"So what other bands do you like besides Florence and the Machine?" I ask MacKenzie through the stall as I get Brianna out of her teenage clothes and into a granny gown.
"Oh my god, I like so much - I mean i'm a Smith's/New Order girl all the way, like that part of the 80s is my jam! But I also listen to a lot of newer stuff like the Dirty Projectors and Lord Huron." She tells me as she pulls Kerry's ill fitting tank top off her withered torso.
"Soooo your taste in music ranges from classic depressing songs to modern depressing songs." I say as I finish buttoning the housecoat on Brianna.
"Totes! I looooove me some 'old sad bastard music.' My fav band of all time is Frightened Rabbit." She says as she turns to help Gina get changed.
"Heh, I like Frightened Rabbit too. You know the first thing my grandma ever said to me was that I looked like a scared bunny." I say with a chuckle as Brianna clutches my arm to ease herself down onto the toilet, bunching up her gown around her.
I turn to leave the stall and she reaches over to grab me.
"Stay dearie, if you aren't here and something were to happen and I fell..." She says with a lecherous smile.
I grimace and avert my eyes, thinking about how this girl would literally never given me the time of day when we were the same age. I hear the bouncy opening beat of
Lisztomania by Phoenix begin to play and find my foot tapping to it as I wait for the old woman to finish so that we can get them to the lobby and be done with them.
"See I like some music that's not sad." MacKenzie says with a giggle as the song plays from her phone. She begins bouncing to the song as well as she finishes dressing and cleaning up the other old ladies.
"Good choice!" I say enthusiastically.
"Too bad the costume shop didn't have depends. I think Gina needs them. Poor old bats gonna have to spend the day in soiled panties." MacKenzie says as she bops around the bathroom.
"Yeah they'll probably have something good for her to change into in whatever home they get shipped off to when we turn them over." I say indifferently as Brianna flushes.
I hold my hand for her to use to stay steady as she gets up off the toilet. She paws at the toilet paper with her gnarled hand and then hands me a wad of it.
I look down at what she's handing me.
"Oh nooooo no no no, I am NOT wiping your ass for you." I say to the elderly woman bluntly.
"What!?" MacKenzie asks launching into a giggle fit outside the stall.
"Please young man, its too hard to reach back there at my age...." Brianna rattled.
I cringe and take the toilet paper reluctantly and then reach over, trying not to look at her shriveled drooping ass cheeks as she lifts her housecoat to moon me.
"Oh my god! You're totally doing it aren't you!!!" MacKenzie yells cackling.
"Shut up!" I yell embarrassed and grosses out as I slowly reach out the wipe the old lady.
And as I'm concentrating on the grossest thing i've had to do in a long time I don't notice that MacKenzie has in fact stopped laughing.
"What the? Where am I?" A young woman's voice asks. It's not MacKenzie.
"Gina. Chill! I can explain." MacKenzie says nervously.
"Gina? Is that really you? You're so young! I remember when we were girls together..." The elderly voice or Kerry rattles.
"Ew! Who the hell are you lady? How do you know my name? Why the hell am I dressed like you?" The young voice of Gina says.
"It's me Kerry..." Her elderly friend rattles.
"Kerry!?" Gina screams.
"Seriously! Just calm down Gina..." MacKenzie says anxiously. "Reed!" She calls to me urgently.
I'm still focused on my task at hand that I've tuned all of that out. My hand reaches toward the old woman's ass and wipes it. My eyes are clenched shut and I hear:
"WHAT THE FUCK!??"
I open my eyes to see a smooth plump teenage ass exposed in front of me as the now 18 year old Brianna quickly pulls down her housecoat and turns and slaps me.
"I-" I begin to stammer.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing pervert?" She screams at me.
I quickly back out of the stall to see a terrified Gina backing away from a still elderly Kerry and equally concerned-looking MacKenzie.
"I uh... think it wore off." MacKenzie says glancing over at me.
"What the hell is going on? Where are we? Why the FUCK am I wearing a moo-moo!" Brianna yells behind me.
"Wh-what did you do to us?" Gina asks, her eyes tearing up in fear.
"What the fuck are you talking about Gina?" Brianna asks looking at her friend like she's crazy.
Gina points a finger at the elderly woman hobbling next to MacKenzie looking very confused and senile.
"Th-that's Kerry!" She cries.
"What the? No it's not!" Briana says in disbelief.
"Briana? Is this a dream? How are you both so young? I remember the time we all got matching tattoos together..." She says lifting her nightgown to show a faded butterfly tattoo on her hip.
Brianna takes a step back, staring at the old woman wide-eyed.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?" She yells at us fearfully.
"Not just here." MacKenzie says softly, a slight grin peaking up on her face again.
"What did you say skank?" Brianna yells at her, moving toward her menacingly.
"I said it wasn't just Kerry! We turned all three of you bitches into pathetic wrinkled old hags!" MacKenzie declared defiantly.
"Now let's just-" I begin to say trying to deescalate the situation.
At that moment Kerry found herself reverting back to her young self and unlike the others didn't bother to wonder where she was or why she was dressed in a dowdy gown, she just went right back to grabbing MacKenzie, pulling her hair and pinning her with her arm.
"Hey!" I yell.
"You don't want to do this." MacKenzie says coolly.
"No I think we do." Brianna says preparing to punch her again.
"Guys... I think I pissed myself!" Gina whines opening her housecoats to see her panties are soaked.
"You totally did!" MacKenzie says with a grin. "You saw what we did to you! We can totally do it again if you don't let us go." She warns.
Kerry releases her quickly but still looks like she's ready to fight.
"It's not even... possible." Brianna says trying to wrap her head around the fact that she had just spent the past half hour as an old woman.
"Oh its totally possible. And you know what? It turns out when you're a granny you're going to be a gross lecherous old whore!" MacKenzie taunts.
"MacKenzie..." I plead not want her to goad them to the point that they realize we can't just age them on command.
Brianna looks a mixture of pissed and mortified. She's quiet for several moments and then say "I'm calling the cops."
"No!" I yell and everything stops.
I see the four girls in the bathroom with me are all frozen. I'm wracking my brain as to what to do. This day was supposed to be just a normal school day. I consider just leaving right now and not looking back. Maybe I can transfer schools? I look over at MacKenzie whose jaw is clenched in anger at Brianna. I sigh and walk over and grab her by the hand. This girl is going to be the death of me.
She gasps as she unfreezes.
"What happened?" She asks looking around at the other frozen girls.
"Time stopped." I say pulling her toward the door.
"What are we going to do?" She asks.
"I don't know but we have to go. These time freezes never last long." I say.
"Wait!" She yells tugging back.
"What?" I ask exasperated.
"Let's take their clothes!" She says rushing over to grab their stuff thats we changed them out of.
"Why are we taking their clothes?" I ask.
"Because it's funny and it'll slow them down! They aren't going to want to like run around in granny outfits!" MacKenzie says.
I think this idea is stupid but I grab Brianna's stuff anyway.
"Okay but seriously we've got to go. Now!" I say.
MacKenzie grins at me taking my hand. She presses play on her phone again and
Pin by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs begins to play.
We run out of the bathroom and back down the hall. We head toward the side exit to the building but see one of the art teachers coming out of their room. We turn and scramble down another hallway and then another until we find ourselves in:
THIS: The Cafeteria
Or
THAT: The Gymnasium