"Um maybe the next thing we should do is help these uh... 'ladies' out. Like I said, I have no idea how long they're going to stay like this." I say walking over and taking Briana's frail arm and putting my hand on her crooked back for support.
"Well aren't you mister bleeding heart!" MacKenzie says with a giggle as she holds out her arms for Gina and Kerry to clutch on to as we help the women down to the hall.
Briana's bony body presses against my pocket, hitting the play button on my ipod. Music begins to blast out of the headphones around my neck. I hear the distinctive guitar strums of the song
Dog Days Are Over begin as we move slowly down the hallway.
"Oh my god, is that Florence and the Machine? I fucking LOOOOOOVE her!" MacKenzie says enthusiastically. A mischievous smile curls onto her face as he body begins to bounce to the music as she continues helping the old ladies shuffle forward.
Soon her hips were bumping the two of them in time to the beats of the music and when the clapping portion began she let go of the old ladies to clap along with it, turning to face them she began to rock out to the song in front of them, pulling Kerry into a twirl. The brittle old Irish girl looked alarmed as her frail arm was used to spin her around. MacKenzie bops over to me and Briana and hip bumps the hunched over old woman then says "May I cut it?" as she grabs her and gently pulls her off of my arm and sends her toward Gina.
As the chorus kicks in she is dancing around me. Grabbing my hand and pulling me back and forth as the elderly women look on. I'm doing my best to play along. As much as I like music i've never been super comfortable dancing but this girl makes it seem super easy and cool. I completely forget about how ridiculous it is that i'm dancing in the hallway of my high school in the middle of a school day as three rapidly aged teenage old ladies look on disapprovingly. She pulls herself into me so that she's inches from my face as she earnestly lip syncs the next verse of the song directly to me.
'And Iiiiii never wanted anything from you, except everrrrything you had and what was left after that too, oh.' She mouths to me with a twinkle in her eye.
I feel a tent form in my pants.
She releases me and bounces back to the old ladies, shooting them with finger guns as she continues to dance.
"Young lady! Enough of the foolishness! I really need to get to the toilet! I'm going to have an accident!" Gina says urgently.
MacKenzie grins and rolls her eyes but links arms with them again, still bouncing to the music as we continue to walk toward the nearest bathroom.
"I used to be able to dance like that..." Briana quavered wistfully as we walked.
When we got to the bathroom MacKenzie urged me to go in with them.
"I can't go in there, that's the girls room!" I said seriously.
"I need you to hold the door closed so someone doesn't walk in on me and granny Gina! Can you even IMAGINE the rumors that'll get started if someone sees me pulling down an old womans underwear in the art hall bathroom?" She exclaims.
I sigh. "Fine but you have to make sure the coast is clear before I go in and before I come out!"
She nods and we sneak the three old women into the bathroom.
"Do you think I can count this for my community service requirements?" MacKenzie jokes.
"Yeah I don't see why not, I mean they ARE old ladies... even if they were born in the 2000s..." I say as Briana begins to snooze against my arm as we wait.
"Okay... here's the part I wasn't looking forward too." MacKenzie says from the stall as she pulls down Gina's skirt. "Welp, it looks like you already went by the looks of these panties... do you still have to go?" She asks the elderly woman.
Gina nods. "My bladder isn't what it used to when I was your age dear."
"Yeah I get that... Kind of wish it was that bitch Briana that pissed herself though." MacKenzie mumbles as she cringes and pulls down the elderly womans panties and shields her eyes from the sight of Gina's now saggy ass and grey privates.
"Well I mean the days still young..." I remark causing MacKenzie to giggle.
"What?" Gina asks confused.
"Nothing, here just ease on down and do your business and i'll help you get dressed again when you're done." MacKenzie says helping the woman down onto the toilet.
"Thank you dearie." Gina quavers.
"Helping one of the most popular girls at our school use a toilet... I'd say i've done my good deed for the day." MacKenzie exhales as she closes the stall door behind her.
She then looks at me and perks up a bit.
"Yes?" I ask nervously as she is staring at me with a huge grin.
"Soooo - I have so many questions!!" She says hopping over to me and squatting down in front of me putting her chin on my knee.
"You uh... get really close to people pretty quickly huh?" I ask truly amazed by her.
She takes that as a cue to observe some personal space. "Only people with 'phenomenal cosmic powers'!" She explains with a giggle and then smirks. "Sorry, I guess I get a little touchy-feely when i'm excited."
"No it - it's cool. Uh what do you want to know?" I say with a smile.
"Oh my god, soooo many things - like how long have you known you can do this?" She asks pointing at Kerry.
"Uh a few years. Stuff like this started happening when I was like 13 or so..." I say honestly.
"Woah! And like - you haven't used this to become rich and famous!?" She squeals.
"Uh.... how do you get rich off of turning people old?" I ask.
"You can't make people young again too? Because old biddies would pay top dollar for that shit!" MacKenzie explains.
"If you had a way of making my young again sonny boy... I'd do... well i'd do whatever you like..." Kerry rattles with a wink of her sunken eye.
"Oh my god! Kerry! You little old slut!" MacKenzie says bursting out laughing.
I laugh too.
"What? What did I say that was funny?" The senile woman asks.
MacKenzie and eye exchange a look and giggle again.
"Anyway, so you can only age up?" She asks again.
"No, I can make people babies or 100 or anything in between... but I don't like 'choose' what happens or when it happens... it just kind of does." I explain.
"So... you could turn me into a wrinkly old lady?" She asks biting her lip.
"Uh... are you asking because you're worried or because you WANT me to?" I ask surprised.
"I- I don't know... I'm just a little curious I guess..." She says blushing. "Forget it! It's weird!" She says covering up her face.
"No I mean it's cool! It's cool to be curious!... I can't like do it on command like I said but uh if I do and you like... don't remember being the same age as me, I could take a picture of you or something. Or like if I end up in the future I can visit you in the nursing home!" I say quickly hoping that she would like that.
She looks at me speechless.
"YOU CAN TRAVEL THROUGH TIME TOO!!! ??" She exclaims.
This wakes up Briana.
"Eh? What?? Is it time for my sponge bath....? I'd like this strong young man to give it to me..." She rattles gently rubbing my arm with her shaky hand. I instinctively pull away from her.
"Wow. Just wow... what's up with their libidos?" MacKenzie asks.
"I don't know dude! Old ladies are just kind of naturally secretly horny I think... You know that there are major STD outbreaks in like every nursing home in the country?" I explain.
"I can only imagine how you know that!" MacKenzie says with a smirk.
"No, no! It's not like that-" I say quickly.
"I'm kidding!" She says grinning at me.
There is the sound of a flushing toilet and then Gina's voice croaking. "Nurse!!!! A little help please!"
"Ugh, and i'm not even getting paid for this." MacKenzie says standing up and walking over.
"I'd turn them back if I could but it doesn't work like that." I apologize.
As MacKenzie helps the old woman back into her teen panties and skirt she asks from the stall: "So you said you can't control when your powers work but like do they happen at certain times? Because the way you used them for me was super convenient."
"Yeah, I think that when i'm like stressed or like get a surge of adrenaline they sort of kick in... Or when i'm anxious or annoyed or I don't know..." I say realizing that didn't actually say much.
"You haven't done like extensive tests?" She asks as she helps Gina out of the stall.
"No, most of the time I just try to pretend I don't have them..." I say honestly.
MacKenzie is going to say something more but Briana chimes in.
"Nurse! I'm cold! Would you bring me a shawl!" She demands in a shaky voice.
"God, I do NOT want to babysit these biddys for the rest of the day." MacKenzie says to me in a low voice.
I frown at their skimpy youthful attire.
"Okay, I have a plan - how about we get them some old lady clothes so that they don't scream 'i'm really a teenager that's been magically turned old' then we bring them out to the front bench and tell the security guard we found them wandering around the school - he'll call like senior services and they can hobble around a senior center for a while until they eventually become teenagers again!" I explain.
"Cool but...Where are we going to find old lady clothes?" MacKenzie asks nodding.
"The drama club has a costume room that's like two doors down!" I say excited by my plan.
"Okay, you ladies stay right here! We'll be back in a minute with more something more appropriate for women your age to wear! If you stay put and behave, when we get back this nice young orderly will strip you down naked and give you all sensual massages!" MacKenzie says with a giggle.
"Gross!!" I yell.
Briana's sunken eyes light up and the promise and the old women nod in agreement.
MacKenzie and I sneak out of the bathroom and rush down the hall into a room that's stacked with wall to wall racks of costumes and clothing.
"Awesome! They're got to be three granny dresses we can swipe in here!" I say excitedly.
"Yeah good call!" MacKenzie high fives me.
We begin combing through the racks when we head slurping sounds coming from the next room. We quietly tiptoe to the doorway and peak in to see Jenny Furtando and Michael Swartzman making out on a pile of backdrops.
MacKenzie covers her mouth at the sight of the two sophomores. Trying to keep her giggles muffles so that they wouldn't know we were there.
"Shit, we've got to get the clothes and get out of here fast before they finish." I whisper.
"Oh I think they're going to be going for a while. She looks like she's just getting revved up!" MacKenzie whispers back.
"Still-" I begin to say.
"Wait, this is the perfect opportunity to test your stuff!" She says excitedly.
"What? No I can't-" I try to explain.
"C'mon! It'll be FUNNY! And don't you want to figure your shit out?" She says.
"Ugh fine. Okay." I say knowing that it's not going to work on command anyway.
"Yay! Okay now concentrate on the two of them getting like SUPER old! Like so old their teeth fall out while they make out!!!" MacKenzie squeals.
I hold my finger to my mouth to remind her to keep it down.
"Right! Sorry!" She whispers but motions for me to try.
I take a deep breath and close my eyes and picture the couple growing old. I try to picture like aging beams shooting out of my forhead. I hold my hands out toward them to time blast them. I open my eyes again to see that they remain two teenagers sucking face with one another.
"See? Nothing. Now c'mon let's-" I say turning around.
"Hold on, that was just test one." She replies.
"What do you mean?" I ask confused.
"Well, you said it happens when you get annoyed so like what if I-" She says and then quickly reaches up and pinches my nipple twisting it hard.
"Ow!" I cry quickly covering my mouth to keep it down.
"What the hell! What did you do that for!?" I ask in an angry whisper.
But MacKenzie isn't listening she's watching the couple in the other room.
OPTIONS:
A) Jenny suddenly regresses into an infant
B) Both Jenny and Michael regress to toddlerhood
C) Jenny becomes a 46 year old woman
D) Both Jenny and Michael become 46 years old
E) Jenny becomes an 86 year old woman
F) Both Jenny and Michael become 86 years old
If there was an age change option you were hoping for that wasn't listed, please let me know in your comments and i'll keep it in mind for a future scene!