As the ring glowed an odd purple light enveloped Jake and Katie that went unnoticed by all except for Katie who managed to catch the ring's emission. She watched as Jake became even younger in the purple haze and felt her own body stretching and rearranging. The light shown its brightest around her torso and when it dimmed down Katie felt something squirming inside of her and she looked down to see her belly inflated a full nine months pregnant. This definitely hadn't been how she'd arrive. She couldn't remember exactly how she'd arrived but this hadn't been it.
"I want this to stop, I want it all to stop" was all Katie could think in the moment. And the ring stopped glowing. The now twenty-seven year old nine month pregnant Katie looked around herself and saw the effects. Her seven year old daughter Kellie was playing with her two friends Andie and Jimmy from school, and their older siblings Bobby and Susie who were a year ahead of those three--that was okay--or was it? Hadn't it been different before? Katie couldn't remember or think properly. She turned to the twenty-one year old college graduates who she'd been chatting most of the day with and asked:
"Is something a little off?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean is there something about here that doesn't make much sense to you?"
"My suit doesn't really fit. I don't know why I grabbed my mom's one piece!" exclaimed Mary Else.
As the three girls then transitioned to talking about how their mothers were so old, Katie then looked over at Andie, Jimmy, Bobby, and Susie and that they too were wearing suits designed for much larger and older people.
"Did I make everyone younger with this ring without intending it? I guess I better be more careful about what I wish for with it."
Katie then cautiously tested and amended the swim suit problems by wishing everyone's clothes fit them properly and suddenly any and all signs of things being off were eradicated. One pieces on the college girls transformed into skimpy spaghetti strap bikinis, the kids overly large swim suits became age appropriate. Abandoned kindles and other electronic toys were replace with plastic sand castle materials. And seeing the awesome power of the ring and feeling its effects move within her as her new son readjusted himself, Katie knew that from this point forward she'd have to be careful what she'd wish for using the ring.