Taking a drink from his latte, Josh thought about it for several minutes. "Actually, I think we should wait and try it out later." He ultimately decided. Holding out his hand trying to get the remote back from his girlfriend, but she held it close to her chest. Letting out a small sigh, Josh looked at Jenn. "What are you doing? I thought we decided that I was going to take it home first." He asked her with a look of concern on his face.
With a smile on her face, Jenn started to bring the remote away from her chest, but brought it down into her lap. "I know, but I don't want to swap our heights back yet. I've been short for most of my life and want to see what its like to be taller for a bit." She confessed to him while starting to bring it back up to the table. "If you promise that you won't swap back our heights just yet, I will let you take it home with you."
Thinking about it for a moment, Josh ultimately nodded his head. "Fine." He decided as he brought his hand up above the table with his pinky finger extended. Jenn brought her hand above the table with her pinky extended as well. The pinky swear was one of their silly traditions when the promised to do something. Jenn introduced it to him, but Josh thought it was kind of silly until after a couple months and it seemed like a habit. A habitual action that he brought and introduced to his family too. It seemed to make Dr. Wright's kids happy when they learned of it.
Glad about what she was able to work out with her boyfriend, Jenn slid the remote across the table to him. "There you go." She smiled as she watched Josh slide the remote into his backpack. The both heard Jenn's phone chime. Looking at her watch, she saw that her Mom had sent her a message. "Looks like its time for us to leave." She announced as she showed him her wrist.
"Fine." Josh replied as he started to get up and marveled at how much taller Jenn was now compared to him. 'This thing is really amazing.' He thought to himself while they walked over to his car that was parked across the street in a shopping center that was mostly filled with vacant shops these days. Just a month ago, the biggest space was filled with a Spirit Halloween store and it seemed to put this little shopping center on life support, if only for a little time.
The car ride back home didn't seem to last very long, but Josh scowled when he had to move his seat forward so that he could reach the pedals. "We're here." He announced as he pulled into their driveway.
Jenn gave her boyfriend a quick kiss as she started to open up the door. "I will call you later on tonight." She smiled as she waved goodbye. Josh returned the goodbye while he started to pull out of the drive way.
Luckily he lived only a couple of streets away and as he pulled in Josh could see his Mom's car. Taking a deep breath as he mustered up the courage to go inside. He knew that she wouldn't see any difference, but as he found out many times in the past, she always found out about everything. "Lets do this." He said to himself trying to psych himself up. Opening up the door, Josh grabbed his backpack and made his way inside. Walking inside, the house seemed to be relatively more quiet that it usually did. "I'm home!" He called out to the seemingly empty house.
Hearing a couple pans clanging together in the kitchen, Kim's voice called out to him. "Oh welcome home sweetie." Soon Josh could see her head peeking out from the corner, he could feel his heart beating a little faster since he didn't know if she would be able to see the difference in height or not. "Are you all done with your mid terms?" She asked with a concerned look on her face. He nodded his head and was amazed that she didn't notice him being shorter. Not being able to remember how long its been since he'd had to look up at her, Josh started to set his things down on the bench near the door that they usually used to keep their snow gear. As he set them down, he attempted to place the remote down next to it, but it fell onto the floor. Watching it fall, Josh tried his best to catch it before it hit the ground, but only managed to swat it away to land on the rug leading to the kitchen. "What is this?" Kim asked as she wiped her hands on her apron before picking up the remote and getting a closer look at it.
Seeing his Mom picking up the mysterious remote, Josh started to breathe a little quicker as he thought of something to tell her. "It's... uh... a new remote for my television up stairs." He told her trying his best not to grab it out of her hands.
Taking a look at the remote in her hands, Kim noticed the buttons on the device and looked back over at Josh. Seeing him starting to sweat a little at the thought of losing the device, Kim, still holding the device, put her hands behind her back. "I know when you're lying to me." She told him while giving him the look. "Now what is this? Just by looking at the remote, I can already tell that its not an ordinary one. So, let me tell you once more." She held the device out to show him. "What is this?"
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