delivery man waiting for her with a large cardboard box for her to sign for. After jotting down her signature, Janet took the package from the young man and closed the door behind her. When she glanced at the package, she saw it was addressed to Patti as she suspected it would though there was no return address listed on the front. Flipping the box over, she saw a stamp imprinted faintly on the wrapper which looked a lot like Krystov Research and Development, the company her Alan worked for. “Curious and curiouser….. " Janet muttered softly though an inner voice was starting to whisper to her that it was no coincidence. She put the package on the edge of the kitchen counter while she dug herself a bottle of wine out of the fridge. Unfortunately, Janet was a little clumsy when standing up from the fridge and her right hip made contact with Patti’s package sending to the floor with a loud THUMP !. Janet saw with dismay that the wrapping on the box had ripped open sending the box contents flying across the floor. However, she saw, to her relief, that none of the items inside appeared to have been damaged. Gently removing the box from the paper ( which largely remained intact), she started scooping the items in question. The first, a bottle of what appeared to be a milky white fluid with the the silhouetted image of a woman on the front, appeared to be the fluid that Patti had been waiting for. When Janet went to put the bottle back in the recessed slot for it inside the box, she noticed a white envelope sitting partly on top of the area. Curious to what was written and to answer her own unanswered questions, Janet opened the unsealed envelope carefully and looked at the note inside……
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