Room to improve

Cursed with love

Chapter 1 by Grepster Grepster

"That's right, James. Good job, you're all going to have to study hard so keep that in mind." The teacher said. James sat at his desk, a great start to first grade being the one student who got the right answer on the first question. But before he could react everything froze. The awkward classmates, his tired eyed teacher, even the fan blowing in the corner all froze. Before James could react the entire room and the people in it fell away from him out of sight. James found himself in a void of clouds in a blue sky. And without a chance to question where he was, a towering figure emerged, made of monolithic limbs made of gears and vast intricate mechanisms beyond his understanding. Brushing past long thick hair revealing a face that smirked at James, he had a feeling this is a goddess

"James... I'm sure you were very pleased with yourself. However... this won't stand. And so I curse thee. From this day forward you will always be inferior to girls. Nothing you do will ever change this. You cannot escape this fate." The immense goddess decreed. Her hand, casting a vast shadow over James, glowed as she prepared her magical effects. Instinctually James shielded his face. The magic began to fly from her hand, a massive ball of power many times his size. Except during its arc a rather normal sized crazy straw flew into its path. The goddess looked shocked as her magic was sucked into it

"And shall always love and adores you. PERIOD!" Spoke a new voice. A bearded hand grasped the crazy strew, a figure rose from the clouds beneath James, the new creature had the body of a snake, with the limbs of a monkey and the face of a rat with mohawks behind each ear. It seemed male, it spun the crazy straw and pointed the end the magic was exiting at James, it however lost its massive imposing appearance now it looked like a fast moving stream of fluid that struck James, as it hit him he began to glow

"How could you do that!?" The Goddess questioned furiously

The God shrugged "You mean you were just gonna make all his mates better than him? Kinda feels like projection to me. Besides this is more fun!" He asserted mischievously. Steam shot off the Goddess as she shook with outrage over her divine plan being thrown awry

She slammed her fists down, the ground shook for James "Mom told you to stop ruining my plans!" She argued

"How's this ruining it? Besides Dad said we should hang out more!" The God said in a jolly manner.

"You know what? Forget it! I'm done!" The Goddess waved her now glowing hands and James once again found himself back in his class. The class was once again moving, well the fan was, James now noticed all his classmates were girls, and they were all looking directly at him. Even the Teacher's previous wary demeanor seemed to perk up looking at him. As the lesson went on, he'd get a note from one of girls next to him congratulating him on getting that first question right. The teacher had asked more questions after that but they were not questions James could answer, though even more of his classmates gave him notes praising him for getting the first one right. When the bell rang they crowded his desk all vying for his attention.

As the days went on, James could see the curse was in effect. Anytime he would grow an inch all the girls in his class grew two (even the teacher!) anything he did in gym they did better and each time it was even more apparent, not that they would ever mention it, all of them deeply focused on James and praising his accomplishments. And in the classroom this was also obvious looking at his scores compared to theirs. This was always followed by them crowding him insisting they could help him study and do even better than they did on the next test, which simply never happened. First grade had cemented its routine in James' mind and he knew there was nothing he could do to stop it.

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