Aroma Therapy

Chapter 2
Eric and Julia

Julia was a 26 year old newly wed. She had moved into a brand new apartment building last week before all the rain started. The apartment was nearly thread bare as far as decorations went. As she showered that morning she couldn’t help but think about how wonderful it was that it wasn’t going to rain today. She was definitely going shopping. Her husband, 28 year old Eric, had already left for work that morning.

Julia got dressed in her favorite tight fitting blouse and headed out in her silver Honda for a day of shopping. She drove downtown and found a parking place, then walked the streets going into the various shops. Nothing seemed to interest her in the shops however. As she walked however something caught her eye. It was a small rundown store with a sign that said “magic candles and scents.” Julia liked the way the store looked so she jaywalked across the street and into the store.

The bell chimed as the door tripped it like they did in the old days. Julia was instantly surrounded by a cornucopia of scents. An old lady behind the counter greeted her as she walked in. “Can I help you young lady?” The old lady chimed. “yes maam, I’m looking for something to bring a little romance into our lives, you see, my husband has just gotten a new job and the added stress has really turned him off, he hardly says a word! I want to be able to talk to him.” The old lady listened and quickly responded “talk about what?” Julia was surprised, but continued anyway. “You know... this and that.... Um... like about when we first met, when he proposed, all the memories of our relationship, I think if we can bring back those memories our love for one another will be... well.. “ “Reborn?” The old lady interrupted. “Well... yes” Julia said. The old lady slowly walked down the counter to the end and pulled out a small candle. It was yellow and black and had the words “bee younger!” on the label. “This one should make you so happy dear; it will make 2 couples happy!” Julia kind of giggled at the silly slogan, but picked up the candle and took a whiff. She was instantly reminded of the first time she kissed Eric. A smile came over her face at the memory. “I’ll take it, how much?” she said. The old lady smiled. “For you young lady? A penny.” Julia chuckled “A penny? No maam that simply wont do.” She said as she pulled out a $5 bill and left it on the counter. The old lady took the bill and bagged up the candle without question. The old lady spoke as she bagged the candle, but Julia couldn’t understand, something about “say hello to Thomas” or something, the sound of a megaphone outside was drowning her out, although she couldn’t make out what the megaphone said either, “probably some advertisement or something” she thought.

Julia got in her car and started it up, instantly being confronted with that annoying public emergency system test. She quickly flipped to CD and began to drive home. It was getting late and Eric should be home. As expected as soon as she came back into the parking lot she spotted Eric’s green Altima. She turned off the car and headed into the complex with the bag in hand.

“Hey there” Julia said coming in the door. “Hey babe, what’s up?” Eric said nonchalantly as he looked up from the television. “I got you something today, check it out.” Julia said as she sat the bag down and unwrapped it, revealing the “bee younger!” yellow and black striped candle. “Eugh” Eric immediately said. “What’s that thing for?” Julia gave him a pouty look.”Oh come on you’ll love it, it’s a neat little candle I bought from this store called the “magic candle shop” she said it was so great it’ll make 2 couples feel good!” Eric shrugged his shoulders “eh, well, I appreciate it, thanks for thinkin ?bout me babe.” Julia giggled and plopped down beside Eric on the couch. They sat in silence for the next hour or so watching one of the many movies that Eric had through his internet based movie Rental Company. This caused them to miss the news announcement of the mandatory evacuation, of the dam, the flood, everything, all they knew was that it was starting to rain again.

“Well, at least it’s been a nice clear day” Julia said, trying to make the best of the situation. Eric shrugged “Wish I coulda seen it, the boss has me in one of those damn middle office cubicles, I can’t even tell if the sun is out from there.” “Yea” Julia said, they again drifted off into silence as the movie played on. “So, this candle is called “bee younger” right because it’s supposed to make you remember good times.” Julia said. “Oh yea? Like what?” Eric chimed. They sat there for nearly 2 hours discussing things that had happened to them, remembering when they first met, their first kiss, when he proposed. “The candle hasn’t even been lit and it’s already helping!” Julia thought to herself as Eric finally opened up to conversation after falling short of talk since his “promotion” to the middle cubicle.

Julia was mid sentence explaining to Eric her first date in high school when suddenly the raging storm outside knocked the power out. “Oh Eric, I’m scared” Julia chimed in her typical fashion. “Na... don’t worry, we got that candle right?” Eric said, holding her shoulder with his arm around her. “Oh, yea! Here, I’ll get the matches.” Julia said, hopping up from the couch and slowly feeling her way to the kitchen. She reached into the drawer beside the stove and quickly found the matches and returned to the couch. Once there, she opened the candle and slowly lit the match and then the candlewick.

A dim yellow light filled the room instantly from the freshly lit candle. Dark heavy shadows danced on the walls from the apartment’s surroundings, and a thin grey smoke slowly rose from the candle. The aroma quickly caught the two newly weds by the nose, the sweet honey like smell massaged their nostrils and quickly lulled them into a sense of complacent intoxication. Julia began to speak again about her first high school date, but quickly found that she was too much in love with Eric to remember much about it. Julia chuckled as a strange tickling feeling came over her entire body from her scalp to her toes. The feeling was gentle and comfortable, like a massage. She wiggled comfortably on the couch. Eric likewise was moving on the couch as he obviously felt it too. Almost instantly Julia kicked off her shoes. “Mmm this feels..... So gooooood...” Julia said slowly, pausing briefly between each word.

The two kissed and hugged as they felt each other’s bodies tingle with stimulation. Eric’s shoes had fallen off since they had begun kissing. As Julia pulled away she looked down to see that her once tight fitting blouse was beginning to loosen out away from her body. She chuckled at the sight of it and began to rub Eric’s chest. She could feel the mass of Eric’s well defined muscle mass from the past 5 years of gym trips slowly melting away under his increasingly baggy shirt. “Mmm, I think we’re getting younger.” Julia said with a chuckle as her shirt continued to become increasingly baggy. Eric chuckled as he looked as his own diminishing muscles.”Hehe, yea I guess we are.” He said.

Julia’s skirt was continually sinking lower and lower on her legs as she regressed back into her teens. She laughed as she looked down her blouse to watch her once enormous D cup breasts diminishing through the stages of barley being a C cup. The now 16 year old Julia looked at her now 18 year old husband and laughed at the skinny frame that her husband had diminished to. They both continued to laugh at themselves and one another as they continued to regress. As Julia’s breasts diminished to an A cup her massive bra fell off of her small 13 year old frame. She chuckled as she began to disrobe from the now extremely baggy clothes she had worn that day. As she did she couldn’t help but laugh at the pile of pubic hair that lay in her panties as she pulled them off revealing a tiny tuft of pubic hair that was quickly falling out. She then reached over and helped the 15 year old Eric remove his now baggy clothes. His pants and underwear nearly fell off, leaving much more body hair in his clothes than hers as his leg chest and pubic hair as well as underarm hair thinned and fell out. Julia laughed at the remnants of Eric’s once massive 9” member as it now stood an early pubescent 3 incher.

Julia suddenly went through a shrinking spurt followed by the diminishing of the rest of her already barley there breasts as she reached 11 years old. The last few strands of her pubic hair unhooked themselves and floated down to the floor. Eric too had gown through a shrinking spurt and his boyhood had lost another inch as his body hair continued to thin. His laugh cracked and quickly became the high pitched voice of a youth as he passed into his preteens. Julia continued to shrink as she approached 5 years old. She couldn’t help but giggle more and more like a little girl. Julia’s adult teeth were quickly becoming loose and falling out as she as she giggled, being pushed out by her baby teeth as they grew back in. Eric giggled as her teeth hit the floor. At the same time his were becoming loose and the last of his body hair had long since fallen from his body. As Eric approached 4 years old he giggled as he watched his penis shrink more and more into his body. Quickly the limp free hanging penis was becoming a small horizontal nub sticking out from his body. He moved his legs apart and giggled as he felt his testicles begin to crawl closer and closer to his body as his scrotum shrank. Julia’s laughs were beginning to sound more like a baby as she giggled quickly approaching 1 year old. As the last of her baby teeth recessed back into her mouth her tiny limbs began to shorten and pull closer and closer into her body. Her head seemed to have stopped shrinking as her body continued to shrink.

Eric, now too young to sit up on his own, less than a year old crawled over to the newborn baby that was once Julia and lay beside her as he giggled himself off to sleep. He continued to grow younger until his penis became uncircumcised, reverting back to his newborn condition. Quickly the two babies laughs began to diminish into less and less as they drifted off into a deep sleep. As soon as the two newborns drifted off the candle mysteriously burned itself out.

Suddenly there came a knock at the door. “Sir? Maam? This is Officer Thomas Reynald with the county sheriff’s office, corps demanding a mandatory evacuation of the area, the dams about to blow, this whole area’s gonna flood.” Thomas waited for a moment, then pulled out the keys that the landlord had given him, quickly opening the door and shining his flashlight inside. There on the couch lay two newborn babies next to a pile of clothes on the floor. “Aw, you poor kids, did your parents leave you behind?” Thomas said. “Aw, they’re so cute, looks like our baby problems are over.” He thought, carrying them out towards his car.