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Jess: so, ya coming over for movie night? Miles and Ian are coming.

Chloe: yea, yea, I'm coming too! remind me, what time is it again?

Jess: the smartest kid in the class forgetting stuff... 8 pm

Chloe: ._. bruh

Jess: just kidding lmao, just come a bit early okay?

Chloe: Actually, I'm coming earlier, I wanna show you something

Jess: what is it?

Chloe: you'll find out ;)

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She dropped down her phone and fell asleep. She was woken up by a text and knocking on the window in her room.

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Chloe: look out your window ;)

Jess: ufhhhh... whar now, I jst wpke up...

Chloe: fine, I can wait.

Jess: qhat?

Chloe: ;)

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Jessica, curious as to what her friend said, slowly got up, opened her window and saw Chloe's head, supported by about a few metres of neck was right in front of her. outside her window. of her 1st-floor apartment

"woomy!" Chloe said in a playful way.

"What is... how are you... Wh-"

"let me stretch in first, then I can explain it all. Can I come in?"

"erm... okay?"

Chloe's head went back down, and in a few moments, Chloe's hands attached to 3-metre arms were holding the window frame. She then skilfully jumped in, closed the window and curtains, and sat on the chair, with her arms still retracting.

There was a moment of pure silence, Jessica sat down shocked.

"So..." Chloe finally spoke up. "what do ya want to know?"

"ho... how..." Jessica couldn't say a word properly out of shock.

"did I get this?" She points at her arms retracting.

Jessica nodded, eyes still wide.

"ah, some complicated mutation developed when I was 7, no one understood exactly how, but they did mention my cells being all rubber-like."

Jessica finally spoke properly. "o-kay... Can I ask anything about your... condition?"

"Yeah sure! that's why I came here!"

"What exactly can you do?"

"Well, long way or short way?"

"Short way?" Jessica is still confused.

"okay, arms, legs, neck, and torso, all completely flexible and stretchable up to 150 meters. Below that, I'm completely fine." She put up another little demonstration by stretching her arms across the room, and let them slink back into the sleeve of her shirt.

"Oh wow, jeez that's freaky..."

"I know!" Chloe said with a smile, completely unoffended.

"Mind if I ask if you can you stretch your torso too?"

"Sure!" Chloe suddenly stretched her torso over to Jessica, and then quickly wrapped her torso around Jessica about 3 times before stretching her neck around her one more time, completely constricting Jessica in a matter of seconds.

"Ouch! too tight!"

"Right, sorry! I tend to wrap tightly when I do it fast!" She loosened her coil a bit. Jessica became even more uncomfortable being wrapped by her friend's body, but it was without a doubt really snug.

"So... you said 150 metres is your limit right?" Jessica asked with an uneasy tone.

"Yeah, what about it?"

"What happens if you stretch past that? And so you mind if you unwrap already?"

"My entire stretched part will cramp painfully, but unstretching it and a quick massage can ease it. And yeah, sorry." She unwrapped herself from Jessica and was back to normal length.

Jessica asked a lot of questions, and Chloe answered all of it, sometimes stretching around too to show her. Jessica slowly but surely became comfortable with her friend having 10-metre limbs, sometimes coiling on herself to use as a makeshift pillow.

"So, anything else?" Chloe asked. She started wrapping her neck around herself, and rested her head on her laps.

"Who else knows about it?"

"My brother, my parents, a few cousins, and you."

"You really like wrapping your neck around yourself, huh. You do that a lot!"

"Yea, it' kind of a self-hug for me."

Another moment of silence.

"Are you okay?" Chloe asked in an anxious manner.

"Yea, I'm good! why wouldn't I be?"

"Well, y'know..." Chloe points at herself, still with her neck wrapped around her body. "Are you okay with me being like this?"

"Of course! Honestly, I got scared at first to be honest, but I'll get used to it!"

"Sure?"

"Yep!"

"And can you please promise me one thing?" Chloe asked.

"What is it?"

"Can you not tell anyone about... this?" She points again at her neck wrapped around herself.

"Of course I won't! Why would I tell anyone about this?" Jessica reassured.

"Thanks." Chloe said smiling.

"You mentioned people can also stretch you right?"

"Yea, what about it?" Chloe said with a confused tone and look.

Jessica grinned and without a warning stood and picked up her head, stretching her neck in the process.

"Wait, no!" Chloe realized what was going to happen.

Jessica started pinching her cheeks hard. "Oh my god you're squishy too!"

"Owwwwww!" Chloe can't do anything, since she wrapped her neck around herself, essentially making her helpless.

"Okay, fine, you can go, but don't miss the movie!" She reminded Chloe as she was retracting her neck. Chloe grinned. *

"My turn!" Chloe screamed as she jumped at Jessica and coiled her entire body around Jessica from neck to toe. She then started squeezing Jessica hard.

"Owwwwww! Okay, okay! I won't squeeze your cheeks again!"

"Mmmmm, not enough! Woomy!" She squeezed her even tighter.

"Owwww! Okay! I'll pay for the food!" Jessica said, with little breath

"Mmmmmm, fair enough!" Chloe said happily while unwrapping herself from Jessica, freeing her.

"Owwwww! Now I'm not paying for the meal!" Jessica playfully complained.

"Ya sure?" Chloe threatened playfully, with her left arm slowly snaking out of her long-shirt sleeve

"Just kidding!" Jessica quickly replied, having been tied up enough for one day.

"Good!" Chloe punched Jessica in the arm and quickly retracted her arm. "Okay, I still have some stuff to do, mind if you open the front door?"

"Wait, you're leaving through the front door? Wow. How normal of you." Jessica taunted while picking up her keys.

"Well, wouldn't a squid with 20-metre legs jumping on buildings at 3 in the afternoon look suspicious? That isn't very much of a secret then!" Chloe answered while Jessica was opening the door.

"Then how did you stretch up to my window?!"

"Shhh." Chloe said while holding up a finger on her mouth, winking.

"Pfft, fine." Jessica said while Chloe walked out of the apartment and called the elevator.

Before the elevator closed, Chloe suddenly stretched her neck to Jessica, who was closing her apartment's door.

"Eight pm right?" Asked Chloe's head attached to a five-metre neck.

"Yea, Eight pm."

"Okay, see ya!" Jessica replied while watching Chloe's head slink back to the elevator, and its doors closing. She closed and locked the door.

"Holy Shit."