Dan lay back in bed feeling pretty damned pleased with himself. Usually at this time on a Friday he’d be at work, but he had the day off, thanks to having worked the booth at an exhibition the previous week. Better still, he and his girlfriend Emily had just had sex. And pretty vanilla sex too - well, as vanilla as sex with Emily ever got. She’d taken a swig of her goo potion, just enough to turn her body super-bouncy. It was a bit like she’d become a human sex doll, and Dan had really enjoyed it.

The weekend lay ahead of them. Who knows, Dan mused, maybe they’d go take a drive to the beach, or go to the movies, or do all those things regular couples did.

Then he heard a knock at the door, followed by screams of joy from Emily, and he knew a regular weekend had just gone out the window.

*
“Was that the UPS guy?” Dan asked as Emily bounced into the room.

“Sure was,” Emily said excitedly. “And look! A new parcel for me from Goo Labs! I’m so happy. I was getting through the last box so quickly. Now there’s all new things for me to play with!”

“Just how much testing do these serums need?”

“You can’t be too careful, you know,” Emily said seriously as she ripped open the package. She was proud to have been asked to be a beta tester for Goo Labs’ latest inventions. She had a knack for coming up with crazy ideas the lab had never dreamed of.

“Ooh! Dyes!” Emily squealed, seizing upon a small box. She flipped it open. “Pink, purple, green, blue … Fantastic! I am definitely going to try this! And I know just how … Dan, can we go to the hardware store?”

“Sure,” he said. “Anything in particular?”

“Painting things.”

A light dawned. Dyes, goo potions, painting things … “Em, you don’t think you can …”

“Think? I don’t think. I know!” Emily set her jaw in a look Dan knew only too well. “Today, I’m going to be paint.”

*
“So what colour do you think the wall should be?” Emily asked as she pulled her T-shirt over her head.

“Uh … well, it’s only a temporary thing, right?”

“Yes, Dan, it’s temporary. I’m not going to stay paint forever … although you never know, I might just be tempted!” Emily winked at her somewhat unnerved boyfriend.

“You’re gonna help me Dan, right? Please?” Emily turned on her best little-old-me expression. Dan sighed. He knew he’d be roped into this. But where was it going to end?

“Of course, Em. I’ll be here.”

“Wonderful!” Emily popped a kiss on his lips, then began to remove the rest of her clothes. “Now, I think I’ll try purple for my first try as paint.” The now naked girl stepped into the paint tray they’d laid next to the wall. “So first I take the dye …” She drained the little vial.

“Next I need to take the liquifier goo serum. This is gonna be the tricky part … I need to be liquid but solid enough to stick to a wall …” Emily swallowed the serum. “And now for my next trick … tah-dah!”

And Emily began to melt. She began to grow pale, although with the dye she quickly turned a grape-like colour. “Ooh, I’m flavoured!” she giggled.

At some point her body began to rapidly liquify, pouring into the paint tray. They’d got the largest they could find, and Emily filled it to the three-quarter level.

Dan stared at the purple liquid that had been Emily. It really did look quite a lot like paint. Experimentally, he dipped a paintbrush into the goo. It clung to the brush effectively.

“I guess you really are paint, Em,” he said softly.

Well, he had his orders … Dan turned to the living room wall and dabbed it with the brush. Sure enough, the purple clung to the wall. He began to paint more onto the painted patch.

“How do I look now, Dan?” chorused voices.

“Yeargh!” Damn, he almost dropped the brush. Dan looked around the room. “Emily, you’re in the tray?”

“And on the wall!” Emily giggled from the patch of paint.

“And I’m on the brush!” she said.

“And in the tray!” she added. “I’m in three places at once. Being split like this is really interesting!”

“Well, let’s get more of you on the wall then.” Dan continued to paint, gradually covering the wall.

Painted Emily cooed as she grew larger and larger. After a couple of hours she was almost the entire wall. In the tray and on the brush were left a thin scraping of paint.

“What should I do with the rest of you, Em?”

“Just hold the tray and brush up near the wall. I’ll just absorb myself.” The paint flew in a thin trickle right onto the wall, leaving the pan and brush clean.

“And just a bit more …” A spatter of paint that had somehow got onto Dan joined the wall too.

“So what do we do now?” Dan asked.

“Now we wait until I’m dry.”

“Em, that will be at least two days!”

“That’s OK, isn’t it? We weren’t doing anything this weekend. And being paint is so much fun! I’ve gone from being a liquid to a solid! And I’m flat now too … and so large! And I can't tell you how good that paintbrush felt.”

Dan shrugged. “But when you’re dry you’ll change back, right?”

“Huh? Oh yeah, of course! But I want to do this again soon.” Emily chortled with glee. “I’ve got another great idea! I could become a goo girl, split myself up into four or six parts, and I could use a separate dye for each one! You could paint a picture with me! Imagine, me as art …”

“Yeah, just imagine,” Dan said.

Time for a beer, he thought. Or maybe a few.