This choice: he tries the growth formula • Go Back...Chapter #5he tries the growth formula by: NVR   Alex shook his head looking down at the bottles, Ms Cruz might have been a great teacher but her pranks could do with some improvement.
"10 feet tall, ha. Ok Ms. Cruz, just because it's you" Alex decided to humor his favorite teacher and took a swig of the "growing" formula, fully expecting to be just some diluted fruit juice. The smell and taste didn't give him a clue of what was it though, maybe just water with a flavorless colorant? He just shook his head again and moved on with his life.
He walked slowly back to his house, enjoying the fair weather but also starting to feel a bit uncomfortable, his clothes feeling just a bit tighter for some strange reason. Once he got there he noted something was going on with his jeans, wondering why he started feeling cold in the lower part of his shin and sighing at the prospect of having to waste some of his money on new clothes.
Soon after he had to adjust his clothes again and he finally started to note something was odd, it wasn't only his pants but pretty much every single piece of clothing that was feeling too small for him now. He tried kneeling down to sort out of his pants a bit but the noise of fabric stretching told him it was a bad idea to continue down that path, so he slowly got up again and forced himself to walk in a pretty stiff position, getting odd looks from some of the passersby for the sake of avoiding a more embarrassing scenario.
"What's going on? It can't be that silly formula, can it? How tall am I now? What if my clothes just give up?" Alex wondered with fear of suddenly shooting up to a height where he would end up as a giant naked guy in front of everyone. He had to get to his house fast and find better clothes! He tried to walk faster in that forced, unnatural way but it didn't take him long to notice his shirt was no longer covering the entirety of his torso, the fabric of his pants protesting even with the conscious movements and his feet sending him signs of pain being enclosed in a space too small for them.
"Crap! what am I going to do now? I can't believe it works though, fair play Ms. Cruz" Alex thought panicking a bit and stopping his walk, but finally noticing his new higher perspective. Carefully, he walked next to one of the stop signs on the street and marveled at how he was able to put his hand above the sign! At his original height he could touch the top with a jump, so he guessed he must have grown between 1 ft and 1.5 ft already.
"This is awesome! I need to stop growing first though.. that's it, the other formula!" Alex almost facepalmed after remembering there was another formula to shrink back down, so instead of having to walk like a robot or lose his clothes all he needed to do was to take a bit of it to counter the effect of the growing formula and restore his size. Once this was done he could plan better what to do exactly with this gift. Not thinking twice about it he took the other bottle and drank a bit more than what he did for the growth formula, hoping this would accelerate the process a bit to reach his home comfortably and grow back there if needed.
Alex remained in place, feeling lucky there was nobody else around at the time and looking at the stop sign for reference, enjoying how strange it felt when he grew a bit more and suddenly started going back down. He waited a couple of minutes and laughed happily when he finally stopped feeling so uncomfortable with his shoes and had to tiptoe to put his hand above the stop sign. He was still taller than his 5'10'', but he could now confidently continue walking knowing he would go on shrinking.
"This is insane! What am I going to do with this?" The experience was so out there he truly had no idea what to do, all he knew was that his teacher was right, if used correctly they could make the summer a lot of fun.
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