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“Bwuh!” Maxine blurted out as she shot up in her bed, the pleasant early summer sun beaming in through the windows and onto her bed where she laid. As she wiped some slight drool away from her chin she desperately hoped that the clock would be somewhere before eight in the morning; that it would still be the early morning of her birthday and the day so far would have been eventless. She couldn’t see much out the window, not much that would give her a clue as to the situation anyway.

The time, however, was around half past eleven. Not a good sign. Seemed like she’d only managed about an hour of sleep with her racing mind, and she had indeed gone home from school just like she remembered. Which meant what happened at school was probably true, too.

“God… please help me, Google…” She grumbled, getting out of bed slowly to slide over to her office chair in front of her desk and computer. If anything could help her it would be the internet, even though she suspected that the results of her search phrases would have the chance to lead her to some pretty weird corners of the web.

Rather than searching for other people becoming instantly pregnant, she instead searched for ‘hallucinating people as not being pregnant’. It was the most logical thing she could think of; nobody got pregnant in three seconds. But she knew that some people could psychologically suppress the strangest things, as she’d seen that on some documentary on TV.

“Could this… be it?” Maxine asked herself as she checked the first few results. It seemed like people actually did hallucinate things like that, mostly because of denial. Generally it applied to themselves, but one did actually talk about not realizing someone else was having a baby.

“Christ… does this mean I have to get to a psychiatrist?” She groaned to herself, rubbing her temples from the stress.

*knock knock knock*

Adding to that stress was the telltale overly loud knocking that her mother always did, coming from the door. It didn’t matter how many times she told her mother that knocking a little quieter was still heard just fine, she had just continued to do it in a startlingly loud fashion.

“Yeah?” Maxine asked as she continued to browse for relevant results. As she was getting further down the list it was getting less and less relevant, but she figured the magnitude of the situation warranted a bit of extra assurance.

*knock knock knock*

“YEAH?” She repeated in annoyance.

“Are you awake, honey?” Her mother’s voice came from the other side.

“Why did you even knock like that if you didn’t even know I was awake?” Maxine grumbled mentally. “Yeah, I’m up.”

“Are you feeling better?”

“I guess.”

“What?”

“I GUESS.” Maxine repeated again in annoyance, her brow furrowing.

“Well, your aunt came while you were asleep.”

“Okay, I’ll come down a little later.”

“What?”

“I’LL COME DOWN LATER.” Maxine stated firmly and sighed heavily with a roll of her eyes as she turned her attention back to her computer.

*knock knock knock*

“Aaargh!” She growled through her teeth as her mother just didn’t seem to want to leave her alone.

“Can I come in?”

The teen sighed so hard she wondered if her mother could hear her through the door, but then again if she had that much trouble hearing their earlier conversation then she probably could not. Maxine stomped towards the door, making sure to step loudly in the way that most clearly showed her frustration.

*knock knock knock*

“I KNOW YOU'RE STILL THERE, MOM. What’s so important that-”

“I just need to get some sheets from your closet, honey.” Her mother replied as Maxine unlocked and opened the door. The daughter, however, found herself unable to respond and absolutely breathless.

Aside from her abnormally large butt, Maxine’s mother was a pretty trim woman for her age. Packing a bit of extra skin around the lower abdomen maybe, but even with that she looked slim for her age. Before now, that is.

If Hannah had been big and Mrs. Sharp had been huge, then her mother was positively gigantic. Mostly uncovered due to her much too small shirt, her wrecking ball of a belly was shockingly, almost dangerously large. The skin on it was stretched tight and shiny, and the bellybutton at the front was pushing out so much that it seemed close to popping off. Barely worth noting in comparison were her breasts, perhaps somewhere around a hand-filling C before but now easily at more than twice that cup size. Despite it all, her mother took a couple of heavy, waddling steps into the room towards the closet, her daughter’s eyes staring with disbelief all the while.

“Ooh honey, can you help reach the blue one up top there?” Her mother asked, pointing to the things highest up in the closet. Her mother wasn’t too short to reach it; it was more like she had some trouble stretching all the way with her new shape.

“Mom…” Maxine said, her jaw almost too slack for her to speak. “W… what’s going on…?”

Her mother eyed her back with confusion, placing the sheets she’d already taken on top of the amazing swell of her belly. “I’m just getting some sheets ready for your aunt, she’s going to spend the night here.”

Maxine moved her hands up to her face, her eyes peeking out between her fingers. “Not that… your… your…” She moved her hands down to her abdomen instead of saying the word, miming a round belly with her hands.

“Going on with my…?” Her mother asked, glancing down at her own belly. She looked at it intently for a second before looking up again, flashing her daughter a big smile. “Looks fine to me, you must’ve just seen some kicking.”

“K-kicking?!” Maxine asked, her tone going up a notch.

Her mother laughed again at her daughter’s reaction. “Don’t worry honey; it’s not as violent as it sounds! You did it quite a bit too, you know!”

“Why are they… why are people getting…” Maxine wondered, placing a hand on her own flat belly in fear of it too suddenly swelling up just like her mother’s had done. If it did, would she be acting like it was a completely normal thing too?

“I don’t really know if your brothers and sisters are more active than you or if it’s just their number, but there’s quite a lot of movement in here!” Her mother said, leaning back to try and counterbalance her weight in front. It seemed that her butt, despite its size, was not quite heavy enough to give her a normal straight stance.

“Here… I’ll get that for you…” Maxine said as she shakily took the sheets down from the closet for her mother, the immensely pregnant woman placing them on her baby-ball with the rest. Despite only having grown it a few moments ago she seemed perfectly at home with it, but that only made the young teen even more befuddled.

“Thank you, honey. I hope all seven of them will be as good to their mother as you are.”

“Seven?!” Maxine’s eyes went even wider at the reveal. By itself it sounded unbelievable, but seeing how big her mother actually was she couldn’t deny it: that seemed like an accurate number for her size. In fact, finding out that the number was smaller would probably have been even more shocking.

“Yes…? Are you still not feeling alright, honey?” Her mother asked, stepping over and putting her hand on her daughter’s forehead. As she did Maxine could feel the massive belly bump into her as the sheer size of it didn’t really allow her mother to get around without bumping it into things. “Oh dear, you’re all cold and sweaty!”

“I… I think I’ll be fine, I just… I just need to sit down a little…” Maxine replied, swaying a bit as her legs had gone unsteady from the shock of her apparently suddenly expanded family. Her brain was pretty much blank at this point; too much had happened and her young mind wasn’t processing it too well.

“Yes, come and sit down with us downstairs. I’ll make you a cup of tea as well which will perk you right up.” Her mother said, hugging her daughter shoulder to shoulder and rubbing her arm to create some comforting warmth.

As Maxine helped her mother down the stairs she wondered how Mrs. Sharp and Hannah were faring. Mrs. Sharp had said she was expecting triplets, but she barely talked to Hannah at all when she suddenly found her pregnant. She was smaller, but she was also much younger and still in school. And unlike Mrs. Sharp… likely a virgin, as well. Not that it mattered much in the unusual circumstances, but how would that even work when it came to the… delivery?

“Please don’t let it happen to me…” She thought to herself as she and her mother walked towards the living room where her aunt was waiting. “And please don’t let it have happened to Aunt Laura, either!”

“Sorry I took so long Laura, but the birthday girl has woken up!” Her mother chirped happily as they both walked into the living room. Only her aunt’s head was visible above the back of the couch, which turned around slowly and gave a slight smile at the duo. With her head turned fully around she laid eyes on the mother and daughter duo, and for only a moment Maxine saw something flash by in the gaze of her usually calm aunt. It went by too quick for her to fully register while her mother didn’t notice it at all, but Maxine knew there was definitely something there.

“No problem. Good morning, Maxine.” Laura replied as Maxine and her mother both sat down on the couch next to her. Maxine could still see a remnant of that little something in her aunt’s eyes, but she couldn’t discern quite what it was.

“Hi Laura…” Maxine replied, trying to sit down together with her mother in a way that wouldn’t give her full contact with a whole bunch of her mother’s belly and breast, but with their size it seemed to be an impossible thing to attempt. Together on the couch with her mother, she unwillingly got her first feel of one of her new siblings delivering a spirited kick around where her forearm was pressed up against the skin of her mother’s massive abdomen.

“If you don’t mind, I’d like to speak to you in private a little bit.” Laura requested. It unnerved Maxine even further, but she nodded and got up with her. Laura was a little bit taller than her older sister, and Like Maxine she hadn’t inherited that monster butt that her mother had. In body shape, Laura and Maxine really showed signs that they were related with their thin bodies.

“In private? Is there something you can’t share with your sister?” Maxine’s mother said, flashing a smile which indicated she was only joking.

“It’s about your baby shower; of course I can’t.” Laura said in her typical monotone voice, but that didn’t make her sister any less excited as Laura and Maxine both went up and into Maxine’s bedroom and closed the door. Maxine was just getting more nervous by the second; this wasn’t like her aunt to do. Then again, she barely knew her.

“So ah… what was it you wanted to talk about?” She asked while Laura crossed her arms and furrowed her brow slightly, one of the first signs of real emotion Maxine could remember her showing.

“Your mother is expecting.” She said, and the young teen could feel more sweat forming on her brow.

“Y-yeah… she is, huh.” Was the only reply Maxine could really get out on short notice. Then again she didn’t know what she would’ve said even if she had all the time in the world.

“And do you think that’s strange?” Laura asked, and the nature of her question had Maxine’s forehead going cold and wet again.

“I… Well it- I…” She mumbled, but her aunt interrupted her.

“I know you did it, Maxine.”

“I- I didn’t do anything, I swear! I don’t know what happened either!” Maxine blurted out. With the panic having gotten to her, she just blurted out what she really thought. She really had no idea what had happened to the girls or what her aunt was talking about at the moment. Laura just took a heavy sigh, walking over to the shorter teen and placing a supporting hand on the young woman’s shoulder.

“Let’s sit down. It’s clear you don’t know what’s going on.”

Maxine couldn’t agree more, but was more than confused that her aunt seemed to not only be composed, but also have some knowledge on the situation. It calmed her down the slightest bit as they sat down on the couch together.

“How many girls have you seen pregnant today?” Laura asked.

“Um… Mom, Mrs. Sharp who is one of my teachers… and Hannah; one of my friends...” Maxine answered truthfully, to her own surprise. In reality she had actually wanted to lie and say just her mom, but the truth managed to slip out.

“Three in one day.” Her aunt said and closed her eyes for a second, exhaling in what seemed to be relief. “I’m glad I got here when I did, then.”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t… I don’t understand what you’re getting at…” Maxine said. Her hands fidgeted nervously in between her jeans-clothed legs.

“I’ll explain it to you, but first: what were you doing when you realized these women were pregnant?”

“I was-” Maxine thought back to what had happened today. She remembered being called to Mrs. Sharp’s office and the talk they had, or rather the one-way conversation they had. Her grades, or rather attendance wasn’t going well and so she got lectured for it. She’d been told things she already knew and then… got pissed because of it. And Hannah… the last she saw of non-pregnant Hannah was when she yelled at her to go to the gym without her. And with her mom… she’d yelled at her through the door for a while before opening the door and… bam.

“I was… angry at them. Yelling at them and stuff.” Maxine admitted.

“Well, please don’t do that again. And I mean ever again.” Laura pleaded. “Because that’s the reason for what happened to them.”

Maxine’s eyes went wide. “Because of me? What… how do you know?”

Laura managed another small smile, which was surprisingly pretty when she did it. Maybe because she did it so rarely. “Because some time after I turned eighteen, I had a little issue with stress. It ended with something I’m sure you’re familiar with.”

“With… me?” Maxine attempted a guess with the context clues.

Laura’s smile went even wider at her words. “No, nothing quite so amazing.” She said, almost starting to laugh for real. “It was your mother’s butt.”

“So THAT’S why I never inherited it… should have known that thing couldn’t have been all natural…” Maxine thought to herself.

“After causing that and realizing what I could do even by accident, I went to some therapy and started meditating… just to never cause something like that again.” Laura continued explaining. “I know that your emotions go wild when you’re a teen, but… try not to get too angry, okay?”

Maxine nodded, now feeling calm again that she could confide in someone. It had been a tumultuous couple of hours and a hell of a sixteenth birthday, but at least she wasn’t alone. And it turned out her aunt wasn’t quite as boring as she’d previously thought. Whatever could happen, at least she had someone who could help her and relate to her. And maybe, just maybe, this could help her keep her temper under control too.

“I understand.” Maxine replied, giving her aunt a certain smile and an earnest hug. “So how do I reverse it?”

A silence suddenly hung heavy between them.

“Oh honey, it doesn’t work like that.” Laura replied.

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“Bwuh!” Maxine blurted out as she shot up in her bed, the pleasant early summer sun beaming in through the windows and onto her bed where she laid. As she wiped some slight drool away from her chin she desperately hoped that the clock would be somewhere before eight in the morning; that it would still be the early morning of her birthday and the day so far would have been eventless. She couldn’t see much out the window, not much that would give her a clue as to the situation anyway.

The time, however, was around half past eleven. Not a good sign. Seemed like she’d only managed about an hour of sleep with her racing mind, and she had indeed gone home from school just like she remembered. Which meant what happened at school was probably true, too.

“God… please help me, Google…” She grumbled, getting out of bed slowly to slide over to her office chair in front of her desk and computer. If anything could help her it would be the internet, even though she suspected that the results of her search phrases would have the chance to lead her to some pretty weird corners of the web.

Rather than searching for other people becoming instantly pregnant, she instead searched for ‘hallucinating people as not being pregnant’. It was the most logical thing she could think of; nobody got pregnant in three seconds. But she knew that some people could psychologically suppress the strangest things, as she’d seen that on some documentary on TV.

“Could this… be it?” Maxine asked herself as she checked the first few results. It seemed like people actually did hallucinate things like that, mostly because of denial. Generally it applied to themselves, but one did actually talk about not realizing someone else was having a baby.

“Christ… does this mean I have to get to a psychiatrist?” She groaned to herself, rubbing her temples from the stress.

*knock knock knock*

Adding to that stress was the telltale overly loud knocking that her mother always did, coming from the door. It didn’t matter how many times she told her mother that knocking a little quieter was still heard just fine, she had just continued to do it in a startlingly loud fashion.

“Yeah?” Maxine asked as she continued to browse for relevant results. As she was getting further down the list it was getting less and less relevant, but she figured the magnitude of the situation warranted a bit of extra assurance.

*knock knock knock*

“YEAH?” She repeated in annoyance.

“Are you awake, honey?” Her mother’s voice came from the other side.

“Why did you even knock like that if you didn’t even know I was awake?” Maxine grumbled mentally. “Yeah, I’m up.”

“Are you feeling better?”

“I guess.”

“What?”

“I GUESS.” Maxine repeated again in annoyance, her brow furrowing.

“Well, your aunt came while you were asleep.”

“Okay, I’ll come down a little later.”

“What?”

“I’LL COME DOWN LATER.” Maxine stated firmly and sighed heavily with a roll of her eyes as she turned her attention back to her computer.

*knock knock knock*

“Aaargh!” She growled through her teeth as her mother just didn’t seem to want to leave her alone.

“Can I come in?”

The teen sighed so hard she wondered if her mother could hear her through the door, but then again if she had that much trouble hearing their earlier conversation then she probably could not. Maxine stomped towards the door, making sure to step loudly in the way that most clearly showed her frustration.

*knock knock knock*

“I KNOW YOU'RE STILL THERE, MOM. What’s so important that-”

“I just need to get some sheets from your closet, honey.” Her mother replied as Maxine unlocked and opened the door. The daughter, however, found herself unable to respond and absolutely breathless.

Aside from her abnormally large butt, Maxine’s mother was a pretty trim woman for her age. Packing a bit of extra skin around the lower abdomen maybe, but even with that she looked slim for her age. Before now, that is.

If Hannah had been big and Mrs. Sharp had been huge, then her mother was positively gigantic. Mostly uncovered due to her much too small shirt, her wrecking ball of a belly was shockingly, almost dangerously large. The skin on it was stretched tight and shiny, and the bellybutton at the front was pushing out so much that it seemed close to popping off. Barely worth noting in comparison were her breasts, perhaps somewhere around a hand-filling C before but now easily at more than twice that cup size. Despite it all, her mother took a couple of heavy, waddling steps into the room towards the closet, her daughter’s eyes staring with disbelief all the while.

“Ooh honey, can you help reach the blue one up top there?” Her mother asked, pointing to the things highest up in the closet. Her mother wasn’t too short to reach it; it was more like she had some trouble stretching all the way with her new shape.

“Mom…” Maxine said, her jaw almost too slack for her to speak. “W… what’s going on…?”

Her mother eyed her back with confusion, placing the sheets she’d already taken on top of the amazing swell of her belly. “I’m just getting some sheets ready for your aunt, she’s going to spend the night here.”

Maxine moved her hands up to her face, her eyes peeking out between her fingers. “Not that… your… your…” She moved her hands down to her abdomen instead of saying the word, miming a round belly with her hands.

“Going on with my…?” Her mother asked, glancing down at her own belly. She looked at it intently for a second before looking up again, flashing her daughter a big smile. “Looks fine to me, you must’ve just seen some kicking.”

“K-kicking?!” Maxine asked, her tone going up a notch.

Her mother laughed again at her daughter’s reaction. “Don’t worry honey; it’s not as violent as it sounds! You did it quite a bit too, you know!”

“Why are they… why are people getting…” Maxine wondered, placing a hand on her own flat belly in fear of it too suddenly swelling up just like her mother’s had done. If it did, would she be acting like it was a completely normal thing too?

“I don’t really know if your brothers and sisters are more active than you or if it’s just their number, but there’s quite a lot of movement in here!” Her mother said, leaning back to try and counterbalance her weight in front. It seemed that her butt, despite its size, was not quite heavy enough to give her a normal straight stance.

“Here… I’ll get that for you…” Maxine said as she shakily took the sheets down from the closet for her mother, the immensely pregnant woman placing them on her baby-ball with the rest. Despite only having grown it a few moments ago she seemed perfectly at home with it, but that only made the young teen even more befuddled.

“Thank you, honey. I hope all seven of them will be as good to their mother as you are.”

“Seven?!” Maxine’s eyes went even wider at the reveal. By itself it sounded unbelievable, but seeing how big her mother actually was she couldn’t deny it: that seemed like an accurate number for her size. In fact, finding out that the number was smaller would probably have been even more shocking.

“Yes…? Are you still not feeling alright, honey?” Her mother asked, stepping over and putting her hand on her daughter’s forehead. As she did Maxine could feel the massive belly bump into her as the sheer size of it didn’t really allow her mother to get around without bumping it into things. “Oh dear, you’re all cold and sweaty!”

“I… I think I’ll be fine, I just… I just need to sit down a little…” Maxine replied, swaying a bit as her legs had gone unsteady from the shock of her apparently suddenly expanded family. Her brain was pretty much blank at this point; too much had happened and her young mind wasn’t processing it too well.

“Yes, come and sit down with us downstairs. I’ll make you a cup of tea as well which will perk you right up.” Her mother said, hugging her daughter shoulder to shoulder and rubbing her arm to create some comforting warmth.

As Maxine helped her mother down the stairs she wondered how Mrs. Sharp and Hannah were faring. Mrs. Sharp had said she was expecting triplets, but she barely talked to Hannah at all when she suddenly found her pregnant. She was smaller, but she was also much younger and still in school. And unlike Mrs. Sharp… likely a virgin, as well. Not that it mattered much in the unusual circumstances, but how would that even work when it came to the… delivery?

“Please don’t let it happen to me…” She thought to herself as she and her mother walked towards the living room where her aunt was waiting. “And please don’t let it have happened to Aunt Laura, either!”

“Sorry I took so long Laura, but the birthday girl has woken up!” Her mother chirped happily as they both walked into the living room. Only her aunt’s head was visible above the back of the couch, which turned around slowly and gave a slight smile at the duo. With her head turned fully around she laid eyes on the mother and daughter duo, and for only a moment Maxine saw something flash by in the gaze of her usually calm aunt. It went by too quick for her to fully register while her mother didn’t notice it at all, but Maxine knew there was definitely something there.

“No problem. Good morning, Maxine.” Laura replied as Maxine and her mother both sat down on the couch next to her. Maxine could still see a remnant of that little something in her aunt’s eyes, but she couldn’t discern quite what it was.

“Hi Laura…” Maxine replied, trying to sit down together with her mother in a way that wouldn’t give her full contact with a whole bunch of her mother’s belly and breast, but with their size it seemed to be an impossible thing to attempt. Together on the couch with her mother, she unwillingly got her first feel of one of her new siblings delivering a spirited kick around where her forearm was pressed up against the skin of her mother’s massive abdomen.

“If you don’t mind, I’d like to speak to you in private a little bit.” Laura requested. It unnerved Maxine even further, but she nodded and got up with her. Laura was a little bit taller than her older sister, and Like Maxine she hadn’t inherited that monster butt that her mother had. In body shape, Laura and Maxine really showed signs that they were related with their thin bodies.

“In private? Is there something you can’t share with your sister?” Maxine’s mother said, flashing a smile which indicated she was only joking.

“It’s about your baby shower; of course I can’t.” Laura said in her typical monotone voice, but that didn’t make her sister any less excited as Laura and Maxine both went up and into Maxine’s bedroom and closed the door. Maxine was just getting more nervous by the second; this wasn’t like her aunt to do. Then again, she barely knew her.

“So ah… what was it you wanted to talk about?” She asked while Laura crossed her arms and furrowed her brow slightly, one of the first signs of real emotion Maxine could remember her showing.

“Your mother is expecting.” She said, and the young teen could feel more sweat forming on her brow.

“Y-yeah… she is, huh.” Was the only reply Maxine could really get out on short notice. Then again she didn’t know what she would’ve said even if she had all the time in the world.

“And do you think that’s strange?” Laura asked, and the nature of her question had Maxine’s forehead going cold and wet again.

“I… Well it- I…” She mumbled, but her aunt interrupted her.

“I know you did it, Maxine.”

“I- I didn’t do anything, I swear! I don’t know what happened either!” Maxine blurted out. With the panic having gotten to her, she just blurted out what she really thought. She really had no idea what had happened to the girls or what her aunt was talking about at the moment. Laura just took a heavy sigh, walking over to the shorter teen and placing a supporting hand on the young woman’s shoulder.

“Let’s sit down. It’s clear you don’t know what’s going on.”

Maxine couldn’t agree more, but was more than confused that her aunt seemed to not only be composed, but also have some knowledge on the situation. It calmed her down the slightest bit as they sat down on the couch together.

“How many girls have you seen pregnant today?” Laura asked.

“Um… Mom, Mrs. Sharp who is one of my teachers… and Hannah; one of my friends...” Maxine answered truthfully, to her own surprise. In reality she had actually wanted to lie and say just her mom, but the truth managed to slip out.

“Three in one day.” Her aunt said and closed her eyes for a second, exhaling in what seemed to be relief. “I’m glad I got here when I did, then.”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t… I don’t understand what you’re getting at…” Maxine said. Her hands fidgeted nervously in between her jeans-clothed legs.

“I’ll explain it to you, but first: what were you doing when you realized these women were pregnant?”

“I was-” Maxine thought back to what had happened today. She remembered being called to Mrs. Sharp’s office and the talk they had, or rather the one-way conversation they had. Her grades, or rather attendance wasn’t going well and so she got lectured for it. She’d been told things she already knew and then… got pissed because of it. And Hannah… the last she saw of non-pregnant Hannah was when she yelled at her to go to the gym without her. And with her mom… she’d yelled at her through the door for a while before opening the door and… bam.

“I was… angry at them. Yelling at them and stuff.” Maxine admitted.

“Well, please don’t do that again. And I mean ever again.” Laura pleaded. “Because that’s the reason for what happened to them.”

Maxine’s eyes went wide. “Because of me? What… how do you know?”

Laura managed another small smile, which was surprisingly pretty when she did it. Maybe because she did it so rarely. “Because some time after I turned eighteen, I had a little issue with stress. It ended with something I’m sure you’re familiar with.”

“With… me?” Maxine attempted a guess with the context clues.

Laura’s smile went even wider at her words. “No, nothing quite so amazing.” She said, almost starting to laugh for real. “It was your mother’s butt.”

“So THAT’S why I never inherited it… should have known that thing couldn’t have been all natural…” Maxine thought to herself.

“After causing that and realizing what I could do even by accident, I went to some therapy and started meditating… just to never cause something like that again.” Laura continued explaining. “I know that your emotions go wild when you’re a teen, but… try not to get too angry, okay?”

Maxine nodded, now feeling calm again that she could confide in someone. It had been a tumultuous couple of hours and a hell of a sixteenth birthday, but at least she wasn’t alone. And it turned out her aunt wasn’t quite as boring as she’d previously thought. Whatever could happen, at least she had someone who could help her and relate to her. And maybe, just maybe, this could help her keep her temper under control too.

“I understand.” Maxine replied, giving her aunt a certain smile and an earnest hug. “So how do I reverse it?”

A silence suddenly hung heavy between them.

“Oh honey, it doesn’t work like that.” Laura replied.