The next morning, Ty was wakened by Dustin gently shaking his
shoulder. "Time to get up, little bro," said Dustin quietly.
Ty's eyes flittered open to see his massive older brother's smiling
face. Dusin continued, "I'm about to go downstairs and watch Mark
have a cow. I thought you'd like to watch." Ty grinned back as he
rolled out of bed in his pajamas.
Dustin's footsteps thumped down the stairs ahead of Ty's. Dustin
obviously wanted to make an entrance; all he was wearing was some
straining boxers, showing off his hairy heavy body impressively. As
he reached the foot of the stairs, a loud "Holy sh...!" and a
spluttering came from the kitchen. Dustin just lumbered over to his
usual seat with Ty in tow.
"What the hell happened to you?" yelled Mark as Dustin started eating
his cereal. "You look like a cow!"
Dustin just grinned as he continued to eat. A sweep of Mark's arm
knocked the bowl off the table, sending toasted oats and milk
splattering across the kitchen floor. Dustin's jaw dropped as Mark
stood up and bellowed, "I told you I'll never have a fat son, you blimp!
June, standing over by the counter, tried to say something, but Mark
just cut her off. "You're going on a diet and exercising starting right
now!" Dustin stood up, now an inch taller than Mark. Ty found himself
making a wish.
"I mean it!" Mark yelled. "I'm ashamed of you! How could you let
yourself...uh...let yourself..." Dustin loomed larger to Mark. In fact,
he seemed to still be growing!
The Mark looked at the table. It was almost as tall as his chest now,
and kept growing. The entire room seemed to pull away as Mark
shrunk down to one foot tall. He looked around uncertainly.
June's jaw dropped and she ran over to him. "What did you do to my
husband?" she screamed at Dustin. She picked Mark up, who
struggled against her motherly embrace. "What did you do?" She
backed out of the kitchen, still carrying Mark. "I never want to see
you...either of you...again!" A minute later the car door slammed and
they heard tires squealing on the pavement. The roar of the engine
receeded into the distance, leaving Dustin and Ty standing there in
shock.
"Whoa." said Dustin.
"Yeah." said Ty.
"What're we going to do for parents?" said Dustin. "I don't know how
to pay bills and cook and stuff."
Any further conversation was interrupted by a knock on the door. Is
it...