Courtney tried to soothe the baby in the backseat, while at the same time watching Kate like a hawk to see if she had any symptoms of being hurt. "This is crazy, Katelyn," she said as they pulled out of the bank parking lot. "That wasn't a dud grenade. I felt the shockwave, Katie, and it destroyed half the bank counter. It should have killed you, but you're not even bleeding." She said, meeting Katelyn's eyes in the mirror. "It's literally... a fucking miracle. How are you not hurt? Did you know that would happen when you jumped on the grenade?" Courtney asked.
"Yes," Kate responded seriously, glancing up and seeing the confusion in her friend's eyes. "I'm... uh, immune to harm," she said, her eyes flicking between looking at Courtney and the road. Her friend was silent, and her face looked pale. "And... it's related to why my 'house exploded'" she said, holding up one hand to do finger quotes, "and I was completely unharmed then, as well."
Courtney just stared, rocking the baby softly as she stared at Kate in the rearview mirror. Katelyn pulled onto the main road and drove home, keeping her speed slow, to avoid making Courtney any more nervous. Baby James was starting to calm down a little, now that he was in a quiet car, and Courtney leaned back over to his car seat, making reassuring noises to him to get him to relax. She did this for a little while, minutes, and James gradually seemed relaxing, with his mother's soothing attention. Finally, Courtney turned back to Kate's reflection. "That's impossible, Katelyn," was all she said, her expression grim.
"I've seen a lot of things I thought were impossible in the last year or so, Courtney," Kate replied with a shrug, frowning as she took a turn.
"And this is... related to your house explosion. And to that woman you're afraid of?" asked Courtney.
"Yes," said Kate, glancing up at Courtney again, but mostly focusing on the road as she continued. "She made me... sort of... immortal."
In the mirror, Courtney's puzzled expression turned to shock. "She made you immortal. And destroyed your house," she said flatly.
"Yep," answered Kate.
"Is she some sort of witch or something?"
"Sort of," said Kate, as she took another turn. They were already getting close to her neighborhood. "She's... well... she's Goddess." She watched her friend to see if she believed her, but at this point she wasn't sure how Courtney could deny it.
Courtney had turned back to baby James, who was almost completely calm at this point, only sobbing occasionally. "A Goddess?" Courtney said softly, sounding doubtful. "A Goddess... she said again, more distantly. Something about her tone sounded strange. Kate flicked her eyes to the mirror as they pulled onto her street. "Courtney?" she asked worriedly, watching her friend.
They approached Katelyn's driveway. "A... Goddess?" Courtney asked, sounding distant and confused as she looked out the window. "Courtney!" Kate snapped, as she pulled into the driveway. Just as Kate came to a stop and slammed the gear in park, her friend turned her head toward her, meeting Kate's eyes in the mirror. Kate gasped. Courtney's irises were purple. "April?" Courtney asked in a dazed voice.
The Goddess's name rang in Katelyn's ears, and the entire world seemed to briefly ripple for her. She felt something stir inside her, starting from within her gut and rising, rising, rising up into her chest, and at the same time spreading into her nether regions. Kate gasped again as she the feeling swelled within her, getting more and more intense, becoming pleasurable. Her breasts began to tingle sharply, as did her pussy. "Huhhh," she moaned, closing her eyes as the tingling increased in intensity, getting more and more pleasurable, until it felt like her pussy was on fire with pleasure. She clutched the armrest and driver's door tightly, barely restraining herself from grabbing her tits and stroking her pussy. She began to breathe quickly, her heart pounding in her chest. "UNHH!" she groaned, as the pleasant tingling in her chest increased further still, until it seemed to buzz inside, like a million bees were trying to escape from her breasts all at once. Kate was surprised she couldn't hear anything from them, only the sound of her own rapid breathing. Finally, the feeling reached a peak, and her breasts began to slowly balloon outward.
"Unngh! Oh god!" Katelyn gasped. The growth had never felt this intense before, never right at the start. April had booby-trapped her own name.
Kate opened her eyes and looked up at the mirror again as she felt herself growing. Courtney was shaking her head and looking around, as if confused. Her eyes noticed Katelyn in the mirror, and her expression turned to panic as she saw that Kate was in distress. Katelyn saw that Courtney's irises had turned back to brown. "Katie? What's wrong?" Courtney asked sharply, taking in Kate's strained expression and heavy breathing. Katelyn couldn't respond; the feeling was too intense. Her boobs were pushing out into her black t-shirt and bra, making it tight. She could feel the tattered fabric that still connected her bra cups straining. It wouldn't last long, with how damaged it was. "Katie?" Courtney asked worriedly as she unbuckled her seatbelt and opened the car door to get out. "Katelyn!" she exclaimed as she ran around to the front of the car, opening the driver's door and looking at Kate.
"Oh god, I knew we should have taken you to the hospita- whaaaaat the hell?" Courtney said as she looked down and saw that Kate's breasts were bigger. As her friend watched, Kate's bra suddenly snapped in her ruined shirt, and her boobs bounced outward, jiggling as they smacked into her waist. Kate held her arms tightly to her sides to avoid grabbing them as she continued to take heaving breaths. The tingling pleasure was unrelenting, and she could hardly think from how intense it was. She looked down at her breasts as they continued to swell, moving closer to the steering wheel every moment. They were about the size of melons, and as they grew, more and more of them came out of the bottom of the hole in Katelyn's shirt.
"What... what the hell is happening, Katie?" Courtney asked incredulously, her eyes wide. "Your tits are... growing!" she exclaimed.
Kate could barely respond. "I know," she grunted between breaths. Her boobs continued to bloat, and more of her flesh pushed out of the hole. It was obvious they were real.
"Holy shit..." Courtney said, reaching down towards them. "Nnnn" Kate said, trying to tell her friend no, not to touch her, but she couldn't get it out. Courtney grabbed her left breast and squeezed it softly, and a jolt of pleasure shot immediately through Katelyn, straight into her pussy like a lightning bolt that immediately ramped up into an intense orgasm. Katelyn arched her back, pressing into the car seat and moaning loudly as she came, instantly. "UUUNNNNNHHH! Ohmygod!" She gasped between heaving breaths. "Don't touch them!" Kate grunted as her friend retracted her hand. In the backseat, James began to cry again, hearing the shout.
"Did you... did you just orgasm? Katie, what's happening to you? Should I call an ambulance?" Courtney asked, the panic rising in her voice.
"N-NO!" Katelyn shouted. "DON'T - call - anyone!" she said in a halting manner, trying to get herself under control as the aftershocks of the orgasm pulsed through her. Kate's breasts were as big as her head now, and continued to swell larger as her friend looked on helplessly.
The hole in Kate's compromised shirt began to rip even more as her tits pushed the fabric of the shirt out to the sides. Courtney was watching her friend's development with worry in her eyes. "They're getting so big, Katie!" she exclaimed with amazement, "When are they going to stop?" Kate just closed her eyes and shook her head, focusing all her attention on remaining completely still as she rode the wave of intense pleasure. She began to feel her boobs bumpimg into the steering wheel when she inhaled, and leaned back further into the driver's seat.
Kate squeezed her eyes tight, just trying to wait it out. More rips sounded from her shirt, but she barely noticed them. She was riding on the edge of control, tensing all of her muscles at once, as she focused on not giving in to the urge to just start groping herself and masturbating right there in the driveway. Kate heard her shirt rip some more. Then suddenly, she felt her bare skin running into the steering wheel again as she inhaled, despite leaning back as far as she could. "Katie? Katie!" Courtney said sharply, and Kate opened her eyes. Her boobs had grown to the size of basketballs, and were mostly exposed, now. Her nipples were only barely still covered by the fabric on either side of the huge tear. "Katelyn, this is totally messed up. We need to get you to a hospital!" Courtney was saying next to her.
Kate felt more and more of her breasts pressing into the steering wheel every time she took a breath, until they stopped even losing contact with it when she exhaled. Fortunately, the contact with the leather and plastic against her sensitive skin didn't cause her to orgasm. The level of sensation she already felt was bad enough. If she kept growing, though, she'd press into the steering wheel enough that horn would sound off, and Kate didn't think she could move enough to get out of the car before that happened. She also didn't think she could stop Courtney from calling the paramedics if the horn started blaring. Kate glanced to the side and saw that her friend had her phone out, and was doing something with it as she looked down at Kate with a terrified expression. Just then, Kate felt the tingling suddenly begin to lose energy, and the growth started to wind down.
"No, wait!" Katelyn said, throwing her hand out and covering Courtney's hand on her phone. "They've... they've stopped," she said breathlessly. "Don't... call anyone," she said, looking up at Courtney with a pleading expression through her exhaustion. "Just... gimme a minute," said Kate, "And I'll explain everything inside." and she leaned her head back and closed her eyes for a few seconds, trying to get her breathing under control. James continued to cry in the back seat. Kate could feel her breasts squishing up against the steering wheel, her flesh pressing against it every time she breathed. The horn didn't go off, luckily.
After a minute or so, Katelyn had calmed herself down enough to open her eyes again and look down. Her boobs were massive, filling all the available space between her and the steering wheel. The t-shirt was still barely hanging on to the very edges of her nipples, keeping them covered. She felt like she had just sprinted a mile, and was sweating like it, too. Wiping her forehead, Kate looked up at Courtney, who still had her phone out. She didn't seem to be doing anything with it though, she was just watching Katelyn, her face a mask of fear and concern. "Katie, are you alright?" Courtney asked gravely.
"I'm fine," Kate replied. "That was just... really intense. It's stopped, though. Here," she said, nodding wearily, "You get the baby, while I squeeze out of here. Let's go inside."
Kate was glad she hadn't put on her seatbelt when she got in the car. Even still, it was difficult to edge herself out of the driver's seat without squishing too much against the steering wheel, as she didn't want to set off the horn. She looked around the street cautiously to see if anybody was watching, but there was nobody out on their front lawns or in their driveways. Kate tried to exhale all the air from her lungs, making herself as compact as possible, as she squeezed carefully past the steering wheel and gradually extracted herself from the car, stumbling a bit as she stood awkwardly. Her boobs bounced out into her shirt a little more now that they weren't confined by the wheel, and her nipples finally came out. "The keys are still in the ignition," Kate said to Courtney over the top of the car. Courtney nodded as she lifted the wailing baby James out of the back seat. Katelyn hunched over as she hustled to the front door, trying to avoid being seen.
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"Katie, you need to tell me what the hell is going on," Courtney said as she walked through the front door behind Kate. "Your tits just blew up like fu-" she stumbled over the curse word as she glanced down at little James in her arms, "-like freaking balloons. And you're acting like it's no big deal. Has this sort of thing happened to you before?"
"Yes," Kate said calmly as she put her purse on the coffee table near the entrance. She began to strip her tattered t-shirt off of her, first making a weak attempt to see if the remaining bottom hem would fit over her bust (it wouldn't) before deciding to just rip it the rest of the way. Sitting in Courtney's arms with tears drying on his cheeks, James looked on with curiosity as Kate exposed her enormous naked breasts, peeling the rest of the shirt away. It was a good thing he was only a year old. Any older, and he would be old enough to remember this, and probably ask a lot of questions.
Courtney closed the door behind her and watched with wide eyes as Kate finished taking the ruined top off. "Holy shi-... holy crap Katelyn. Your boobs are gigantic," she said in an awed voice, her eyes flicking up to Kate's. "How does... how is this even possible?" she asked.
"I don't know," said Kate. "Give me a minute," she said as she walked down the hallway to her room, and fetched a shirt to wear. It was an XXL-size shirt of a stretchy variety, like the spandex that people wore to the gym. It was designed for a very big person, but Katelyn had purchased it for this exact scenario. There was one in the trunk of her car, as well. She never knew when April would make her breasts just start growing randomly, and if it happened in public, it was better to be covered up, if possible.
"She does this to me," said Kate as she returned to the kitchen, lining up the shirt above her head to carefully put it on.
"Who?" asked Courtney.
"The Goddess who made me immortal," Kate replied, slightly muffled as she poked her head through the shirt, and started to put her arms through.
"Goddess?" asked Courtney, and Kate stopped with one arm halfway through as she heard that Courtney's voice sounded distant. "I remember talking about a Goddess..." her friend said as she looked off at nothing.
Her irises seemed to flicker between violet and brown, and Kate immediately lunged forward, shouting, "Hey-!" as she extended her free hand out and clamped it over Courtney's mouth. Courtney's expression stopped looking dazed, and her eyes became fully brown again as she looked up at Kate with an indignant expression. "Don't say her name," Kate said seriously, releasing Courtney's mouth slowly, but standing ready to intervene if her eyes started turning purple again.
Courtney didn't speak, and Kate cautiously pulled the rest of her arm through the shirt, then pulled the bottom hem of the garment down over her breasts. She was thankful she had gotten the XXL size, as the stretchy fabric was only just barely able to contain her beachball-sized knockers. It was supposed to be a compression shirt, however, and so once she got it down below them, it did its job and contained her breasts somewhat, squeezing them together. Her nipples poked out of the synthetic fabric, but it was better than nothing. The hem of the shirt hung off the fronts of her boobs, exposing her stomach.
"Don't say whose name?" Courtney was asking Katelyn with her head cocked. Kate looked at her with puzzlement. "...the Goddess? The one we've been talking about?" Courtney shook her head slowly, but then her gaze seemed to slide past Katelyn's, and once more her irises flickered violet briefly, before Kate's hand shot out and covered her mouth again. Courtney's expression became puzzled again as her eyes went back to brown.
Katelyn sighed. This was going to be difficult if Courtney couldn't even think of April without going into her strange trance. "Listen to me carefully, Courtney," said Kate, her hand still softly covering her friend's mouth. "Everything that we've been talking about that's been going on with me - my weird behavior, my house getting destroyed, the grenade - all of them are related to these," she said, pointing down at her breasts with her other finger. "All of it is being caused by a Goddess who has strange powers, and is using them to mess with my body. Okay?" Courtney looked up at Kate wonderingly, and nodded slowly. "Okay, so," Kate continued, "This Goddess - one of her powers is that she can appear in people's dreams. I think she probably was in yours last night, and she told you her name. Does that sound familiar?" Kate asked, tightening her grip slightly on Courtney's mouth. Courtney nodded slowly, but her expression became somewhat distant again as she remembered. Her irises seemed to flicker between violet and brown randomly, her eyelids twitching downward and her expression slackening slightly every time her eyes became more purple.
Courtney looked up at Kate again, and her irises were mostly brown as she grunted softly through Kate's hand, indicating she wanted to say something. Little James, resting his head on Courtney's shoulder, was looking up at Kate calmly, his eyes curious about the strange behavior of the two women. Kate took her hand away from Courtney's mouth, but only a little bit, keeping it a few inches from her lips in case her friend seemed like she was about to say April's name.
"I feel really weird, Katie," Courtney said, with downturned eyebrows. "It's like..." and her irises flickered to purple again. Kate tensed her hand, ready to clamp down again if she heard the first syllable of April's name. "It's like," Courtney continued, "I can almost remember her name, like it's on the tip of my tongue. And I get this really weird feeling like the word is just trying to... claw its way out of my mouth, but I don't know what the word is. Does that make sense?" she asked, and Kate put her hand softly on Courtney's mouth again as she nodded.
"It's her doing that. She's trying to get you to say her name. Only you have to fight it, Courtney. I think she put some kind of... spell, or something, on her name, so that saying it makes my boobs grow. That's what happened in the car. You said her name right as we pulled into the driveway, and it did this to me," Kate said, indicating her breasts. "So if I'm going to tell you the rest of the story, you're going to need to keep your mouth covered," Katelyn explained. "With both hands. And don't say anything unless you're looking right at me, so I can see your eyes," she finished.
"My eyes? Why do you need to see my eyes?" Courtney asked once Kate lifted her hand again.
"Your irises turn purple every time you go into your little trance," Kate said as she covered Courtney's mouth, and her friend's eyes widened. "Yeah, I know. That's how I knew the Goddess was taking control of you," said Katelyn. At this, Courtney's eyes began to turn violet again as she thought about what the Goddess was doing to her. Kate tightened her grip as Courtney's expression went slack and her irises turned totally purple. Courtney tried to mumble something through Kate's hand, but fortunately Kate prevented her from fully forming the word "April". After a second or two, the purple color began to drain from Courtney's eyes again, and she once again returned to full consciousness, looking around and then up at Katelyn. Kate removed her hand.
"Did it just happen again?" Courtney asked. Kate nodded. "Shit. This is really scary Katelyn," she said, her eyes wide with fear. "I don't like having someone trying to control me."
"Join the club," Kate responded tiredly. "Now, I'm going to lower my hand, so we can put James down somewhere out of the way, and sit down to have this conversation. Try not to think about her for a few minutes, while we get ourselves set up. Courtney nodded, and the two women went into the living room.
Courtney got little James situated on the carpet in front of the TV, while Katelyn grabbed the remote and searched for an appropriate channel for the baby to watch. She kept an eye on her friend the whole time, watching her movements to make sure she wasn't zoning out again. Courtney gave James his pacifier and wiped the remnants of tears from his cheeks, glancing up at Katelyn periodically, her eyes staying brown, to Kate's relief. Eventually, Kate was able to find a public access channel that had a show called "Animal Friends" on. The cartoony animation was terrible, but the program did its job, immediately captivating the interest of the baby. With his eyes glued to the television, he sat on the carpet and sucked on his pacifier, and the two women knew he'd be totally distracted for a few minutes while they talked.
Katelyn and Courtney both sat on the cream-colored leather sofa, facing each other. Courtney was looking down at Kate's breasts, which seemed to take up her entire torso. Katelyn was leaning forward slightly, in case she needed to put her hand on Courtney's mouth again, and there was only about a foot of space between Kate's breasts and Courtney's own. Courtney had C-cup sized boobs, which were quite large on her small, athletic frame. Kate's had always been larger of course, but this was something else entirely. They dominated the whole space between them. "God, Katelyn, you boobs are so huge," she said softly. "How do you even handle them being this big? You don't look like you're even scared about what's happening to you right now," said Courtney, looking up at Kate's face.
"Oh, trust me, I'm terrified," Katelyn replied. "But that's more in like, a general sense, for reasons that I'm about to explain. These," said Katelyn, gesturing at her tits, "Are basically ticking time bombs. Ready to grow bigger at any moment. And that means it's crucial that you keep your mouth closed and don't let your mind wander to thoughts of... her." at that, Courtney's eyes immediately started flickering to violet, and Kate quickly raised her hand to put on Courtney's mouth again, but Courtney was faster. She clamped both hands over her own mouth, recognizing that her thoughts were straying into dangerous territory. Kate held her hand poised in midair, but Courtney seemed to have herself under control. She kept both her hands tightly clamped against her mouth, and the little bit of purple faded from her eyes once more.
"Good?" Kate asked. Courtney nodded silently in response, keeping her hands on her mouth. Katelyn sighed. Now, it was time to get to the crux of the matter. This whole time, Katelyn had been dancing around telling Courtney the full story, and now she was finally going to tell her friend the terrible secret about her breasts. "Courtney I..." Kate trailed off, and sighed again. This was going to be difficult. "Courtney, the first thing we need to get out of the way is that you and James are in danger. It's dangerous for you or anyone else to be around me, particularly today," said Kate. Courtney turned her head slightly, looking confused.
"More specifically, um... my breasts... are dangerous. You saw how big they grew in the car, and how fast it happened?" she asked, and Courtney nodded, her expression perplexed. "Well," Katelyn said, "They've grown a lot bigger than that before, and a lot faster than what you saw. Big enough to destroy my house, and fast enough that if they do that again, you and James could get trapped and crushed."
Courtney's eyes widened at this, as she took in the implications. "That's right," said Kate. "It wasn't a gas leak that blew up my house, it was my tits." Courtney stared at her friend, hands clamped over her mouth. Katelyn thought she could see a little glimmer of fear in Courtney's eyes as she glanced down at Kate's boobs, as if expecting them to start growing at any moment. "So what I want you to do, if you see them start growing really fast, is be ready to grab James and run the hell away from my house," Katelyn said. Courtney nodded silently, her eyes flicking to her son watching TV. Her expression looked determined when she looked back to Kate, and Kate understood exactly what she silently was communicating. Whatever strange things that were happening with her friend, the baby's safety came first.
"Okay," said Kate, "So the second thing you need to know is - and get your hands ready -" she said, to which Courtney obliged, "is that the Goddess who we can't name right now, she's watching everything we're saying, and she could appear out of thin air at any moment and start, um, complicating things," Kate said. Her heart was beating fast just talking about this. She had no doubt that April was certain to show up at some point, now that they were talking about her. It wasn't going to be a fun experience, for herself, and probably not for Courtney either. But it was too late for Courtney to escape anyway, now that she had April's attention. Katelyn figured she might as well warn her about what was coming.
Even as Kate watched, mentioning the Goddess again made Courtney react. Her gaze slackened as she stared past Katelyn, and her irises swiftly bled to deep violet for a moment. Kate's eyes widened as she held her hand up, but Courtney managed to keep her hands tight across her chin while she mumbled the Goddess's name into her palms. Then the episode passed again, and Courtney's eyes returned to brown. She looked around as she came out of her trance, and her eyes locked onto Kate's once more, an annoyed expression on her face. She didn't need to say anything for Katelyn to understand what her expression meant: This bullshit with April's name is ANNOYING.
"I know," said Katelyn. "It sucks. This whole thing sucks. But uh, it gets worse. A lot worse." she said, wincing as she got ready to tell Courtney the worst part about all this. Courtney's eyes widened again, as she clearly didn't see how the situation could get worse than it already was. Kate's pulse was racing just thinking about the burden of knowledge she was about to put on her friend. She exhaled nervously, tears starting to form in her eyes. "The thing is... there's a reason my breasts are doing this. The Goddess told me that she has something planned for me, and it's not going to be pretty," said Kate. Courtney's eyes briefly flickered back and forth between purple and brown, but she kept her attention focused on Kate's words. Katelyn sighed once more, looking down at her humongous boobs contained in her stretchy compression shirt. The synthetic fabric was almost translucent from how much it was being forced to stretch to contain them. Kate looked back up at Courtney, and her expression was dark. "She's going to use my boobs to destroy the world."
Courtney just stared at Kate for several seconds. Horror, confusion, and disgust flashing across her face. As she stared into Katelyn's eyes and gathered that her friend was completely serious, her eyebrows scrunched down and her face became a mask of worry, as her gaze flicked down to Katelyn's breasts. She looked back up at Kate's face, and lifted one of her fingers to indicate that she wanted to talk. Kate raised her hand to prepare to clamp down on Courtney's mouth again in case she though of April, then nodded to her friend to speak. Courtney slowly removed her hands from her mouth, keeping them near her chin as she asked a single question. "Why?"
Kate just shook her head, closing her eyes as tears squeezed their way out of them and ran down her cheeks. "I don't know," she said, her voice full of anguish as she looked around the room. "She... she told me she's just doing it because it's fun, Courtney. She made it sound like life is worthless, and it's no big deal if the world is destroyed," Kate said. Her face was becoming flushed, and the tears were flowing more freely as she continued. "I tried to tell her I didn't want any part of it, Courtney. I asked her, 'What about all the people that are going to die? What about my family and friends?" a sob suddenly choked it's way out of Katelyn, and she shuddered uncontrollably, her breasts jiggling mightily for a few seconds from the spasm.
Courtney leaned forward and put her hands on Katelyn's shoulders, squeezing her upper arms supportively. "She wouldn't listen, Courtney," said Kate, looking into Courtney's eyes, glad to see the irises were staying brown. "She doesn't c-care. She says she's a Goddess, and s-sh-she keeps going on about how it's my destiny to grow and grow until the planet cracks apart. She... she's crazy, Courtney," Katelyn finished in a whisper, her eyes full of terror. "I can't do anything to stop her. I can't -" and then Katelyn broke down into sobs, bowing her head and rocking back and forth on the leather couch.
Courtney stood up off the couch and tried to soothe her friend. "Shhhh, shhh..." she said. "Let... let me give you a hug, girl. Can your boobs handle a hug right now? Are they too sensitive?" Kate just shook her head with her eyes closed in a pained expression, not knowing how her boobs would respond if Courtney touched them. She winced slightly as her friend rested her hand on one experimentally, but there was no shocking wave of pleasure that shot through her breasts. They felt normal at the moment - very big, and sensitive, but not hypersensitive.
Still crying, Katelyn stood up, and held her arms out to accept Courtney's hug, and her friend stood up and leaned into her. Of course, there was a lot of flesh in the way, and Kate's boobs squished up against Courtney's upper chest, completely dwarfing her friend's breasts. As Courtney wrapped her arms around Kate's shoulders and squeezed herself inward, Kate gasped lightly from one of her nipples touching Courtney's stomach, but besides that, the hug didn't cause any problems. Tit flesh covered by spandex bulged out comically from around Courtney's arms and chest.
As the two friends hugged awkwardly through the cushion of boobs, Courtney caressed Kate's hair softly while she sobbed. "Shhhh... shhh..." she said, trying to comfort Katelyn. But it wasn't much help. Kate tried to get her emotions under control, so she could finish relating the details of her curse.
"She's going to make me do it, Courtney," Kate said with a shuddering breath. "She's going to make me destroy the whole world with my boobs, and everybody except me is going to die." Courtney just rocked back and forth in the hug, patting Kate's hair.
"What I don't understand though," she said softly against Kate's head. "Is why did she decide to make you immortal? Why does she care about your life and nobody else's?" she wondered aloud.
"Because she doesn't want anything to be able to stop me from doing what she wants," Kate said through gritted teeth, anger slowly replacing her sorrow. "She doesn't want an... accident to befall me, or for me to kill myself to save everyone. And believe me... I tried."
At this, Courtney sprang back from embracing Katelyn, holding her friend's shoulders as she looked at her with a horrified expression. "Oh my god, Katie. You tried to kill yourself?" she asked, her eyes darting back and forth between Kate's eyes, which smoldered with anger as she stared back.
"Yes," Katelyn growled. "It doesn't work."
Courtney just stared for a few seconds. "That's how you knew the grenade wasn't going to harm you at the bank," she realized aloud with an awed voice. Kate nodded slowly. Suddenly, one of Courtney's hands darted out and slapped Katelyn across the face.
Kate's head moved from the contact, but she just looked back at Courtney as if it had been nothing. "Doesn't hurt," she sniffed, smiling wistfully. "Nothing hurts me anymore," said Katelyn, her voice full of sorrow.
That didn't stop Courtney from slapping her again, with her other hand. "How could you?!" Courtney exclaimed, her own eyes full of tears now. "You were just going to off yourself and not tell anybody? You were just going to be gone and I'd be stuck here wondering why? How could you, Katie?" asked Courtney, punctuating her emphasis with another slap. She shook her hand afterwards. It must have been a hard slap. To Kate, it felt like a baby lightly tapping her face, even though her head was jarred by the motion. She almost wished the slaps did hurt, since she knew she deserved the pain.
It was Katelyn's turn to grab Courtney's shoulders. "There was no way that anyone would have believed me if I told them what was going on, Courtney. If I left a suicide note, it just would have made everyone think I was completely insane, babbling about my boobs destroying the world!" she exclaimed, trying to her friend understand. "Don't you see? I... I had to try it. My breasts are going to grow bigger and bigger, until they crush everything, kill everyone I care about. Kill my mom," Kate said, her voice getting softer as she continued, "Kill you," she said, and then even more quietly, "Kill James," looking into Courtney's eyes with sincerity. "Wouldn't you do anything you could to stop it?" asked Katelyn.
Her friend stared at her, looking back and forth between Katelyn's eyes before responding, "Yes," and lowering her eyes dejectedly. "I just..." Courtney continued with a loud sniff, "...It just would have broken my heart if you had suddenly turned up dead with no explanation," she said, and tears ran down her cheeks as she looked back up at Katelyn.
Kate flung her arms around Courtney in an embrace, once again squishing her chest into her friend. Courtney squeezed just as tightly against Katelyn. "I know," Kate whispered into Courtney's hair. "I'm sorry."