As Brandon and his mother left the store, unable to find a costume, they decided to head back to their car with him sitting in the back while Mary got in the driver side and set her purse down on the passenger seat. "Do you just want to go over to Trevor's and play with him and Bobby? Or did you want to keep looking for another costume?" she asks.
Brandon shrugs his shoulders. "I think I'd rather to go Trevor and Bobby's." he says, referring to his two friends who are brothers that aren't that far off in age.
Once the car finally starts going off in that direction, Brandon can't help but keep thinking about those blue and white pompoms he picked up and how weird they made him feel. 'There was something certainly strange about those.' he thinks to himself when he feels a strange tingling go through his body. 'What was that?' he thinks.
His changes had started with him starting to get taller, reaching 4'10" tall while his age began climbing up, reaching 12 for now. His clothes had also started altering with his black tennis shoes getting lighter in color almost like a dark grey while his shoelaces started undoing themselves and slipped themselves through the holes as those sealed up and the tongue started sticking to the sides of his shoes as those began melding together, making it look like he was wearing small booties.
Brandon doesn't notice any of this yet however and continues to sit in the back of the car as his mom keeps driving.
