"Well I think I-" Alex was leaning towards making up some story about being sick but some part of his face must have revealed his mother the truth because she didn't hesitate to cut him off
"Tell me the truth, Alex. This looks serious" She said with a stern tone
"Alright" Alex said and went to his backpack to take out the two bottles "Remember Ms. Cruz, the chemistry teacher? I helped her clean the lab a bit before leaving and she gifted me these formulas" Alex chuckled as he watched his mother look at them with interest, her face revealing what he thought earlier before testing them, that they might as well be just fruit juice. "One makes you grow and the other makes you shrink, I tried the growing one on the way home and it worked a bit too well so I took the shrinking one and now I'm smaller"
"A bit too well? what do you mean with that?" Sara asked
"I grew quite a bit on the way here, around as tall as a stop sign so 7 feet? I don't know.. My clothes weren't growing with me so that's why I used the other one.. And now that I mention it, I must not have noticed because I was seated but" Alex moved his arms and legs to show the clothes he was wearing looked comically big on him"
"Oh Alex" his mother said with a strange tone, but she didn't look mad, at least until the next sentence
"Are you out of your mind? what are you doing just drinking weird chemicals like that?" Sara said with exasperation "You're already an adult, behave like one!"
"B-but mom, it was Ms. Cruz, I know her and she would never give me something that could hurt-"
"Of course she could, even if she didn't intend to! What if anything went wrong and you passed out on the street after drinking that? Are you sure you still feel ok? what if you can't go back to your original height?" Sara said, launching at Alex a string of questions that partly sounded paranoid considering he trusted his teacher, but partly sounded like things he should have considered at some point. After all, he took some of the shrinking one to go back to original size and there he was, smaller than he intended.
"I thought it was a joke! I saw it in your face, you also thought it was Kool Aid" Alex tried to defend himself and it worked, she scoffed but he knew he got her.
"Yeah, right. I'm just glad you're okay, this thing might be too dangerous to play around with" Sara said taking the formulas "I will keep this so you don't get any silly ideas"
"what? come on mom, I'm fine!" Alex complained
"Right now you might be fine, but later who knows..I might need to talk with your teacher too, get her to explain why she just gifted this to you" Sara said more to herself, looking at the red liquid containers disapprovingly
"At least let me grow back to my size!"
"You already tried that, didn't you?" Sara smirked, looking at him in the eyes "consider it a punishment. Don't worry I will give them to you later if nothing happens, it's just.. to avoid making things worse if something bad happens" she said with such a sincere worry Alex had no choice but to agree.
"Fine, I'm sorry. I really thought it was just a prank from Ms. Cruz. Besides, I kinda wanted to shrink myself a bit anyway.. how tall are you mom?" Alex asked, moving on from using more of the formulas for now
"Thanks. I'm 5'3'' by the way. If you enjoy it I might have to think of another punishment" she chuckled and went to store the formulas in the fridge, trusting that her son wouldn't touch them now that she expressed her concerns.
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