Back to being the baby of the family

Chapter 4
The Store

Chapter Description: Sam goes to the store with his mom.

I woke up the next day and immediately shot up. I checked myself out in the mirror noting that I hadn’t gotten any younger over night.

I found myself a plain yellow shirt as well as some sweat pants. I went into the bathroom and took a shower and got dressed and ready for the day. I didn’t really have any plans, but I still liked to get ready in the mourning. After brushing my teeth I grabbed my razor and went to shave before realizing i didn’t have any facial hair. I sighed putting the razor back and going downstairs. My older brother Jacob was making himself a sandwich for school. My mom had explained the situation to him, but he hadn’t seen me at all. I spent all of yesterday afternoon in my room sulking and then just went to bed without eating anything.

"Hey." he said trying not to stare.

"Hi." I responded getting myself a pool and filling it with cereal.

"I wonder if you would have to go back to school. Probably not." He remarked trying to casually bring up the news he heard yesterday.

"Yeah wouldn’t make sense. I just look younger. I’m not actually younger; or at least thats what the doctor said."

"Okay I gotta go. Hopefully it isn’t anything serious. Text me as soon as you find out what it is. Ill be home later this afternoon." He said as he went out the door with his lunch. My mom had already left for work. She probably came in the mourning to say hi to me, but I was probably too tired to remember.

I went back upstairs and just watched some YouTube videos as I ate my cereal. After that i just played video games until my mom came home.

"Hey sweetie," My mom said coming in the room.

"Hey," I said taking off my headset. "Did the doctor call?"

"Yes he called me on my cell. He said that your blood work showed up as strange. Apparently their is some unknown bacteria or virus or something in your blood that is changing your cells. He says that you actually might be getting younger. He said that based on how the blood was still changing that you will probably get younger. I set up another appointment for tomorrow. Some specialist are going to come to the office along with your doctor and run some more tests."

"Wha....I’m gonna get even younger?" I asked

"Well the doctor said that it was very possible. He wasn’t exactly sure though." She said trying to sound sympathetic. "Well anyway i think it would be best if you and I went on a little day out to the store. I want to get you some clothes that will fit better."

"I can’t i have delivery tonight. Besides these clothes fit fine." I said standing up. My underwear and my pants both slid down my legs. I quickly grabbed my underwear and sweatpants and pulled them back up having to hold them in place. I had gotten even smaller over the day. How have I not noticed.

"Apparently not." My mom said with a smirk on her face

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After calling my boss and telling him that I couldn’t deliver tonight I headed off to the mall with my mom to go get some new clothes. I changed into some jeans that i needed a belt to hold up as well as a pair of boxers that were once way to tight for me and now seemed just a little too loose.

When we got to the mall we went straight for the clothes store where my Mom went straight for the boys section. I use to shop from the men’s section, but everything there was probably too big for me. I was probably only 14 years old right now. I remember in school I was always on the smaller side compared to everyone else.

My mom grabbed a cart and just seemed to be throwing random clothes of all different sizes into it.

"How can you afford all this?" I asked.

"Easy; your bank account." She replied with a smirk on her face. "I’m just kidding. The doctor said that if you really are getting younger we will end up with a ton of money just by having specialist examine you. They said that if they can figure a way out how to control the regression they can maybe make you older and create something that can make other people who want to be younger, younger. All sorts of rich old folk will fund that and you are the only case ever where someone has actually gotten younger and visibly has something different in your blood. So lets not worry about money at the moment. I will just charge it to my card and if we need to then we can just sell something to pay for all this. You will probably end up needing it. In the past few days alone you have lost like 4 years."

"I don’t really want doctors probing me." I said.

"You don’t have to. Those doctors and scientist will do anything for you. If not you just tell them to bug off. It’s not like they have another subject to study."

"Yeah I guess." I replied.

I watched as my om grabbed packs of little kid underwear with cartoons and superheros on them and added them to the cart. All i could do was sigh.

When we went up the front desk with 2 shopping carts full of random clothes the lady had a funny look on her face and asked "How many kids do you have."

"Only 3. I uh...run a daycare and you know howl little kids are. Just need to make sure i have extra clothes for them all." My mom responded lying off the top of her head.

"Oh okay I guess." the women still said skeptical as she went through the long process of checking us out. "That will be $2234.75."

I just gulped as my mom cheerfully handed her card over to be swiped.

Once everything was bagged we brought it out to the car and filled the trunk and the back seat with bags. We drove off towards home. Tomorrow was going to be a big day.