Bubble magic

Part 1

"Mom please don't make me go every time I go to these school events I get sick!" My mom just gave me a sorry look. As weird as it was, it was very consistent. Every time I went to a football game or a prep rally I got a really high fever and more often then not had to stay in the hospital over night. The fevers never lasted more then 24 hours but during those 24 hours doctors rushed in and out of my room trying to keep the fever from killing me.

What was weird besides the fact that it only happened during these events was that it only started this year. At first my parents and doctors thought I was faking it but I couldn't blame them I would of thought the same, but with no way to give myself a fever, there was no way I could be faking it.

No test gave any results etheir. It never was the flu or any type of virus, it had gotten to the point that there was talk of adding a new diesease to medical text books, but with me being the only case in history it was pointless. In the end doctors had determined I gave myself the fevers from stress, even though that made no sense.

So here I was about to leave the car to go to yet another football game, where I was the etheir the deathly ill kid that should be in a hospital but parents force to go to school, or the weird kid that fakes it.

I sigh getting out of the car, "Its really not worth you driving the 30 minute drive home just to come back-"

"You never know try to stay postive sweetheart." Yeah postive that was a laugh.

I made my way to the stands, you would think after everything I would be excussed from these events but no they were absolutly mandtory, students got in free but the hope of the school was that parents would stay and buy tickets to wacth the games instead of driving back home, so much for the effort  it was a fail.

And cue the staring everyone was looking at the first quater show, would she faint again? Would she die? Whats wrong with her parents doesn't she have a tumor or something? Yup I was the freak of the school, so much for a great first year of highschool.

I made my way to the lowest bleacher, after a few close calls I decided if I was gonna faint every single time I could at least prevent myself from tumbling down the bleachers. It seemed like the fevers started earlier and earlier every single time, I could already feel myself starting to burn up at least I knew know to not ignore it. 

I make my way over to the prinicpal who was cheering as we made the first touchdown before turning to me.

"Again? You couldn't at least wait till halftime?" He was sure I was faking it and again I couldn't blame him, but he didn't want throw up on the feild fake or real so once again he used his walkie talkie and a golf cart came up to take me inside the school until my mom could come get me, or an ambulance, which ever came first.

I woke up on a bed in the all to fammiliar nurses office, I must have passed out in the golf cart. One would think it would come as a shock, but it happened all to often. I wacthed as one of the two nurses on staff came over to me.

They weren't the regular day nurses and appreantly it was there first year here, but they were there when it happend for the first time so at least they weren't hired just for me, though to them I'm sure thats what it felt like.

I was so used to the routine that it took me a moment to realise how much bigger everything was compared to me, there was no way this was from the fever. I looked at my hands, they were small to. I locked eyes with one of the two nurses.

"Whats happening to me?" I asked her eyes gave away everything she knew what was happening to me and it was clear she had been preparing for quite some time to tell me. Know that I think about it, this didn't happen before this year, this was these nurses first year here they were only on staff  during the after school events.

"What did you do to me!" I screamed and she picked me up, how was she taller then me I looked like a toddler compared to her how was this even possible!? I started kicking and thrasing and screaming, my head was burning and my throat was dry, I was small and she was big what was happening?

And then everything relaxed, the heat was less intense and more importently I couldn't move my body it was like my body was asleep but my mind wasn't. She didn't put drugs in me did she?

"Now I know your confused but I promise I will explain everything, for starters I put a spell on you to relax your body, I also have a spell on you that is making you have the body of a two year old-"

"You- you can use magic your a wicth?" I asked scared and confused and even a little excited.

"We prefer the term magic user but yes technically speaking me and her are wicthes."

"I don't understand- why are you doing this, why would make me have all these fevers- why would you turn me into a toddler?"

"I think it's best that you don't know, at least not yet, just know that everything we did and are doing is for your own good."

"How is turning me into a toddler fo my own good! I mean why would you give me fevers if you wanted to turn me into a toddler why not do it the first time we met why know! Why-"

"I think it's time for you to take a nap, you will be in a safer place when you wake up and we can answer your questions then."

"I'm not taking a nap! Your not gonna get away with this-" She just looked at me with pity makeing a gesture with her hand over my forhead.

"I'm sorry but it wasn't a suggestion" My eyes started to then feel really heavy, just like my body, I started to breathe harder and faster before my breathing became slow and steady, against my will my eyes shut I lost my hearing and everything went black.

"I feel really bad Brunt-"

"I know but she's not going to be able to handle the truth right now. She's stressed out enough as it is how do you think she would react if we told her she had a highly unstable amount of magic inside her as a result of her never using it. You want to tell her that the reason she's been having these fevers is because we've been slowly leaking magic out of her and that if we hadn't that she would of been dead before Chrismas, do you really want to tell her the reason we put her inside the body of a toddler is to trick her magic into thinking she's a toddler so that we have more time to realease the extra magic. You know thats not a permanent solution and the more we do it the sicker she gets, that we need to keep her in the form of a toddler for 10 years so that her magic will balance out, that if she wants to stay alive she won't be able to see her mom, her only faimly she knows ever again?

"I know Brunt, I know were doing this to help her, I know why we can't tell her, but it doesn't make it any easier, we acccidentaly stumbled across her over the summer, and over the fall we've both fallen in love with her netheir of us want anything to happen to her, but she doesn't know that, and she's gonna hate us. I know the reason were doing this but I'm also really excited to have her as our little girl, I really want us to be like a faimlily."

"We will just give her sometime, we'll tell her whats really happening after a year or two and by that point it won't even matter, you just got to be patient, after all our little girl is going to be alot of work.