You looked down at your best friend/roommate and he looked up at you. This was impossible, people didn't just shrink down to 6 inches tall. But here you both were. Meekly you said down to him, "Kyle?" You didn't want to freak out, because there was no reason to freak out, after all this wasn't freaking possible.
"Sid?" A tiny voice said to you. You knew this had to be serious and maybe even real if Kyle wasn't calling you 'dude' and 'bro' like he usually did. "WHAT! THE! F-" The tiny young man shouted but he was drowned out by the situation sinking in and you began to scream. You backed off from your tiny friend tripping over some parts the shelf door and falling to the ground tipping the contents of the toolbox on the ground.
"WATCH IT DUDE!" Kyle cried out dodging out of the way of a bunch of nails that were not more like dodging javelins.
"This isn't real, this can't be real Kyle!"
"Dude, I know it can't be but it totally is. Please dude, you've got to fix me."
"Fix you? How do I do that? I was just measuring you and then..." You looked at the measuring tape that was still in hand, "No way." It wasn't possible, magic wasn't real, but here you were, and there was Kyle now the same size a 6 in long level from the toolbox.
"What dude, what is it? Do you have an idea?" Kyle was freaking out, you hadn't seen him this messed up since he took a particularly strong pot brownie that he'd 'borrowed' from his older sister.
You got on your hand and knees and crawled up to Kyle paranoid that if you stood up you'd accidentally step on him, "Let's try something, stand on this." You pulled the yellow metallic tape end out of the tape measure and put it at his feet to stand on.
"Whoa, are you nuts, that's what I did before I shank. Are you trying to make me germ sized or something? Are you trying to take my stuff for yourself?"
"Kyle, shut up, this measuring shrunk you, I think. So maybe it will make you bigger. And if I wanted your crummy stuff I'd have taken it already and put you in a shoebox. Now just stand on the tape would you."
Kyle approached the tape apprehensively, it reminded him of being a kid and going to the doctor's office with that weird stretching scale that also measured hight, although of course he was about 8 times smaller than the last time he was at the doctor's office. When Kyle stood at the end of the tape, you slowly started to raise the tape up hoping it would make Kyle grow along with it, but no luck.
"Think of what you did with the tape last time and just do the opposite." Kyle said with a surprisingly clear headed idea. You remembered that before he shrank you just let go of the end of the tape before it zipped back into it's container. You looked at the tape measure and noticed a little sliding lever. You vaguely remember seeing tape measures with these and they were supposed to hold the tape measure to a certain length. This gave you an idea. When you got the measurement up to 5 feet, you pushed in the lever and sure enough Kyle began to grow and grow until he was 5 feet tall.
"Dude," Kyle said feeling himself and looking around the room as though looking at the room for the first time.
"Dude." You said back to him. The two of you looked at each other and embraced in a super manly hug, but being teenage guys the emotional hug didn't last long before Kyle stepped back and said, "What the heck dude, I'm even shorter than before. I'm almost a foot shorter than I'm supposed to be."
"Give me a break, it's my first time shrinking and unshrinking someone." You said as you carefully undid the lever and the tape measure went back to it's home. Kyle looked anxiously at the tape measure and after a few seconds of not shrinking back down said, "Well, use it again on me and make me taller, hell make me 7 feet tall this time. I can became a basketball player."
"No way dude, this thing is magic and we need to be careful about it, and who knows, maybe some of the other tools in the box and powers too. We should try to check them out, carefully."
The shorter and annoyed looked at you and the tape measure before making his own call.
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