It was Friday Afternoon and he waits for Alex to come home from school. He is both excited and nervous. This invention would put him on the map. After several failed inventions he need this one to work.
Jack watched the clock then saw the bus pull up and all the kids getting off. Alex was 16 and hated riding the bus, he was always bugging Jack to let him use his car. Something Jack was not ready to let his son do. Mainly because it made him feel old. His little boy is growing up and getting so big. He actually was about 3 inches taller than him.
The door opened and Alex tossed his backpack to the floor then kicked off his ratty old slip on vans.
Hi son, how was school? He asked.
Barley making eye contact Alex just shrugged and replied “Lame, as usual” and turned to walk to his bedroom.
“Hey hold up there, I want you to help me with something” Jack announced.
Alex stopped and sighed. “Come on dad I just wanna go play my video games”
“Just give me 10 minutes, Please???” Jack implored.
“Sigh, fine….” And Alex turned around.
His dad handed him what looked like a smart phone. “This is my new invention and if it works I want you to be the first to see it work”
Alex laughed, “a think this one is actually gonna work?” He liked taking down to his father. Teenage attitude is what Jack chalked it up to.
“Here I already entered in the commands, I just need to you push the Activation button, the green one”
Alex looked down at the device and on the screen saw the words “3 inches+pliable” He looked at his dad “Whatever” he reached out his hand and pushed the green button.
Before his sons eyes, he saw his dad start to shrink. Smaller, and smaller and smaller until he stood no taller than 3 inches tall on the floor.
“What the?.......No way !!!........” He took a step forward.
Jack looked around then at himself. “I can’t believe it worked !!!!”
Then he looked up at his son smiling down. “So what do you think? Cool huh?”
“Totally” he said. Then crouched down for a closer look. “this could be your bet invention yet”
Jack proceeded to tell Alex how it work. Then started to immediately regret his decision to do so seeing the look on his son face. He could see the wheels turning in his head.
“Um ok, Alex, so lets get be back to normal, I just needed to know it worked”
“Mmmmm no so fast pops, Maybe you might have to stay small for a while, this could be fun”
Jack demanded he return him to normal but that did not go over well…..
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