Jellyfish: Growing in Love By Woodsy 3/28/01 Dear Diary, I'm so excited I can't stand it! My friend Kathleen invited me to go with her family to their beach house down in Georgia. In 16 years the only times I've ever been outside this state were a few trips to Chicago to see my grandparents. That was always fun, but whoopdeedo. I finally get to see a beach, and what's better, her brother Patrick is gonna be there. I soooo want to see him half-naked! Even though I've known him since I was 9, he has really grown up. All those years on the track team and his growth spurt really paid off for him. He is so hot and he doesn't know it, and this is my chance to land him before he discovers it. The only problem is, even though I now see him as a boy worthy of dating, he might still see me as his little sister's friend. He was always nice to me, so that's not the problem. Hell, he's nice to me, he's nice to Kathleen even though she doesn't often deserve it. Whenever we want to go to a party, even if it's way the hell down in Indianapolis and we needed a ride, he hauled us down. If we needed booze, he got some from his buddies and gave it to us...for a nominal fee of course. It was money well spent, though, since Kathleen has a fake id, but it's so bad she might as well have drawn it with a crayon. Their parents were away a lot when those two were kids, so Patrick was her keeper much of the time. Unfortunately he's also good to this girl Claudia at school. She's a star on the soccer team and thinks she's such hot shit because she broke a scoring record. He's got it bad for her and she treats him like dirt. It makes me so mad to see anybody walk all over him like that. Doesn't he know he could have me? Maybe some day he'll let me walk all over him. Yeah right! She's real tall, like 5-10, and has one of those tight six-packs and curved shoulders. I hate girls like that. The good news is, she's a senior now, so once this school year's over I'll never have to see her again. The bad news is, so is Patrick. Why did I have to have these short legs and round bottom? Maybe I'll show Patrick what short girls can do. Tee hee! 5/12/01 Dear Diary, It's been a little while since I've written here, but a lot has happened, so there's a good reason. Kathleen told me that Patrick wanted to take Claudia to the prom in the worst way. He's been trying to woo her all year, but she just hasn't bought any of it. After months of planning, prodding, begging and pleading, he failed to win her. Which was all bad for him I guess, but great for me. Once I learned he could not take her I had to act fast. If I waited too long, he would have either asked someone else or given up and stayed home. Luckily I already had an in through Kathleen, so she was able to sell me to him and he asked me out. This is so great I can't believe it. I get to go to a senior prom and I'm only a sophomore. Omigod omigod omigod! I have to find something to wear soon, and get my hair fixed...This is gonna be so great, I can't wait! 5/15/01 Dear Diary, The prom was just amazing! Patrick was a little bit uncomfortable, like he was only going to take me to fulfill his obligation with me. But he came around. As we danced he held me close and I just wanted him to hold me in his arms forever. And then after the dance as he took me home, one thing led to another and we...Well, I should say, I gave him some gratification with my lips. A whole rush of feelings came over me at once. It was like he was slowly emerging from being my best friend's shy and goofy (but so fucking hot!) older brother to my fantasy man. I almost couldn't fit him in my mouth, and my jaw is so sore I can barely talk. It's a good thing I can write about this, because I just can't tell Kathleen or she'll spew. I almost did, too, when he finally came. It took a little coaxing to get him to open up to me and a little tenderness on my part to get him to open up, literally. Hehe. But I think he sees me as a woman now, not just some little girl, and I certainly don't see him as just some boy. Lucky for him, I'm rather skilled at oral sex. People may not know it to look at me, but I'd say I can get a guy off better than almost anybody. They see me and they must think I'm just some chubby 5'3 stump, but what some people may not know is, we girls who are chubby really, really, really enjoy putting things in our mouths, and we want to suck alllll the flavor out. I'm so bad. The only damper on the evening was Claudia. I don't know why that bitch had to be there, she thinks she's too good for everybody else anyway. When Patrick introduced us, she gave me this condescending look and turned her nose up at him. He kept checking her out the whole night. She pissed me off in her sleeveless dress, showing off her sculpted arms and her firm pecs. Oooh, if I could have gotten her outside alone I'd...probably get my ass kicked. But if I were just her size...I'd show her. 6/23/01 Dear Diary, Well, school's been out for a while now and I'm counting the days till Georgia. Right now we're 10 days away. That sounds stupid. I mean, who looks forward to Georgia? I can't even dream right, HAH! But I don't care. I get to skip town for 2 weeks with my best friend and I have my man all to myself. My man, listen to me. I sound like his wife. Speaking of Patrick, we haven't really gone out since the prom, but we have had a few rendezvous's on the side. This is so naughty, I love it! I feel like some Mata Hari or some James Bond chick sneaking off to meet for a roll in the hay. It's like we're having an affair, except not. And soon we'll be escaping to a far away land. Well, far away from Indiana. Kathleen has been weird to me lately. I'm afraid to tell her about me and her brother, it could be creepy. I think she knows what's going on, but we can't talk about it, not now anyway. 7/8/01 Dear Diary, Well, here we are at the beach and it's about everything I hoped it would be. Hot sand under my feet, salt water in my face, and Patrick. Last night we snuck off in the middle of the night for a walk on the beach, just the two of us. It was wonderful, but it's torture being around him during the day. Sneaking around together was great back home, but when you share a house with a whole family, eat meals together and everything, it gets old that you have to sneak around. Conversations at dinner time are empty and meaningless. It's so stupid. 4th of July was nice, though. The boys all shot off some fireworks and made lots of noise. They got a bigger kick out of it than Kathleen or I did. What's cool about the Becks, though, is, their parents don't mind letting us drink, at least as long as they're around to supervise. Which is fine. We all had a pretty good time together. I just wish I had a little more Patrick and a little less of his family sometimes. Sorry Kathleen. 7/13/01 Dear Diary, Well, this vacation has taken a turn for the worst. The other night I got stung by a jellyfish on my forearm. I'd heard how much this hurts, but GOD DAMN! My arm feels like it has about a thousand bee stings in it and in the last few days it has swollen up like a telephone pole. Also, I'd heard jellyfish tentacles will sting, but I didn't know they'd wrap around you. At least this one did. It wouldn't let go, so it just kept stinging and sticking. It was agony. The doctor has me on cortizone for the burn, which helps for now. My forearm is so big and heavy right now it feels like I'm carrying a cement cast on it. On the plus side Patrick has been a darling since the sting. He brings me all of my meals. He feels a little bit guilty about me getting stung. It's not his fault, but if it'll milk some attention, I'll do it. He was with me when I got stung and tried to splash the fish away from me when he saw me swimming near it. As you can see, it didn't work. So after we stepped out of the water I was in such bad pain that I begged him to pee on my arm. He looked at me like I asked him to hand me his spleen, but I figured, it worked on "Friends". It's funny now that I'm writing about it, but he was so timid about doing it. I kept assuring him it's not like I hadn't seen his dick before. Still, he didn't want some passerby to see him urinating on somebody on the beach. I finally convinced him to take a leak in a bottle and pour some of that on me. It didn't help much, but I was glad to have somebody there who cares enough to pee on me. Yuck! Maybe that will be a story for our grandchildren someday. Hmmm, we could have grandchildren someday. It sucks that I've missed 2 days so far because of this stupid arm and I'll miss the rest of this vacation. This trip was supposed to be a last hurrah for the Becks because he'll be going off to college in a month or so. He might not take any trips with them after this. I hate having to bring them down because of this. Since I don't have the nerve to go back into the water, I'm stuck in the house by myself for much of the time. I could write more in this book I suppose, but that gets just as boring as watching tv. I did wander into Patrick's room and just happened to stumble into his luggage. Okay, maybe it was more like rifling, but you get the idea. I found some comic books in his bag by some publisher called LH Art. Weird stuff in there. Sometimes you want to know what your lover is into, and sometimes your sorry you asked. This discovery falls into the latter. Huge, tall, women with lots of hair, more muscles than the biggest NFL lineman, and breasts that hydraulics and cantilevers couldn't hold. What does he see in it? Still, it did explain why he was so hung up on Claudia, who was almost as strong as him. I guess until women like the ones in his comic books come to life, he'll have to settle for me. 8/25/01 Dear Diary, This summer sucked. Patrick is gone and my arm is still swollen up like a balloon. It doesn't hurt anymore, but I'm all uneven now. I look deformed. One arm looks like it belongs to Popeye, and the other belongs on, well, Olive Oyl. Actually, it's a lot like Popeye, because the size is down a little bit, but amazingly I've got a stronger grip with that arm now. I noticed the other day when I had to clean out the attic that I had no trouble holding onto a trunk with my left hand. The rest of my body still wasn't strong enough to hoist it up, but as I lowered it down the ladder to the second floor, I held on whereas I normally would have lost my grip on it. It just sucks that I have to go back to school like this. Well, that's not all that sucks. I hardly saw any of Patrick after the beach trip. He had to work for a little while, then go off to school 2 states away. For the last weeks that he was here I kept my arm in a bandage. He seemed concerned, but I tried to steer the conversation in any other direction. I'm gonna miss him terribly until Thanksgiving. Oscar Wilde said the second greatest tragedy is not getting what you want. The greatest is getting it. Now that he's mine to lose, I just feel empty without him. 9/10/01 Dear Diary, I saw a doctor about my arm today. We took a measurement and my left forearm is 17 inches in circumference, whereas my untouched arm is 11 inches at the same point. The arm is healed, but the growth is like an odd form of scar tissue. Somehow the poison from the man o'war wounded me and my muscle and skin tissues healed by reconstructing themselves. Hence my muscles and tendons grew back larger and stronger than before. The venom is still in my arm, but the tissue around it has grown immune to it. Something peculiar about my body chemistry reacts to jellyfish poison that makes it act as a growth hormone. What a relief to know that it can't harm me now at least. I still wish I weren't so uneven though. If only I could shrink my left side back to normal...Or maybe I should just increase the size of my right side. I wonder....It's probably too late to do anything about the left arm. But maybe I can fix the right arm. And it would be a shame to have big arms without the legs and torso to support them. I'd look like a gorilla. I'll bet Patrick would love this. Hahahahahahaha! 9/12/01 Dear Diary, I've suddenly taken a greater interest in chemistry and biology this year what with the recent turn of events. I don't take chemistry this year, but I do take bio, which is good. I quit the model UN, which is a shame, because I won't see much of Kathleen anymore, but my experiment is going to take up all the time that schoolwork doesn't already take. Most of what I do will require me to keep careful and consistent measurements, much of which I will keep a copy in this journal. Tomorrow, Friday the 13th, will be the first day of the rest of my life. So tonight I will take all of my before measurements, and take some last pictures of myself. Height: 5-5 Weight: 147 pounds (eek) Calves: L-13" R-13.5" Thighs: L-20" R-20" Hips: 37" Waist: 31" (eek again) Chest: 36C Biceps: L-12 R-11.5 Forearms: L-17 R-11 Neck: 14" Well, Nicki, here goes nothing. 9/13/01 Dear Diary, It wasn't easy, but I got my hands on some sanitary hypodermic needles and syringes. I hope my parents never find this stuff or they might think I'm shooting up. Well, I guess I am, but it's with my own juice. Since the poison is stuck in reservoirs in my left arm, I had no choice but to extract it with needles and inject it into various parts of my body. Today I did my right forearm. It stung going in, but not nearly as badly as the initial jellyfish tentacle. You like to feel a tingle for this sort of thing, but this burned like a mother fucker. All in the name of science, though. My arm is red just like my left one was when it got stung. It hasn't grown any bigger, but the skin is sore around it, like it's inflating. 9/21/01 Dear Diary, My right forearm has caught up with the left in size and shape. I look like Popeye now with these 2 pythons shaped like baseball bat barrels. They are each now 18 inches around. It's a bit awkward now that I have 2 of these. At least when it was one, I could wrap it up in a bandage and it just looked like some accident. But that's the price of evening it out. I hope it cools down here soon. Wearing these long sleeves to cover them up might look suspicious if I'm sweating like a sow. Thinking about long term, I'm not worried about it, though. Next target will be the buttocks. It could be embarrassing at first, but if I get a big butt it won't be anything new. It's already big, but it's padded with fat. At least the difference will be subtle. 9/22/01 Dear Diary, I'm glad it's not a school day because it would hurt like hell to sit down. I feel like I just sat on a hot radiator and burned off the skin. God I hope this is worth it. If it is I'll have a butt that won't quit, and if it doesn't, well, I'll look silly. It gets harder each time to keep up the courage to keep sticking the needle in. That's hard enough to do in the first place, but knowing the kind of pain I'll be in each time makes it tough to keep the nerve. Then I think about Patrick and about his not so secret comics. And about Claudia's pompous swagger and how much I would like to knock her block off if I ever saw her again. Then it all feels worth it. 9/28/01 Dear Diary, My butt isn't much bigger than it was before, but the shape...WOW! It's like 2 bowling balls pressed together. Not only could you bounce a quarter off this one but dent it too. The cheeks are hard as a rock. Before I had a cottage cheesy jiggly butt, but now the muscle tissue has grown in place of the fat. It's like pouring concrete into a water balloon and letting it dry. If I had known this would work I would have stayed in the water and let the jellyfish sting me everywhere. I've been so hungry and so tired lately. I'll fall asleep at 7 and not wake up until 7 the next morning, and I eat so much lately that I have to hide some of it from my parents because it's embarrassing. The cell regeneration must take a lot of food energy, I can barely keep up. Tonight I will continue on the lower body with the thighs. I'd really like to inject the biceps, not only so that it would even out my arms, but because I barely have the strength to lift these forearms when they're like this. But a building needs a foundation, and I need my lower body to be strong enough to support the extra size. I'm afraid to rush anything, so I'm spacing everything out by a week. Hopefully by the next time I write I will have big, strong legs to stand on. 9/29/01 Dear Diary, Sure enough, my legs are sore and burning. I have to set an icepack between them just to bear the pain. This is the worst sting since the tentacle first wrapped around my arm. But pain means progress, so I hate it, but only so much. Luckily the shots only hurt for the first day, but the rush of looking and feeling my new firmness lasts me through the night. I haven't talked to Patrick much since he left. Every 2 weeks or so I'll call him or he'll call me. I guess I hope he calls back and that he keeps thinking about me, but with the new body I'm working on, I don't think he'll have much of a choice. We really haven't been like a boyfriend and girlfriend anyway, since we snuck around anyway. It was more like a series of flings, which is fine. Less baggage that way. He tends to fall in love and fall hard, so I don't think he'll sleep around much anyway. Who am I kidding? I think about him a lot if I'm not thinking about my experiment. How ironic that he had a hand in creating this new body, which happens to be the type of his fantasy, and he doesn't even know what I'm doing or what I now look like. Ah well, I'll wait for the right time to unveil it. It's only fair that he should get dibs on it. 10/19/01 Dear Diary, I've finally done it!! I've finished with my calves and biceps and I have the body of a goddess. Christina Envall's got nothing on me. It's been so much fun to take off the bandages like unwrapping a facelift. It's like I'm looking at me, but not. I flex in the mirror for hours, then, exhausted and sore, I'll tie on the feedbag and go right to sleep. Pretty exciting, huh? Well, growth needs calories and sleep, and I've done lots of growing. My current measurements are: Height: 5'9 (I grew a few inches, which is odd since I'd been the same height for like 2 years) Weight: 230 lb (I can't believe it, either) Biceps: 19 inches (Yes!) Forearms: 18 inches Thigh: 25 inches (yikes!) Calf: 19 inches Hips: 40 in Waist: 31 in (I knew there was a body part I forgot about) Chest: 42 DD I'm not very cut, and I look like I'm still carrying some baby fat because I haven't worked out yet. I figured I'd wait till I put my body into even proportions before I tested the strength limits or else I might really injure myself. Seeing as I want to keep this body a secret as best I can, that would be a bad thing. But in 2 weeks when some of the swelling and soreness go down I'm hitting the iron. Look out world! Nicki's coming! 11/16/01 Dear Diary, It's been a while since I've written, but I've been very busy with the workouts. I went ahead and injected my abdomen with the serum, which made me so sick I thought I was gonna die. The results are worth it, though. My stomach looks like a cobblestone road. We didn't have any weights here at home so I joined the Y downtown. It's cheaper than a gym and it's not too crowded in the morning when I go. I've only been working out there for 3 weeks and I've almost outgrown it. I was afraid these muscles would just be for show, but they work. It took a little while to get my strength and technique up after my muscles have been largely unused for so long, but now that I'm limbered up, I can bench press 420 pounds. A guy at the gym says that's some kind of record. He asked how much I weigh, but I was too shy to tell him. I work out in the loosest sweats I can find so as not to arouse so much suspicion. It's getting harder and harder to do that, though, when I'm growing like this. Oddly enough, you stick out in the crowd when you're 5'11 and 245 pounds (yeah, I grew another 2 inches). I wonder just how big I'm going to get. My doctor couldn't believe his eyes when he saw me. He has some pictures of me as a little girl and even some from just a year ago and he thought I was putting him on at first. His hands were all sweaty at the checkup. Gross, but flattering. He asked if I was using steroids and took a while to convince otherwise. He thinks the venom from the jellyfish might have triggered a growth spurt that would have happened anything, but considered the possibility that I'll be taller than I would have been naturally. I hope I don't get too big. I don't want to be a freak or anything. Well, no more than I am already. Thanksgiving is coming up and I realized how much I have to be thankful for. This body is the silver lining in the dark cloud that was that stinging agony this past summer. That already seems like a lifetime ago. I can still feel the little old Nicki inside me somewhere, but she's moved into a bigger, stronger, more beautiful body than she ever thought possible. I'm not so thankful about going away to Oregon for Thanksgiving. I mean, it's nice to go someplace new, but I was hoping to show myself to Patrick. I haven't mentioned to him what I'm up to and I rarely talk to Kathleen anymore, so she wouldn't be able to tell him anything. She must think I've just gotten fatter this whole time, since I only wear big, sloppy clothes to school. If she thinks I've let myself go, all the better. Wait till she and everybody else sees the real me! On the plus side, maybe I'm not ready to show Patrick this body yet anyway. But won't he be surprised to see me when I'm ready. I wonder if he'll be ready. 12/31/01 Dear Diary, What a year! With all that's happened, I would swear 5 years had passed since July. I reeled in Patrick, saw more states than I'd ever been to in my life, and transformed into a hulking amazon. These last few months have been like a dream and I don't want to wake up. Still, it has all been a bit lonely. I have the body that I never knew I wanted because I never thought it possible to have, but now that I have it I don't know how I lived without it. But with all the sneaking around to keep this physique a secret, it's like knowing the meaning of life and not being able to tell anyone about it. The worst part is, I have to keep it a secret from Patrick. As if it wasn't bad enough I missed him on Thanksgiving, I played hard to get this Christmas, all because I have a big surprise for him for his birthday present. I can barely stand it. Mom and Dad don't really understand what I'm up to these days and think I'm becoming a recluse. They're a little bit afraid of me when they see me in short sleeves. It's nice to be respected, but I don't want people treating me like a monster. I'm just the same dreamy, slightly nerdy little girl I always was, just in a kick-ass bod. They are supportive enough to buy me some weights for Christmas. Dad even set up some contraptions in the basement. Good thing, too, because I'll need to train hard to cut myself up enough for a bodybuilding show this spring. That's right, I'm going to enter a state contest in March. I'm so excited! It's not a pro qualifier, so when I win it I can still enter some more amateur shows and win some money before I go after the high stakes. 3/2/02 Dear Diary, It's been an agonizing 2 months since my last entry. But what a year this is going to be. In just 2 weeks I'll be posing in front of total strangers for the first time in my life. It's gonna be like a costume party, since I'll have my hair and nails all dolled up, my body tanned and oiled, and flexing in a thong bikini. I've been training like crazy at home, and I haven't gotten much stronger, but I have cut myself up considerably. I can finally see some definition in my arms, thighs and abdomen. Wow, I have abs! And pecs! Goddamn! I get a big kick out of my own before and after pictures. I'm a far cry from that chubby little girl with the round belly and soft bottom. Still, I remember what it was like to look like that and so I don't bully people around unlike a certain soccer player who used to go to our school. That reminds me, I'm a lot bigger than her now. I'll bet she'd never recognize me if she saw me today, but I'd love to see the look on her face now. I'm taking my measurements today and I'll put them in here since this will be the last time writing until the show in all likelihood. I've been eating like a horse and sleeping my life away. I must look so boring to other people. I eat, sleep, train in private and go to school. I'm such a geek. I think I'll tell Patrick that. I won't tell him my measurements, though. A girl's gotta have her secrets. Height: 6'2 (I just keep growing lately) Weight: 285 lb (I just wish I didn't have to tell this to anyone in public) Hips: 51 Waist: 30 Chest 54 E Calf: 21 Thigh: 30 Forearm: 19 Bicep: 21 3/18/02 This is so great! I won my first contest. The heavyweight division was easy, since it only had 3 entrants, and as for the overall, well, I don't think the judges were ready for me. A lot of people, including the audience members, insisted I must be using gear, but I take that as a compliment. They might have noticed that my jawbone and forehead are shaped perfectly normally, I don't have any body hair, and my voice is at about the same pitch as it always was. Well, it's a little bit deeper now that it has a longer way to travel, but still sounds perfectly feminine. It was great to win, though. The prize money will come in handy for the recent expenses like clothing, which I keep growing out of. The only drawback is, I'm no longer a secret. The bodybuilding rags will have articles on me until I retire. Oh well, at least this is still a pretty cultish sport. The best part of the day, though, wasn't the trophy, but the surprise. I played a little trick on Patrick. As his birthday present, I told him I got 2 front row tickets to the Keystone Classic women's bodybuilding show and would like to take him. It's right near his college, so I figured he could get there easily enough, and since I had to drive 300 miles to it, I'd just meet him at the show. When he got to the entrance, I told him to go on in and I'd meet him inside. I didn't want him to miss anything. I called him from my cell backstage and told him that I was running late, so I'd pick my ticket up at willcall. Luckily heavyweights go last, just in case it took time to convince him to go inside. He was so cute. When I called him and he was already in his seat, he saw my name on the program and said how funny it was that someone had the same name as me. I had to contain my excitement. I was scheduled to pose third in my weight class, so as the first contestant went through her routine, I called him one last time and told him I was outside on my way in and would see him in a minute. Peaking from the curtain I saw him craning his neck to the back, waiting for me to walk to the front row. I stalled him on the phone until the last second, and once my name was called out, I told him Here I come. I was so nervous I thought I would crack. I was posing in a swimsuit that I never would have had the courage to wear just a year ago, posing for the first time in front of a crowd, and my honey was in the audience seeing the new me. I almost tripped on the walk out there, but I kept a smile on my face and proceeded with my routine, slowly. I didn't want Patrick to miss a second of it. The bright lights and the rush of the moment made it difficult to concentrate, but I found Patrick in the crowd, jaw on the floor and eyes big as cueballs after putting 2 and 2 together. I slinked through the routine as seductively as my giant frame would allow. I flexed and unflexed my biceps, my lats, my quads, my abs, and capped it off by pointing his way, blowing him a kiss, and winking. After the show, Patrick was petrified, in more ways than one wink. I think he was intimidated by my new massiveness, which is understandable. But I loosened him up with a little dirty talk and got him to give me a ride home. I find now that I have a harder time fitting into some cars anymore, but it's all a small price to pay I suppose. He nervously drove back to his dorm room and we talked and caught up for a while. Since I avoided him for so long he thought I wanted nothing to do with him. I guess the hard to get play was a little much, but he understood when I told him why I did it. I told him about the jellyfish and my new muscles. He didn't believe me at first, but I finally convinced him when I showed him the scar on my left arm where I got the first sting. I then showed him the similar, though smaller, welts where the needle went in at other places. I couldn't explain my growth spurt to him, but it didn't put him off. He was hesitant to touch me the whole time, like he was trying to pet a hungry tiger. But when I told him I was hungry for him, he finally complied. He admitted that he wanted to feel my muscles. So he did, all of them. Even a few inside me. We did it for the first time, well, it was my first time and ours. I told him that I built this body mostly for him anyway, so he was welcome to touch me anywhere he wanted. With these 7 months of working out I built up so much frustration that I just had to unleash on him, which might have been too much for him. I say he felt me up except I was clearly the aggressor in this situation. Funny how when you have 2 inches and 80 lbs on your mate you get to call the shots. We stayed up the whole night and after fucking his brains out we talked and he rubbed my back and feet. It was a win-win situation, as it gave him an excuse to squeeze my flesh and it untensed me after a long, nerve-racking day. We talked about the wonders of looking like I do, but how lonely it could be, and I told him I'm afraid no man might want me if I grow too big. After all, I don't mind a guy taller than me. In fact I prefer it, but that pool is getting smaller with every inch I grow. But I don't like the bulky muscle-bound look on men. Ironic that I like it on me, but not on men, yet people think I look masculine. I never wanted that day nor that night to end. I could die tomorrow knowing I lived that day once. Even after all this I never told Patrick how I knew he liked massive muscle goddesses, but he probably has some suspicions now. He told me that he had never actually seen a female bodybuilder in person, so what a treat it must have been to see me when 1) He's known me most of my life and was just beginning to see me as more than her little sister's friend, 2) He had no idea what I'd been up to and when he finds out I'd been avoiding him just to drop the ultimate surprise on him and 3) He's never seen a female bodybuilder before and when the first one he sees just happens to look like Tami Wooden's big sister and has the hots for him. 7/16/03 Dear Diary, You're here for me like an old friend, and in this case an old friend I have not visited in well over a year. That last year of high school seemed like it would go on forever. It's wrong to wish away your youth, but I really couldn't wait to finish. College might not be too bad, but high school just seems like a haven for the immature. It's not easy being the biggest girl in school, even if you are the strongest, and in my own humble opinion, have the best body. But it doesn't stop the whispers behind your back. As I feared, I didn't finish growing as of that contest. By Christmas of my senior year, I reached 6 foot 6 and after pumping so much iron, I've eaten my way up to 360 pounds. I think I've stopped growing...in height at least. That's not something I like to admit to people, but I love being strong and powerful. I like knowing that I have reached a musculature that no woman has ever reached, and probably never will. I've kept so many secrets that I forget what is common knowledge about me and what's not. Sometimes I want to just tell people that I owe this body to a jellyfish and then other times I remember how special this gift was. I'd hate to inspire copycats who might sting themselves and get sick or even die. Still it would be nice to know what exactly I'd look like without the toxins in my system, and whether this will have a long-term effect on me. I know I have enjoyed the short term effects so far. Soon I will be leaving for college, which might be a nice new adventure. At first I thought I'd attend school in Pennsylvania with Patrick, and I still think about that. But, instead I'll be just south of him at a smaller school. At my size it might be pointless to try and hide, but that's exactly what I'll try to do, as best I can anyway. I'll only be 50 miles from him, so I will be able to see him when I want, but if I'm going this far from home, I might as well enjoy the independence, even if I only do it for a few years. I might not be able to afford school if not for my physique. When I entered the Keystone I was afraid I'd draw too much attention to myself. Well, I did, but not all of it is bad. I won some contests, including an NPC Jr. National and a few teenage divisions. Not too many teenage girls are comfortable enough with their bodies yet to take up bodybuilding contests, so beating them is like letting Curt Schilling pitch to little leaguers. But it nets me some cash and keeps my name hot. Women's bodybuilding publications have all either interviewed me or want to. Those are nice, since there's not much I can say to hurt my reputation. I haven't been asked to do much modeling unfortunately. I guess the world isn't ready for a girl like me yet, but I have gotten some offers to do posing videos and was even asked to do personal sessions. I'm a little worried about private appearances with schmoes, but if somebody wants to videotape me clothed, so be it. Patrick isn't happy about all that, but as long as I assure him that there is no touching involved, which there hasn't been. My favorite is guest posing. I don't get to do it often, but it's nice because I get to do things that I can't do in contests. My best was a routine where I was clad from head to toe in Terminator black leather biker clothing. When I keep my face and body covered, people see my size and think this must be a man. But then I peel off the leather, starting with the sleeves of the jacket, then the boots, then the pants, and finally down to my suit and they see a humongous beautiful woman underneath. The economics of it all aren't fair when I think about it. I'm uniquely talented and endowed, but I'll never make the big bucks that male basketball and baseball players get out of high school. I didn't necessarily work hard to get this body, and in fact, I don't have to spend nearly as much money on upkeep as most pro bodybuilders, but still, it seems unfair. Maybe that's the wrong way to think about it. Maybe the way to approach it is to be glad that I now live in an age where there is women's olympic weightlifting, and strongwoman contests, and Ms. Olympia contests to win. And I still have time to win them.