"She said as long as I don't hang out alone and am with someone of adult supervision, she said I could go", Ryan said as he closed his door to prevent his mother from overhearing the girls. He then picked up the black box and spoke into it:
"Amy, Berry, Christina, Dara, Emelia, 4 inches!"
"Wait!? What are you doing?!" the worried Amy said as she found her environment growing bigger once again. "Now you're making us smaller than we used to be?"
"Well I can't take you five outside by having you come down the stairs", Ryan explained to his shrinking friend, now down to 4 foot mark. "My mother would kill me."
"He's right", Christina nodded in agreement, now down to the 3 and a half foot mark. "Parents are very suspicious about boys and girls being in the same room together."
"Even as friends?" Emelia innocently asked, now herself barely 2 feet and 9 inches tall.
"Emelia, once a boy and a girl reach a certain age...they tend to think of each other as more than just friends. They think of...well...kissing and...touching each other...and...", Dara tried to explain to her younger friend, gushing red as she explained it to her before having her mouth covered over by Amy's left hand.
"Youre too young to think like that", Amy told Emelia to her face, both girls now at the 18 inch mark. "Think of Ryan as a big brother for now."
"Say, Ryan", Emelia asked as she walked up to the boy, lifted her head to see his face, and continued: "What are we going to do tonight?"
"I don't know...hang out, eat something, play games. Whatever you five want to do", he said to the cheerful, now 1 foot tall girl.
"It seems as if we're almost done", Berry said out loud, now at the 8 inch mark. At this point Ryan proceeded to lift the girls up with both his hands and placed them in his pant pocket: Amy, Dara, and Emelia on the right, and Berry and Christina on the left. By the time he did so they were finally done shrinking to their destined size of 4 inches. He then placed his black box next to Berry and Christina, telling them not to do anything to hurt it. He closed the door to his room, locked it, and then proceeded down the stairs in a flash, quickly saying to his mother: "HeyMom,I'mleavingnow.I'llcallyouwhenI'mdoneIloveyou,bye!" Fortunately for Ryan, his mother had a sense of humor, and giggled as she watched her son run off in a hurry.
"He's getting to that age", she said to herself assuringly, proud that her little boy was growing up. "I wonder where's he off to, though?"
Ryan, meanwhile, was right behind the house, and he placed all five tiny girls back on the ground as he proceeded to take out the black box and put it near his lips once again.