Katie would toss and turn for a little while, having dreams about all the things that had happened. She dreamed of being an adult....surrounded by her new friends and her mother, now a little girl herself. She dreamed of going to work, doing the things her mother normally did, having responsibility. Then she dreamed of turning back to a child, enjoying the happiness of youth, being with her friends in fourth grade again. Not surprisingly, it left a warm pleasant sensation and this sensation came directly from the ring into her subconscious and told her its what her mother would feel.
She woke up with this thought and memory impressed in her young mind. Turning over she saw her friends, sprawled out on the floor in their little sleeping backs and nightclothes. They were all smiling peacefully in their sleep.
"Its really not fair to mom to have to be the one to worry, to not have the fun." Katie thought to herself. "Maybe I should make her a kid and she can have fun with us....or become the grown up so she has some time off."
Katie pondered this. "I'll use the ring." She thought, tiptoing from her bed and into her mother's bedroom. She...