Held Back

Chapter 1
The new drug

Chapter 1: The new drug

Summer Vacation was just one month away and already I was nervous. I was failing all my classes and there was not enough time to make up the work that I had failed, and didn’t do. My counselor told me that there was a possibility that I would be held back and I couldn’t handle repeating the third grade for a fifth time. My friends at the moment are getting ready for college while I am getting ready to repeat the seventh grade again.

A month later it was the last day of school and I was sent to the counselor’s office where there the counselor and my parents were waiting.

Jack please sit down we have something to tell you.

I sat down like what I was told and I knew what they were going to tell me.

Jack, we got bad news for you.

I know I’m going to repeat the seventh grade again for a fifth time.

Yes, you are right but there is more.

What do you mean?

Well after discussing it with your parents, the school board has decided to let you try a new drug that will help you.

What will it do, make me smart?

No, the pill will actually make you younger.

What?

Its true, just recently the US government had developed a age loss pill for old people to be young again or for students who have been held back a few time like in your case to live a normal life by becoming the regular age.

So you are telling me that if I take this new drug Ill be 13 again?

Well really 12 since people start off in the seventh grade as 12 yr olds.

I don’t know, what if I go too far back?

If you take the medicine right you wont have a problem or you could consider diapers again.

Well....

Come on sweetie take the drug so you wont be made fun of everyday.

Come on son, being 12 again wouldn’t be that bad.

Ok, Ill do it.

Good, just take this form to the nurse and she will do the rest and thank you for agreeing to test this new drug.

No, problem.

I went down the hall to go to the nurse to get the new drug. I wondered if it was a shot or a pill and what if I did get even younger, going to be 12 again is hard enough but I could stand to think of the idea of being younger than that.

I entered the nurse’s office and there she was. She was picking up papers that looked like they had fallen onto the ground. It looked like she had been waiting for me because she had the drug ready for me.

I see you are ready for the new drug.

How did you know I was going to do it?

I though you would, who wouldn’t want to have a second chance in life.

How will I be given the drug? Is it a pill or a shot?

It’s a shot but it wont hurt that much.

The nurse then pulled out a shot with a blue goo in it. The goo looked like it was glowing.

Hold still, it will hurt just a little.

You don’t look at the shot since like a lot of people, shots give you the willies. You realize that you had been given the shot when you feel a sharp pain enter your arm and a warm feeling enter as well.

There we go, the drug should start working by the time you sleep tonight.

I left the nurse’s office having a strange feeling in my arm, that warm feeling had spread through my arm and into my body. As I left, Brandon, another student, who was been a bully his whole life that had repeated the sixth grade 8 times walked by. My parents were waiting for me outside of the school.

So how did it go, you don’t look any younger than the last time we saw you.

The nurse said it will take affect when I go to sleep tonight.

By this time tomorrow you will be a 12 yr old again, how do you feel?

Nervous, being in the seventh grade for 5 straight years is one thing but being 12 again is another.

You will get used to it.

What happens when the kids say the never saw me before?

Just say you had just moved into the town this past summer.

We got home and like earlier I was nervous, would I feel myself get younger at night, will it hurt and will I get younger than 12?

At dinner, my parents we talking about going shopping later to get me some new clothes and stuff for when I become younger later tonight.

I say we get some models and comics for you.

Dad, because Ill be 12 doesn’t mean Ill still like those stuff.

Well, if you want to pass as a 12 yr old you need the stuff kids that age like.

Later my parents left me home while they shopped for stuff for me since they didn’t want the chance that I would start to get younger while shopping. They went to a 24 hour store so they would have plenty of time to get stuff before my transformation.

I spent the rest of the night looking at my 18 yr old face for the last for the next 5 years.

It will be weird to see my face 18 yr old face tonight and to see it as a 12 yr old face tomorrow. Oh, well.

Later I decided to go to bed, I didn’t want to experience the transformation and just wanted to wake up after it had happened. I went to sleep about 10 minutes later.