Katie thought hard. She didn't want to go to work at a boring law firm. At the same time, she kind of wanted to enjoy her time being older. Looking at the girl, she was surprised how much she looked like herself at that age. So for now she played along. "Ok Mom, but if we're going to do this, you're gonna have to pretend to be me."
"What?" Kelly looked shocked.
"Whatever this has done, its made you my age and you kinda look like me. You have to start going by katie now."
Kelly stared at her daughter, but what she said made sense. "And... I suppose I have to call you...Mom?"
Katie nodded. "I think so."
"But, you don't look anything like me," Kelly said. "And I'm not you."
"Maybe the change will adjust that, Katie." As Katie said her own name to her mother she mentally wished that her mother would naturally think and answer to it as if it were her own, and answer to her as Mom.
"Yeah, maybe Mom-" Kelly put her hands to her lips. "No I mean Mo--my name is Kat...." She shook her head. "Its changed me again!"
"See? It wants you to become me."
"I guess I have no choice," Kelly said dejectedly. "Ok Ill get dressed."
As she trudged upstairs, Katie felt a trill of excitement. Now she was truely getting control of the situation. As she made lunch, katie made a wish that as Kelly put on her school clothes that everyone would react to her mother as if she were really Katie. A moment later, the little girl came downstairs in a white and pink dress that hung to her knees, and long sleeves that tapered at the end. Her legs were clad in simple pink tights, and her feet were snuggly kept in pink sneakers. Katie smiled and knelt down, fixing her "mother's ponytail.
"Now aren't you darling, Katie? Take a look at yourself."
Kelly turned and stared in the mirror. Her daughter stared back, or a girl who might as well have been Katie. For all intents and purposes, they were almost identical. Looking up to the woman she tilted her head, "It hasnt changed you into me though, shouldn't you be a lot older mom?"
"Now lets not ask impolite questions Katie. Here's your lunch, now hurry, you're going to miss the bus!"
"But-"
"No butts!" She said, scooting the girl outside. "I wish that Kelly would instinctually act just like me whenever she meets someone I would know, but still remember herself today at at school."
Katie pondered her options now. She could stay an adult, or become a girl herself and follow her sister to enjoy watching her.