Carlos’ Escape Scene 6

 

Carlos decided not to dwell on those thoughts anymore. They made him get a cold feeling in his stomach.

Finally Carlos saw the front of their house from his back seat view. He couldn’t wait to get out of the booster seat.

After what seemed forever he was free of the seat and was put down on his feet by his mother. Running ahead of her he was in the house seconds before she was.

Carlos went straight up the stairs just as his mother was walking in the front door. Soon after she entered he heard his dad start up a conversation with her, normal stuff they talked about like how was your day and such.

Carlos froze at the top of steps at a word that seemed chill his blood.

Carlos listened hard again to be sure. He heard his dad mention
something about “school”.

“What did Carlos think when you showed him the school he’d be going to?” Mr Cagle asked his wife.

“Didn’t seem to be excited about it. Maybe he should go to a pre-school first.” Mrs Cagle said with a curious tone toward her husband.

A horrible sinking feeling was felt all over Carlos’s body at that
point. As he made a mad dash for his room he felt his training diaper sliding down his legs that were now increasingly getting shorter and smaller.

Meanwhile back in kitchen his parents were still talking over him.

“He is not quite old enough.” Mr Cagle said to his wife.

In the hallway upstairs Carlos tripped over his training diaper. Now only dressed in a shirt, he looked down at his body after he flipped over on his back.

He was much chubbier and much smaller then he imagined.

`No time to waste.’ Carlos screamed to himself in his mind.

He was having a very difficult time walking. It was much harder for him due to his very short legs.

The Desk and bottom drawer were still there, but the rest of his room was completely changed.

It was a room for a baby boy around the age of 2 years-old.

Wasting no time Carlos totted over to the desk and pulled with all his might to open the drawer.

Back in kitchen his mother spoke an idea that just came to her.

“There is that new daycare school for kids. I hear they help children develop their minds really early in life. They take any kid that can crawl or rollover on their own.” Mrs Cagle said cheerfully.

Carlos had opened the drawer just in time. His legs gave out and found himself flat on his back on the soft carpet after his butt hit the carpet first. Luckily he grabbed the candy bar just as he was falling backwards.