Edits - Ch 4.1.1

Chapter 4.1.1 - They become 12 years old.

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Tim decided it might be interesting to just subtract a few years from all of the students in the room. It could be fun to see everyone looking the way they did before they became teenagers.

Tim checked the app and reviewed the caption:

This world history class is made up of mostly 16-year-old students with an even split between girls and boys. (Show more.)

He replaced the 16 with a 12 and saved the change.

As their teacher began a lecture, the loading bar for their changes began to fill up. Tim looked around the room, searching for the first signs of their bodies getting younger. He was not seeing much, though, leading him to wonder just how much of a difference four years would make. The bar was already half full before he noticed anything.

A boy sitting a couple of desks in front of Tim was called on to answer a question. As he spoke, his voice cracked up an octave, causing some chuckling around him as he cleared his throat. When he continued speaking, the boy’s voice sounded distinctly childish with little or no trace of puberty in it. Tim leaned to the side to get a look at the boy as he became noticeably smaller and younger, rapidly shrinking through a reverse growth spurt.

“Wow,” Tim said and gasped to hear how high pitched his own voice had become. He touched his throat to feel his Adam’s apple shrinking and slid his hand up his chin feeling no trace of beard stubble there. Although he had not intended it, he seemed to be getting younger as well. He rechecked the caption, realizing that he had made no exception for himself. As a student in the class, of course the change would apply to him.

Around him, Tim started to hear students exclaiming in shock and surprise as they became aware of their own changing bodies. There were a number of worried looking, fresh-faced boys trying to figure out why their clothes had become so loose. Some concerned girls checked their bras to figure out why they seemed so empty all of a sudden. While everyone seemed to be changing in some way, the most surprising thing about it for Tim was how unevenly the other students were affected by losing four years. Many of the girls changed very little, mostly the only visible change was how their facial features appeared more childish. Some of the boys and girls lost weight without losing much height, awkwardly leaving them more beanpole looking. A higher percentage of the boys compared to the girls had regressed completely before the start of puberty, making them appear embarrassingly childish compared to their more developed classmates. When their physical changes ended, their clothes changed next, shrinking to fit their smaller bodies, in many cases just accentuating how much size and development they had lost.

Panic and confusion in the room grew louder, while the squealing tone from Tim’s phone grew with it. At last, the app burst out a bright flash, blinding them all, and the room went silent.

Tim looked around again, seeing that everyone appeared completely unconcerned now. Many of them seemed obviously bored by the class. Had Tim not known better, he might have just assumed that this was an ordinary middle-school class now. Tim smirked as he observed the various degrees to which puberty was apparent in them. Some were only children. Some seemed more like young adults. Most were caught in an uncomfortable middle point of their maturity.

As the end of class approached, Tim considered doing more, such as reversing their age change or adding new changes. On the other hand, he could just keep them all like this and see how this age change had affected the school outside of this classroom.

What should he do, reverse the change or keep it?

He chooses to "undo all." (2)

He keeps them all at 12 years old.