An odd following morning

The school day ended, and Josh took his usual bus ride home, banged out a little physics homework, had a snack while watching late-night college basketball, and headed to bed. As he set his alarm on his phone for the next day, Josh once again saw the weird app on his home screen.

Oh yeah, this thing, he thought. Tapping it once more, he saw the interface from earlier today, with the only difference being the timer now had dipped under 5 hours. He once again attempted to delete it, but like earlier, it just kept reappearing. Resigning himself to failure on the issue, Josh hit the sack trying to mentally remind himself to talk to his acquaintance and fellow senior Jessica the next day. She had helped him in the past with phone problems. Josh was never a techie.

Overnight, with the room dark and Josh's phone on silent, the Reality Timer hit all zeros.

The blaring of his klaxon-like alarm sound roused Josh from an odd dream at 6:45 sharp. Groggily grabbing his phone from the bedstand, Josh put an end to the alarm and checked his notifications. In the middle of some Snapchats from friends at a late-night party and the usual sports/news morning recap blurbs was...was he seeing that right? An odd-looking notification from that Reality Timer app. All it said was: Timer expired. A new change is in effect. See details? What the fuck is wrong with this thing? Josh thought, and despite a tiny bit of curiosity he re-locked his phone and began to get dressed for the day.

Down in the kitchen, his mom had made breakfast for him before she and Josh's dad left for work, as usual. Scrambled eggs and bacon are about as basic as it gets, but it's been his favorite breakfast forever. After wolfing it down, Josh grabbed his backpack, added the finished homework from the previous night, and was out his back door and heading for the bus stop a block and a half away.

Fashionably late as usual, Josh saw the normal pair of fellow seniors already waiting at the stop: Matt and his girlfriend Amy. They were both pretty popular, and Amy, Josh had to admit, even though he didn't really like Matt, was one of the hottest girls in their grade. Those two were, as always, looking dreamily at each other and barely noticed his approach.

"Morning," Josh mumbled as took up a spot standing next to the couple.

"Yo, Josh," Matt replied, and then he inexplicably left his girlfriends' side to - there's no other way Josh could process it as - grope his ass firmly with his left hand for two seconds. In a flash, Amy had replaced Matt, and, in front of Josh, and with a half-smile, she casually reached down to Josh's crotch and felt up his dick through his shorts before pulling back.

Nearly doubling over, and having his nether region react inadvertently to the sudden intrusion, Josh was at a loss for words. Matt and Amy, though, were looking back at him expectantly, and increasingly quizzically.

"You alright, man?" Matt queried. "Yeah, uh, sorry," Josh replied, "I'm just...off this morning. Let me sit down for a sec."

Taking a seat on the bus stop bench while Matt and Amy looked back at him oddly, Josh tried to calm himself down. What the fuck just happened? Did Amy just grab my dick right in front of her boyfriend?? Then, it hit him. That damn app!

Opening his phone, Josh tapped on the notification from this morning. It took him inside the Reality Timer app, to a page labeled Current Changes. The only entry on the page was at the top:

Friendly Fondling

Tapping it brought up the Details associated with the change.

When greeting a friend, classmate, colleague, or general acquaintance, it is considered courteous to grope them briefly in a sexual manner. Not doing so is seen as a social faux pas.

Josh swallowed hard, and felt himself starting to shake slightly. No way...there's no freaking way...