Monday March 17, 1997
Bill, Eddie, Richie and Stan waited on the stage in the auditorium after school for Winter to arrive. She told them earlier that day that the turtle was in the Biology room, however she mentioned that Henry thought they were all nuts, and that if Eddie dropped her during the lift, he would find him and drop him from the roof of the school. She took it as a joke, but he could have been serious.
She walked into the auditorium and saw the guys already on the stage. They didn't change, they were still 15 and 16 years old.
As she walked down the middle of the room towards the stage, Richie took the Mic. that was plugged in and all four of them shouted into it, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
Winter blushed as she walked up the steps to the stage and they all took a second to hug the Birthday girl and wish her a 'Happy Birthday' individually.
"Thanks, guys! You're all too nice!" she smiled as she hugged them.
"You're 17 now! Now you'll be extra annoyed by our immaturity!" Richie said to her.
"M-m-maybe you... W-we're not that bad," Bill said to Richie.
"Yeah, talk about yourself, Richie!" Eddie said a bit defensively as he didn't want to be looked at as immature. "I might be the youngest out of all you guys, but I am definitely the most mature," Eddie pointed at all the guys.
"Eddie, you're younger than me by two months," Stan laughed.
Richie added, "Yeah, don't get your titties tied in a knot."
Eddie shook his head and blushed a bit from embarrassment, "You guys are assholes sometimes." He looked over at Winter who was wiping her dress so she could get the wrinkles out, not paying attention to the conversation. He looked her up and down as Winter was never the type to wear a dress, but since she was trying to get into her character for the Dirty Dancing routine, she wanted to look as close to Jennifer Grey as she could.
Bill watched Eddie as he looked from the guys to looking Winter up and down. Bill tilted his head in curiosity and wondered what Eddie might have thought about Winter, especially since he always became defensive whenever she was around and anyone brought up his age as Winter was a year and a half older than him. Bill let the thought roll off of him, and he asked, "T-the turtle's in the B-Biology room, Winter?"
Winter heard her name and snapped out of her distraction and looked at Bill. "Sorry, I got distracted. Yeah, he's there."
"Get Henry's cock out of your head, Winter," Richie joked.
Winter looked at Richie and gave him a glare and was about to speak before Eddie turned around from the boombox and spoke up before she could.
"Shut the fuck up, Richie!"
Everyone looked at Eddie, shocked yet amused. "Jesus, I was only joking. Learn to take a joke!" Richie said.
"You're not fucking funny ninety percent of the time," he said with a frown as he turned back to the boombox to find the right song.
Winter looked from Eddie to Richie as she moved a piece of hair behind her ear. 'Well, that was different...'she thought as she looked at Eddie.
Stan changed the subject as he watched Eddie fast-forwarding the tape, "Is this even going to work? It's insane!"
"O-one way to f-find out," Bill said.
"Bill, you know how in the movie, Baby's mom and dad are sitting at the table watching the dance routine? We should be the parents. I'll be the mom, you be the grumpy dad, and Stan can be the horny sister."
Stan and Bill both looked at Richie puzzled; "What?" They both asked.
"Oh forget it! Obviously you haven't watched Dirty Dancing as much as I have! Good thing you guys don't have any lines," he said as he sat on the floor in the front of the stage to watch Eddie and Winter perform. Bill and Stan looked at each other quickly and sat on either side of him.
Winter stood at the centre of the stage. She looked over to Eddie who was at the side of the stage, still fiddling with the boombox. Everyone quickly looked at each other, wondering if they had changed into adults yet.
"How do we know when it's going to work?" Stan said.
"When we all look like adults, stupid!" Richie said.
Eddie started '(I've Had) The Time of My Life'. The melody played for the music as the song began:
'Now I've had the time of my life...
No I've never felt like this before...'
All five of them looked from one another to see when the change was going to happen, but nothing was happening as the song continued to play.
"Well, this is starting to just feel stupid!" Richie said.
Eddie turned off the song and looked at his friends; "I don't understand! It worked when we were all up here performing."
Winter looked at all her friends; "When the change happened, I was in my own zone, not looking at you guys. Maybe we all need to close our eyes?"
"W-We need to close our e-eyes and b-b-believe that it will work," Bill said.
Eddie quickly re-round up the tape to the song. Before he started the song again, all five of them closed their eyes. They pictured the turtle beneath their feet on the first floor glowing a white light up towards them, spraying them with its unexplainable magic haze that took them into the future.
After a few moments of deep concentration, they felt the earth beneath their feet shake like it did before and a force entered through them from their feet to the crown of their heads. The force made them deaf for just a moment until their senses came back.
Individually, they started slowly opening their eyes.
Winter opened her eyes and the first thing she noticed was her breasts that were never that big before. She went from a B cup to a C within a minute. Bill, who still had his same clothes on was his adult version. Richie, had the same thick-rimmed glasses and facial hair as he did the first time he changed into an adult. And then there was Stan, who looked exactly the same but wiser.
She was still staring at the three men in front of her when Eddie turned on the song. She turned her head to the right side of the stage where he was going to enter the stage, and a surge of nervousness and excitement hit her.
'Now I've had the time of my life...'
Adult Eddie walked over to her like Swayze in the movie. He had on the buttoned up black shirt he was wearing as a 15 year old, but he had his hair gelled down, and he looked nervous too with his lips pursed and his forehead wrinkles showing. He was definitely not the 15 year old Eddie anymore. They could sense that they were both nervous and it made them smile at each other.
'No I've never felt like this before...'
He super dipped her slowly.
'Yes, I swear, it's the truth...'
They looked into each others eyes and smiled.
'And I owe it all to you...'
She turned around so her back was facing him, and he was by her side, looking into her eyes as he brought her arm up to wrap around his head and she rested her forehead against his cheek seductively.
'Cause I've had the time of my life...'
Eddie seductively slid his hand down her arm, down the side of her breast, and put his hand on her stomach, looking for her hand to grab.
'And I owe it all to you...'
The two teenagers in their adult bodies began performing the footwork. There were no thoughts as they danced to the song and no feelings that hit them like they did when they were on stage performing with the band. They both knew they needed to concentrate on the song. They were caught up looking into each others eyes, as they had rehearsed, that they nearly forgot about the other three who were sitting on the stage with them watching.
Bill, Richie and Stan watched them as they performed the footwork, not perfectly, but pretty close to it. They watched as they connected while they danced and noticed a spark in their eyes that wasn't there before. Bill particularly noticed it with his observant personality. He wasn't sure if it was romantic, but it felt like two decade old best friends who trusted each other connecting and enjoying the moment. He noticed that love that he felt while they were all performing on stage before, but it was a different type of love he felt while watching his two friends dance.
"There's something super lame about this but I can't stop watching..." Richie whispered to Bill, unable to take his eyes off of the dancing pair.
Bill turned to his friend who noticeably had a deeper voice. He shook his head and turned his attention back to Eddie and Winter.
"It's definitely something..." he said to Richie, noticing his much deeper voice too. It was something, but what was it?
'This could be love, because...'
Eddie pulled Winter into him closer, and they stopped dancing for a moment and looked into each others eyes, gazing deeply, just like in the famous dance routine.
'I had the time of my life...'
They were breathing heavily on each other's faces as they took a moment to look seductively into each others eyes, almost looking like they were going to kiss. Both Winter's and Eddie's hearts were pounding while they looked at each other. In their teenage bodies, this was a very awkward part of the song, but in their adult bodies, they didn't want to stop staring at each other.
The next few moves in the dance were very similar to the original famous dance routine. Bill, Richie and Stan laughed when they did a good job at the part when they did the grinding move.
Eddie did a good job leading Winter through the turns and performing the twirl when he had to lift her and spin. But now it was almost time for the famous lift in the song. Eddie danced over to the other side of the stage as Winter waited at the other side of the stage. She watched him with a smile as she ruffled the skirt of her dress and watched him perform Patrick Swayze's solo. Her anxiety was picking up as she felt the part of her lift approaching, but she felt a different and new trust for Eddie.
'So I'll tell you something...'
Eddie motioned her to run over to him. As she began to run, Stan, Bill and Richie were about to get up onto their feet just to be sure that he didn't drop her onto the ground.
'This could be love, because...'
Winter hopped up as Eddie caught her waist and hoisted her up into the air over his head. She smiled as she put out her arms and flexed her legs and chest up into the air like a bird.
'I had the time of my life...'
"No way, man! No way!" Richie said, surprised. They all clapped as they watched with smiles.
'No, I never felt this way before...
And I swear, it's the truth...'
Eddie flexed his muscles as he slid Winter down his body onto her feet. They held onto each other and laughed as they looked at each other, and hugged before they took a moment to look at each other again.
They finished off the rest of the song with their hands joined together above their heads and shook their bodies close together. Richie, being the dirty one in the group, couldn't stop watching as Winter's breasts were shaking on Eddie's chest.
"Second base, man!" Richie pointed and laughed.
Bill looked at him, "I really don't think you know the bases, Richie." Bill realized that he didn't stutter once.
The song was over and Eddie and Winter felt relieved, but still excited. They looked at each other and studied each other's adult faces one last time before they knew they were going to turn back. Eddie noticed the difference between how Winter looked at him as a teenager to how she looked at him as an adult, and he liked it.
"Hey..." Eddie said admiringly in his adult male voice
Winter smiled at him, "Hey..." she said back. It was the first time they talked to each other in their adult bodies.
Winter thought he was attractive as an adult. There was so much character in his face, but then she noticed something. She softly put her hand to to the left side of his cheek and stroked a scar he had with her thumb. There was a memory locked in a deep vault in her head that she was unable to access, but she felt like she was the person who stitched the cheek back up.
Eddie wasn't sure what she was doing as she stroked his cheek, but he enjoyed it. He rubbed his face against her warm hand. His adult thoughts kept wandering to how beautiful she was.
Bill studied Eddie and Winter as they stared at each other. He was trying to figure out where this future memory was created. It felt like this memory was on a splitting road that, if something happened that caused a different course in their lives, this memory would not exist at all in the future. It was different than when they all played together at the concert, because it felt like that was something in the future that was going to happen no matter where the course of their lives took them. This future memory was questionable though, like it might happen or it might not. It made Bill's brain hurt just thinking about it.
"Are we going to change back now?" Richie said as he stared at Winter and Eddie looking at each other, "This is getting weird."
They felt the earth shake from below their bodies. Eddie and Winter broke their eye contact and looked down at the floor, as did Bill and Richie.
Where was Stan?
After the floor stopped moving, Eddie and Winter looked back to one another. They were teenagers again. Winter stepped back a few steps from Eddie who was standing very close to her. She turned to the three others who were still sitting on the stage floor and they were teenagers again too.
As the memories from the past six minutes flashed through her head, she turned her attention back at Eddie and wondered what was up with the admiring gazes as adults.
"I should go find Henry. His practice is probably done," she said in a hurry, freaked out by the moment they were sharing as adults.
Eddie continued to stare at her, processing the dance and the moment they shared.
"This turtle shit is so cool!" Stan said from beside Richie.
Richie turned around quickly, startled by Stan's sudden voice. "Where the fuck did you go?"
"I was here, right beside you, fucktard!"
Winter grabbed her jacket in a hurry to leave and try not to think about the connection her adult-self had with Eddie's adult-self.
Before she could run off, Bill called her; "H-hey Winter..."
She turned around and looked at him, "What's up?" She obviously wanted to leave. Eddie stared at her, afraid that everything may have freaked her out. He didn't know what was going on as they looked at each other in their adult bodies and he hoped it didn't affect their friendship.
"My parents w-wanted to know if you are available W-Wednesday night to b-babysit G-G-Georgie?"
Winter took a moment to think about it before answering, "Yeah... Yeah, no problem, Bill."
She turned around and left the auditorium.