As you opened the package, your siblings all clustered around in curiosity (except for toddler Alex, who was engrossed in hitting some toy with a toy mallet). In the package were six rubber balls and a note ...
[ To Kevin Mills, age 16 (you)]
[ Following the will of your grandmother, when ]
[ the oldest of Linda Mills' children turns 16, each ]
[ will receive a magic wish contained in these balls.]
[ Merely hold the ball in both hands and concentrate,]
[ and your fondest wish will come true.]
[ Be warned - what you think you want is not ]
[ always what you really desire.]
And it was signed by E. Vell and Trickee, Attorneys.
"Cool!" said the younger ones. Jamie and Danny, believing themselves too sophisticated for such things, laughed and made jokes about how stupid it was.
You decide, "Well, lets play anyway." Anything to relieve the tedium of babysitting. Taking a ball, you put it in little Alex's hands and clasp them together. The ball flashes, then turns black.
"What happened?" Jaime demands.
You look in Alex's face and see that his smile has changed somehow. It's not the vacant look of a kid anymore. "You alright, little guy?" you ask.
"I'm just fine, Kevin, thank you," Alex says in a clear voice. "In fact, I'm doing great!"
Everyone is silent as one-year-old Alex stands up and states, "I understand so much now. The magic in the ball granted my fondest wish - to understand what everyone was saying and doing. Now I know. I know so much, it's scary." He smiles. "I even understand why you do your homework, and I understand it better than you do!"
"Woot!" Danny goes. "Someone to help me with my English homework!"
Jaime is stunned. "It's real??"
The little kids reach for the box in a mad scramble, before you can grab the box all three - Danny, Christy, and Michael - have a ball in their hands and are squeezing them.
Ten-year-old Danny's ball flashes - and he's suddenly a girl. You know (without knowing how you know) that Danny has always in his heart wanted to be 'Danielle', a pretty girl, and now he - or she - is one. You even remember having a sister named 'Danielle', and know everyone else in the world has forgotten 'Danny', even your parents. And Danielle is pretty - long red hair, an early-developing body with round nice-shaped breasts poking the front of her nightshirt, a cute face and sweet lips.
Seven-year-old Christy's ball flashes - and she becomes a bit taller and clutches her groin in surprise. Again you know (perhaps because the magic balls were sent to you?) that Christy wants to do everything that the boys in her class do, only better. Now she's a better athlete and smarter student than any of them, and she can even draw and sing better, too. But a couple of the kids - unknown to Christy - were also sexually active, and now she's got a penis and a sex drive, too. You also know (somehow) that your parents will remember Christy as always being a hermaphrodite and worried that someone would find out her 'secret'.
Five-year-old Michael's ball flashes - and he's suddenly GORGEOUS. Again that magical knowledge lets you know that Michael - fifth of six kids - felt left out since baby Alex was born, and wanted to be the center of attention again. Now he was the most GORGEOUS, BEAUTIFUL kid in the world, and everybody couldn't help but notice. Your new magical "memories" include worries your parents have about entering him in school this year because of his beauty.
"This is so COOL!" Christy says, flexing her muscles. Then she notices Michael and her eys go big. "Oh god you are so HAWT!" she proclaims and takes him in her arms. Michael struggles as his sister begins kissing his neck and running her hands along his body. You briefly wonder whteher or not to help him, but you can't blame Christy - hell, Michael was so beautiful right now you got a woody yourself.
You and Jaime look on in shock as the toddler Alex is reading a book, new-girl 'Danielle' is stripping down and dancing and proclaiming "I'm so pretty!" and Christy - her pajama bottoms slipped down and exposing a four-inch erection - is pinning down the beautiful Michael, kissing him and trying to get his pajama pants off.