Suddenly, there was a change that Mike didn’t notice at first, but started feeling in the oddest of places, his pacifier.
The artificial nipple in his mouth was slowly filling his mouth even more. He noticed that and felt the shield around his pacifier expand further than just his lips. The shield eventually expanded to just under his nose.
Max reached up in confusion and felt it right against his nose and reached down to see it was just snug about his chin. He was confused, but then noticed his hands were a little bit smaller than before. His eyes widened and he turned around to look up at Stacey. He got her attention and she looked down to notice me the same thing. She gasped slowly and quietly and got Jim’s attention. “Jim, look!” Stacey whispered.
Jim was distracted from the sermon and looked over at Mike and Stacey, he saw the same thing and his eyes widened too. Mike got younger! “Uh oh. Is this just a one time thing?” Jim whispered. “I don’t know.” Shrugged Stacey.
Both of them looked at Mikey, who seemed about a year old. They had to figure out what to do now, whether it was Stacey’s breast milk or something more. They decided to wait until after church to go get some answers.
In the meantime, they just reassured Mikey he was ok. Mikey looked scared and was about to cry, that’s when Jim went into dad mode. He took Mike from Stacey and went out in the lobby with him.
“I scawed.” Mike said as he removed his pacifier from his mouth. He could barely talk now and his speech was sounding more like a baby. He looked like he was gonna cry.
“I know buddy, I don’t blame you. But I do know one thing, we are gonna figure this out, together.” Replied Jim. “We’re a family now. You, me, and Stacey. I’m not gonna let anything bad happen to you three as best as I possibly can. We’re gonna keep you at this age and let nothing else happen to you.”
Mike smiled and snuggled into Jim the best he could as a one year old boy. “Daddy loves you pal,” Jim comforted as he hugged Mike back, “You are my son and Stacey and I are gonna make you become a fine man. No more de-aging or nothing.” Jim continued as he rubbed Mikey’s back.
After a while, they made their way back to their seats. Jim looked at Mikey as he smiled back at Jim. “Oh, don’t forget buddy.” Jim reminded Mikey as he pointed to his pacifier. Mike smiled and put it back in his mouth. “That’s better, sport.” Jim said as he bounced Mikey before walking with him back to the pews. Mikey giggled and went back to sucking his pacifier, which was his best friend pretty much at this point.
After church, they…..