Jon just continued to watch. And therefore, he noticed something that the more surprised students didn't notice, at first: there was some kind of brownish oily substance dropping off the cheerleaders' hands, and mixing with the tears on their faces. Around the chairs it was beginning to pool as well.
It was refusing to soak into the floor, but Jon got the idea of getting some napkins. He went over to the table and wiped up some of the oily substance. Leaked out of them? It looked as that was, quite literally, what had happened. He touched a bit of the napkin to his face and a zit just disappeared.
It began to dawn upon some of the cheerleaders what was going on. Sarah grabbed for one of Jon's napkins and managed to tear off more than half of it. She wiped it on her face and it began to return to normal again.
"What?" said Nicole, a brunette. "That really works?"
Shortly they all scrambled for napkins and wiping back the beauty that had just leaked out. Meanwhile, some others were watching and a few nearby girls decided to follow Jon's lead and wipe up some of the beauty. They pout it on their faces, their hands, under their blouses, everywhere. Acne disappeared, hair miraculously turned stylish, scars vanished and figures got rounder.
Jon returned to his table looking at the napkin. "I suppose you don't want this," he said to Karyn. "You probably have quite enough of Sarah with that hair and breasts."
She grabbed the napkin anyway. "Shows what you know." Reaching past her shirt into her bra, she wiped the beauty on herself and lost a cup size.
"Huh?" said Jon. "It can't do that. At least considering what it looks like it can't do that."
"I thought so!" said Karyn. "It has to work that way! Because everyone has their own idea of what beauty is. If I think my breasts are uglier when they're too large, they get smaller. Otherwise, who gets to decide what beauty means?"
"They're still bigger than before. And you're not doing your hair."
"I think I'll try keeping my hair and breasts for a while. Let's just stay back and watch what everyone else does with it."
