"Y-yeah," said Karyn cautiously.
Stud Muffin pointed in Jon's direction. "I'm him."
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"Yeah, I know it's hard to believe."
Stud Muffin was sitting dead center in the large round booth at the diner's corner, with B.J. and Karyn to his left, Suki and Jon to his right. He'd used his device to make everyone else who had been present forget about what had just occurred, which meant it appeared to be business as usual, aside from the unusually high number of large-breasted exotic women in skimpy clothes who were present.
"I was having a strong sense of deja vu as it was, and then when I figured out that the blonde was Karyn, finally I figured out where and when I was."
"When?" Karyn was trying to get a good look at Stud Muffin's face to see if he resembled Jon in any way, but B.J. was leaning forward as she frowned at the ingredients list on the back of a Sweet 'n' Low packet.
"Yeah," said Stud Muffin. "I'm 512 years old."
That statement hung in the air for a minute, and then Karyn piped up again. "What? How?!"
Stud Muffin shook his head. "Stupidity. I had a serious girlfriend in college -- serious enough that I told her about the wishing rock. She wanted to see it, and as she was holding it, she said, 'If this thing is real, I wish you'd be a total stud muffin forever!'"
Karyn held back a laugh. Jon looked somewhat horrified. The waitress with a strong resemblance to an overendowed Tyra Banks brought coffee and orange juice, managing not to break her inch-long manicured fingernails as she set the various drinking vessels down on the table.
"I'm just happy I didn't get turned into a muffin," joked Stud Muffin. "But it changed my body and face, and my name -- I can't even say 'my name used to be Juh --'"
"And with the 'forever' -- so you're immortal," Karyn said.
Stud Muffin stirred his coffee slowly. "I guess, although it's not like I've tried putting a gun to my head or anything. I'm just not getting any older. The worst part is the boredom. That's why I'm doing this." He nodded toward the beauty behind Jon, at the next table, who looked like she could have starred in a Bollywood porn movie, if such a thing existed.
He continued, "Traveling through time and space, to various parallel universes, using magical devices to make women better-looking -- hey, at least it's something."
"You're like a weird Doctor Who," suggested Karyn. "You've even got two companions. Where'd you pick them up, anyway?"
Stud Muffin pointed left. "This is Barbara Jean Monroe, Playboy's 100th anniversary Playmate, from 2054." He pointed right. "And this is Suki Honda, the first baby born on Mars, in -- well, I forget which year, but it was a slightly different parallel universe anyway, so..." He shrugged.
"So you turned them into bimbos, and --"
Stud Muffin interrupted Karyn. "No, Suki's probably three times smarter than me. Although part of that is because she found the wishing rock and wished she had most of B.J.'s intelligence. A little bout with envy, right?"
Suki smiled a sheepish smile.
The waitress returned with the various breakfast platters that had been ordered, despite it being 5:00 in the afternoon.
The five of them began to chow down, until Karyn looked over and saw Jon picking idly at his cheddar omelet and staring vacantly into space. "You've been really quiet," she said to him across the table. "Do you have anything to add?"
"Yeah," said Jon...
