Emily scanned the room, before her thoughts suddenly drifted back to the cake which now sat in a case. It had been a human being not a minute previously, but now it wasn't even technically alive. She felt like she could leave it alone and change it back in a bit, but if she got distracted some one could wind up eating it and then she'd feel way too guilty.
"Ugh, I suppose I should fix him first." She thought to herself.
Just then, the old janitor which cleaned the Diner walked out of the kitchen. Tyler, or as everyone called him, Mr. Huff, was by far the most uncomfortable person in the Diner to be around. Other people were meaner, sure, but there was something off about him. He never talked, just stared at you. Whenever Emily asked him to clean something up, he would always just stare back and grunt. Everyone called him Mr. Huff because he was always huffing and sighing if he wasn't grunting.
The janitor leaned against the desk, clearly sweating from fixing some broken kitchen appliance. He wiped his brow and leaned close to the encased cake. Emily smiled, this was the perfect opportunity. Not only could she change Brian at least into a living thing, but also change Tyler to boot. She always figured he'd had a messed up past, so she may as well try and let him start fresh.
She aimed the camera, and snapped a picture of the old man and the cake. The photo fell into her purse while Emily just stared in awe, ready to watch the change unfold.
Tyler started to lose his wrinkles, almost as if someone had wiped off dust from an old book, he began to look younger by the second. The cake that was Brian, meanwhile, grew immediately larger, as legs and arms sprouted from the center as the cake became human once more.
Tyler's height began to shrink as the years flew back. His gray bald spot filled with hair as it shifted from the dim color to a fresher blonde. The cake and fully become human again, looking like Brian again, before more changes started. Brian's male figure became more hourglass like as his shaggy hair lightened in color and grew past his back.
Tyler's janitor outfit morphed, quickly coming apart in the legs regions to form a cute skirt, while his age reached somewhere closer to five or six. Brian aged up, reaching what Emily guessed was 40 something as massive breasts exploded from his, or rather her, chest. Emily watched the final changes as a new mother and daughter stood waiting to be seated.
"Mommy, can I have that?" The little girl Tyler asked, pointing at a cookie in the counter glass.
"How about you be good this morning and I'll get it for you ok darling?" The new mother said with a smile.
The little girl huffed, and the two walked away with Katie who showed them to their seats. Emily smiled, feeling that she had done a good deed. Tyler could restart life again, and hopefully turn out somewhat normal, and Brian was now a more responsible adult rather than the perv he had been or the inanimate dessert he temporarily was.
Emily was about to look around for another potential target, when she suddenly her a whisper behind her ear.
"I knew it." A bitchy, smug voice echoed behind her.
She turned to see Becky behind her, smiling, while holding two photo's in her hand. One was of the black woman, and former manager waiting to be seated, and the other was of the mother and daughter, telling her daughter no. Becky smiled and sat across from Emily, looking at her nails without so much as glancing up.
"I knew you weren't her as just a customer. What is this, some lame as college project?" Becky sneered.
"Oh go find some boy to be slutty for." Emily scoffed.
Becky looked up, clearly annoyed but not trying to show it. That's when she spotted the camera.
"Like, what the hell kind of fossil is that?" She chuckled, as she reached out and grabbed the camera.
Emily's heart sank. She could NOT let Becky anywhere near this magical device.
"Get your hands off that!" She whispered a growl, trying to tug it away.
"I just wanna see it." Becky lied, as Emily figured she would try to sell it or break it.
The two girls tugged on it for a moment, before Emily pulled it away from Becky, but at the cost of dropping it on the table. Emily could only stare in fear as the flash went off. Whoever was caught in the photo would change, along with reality itself. Emily had no idea if she'd even be aware since she wasn't touching it. She braced for impact as the camera worked its magic.