“What are you doing Izzy?” Paige Williams asked her sister.

“Nothing; just checking out my new LifeSim game, that’s all” Izzy replied.

“You and those stupid games…why don’t you get a real life and quit pretending: I mean, you’re already pathetic enough… I know, let’s sit around all day and play a game where I can pretend to go grocery shopping or pretend to pay the electric bill…loser” Paige said as she stomped off. “If Mom asks, I’ll be down at Shelby’s house”

Isabella Williams watched her sister waltz out of the door. She caught a glimpse of her as she cut through the yard to go two houses down to her friends’. Paige was the older sister but not by much: Only fourteen months separated the two and while Paige was going to enter the 8th grade in the fall, Izzy was going into the 7th.

Despite being sisters, the two had very little in common. Paige was a cheerleader and the lead Mean Girl of her grade and the whole school. She already claimed to have a boyfriend, even if he wasn’t allowed to come to their house because of their Dad, while Isabella was much more interested in books and games and just being left alone.

Izzy sat back on the couch and started up her new game. She had to create all the characters in her world. She started with her Mom and Dad before she started on her own character. She gave it her long blonde hair and blue eyes but since this was her world, she decided to make a small change when it came to her and her sister.

Izzy set up her sister with her dark hair and brown eyes and even put her in an outfit that Paige would probably approve of before she set her age at 11 while setting her own age as 12.

“Let’s see how you like being the younger sister in this world” she said to the screen as the game began. As the characters entered the room, Izzy giggled at seeing her character taller than her sisters’ character.  “This is too cool”

She had her character go up to her now younger sister and tell her to go do the dishes and take the dog out and all kinds of other chores and the Paige character followed them all obediently all the while referring to Izzy as her older sister.

“What are you even doing in this stupid game?” Izzy heard her sister say as she stood over her shoulder.

Izzy spun around and just looked embarrassed “Paige! I didn’t hear you come in…uh…nothing”

Paige leaned forward to get a better look at the scene playing out on the screen “Why you little dweeby bitch” she said as she folded her arms and let her mouth hang open in shock. “You made me younger than you!”

“It’s not what you…” Izzy started to say.

“Oh…it’s exactly what I think it is: Pathetic. You’re such a loser in the real world that you have to create your own crazy messed up world where you’re a year older than me and make me act like your scared little sister and servant” she shoved Izzy’s shoulder, pushing her sideways.

“But I…” Izzy again tried to protest.

“You are such a pathetic little creep weirdo; go on and dream your little dream. Play around with your little game where you can dream about something that could never possibly happen and that would be to live in a world where I am either younger than you or do anything that you say” Paige said with a look of utter disgust on her face.

She shook her head and turned to leave the room.

Izzy quickly put her mouse on the end icon and after hitting it a box appeared in the middle of her screen ‘Do you want to save all changes’. Her arrow hovered over the No option for a second before she moved it and clicked Yes.

A shiver ran up Izzy spine and she shuddered hard against it. She spun around in her chair and watched as her sister went through the door.

As soon as Paige stepped through, she shuddered suddenly and turned around to face her sister. She put up her finger and pointed at Izzy, but just as she was about to put her down once again, she stopped.

Paige’s mind went blank for a moment and she lost her train of thought. She tilted her head and her mouth opened but no words came out; something was different…wrong.

Izzy looked at her sister as she stood motionless in the doorway. She seemed different all of a sudden, she seemed…smaller.

Paige shrank down about two inches. Her small budding breasts retreated inward and her just beginning hips and thighs slimmed. Her hands and feet shrank and her hair got a bit shorter. Her nose shrank; her eyes narrowed just a bit a few freckles that had faded over the past year reappeared.

Paige started to look around “What just happened?” she said.

“What do you mean?” Isabella asked in return.

Izzy grew about two inches taller, her shorts and shirt rode up a bit as she began to show the beginning of curves in her chest and hips. Her hair lengthened and darkened a shade and her nose grew a touch longer. Her lips grew a little longer and wider and her eyes widened and brightened.

Paige stomped toward her but something inside Izzy told her to stand her ground. When she got right up to her they both let their mouths drop open.

“What the…Why are you taller than me?” Paige asked disgusted.

“I…I don’t know Paige; why are you shorter than me?” Izzy asked.

“There is no way I’m shorter than you” Paige protested. She looked her sister up and down with her lip curled.

“Um…but you are…” Izzy said.

“Shut Up…I am not” Paige said and rose up on her tip toes. As she did, she realized that her clothes were a bit big and loose on her. “You look different though”

Izzy looked down at herself and did notice that her shirt was now raised up. Her hands went up and she squeezed. A surprised look crossed her face “Those weren’t there earlier” she said slowly. She looked at her sister not quite placing what was different about her.

“What are you staring at?” Paige snapped.

Finally it hit Izzy “You look…younger” she said.

“What?” Paige spun and shut Izzy’s door. There was a full length mirror on the back “What the…” She said and slumped her shoulders in shock. “That’s not how I look. Why do I look different?”

She took a cautious step toward the mirror “I do look younger” she admitted. She turned and looked at her sister. “You look older” she said in an angry tone. “What did you do to us?!”

“I didn’t…” Izzy fumbled but then their eyes met “The Game!” they said in unison.

“That’s it! That stupid game of yours did this to me” Paige cried out. “You put in yourself as older and now…but how can that be possible!” she said as she threw her hands up and down.

“But it’s just a game; it can’t actually change our ages” Izzy said.

“Then why do we both look different Izzy” Paige pleaded. “You have to change us back to the way it’s supposed to be”

Izzy made her way back across the room and started the game back up. “Hurry up” Paige said. “I want to get back to my real age”

“I’m trying” Izzy said. She brought up the two characters of her and her sister. They were on a split screen with Izzy on the left and Paige on the right. Their vital stats were displayed in a column next to the computer generated versions of them.

She clicked on the age line of Paige’s stats only to be greeted with a pop up stating ‘Unable to change Data’

“What’s going on? Why won’t it let you change it?” Paige said.

“I don’t know…let me try something else” Izzy said.

She went through a few screens until there was a line that stated ‘What are you trying to do with these characters?’

Izzy typed in ‘switch one year in age between them’

The next pop-up said ‘Do you really want to switch one year in age between the characters of Paige and Izzy?’

“Type in yes already dummy” Paige said impatiently.

Izzy typed ‘yes’ and hit enter.

“What?!” Paige yelled as she watched the screen. “NO! Not like that!”

The Paige character’s age on screen now dropped from 11 to 10 and the character shrunk in conjunction with it.

The Isabella character’s age increased on screen from 12 to 13 and her character grew.
That was when Paige shuddered again and began to shrink even shorter. “NO! AHHHHHHHH!” She screamed as she lost another two inches in height.

Izzy grew another two inches and now stood 5’4” to her sister’s 4’10”. Izzy’s chest grew out even further and her legs and hips gained more curve and stature. Her hair grew even longer and thicker and her face matured even more.

Paige lost all signs of puberty as her body straightened and shrunk. Her legs became stick thin and her chest was flat. Her hair thinned and her face lost even more maturity while gaining even more freckles. Her lips thinned and her chin and cheeks rounded.

“This can’t be happening to me; I am NOT three years younger than you Isabella; you…you…RRRGH!” Paige fumed. Her shorts were loose and her shirt hung long and free over her. She flipped her hair off her face as she huffed in anger.

Izzy now stood much taller over her now little sister. She smiled in spite of herself at the situation.

“Wipe that smile off your face you jerk!” Paige yelled. “You…you…” her frustration built up but her words failed her.

“What is going on in here girls?”

They both spun around as they heard their mothers’ voice behind them.

“Mom!” Paige yelled. “Izzy turned me into a 10 year old! You have to make her change me back!”

“What?” Lori Williams said, thoroughly confused. “What are you talking about honey?”

“In the game…that stupid game of hers…Iz…Izzy…she put me in as 10 and…and now she’s 13 Mom” Paige spit out quickly.

Lori looked confused “Why is that wrong Paige?”

“What do you mean why is that wrong? I’m 12 and Izzy is 11! Don’t you even know that?” Paige yelled.

“Excuse me young lady but I think I know how old my own children are and in what order they came into the world” Lori said as she folded her arms over her chest.

“What?! But…but…” Paige sputtered.

“What nothing…you’ve had your fun and I’m not going to play along with your little game: You need to get ready for your ballet lesson” Lori said to Paige.

“What?” Paige said; she had quit ballet last year when she had started junior high. She now found herself with her Mom’s hand on her back, gently pushing her out of her sisters’ room. “Hey…what…no…I don’t take dance anymore remember” she protested.

“Since when?” Lori asked.

“Since last year when I started junior high; you said I could quit” Paige said. She tried to dig in her heels but she kept getting swept forward by her Mom’s hand.

“Since when are you in junior high? Honestly Paige…I have just about enough from you today and this ridiculous game that you are insisting on playing: You are not 12. You are 10. Your sister Isabella is three years older than you; always has been…always will be”

Izzy smiled in wonder as she watched this scene play out in front of her. “Mom doesn’t realize anything is different” she realized in shock and awe. “She really thinks, no, she knows that I’m older” she thought joyfully to herself as Paige was ushered out into the hall.

She saw Paige shoot a look of panic, anger, and desperation her way. Izzy just gave her a small wave and said “Have fun at ballet”

Paige growled in anger and frustration as her mother moved her into her own room across the hall and then stood guard outside of it “You have five minutes to change and get your bag packed before we have to get going or you’ll be late” Lori said.

Paige stepped into her world and was flabbergasted by what she saw. Her room was decorated differently than it had been moments before.  She stood motionless as she took in the dolphin poster and puppy calendar on her pink walls. There were no longer the One Direction posters on green that she had left earlier. It was decorated like it had been three years ago.

Paige turned to her closet and noticed that all her clothes had changed as well. They were a younger style and much smaller. Tears began to well up in her eyes as she heard her mother say “Come on Paige, you need to get going”

“No, Mom you don’t understand I…” she began before she just knew that it would get her nowhere from the stern look on her Mom’s face.

“Get dressed now young lady” Lori said with a stern look and a tap of her foot.

Paige was suddenly moved to move. She stripped off her now too large clothes and threw them in a ball across the room and into her dirty clothes hamper. She went to her dresser drawers and pulled out a small pair of underwear and her white tights. She pulled them on and up without much resistance before she got out her black leotard. She stepped into it as well and adjusted the sleeves and her shoulders inside.

She grabbed her ballet slippers and slipped her smaller feet inside of them and laced them up before she grabbed her already packed backpack. She looked up at her Mother and raised her eyebrows in a look of “Are we okay now?”

“Good; let’s go” Lori said and pointed to the stairs.

Paige stuck her head into Isabella’s room and growled out through gritted teeth “You’d better fix this while I’m gone or so help me I will beat you up so badly so won’t be able to walk for a month”

Izzy watched her now younger sister get marched down the hall by their Mom and out and into the car in the driveway. She caught Paige looking up as she looked out through her blinds at the scene below.

Izzy laughed her ass off as the car backed out and pulled away “Oh my God this is so awesome” she said to herself. “I can’t believe it…Paige back in ballet…and Mom thinks it’s perfectly normal” she shook her head and took in her room.

It too had changed along with everything else. Her walls were a dark purple color now and her closet was bursting with clothes and shoes suited to her new size.

As a sly smile crossed her lips, she stuck her head out into the hallway and laughed again as she took in the family pictures lined up along the wall. In every one of them, Izzy was now older than Paige, even going back to a picture where a baby with dark hair was propped up in her three year old arms.

“How can this game change reality?” she said as she went back to her desk and slid into her chair. The case was nothing special as she turned it over in her hands but she turned the game back on and brought up the character screens once again.

“Beat my ass if I don’t fix it huh…we’ll see about that” Izzy mumbled as she brought up the Paige avatar. “Let’s have a little bit of fun, shall we”

“How would you like to be 6 again Paige…” she said as she changed the number in the age column from 10 down to 6.

Izzy laughed as she also now changed her outfit to a ballerina outfit and gave her the long brown hair pulled up into a bun that would go along with the clothes.

On screen, the Paige character shrunk down dramatically as it lost four additional years. Her face became round and chubby, but also cute and cherubic. Her body regressed to full childhood as the character now stood by waiting for a command.

Izzy pulled up her own avatar next. “Time to bump this up even more…” she said as she typed in 17 on her age line. The character on screen changed just as dramatically as her sister’s did a moment earlier.

The Izzy character on screen now grew even taller but more importantly, she developed a woman’s body and curves. The blonde hair grew long and the face matured into that of a young woman.

Izzy even changed the clothes to be a pair of cut off shorts that rode high up on her full, round thighs a white tank top that accentuated her chest with a red plaid shirt over top.

She smiled as the clothing changed on screen as the characters were placed inside the home.

The Paige character looked way up to the Isabella character and treated her with awe, doing whatever she ordered her to do.

Izzy smiled and moved the cursor to the save button “I wonder…” she said as she tapped her chin.

Paige seethed in the back seat of the car as they drove the few blocks to the dance studio in town. The thoughts of “I can’t believe this…this is not happening to me…” ran through her mind as she watched the buildings and houses pass by.

Lori pulled up to the sidewalk in front and Paige got out. She slung her backpack up onto her shoulder and she gave her Mom a slight wave. As she turned her back to the car, she felt an all too familiar shudder run through her body.

Paige’s eyes opened in pure fear and adrenaline. Her first thought was “Oh she fixed it” before she realized that it wasn’t the case at all.

Paige felt herself shrinking again and all she wanted to do was scream at the top of her lungs. The air however caught inside her throat and she simply opened her mouth wide as she dropped inches and years all at once.

Luckily, with the change of outfit in the game, her own leotard and tights and slippers shrank in conjunction with her body; holding her tight and snug as she regressed back four additional years.

Paige could see her reflection in the glass of the studio as she got smaller and smaller and younger and younger. Her hair rose up and twisted on its own into a tight bun on top of her chubby, childish face.

Freckles broke out all over as her nose shrank back and her cheeks puffed out. Her teeth became a mishmash of baby and a few adult teeth in her small mouth. Her legs went from rail skinny to somewhat chubby and soft along with the rest of her body.

Paige turned and saw that her Mom had parked the car in the lot across the street. She was smiling as she approached.

“Is my little girl ready for her first day of ballet lessons?” she asked enthusiastically.

Paige shook with fear and anger.

Izzy pushed back in her chair just as she felt the changes kicking in. As she lifted her legs and feet, they grew longer before her eyes. Her thighs filled in as tight jeans encompassed them. Her bare feet grew longer at the end of long legs.

Her shirt changed into a form fitting tank top as her breasts grew large and heavy. Her flat stomach went up and down as she breathed rapidly in and out as her chair glided backwards. She felt her arms and hands growing as the plaid shirt appeared on her.

Her blonde hair grew long and luxuriant and she put her foot down to stop the chair and spun towards her mirror.

As she got up, now 5’7” and still changing: She saw her face maturing in the mirror before her. Her eyes darkened and set in as her nose grew out and her lips plumped and pouted. “Oh My Gosh…” she said as her hands came to her face.

She looked around and saw that her room had changed once more into that of a girl about to start her senior year of high school. “Oh My Gosh” she repeated.

Izzy was taking in her new body when she caught a flash from the corner of her eye. There was a box blinking on screen.

She walked over to it and leaned down ‘Click OK to make changes permanent’

The big gray ‘OK’ in the middle beckoned to her. She grabbed the mouse and without hesitation, clicked it.

Paige stood outside the dance studio with her mouth open but suddenly, she forgot what she was so angry about. She looked up to her Mom and said “Yeah, I’m so ready” and she bounced up and down in her tiny ballet slippers.

“Great” Lori said and opened the door for them. Six year old Paige Williams sprinted into the dance studio with boundless energy and enthusiasm.

Seventeen year old Isabella Williams looked down at her computer screen ‘Game Over’ stood out in bold red letters.

She shook her head a bit confused “What was I even playing” she said to herself as she shut the laptop off. “Oh well; whatever it was, I’m sure it wasn’t anything important”