Josie

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Josie has always been small. She was born with a genetic defect that heavily slowed her muscle growth and so was usually the smallest out of everyone. While she still had the height of an average woman of around her age, her small frame and near anorexic body kept her body weight well below 95 pounds. She felt embarrassed about her small body, as everyone else in her family happens to have above average musculature, even her mother. No matter how often she visited the gyms, met with doctors, and took medicine, her development has always been minimal. Yet, even with her genetic defect, she still went to the gym alongside her brother, Nathan, hoping that one day she would finally see progress before going to college.

Unfortunately for her, that day never came. She eventually moved to enroll for college, remaining unusually thin, no matter how much she worked out, and how much she ate. She moved in together with her boyfriend, Marco, who had known her since middle school and had seen her struggle to gain any weight. Marco now accompanies Josie whenever she goes to the gym to push her on and give any support that he could. As Marco exercised alongside Josie, he ended up getting better development in his 3 months of visits than Josie had in her years of weightlifting. This only made Josie further push her body to its limits, trying to see progress, any little bit of progress to show after her many years of hard work.

"Jesus, Josie, I think you need a break!", said Marco, seeing Josie curling a meager 10 pound weight with her arm. She was sweating all over and was turning red with all her exertion. Josie has been at the gym for hours, barely taking any breaks and continuously exercising with the weights there. "Josie". Josie continues to overexert herself, not hearing the worried words coming out of her boyfriend's mouth. She kept going on and on until her arms were too weak to pick up the weight. "Fuck!"Josie screamed out with the last bit of her breath. She sat down onto a nearby bench as sweat poured down her face. Her whole body felt extremely weak, much more than it usually is after a workout. Marco quickly went to retrieve a bottle of water and a towel as Josie layed down and panted heavily for air. When Marco arrived back, Josie had passed out from the exhaustion.

Marco picks her unconscious body up in his arms. As expected, her small body felt extremely light for him to carry out. Marcus moved her into his car and paused to look at her frail body. It was obvious that she couldn't keep going to the gym, but it was unlikely that he would ever be able to convince her to stop, even with a doctor's request. He knew that something had to be done, that maybe there is something that can finally cure her illness and turn her normal. He couldn't bear seeing her push herself so hard for something that wasn't feasible thanks to her genetics. He picked up his phone and decided to schedule another appointment with her doctor about her inability to gain weight, hoping that there must be a way to help her.

After a long talk between the two, Josie agreed to finally stop going to the gym until they meet up with her doctor for a potential treatment. After Marco brought Josie back to their home and left to go to work, Josie rested on her bed, occasionally jumping out to perform some basic pushups and situps.

–Later–

   After waiting for their appointment and for Dr Emberly to be free, the two entered her office. Dr. Emberly has been Julie's doctor for as long as she has been alive, and is an old lady, whose age appears to be in either her 50s or 60s. As a result, Dr. Emberly and Julie were quite close, though unfortunately the doctor's busy schedule only allows the two to catch up when they have an appointment together.

"So you wanted to talk about your condition again?" Dr. Emberly asked "Well, you condition seems to be the same as before and it doesn't put your body at any risk at this current point"

"Yes, but we were wondering if there is any way for her to gain any weight." Josie said

"Weight?"

"Yes, ma'am, she has been going to the gym for hours every day, we've tried every single method and treatment we could find online and still nothing", Marco replied for Josie, "Nothing appears to work, and it has been driving her crazy, just yesterday she exercised until she passed out!"

Dr Emberly sat down and thought hard, she too knows that there is nothing that she could do to stop Josie to stop pushing herself as much as she has been, as she has attempted to do so many times in the past and never managed to stop her.

"I-I..." Dr. Emberly stuttered "There might be a way.". Her forehead wrinkled up and her facial expression changed from neutral to worry. It was obvious that she had something to say, but was having difficulties expressing it. "There has been a small private science group experimenting something that has to do with muscle development"

Josie's eyes widened, and expressed a sense of excitement that Marcus has never seen expressed before. "Really?"

"Ye-yes" Dr. Emberly said, "I have heard about it from my colleague who has a close friend in that experiment, though I must warn you, it is highly experimental. This is the first time they are attempting to experiment on human beings, I recommend we wait to see the results of the first group before doing anything drastic"

Josie doesn't appear to be listening to the doctor's warnings at all, only focusing on what it could mean for her.

"I haven't heard much about it, nor do I have any idea of how it works at all, but rumors have it that it highly accelerates muscle development. My colleague said that rats that were given that treatment had their muscle mass increase up to 150% of their original mass, and that was without any extra treatments, medications or exercise, bu-"

"Can you help me sign up for this?" Josie quickly stood up from her chair, which fell to the ground from the force from her legs moving to stand up. Josie couldn't contain her child-like excitement. It almost felt too good to be true.

"Well, I think I can contact my colleague and ask to put you in as a favor, but I seriously must warn you, that we don't really know what this experiment is, let alone what it would do to you with your genetic disease"

"Please doctor, I need this, I can't just keep going on like this" Josie begged desperately with a slight amount of tears accumulating on her eyes.

"I-I..." Dr Emberly stopped talking, and nodded her head towards the ground. She could feel the pain in Josie's voice. She understands her struggle, as she has been with her since she was a baby and have seen her try over and over and failing to develop her body. She felt a small feeling of guilt as she gave into her patients begging, "I can do it for you".

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[Wookey]

A great start K+

[sgsg69]

Nice start, looking forward to more..........K++

[wowser1016]

Yes! I like it! Please continue. K+!

[Jaguar]

A good start.  I'm anxious to read the story you can weave from this.  I'm hoping for some complexity to the plot, maybe a twist or two. 

But whatever you write, you'll find reader anxious to read it here.   

[Elmanouche]

Indeed a promising start and lot of potential for a "lot" of growth.

[phil123]

Now her growing can start. Happy to read how.

[jhunter]

Great start. Now to see how things proceed.