A faux-evil grin spread across Billy’s face. He was gonna use this thing to shrink the cat. It was high time someone knocked that thing off its high horse. As images of a toy-sized Buttons flashed through his mind, the voice of Billy’s mom shattered the fantasy.
“Billy! Come get your mail!”
Shoot.
He forgot just that quickly. “Coming!” The teen boy stumbled into the hallway and made for the stairs, not even noticing his littlest sister standing outside his doorway. As Billy dashed down the stairs, 4 year-old Erica silently slunk into his room.
Billy smiled sheepishly as he stepped into the dining room. His mother Patricia was standing at the table, hands on her hips, annoyed.
“Were you waiting for a personal invitation?” Patricia said with a smirk. She tapped her foot in a display of comical irritation, but her bathrobe obscured it. Billy could hear the flap flap of her slipper, though.
“Sorry, sorry.” Billy grabbed the envelopes addressed to him. He couldn’t care about any of this stuff when he had a device that defied all modern science upstairs. Still, he didn’t want to make his mom suspicious, so he made sure to open and read the letters one by one.
Despite doing so, Patricia still took the moment to lecture Billy about keeping better track of his mail. He was practically dying inside as she droned on, wanting so badly to run back upstairs and miniaturize his ungrateful pet.
“Is any of this getting through?” Patricia asked, already knowing the answer. Billy was zoning out right in front of her.
“Huh? Yeah. Yep.” Billy peeped. Patricia sighed, but her phone vibrating on the table pulled her attention away. As she stepped back to answer Billy took the opportunity to run back upstairs.
“Hello? Oh hi, Carol!”
“Yes, yes he did.”
Patty’s conversation faded into the background as Billy dashed back upstairs. He bounced into his room and made a bee-line to where he left the remote only to find it missing. Only the charger remained.
“What the f–?”
Those were Billy’s last words before he felt an intense jolt spread through his entire body, causing him to shudder. He struggled to make a sound at all as he shivered, helpless to watch as the world began to rapidly expand all around him like a bad drug trip. What was going on?
Now a mere inch or so, Billy writhed and squealed in the drape of his clothes, which had shrunk with him but not quite at the same rate. As the now nude teen spilled out of the oversized clothes, he let out a terrified shriek at what loomed above.
His little sister, Erica, now towered over him like a giant. She was holding the remote, pointing it at where he once stood when he could still be considered a person. A look of horror spread over the child’s face as she looked down at the mewling insect she inadvertently reduced her brother to.
“MOMMY!!”
Billy screamed as the sonic blast threatened to blow his eardrums out. Before he could even realize what was happening the titan kneeled down and plucked him from the earth. Harsh winds whipped by Billy’s face as Erica snatched him up and ran downstairs. He tried to scream for her to stop, but it was like the very air was being sucked from his lungs.
Erica acted on instinct, she wanted to help her older brother, and who better to defer to than mother? Unfortunately Patricia was now deep in her phone call with Carol. She sat at the end of the living room table, legs crossed and was gabbing on and on.
“Mommy! Billy tiny!” Erica chirped. She tried to present her tiny brother to her distracted parent, but Patty didn’t take the bait. She lowered her phone and turned to her peeping child.
“Erica, sweetie. Mommy’s on the phone,” Patricia said, sternly but sweetly. Erica needed to learn she can’t get what she wants all the time.
“But Mommy!” Erica tried to hold Billy up, but Patty cut her off once again.
Billy screamed in Erica’s grasp, covering his ears as the world shook from his giant mother’s amplified voice. “Honey. Didn’t we talk about this?” rumbled through the air like thunder, vibrating his insides. It was all so much.
Erica pouted and ran back upstairs. If mom wouldn’t help, she thought of the next best thing. She didn’t hear her tiny brother’s horrified shrieks as she…
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