"So you really were an actress?" Tricia looked at the picture of the Indian woman when she was much younger.
"Yes." The elderly woman saw the picture Tricia was looking at. The young teen had been so polite to get the glass of water for her from the bathroom even though she didn't have to. "I had tried for a few roles in Bollyworld but I could only get minor parts."
Tricia was curious about this old woman who was obviously renting the room from the family. This might be what Katie felt about them when Tricia and her friends were older. But she didn't want to just make her younger without permission but she did need some proof.
So silently she made the request from the Ring and watched as the woman in her mid-seventies started to get younger. Black hair started to appear where white and grey was previously. Wrinkles started to disappear from her face as she went through her sixties.
Padma felt so much better than she did in many years. She saw her face in the mirror and gasped. The woman in the mirror was in her early fifties. "But-but how?"
Tricia smiled that even though Padma had been completely surprised, she seemed very happy at the same time. "I did this. I'm just wondering, would you like to become even younger?"
Padma looked in the mirror and thought about it for a minute. She didn't have any living family or many close friends. But her boarders. . .
"If you want to be young, I can always make it so they think they were boarding a younger person."
"Then yes. Yes so much." Padma studied herself as the years were peeled away. The matrony woman was slowly being replaced by the woman who wanted to be an actress. She could tell her thirties had been a lot kinder to her than what she had originally though. And her twenties, Padma still thought that it had been her singing that had cost her an acting career not her looks.
As the eighteen year girl looked over her perky well shaped form, Padma was really excited for the first time in a long time.