Alfie could feel the age coming off his body.
He felt himself changing.
His little round belly deflated, he started breathing heavily, and he was shrinking down as well. Everything was growing around him. He could instantly tell he was de-aging - his clothes were loosening.
Now he was 18 years old.
Holding his massive pants up, He went out, and saw the cops appear.
"Hey, did you happen to see a man called Alfie Robbigs [Robbigs was Alfie's last name] run by here?" one cop asked the teen Alfie, not even recognizing him, due to Alfie's new age.
"Oh, he went that way." Alfie said quickly, pointing to a direction.
The cops raced off. Alfie was about to go when...
"Hey!" the cop exclaims, making Alfie gulp and fear that the cop had seen through the ruse. "Thanks a lot, sir, I appreciate it." He rushes off to join the mad pursuit.
'That,' Alfie said to himself, 'was too close.'
Alfie knew he should use the ray to revert to normal. But with a ray like that, who knows what fun there could be?