Jesse finds John more attractive (Subtle)

John pulled his hand out of his pocket like it was on fire. He felt the warmth of the stone there. "Jesse, do you have the stone still?"

"Hold on," she said,digging into her front pocket. Pulling out the napkin they had wrapped it in, empty. "-It's gone!"

"I think it teleported or something," John said. "It brushed my hand while we were walking, but I think I stopped before it did anything to you "

"My hero..." Jesse said with an eye roll and a smirk. "Stand still while I try pulling it out of your pocket with the napkin."

She gingerly managed to get the stone extracted from John's pocket without touching it to him. "We should probably get you like gloves or something, to keep you from touching it."

"Maybe I have some in my apartment."

It didn't take long to go up to John's apartment. Immediately he went to a draw where he kept medical supplies and put on a pair of purple nitrile gloves he had owned since COVID.

Jesse gave the apartment a quick looksie. "I feel bad that you live this way," she said, "It's so claustrophobic, I bet you have a lot of lonely nights here."

"Yeah, I guess so,' John said, "It's home though."

"I appreciate that you are helping track down a way to reverse this," she said playing with her hair a little as she looked to John, "If you need a bigger place to crash, my apartment is always open for ya. I could use a new roommate to split on rent."

"Thanks for the offer I'll think about it," John said picking up the package envelope from the recycling. The address was pretty normal as far as he could tell. But he plugged it into GPS app to discover the return address led to...