Kathy Nicole was a thirty-year-old business woman with shoulder-length black hair, and blue eyes. She had worked long and hard to get to where she was in her company, and today she had a presentation to give to show how they could profit more.
"If this goes well," she thought to herself with a smile "then we'll be running smoother than ever."
What she didn't know was that very soon, everyone in the world would get "downsized" in a matter-of-speaking.
She was almost to the meeting room when it happened. In a flash, she shrank into her clothes, and was now only five years old.
"What? I'm a kid!" she screamed, and then covered her mouth, hearing her own voice as a five-year-old girl. Before she could make sense of it, another flash shrank her clothes to fit her smaller body.
"I'm glad that fixed itself," she said as she picked up her suitcase and dragged it with her to the meeting "and I'm glad my suitcase has wheels. I just have to give my presentation . . . as a little girl . . . in front of all those b-big s-scary p-people . . . NO! Don't think like that! You may be a kid now, but inside you are still the sucessful busness woman who climbed the...the...cor-por-ate...ladder...just to get this far. You've got this, Kat! You can do this! Just believe in yourself just like mommy taught you to. Yeah."
When Kat entered the meeting room, she was greeted with another surprise: just like her, everyone else was now five years old, with their clothes having shrunk to fit their younger bodies, and they seemed just as confused as she was. Knowing that she wasn't alone in this made her feel a bit more calm about giving her presentation.
As soon as she unpacked and set everything up, she began.
As she stood there with her graphs and charts, Kat did her best to keep a straight face as a little kid speaking to a room full of other little kids about how they could make more profit as a company. She ignored everyone being kids, and never brought it up even once, even adressing those listening as "Men and Women" instead of "Boys and Girls", treating them how she herself would still want to be treated. Based on the small smiles she saw from them, she could tell that they appreciated the gesture.
When it was over, she politely bowed, and her audience clapped their hands for her. This made her smile.
As she went over to pack up her things, she took a look outside the glass wall of the room, and saw that the same situation had befallen the rest of the people in the city: all the adults were now five years old with clothes that fit, but she also saw three-year-old Imp kids chasing Fairy kids of the same age, and Cherub babies flying about. One of the Cherub baby girls flew right up to the glass to Kat, and waved happily at her before flying off to stop an Imp girl from throwing a water balloon at a Fairy boy.
"You ok, Kat?" a boy with short blonde hair and blue eyes asked her.
"Um..yeah Jimmy." she replied with a nervous smile "I'm just fine. It's just that . . . all of THIS...is going to take some getting used to. I mean, I dunno why it even happened."
"So after work, you wanna come over to my place and play video games?" Jimmy asked her, trying to supress his child-like excitement.
"Why would you wanna play games?" Kat asked with a raised eyebrow "I know we all became kids, but...does that mean we HAVE to give into childish desires?"
"I'm sorry, Kat." Jimmy told her with a nervous smile "Being turned into a kid is making me feel like one too, and I'm sure it's the same for everyone else, right? I mean, what would YOU like to do?"
"I'd like to play with my dollies," Kat replied with a shy grin "but I know that we all have jobs, and have to work to pay bills. (sigh) Look at us. We're kids. We shouldn't legally be working or earning wages, but if everyone is a kid, someone has to work, right?"
"If everyone is a kid," Jimmy told Kat with a smile "then we could turn work into play, and the higher-ups wouldn't punish us because they'd be kids too. In a city full of little kids, how can you NOT wanna play and have fun? We may have the smarts of adults, but we have the bodies, voices, and playfulness of what we became - little kids. Why deny what we are? Why not have some fun? You wanna have fun, right Kat?"