“Every time I sit down, the doorbell rings” Allie Clements mumbled to herself as she got up on the couch. She paused The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix and headed to her front door. “Who even goes door to door these days?”

Allie stomped her way through the living room, she was barefoot and had on black yoga pants, an olive green top and a white cardigan sweater on. “Jake won’t be home for another hour” she thought about her husband as she peered out the window and saw the little girl from next door standing outside.

“Hannah! What’s up?” she said smiling as she opened the door.

“Hi Mrs. Clements” Hannah Reagan said smiling upward. “I’m selling candy bars for my softball team; would like to buy some…they’re only a dollar a piece”

“I would hope I’d get a whole candy bar for a dollar, not just a piece of one” Allie teased her. “You can come in, I have to go get some money”

Hannah stepped up; she’d been inside before but she stood near the door and waited. She looked around the house for Allie and Jake’s dog, Bentley.

“Bentley!” she called out and the big dog came lumbering into the room. “Come here boy” she called as she patted her legs.

The chocolate lab trotted over and licked Hannah as she pet him and scratched behind his ears.

“Who’s a good boy?” Allie called out as she came back into the room with two dollars between her long fingers.

“Who’s a good boy?” Hannah echoed still crouched down showing Bentley affection.

Bentley turned and barked once at Allie as she came back into the room “Excuse me mister!” she chided him “Sorry to interrupt you…didn’t know Hannah was your true owner” she said with mock shock.

Hannah giggled and stood back up straight. She had on pink flip flops, white shorts and a yellow t-shirt. Her long blonde hair was thin and fine and almost white as she brushed it back out of her face “Bentley loves me” she said smiling.

“Did you lose another tooth?” Allie asked seeing her gaped smile.

“Uh-Huh…the one on top; just two days ago” Hannah said “That’s three I’m missing now and…” she pointed to two bigger teeth on the bottom “…these are already adult teeth!”

“Wow; you are growing up way too fast” Allie told her 7 year old neighbor.

“I sure doesn’t feel fast to me” Hannah said throwing her arms out “I mean look at me! I’m still little and short!” she exaggerated her motions and threw her arms out wide.

Bentley turned around once; he swung his head back and forth between the two of them but went over and sat down at Hannah’s feet.

“Oh I’ve known you since you were three” Allie told her, she ran the two dollar bills between her fingers, her dark, shiny maroon nails catching the light as she did. “You are so much bigger than when I first met you”

“But not big like you are Mrs. Clements” Hannah said.

“Call me Allie” Allie said, not sure quite why after four years she thought it was okay to use her first name. The dog whimpered once and pulled closer to Hannah, really leaning against her skinny legs.

“I used to play softball when I was your age” Allie told Hannah.

“Did you like it?” Hannah asked.

“Are you kidding? I loved it” Allie said “I wish I could play now”

 “Well I don’t like it; I’m not very good” Hannah said. She looked at Allie from head to toe and thought “It seems like she’d be better at being a kid than me. I’d give anything to be an adult like her instead of just being some dumb little kid”

Allie looked down “Poor kid; it doesn’t seem like she’s having much fun being 7. They all think it’s so tough at that age…just wait until you become an adult. I’d give anything to be a kid again”

Allie had her long thick brown hair tied up into a bun on top of her head. She adjusted her black framed glasses and fiddled with her bangs as she looked down at Hannah. “So what kind of candy bars do you, oh!”

All of a sudden, Allie’s hair came undone. The bun popped and her hair fell down to her shoulders. “What the…” she said slightly embarrassed as she piled her hair back up; she went to twist it but her fingers didn’t feel like they were working correctly “Come on you dumb old hair” she said sounding frustrated. When it didn’t tie and fell back down to her shoulders, Allie stomped her right foot and crossed her arms over her chest and made a very pouty face.

“Now now, it’ll be alright” Hannah said. She was surprised at saying it and even more surprised at the tone it came out in; she sounded like here Mom did when she was upset and her Mom was trying to get her to calm down.

Bentley barked at Allie; a quick woof and he turned around again. “What’s with your dog?” Allie asked.

“My dog?!” Hannah said confused.

“What?” Allie said coming to her senses.

“That’s funny Allie; next thing I know you’ll be calling me Mrs. Reagan!” Hannah laughed.

Allie shook her head to get her hair out of her face. She caught a side glimpse of herself in the small decorative mirror that hung next to the door and simply thought “What?” as she felt movement inside of her mouth. Forgetting the dog and Hannah, Allie stepped to the mirror softly and slowly and leaned forward, opening her mouth as she did.

Allie’s eyes widened soon after her mouth opened. She screamed out and clapped her hands to her cheeks “AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

The dog jumped and barked and retreated a few steps but still stayed close by but now with his tail held low.

Hannah jumped “What is it?” she yelled over Allie’s scream.

Allie turned to Hannah, a look of panic on her face “LOOK AT MY TEETH!” She said but it was garbled as she used her fingers to hold her lips back.

“Wow!” Hannah yelped out upon seeing the inside of Allie’s mouth “What happened to your teeth Allie?”

“I don’t know” Allie said, her voice cracking a bit as her tongue explored all around “I’m missing teeth!” She went back to the mirror exposing them again “Are those?” she put her finger in and touched one of the smallest teeth. Her teeth were no longer uniform, strong, straight and white. Now they were a mix of big and little with gaps and spaces; some of her teeth were so tiny, “Are those baby teeth?” she asked putting her finger against one and getting it to wiggle.

“Oh shoot” Allie said, her face going pale.

“Um” Hannah said looking all around “Allie?”

Allie looked over and in a surge, watched as Hannah shot up several inches taller.

“What’s happening?” Hannah said. She looked down and saw her heels growing out longer than the backs of her tiny pink flip flops. Her toes came out over the ends; they were growing longer and larger as they went, her nails changing shape and widening on top of her spreading toes.

Hannah turned to the side and cocked her head in confusion. She could see herself in the mirror that had always been above her head. “What the?” she said as she approached it; her head moving higher and higher in the frame as she did.

“What?” she laughed nervously as her facial features began to change. Her nose grew longer and broader. Her chin came out and her cheeks streamlined out longer as her lips and mouth began to grow. “AAAAAHHHHH!!” she screamed a bit but not as much as Allie had.

Allie was incapable of screaming now, her mouth went up and down, but no sound came out. Hannah was growing taller and taller in front of her. She could see her clothes getting tight and straining to stay on. Hannah’s stomach was exposed and her shorts were super tight over her hips and thighs, both of which looked like they were getting bigger.

Allie thought “She’s not only getting bigger! I’m getting smaller!” she could feel herself shrinking and dropping down. The room looked bigger around her; heck, even the dog looked bigger to her as he sat nearby and barked.

Allie felt her clothes loosen on her. Her yoga pants had less to hold as her legs began to shrink and get much, much thinner. Her already narrow hips came in and her top drooped down lower. Her shoulders rolled inward and the neck of her olive green top gaped open. “Oops” she managed to say as she grabbed her top and pulled it up, not getting much resistance at all from her shrinking breasts.

Allie caught a glimpse of her face in the mirror; much lower than usual. The top of her head was in the middle of the mirror now, where a few minutes ago, she had to bend down to get her entire face in it. She was no longer 5’7” though. Now she was closer to 5 feet even and still shrinking.

“My face!” she said catching her reflection. Her chin was barely still in the picture but it was rounder and pulled closer in along with her jaw. Her mouth was tiny and her lips were thin below a very small pert nose. Her big brown eyes still looked big in comparison, but they were tiny behind her now huge and useless frames which were barely staying on her small nose and shrinking ears.

“I look like a kid playing dress up!” she said as her chin and mouth dipped out of the frame. She went up on her tip toes to bring them back into sight, but even that didn’t help for long as she jumped to stay in frame a time or two.

Hannah was taller than Allie. She looked down at the girl jumping up and down next to her and was shocked to see what she saw. “Allie! Is that you?!”

“Hannah?! How’d you get so big?” Allie asked confused. “I’m the adult…not you”

“Um…I don’t think so anymore” Hannah said as she felt her chest begin to lift up and rise out. Just as it was about to burst, her yellow t-shirt changed into a yellow V-neck top that was a bit big on her still growing frame but her cleavage was evident. A bra had also come on and the straps dug in as weight increased on the front of her body.

Hannah’s tight white shorts split along the sides before they ballooned out, changing into a pair of adult women’s white shorts with a brown belt and extra decorative pockets. Her pink flip flops grew larger and lifted up and around, encasing her feet in a pair of brown sandals. She still saw her toes in the shoes and was curious as a shade of dark purple polish appeared on her toes.

Soon, Hannah’s hips and ass blossomed and filled out her clothes as her breasts grew and her shoulders rose up to fill out her shirt. Her arms grew long and her hands began to change.

Allie still shrank down smaller. Her black yoga pants were in danger of slipping of entirely as her thighs trimmed, her calves shrunk, her hips narrowed and her ass deflated. Just as they were about to go, they shrank up and became of pair of simple girls tights that hugged her small frame and skinny legs.

Allie’s feet had been also shrinking down steadily. Her milky feet and long toes got smaller and smaller. Her toes especially felt the brunt of the change as they became quite small, topped off by miniscule nails painted in a garish pink color that was mostly chipped off.

Allie’s bra and sweater both vanished, no longer needed. Her olive green top could no longer stay up with an almost complete absence of breasts, so it too changed into a simple olive green t-shirt that clung to her flat chest.

Only by jumping could Allie see any part of her now in the mirror; it was all above her head if she stood flat footed.

Allie’s glasses slipped off her face and crashed to the ground at her feet.

Hannah bent way down and picked them up. Her hands were changing and growing larger. Her fingers were now quite long and elegant and topped off by the same shade of deep purple as her toes were. A shiny clear coat on both as well.

Her blonde hair had darkened as she aged into a light brown shade and it had gotten thicker as well. Hannah’s blue eyes had grown larger but also weaker so she slid the glasses onto her face. She smiled as her vision improved with them on and she tied her loose long hair up into an effortless bun on the top of her head.

She turned to the mirror and ducked down to get her whole face in the frame. She bared her teeth, revealing a long line of strait, solid white teeth behind full plump lips. She patted her leg and Bentley came padding over to her. He sat down at her feet and panted looking up. “Good boy” she said in a deep adult voice.

“What?” Allie’s voice squeaked out high and childlike. Her long brown hair continued to thin as it grew down over her shoulders to half way down her back and over her thin upper arms. Her fingers shimmied and the two dollars clutched there floated to the ground at her feet. Her long, elegant fingers were short and stubby and also topped off with garish bright pink polish that was mostly missing from her tiny and thin fingernails.

Allie’s facial features shrunk one last time making her face more round than heart shape minus her prominent chin and mouth. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!” She screamed out in a high pitched little girl’s voice that made Bentley howl and turn around again.

“Ssshhhh!” Hannah said bending down and putting her hand on Allie’s slight shoulder “It’ll be okay…stop screaming”

“No” Allie yelled and began to run around. She ran to the living room and stopped. Her show was still on pause but everything looked so big to her. There were a pair of brown boat shoes next to the couch. She had been wearing them and had just kicked them off when she put her feet up to watch TV. She put her tiny feet into her own shoes and came nowhere near filling them up. She could see most of her foot just sitting in her shoes.

Hannah just watched as Allie frantically ran around. She walked cautiously to the living room. Bentley, seeing a little girl running thought it was play time so he began to run and jump around the diminished Allie.

“Bentley Stop!” Allie squeaked out just before he bounded to her and put his front paws on her shoulders and knocked her down.

Allie fell, tumbling to the ground under the dog “Stupid big old dog!” she yelled getting up. Bentley stood by panting as Allie got to her feet. Bentley had been up to the middle of her thigh before; now, she could put her chin easily on top of his head. He weighed more than her.

There was a knock on the door. Hannah jumped but saw her Mom through the window.

Janet Reagan gave her a friendly wave and opened up the door. “Um, Hi” Hannah said confused.

“Hey Hannah, how are you?” she said before turning to the living room and putting her hands on her hips “Are you having fun playing with the neighbor’s dog Allie?”

“What?” Allie said genuinely and thoroughly confused.

“I sent you over here 10 minutes ago to see if Mrs. Clements wanted to buy a candy bar for your softball team; I was getting worried for a moment before I realized that you were probably just over here getting Bentley all wound up”

“But….I’m Mrs. Clements” Allie said “Hannah’s your daughter; not me!”
“Wow…you and your silly games; you have such a wild imagination” Janet said. “Say bye to Bentley and come on; dinner’s almost ready”

Hannah bent down and picked up the two dollars that were on the ground. The box of candy bars sat next to the door forgotten. “I’ll take two crunch bars please” she said putting her money on top and taking out two candy bars “Give myself a little treat while I watch my show”

“Thanks Hannah” Janet said. “Come on Allie” she said more annoyed this time.

“But…but…” Allie said looking around helplessly.

“But nothing; you can play with Bentley later” Janet said pointing to the door and giving her daughter a mean look.

Allie sighed and found herself walking to the door, unable to say anything or do anything to stop this from happening and moving forward. “I’m a little kid again” she thought as she stopped and saw the two dollar bills she had taken out of her purse now laying on top of a box of fundraiser candy bars.

Her thought from earlier flashed up in her mind ‘I’d give anything to be a kid again’ and she closed her eyes in realization. “Two dollars for 20 years”

“Thanks Allie” Hannah said closing the door.