Going Back

Chapter 1
Going Back

Chapter Description: Sometimes watching a movie you saw in the past can make you feel younger, sometimes

Sometimes watching a movie you saw when you were young can make you feel young again

When her older sister had said about spending some sister time with her, she hadn’t expected to be doing so watching some old movies.

Especially when one of those movies had come out when she had been barely a year and a half old.

“Can’t we watch anything more recent?” Lyn, short for Linda but she preferred Lyn and has done ever since she was a teen because she thinks it makes her sound much cooler. Even now in her early thirties she still tended to behave more like a teenager than a grown woman so she kept the name.

Her older sister though was more mature mentally but loved to watch old movies, she wasn’t as fond of more modern ones but still watched them.

“These movies are timeless, pardon the pun, the Back To The Future movies are still some of the best movies out and a lot better than a lot of the modern movies” She didn’t care, these movies didn’t have any CGI or any of the more recent stars in them.

“They should remake them, give them lens flare, explosions, have Pine play the main lead” Her sister looks at her as if she has committed a grievous crime against nature, an expression of pure shock on her face.

“No bloody way! These movies should never be remade, maybe a little digital remastering to improve picture quality where needed but never remade. I’m glad there isn’t a sequel and I’m hoping that they will never be remade or rebooted, it’s bad enough that some hack destroyed Star Trek by taking away everything that was Star Trek and turning it into a dumbed down version of Star Wars and that Robocop reboot was really poor. I have my doubts on the Ghostbuster’s reboot but maybe it might be good, maybe. But if Back To The Future is ever remade and turned into a dumbed down pile of rubbish so to cater to modern audiences then Hollywood deserves to be burned to the ground and every last studio boss executed in the most horrible ways imaginable!” Her fondness for old movies was very strong indeed.

“Okay, fine, calm down. We’ll watch these movies but afterwards I choose the movie” As good as an agreement as she was ever likely to get, her sister didn’t hate modern movies but she didn’t enjoy the majority of them as much as she did the older movies.

So accepting the agreement and Lyn going to the kitchen to make some popcorn – her sister asking for salt and pepper flavour for herself and she would make herself a bowl of sweet and salty – Lauren puts the first movie in the DVD player and starts it once the menu screen appears.

“Movie starting!” She calls out.

“Yeah yeah” While she didn’t hate the older movies per-say, she felt that the dated special effects and the older actors and actresses wasn’t very fitting to her ’Think teen be teen’ mentality. She had loved her teen years and still tried to hold onto them even though she was in her thirties.

That mentality didn’t go down very well at work though and usually got her in trouble and constantly told to ’grow up and get over yourself’.

As much as she hated that idea she was finding it hard to maintain her ’Think teen be teen’ mentality since her body wasn’t exactly that young and spry anymore.

The popcorn made and some juice poured out, both sister’s avoided drinking after the deaths of friends in drinking related accidents over the years, Lyn heads back through to the living room and hands Lauren the bowl of requested popcorn.

“Thank you, love this stuff” Lyn had tried salt and black pepper popcorn before but found it too spicy, she preferred a mix of sweet and salty more than spicy.

“Sometimes I like to imagine that when I’m watching older movies than I’m going back in time to when I was younger and seeing these movies for the first time. You were much younger then and don’t remember them, mum used to sit you beside me and you would kind of watch them with me. I was always hooked by them” Lyn had hazy memories of those times, as she had gotten older she had been more interested in hanging around with her friends than she had in watching movies with her sister.

“I was a baby, it wasn’t like I had a say in the matter” As the movie plays and her sister watches, clearly hooked to the movie, Lyn checks her mobile phone for any messages, looks to be a quiet night though.

Feeling light headed for a second, Lyn sets her phone down and waits for the feeling to pass, these were common enough and were connected to a brain injury she had suffered when she was younger.

“Dizzy spell?” Lauren asks, Lyn nods and looks over to her sister. Something seemed different but she wasn’t exactly sure, Lauren’s clothes seem different and the living room seems a little different. Maybe just her brain playing tricks on her.

Reaching for her phone, she finds that it isn’t there. Might have dropped on the floor. Looking down the side of the sofa, she notices that the carpet seems to be a different colour. Her phone isn’t there either.

Again she feels light headed and she waits for the feeling to pass before opening her eyes.

“You alright?” Lauren asks, Lauren sounded different, a little younger. Her mind was definitely playing tricks with her, she would have to see about getting an appointment at the doctor’s about these dizzy spells.

“Fine, just light headed” Her voice also sounded different, almost younger. Another dizzy spell kicks in.

“Mum, Linda’s having one of her dizzy spells again!” Mum? Mum wasn’t here, she and dad lived miles away. Opening her eyes as the dizziness fades away briefly, Lyn notices that where there was a grown woman sitting next to her is now a teenager of maybe thirteen or twelve years old.

“Lauren?” Her voice sounded so different now, much lighter and much younger. Like that of a child. Looking at her hands before looking down at herself as best as possible, Lyn can see that her clothes have changed to a much younger look. What was going on?

“Lauren, I’m a kid!” She tries to get off the sofa but another dizzy spell kicks in.

“Mum! Linda needs her nappy changed!” Her nappy? She wasn’t wearing a nappy, she wasn’t a baby. Feeling herself being lifted up, Lyn opens her eyes and sees her mum, thirty years younger or so, smiling at her.

“Come on, stinky bum, let’s get you changed” This couldn’t be real, she had to be dreaming, she must have fallen asleep during the movie and now she was dreaming. She couldn’t be a baby!

She tries to speak but clumsy babbles and awkward words come out of her mouth, this couldn’t be real, there was no way it was real. It was impossible.

Yet as her mum takes her through to the nursery to be cleaned up and changed, Lyn, now Linda, can smell every scent, she can hear every sound, everything feels, smells and sounds real.

“Mum, I’m not a baby! I’m a grown woman! Mum!” Lyn tries to say but her actual words are barely little more than babbles, gurgles, coos and a loose word or two that she finds hard to say.

This could not be real!

As her nappy is being changed though it only confirms that this is very real.

“There we go, one little nappy bum all cleaned up, padded and cute as ever” Lyn starts to cry as her attempts to communicate keep failing, she can feel the thickness of her fresh new nappy between her legs, she can feel the light patting and she can feel herself relaxing and enjoying being babied.

Her crying is short lived though and she starts to feel tired, she felt so safe and secure in her mum’s arms.

Maybe if she slept then she would wake up as the grown woman she knows she is. Maybe.

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“Hey there sleepy” Opening her eyes gradually, Lyn sees her sister looking down at her but not as a grown woman, but as a child of about six or seven years old.

Which meant she was still a baby.

This wasn’t a dream.

“Just wanted to let you know that you’ll be growing back up again, maybe this second time round, or is it the third time, I’m not sure since it takes years to grow up. Either way maybe this time you’ll not be so dismissive of the classics” Lauren had done this to her? How?

“Remember that old woman you were rude to when you were a teenager the first time round? She put a little curse on you, on both of us actually, which has us caught in a loop until you learn to be more respectful to your elders. You didn’t learn so we’re back in the past again, you’re a baby again and I get to enjoy the classics all over again. I’m actually hoping you won’t learn because then we can keep doing this again and again” Old woman? Oh...yeah...her. Ah.

“You are so cute like this though, really cute. Maybe you should stay like this all the time” An eternity of nappies and being helpless? That sounded horrible to her.

“But if you want to break the loop then you better learn to not be so nasty to your elders” Lyn tries to speak but again her efforts fail. She was trapped like this because of her arrogance.

And it was clear that she wasn’t learning from her mistakes.

“Back to the future then and probably back to the past, not that I mind. Here’s mum to give you some mummy milk, right on cue” No, not this, anything but this!

“Nummy time for cutie” ANYTHING BUT THIS!

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