While they played with the toy firetruck, which was coming to rescue a toy family stuck in a LEGO tower that Justin had built earlier in the evening, he abandoned the golden coin, which allowed Noah to retrieve it once again. Since his former life's memories hadn't returned to him, Noah saw little harm in letting the kid have a preview of what awaited him in a few decades time when it came to his body. However, when it was time for bed, Justin discovered his first downside in that he'd outgrown the race car shaped bed frame that was his bed.
"My bed's too little for me..." he whined, which sounded hilarious to Noah's ears to hear a five year old's whine come from the voice of his formerly gruff teacher.
"Well, I wish you were back to being a little Kindergartner so you could fit your bed," said Noah as he felt the coin activate in his hands. He turned to watch as Justin's muscles began to shrink once again and he lost his maturity as he slipped back to young adulthood and then further into being a teenager before the clothes he wore needed to be held up by Justin as he went through puberty backwards once again and dipped through various shrink spurts and the reacquisition of baby fat until the cute little five year old he'd been babysitting had returned.
"I can fit in my bed again!" cheered Justin as he dropped his father's clothes and jumped naked onto the bed.
"You can't go to sleep in the altogether, let's get some pjs on you," said Noah as he turned to the dresser which contained Justin's clothes and pulled out a pair of Batman pajama shorts and shirt that he then threw to Justin, who obliged by dressing himself.
"What does sleep in the altogether mean, Noah?" asked Justin as he stepped into his shorts and pulled them up first. Noah picked up the pajama shirt and began to ready it for helping Noah slip it over his head.
Noah blinked, curious as to why he'd said that. He had to think about it for a moment before a vague, hazy memory made him recall the definition, "It means to go to sleep without any clothes on."
"Oh... and is that bad?" asked Justin.
"Let's get your shirt on," said Noah as he held the pajama shirt, and Justin obliged by raising his arms to go through the short sleeves of the t-shirt of the pajama top.
After Justin had been put to bed and a night light been turned on, Noah allowed himself to wonder at why that phrase had come out of his mouth without thinking about it. Heck, how did he know what it meant as he was both sure he'd heard it somewhere and at the same time positive he hadn't heard it ever before.
And that's when a brief flash of a memory flitted across his mind's eye--that of a woman dressed in a rather old-fashioned looking dress scolding him for stripping off his long underwear to sleep, and him whining that it was too hot to sleep any other way.
Where had that memory come from? It looked so old that it had to have been from some kind of movie or tv series or something like that... and yet, it felt like it was something HE had lived.
"I wish I knew the truth..." said Noah and the coin heard the wish.