Suddenly, the room started to feel different. By the second, everything started to grow. I attempted to stop it any way I could, but once the table was at eye level with me, I knew I was fucked.
This isn’t good. Not even 30 seconds later, and all of my clothes were way too large on me. I reached for my pocket and went on the photo app and looked at myself. I looked like a toddler wearing their parent’s clothes, pretending to be them.
I took off my oversized clothes since they don’t fit me anymore. Then I looked around for anything. I kept thinking to myself, ”There had to be something around my lab that could help me figure this out.”
The first idea in my head was to check my blood, but everything I needed for that was on tables, and I had no chairs to get on said tables.
All of a sudden, a knock at my door filled the quiet room. Then they just opened the door. It was my work neighbor Larry, who goes from ‘can I borrow something’ to ‘are you lost little kid’
He came up to me and raised me onto the table. We had a somewhat decent eye level.
All he did was ask questions, over and over again. ”who are you?” and ”where are your mommy and daddy” but during the whole thing, I just remained silent to avoid being embarrassed. I'd prefer to be the lost child instead of the scientist who got turned into a child.
After 30 minutes of a one way conversation, he gave up and looked around for something. He searched around and found a pen. ”Don't go anywhere, I'll be right back,” he said, leaving the room in the process.
As he left, I hopped off the table and searched through my lab coat and grabbed my phone. Only my good friends from college wouldn't rub it in my face forever about this. I dialed up my girlfriend’s number and listened to it ring.
”Hey babe,” she said in a cheery tone.
”Hi, Grace I'm going to need you to come to my lab. It's an emergency and I'll need you to help me get out.”
”Jon? Why does your voice sound different? Are you hurt?
”No, I'm not hurt it's just-”
”I'm on my way!”
She hung up, not giving me a second to explain the situation.
Knowing her, she was probably at home since she doesn't get job requests often. And my house is about 45 minutes away. So the only thing I can do is wait. But there is one problem. My work neighbor.
He claimed to be back and probably would soon. I looked around and found an empty cabinet that I could sit in. But he could look in the cabinets since there is nowhere else I can go.
Immediately, I reached on my tippy toes and opened the door, giving him the idea that I left. Then I ran to my cabinet and sat there quietly.
About five minutes later, I hear two people come into my room. It sounded like my neighbor and someone with boots. Knowing the dress code, it wasn't some other scientist. Chances are, it was a security guard.
The sound of the boots paced around as my neighbor explained everything.
”So I came in here for a pen, when all of a sudden Jon was missing and a naked toddler was in here.”
”Yea, ok. So why are his clothes here?” the guard was possibly pointing to my old clothes on the floor.
”What clothes?” he walked over, ”oh crap, I didn't even see that.”
”Look, it isn’t bring your child to work day and no one is researching on creating life here, so the only possibility is that he probably made himself into a toddler on accident.”
“But that’s impossible. Regressing cells is far fetched but regressing the whole body sounds like a sci-fi thing.”
“I’m telling you, things like this isn’t surprising for you guys. I see crazy things all day, and regression is just a crumb to the cake.”
“What ever, let’s check the security cameras and see where he went” his loud boot steps walked out and stopped, “he’s a naked toddler, someone must have seen him”
They both walked off and the room became quiet again.