Nat and Rei were making their way to the line to see Santa Claus, but before they could really get close to the line, they noticed that there were quite a number of people who were blocking the way and they didn't look like they were in the line for Santa at all, or at least some of them looked like they wanted to leave the line for various reasons.
There was a woman who looked to be in her mid 50s while her son looked to be at least 14 years old. They looked to be arguing about getting in the line for a picture. "Come on mom, I don't want to be here. I'd rather be going around the mall. There are some really cute girls around here from school, I'd like to try and meet." The 14 year-old son argued.
"Well I'd like to get a picture with you and Santa so I can have one more memory with you before I might die one day." The mother said.
"Come on Mom, you've got plenty of years left."
"Yeah right. I'm not as young as I used to be. I wish I could be like one of the girls you chase after here." The mother said as Rei and Nat overheard their conversation and Nat gave a smirk while Rei gave a nod back to her.
The mother's regression only lasted for so long as some of the gray hair on her head brightened up to its natural color and became curlier with each year she regained. Her figure also seemed to slim down from the weight she had put on over the years. Nat and Rei also noticed that the mom looked like she was almost envious of some of the young girls that her son was eyeing. However it wasn't long until she herself looked like she could pass for one of the teenage girls in the mall at 15 years old. Her clothes were also morphed into a holiday attire to match some of the other mall patrons. The former mother's had been oblivious as to what had just happened to her as well as her son and now they were just a couple of teens at the mall. She was about to head out from the line when she bumped into her former son.
"Oh, my god, I'm...uh, I'm so sorry, I was just shopping for some family and didn't notice you." The former mother, now teenager apologized looking at the former son with a blush of embarrassment.
"It's okay, I was just in line to get a picture for my grandparents. They wanted me to send them a picture of me with Santa. Silly I know, but they're old, they can only ask for so much these days." The former son said.
"Still, it's sweet that you're doing that. I'm a little lost, do you think you could show me around here?" The former mother now teen asked.
"Sure, but uh, do you...want to maybe get some hot cocoa and talk first?" The former son said asked the former mother nodded and smiled.
Nat and Rei were happy with the results of their good deed but now it seemed like a ten year-old girl ahead of them and her two parents was trying to break away from them while her father held tight onto her but her mother seemed more excited as they got closer.
"Oh, I'm so excited we...I mean, she gets to meet Santa." The wife said as she tried to keep from jumping in line
"I don't know why you're so excited, it's our daughter that should be excited but she's less than thrilled." The husband noted to his wife who was looking on her cell phone at stuff other than Santa Claus. She was obviously into stuff that a millennial would be more interested in.
"I just always excited like a kid on Christmas should be. I almost feel like that child in me never left. I wish I could feel like that again." The wife said as she looked down at her daughter slightly disappointed that the girl wasn't as into the holiday spirit as she was.
"Yeah and I wish my wife acted like a grown woman." The husband sighed as he looked at his watch. The husband knew his wife had been holiday obsessed especially with her Christmas attire she had put on, almost too much it would seem. But hopefully they would be able to go sooner than later to finish shopping as he held bags.
Rei and Nat knew they had another opportunity here and were now making it so that the wife and daughter ahead of them would swap ages. The former daughter grew in height from a child, to a teenager, then to a young adult, and finally to a grown woman. The girl hadn't been dressed up for the holidays before her and when she became a grown woman, she was only dressed up for warmth and nothing more. She also had some lovely makeup on her face that made her almost more attractive than her own mother. The girl's former mother regressed down back into childhood and before where there was excitable woman was now an overjoyed little girl waiting to meet Santa at the mall.
"I love her overjoyous attitude." The former daughter now wife said.
"I know what you mean, I love seeing our daughter so happy." The husband said holding his now wife's hand.
Young Nat and Rei were satisfied that they had helped people with their minor issues and hoped it wouldn't be too long before they could get their picture taken with Santa now.