The Pool Party

Chapter 1
The POOL PARTY

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Chapter Description: BY WONDER WHO

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"The Pool Party"

by Wonder Who

“Whatcha doin’ Kev’?” Kevin’s sister asked him as she passed his room. Kevin was seated at his computer table.

“You wouldn’t understand!” he grumbled as his gaze momentarily left the computer screen.

“More of that dumb Dungeons and Dragons stuff, huh?” she smirked.

“Nuh huh! I’m figurin’ out how to do some cool stuff! Now, go away!” he snapped and went back to work.

Becki rolled her eyes and moved on. “Geek,” she mumbled as she got out of earshot. She wasn’t much interested in his fascination with all things computer related anyway. After all, she was 16 years old and her friends would soon be over to spend some time at the pool and talk about boys! If her 13-year-old nerdy brother was locked away on the computer then it would be all the better as far as she was concerned. She headed to her room to try on her new two-piece bathing suit.

Becki removed her cutoffs, underwear, and tanktop, replacing them with her new bikini. She pulled her curly long blond hair back in a pony tail and twirled around a few times admiring her teenage curves in the full length mirror. She smiled. No teenage angst about her appearance today! Her body had filled out nicely and her time over the course of the school year at cheerleader practice had given her a firm and toned shape.

Kevin straightened in his chair as he heard the first arrivals. A pool growing full of scantily clad teenage girls was enough to tear any 13-year-old boy away from his computer! He jumped up and peered out of his room as his sister bounced down the hallway to meet the first arrivals.

“Come in,” he heard his mother say. He awaited anxiously for the first arrivals to come into view as he peered out the doorway.

He soon saw Mrs. Scovill appear with her 17-year-old daughter Rachel and another teenage girl. Both girls were friends of Becki and Kevin knew both well. Becki’s friends were ALL pretty hot, he thought.

Kevin’s mother greeted the trio and asked Mrs. Scovill to have a seat. The girls shed their coverups and sandals as they took off for the backyard pool. Kevin’s staring was detected by his mother and her friend, Mrs. Scovill. Nervously, he put his hands in his pocket trying to hide his erection and spun around to get back to his computer.

“Hi, Kevin!” Mrs. Scovill said as she saw the boy disappear from view.

“Hello, mam,” came a muffled voice from Kevin’s bedroom as he sat back down at his computer.

The two women smiled and began catching up on small talk. Kevin went back to work at his computer . He’d occasionally check the time as if waiting on something. He couldn’t help but steal a few peeks out his window as more of Becki’s friends arrived and joined the others. Some he thought were a little skinny, some were a little chubby, and some could be super-models! But they all looked hot to him! Although he could let his imagination run wild he knew the reality was that they thought of him as a nerdy kid.

Kevin clicked away on hyperlinks trying to take his mind off the activity outside. He could hear them giggling and splashing away. It was driving him crazy! He also kept a close watch on the clock still as if he was waiting on something.

“Kevin.... The mailman is here... he brought you something,” he heard his mother yell from the other room. Although it was a statement he could tell from his mother’s voice that she was a bit curious as to what Kevin had ordered. There was no return address on the box.

“COOL!” he yelled and sprung out of his seat. In record time he retrieved the item.

“So?” his mother asked.

“So ummmm what?” he replied.

“What did you get?” she asked him directly.

“Oh.... ummmm.... game stuff... ya know... that stuff you think is dumb,” he lied as he made his getaway hoping not to have to explain further.

His mom shrugged and sat back down with her friend. He opened the box when he got to his room. “YES! I thought you weren’t gonna make it,” he said to the box as he pulled out a couple of small vials and examined them.

Outside, the sound of teenage girls frolicking about seemed to increase. Doing his best to ignore them and his seemingly permanent erection he went back to his computer. After collecting some more online information, he stuck the vials in his pocket and stood up.

He nervously, yet excitedly, walked down the hall past his mother and her friend. Out to the pool he went. He heard a couple of groans and he also saw a couple of the girls obviously try to tease him.

“Kevin, you are so big,” one of them teased. “If I didn’t have a boyfriend I think I’d be YOUR girlfriend!”

“Me too!” another one said as she tried to conceal her giggling. A well-endowed brunette dropped her hair brush in front of Kevin and then bent over giving him a perfect view of her cleavage. The other girls laughed as Kevin’s eyes followed her breasts down and then back up as she gathered her brush from the concrete.

“Kevin? Why, I do think you were staring at my boobs!” the brunette said in mock surprise. The girls burst out laughing harder.

“Sorry,” Kevin replied meekly. He was used to the teasing. They ALWAYS did it. First one and then another would join in until they all were doing it.

“What’re you doing out here, geekoid?” Becki asked him.

“I live here too!” he protested, obviously annoyed by the tone of Becki’s voice.

Before Becki could say more, Kevin banged a table and knocked over their pitcher of diet soda.

“Hey, monkey boy! Like, how’d you do THAT? Can’t you see where you’re going!? Geez!” his sister complained.

“Oh... ummmm I’m sorry... I’ll get you mor,e” he said and gathered up the now empty plastic pitcher. He had a smirk on his face as he went back inside and into the kitchen.

Once there, he filled the pitcher with more diet soda.... and then a few drops from one of the vials in his pocket. He smiled and took the doctored soda back outside.

“Here... all better,” he said as he put the pitcher down.

“Ummm, while you’re, like, here,” one of the girls said as she brought him her empty glass. He pretended to be annoyed as he filled her glass. Seeing this look of annoyance only caused the other girls to get in line with their own drink glasses. He dutifully filled each one and then escaped to his room to watch.

This was Kevin’s day to get even! If all went as planned his sister and her friends wouldn’t be teasing him anymore! He smiled and waited.

The giggling outside continued. Did they sound higher pitched? Was it working? He wasn’t sure. Time to take look! He pulled back his curtain ever so slightly and looked outside.

He saw a few girls adjusting their suits. He looked toward the table to the pitcher of soda to see how much remained. There, sitting around the table, was his mother and Mrs. Scovill... and they each had a drink glass that they were drinking from! Was it the spiked soda!? Kevin sat back and thought. What to do? And then he smiled again... why do anything? Besides, they were old, he figured, and probably wouldn’t even notice if they got a little younger. It’s not like they wouldn’t notice when the teens all turned into children anyway!

He cracked open his window a little more to better hear the conversations from below.

“This soda is very cold,” he heard Mrs. Scovill say.

“Yes, it is. And sweet, too,” his mother replied.

“The joy of cola!” Kevin said quietly as a Bob Dole Pepsi commercial came on TV. This only made Kevin laugh aloud. “You don’t know how right you are, Bob!”

Kevin’s attention turned back to the pool as he heard a couple of voices sound higher and more childlike. A couple of Becki’s sophomore friends had slipped back closer to their ‘childhood.’ All the girls began adjusting their increasing ill-fitting bathing suits more and more.

“Hey!? My boobs!???” One of the younger ones said as she noticed her one-piece bathing suit was turning flat and baggy.

This got Becki’s attention as she now noticed her friend didn’t look so much like a blossoming young woman but more like a gangly 13-year-old.

“Jan??? You look....” Becki tried to say ‘younger’ but it seemed impossible to be true.

One of the girls in the pool lost her top. Her shrinking body was no longer able to hold it up.

Kevin kept an attentive watch. It was perfect. He looked to see if his mother or Mrs. Scovill looked different. In fact, they did. Both looked less tired and seemed more animated as they talked. Their drinks were empty and his mother was pouring a second glass. Kevin had never thought about anyone drinking two glasses full!

He watched the two youthening women leave the pool and venture back into the house. He heard their voices as they came down the hallway.

“Beth, I have a suit that’ll fit you,” he heard his mother tell her friend. He took a look out his doorway. Sure enough each woman looked 5 years younger... easily! How young would they get? His attention turned back to the pool. The buzz around the pool had increased. He could hear the voices growing higher and the confusion of the situation began to take its toll. No time to check on his mother and Mrs. Scovill; he had to see his tormentors and what was happening to them!

Back to the window he ran. No worry about being discreet this time as he flung open the curtains. All the girls were scrambling for the coverups. His sister looked about his age now. “My boobs! seemed to be the chorus of the youthening teens. Some were starting to cry while others seemed in shock. Kevin waited until none looked older or bigger than him. "Time to go turn the tables," he decided!

In the hall he ran into Mrs. Scovill. She was a teenager herself now and wearing a one-piece that his mother had given her. She seemed a bit confused was examining her smoother younger legs. Not wanting to answer any questions, Kevin bypassed her without saying a word. He looked back to see her staring at her younger hands. It was like she knew what she was seeing but couldn’t accept it.

“Hi, girls!” Kevin said emphasizing the word ‘girls.’

“Eeeeeeeek!” they screamed almost in unison. They didn’t want anyone to see them like this!

12-year-old Becki stepped forward. She had on a button-up blouse and was holding it closed.

“There’s something in the pool making us younger!” she said, misreading the situation.

Kevin laughed as he saw one of his tormentors now reduced to a flat-chested 10-year-old. “Ya know, if you were older I’d be your boyfriend,” he said, “but you’re too little for me!” This caused the brunette girl to break into tears. Becki went to comfort her.

Their teenage voices were all replaced by the voices of little girls. The youngest looked about 7 now. Much to Kevin’s surprise she seemed to accept her fate as did another of the younger girls. They began to play in the pool and splash each other as the watched their formerly older friends dwindle in age.

“Stop it, Kelly! Beth! This is serious!” 9-year-old Becki implored of her childish friends.

Kevin surveyed the situation. It was looking more and more like a grade school playground instead of a teenage girl’s pool party!

The two youngest girls stuck their tongues out at Becki and laughed. Rachel took a look at what was happening. It did look like fun playing she thought.

“C’mon, let’s get ‘em!” Rachel said as she hopped in the water after the two now youthened friends.

“Rachel! Don’t! You gotta be a big girl!” Becki told her friend. “MOM!” she screamed not knowing who else to ask for.

Mrs. Scovill appeared. She was a bubbly 16-year-old now! Holding her hand was a T-shirt-clad toddler. It was Becki’s mother! She was drinking the last of her soda pop.

“What’s happening? I’m young.... and Carla is ummmm even younger!” Mrs. Scovill said as the confused toddler that was Kevin and Becki’s mother looked at all the older children. More of the teens seemed to be succumbing to their fate and were deciding to play. All Becki’s friends had regressed to ages in the single digits. 16-year-old Mrs. Scovill was the eldest member of the group now. Obviously, the extra diet cola that she and Carla had enjoyed had proven a more potent mixture. Beth Scovill had left some cola behind but Carla had finished hers.

“Mom? Is that mom?” Becki asked.

The little girl waved and held up four fingers. “I’m four” she said.

“Yes, this is your mom! You’re all children!? Everyone is a child! Am I still getting younger? Am I gonna be, like, a child... ewwwwwwww!” 15-year-old Beth Scovill said.

“Hey, no fair! You’re not gettin’ littler!” Becki said as she realized that Kevin still looked the same!

“Ha!” he said

“You gotta get littler too!” Becki whined.

“Nuh huh! I’m the oldest,” he said, “and I like it just fine!”

Becki frowned.

“I gotta pee,” little Carla told her teenage friend.

“OK, sweetie,” Beth told her and led her to the bathroom.

“What’s happenin’ to us???” Becki whined seeing more of her friends regress into childhood. Rachel had slipped another year.

“I made you all little cuz I could!” Kevin finally confessed. “I learned how on the internet and then I ordered some stuff and it came today!”

“No way... nuh huh! No fair!” Becki protested.

“I’ll do what I want cuz I’m the biggest now!” Kevin confidently explained. “You’re just a little girl like all your little friends. Why don’t ya just join ‘em and play?”

“Ummm cuz I’m a big girl! You change us back you big dumb-head!” Becki said. “’sides I’ll tell mommy and you’ll get in BIG twouble!”

“Mom’s littler than you! You go play with the other children! ... ’Little girl,’” Kevin told his now 6-year-old sister.

“Nuh huh... You’ll get a whippin’ I bet! I’m gonna ‘member bein’ a big girl and so will mommy!” the ever-youthening Becki explained.

At that moment 13-year-old Beth reappeared carrying an infant.

“Uh oh, Becky! Looks like it’s up to you!” Kevin sarcastically told his 5-year-old sister .

“Your mother... she’s , like, a baby again!” Beth said worriedly in a girlish voice.

“Looks like I’m gonna be in charge real soon!” Kevin said.

“Hows come?” Becki asked.

“Cuz I’m gonna be the oldest one here, stupid!” He told her “You should just go play now!”

Rachel hopped out of the pool and headed toward the now 12-year-old Beth “Are you my mommy?” she asked.

“Yeah... I just got, like, younger. But so did you! Wow!” Beth explained. “I don’t understand it, ya know? How???”

“Kevin did it cuz he’s a meanie!” Becki shouted.

“Kevin? But.... Hey, you’re not changing!???” said 11-year-old Beth as she realized Kevin was the only one unaffected. She shifted baby Carla on her hip as she awaited his answer.

Kevin sized up the 11-year-old and shrugged. “I got tired of all the teasing,” he finally said. Then he turned to Becki. “Your friends want you to go play with them. Why doncha?”

Becki frowned trying to think of an answer. She decided her friends were having way more fun than she was talking to her dumb ol’ brother. She stuck her tongue out at Kevin and then ran to the pool. She carefully lowered her 5-year-old body into the shallow section of the pool and joined the others.

“Kevin, hows come you made me and your mom little, huh?” 10-year-old Beth asked.

“Well, that was an accident. But you guys can play too,” Kevin answered.

“Mommy, come pway!” Rachel pleaded pulling on her young mother’s hand.

“But ummm.... I gotta hold the baby!” Beth said as she had more trouble holding the seemingly growing infant. In fact it wasn’t that baby Carla was growing but rather that Beth was still getting smaller. It soon took two hands to hold the infant against her narrowing hip.

Beth want to ask Kevin more about the situation but he’d gone inside. He soon reappeared and had retrieved a playpen from the attic. Kevin took baby Carla from 9-year-old Beth. Beth was having even more trouble holding the child and was glad to have the task ended.

“C’mon, mommy! Pway!” Rachel pleaded.

“You guys, c’mon. Quit messin’ with poopy-head Kevin!” Becki added.

8-year-old Beth was confused. “But I’m a big girl...???” she said lacking confidence in that statement.

“Not THAT big!” Rachel said as she pushed her 8-year-old mother into the pool!

“Hey!! You got me alllll wet!” Beth squealed in complaint as she got out of the pool. Before Rachel knew what was happening, Beth grabbed her and pushed her into the water “MY TURN!” Beth said giggling and then jumped in behind her.

Kevin looked out over the scene. He’d reduced them all to children and even an infant! Beth was still growing younger but the regression in the others all seemed to have stopped. He overheard a couple of the girls whispering to his sister about how cute they thought her ‘older’ brother was.

How the tables had turned, he thought!

Kevin left the girls playing in the pool and went back to his computer. He called up Instant Messenger to see if his best friend Kyle was online. The sound of a door opening bellowed through his speakers. Kyle was online!

“Hey.... You’ll never believe what is happening here!” he typed and then hit ‘enter.’

“What? Tell me!” Kyle’s return message said.

“Get over here. Hurry! Cya then!” Kevin typed, sent, and then logged off. He again peered outside his window. Mrs. Scovill was now a naked 2-year-old sucking on her thumb. Rachel and Becki were discussing whether to place her in the playpen. He hadn’t considered the girls getting so young that they couldn’t take care of themselves... or at least he thought that his mother could take care of them all! He knew THAT wasn’t possible now seeing how she was lying in the playpen trying to suck on her toes. He saw Rachel and Becki place Mrs. Scovill in the playpen with her.

“Hey, Kev.... I’m here... What’s up??” Kyle asked breathlessly upon arriving at the house.

“In here... my room... come check it out!” Kevin yelled.

Kyle walked in and saw Kevin looking out the window. “Check it out!”

“What’s goin’ on? Are you guys, like, running a daycare or something?” he asked, seeing all the children.

“Ha! No!... Those are Becki and her friends! And that is mom and Rachel’s mom in the playpen!” Kevin explained to his friend.

“HUH????”

“Yeah.... Cool, huh? Now I’m the oldest!”

“Kev??? Is this a joke or somethin’?”

“Nope! I got the info from the ‘net and ordered some stuff. Actually, mom and Mrs. Scovill was an accident but it doesn’t matter.”

“C’mon, dude! This is freaky. Tell me what is really goin’ on!”

“I DID! I made them, like, kid city! Look at ‘em play! They don’t even know or care anymore or somethin!’”

Kyle stared at the children. Kevin pulled a vial out of his pocket. “Just a couple of drops is all it takes!”

“OK - even IF this is true, you can’t leave them like that!”

“Oh, I know. I got an antidote too! Here...” he said pulling another vial out of his pocket.

“So, that’ll, like, make ‘em older?” Kyle asked.

“Yeah it’s s’posed to/”

“Hmmmmmm could we use it to be older?” Kyle asked with growing anticipation.

“I ummm never thought about it. Yeah... I guess so.... Why not?”

“COOL!” Kyle exclaimed.

Kevin thought for a minute. He could be even older! Why not? He could be an adult!

“We could make ourselves older and do all kinds of cool stuff.... like meet girls!” Kyle said.

“Yeah... but... what about the children. I can’t leave ‘em alone. They’re too little!” Kevin decided.

“Well, we’ll just get a babysitter. No biggie!” Kyle countered.

“Hey... yeah! The old lady next door never has anything to do. She’ll do it I bet! Let’s go ask!” Kevin told his friend. They took off for Mrs. Smith’s house. Margaret Smith was a widow that lived next door. The boys thought she’d be perfect to watch over ‘the children.’

They found her working in her garden. “Hello boys!” she said upon their arrival.

“Hi, Mrs. Smith,” Kevin said. “Ummmm we kinda got a favor to ask you”

“OK. Let’s hear it,” she replied.

“We need a babysitter,” he told her.

“No... Not US... We need to get a babysitter for some children staying at Kevin’s house,” Kyle added.

“Oh? What about your mother, Kevin?” Mrs. Smith.

“Ummm She can’t really do it right now,” he answered.

“Which children is it?” she asked.

“Ummmm some neighborhood girls.”

“More than one? How many?”

“uhhhhhh 12, errrrrr, 13 I think.”

“13!!!???? Oh, I’m much too old and tired to handle that many children,” she told them.

Kyle was ready to be older. “Ummmm What if we made you younger? Then you wouldn’t be tired and you could. like, watch ‘em, right?”

“KYLE!” Kevin protested.

“It’s OK.... Mrs. Smith won’t tell. I’m sure she’d like it!” Kyle reasoned.

“Boys, as much as a sip from the fountain of youth would be nice I don’t think it is going to happen.”

Kevin frowned as he thought. “Ehhh, stay right here.” He ran back to his house and in a few moments returned with a glass of diet cola. “Here,” he said, “Try this.”

“What is it?” she asked.

Kevin smiled as he made a joke that only he understood fully. “It’s Pepsi like Bob Dole says can make you feel younger in that commercial!”

“Oh, I see...” she replied as she took a sip. “You know I never voted for Bob Dole. Never could believe him for some reason.”

“Well, I bet you’ll believe him now!” Kevin said.

The boys watched attentively as Mrs. Smith finished the cola.

Her white hair began to change. Her skin begin to take on a healthier hue. Her hair grew thicker.

“What are you boys staring at?” she asked.

“You... It’s working....” Kevin answered.

Mrs. Smith looked at her reflection in the glass. There were changes! Her formerly white hair was regaining some blond strands and becoming thicker. She could see a difference in the skin on the back of her hands. After a short period of time Mrs. Smith was no longer 65 years old. She was a good 10 years younger!

“How??? Wait.. it doesn’t matter! More! I need more!” she said in an excited voice.

“Will you watch the children? We don’t want to waste this!” Kevin told her.

“Yes! Yes! I’ll watch them. I just need more! I don’t want to know how this is working, I just want more!” she said.

Kevin shrugged “Sure. Ummmm There’s a pitcher of the stuff back at the house. Just come babysit and drink what you want. But don’t tell anybody cuz this stuff is kinda like a secret. But you gotta babysit, OK?”

“Oh yes. I won’t tell. I’ll babysit too! Let’s go. Right away! Right away! Let’s go!” she said and followed them to the house. She enjoyed the ‘shot’ of vigor that was coursing through her veins.

Margaret didn’t even ask where all the children had come from. She didn’t care. There were years that still needed shedding! She quickly filled her glass and gulped it down. The feeling of youth was intoxicating. She wondered if this is how drug addicts felt.

“We’re gonna go. Just make sure and be careful how much you drink. I think it gets more potent the more your drink,” Kevin explained. “No need to rush it.”

“Sure, thanks. Have fun,” she said and waved as the boys got on their bikes.

After riding to the park they decided to stop. They found a fairly secluded spot where no one could see them. Kevin got the second vial from his pocket and put a drop on his tongue and then handed the vial to Kyle. “Here, Kyle. Just a drop!”

Kyle put a drop on his tongue and then both waited in anticipation.

“It’s kinda funny tastin,’” Kyle declared. “Do I look any older?”

“No, not yet. Hmmmm maybe.... What about me?”

“Nope. Geez. I dunno. Not much if any.”

“Well, just wait. The other stuff works so you know this will too!” Kevin said.

Margaret bent down and touched her toes. A feat that she hadn’t accomplished in many years! Her silky blond-again hair cascaded around her face as she did. She discarded her orthopedic shoes and now unneeded bifocals. “Good riddance!” she said to them and then took another gulp of the elixir. She could feel the energy returning in waves. She realized that her dowdy dress was no way to dress for such a young woman. Her well-proportioned body and trim waist was being denied its proper ‘adornment’ she decided. She figured that Kevin’s mother should have something more suitable in her closet. Then she giggled and took another gulp of the special beverage. “Maybe I should check in his sister’s closet instead” she said to the glass in her youthful hand. She felt positively ‘bubbly.’ Off to the closet she ran.

She found some some Capri pants and a short little T-shirt. Her heart raced as she wanted to see them on her! She quickly got rid of the matronly dress, stuffing it in the trash can. She looked at her nude body. Everything was smooth and unlined.... better than she remembered it! She put on the outfit and noticed that the T-shirt wasn’t long enough to cover her belly-button. It just made her look and feel even more youthful. She wondered how young that she had gotten. Youth felt wonderful to her! Another sip of the elixir couldn’t hurt. It felt too good! So she took another drink.

She suddenly wanted to scream for joy. She wanted to run. She wanted to jump. She wanted to cry. Her emotions overwhelmed her. She was young! She scurried back outside to take in the sun. “What a day!” she said aloud.

“Kevin! You’re gettin’ peach fuzz!” Kyle exclaimed.

“What? Oh wow! You are too! Cool” Kevin replied.

The boys were surprised to see their body hair start to thicken. And they noticed they were starting to get taller.

“Hey, ummmmm what about our clothes?” Kyle asked in a cracking voice.

“What about them?”

“Uhhhh mine are gettin’ kinda tight” Kyle groaned.

“Oh? Uhhh OH! Sh*t! I never thought about that!”

Kyle unbuttoned his jeans before the button flew off from the growing pressure. Kevin’s wasn’t far behind.

“Kev, we’re gonna have to, like, buy some new clothes or something!” Kyle told his friend.

Both boys quickly started tugging on their increasingly tight basketball shoes.

“I can’t get the damn things off”, Kyle announced as he strained to pull them off before finally losing his balance and crashing to the ground when the second one finally did pop free.

Both boys now had deeper voices. The seams of their clothing was stretching. The cuffs of their jeans were riding higher and higher. Their T-shirts were also growing tight.

“We need to get home and get some money for new clothes before we do this. Let’s use the other stuff and get back to normal,” Kyle said.

“Well, I kinda, ummmm left the other stuff back home cuz I didn’t think we’d, like, need it... ya know?” Kevin answered meekly.

“Oh... great!” a sarcastic and older Kyle replied. “Then we better get going! We look stupid and we’re gonna look REALLY stupid pretty soon!”

“Yeah... you’re right. Let’s hurry!” Kevin said as he mounted his bike and suddenly found the seat too low.

“Hey!?” Kyle said, getting Kevin’s attention. “You’re gettin’ a beard!”

Kevin stroked his chin. “Ewwww it feels weird! ...but it’s cool! Your’s is growing too!”

“Cool! I’m gonna have a goatee!” Kyle said as he got on his bike.

Margaret took some leaps on the trampoline. She had to burn off some of her excess energy. Some of the children joined her while others played in the pool. This went on for a while until a voice was heard.

“Ummmm excuse me? Uhhhh what’s going on here?” an older woman asked.

“Oh...” Margaret said as she bounced off the trampoline. “I’m babysitting and stuff cuz ummmm Kevin said the kids needed babysitting but they’ve been really good and stuff.”

“Oh? I see... Well, where’d these children come from and where is Carla?” the older woman asked as the older gentlemen with her stared intently at the teenager.

“Gee... I dunno.... Guess I shoulda asked! I just said I could do it cuz I was just ummmmm sitting around like a hehehehehehe fossil at home!”

“Young lady, do your parents live around here?” the older man asked.

“My parents? hehehehehehe No.... Ummmmm they’re ummmm well, not around. I live by myself next door.”

“By yourself? You look so young!” the woman said.

“Oh, I’m older than I look - hehehehehehe”

“Oh Ok... well we’re the kids’ grandparents. I was looking for my daughter. She was supposed to meet us today. I’m Elise and this is Joe.”

“Hi... I’m Maggie”

“Maggie? That’s strange,” the old man said.

“Huh?” Maggie replied.

“I mean you remind me of someone. She was just like you and you’re a dead ringer for her AND her name was Maggie too!” Joe told the girl.

Maggie squinted and looked closer at the old man. ‘Joe’ ... suddenly it clicked. She’d gone to school with a boy named Joe. Could it be? She had her first real crush on him in school! “Wow, weird, huh?”

“Everybody has a double, they say. Guess hers was just 50 years late!” Joe replied.

Elise bent over and looked into the playpen. “Ahhhh how darling. Are they related?”

Maggie shrugged sheepishly “I dunno... sorry....”

Kevin and Kyle pedalled home. They were quite the site with their growing beards and tattered clothing. Grown men riding a couple of boys’ bikes looking that way created quite a scene!

“Kev.... I’m.... about... outta... breath”, Kyle huffed.

“Me....toooooo ...whew....” Kevin agreed. “Oooooooh...”

“What?” Kyle asked.

“You’re belly! It’s getting BIG!”

Kyle stopped pedalling and looked down. His shirt was stretched and riding high on his oversized belly. “We’re getting TOO old!” he moaned. “Hey... your hair???”

“Whatdaya mean? What’s wrong with my hair?” Kevin said as he ran his hands through it and a large portion stuck to his fingers. “Uh oh!”

“Dude, you better get a third vial... a vial with Rogaine!” Kyle said laughing.

“Hey! It ain’t funny! ...Fatty!” Kevin shot back. “Anyway, we’re almost there. C’mon!”

Kevin and Kyle noticed a car in the driveway.

To be continued

 

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