This choice: Our neighbor Deidre at the front door • Go Back...Chapter #4Our neighbor Deidre at the front door by: NVR   "I heard some noise and I...W-what are you doing?" Deidre was still on her Eskimo suit, trying to process what she was seeing. There I was more than a foot taller than her, with clothes that were clearly too small for me and with my hand not giving any doubt about what I was exactly intending to do
"Are you ok? Why are you so big?" Deidre took careful steps towards me, doing a double, triple and quadruple check at my height. Normally I was only half a head taller than her and now she wouldn't be able to look past my shoulders! I was also entranced with this exciting perspective, seeing someone I knew now looking so much smaller than me. Despite the clothing Deidre covered her nose with a gloved hand, maybe thinking this could be some sort of dangerous disease in the air.
"Yeah, I'm fine" I mumbled looking down at our neighbor and retiring my hand, finally cooling down and adjusting my clothes to not reveal so much skin in front of her. Deidre was around my mothers age so we didn't interact a lot, but she was a kind woman that was always willing to help us whenever mom, Matt or I needed something. Without thinking much about it I just decided to tell her the truth.
"Don't worry, it's not a virus or anything like that, this is what made me grow" I showed the remote to her, explaining how it worked and how it could shrink things with the S function
"Huh, I thought it was strange you didn't have a christmas tree" Deidre said as she stared at the tiny tree in pretty much the same way I did back then. I decided to give her a little demonstration to prove everything was alright, setting the tree down again and aiming the remote with the G button until it grew back to the original height.. maybe. Since the remote only had two buttons I couldn't tell if it was restored to its original height, or if it ended up being a bit bigger or smaller
"This is crazy, where did you find this?" Deidre asked and I told her I honestly had no idea, just finding it as a present under the tree with a silly note. I doubted either mom or Matt knew anything about it, neither of them were into the kind of sci fi stuff and, just like Deidre and myself, they would think such a device didn't even exist on the first place.
"And.. hmm.. why were you shouting like that?" Deidre asked, blushing a bit and looking away from my undersized clothing
"Did I shout that loud? I guess I just found growing quite exciting" I excused myself hoping Matt and mom were still asleep if it was loud enough to catch our neighbor's attention.
With everything explained, a period of awkward silence followed, neither of us knowing what to say to each other and Deidre seemingly fidgeting a bit as if she wanted to ask something. A part of me wanted to send her out so I could continue playing with the remote but I didn't have the heart to do that, knowing she only came here because she was concerned. So I started to think about what to do next instead, should I try growing more? shrink back and see how to restore my original height? maybe I could change the size of mom or Matt, that would be funny.
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