Roswell

Chapter 1
Chapter 1

Sam and his girlfriend Julie were two average teens looking for some kicks late at night. Every weekend they would get together and try and find something they considered ’fun’. On this particular evening they decided to head out to where the UFO had supposedly crashed back in 1947. Neither one had actually ever taken the drive out there before considering it boring and probably just a local legend blown all out of proportion. But maybe a trip out there at night, sneaking around, would be more fun. Besides, they couldn’t think of anything else to do.

They got into Sam’s pride and joy, a 1990 Camaro, and headed out to the ’crash-site’. Sam pulled far off the road and they locked the car and began walking. The site had been a bee-hive of activity recently with all the 50th anniversary ’hoopla’. Fortunately, the worst of it had died down and things were as normal as things ever got in Roswell. After a lot of walking they finally reached the area where the UFO had supposedly crashed. Sam turned on his flashlight and shined it around.

"What’s THAT?!" he yelled and Julie quickly grabbed him.

"What? What did you see?" she asked nervously. "

Oh, .....Nothing. Gotcha!" he laughed.

Julie wasn’t amused. She had started losing interest in being there, actually feeling a little afraid. Usually, she was all for a little excitement but something about this place felt eerie.

"Maybe we should leave here. There’s nothing here. Let’s go back." she pleaded.

"No way! That was too long of a drive, and then this long walk out here, to just turn around and go back. I won’t scare you again. Let’s just look around some more." he answered.

Julie shook her head said "OK, I guess...."

Sam kept looking around, following the beam of his flashlight. All of a sudden something appeared to ’sparkle’ in the beam. "Hmmm, I wonder what that is?" he said, motioning for Julie to look.

"I don’t know....maybe a pop can or something?" she replied, still a bit frightened.

Sam didn’t think so and began walking toward the ’shiny’ thing. He wondered if all the wind that had been in the area recently had maybe uncovered something from the crash. ’Maybe this stuff is all for real!’ he thought. Julie stopped, afraid of whatever it was Sam might find. Sam walked on until he could pick up the piece. It was smaller than a soda can and appeared to be some kind of electronic device.

"Wow!" he said as he picked it up.

It had four buttons on it arranged in a ’North-South-East-West’ configuration. One pointed up, the other down, one pointing left and the other right. There was some type of ’writing’ but it looked more like pictures to Sam than words.

"What did you find?" Julie asked.

"I don’t know....It might be something the army left out here. ...Might even just be some kinda souvenir for the tourists.... I KNOW, It’s one of the alien’s phasers!" he said, turning and pointing the device at Julie while hitting the button that pointed down.

Julie looked at him and started to speak "Hey......".

Both were stunned. The ’device’ had turned Julie into a child. Julie knew something had happened because her voice had gotten higher as she as spoke. She also noticed the world appeared to get bigger!

"You’ve ’shrunk’ me!" she said.

"Actually, _no_! I mean, yeah you’re little..... But it turned you into a kid! I thought it was a toy! You gotta know I didn’t mean for THIS to happen" Sam said apologetically.

Julie looked at herself and saw no trace of former body. In its place was a child of about 7.

"This can’t be!!!" she whined.

Sam, still surprised by what had happened, decided to try another button and try and restore Julie. This time he hit the button that was on the ’left’. Julie’s mood immediately changed, but she didn’t get any older.... or younger.

"Julie, are you OK?" he asked.

She started crying "I want my mommy.....".

Sam realized that the device had erased her memory. She was now a 7 year old. Totally! Little Julie’s crying only made Sam’s confusion worse. He had to do something, he couldn’t leave her like this....But who would believe him....they’d think he was some kind of kidnapper....or crazy....or BOTH! Frantically, Sam aimed the ’device’ back at Julie and this time hit the button on the right. Little Julie still looked the same, but she stopped crying.

"Julie, are you back?" he asked.

"Uh huh, I think. What happened? I felt so scared.....".

"When I hit the button on the left it was like you totally turned into a little girl! I hit the opposite one and your memories came back." he explained.

"Well, hit the opposite of the one that made me a little girl!" she demanded.

Sam obliged, holding the button down and watching as Julie began to grow. 7-8-9

"It’s working!" she said.

10-11-12..... Her body starts to take on a more mature form. 13-14-15...Her clothes start filling out, although still too big on her. 16-17-18...Her clothes are tight now and Sam continues holding the button as he watches. 19-20-21..... She’s now a little taller than before

"Hey! What are you doing? These clothes never were this tight! You’re making me even OLDER!!!" She exclaims.

22-23-24....Her body easily fully fills out her clothing. Sam continues to hold the button even as Julie orders him to stop. 25-26-27....Sam can see lines on her face that he had never saw before. ’Crows feet’ he thinks they are called. Her facial expression is more stern looking and she still is ordering him to stop! 28-29-30.... He can now see more than a little resemblance to her mother. The ’crows feet’ are deeper and her body doesn’t look as ’firm’. 30-31-32.... She looks much older now. Her physical age is now practically double her actual age....yet Sam continues to press the button. 33-34-35.... Finally, he releases the button. Julie is no longer a teenager. She is now a middle-aged woman. Her body has started sagging. There are lines on her face. Her arms and legs no longer look well defined as they had earlier.

"What have you done to me?!! Please turn it back!" she pleaded.

Sam checks out the changes in his formerly 17 year old girlfriend and then says "Hold up a bit.... There’s a lot of stuff that a couple of 17 year olds can’t do.... but a couple of 35 year olds.....And we know how to reverse it!".

"You’re crazy! I don’t want to be seen ANYWHERE looking like this! And look at these clothes.....I look like a .... welllll..... a TRAMP!" Julie argued.

"Well, we want to look old enough so no one cards us! You can ’borrow’ some of your mother’s clothes. Or buy something some where.! It’ll be fun!" Sam countered.

Julie thought about it....It ’might’ be fun....and it wouldn’t be permanent.....Finally she said to Sam "OK, why not?"