A scent filled the air, taking Clara and Amanda off guard. The two looked down at Derek, who had immediately gotten to cleaning up the mess they had created. "Is it him?" Clara looked at her lab partner. Amanda shrugged. "Hey, Mr. Bates?" the blonde girl asked. Derek turned around. "What's up?" he replied. Amanda grabbed hold of him and held him up to her nose. Derek grunted as the girl's hand wrapped around him. "What are you doing?" he spoke. Amanda breathed in, a rush of air climbing up around Derek, seemingly putting him in a vortex. "It is him!" Amanda exclaimed. "Dude, he smells like fruit!" Clara took Derek away from her friend and did the same thing. "What the hell is going on?" Derek thought. "What are they doing?" Having missed the aforementioned comment from Amanda, Derek was brought back to reality when Clara spoke to him. "Mr. Bates, you smell like berries. I think the experiment we were working on did something to you," the black high schooler explained. As she went to set Derek back down on the table, she accidentally squeezed him. "Whoa!" Clara called. Instead of dropping Derek down, she raised him back into the air, keeping a tight grip on him. "Amanda, he's squishy! He's like a little gum ball!" That comment right there would spark a school-wide intrigue with Derek. With the news spreading like wildfire among the classes, it was then that the little assistant would get up to some heavy hijinks.
"What are you talking about?" Derek shouted, beginning to get a little irritated. "Gum ball? Like, you must be joking!" Clara and Amanda looked at each other and shrugged. "We aren't kidding, Mr. Bates. Seriously, that chemical spill must have altered your body or something. Does it hurt at all? I know you said you were okay, but..." one of the girls spoke. Derek shook his head. "No, I'm fine. But if you're concerned that something might have happened to me, please go alert your teacher," the little guy instructed. The girls looked at each other again. "Actually, I thought we could try something," Clara began. "I mean, if you smell like berries and you're bouncy and squishy, then maybe you really are just like a piece of gum." Derek didn't like where this was heading. "Whoa, whoa, settle down," he said. Before he could say anything more, however, Clara brought him to her face and opened her mouth. The girl's warm breath washed over him as she breathed out. "Clara!" Derek called. "Stop it!"
*PLOP*
The black student tossed the little assistant into her mouth, him landing with a splat on her tongue. Derek slipped and slid as he desperately tried to escape from the quickly closing cavern of Clara's mouth. Just as he reached the tip of the girl's tongue, Clara closed her lips, trapping Derek inside of her mouth. "This isn't funny!" Derek called. But he wouldn't be able to concentrate on complaining much longer as Clara soon treated him exactly like a piece of gum. She wrapped her tongue around him and sucked on him for a moment before tossing him against her left cheek. Derek looked up and screamed as her bright white teeth came descending down.
*CHOMP*
*CHEW*
*SMUCK*
Watching in suspense was Amanda, who was curious to know what the result of this new experiment would be. Clara raised her eyebrows in surprise. She continued to chew and smack the little assistant in her mouth for minutes more. While she was enjoying herself, Derek was not. Now utterly soaked in Clara's saliva, he could not stop tumbling around in the wet cavern of her mouth. He was chomped and pressed, sucked and savored. When Clara finally let him out after some ten minutes of chewing, Derek was battered. "So how was it?" Amanda asked. Derek was about to answer with a horrible response, but Clara cut in. "Dude, he was really good! Like, he really tastes like a berry flavored piece of gum! You gotta try it." Clara tossed Derek over to the blonde girl and he landed softly in her hands. "Please don't," Derek whispered. But the girl didn't listen to him. With a grin, Amanda opened her mouth and tossed Derek inside.
*SPLAT*
The light of day quickly evaporated and Derek was once again stuck inside of a girl's moist mouth. As Amanda started to chew him, he knew he was in for another hell of a ride.
What happens to Derek next?