Francisco Mendes was completely confused. The boys, Josh and Ric, were now in the hallway, and Francisco was just staring at himself in the mirror. Something wasn’t right. This was his house, yet something seemed oddly different. He shrugged and picked up his boxers from the floor. He took off the towel that had been neatly rapped around his waist.
'I wouldn’t have done this if I was going into the shower, unless I knew I was going to see someone...' He thought to himself. Pulling on his boxers didn’t quite feel right either. Something was different about them... were they a little shorter maybe? Maybe a little smaller, somehow?
He picked up his jeans and began to put them on. Ok, it seemed at first, but when he got them up, he noticed something was very wrong. His pants were too short! Way to short- two or three inches short, clearly exposing the base of his legs, and they even seemed too snug all around. "What the hell?!" he said aloud. He looked at himself in the mirror. "This isn’t right, these aren’t my pants, but, they, they couldn’t have shrunk... well, I couldn’t have grown..." he mumbled under his breath. Finally he grabbed his shirt. It too felt oddly short. Not to the point of exposing his stomach, but shorter then he was used to, and the sleeves seemed higher up, or something. Francisco put on his socks, they felt ok, but maybe a little tight. He noticed how long his feet looked. Much larger than he was used to
"What the--" he stammered. His feet! They had changed, they really did feel and look bigger... The socks were ok, but it seemed so weird. Then he tried to put on the last thing... his shoes, which had been conveniently piled under the rest of the clothes. He pushed one foot in, as a test to see if foot had truly grown. His foot looked long, and it didn’t look like his foot would fit in those old size 9 shoes. On the sides the shoes were just too tight, and he soon hit the end of the shoe while most all of his heal remained outside of it. They were far too small, he couldn’t even push it with these. He gave up completely.
Francisco had been looking at his hands earlier, but it didn’t really strike him until now. "They're bigger, well, they've got to be!" he exclaimed. He looked back in the mirror, and felt slight vertigo, he wasn’t used to this. "This isn’t right, I AM too tall" he mumbled quietly. "How tall am I?". He paced back and forth, looking at everything around him, the doorknob seemed lower, and the bathtub was lower and the showerhead now at eye-level. The toilet was lower, it appeared, the sinks, the countertop, everything except his reflection in the mirror appeared lower, and that seemed much higher in place than normal.
Francisco was in panic, he had no idea what was going on. His pants weren't so comfortable anymore, but his mind wasn't comfortable either. It was nice, he thought, to be tall. He liked the view, he liked how big his hands and feet had grown. It was nice, but it was impossible. "I’m dreaming!" he said.
Immediately he hit himself with his large fist in the leg. "Owwe!" he cried. "Holy shit... what is going on?!?" he was panicked, but overjoyed. "Am I still growing? How did this happen to me?!? What’s happened?"
"Maybe its a trick, maybe I’m on something." he was talking quickly now, "that’s it, I’m on something, I’m hallucinating, that explains it"
He combed his hair, which was in disarray and opened the door to find the boys. He found them in the living room.
"Boys? boys, have I been acting strange to you? Have you noticed anything odd about my behavior..."
"No, Mr. Mendes, why?" asked Josh innocently. Josh noticed the highwaters that Mr. Mendes was now wearing.
"I have a headache and I don’t think I’m seeing things straight."
"Should we call the doctor?" Ric replied.
"No no, not yet, I think I’m going to lay down for a bit. Sorry if any plans for the day are ruined. Watch TV or something, and have your mom pick you up if you want, just let me know, I'll try to get a little rest, maybe we can do something afterwards" Mr. Mendes walked off to his room, and quietly shut the door. He fell onto his bed, confused, tired, he fell asleep.
Meanwhile Josh and Ric decided to do something of their own...