04 Monster Blood For Breakfast! by R.L. Stine

Author:R.L. Stine [Stine, R.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I froze. I stared at the coach. I heard my shoulders pop. They were growing. Did he hear it, too?

A smile spread over Coach Widdoes’ face. “You can’t go in the pool without me wishing you good luck!” he said. He slapped me a high five. “We’re all counting on you, fella.”

I breathed a sigh of relief. I started past him.

But he put out a hand to stop me. “Hey, have you grown?” he asked.

I had to think fast. “Uh … yeah,” I said. “I’ve been trying to bulk up. Guess it’s working.”

I hurried out to the pool. The hot, steamy air greeted me along with loud voices and shouts. The team from Upper Fairmont was already taking practice laps in the water. Their coach was blowing his whistle, shouting encouragement to his swimmers.

I saw about twenty or thirty people in the bleachers at the far end. A few students. Mostly parents. I didn’t spot my mom. Maybe she got hung up, I thought.

I waved to a few of my teammates coming out of the locker room. Then I dove into the water. So far, no one had noticed how much I had changed.

I swam underwater for a lap, getting my body used to the temperature. Then I did the butterfly stroke, loosening up my arm muscles.

Halfway across the pool, I stopped. I started to tread water. I suddenly felt very strange.

I gazed at my hands. They were huge and growing bigger. Almost the size of a baseball glove!

I could feel my arms and legs stretching — like someone was tugging them out. My swimsuit felt stretched to the limit, about to pop off!

I was growing FAST now — so fast I could see it happening.

I lowered my feet to the pool bottom. I was standing at the six-foot level. And my head was still above water!

Oh, no!

I realized why this was happening. It came to me in a flash. My ivy plant. Monster Blood had dripped onto it. And then I watered it.

The plant grew huge after I’d watered it.

And now here I was in the water. And as soon as I hit the water, I started to grow really fast!

I raised my eyes to the bleachers. No sign of Mom.

Good! I thought. No way I want her to see me like this.

The teams were lining up for the first event, the 500-meter freestyle. My first event. I saw the official in his black-and-white-striped shirt fiddling with his starting gun.

Can I still swim?

That was my frightening thought. Am I too big to swim? Can I still do my normal strokes?

I lowered my head and began to practice my breaststroke. WOW! I couldn’t believe it! My speed was amazing. I felt so strong. I shot through the water like an attacking shark!

No human can swim this fast! I told myself. The pool suddenly appeared so tiny. I realized I could swim the length of the pool in four or five strokes!

No way I could lose. I was about to break every middle school swim record in history!

As long as no one sees this….

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