One large blob of mercury floated lazily in a pot of boiling water. As the bubbles played with the silvery form, it let out a sigh, contributing more bubbles to the water. Ah, this is the life, isn't it, Caroline?

Caroline smiled as she heard her friend's thoughts in her own mind. She and Lexi, using the “Ultimate Potion” from the Potion Place, had taken to becoming mercury and floating around in a pot of boiling water. It sounded so ludicrous when she had described it to her newly-married friend Gena, who had helped create the Ultimate Potion. But instead of laughing, Gena was intrigued, even resolving to try it with her husband Jim. “You guys merged together like that?” she asked.

Caroline had laughed. “But of course. All the pieces of us smushed together until we were one, huge, lazy blob!”

And right now Lexi and Caroline were blobs as well, but it was getting late, and Lexi made it very clear that she was getting tired. Caroline suggested sleeping in this form, but Lexi was concerned with what might happen when all the water boiled away.

Caroline, always the adventuress, exclaimed, “Let's find out!” Her voice emanated from a small mouth on their surface, and she liked how it sounded as it echoed through the room. It was “shimmery-sounding”, she decided with satisfaction.

“I'd really like to sleep in a bed tonight, okay?” Lexi started pushing them up the side of the pot. Caroline, although slightly annoyed, allowed her to hoist them over the side, and they slid across the stovetop.

“You're going to sleep as a person tonight, seriously, Lexi?” Caroline asked, feeling letdown. Ever since Gena and Jim had married, things had not been the same. As much fun as she'd had with Lexi, she found herself often alone, craving the weekends when all three girls used to experiment with Mr. Wintergreen's marvelous potions. She loved to be with Lexi, but often found it frustrating that Lexi was not always as daring as she was.

“I didn't say I wanted to be human,” Lexi answered as the silvery mass scooted across the floor and into the bedroom. “I just wanted to sleep in a bed tonight.”

“Should I unmerge from you?” Caroline queried in wonder. She'd spent so much time merged with Lexi that it never occurred to her that Lexi might want to sleep alone.

Lexi pushed them up onto the bed and snugged their amorphous form under the covers. “Please don't, sweetie. I love being you.”

This heartened Caroline, as Lexi didn't often speak so endearingly. She formed her arms on the edge of their globular figure, then hugged their form so tightly that they were forced into an hourglass shape.

Lexi giggled. “Caroline, really. I do want to sleep. Stop it.”

“But I want to play with us!” Caroline cried, frustrated. Remaining mercury, she pulled herself from Lexi and glared at her with her silvery eyes.

Then Lexi did something totally unlike herself. “Then play with me,” she murmured, and re-formed herself. As the silver flowed into a perfect female figure with Lexi's smiling face on top, the lips parted slightly, and the whole form shuddered and solidified.

Caroline exhaled in awe. “Oh, Lexi, you're...beautiful! All this time, and we never did this...you're a work of art!” She ran her finger down the statue's shapely arm, making it quake slightly.

Mmm, that felt good, she heard Lexi moan in her mind.

“I hear you still even thought we're not merged,” Caroline uttered. “The Ultimate Potion can really do anything, I'm beginning to think.”

“Rub me more, Lexi. All over.” The silver lips had parted further to let Lexi's pleas escape, and Caroline was more than happy to comply. She began to run her hands up and down the smooth surface, and the statue reacted accordingly.

“I can't believe you turned into a nude statue, Lexi. That's so unlike you.”

Don't you like me like this?

Caroline drew closer to explore the fine lines that made up Lexi's hair. “I love you like this. Perfect craftsmanship.” Something drew her to place a small peck on Lexi's head, and she drew back, considering her actions. She had done so much with Lexi and Gena – they had truly merged together into one person – how much more intimate could one get?

But the perfection of Lexi's silvery form made Caroline want to explore it all over, to run her tongue from head to toe, to make it feel pleasure...

Her hand had found its way between the statue's still legs, and as a small moan escaped Lexi's mouth, Caroline held herself back, although it was more in concern for Lexi than herself. She had never had any interest in women before, but she was more than willing to try a bit of experimentation. And Lexi was not quite a woman now...well, she was kind of a petrified one...

Yet Caroline didn't want to make Lexi uncomfortable. Lexi was much more traditional in matters such as this, and Caroline didn't want to ruin their friendship.

But her worry was dismissed as the statue's hand grabbed her own and returned it between the silvery legs. “Why'd you stop?” it hissed, and a smiling Caroline set back to work.

The statue shook and moaned through Caroline's ministrations, nearly falling off the bed several times as Caroline jolted it into bursts of ecstasy. Caroline herself was thoroughly enjoying pleasuring her friend the statue, and was no longer thinking of the oddity of the experience. She kissed at the metallic neck, running her tongue along and around it as she continued to work Lexi into a frenzy. Lexi could not help letting her arms become mobile, and they were soon working their magic on Caroline.

Lexi's metallic fingers came quite in handy, and eventually both girls ended up rolling around on the floor. They began to doze as two silver statues, twisted in a very erotic position, metal fingers in all the right places. “One of those sex museums would pay millions for us,” giggled Caroline just before they fell asleep.

“Mr. Wintergreen's got another potion for us,” Lexi reported as she checked her texts. She was still a naked silver statue, but she had allowed herself movement once again.

Caroline chuckled. “What else can it do that the Ultimate Potion can't? And come back and sit on me while you talk. I'm not done with you yet.”

Caroline had turned into a throne made of solid silver. A bit ashamed of last night's antics, Lexi nonetheless came over and settled down onto Caroline's seat.

“Mm, feels so good when I'm used,” Caroline commented. She stretched out her armrests, forming her hands on the ends, and began to fondle Lexi.

“Caroline, cut it out, we should go over there before lunch.” Lexi tried to stand back up, but Caroline's armrests kept her locked in place.

“Mr. Wintergreen can wait. No rush.”

“But...oh, God, more...Those silver fingers again...” Lexi was so happy that she merged into the chair, and the two chair-girls simply melted to the floor together.

“We're never going to get anywhere like this,” Lexi mumbled.

Caroline formed a smile on their surface.

As they neared The Potion Place, Caroline and Lexi, as they often did, conversed about what Gena and Jim were up to. Gena had mentioned that a lab out in California might be interested in him working there, which made them all feel melancholy. “We get to see them so rarely, and now we'll never see them,” Caroline wailed.

“Jim can turn into a plane and Gena could fly him out here. He'd love that.”

“I want that too. I like being big things. Maybe you'll fly me out there.”

On hearing a muffled cry of pleasure, Lexi halted right in front of the doorway of the store, inhaling sharply and glancing around. Her friend was in the beginning throes of transformation. “Caroline, what are you turning into?”

Caroline's arms had stiffened. They stuck out straight from her sides, and her hands were long gone. Her face was drawing into a cone-shape, and she fell to the floor, writhing, giggling and shrinking until she turned into a toy airplane. Even when she was finished changing, she could not stop wriggling and chuckling out of the small smiley-face painted on her nosecone.

“I hope to hell no one saw that, Caroline!” Lexi cried angrily, scooping up the toy.

“Oh, lighten up,” said the airplane. “It was one of those urges I couldn't resist. I needed to be a plane. The whole idea when you said it made me so damned aroused I couldn't take it!” the toy's voice lowered. “Take me over there and stroke me, please, Lexi!”

With a sigh, Lexi made one halfhearted rub across the plane's tail section. This seemed all the toy needed to be sent over the edge exclaiming, “Thank you, thank you...oh God.” And, with that, Lexi burst into Mr. Wintergreen's store.

“What's wrong, Lexi, and what's that?” the older man queried with a knowing smile.

“I'm Caroline the toy airplane!” the toy answered for her.

Lexi set Caroline on the counter a bit too forcefully, but it only made the toy laugh and roll a few inches on its new wheels.

“What do you have today, Mr. Wintergreen?” Lexi settled down on a stool next to the counter, ignoring her toy/friend.

The storeowner plopped a bottle down before her. “Absorption!” he cried proudly.

“Absorption?” the plane repeated, slowly re-forming into a doll-sized Caroline. She tapped her feet experimentally on the countertop. “Isn't that just like merging? Can't the Ultimate Potion do it?”

Mr. Wintergreen looked momentarily disappointed, then he shook the bottle, pointing to the label. “Yes, the Ultimate Potion probably could – it can do anything. But this is just absorption.” He adjusted his glasses and read, “'Absorb your friends! They're part of you! You're in charge, and they're along for the ride!'” He squinted down at Caroline. “I guess you still have some Ultimate Potion in you, so...”

Lexi picked up the bottle. “We can wait. It should wear off soon.”

Caroline grew to her full height, the counter groaning as she took on weight. “Or we can do it right away.” She jumped to the floor, taking the bottle from her friend. “Your body or mine, Lexi?”

Lexi made a nervous titter. “Well, I'd be more happy if...”

“I want to be you. Absorb me.” She chugged down a few gulps, then handed the rest to Lexi.

“Yes, you both need to drink some for it to work,” Mr. Wintergreen pointed out without needing to.

“How do you know only one person's in charge?” asked Lexi.

“Because it's being tested,” he picked his shirt up slightly to reveal his stomach. “Barbara, come out to play!”

A smile formed on his skin, followed by a pair of amused-looking eyes. “Hello, girls!”

Lexi jumped back. Caroline started to clap. “Awesome! You're using it too, Mr. Wintergreen!”

He smiled. “I love having my wife as part of me all day. You still good being me, Barb?”

The face winked. “Yup. Have fun, girls!” The face faded away, and the storekeeper rubbed where it had been. An eerie female chuckle issued forth.

“I didn't know you had a wife,” Caroline said.

“Oh, we've been together for ages. You can't begin to imagine the things we've done...and been.”

“I bet they're on par with Caroline's antics,” Lexi added.

The storeowner snorted. “Don't go there.”

“Absorb me now, Lexi!” Caroline demanded, racing at her.

Mr. Wintergreen stepped between them. “You might want to do this in private. It's very...stimulating.”

The girls made it as far as the woods on the corner of the street before Caroline pulled Lexi into the underbrush. “I'm all tingly, aren't you? I can't stand this! I need to become part of you right now!”

Lexi pulled her further in so no prying eyes were about. “I know, I'm dying for you right now.”

Caroline rushed at Lexi, knocking her down into the dead leaves. She grasped at her tightly, each girl touching and pleasuring each other, and as they did, Caroline felt herself being drawn into her friend's body. And as they both reached the height of ecstasy, they became one.

Oh, it tingles being you. All over our body. I feel the waves of pleasure washing over me, the afterglow...

“I feel it too, Caroline,” Lexi said out loud, as she stood up and brushed the leaves from her clothes.

Caroline giggled in her mind. That tickles, she said.

“I know what will tickle us more,” Lexi said. She got back down in the leaves and brought them both a bit more bliss.

As Lexi walked them home, Caroline marveled at the sensations of being a person – but not being in control. Her legs moved for her, but she did not have to worry about where they were going. She could see, smell, and hear just as if she were in her own body, but she was more of a spectator, along for the ride, as Lexi brought them to Caroline's apartment.

Turn us into something, Lexi, Caroline suggested when they were still a few blocks away. There's still some Ultimate Potion in you, I bet.

As Lexi's body shrank into bird form, the experience was strangely different for each girl. Lexi was thinking the change and making it happen, but Caroline reveled in the changes simply rushing over her, happening without a thought or any effort. Ah, the rush of bliss as feathers popped from her skin, her arms forming wings, her feet reshaping into bird toes...The popping out of a beak, the eyes shifting to each side of her face...

Was it as good for you as it was for me, Caroline asked as Lexi launched them into the air.

Lexi rubbed her wing against a very private area, and the burst of pleasure was her answer.

Let's do stuff, Caroline begged as they entered her house.

“Caroline, can you wait two seconds? I'm really thirsty – can't you feel that?”

Lexi stomped them over to the refrigerator and pulled out a glass pitcher of water. Caroline realized that she did indeed feel Lexi's parched throat, but she was so excited about what was to follow that she was effectively ignoring it. It wasn't her body, anyway.

Lexi chugged the water directly from the container, and Caroline uttered, Hey, stop it! That's my water pitcher!

But Lexi ignored her, so Caroline reacted.

A head stretched from Lexi's stomach, pushing her shirt out of its way and blinking up at the girl. “You just can't stomach me, can you, Lexi?”

The grinning head staring up at Lexi startled her, and the pitcher fell from her hands. Two arms popped out of Lexi's legs and caught the pitcher proudly. “Lucky you had me tucked in there, huh, Lexi?”

Lexi gazed down at herself in awe. “Caroline, that's just grotesque. Take your head out of my stomach. I mean...”

“Can I keep the arms sticking out of your legs?”

“No, that's...oh, just make your head go away, Caroline!”

Caroline complied, but then reached her hand up and fondled her friend. Both emitted large gasps. “Tape this with my camcorder,” Caroline begged.

Lexi swatted her hand away, and both disappeared into Lexi's leg. “No way am I making a porno flick.”

“It's not a porno flick. Just tape us with the weird extra arms and stuff.”

“That might possibly be interesting...let's see what we can put where.” Lexi started to giggle, now all kinds of ideas bobbing around in her head. “We can do a whole tape of this...it can follow us in exploring how we can do different arms and legs and...”

“We'll call it 'Appendage Cam!'” Caroline shrieked from somewhere under Lexi's shirt.

Lexi raced over to where Caroline's camera sat on a tripod and turned it on. Immediately she lifted her shirt to reveal Caroline's smiling face, which took it on itself to narrate. “Welcome everyone! Today I have effectively turned into Lexi. I was absorbed by her, and now I'm part of her. I still have some Ultimate Potion left in me, so that might be why I can do this. Or maybe it's simply part of the Absorption Potion as well...who the hell knows, but,” her head disappeared and her muffled voice emanated from lower down, “it's awesome!”

“Where are you, Caroline?” Lexi searched her body. Eventually she removed her shoe to see Caroline's face grinning from the top of her foot.

“Boy, it's stuffy in Lexi's shoes!” it exclaimed.

A good few minutes of “Appendage Cam” followed. Arms and legs sprouted from Lexi's slight body at an alarming rate until she resembled a daisy – her torso served as the middle of the flower, and at least ten arms and ten legs sprouted from all around like petals. Here and there the appendages would exhibit a face, and at one point, Lexi held up a fist with Caroline's face on it, using it like a puppet.

“Hello, I'm Caroline the fist puppet. Hand puppet. What the hell do you call those things? You know, when they paint a face on their fist and make it talk?”

Lexi laughed. “Fist puppet? I don't know. You're a face on my fist.”

This was followed in a quest to see how many eyes they could fit on Lexi's face.

“Jim will love this. Send them the recording!” Caroline burst out, making the eyes all blink at once. “Hey, Gena and Jim, the Cyclops sends its love.”

“Uh, the Cyclops had one eye. Not twenty-seven.”

Caroline answered by sprouting two more arms and a few legs. They spent several minutes trying to walk this way until Caroline finally needed a break.

“Oh, my God, I'm exhausted, Lexi. Can you melt us?” she requested, drawing in most of the extra appendages.

“As you wish, my dear,” Lexi giggled, and slowly they began to melt.

“Oo,” Caroline exclaimed, “You're melting us really...nicely,” she moaned happily as Lexi's body sank to the floor, a writhing, bubbling puddle of mercury once again.

“Do you ever wonder what stuff Gena and Jim do together with the Potion?” Caroline asked as they rested in puddle form.

“Hmm. I bet a lot of it goes on in a fish tank,” Lexi snickered, thinking about how Jim always loved to turn into a fish. He found it very relaxing. Lexi wondered how Gena felt about that.

“It must be nice to have a husband to share that with,” Caroline murmured.

“We have each other,” Lexi offered, then continued on knowing what Caroline's response would be. “I know, a girl...friend is different. You ever think you'll find a guy?”

“After what I do with you, do I want to?” Caroline exclaimed. “No, I do hope I find someone at some point. Despite all that we've...done, I still have interest in men,” she grinned. “But what I want now is to see how big we can get. Let's see how far this form can reach!” With that, they stretched across the whole floor. When they reached the walls they crept up them, and soon the whole room was coated with a quivering silver film. “Like!” exulted Caroline's face, which popped out from the ceiling.

Lexi's features partially emerged from the floor, accompanied by an arm that waved up to her friend. “Hello, ceiling!”

Caroline snaked her head all the way down until it was face to face with Caroline. “I missed you up there!” it giggled, then snapped back up into the ceiling, disappearing into the surface. Only a pair of lips resurfaced which said, “Let's turn into a centaur.”

“Ooh! That might be fun!” with a loud pop, the roomful of silver film swiftly retreated into itself, forming into a ball which hardened and continued to shrink.

Lexi moaned, “Oh, God, what are you doing to us...feels so good to harden, round out, and shrink all at once...”

“We're a ball bearing.”

“What?”

“A metal ball.” As they finished transforming, Caroline gave then a push which sent them careening across the room. “I love being round,” Caroline commented as they hit the wall and rolled back.

“Okay, this was cute, but now I'm making us a centaur. I'm in charge, you're part of me, so...” Lexi pushed the ball to grow larger and soon they were back in human form. “We're going to be a Lexi-centaur.”

Her backside rippled and shuddered. She held her hand to her mouth as she watched herself increase. Part of Caroline seemed to be pushing out from her back end, and soon a pair of legs and a tail burst forth from this new part of Lexi's body.

“But, what's that like, just being...well, the back of me?” she asked with curiosity.

“I still see through your eyes. I'm all of you! I just added onto you. Can't you feel the tail and all?”

Lexi wiggled the tail half-heartedly. “Yes, but I feel kind of bad that you're reduced to a rear end, basically.”

“I'm not! I'm all of you, don't you get it, Lexi? Now you do still look stupid because you never changed yourself. Right now you're a person with half a horse attached to your butt!”

Blushing, Lexi allowed the rest of her to become more centaur-like, and as she tapped her new hooves against the floor, she inhaled deeply. “I feel like a bug or something. I – we – have six appendages instead of four.”

“You had much more than that before!”

“True. We so need to watch Appendage Cam.”

“Yup.”

After tapping around and enjoying their form, the girls came to a standstill. “What's wrong, Lexi?” Caroline wondered out loud.

“Well, I like the way this feels, but what do we actually do like this? We can't go walk though town this way.”

“That might be fun. Scare the hell out of people.”

Lexi glanced toward the front hall. “And what if someone looked through the window at us?”

“Lexi, you're paranoid.”

“I'm not.”

Caroline pondered her friend's comment, quickly coming up with a solution. “Listen, you like this form?”

“Yes.”

“You like shrinking and hardening?”

“Yes.”

“Let's do that.”

They moaned and giggled their way down to a plastic centaur figurine, which quickly fell to its side, and they laid that way for at least an hour.

Caroline felt their form begin to shudder and she realized they were growing softer and bigger. “Oh, we're done here?”

They were back to Lexi form, sans any extra body body parts. “I feel like eating something. Haven't done it since last night.”

“Lexi, how did you know you were hungry if we were just made of plastic?”

“I don't know, I just feel like eating something.”

Even as they spoke, Lexi had made her way to the fridge and commenced to chug more water from the pitcher that Caroline had saved. “Ever notice that transforming makes you really thirsty after?”

“Makes me hungry too.”

Caroline was silent as she felt the water coursing down their throat. She wasn't swallowing, but Lexi was doing it for her, which was bizarre. But the coolness felt nice as it made its way through their body, and Caroline wondered what it would be like to be that water. Would it be dangerous for her to be swallowed? Would the magic of the potion keep her intact, or would she die? She'd have to ask Mr. Wintergreen about that at some point.

“This was fun,” said Lexi, sitting down at the kitchen table.

“What next?” asked Caroline, poking her head from Lexi's stomach again.

“Stop that, Caroline! I don't like that one!” Lexi said, pulling out a cookie to eat.

Caroline remained where she was, regarding her friend as she chewed. “Hmm, I'd love to be that cookie,” she finally said.

Lexi stopped, hand in the air. “That's...well, how? I mean, could that kill you? I'm not sure I'd want someone to actually eat me...” She smashed her hand down on the table. “Caroline, just get out of my stomach. In fact, get out of me altogether!”

“Why? I'm that annoying?”

“No...I just...well, I need to go to the bathroom.”

After all the merging and the innumerable silly things they'd done, that very basic of needs had never actually come up...

Caroline's face plus the long silence made Lexi shriek, “No way in hell. No. I'm not going to the bathroom with you as part of me! I still have some shame. Get out of me, now!”

“Only if I can have a bite,” the girl requested devilishly.

“Bite? What the hell? You're a face sticking out of my stomach!”

Caroline winked and opened her mouth.

“You're sick!” Lexi stuffed a cookie into the girl's mouth, and Caroline relished it slowly.

“Wow, who would have thought things would taste better when you're a stomach?”

“Oh, you're not a stomach! Get out of me!” Lexi cried impatiently.

Deep down, Caroline was sad to pull herself out of her friend's body. It was so calming and comfortable being part of her, but she didn't want to annoy her. Taking a moment to get used to being on her own feet, she pointed down the hall. “Bathroom's yours. Enjoy.”

Lexi ran off. “Thank heaven!” she yelled back, and the door slammed.
                                                                                                                                                                     “Sometimes you just need some alone time,” Caroline murmured. Her face started out in a smile, but it quickly disintegrated.