Brain Drain: Blowing the Budget by Kris P. Kreme
With his girlfriend Tricia shopping for Christmas gifts on his dorm computer, Geoff ends up helping his perverse buddy Zack with an effort to try impressing volleyball girls.
But at the dorm, Tricia is frustrated by her debit account not covering the perfect loaded online cart of gifts she bought for him and his parents. Will her decision to try a sketchy option linking her debit account to Brain Drain end up blowing the budget… or her?
With vague mentions of inflationary tactics for purchases beyond her limit, Tricia thinks nothing until a growing stiffness, numbness, and odd hissing of air soon has her literally feeling nothing but empty and inflated.
Geoff is spending a quiet day in his dorm room, his girlfriend Tricia using his computer to shop for Christmas gifts. But between Tricia’s insistence on him staying out of the room she’s in so not to see what she is shopping for and the arrival of his annoying friend Zack, Geoff’s day might be about to take a decidedly strange turn.
Tricia has always been a girl who likes to shop, and the holidays and spending it with Geoff and his parents definitely has only made that habit worse. She’s so determined to shop and find perfect gifts for all of them that she fortunately doesn’t hear the arrival of Zack, a rather oblivious pervert who loves to look at any girl, having made more than his fair share of comments to Geoff about his cute girlfriend with the perky breasts and tight little body.
Figuring the best thing to do is humor Zack and get him out of there since Tricia needs her online shopping time, Geoff agrees to help Zack load the buses for the volleyball girls, heading off to some tournament or something. While Zack only wants to plot impossible fantasies involving the volleyball girls and him, Geoff mostly is keeping out of Tricia’s hair, reminding her though that her parents always said to watch her spending.
Unfortunately for Tricia, her spending may get the best of her, and she might end up blowing much more than the budget when she finds herself frustrated shortly after Geoff leaves.
Everything is perfect and she has added everything to cart, great gifts for Geoff’s parents, incredibly great gifts for Geoff. But no matter how she figures it, her debit card just won’t cover the costs. When a popup window appears asking if she’d like to link her card with Brain Drain, Tricia is curious enough to click it, finding a rather cryptic and likely scam seeming description about Brain Drain Financing.
According to what she reads, Brain Drain financing puts the power of purchasing in more than just her hands. Linking a valid debit card with Brain Drain expands one’s budget and can be tried for free. Apparently there are no fees, no penalties, and no credit limits, which seems more than a little sketchy to Tricia.
Skimming everything, looking for the catch, the only thing Tricia finds is one cryptically worded line she doesn’t entirely understand. If funds are insufficient, buyer may be subject to inflationary tactics. And the weirdest line she ever read follows, Inflationary tactics may result in permanent dehumanization.
Thinking, figuring it’s just financing and she can always pay it back later, knowing how important the perfect gifts she shopped for and found are, Tricia goes ahead and tries it. Somehow it works and her overspending purchase goes through just fine, even letting her opt for the same day delivery that very afternoon. But when Tricia gets up from the computer after completing the purchase, why is she feeling a little stiff?
Meanwhile Geoff is getting a little tired of hearing Zack talk all the time in demeaning ways about girls in general. Whether it’s coming up with random threesome scenarios involving Tricia and one of the volleyball girls, or proving he has no game at all with those girls, Geoff simply does as he always does, puts up with Zack and passes the time.
But back at his dorm room, waiting on those deliveries, Tricia is dealing with more than stiff joints from sitting at the computer too long. She’s hearing a hissing sound, and shockingly it seems to be coming from her somewhere, a strange numbing starting to accompany the stiffness.
Geoff is struggling to deal with an increasingly horny and excited Zack, striking out epically with the volleyball girls he hoped to impress, fantasizing about the perfect Christmas gift, a place he once saw that can make sex doll replicas of real people with photos. But if Zack thinks Geoff is going to agree to snap a picture of Tricia for him, Geoff knows his annoying buddy has another thing coming.
Yet while they away, Tricia is discovering increasingly disturbing things… like the fact the bathroom scale in the dorm room now says she only weighs 70 pounds… and that weight keeps going steadily down as the hissing sound continues.
After her purchases arrive, she immediately puts them in little Christmas bags, fluffing the tissue in them, distracting her mind from the obvious concerns. But there is no ignoring the fact she can no longer seem to close her mouth, has an apparently permanent O face of surprise forming, and is finding it more and more difficult to move.
Will Geoff and Zack arrive back to discover what they actually think is just a blow up version of Tricia, perhaps a gag gift from Geoff’s girlfriend? Can Tricia deal with those inflationary tactics or will she begin to love the permanent dehumanization she brought on herself? And this Christmas, will the best gift she blew her budget on end up being none-other-than her?
Find out as the 12 Days of Krismas reminds readers to shop responsibly, or you might just blow much more than your budget.
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