Between the ages of 9 and 20, Sean had gone through a series of major growth spurts that added both height and muscle mass.
These spurts had transformed him from a very skinny - and shorter-than-average kid - to the 6'4" stud he would become.
Now as Sean was becoming ever younger, his growth spurts had been transformed to shrink spurts. By the end of the third spurt he'd regressed to just 13 years old. He was still a little tall for his age - 5'4" - but he'd lost all his muscle, weighing just 105 lbs.
As the kids sat around the kitchen eating strawberry shortcake, joking, and having a great time, Sean's next shrink spurt kicked in.
Maybe it was the "short"cake - or maybe it was just nature taking its course - in reverse. But whatever the cause, this shrink spurt did a major number of Sean's size. In a two-minute period, Sean lost 4 more years in age and well over a foot in height!
At the end, he was under 4 feet tall and skinny as a rail. In fact, he was now alot shorter and skinnier than he had been when he was really 9. Something was definitely up with this spell!
"Whoa Dad - look at you!" Alex said, both amazed and a little fearful of the changes. "You're becoming - no, you ARE - a little kid!"
Sean looked up from his shortcake and was shocked to see that his son Alex and his friends Ric and Josh were now MUCH larger than he was. If Sean had been his former 6'4", these kids would be 8-foot-plus giants.
But, no, Sean was just a very small-for-his-age 9-year-old. He slid his butt off the kitchen chair and ran over to Alex. He was barely chest high to his 5'7" son.
"Ric, you gotta do something to stop the spell!" Alex pleaded. "He's getting so small that he may never grow back to his old size."
They looked at Sean again and were stunned to see that he was now a couple inches shorter still, though he didn't look much younger - he seemed now to be losing height faster than age.
Even if they could stop the spell and make Sean grow older again, the boys now realized that there was no way Sean would ever grow back to the 6'4" stud he once was. He'd be lucky to be 5'4" and might even be shorter.