Rick was stopped dead in his tracks by the bright flash of the magical camera. He felt his heart drop, realizing what was about to happen. He felt an odd dizzy feeling like he had before, and felt the world spin around him. The light was so bright that he had to close his eyes, and when he opened them he realized how screwed he was.
Rick was usually around 6 foot 3, but he now found himself staring at the short Emily's legs. They were at his eye level. He looked down and nearly felt like crying upon seeing a pink dress cascading from his now tiny body. Emily, now unaware of the camera and its affects, pulled out the photo from the polaroid and awed at what she saw.
"Ohhh, Riley! Look how adorable you look!" She squealed as she knelt down and handed Rick the photo.
The photo showed a confused looking little girl. She had curly red hair, a flowing pink dress, cute mary-janes and an adorable face that would make most Aunts just want to pinch her. The face almost looked just like Rick's, but younger and softer in form. From his guess, she looked about 5, and from what he could feel, he was still wearing pull ups. His new emotions took over as he began to tear up.
"Oh, sweetie what's wrong? Do you miss your mommy?" Emily asked.
"Uh, no." Rick replied, surprised by how high pitched and 'cute' his new voice was. "It's nothing."
Emily wiped the tear from his eye and gave him a pat on the head. Internally, Rick was cursing himself. If he had just listened to Emily before he wouldn't be a little girl now. He began to think about how the hell he would even get out of this. "Maybe I could try to swipe it?" He thought. "No I've got the strength of an actual child right now I'd probably just get scolded. Maybe I could try to secretly flip her awareness back on. Oh God she'd be pissed. In that scenario she might straight up leave me like this... God this is all my fault. I gotta just wait for my chance."
"Okay, if you say so sweetie." Emily relented. "Thank you for coming with me while I work on my photography project. If you're really super good I'll get you a new toy before I bring you back to your parents. Does that sound fun Riley?!" She asked with an annoyingly bubbly tone that most adults use on children.
Rick managed a fake smile and a nod but he was still freaking out. Reality had changed once again to explain why Emily was holding the camera, and this unfortunately meant she was gonna use it. As Emily walked with the camera in one hand and Rick's hand in the other, he desperately tried to think up an excuse for Emily not to use it but nothing came to mind.
"Oh, there's a few potential shots." Emily pointed out.
Rick looked back up to see a few people Emily was likely talking about. There was a teenaged gay couple being teased on by another guy, a group of multi-racial teenaged girls shopping, an old man hanging out with what was likely his grandson, and a business women looking frustrated while a sad little boy followed behind.
"Yeah, that one!" She said pointing to one of the groups. "That's perfect." She said as she took the shot and Rick looked on in fear.