Megan finally arrived home. Her parents weren’t home, and Amy, her 12-year-old sister, was playing with the next door neighbor. For the moment, she had forgotten about the experiment, although she was totally looking forward to receiving the money. After all, it seemed like money that was earned for doing nothing. As long as she stayed home, who would shrink her?
Amy finally came home. She slammed the door shut, and raced through the room.
“Hey! Settle down, will you?” Megan said her sister.
“Oh, be quiet!” Amy shouted back.
“Hey! Behave!”
Amy was a nice girl, but she had a big mouth now and then and she hated to be told what to do.
“I am behaving! Don’t act like I’m not being nice!”
“You better behave, or else you’ll drive me up the walls!” Megan replied.
“Yeah…” Amy responded, as she sat on the couch. “You’ll go crazy and then you’ll need to go see a shrink…”
Suddenly, Megan was overcome by a tingling feeling. Luckily, she was sitting on the big lounge chair. Her arms were dwindling in size. Her hands were retracting, and her fingers started to shrink as well. Her feet became smaller, to the point where her shoes fell off! Megan felt her clothing feel looser and wider, as her body slowly decreased in size. After a few seconds had passed, she had lost a foot in height, and she was now only 4 foot 4 in height! Her jeans looked far too big on her!
Amy looked up and noticed something odd had happened to her sister.
“Hey… what happened to your clothes?”
“Nothing…” Megan replied.
“You look different…”
Megan carefully tried to get back on her feet, by sliding off the lounge chair, which seemed bigger to her. Once her feet were on the floor, she was standing straight up. Amy got up and walked up to her.
“Hey! I’m just as tall as you are!” Amy noted. “What happened?”
“Well, uhmm… I went to the doctor, and…” Megan started to explain.
“Did you shrink?” Amy asked her.
Suddenly, Megan was overcome by that tingling feeling again. She began to shrink again, dwindling further from 4 foot 4 to 3 foot 4 inches tall, while standing right before her little sister!
“Oh, COOL!” Amy cheered out loud.
Megan just looked up to her sister as she slowly dwindled down to 3 foot 4 inches tall. Her clothes were far too big for her. Her jeans were all wrinkled around her short, little legs. Her shirt was almost handing to the floor, and her arms were far too short for the shirt sleeves.
“Hey, Amy? If you say the words ‘shrink’ and ‘grow’, you will change my size by a foot every time you say them…” Megan explained to her sister.
“Ooooh, really?” Amy replied with a grin.
Amy was going to have some fun with this!