EXTRACT FOR
Sizzling Hot Erotica 9
(Darren G. Burton)

Magic Potion





Justin was sitting in a caf? off-campus doing some study when his cell phone vibrated on silent on the table beside him. Cale's name flashed up on screen and Justin drained the remnants of a cappuccino from his mug before answering the call.

"What are you doin'?" Cale asked in way of a greeting.

"Drinking coffee and studying," Justin answered, sensing it was a loaded question. "Why?"

"Come over to the lab."

"What lab?"

"The science lab." Cale was a Science Major; a geek in some ways but a cool guy in others.

"I don't know which lab you're talking about."

"Just go into the Science building, turn left, follow the corridor to the very end, take a right, go to the end of that corridor and you'll see a door. I'll be in there. Come as soon as you can. I wanna show you something."

Intrigued, Justin disconnected the call, piled up his books and stuffed them into a bag which he slung easily over one shoulder. At the counter he paid for his coffees and stepped out into the late-afternoon sunshine.

On the short stroll through town back to the sweeping green lawns and gardens of the college campus, Justin wondered why his friend wanted to see him in the science lab. Justin wasn't into science at all and knew very little about the subject. Still, Cale had sounded quite excited about something and Justin's curiosity was nagging at him more and more the closer he got to the Science Building. He pushed through the black entrance doors, sidestepped a couple of students that were leaving and went left as Cale had instructed. He encountered no one down that corridor or the next and arrived at a closed door with a small frosted-glass window. He didn't bother to knock.

Inside the room was decked out with computers, one monitor displaying some sort of graph that Justin didn't comprehend. Cale was at the back where a bench ran along the entire wall. There were beakers, test tubes, burners and a colorful array of chemicals stored in bottles and small glass vials. Currently Cale was pouring a purple liquid from a beaker that had been sitting on a Bunsen burner into a thin cylindrical jar. Cale glanced Justin's way as he approached.

"Just have to let that cool down for a bit," Cale explained.

Justin eyed the jar of purple liquid, then moved in close and sniffed it. Smelled a little like an Armani cologne he'd had once, though with a more rancid underlying odor that he couldn't pick.

"What is it?" he asked.

Now Cale grinned from ear to ear. He said, "My latest invention."

"Which is?" Justin said, sniffing at the liquid again. Steam was coming from the top of the tube. It looked scorching hot.

With a gloved hand, Cale snatched up the jar and took it over to a large stainless steel refrigerator, where he opened the freezer and placed it inside. "That should cool it down quicker. We'll be here all day waiting otherwise."

"Waiting for what," Justin was growing impatient. "You still haven't told me what it is you've cooked up there." He nodded towards the fridge.

"I've been working on it for a while now." Cale leaned back against the bench and folded his arms, a look of immense satisfaction on his face. That positive look slipped suddenly and was replaced with one of uncertainty. "But I still don't know if it works yet."

Justin sighed with frustration. "If what works?"

"The potion, for want of a better term. I haven't come up with a name for it yet. It's like a pheromone enhancer designed to make the wearer more alluring to women."

Justin eyed his friend rather quizzically. "So, you've invented a new cologne for men?"

Cale shrugged, kept his arms folded. "Kind of, but not just an ordinary cologne. Yes, we all know women like a man to smell nice, just like we do them. And, yes, it is appealing and does help to enhance an attraction factor. But this stuff I've made goes a considerable step further." He grinned as he looked towards the ceiling. "If this works I'll be a billionaire within months."

Justin caught on. "So this cologne, whatever it is, is supposed to make a woman fall at a guy's feet begging for him to take her."

"That's pretty much it," Cale said. "It'll increase a man's allure so potently that women won't be able to resist any man that is wearing it."