It was the middle of Summer in the Jennings/James household, meaning it had been months since Stan first spoke on live TV and became a world famous star.
The whole family and a few family friends had gathered in the backyard of their home, celebrating that nobody would ever experiment on Stan again.
Ellen, Bennett, Chloe, Tyler, Max, Nikki, Avery, and Karl had all shown up, the backyard feeling very lively in the mix of constant conversation between a few small parties.
“...and I was like ‘good one Ellen’ and everybody totally laughed” Ellen said, having just finished explaining a story from nearly a year ago to Karl Fink.
“Haha, it’s always delightful to hear your stories Mrs. Jennings, please tell me another.” Karl said, trying to be the polite young man he had always acted like towards the older woman.
Although in the past he had only acted this way towards the mother of the family so he could spy on Avery, Tyler, and Chloe he now seemed to actually enjoy Ellen’s company.
Meanwhile Bennett was busy talking off Max and Nikki’s ears off about his latest book, which had several articles of his experiences with ‘Stan the talking dog’.
Of course nearly Nikki or Max ever found out that stan could talk until they saw it live on TV, both young girl looking over towards Avery, Tyler, and Chloe having a conversation of their own.
“I can’t believe everything actually worked out so well, I just wish Stan could be here.” Avery said, sad that stan couldn’t be in attendance for a party they were hosting in his honor.
“Yea, but he’s all the way in California this week, you have to remember that he’s a big time celebrity now.” Tyler commented, walking away to join Ellen and Karl’s conversation.
“Don’t worry about it Avery, we’ll have fun today with or without Stan today.” Chloe said with a smile, turning to the fourteen year old blonde girl she looked up to as her big sister.
“You know what, you’re right.” Avery said, walking to a small table Ellen had set up for snacks and drinks and grabbing a cup of the punch her and Chloe had made earlier that morning.
“Hello! I’d like to thank you all for coming here to wish Stan the best of luck with his new lifestyle. And, while he can’t be here to thank you all, I know Stan really appreciates this. To Stan.” Avery smile, raising her cup.
“To Stan!” the group said, raising their own cups and taking a drink of the punch giving the four year old dog(28 in dog years) a toast.
Soon after taking a united drink of red liquid the entire group began to feel strange, watching as everything grew around them as their bodies began to dwindle away in size.
Only after a few seconds later everyone had shrunken down to the size of Chloe, in fact they were exactly the same size as Chloe except for Avery who stood at her normal height above all.
Was it taking longer for one of them to shrink since they had their drinks after everyone else, or were they not shrinking at all?
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