At this point, more flowers were starting to appear on the vine. Most of them just shriveled away in a second, but one started to develop as before. Meanwhile the first one was already much bigger than even the largest watermelon.
"That's like a yard across," said Jon. "You'd better stop it."
"A little more, I think," noted Karyn. "Okay, stop growing."
Jon watched and it didn't seem like the plant was growing unusually fast any more, though it took a few minutes to tell.
"Now, Jon, sit down and try curling up..."
"What?"
"I want to see how big it would be if you tried to occupy as small a space as you could. Bend your knees up, lower your head...."
"No."
"How do I know if it's big enough to be ripe, then?" she asked.
"If it was me curled up, I think I could fit in there. Maybe it's a bit smaller, but I'm not a grocery product," said Jon.
"Well, obviously you are. It was a wish. Using a piece of paper, but basically a wish."
"It doesn't make sense anyway. When you gave me watermelon breasts, I still had my normal guy parts. Why would I have those, if I reproduced using seeds?"
"It was a wish," repeated Karyn. "Obviously you reproduce in two ways. Maybe it has two kinds of reproduction. The flowers are self-pollinating and the human reproduce sexually."
"What makes you think that?"
"Because I just opened it up to check. It was like a baby with unripe fruits on its chest. A girl baby. When it self-fertilizes it makes both boys and girls, then the boys and girls reproduce like everyone else."
Karyn bent down and held a hand on the green leafy mass, to which was attached a stem an inch in diameter. She tugged hard and finally had to separate it by just moving the stem back and forth until it broke. The leaf, actually like a corn husk, was several feet long, going all the way from the other end to the stem, and peeling the leaves back revealed a naked girl who looked a lot like Jon. Except, of course, that she had literal watermelon breasts and the stem, split in two, connected to them. Karyn broke the stems off again, leaving two stubs that looked like nipples.
"Wake up," said Karyn to the girl.
"I don't know if she can speak," said Jon.
"Then I'll write something into the notebook saying she can. Come on," she said. "Wake up." The girl began to stir....
