Ice Cream

Chapter 1
Ice Cream

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Chapter Description: A middle age, tired woman was about to head home car broke down and the only place to call for help is this Ice Cream parlor that she had never seen before. While she waits for help to arrive, the Ice Cream man offers her some ice cream to make her

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Somewhere in a dark muggy night in the middle forested road, a Honda Civic was cruising in the late night sky. Inside the car was Crystal Coughner, a 47-year-old lawyer that was heading home after a long case at court. She gave out a yawn, but she kept her eyes on the road. “Man, what a day.” she said in her most tired expression, “That case was like a killer today. I can’t wait to get home and soak in a nice warm bath.”

Crystal wasn’t much of a cheerful woman, but she had become the most dominant individual in the city. She works as a lawyer in the courtroom; trying her best to make sure that criminals are behind bars and making the innocent feel safe. She never thought about having children, having a family, or getting married. Hell, she didn’t want to think about a boyfriend. All she cared about is her work all day and all night. Ever since she started college, her mother always says to study hard and achieve so much, never think about or do what other college girls do when their in those university. She always dreamed about going to parties, hanging out with friends, and checking out the guys when she was a college girl, but she knew that her work is more important then all that. And after fours years of hard work and intense study, she was able to get her lawyer degree and got a job at the city court when she was in her late twenties.

At first, she thought being a lawyer was going to be easy, but as the years went by, she was wrong. Every year more and more cases just keep piling up and it was getting hard for her to follow which case and which court order it is. In fact, she got all stressed out that it effected her age as well. Her hair was gray and white with a few strands of once brown hair and it was fit nicely into a bun. She had professional make up on her face, but it wouldn’t hide the fact that she had deep wrinkles all around her eyes, on her forehead, around her mouth, and cheeks. She was wearing a red long sleeve blouse with a dark red suit with a matching skirt that went down below her knees. But beneath those clothes were her once voluptuous breast slowly sagging and her once tone body when she was young was nothing but a batch of blubber around her waist and butt. Her once slender arms were all flabby with varicose veins wrapped around them; thankfully she had her sleeves to cover them up. Her hands with long fingernails all covered in red nail polish were a little bony with a few veins here and there. And her once sexy legs are the same as the arms, flabbiness and veins on them, but she was wearing dark black pantyhose to cover them up, along with a pair of red 4-inch pump heel shoes.

She thought that she was going to be stuck in that nightmare of a courtroom all day, but lucky for her that it changed for the better. Her boss said that she did a fantastic job today that she would take the weekend off. Crystal was quite thrilled at the news that she left early in the night. Now the only thing she can think of is to stay at home all day and relax. The only problem is that her house was not in the city, in fact, she lived about ten miles from the courthouse. The freeway she took to go home was blocked off by traffic. So she decided to take a shortcut, even if she’s not good with shortcuts, and was driving down a lone road through the woods. She thought maybe this route would take her home quicker, but where she was going is taking her to a wonderful place.

As she kept driving, she heard a loud clanking noise inside her car. It was then that smoke came out of the front hood and was fogging her view. “Great... Now what?” She parked at the side of the road, got out of her car, and headed to the hood. Once she opened it, a huge cloud of hot smoke came out of the engine and temporarily blinded her for the moment. Once Crystal was able to see and coughed a little bit, she moved the stick up and to hold the hood up. She then took a look she groaned in despair as she realized she had a broken down engine. “You have got to be kidding.” She said as she rubbed the temples on her head and tried to think of a way out of it. She didn’t see an auto repair shop anywhere on the road so her only option is to call for her car to be towed to one. She took out her cell phone and tried to call but found out that she had no reception. She looked up at the sky, stomp her foot to the ground, and sighed in frustration. “This day just keeps on getting better and better.” She hung up her phone and placed it inside her suit. “Oh well, I guess I have to find a pay phone to call, if there is one.”

She looked around the area to see if there was a phone. Suddenly, she caught something that got her attention. There was a billboard sign not far from her that says, ?Jake’s Ice Cream Parlor, where all your troubles are melted away! One mile ahead.’ in big colorful letters and showed a picture of a bunch of kids having ice cream on the left with a cartoon sun on the right with sunglasses, a winter cap, and scarf looking down of them with a smile. She gazed at the picture and chuckled at the theme. “Where all your troubles melted away? I wish it was true.” She headed back into the car to get her purse and started walking down the road, leaving her car behind. “They could have a pay phone there. Better check it out and see if I can get some help.” she explained herself as she walked down the dark road all by herself.

After what appeared to be hours of walking with uncomfortable heels, she had found the ice cream parlor. The place looks like an old ice cream diner from the 50s with a neon sign that say ?Jack’s Ice Cream Parlor’ and had an animated picture of an ice cream cone dripping on the side. “Finally...” she said, “Now I can be able to get out of this place.” She continued to walk to the parlor and couldn’t help but stare at the light blue and pink tile deco wrapped around the outside. She then noticed the parking lot around the area that seems empty. “Hmm... Must be closing time already. Oh well, I’ll just make it quick and get it over with.”

She headed to the entrance and walked through it. Once she entered, she couldn’t help but stare in awe on the inside of the parlor. Not only that it was 50s outside, but inside as well. All the chairs and stools had the colors from the outside, with a blue and a pink border. The tables all had a design of little circles dotted in a row. The walls in the area were white with pictures of different desert treats in different spots. And a jukebox was resting on one side of the wall playing music from Elvis all the way down to The Beatles. Crystal felt like she entered a whole ?nother time, but she put her mind back to earth for she has a job to do.

She walked over to the bar counter and spotted a young man at the age of 23 counting the money in the cash register. He had short blonde hair, light blue eyes, a clean-shaven face, and was wearing an old fashion ice cream uniform complete with folded napkin like hat. Crystal looked at the boy with an unsure but trusting look and tried to get his attention. “Um... Excuse me.” The young man looked up at her tired hazel nut eyes. “Sorry mam. We’re closing for tonight.” He said in a pleasant tone, “Please come back tomorrow when we’re opened.” The lawyer shook her head and tried to explain. “Actually, young man, I’m looking for a pay phone. You see, my car broke down and I need it towed right away. Is it okay if I can use yours?” The young man look deep into her eyes and understood what she means. “The pay phones are to the right where the restrooms are, you can’t miss them. But you better make this call quick, I got to close up shop in fifteen minutes.” Crystal nodded in agreement and thanked the kind man for help. She was walking away from the counter but stop to look at the person finishing counting the change. She wondered why would a man at a young age like that work in an ice cream parlor. She shrugged her shoulders, forgetting about that question, and headed to the pay phone.

She approached the payphone area that was sitting between the to restroom doors, approached one of them, and picked up the phone. Crystal then took out 25 cents from her suit pocket and inserted it into the slot on top. She opened the phone book that was hung below the payphone and searched through the pages to find a towing company around town. She finally found one and dialed the number on the ad. She waited for the call to come and after a few seconds she got someone on the phone. “Hello, is this Big Al’s Towing Company?” she said, getting the answer from the person on the phone. “This is Crystal Coughner. I’m calling because my car broke down in the woods and I need it towed to my house.” She waited as the person on the phone asked for her address. “My address is 834 21st Street, in a town called Bashmore.” He then asked where the car is broken down and she politely answered. “I don’t know the name of the road, but it’s the third exit at the I-45 turnpike, down by the interstate. There you would find a heavily forested area and my car parked by the road, you can’t miss it.” She waited for the person give her the O.K., but what he said on the phone made Crystal shocked for words. “What? But your ad says you can tow my car fast.” She then listened in on what the guy is saying and realized what he means. “Oh I see. So how long are you going to be here by?” The guy answered as she rubbed the top of her nose. “But when I was there it was just a traffic jam. I never thought that it would-“ She was interrupted when the guy explained everything. “I’m sorry I didn’t know this would happen. Well then, I’ll meet you at my car whenever I’m ready. Thanks and have a nice day.” She hung up the phone and looked at her Rolex watch to find out about what time will he be here. “Four to five hours, that means that they will get here by...” she took a closer looked at the watch, “Midnight? Just my luck! Some break this started out to be.” She dropped her head down in disappointment as she walked back to the service area.

Once she entered, she spotted the young ice cream man wiping the counter top clean. She then walked towards one of the stools and sat on it with her hands on the counter top and her head on top of them. The ice cream man looked at Crystal and could tell something’s wrong. Once he’s finished with the bar counter, he then cleaned one of the shake cups and approached her. He looked at the tired lawyer and wondered. “Something tells me you’re have a rough night tonight.” he said as Crystal looked up at the young man. “You could say that.” she said as she explained what her problem is, “I called one of the garages to help tow my car. But the problem is that there going to be here for four to five hours because the traffic jam on the turnpike I was one turned into a gridlock. I seems there was a pile up on the road and it’s going to take them a while to remove all those cars and debris.” “Whoa, that sounds bad.” “Yeah, it is.”

She then sighed as she looked away from the man and watched the two slushy machines turning. “Sounds like you had a tough day at work.” said the young ice cream man. “Yes I did.” answered Crystal, “When you’re a lawyer that had fifteen cases in a week, you get completely frustrated. And now I got the weekend off of work and look how it started. I feel horrible.” She then closed her eyes and was in deep thought, talking silently too herself. “Sometimes, I wish my life was much simpler then this. That I can be more carefree, to be happy and not worried about work, stress, or personal issues. The only thing I want in this world is to restart my life.”

The young ice cream listened to every word she said and knows of a way to make her wish come true. “Sounds like what you need is to have some ice cream.” Crystal looked back at the young man and was a little confused as what he means. “Ice cream?” she said and the guy nodded for a yes, “Thanks, but I already ate. Besides, I don’t think ice cream is going to make me feel better.” The ice cream man smiled, “Oh yes it will. You see, this ice cream isn’t just any ice cream you see in any ice cream shop. This ice cream can bring back old memories once you tasted it. I had some customers come in and when they try out this ice cream, they had a rejuvenating experience.” Upon hearing it, Crystal’s eyes widened a little as her mouth opened to a big O shape. “They do?” was all she asked to the young man. “Of course.” He said, “In fact, once they eat enough ice cream, they would remember when they first tasted it. So tell me, when was the first time you had some ice cream?”

Crystal blushed a little, not sure on how to answer the young man’s question, but she was able to muster up some courage and talked to him. “This might sound a little embarrassing but the first time I had some ice cream was when I was three. I was still getting use to soft foods since I had baby teeth growing in my mouth so I had a hard time eating foods I don’t know about. Then one day, my mother took me to an ice cream shop and she gave an ice cream cone. When I first took a bite of it, the taste was over whelming. I couldn’t stop until all the ice cream was gone, even if I had to drink the melting part through the cone since I can’t eat the cone itself yet.”

The young man heard the story and couldn’t believe what he heard. “Really, that young?” “Yes.” Answered Crystal, “Ever since that first bite, all I could think of was having ice cream. When I was growing up, I’ve been eating many kinds of ice cream from scoops to soft serve, all the way down to the milk shakes they have. Ah... Those were the days.” But smile she had ever since she talked about her life experience with the one thing she loves turned into a frown. “Sadly, however, those days are now long gone. I’ve been gaining weight since I was in my thirties that I don’t want to have that stuff anymore. The only thing I could eat now is nutrition bars and fast food salads since I’m at work most of the time and I need to loose weight fast. Oh how I miss all that creamy goodness.”

The ice cream man couldn’t help but to feel sorry for this poor woman. She had forgotten what it feels like to have some nice cold ice cream on a hot summer’s day and decided to take the first step. “Maybe some of this shop’s personal ice cream will make you remember the good old days.” Crystal stared at him with those tired eyes of hers, unsure of the young man’s offer. “I’m not sure. I’m trying to watch my weight and it will do a number on my body.” “Oh don’t worry about that,” said the kind man trying to reason with her, “Once you had this ice cream, you will forget about your weight problem. In fact it will make you forget all that stress at work and make you feel all happy and warm inside, just like the time you had your first ice cream cone.” The ice cream man smiled and winked at her.

Crystal on the other hand wasn’t sure about this. She doesn’t want to gain more weight with her already expanding mid section. But there was a calm as she figured that this offer could make her get away from all those court dates and late hour shifts. But how much will it cost her? She looked at the ice cream man and asked him that question. “This isn’t going to cost me, is it?” The young man couldn’t help but to chuckle about it. “Oh don’t worry about money. It’s on me. Besides, business was a little slow today since I didn’t have enough customers.” He put the clean glass on one of the hangers above the counter top, turned around, and headed to the kitchen. “You just wait right here while I prepare something special for you.”

The young man left to the kitchen and started setting up his special dish. While he was preparing the dish, Crystal was thinking about this strange man. Why would this nice man offer her some ice cream? Not only that, but why would he give it to her for free? She was thinking about it for a while but before she came up with an answer, a loud thud broke her concentration.

“There you go.” said the ice cream man, “Bon Appetite.” Crystal looked at the treat the young man gave her and was surprised that what it is. What this treat is is a wide bowl loaded with various scoops and toppings of many different treats. There were ten scoops of different ice cream flavors; vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, peppermint, green tea, orange cream, espresso mocha, cookies and cream, pistachio pecan, and bubble gum. On top of those scoops were three huge, pyramid like, soft serve, vanilla ice cream with a chocolate swirl wrapped around it, three different sauces on top of them (strawberry, caramel, and butterscotch), and three cherries on the top of the pyramids. Between them were two bananas that stretches over the ends of the dish. And drizzled around the soft serve ice cream is chocolate syrup, whipped cream, and rainbow sprinkles.

“I call this beauty The Sundae Supreme.” said the ice cream man, “Beautiful isn’t it?” Crystal was a little loss for words when she saw this huge monstrosity of a desert. “Beautiful? This is too huge!!! I don’t think I can eat all this by myself!” “Oh don’t worry; you’ll be able to eat it all the way down to the last gulp.” he said, “And if you eat enough, you will feel like having ice cream for the first time.”

The lawyer looked at the strange man and was a little hesitant at this. But she decided not to make him upset and picked up a spoon to dig into the sundae. When she took the first bite, her eyes were opened wide as the taste was over whelming. She swallowed it down her throat and felt a chill in her body and it starts to tingle a little. “Wow! This is the best ice cream I’ve ever tasted.” She said as the squirmed in her seat a little, “But I feel a little chilly.” “Oh don’t mind that, it could have some freezing side effects when people take their first bite. But once you get use to it, it will make you feel better.” The ice cream man smirked as he watched Crystal take a few more bites. “Well, I’m going to go to the back and clean up a little.” He said as he turned around and headed to the back room, “I’ll come back to see if you’re finished. Just make sure you eat it all up or it will melt.”

The young man left the area as Crystal indulges herself in sundae. She took a couple of more bites as she was overwhelmed by the taste of it. She wasn’t pay attention to the world around her, especially the fact that she’s stranded in the middle of nowhere and in an ice cream shop, the only thing she cares about was making sure the entire dish was empty. Bite after bite after bite, she kept on getting this strange shivering tingling sensation. But once it’s subsided, she went back to digging in.

But what she didn’t know was that the sundae she’s having is actually magical. When a person takes a bite of this ice cream, it removes one month of this person’s life. In other words, Crystal had 24 bites of her sundae, which means she had threw 24 months of her life away, therefore making her two years younger. She was now 45 and though her looks didn’t show it, her hair was beginning to show signs of her gray and white slowly fading and growing a few inches. Even though she cut her hair short to make it a bun, it was starting to regrow itself as a few strands were sticking out of her bun. But she wasn’t aware of it, she was so hypnotized by the taste of her desert that she wants to keep munching it down until there was nothing left. She continued eating her blissful meal, unaware that the months and years were subtracted from her life.

44, 43, 42, 41, 40... She was really showing signs of her body youthening. Her hair was almost returning to its natural brown color as her bun was loosing its shapeness when her hair was growing out of it. The wrinkles on her face were lessening and her eyes were loosing some of her tiredness she use to have during her work hours as a lawyer. Her sagging breasts were beginning to rise behind her 38C Unlined full coverage bra that had support wire around the cups to make her look professional. The blubber around her waist was showing signs of her fat evaporating underneath her business suit. Her flabby arms and legs were reducing to what she once lost a long time ago. Her veins that were on her legs were beginning to fade away underneath her dark pantyhose. But she didn’t notice any of those changes; she was so transfixed in biting and chewing the soft, sweet, frozen treat.

As she continued chomping and swallowing the sundae down her throat, she immediately left her forties behind and reentering her thirties. 39, 38, 37, 36... Her hair was now half brown and half gray with it growing longer and leaving the last few remnants of her bun. Her face was regaining its youthful beauty and her body was doing the same as her breasts rose higher and her waist, arms, and legs were getting slimmer and toner. 35, 34, 33, 32, 31... Crystal’s hair was completely dull brown with only a few strands of gray hair weaved in a few spots. Her bun was long gone as her hair cascaded down to the middle of her back. The wrinkles on her face were reduced to laugh lines around her eyes and mouth. As for her body, she was already at the turning point where she was going to gain some weight with her breasts beginning to sag and her body was loosing the last remnants of fat and flab.

30, 29, 28, 27... Crystal then put her spoon away and started readjusting her suit as it started to feel a little loose on her. What she doesn’t realize is that after eating away her months, she had remove twenty years of her life. Her hair had no sign of any gray strand what so ever; all she had was long shiny brown hair that was down her back. All the wrinkles she had on her face disappeared, leaving her face smooth and fresh with her make up that made her look more beautiful. As for her eyes, the redness and circles under them are long gone as all those late night hours at the office and courthouse passed her by, making her hazel eyes look so clear as they glitter through the light. Now her body has changed tremendously as all those years of poor dieting and lack of exercise were dissolved from her life. Her breasts lost all the sagginess as they went back to being a double C underneath her constricting bra and making her suit look like it was first day at work and forcing all the men to turn their heads to see it. The last of her body fat around her waist was taken away from her as it went back from being a slim, toned, shapely hourglass underneath her clothes as her butt grew back to being the bubble shaped rear it once was back in her younger days. She crossed her firmly shaped, vainless legs professionally as she picked up her spoon and continued eating her ice cream.

26, 25, 24... She immediately went from being a professional woman to a student going through her third year in college. After taking another bite she then stopped, thinking about the strange ice cream man that’s helping her so kindly. He seemed like a nice guy, yet offering her ice cream to make her feel better doesn’t make any sense what so ever. But for some reason, he seems kind of cute. In fact, he almost looks like a hunk underneath that cheesy getup he has to wear. She wondered if she could go on a date with him after he was done with his work shift. But then she remembered what her mother once said, ?You can’t go on a date with any boy because your work is more important.’ her mom once said, ?Dating a boy you don’t know about can bring you nothing but trouble. Remember that.’

Having a few more bites out of her sundae, her mother’s words were slowly beginning to fade away as she was returning to her 23 energetic self. She was starting to have fun filled fantasies of her and the ice cream man having loads of fun in the bedroom since both of them are the same age. She then placed her spoon down next to her dish and, one at a time, took the three cherries of the tops of the melted soft serve yogurt to lick the melted ice cream off the bottom of the cherries very sultry and chomped them off the stems. She placed the stems on the napkin and hit the front soles of her pumps on the counter wall as they started to feel loose fitting on her feet. What she didn’t notice was that her feet in her 4-inch pumps started to shrink as gap appeared between her back heel and her back end of her shoe. Even her pantyhose have a few wrinkles here and there, but her legs remained quite sexy. She crossed them the other way as she kept on eating her ice cream that was melting halfway.

22, 21, 20... Crystal left her college days behind and was now a high school senior. The dreams of her being with the young ice cream man were long gone as she was thinking about her final exam next month, not to mention her graduation coming up after that. As she was eating, her body was youthening further. Her breasts were reduced to a mere 32C cup but they still look a little big underneath business attire. Her legs were a little thin around her slightly wrinkled pantyhose but they were still firm and beautiful as ever. She look down and noticed that the cuffs of her jacket and blouse that were below her wrists were now above them. Without giving it a second thought, she removed her jacket, placed it on the stool next to her, and rolled her blouse sleeves up to her elbows so that the ice cream wouldn’t stain her clothes. What she didn’t realize was that she was reliving her last growth spurt during her last year in high school. So far she has lost an inch in height and it will be a matter of time before she loose more. She then brushed the strands of her hair that was slowly creeping up her back out of her face and went back to her treat.

Scoop after scoop, she was moving back to her teen years with a vengeance. 19, 18, 17... Her life was moving backwards at an alarming rate as her height went from 5’7” to 5’4” in mere minutes. Her pumps were beginning to dangle off her shrinking feet as she moved them up and down with no thought to it. Her hair moved up to her upper back as her face was loosing very little of her womanly features. Freckles were sprouting around the bridge of her already upturned nose as her once full lips are beginning to loose its fullness. Crystal’s adult body was now reduce to that of a high school cheerleader with her boobs shrunk to a perky B cup, her gorgeous hourglass waist lost most of its curves, and her butt was deflating on her stool. While her body continued to deflate, her entire attire was both ill fitting and wrinkly from her blouse all the way down to her pantyhose hiding her diminishing legs.

16, 15, 14, 13... She was now going backwards through puberty. Her hair was now up to the small of her back and the tint of her hair was beginning to brighten a little to a lightish brown color. Crystal’s face was also crossing the line between adult to child. Her features were softening and rounding as her eyes were getting a little larger, her ears were growing smaller, and her nose was reshaping to her youthful profile. Her teeth inside her mouth was shifting and bending, making them into crooked spaced teeth she once had before she got her braces when she was fourteen. But her once perfectly line teeth weren’t the only thing that’s making her ugly, pimples kept appearing on her face. Few a first but spreads all over her once pretty face, making her look like what the kids in her school call, “Crater Face.” Her breasts were melting just like her sundae as they degraded to an A, AA, to small bumps underneath her baggy blouse. Her hips and waist had very little curves, as her rear was nothing but flat and bony. Her legs look more like twigs then a pair of toned shapely legs as her feet shrunk halfway, with one of her pumps falling off one foot and landed on the floor while the other one was dangling on her toes, ready to join the other shoe.

12, 11, 10... Crystal continued to shrink as the counter that was once up to her waist level was now at her chest level. Her hair was up to her shoulder blades as the zits on her face were gone, replacing it with the features of a child then an adult. Her body lost all of its womanly features on her ever-shrinking frame. Her other pump fell to the floor as her feet shrunk through her now useless pantyhose. She uncrossed her skinny legs and sways them back and forth, letting the empty bottom stockings flap wildly. The world around her was growing big but she didn’t notice it. All she cared about was finishing her ice cream until there’s no more as she takes one bite and loose one month.

9, 8, 7... Crystal now entered the single digits of her life. She was having a hard time reaching her sundae because her thin arms were loosing their length. She immediately scooted forward to the edge of her stool to reach her treat. In fact, she moved so close to the edge that her pantyhose, skirt, and black lace panties drop and landed on the floor, leaving her short legs exposed. She slanted her dish in front of her so she would have the leatherage and continued eating. Her table manners were reduced from an adult to that of a kid as she sloppily munches down on the sweet goodness as the melted treat was covered around her mouth.

Crystal slowly approached her toddler years as she went from six to five-years-old after a couple of bites. Her face was getting puffy around her cheeks as her teeth shrank and shifted to fit in her small mouth and her hair lifted off her shoulders and was just below her small ears. It was now getting extremely hard for her to finish her sundae because her blouse was too huge on her shrunken body, even her sleeves that she rolled up minutes ago no longer fit her diminishing arms. Crystal then stood up on her stool, which is none turnable thank goodness, and slipped out of her tent size blouse, letting it go through the stool and landed gently around the it, following behind were her worthless bra and the Rolex watch that slipped through her wrist and tiny hand. Once naked, her body was nothing but a mere child with no trace of her old self.

She had a flat chest with two darkish pink dots where breasts use to be. There were zero curves on her hips and waist; just a flat stomach that had baby fat growing in the middle and her private area was smooth and hairless. Her once long, toned arms and legs were reduced to being short and stubby with signs of chubbiness building up. But she didn’t care about what happened to her body because she must finish what’s left of her ice cream. She stayed standing up to keep her leatherage and kept eating her sundae. Finally, after another 24 bites, the dish was completely empty with only traces of the melted part on the glass surface.

As if on cue, the ice cream man left the back room and headed to the counter. Once he reached it, he saw on the stool not a 47-year-old female lawyer, but a 3-year-old toddler standing on the stool licking the remnants of ice cream around her mouth. Her height is about 2’9” and her body was plump and chubby. She had light brown, boy cut, hair, a small-buttoned nose, and big hazel nut eyes that made her cute. Crystal looked up at the guy and smiled showing her little baby teeth with one front tooth missing in her mouth. “I’m finished!” she said in a voice that sounded more like a child then a professional woman.

The ice cream man looked at the empty dish and whistled at the accomplishment. “Boy, you sure must’ve been pretty hungry little lady.” he said rubbing the back part of his head, “So how was it, did you enjoy your first ice cream treat.” Little Crystal nodded in agreement, unaware that she took her first bite of her sundae when she was a middle age lawyer. Because not only that she regressed physically, but mentally as all her knowledge, memories, and successes all vanished in her mind. That means that she had forgotten about being a lawyer, she had lost all of her education from grade school all the way up to college, and all the recollections of her life after being three were washed away. So in conclusion, her mind and body went back to the day she had her first ice cream meal.

“Oh yes mister. That wuz the vest ice cweam I eva had!” said a very cheerful Crystal as she lift up the dish with her two small hands and gave it to the ice cream man, “Can I have more pwease!” The young man smiled as he took the dish out of her hands and answered. “I would love to sweetie, but I can’t give you too much, you might get a tummy ache.” He turned around and was about to head to the sink until he stopped and looked back at the little girl to say one thing. “Oh and by the way, you can call me Jack.” He gave a wink and headed to the sink to clean off the dish.

While he was washing the dish, little Crystal was starting to feel a little tired as she gave out a yawn. She then looked around the parlor to see where her mom is. While she was searching, she yawned louder as her eyelids were getting heavy. She tried to best to stay awaked to find her mother, but the power of sleep was overpowering her. After a few minutes of fighting it, she gave up the battle and fall asleep at the stool, having sweet and pleasant dreams.

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Twenty minutes later, another car was driving down the same forest road. Inside the car was a young couple at the age of 27 (the wife) and 28 (the husband). As the husband was at the steering wheel, driving down the dark path, his wife sighed and frustration. “I know... It’s a shortcut. But the way this looks, I say we’re lost!” She said in anger, “We should’ve stayed in the turnpike and be done with it.” “Well do you want to be stuck in traffic all night or do you want to go home so badly?” asked the husband.

The car kept going straight to the road and passed a car that’s been broken down for quite a while. “You know, I don’t understand why I married you?” she asked. As the car kept driving, they notice something in the middle of a dirt platue. “Hey, what’s that?” asked the wife as the husband stopped the car and put it on park. “I don’t know.” He answered, “Let’s get out and see what it is.” The two got out of the car and approached the strange figure. When they got closer to it, they were real shock at what they saw. In the middle of the dirt ground was a little girl no older then three, naked and sleeping on top of wrinkled clothes.

The couple were scared that the girl must’ve been dead or something, so the husband bent down on one knee and check the girl to see if there’s anything wrong with her. “Well hun, is she all right?” asked the wife. After examining the girl’s body, the husband looked up to her and smiled in relief. “She’s fine, she’s only sleeping.” He looked back at the sleeping toddler and wondered what she was doing in the middle of the forest.

But right after he asked himself that question, the little girl yawned and opened her big hazel eyes to see the strange man in front of her. “Hewo.” Said the girl as the young couple looked each other with concern expressions on their faces and looked back at the strange girl. “Hey there little girl.” the husband said, “What are you doing here in the middle of nowhere.” “I wuz-“ was all she said when she looked around and realized she was no longer at the ice cream shop she was in. Instead, she was outside in the woods with dirt all around her. Confused, she looked at the couple for answers. “Um... Where iz the ice cweam pwace I wuz in?”

The couple was confused at what she means as the wife stepped in and answered her question. “There was no ice cream shop where we passed dear, I’m sorry. But can you please tell us your name.” The girl looked at the woman and answered, “My name iz Cwistal... Um... Uh... I don’t know what my wast name iz.” And for good reason too. For once, she was Crystal Coughner, a middle aged lawyer, but once she had ice cream, she reverted back to a toddler with no memories of her life, including the part where she remembered her last name. The husband looked at the strange girl very suspicious and asked another question. “Okay Crystal, where’s your mother? Do you know what she looks like?” Crystal tried to remember but she couldn’t. The visible images of her mother were clouded in her small mind; in fact she doesn’t even remember her name at all. “Well I uh... I don’t know wut my mommy wooks wike.” She said in a cute and scared tone. “But I know she wuz doing someting so I had to wait for her until she comes back.” “Then where did you’re mother go.” Asked the husband, “Did she say where she was going?” “You know, maybe it has something to do with the car we passed by.” The wife said as her husband looked at her in confusion. “What?”

“While you were driving, I noticed a car broken down on the side of the road.” She said giving him an explanation, “ I think that maybe the mother was trying to get help and must’ve taken her little girl with her. I guess that her mother was captured and the girl was sleeping the whole time and she didn’t know it.” Her husband listened in and could tell that she must be right. So he looked back at Crystal and asked one more question. “All right Crystal. What were you doing while you were waiting for your mom.” The little girl knows this question and answered with loud outburst of happiness and glee. “I had Ice Cweam!!!” The couple looked at each other and decided to take Crystal to the hospital. So they took her to the car, get in, and left the road to find the closet hospital they could find.

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At the hospital, the doctor examined the girl the couple took and the results were that she must’ve had amnesia. The couple were concerned where was the mother and what happened to her. That’s when they found out that the police were searching for a missing woman in the forest.

Apparently, the police got a call from guy in charge of a towing and auto shop that a female lawyer was missing in the woods when her car broke down on the side of the road. They sent a search unit down there to find out what happened to this woman and combed out the area but they had no luck locating her. They say its possible that she just got killed by a wild animal, since there could be bears at the beginning of the hibernating season, but they’ll still continue seek out the missing woman.

In the meantime, the young couple thought about what to do with the child they found. Without her mother, Crystal will be all alone and scared. They would take her to the nursery, but they don’t know if the kids would treat her so kindly. Not only that, but they don’t know where they can find an orphanage in town and even if they do, they’ll be afraid that she won’t have a family to be with let alone love. But that part got them thinking. What if they adopt the little girl? They always wanted to have a child of their own, especially if it’s a little girl. So they decided until her mother’s found, they would adopt Crystal and raise her like one of their own.

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A few months later, on a grassy field of a farm was the very same ice cream parlor was nestled beside a dirt road. Inside the parlor, the young ice cream man known as Jake watched the news on the TV on top of the counter and saw little Crystal celebrating her forth birthday, blowing out the candles of favorite treat, an ice cream cake. The news anchor said that this girl once had a mother who was a lawyer. But police report that a wild animal in the forest had killed her while she was looking for help when her car broke down. Though they haven’t found the body, they have reasons to believe that she was dragged on the ground and disappeared without a trace. Boy were they wrong.

On the brighter side of things, a young couple adopted a little girl name Crystal and made feel right at home. The husband said that even though her mother’s gone they don’t want her to feel so alone. But the wife said that this girl has really brought her and her husband closer together and will do anything to make her feel happy. Jack chuckled at what she said and talked to herself. “Well either way you put it, I did made one customer satisfied.”

He watched Crystal being so excited and cheerful on the TV and talked to her like she was really there. “Well my girl, I hope I made your wish came true. Now you will never have to worry about your old life that you once had. Now you can start a new life, grow up and be more carefree, and have a better future. I was delighted to be at your service.”

Jake turned off the TV and went back to work. And luck would have it, a tired 51-year-old farmer walked into the shop feeling all hot and want to get something to cool him off. Jack looked up at the man and greeted him with a smile.

“Welcome to Jack’s Ice Cream Parlor, where all your troubles are melted away. How can I help you?”

The End...

 

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