"By the end of the day, my ass," Amy muttered to herself.
Six hours after paying the mysterious man at the magic shop for a spell that would shrink her best friend, Amy had come to the conclusion that she had been had. The two girls had continued to hang out all evening and Lina was still her big, blonde self and her height hadn't dropped an inch. Neither had Lina's chest diminished, the moment made painfully clear. With Lina's parents out of town, the teens had decided to have a girl's night in and sat on the floor in front of the television dressed in colorful pajamas. Amy still fit quite easily into a faded grey STAR WARS shirt that she had worn for years and years. Lina, however, did not into her own colorful cartoon top. She had worn the same to sleepovers at Amy's for years, ever since Amy and Lina had been the same height. Now the top was ridiculous tight and only served to highlight Lina's massive chest. Beneath the taught white fabric of the ancient tee, two perfect orbs were held in place by a dayglo orange bra.
"I'm going to get some more popcorn," Lina chirped, leaping to her feet. Unlike Amy, Lina could no longer fit into her childhood underdoos and instead wore pair of red boxer shorts.
Amy was miserable and wasn't even sure exactly why. To be honest, she didn't really expect anything to happen and, if she had, she wouldn't have paid for the spell in the first place. Lina was her friend and although she made a few short jokes here and there, she mostly had the best of intentions. It was just something she blurted out in the magic shop because it really did get to her sometimes. Now that the clock was striking midnight, the fantasy faded away and she was left feeling like the sidekick to Lina and her perfect body.
"Amy!" Lina's voice shouted from the kitchen against midnight's final chimes. "Do you know where the --"
Silence.
Amy waited. Surely Lina had found what she was looking for and would be back in a moment.
But time passed and soon Amy, who had decided to fuel her depression with a bottle of whiskey that Lina had snatched from her parents, realized that her best friend had been gone for an unusually long time. Although Lina's house was huge, the clock had already hit ten after and the buttery smell of popcorn had only dissipated in the minutes since midnight.
Amy rose to find that she was a fair bit tipsier than she had thought. Then something caught her eye that her brain had a little trouble processing...