The day went by so fast. Mary kept pestering Sylvia and attending her pregnant belly by rubbing. Jennifer spent most of the day doing nothing. Sitting on the pile clothes as the moonlight illuminated the doublewide. Jennifer closed her eyes and fell asleep but little did she know that doing nothing meant lot worse things for her.
The Tuesday morning started with a realization. She hadn't got older but instead smaller.
"What the heck?" Jennifer panted in confusion as she run to the bathroom.
From the bathroom full body mirror's reflection she saw that she had gotten younger by one year. Being back at the age five meant that she had something rude yesterday. Funnily she couldn't remember doing anything note worthy to count as being rude except...
Not attending the school. That must have been it. Neglecting the one thing that was the root of her problems. Not going to the school meant that she would automatically forfeit a year from her life to the curse. Worse yet, Jennifer had looking shorter than ever. Somewhere between three and two-and-a-half feet tall. With head hung low Jennifer walked away from the bathroom and bumped into her mother.
"No way..." Jennifer let out a low heave.
Her mother had also gotten younger while still carrying the pregnant baby bump. Sylvia looked like a 13-year-old, an eight grader, which meant that she had given birth to Jennifer at one year prior than in previous timeline. Her mother spoke softly and apologized for bumping into her. Jennifer said that she was sorry as well as Sylvia hugged her in response. Another thing that Jennifer noticed about her mother's odd behaviour and age was her height. How was her mother only one feet taller than she was. Sylvia looked more like her sister but acted like a mother. The more she kept looking at her she looked more off-putting.
Sylvia looked funny how Jennifer finally noticed her C-cup sized breasts that were hanging from her body. The white and gray stained shirt started to look like a blouse while she looked like wearing anything under that. The belly and breasts hogged all the frame as they were pushing the fabric high as the clearly adult sized shirt wasn't hers.
"There you are you two. The bus is almost here. You should hurry and get yourself dressed." Mary, still naked as ever, shouted at them from her personal pillow fortress as she hold two plastic bags in her hand.
There were something written on them with black marker. "Jemni" and "Sulvie" with both their names spelled wrong followed by a "Scool Ownle" below their names. Mary was clapping her hands in a rhythm to make them change clothes in hurry. Sylvia was fast and was a using the time she had left to comb her hair and adjusting her school bag's selfmade decoration. The new longsleeves shirt and skirt combo made her mother's pregnant belly and the adult sized breasts more visible as the clothes were one or two sized too small for her. Jennifer sniffed the package as she opened it. Insides smelled something straight out of clothing aisle from the supermarket. Jennifer's bag included a baggy t-shirt, similar looking skirt what her mother had, long gray socks, pair of shoes and some hairpins.
During the quick dress-up Jennifer tried her best to inspect her grandma as she too looked younger and smaller in size. If Sylvia looked like thirteen year old Mary had to be twenty one. Mary also looked feet taller than Sylvia making Mary somewhere between 5 feet or 4'6 feet tall. Mary should have had been a college senior but it looked like that she had quit school after the moment the obligation had ended. It seemed that it was a habit for her to be all-natural in her home as the red hue filled bedroom looked like a red district knock-off had two small electric heaters plugged to the wall. A flash from a phone camera interrupted Jennifer's thoughts as Mary came showing the unfocused picture she had taken and comparing it to the picture Mary's mother had taken when Sylvia was going to kindergarden.
"I'm so glad that I'm able to witness this scene myself. Mother would be proud to hear that her grand daughter is a genius." Mary weeped as she looked at the two photos.
Sylvia lumped her head down a little bit but forced a happy smile not to sour the mood.
"The bus's already here. Go on you two. Out! Out!" Mary pointed the bus that was right around the corner.