Ty didn’t know what to do. He was afraid to click on anything, and thought about deleting the program and throwing the CD-ROM and USB device away. But he decided to move along and click on one of the names.
Andrew.
Chills ran down his spine when he saw Andrew’s image on the screen! How was this possible? He looked to the right of the image and saw a list of personal attributes; each one had a drop-down menu or text box in which he could change each attribute.
Ty moved his cursor over to the age box, and changed the option from 24 to 14. When he did this, his picture changed. Andrew was much shorter and pretty scrawny. Then an option came up next to the picture: “Save and Continue”. Ty figured, well, why not, and hit the button.
Andrew woke up and got out of bed. His boxers were much too big for him and slid down his hips. He thought that was weird but did not really notice that his body had changed. He was focused on finding a pair of boxers that fit. He pulled a pair out of his dresser, but they were also much too big. When he went to put on some sandals, he also found that they were much bigger than his feet. He figured someone was playing a trick on him… possibly that obnoxious guy Conrad…
Andrew stepped out into the hallway with a towel wrapped around him. It was a really big towel, because he could nearly wrap his whole body with it. He heard small clicking noises coming from Ty’s room and figured he must be awake.
“Hey, Ty.” Andrew stood in the doorway and Ty jumped when he saw him. Instead of the Andrew he knew, he saw what looked like his little brother. A shaggy mop of hair and a cute face with barely any peach fuzz poked out on top of the towel-covered boy.
“Hey… Andrew… what’s going on?”
“Oh, I just got up. Some jerk must have snuck into my room and swiped my boxers and sandals. They’re all too big for me…”
Ty chuckled a bit, finding humor in Andrew’s high-pitched voice. “Dude… it’s not that… have you looked in the mirror?”
Andrew walked over and stood by Ty’s mirror. What he saw gave him such a shock that he dropped his towel, fully revealing his pre-pubescent form. Almost zero body fat and almost completely hairless.
Ty looked back at his computer and noticed a new option next to Andrew’s picture: “Undo”. So he could go back to how he was before.
Or… maybe he could make some more adjustments and really see what this thing could do…