Amanda awoke, but felt strange. She walked around and reached for a switch high high up on the wall, which was hard to reach--but it was easy this time. She was taller! And all her clothes were new, too.
She went downstairs and her mother said "Happy 7th birthday! You did tell your friends about the party, right?"
"Yes, Mom," she said.
But how could that be? She was 6! She wouldn't be 7 for another year!
School was strange for Amanda, because her mother hadn't taken her to kindergarten, but to a whole different school. And when she just did what came naturally, she found that somehow she knew where her new class was! The teacher collected homework first thing in the morning, and she turned in her homework like everyone else--which she didn't remember doing, but which she had with her anyway. There was a test that day and she found she could even take it. She must be as smart as if she really was in first grade.
That day Amanda came home to her 7th birthday party. Her 'friends' were all people from first grade that she had never met before the day. She opened another round of presents, which was good--she still had some of yesterday's presents but they were old and worn now. The only wish she made was 'I wish I had two Barbies and not one'. Being only 7, she didn't connect that with the sudden discovery that she had forgotten to open one present, which was the second doll.
But the next day, she woke up age 8. It was her birthday again, and she was as smart as someone age 8, and again nobody else noticed anything strange. And the day after that she became age 9, and this time when she made a birthday wish to turn her cake to chocolate, it did--and she realized that it was her birthday wish that did it.
So now....
