There was a knock at the door. Brian and Catherine both shot up from their positions in bed as if it were their mother about to walk into the room.
Catherine calmly asked who was at the door.
“It’s Alicia” came the voice from the other side of the door.
Brian grumbled and looked at Catherine. “What does she want? Another intellectual schooling?” Catherine shrugged. “I suppose so, there is no telling.”
Catherine got up and unlocked the door so that Alicia could enter the tiny dorm.
“Geez, what were you guys doing in here?” Alicia asked while examining the room for some sign of what they were doing, hoping she was disturbing something important.
Alicia is tall and slender, with a very shapely body. Her long black hair was up in a pony tail, and she was wearing only gym shorts, an old t-shirt and flip flops. It seemed almost as if she pulled herself from bed for the purpose of disturbing the first bit of alone time that Brian and Catherine had had all day. She had a box under her arm which she placed on a small table. It was a black leather box, about the size of a shoe box, and was fastened at the top with a latch.
At first no one spoke, so Alicia, remembering her reason for coming broke the silence. “Sorry, didn’t mean to interrupt anything, but I couldn’t sleep, I thought maybe you guys would be up for a game of Belittle?”
“No Alicia, we aren’t in the mood.” Catherine replied.
“Wait a second, I’ve heard of this game. Is that the real thing?” asked Brian.
“Certainly, imported from a friend in Japan. Obviously it isn’t illegal to possess, just illegal to sell, kinda like Absinthe.”
Brian thought to himself for a moment. “Sure, I’m game.”
Catherine pulled Brian to her side. “You won’t win, don’t try.”
Brian turned to face Alicia and smiled. “Tell you what, if you’re bigger than me at the end of the game, I’ll kiss your feet.”
Alicia smiled. “I would certainly enjoy that.”
Brian winked at Catherine, and she returned him with a stern look of disapproval.
Alicia, quite pleased with herself, opened the box and began to empty it contents. First she removed a clear bottle with no labels, filled nearly to the top with sparkling clear fluid. Next she removed two sets of glasses. She began to methodically set up the glasses in a row, each glass being significantly smaller than the next. The first was the size of a shot glass, while the last was nearly half the size of a thimble. It seemed unreal to Brian that a person could ever drink out of such a glass. Lastly she removed a deck of cards. The cards seemed ancient. Each one was a piece of square parchment paper with a Japanese symbol on one side, and a riddle on the other. The object of the game was literally to belittle your opponent with your intelligence.
Once Alicia was done setting up the game, she asked Brian had he ever played. Brian responded by shaking his head.
“Well,” Alicia started “someone will read each person a riddle. If the person can not answer, or answers incorrectly, they must take a drink. Each drink will decrease your current size by half. Usually it never goes further than six drinks for one person. More than that and you’ll be too small to matter.”
Alicia looked at Brian and smiled. There was a slight hint of evil in her lips as she said “However, in this case, we will play until you are kissing my feet. I will take that as the sign of forfeit. Agreed?”
Brian returned her smile, “Or at least until you are too small to matter, right?”
“We’ll see” Alicia replied.
Alicia asked Catherine if she would like to read the riddles and keep score. She reluctantly agreed, trying to mask her anger at Alicia. Catherine knew this trick, but it was no use telling Brian, he was too sure of his intelligence to back down to any challenge.
“Looks as if I’ll be spending my night with a tiny Brian” Catherine thought to herself as she took the first card from the pile.
“Whose first?” asked Catherine.
“I think Brian should go first, since it’s his first time. It’s only fair.”
“Bring it on.” replied Brian.
Catherine calmly read the first riddle. Alicia looked at Brian with a slight smile, awaiting his answer. After a while Brian finally shook his head and shrugged.
“That’s impossible, no one knows that sort of thing.”
“Don’t try and get out of it.” Alicia said. “Her, let me get that drink for you.”
Alicia poured the drink into the first glass. Brian held it up to his face, smelled it, braced himself and downed it. He blacked out of a split second, but soon came to his senses. He was now three feet tall, his clothing was swallowing him whole. Alicia was smiling. Her lips were moving, but he couldn’t hear anything. He was both shocked and amazed. He hadn’t really expected it to work, now everything in his world was twice as big, including his adversary, and his girlfriend.
The next questions were all the same. While Alicia fired off her responses with great precision, Brian was at a constant loss.
Three feet.
One foot, six inches.
Nine inches.
Four and a half inches.
Brian now stood small and naked among a pile of his clothes, and at the feet of Alicia. The next question was read, Brian had no response. He knew from the second drink he never stood a chance, but he kept going so not to admit defeat. The thought of actually kissing Alicia’s feet made his stomach turn, but what frightened him more was the thought that one misplaced step from her, or anyone else, and he was history. Catherine was the most delicate person on the earth, but Alicia was the type to step on a person just to feel how they would squirm under her foot. He could see it in her eyes as she reached down and handed him the tiny glass she held slightly between her thumb at forefinger. On impulse, Brian drank.
Two and a half inches.
By the time Brian got his bearings, his next riddle was being read.
Alicia smiled and waved down at Brian. “There won’t be anything left next round.”
Alicia filled the last glass with a tiny eye dropper. Brian began to wave his arms furiously.
“What’s this, the little man is giving up?” Alicia said patronizingly. She crouched down to look at the little man closer. “You remember the rules, that’s not the proper way to forfeit.” She looked down at her feet and smiled at Brian, then arose to her full height.
Catherine grabbed Alicia by the arm. “Alicia, please. You’ve had your fun. Don’t make him do that.”
“He was the one who said he would, it wasn’t my rules, but I will hold him to it.”
Meanwhile Brian walked up to Alicia’s massive foot. The sole of her flip flop was as high as his chest. He began to climb unto the edge of her flip flop. He pushed himself up and threw one leg over on top of the end of her sole.
Alicia looked down at the tiny man struggling to climb up to her foot.
“Aww, you poor thing.” she said with a giggle. “Here, I’ll help you.”
She slid her foot out of the shoe as soon as he had managed to get his entire body onto the edge. As she did this, Brian went rolling down the length of the flip flop, stopping at the end where her heel would be. It was warm, and the indention from where her foot had just been was large enough that Brian’s whole body could fit into it.
Alicia held her foot in the air slightly over Brian and the flip flop, covering them both in the shadow of her massive foot. She then placed her long slender foot next to the flip flop. Alicia cleared her throat and wiggled her toes.
“What are you waiting on little man?”
Brian slid off the back of the flip flop and walked the length of Alicia’s foot, starting from her heel to her toes. He now stood directly in front of her big toe. He couldn’t see the look on her face, because he refused to look up at her, but he knew she was enjoying this more than anything. Brian took a deep breathe and braced himself. The smell of her feet was pretty strong, but he liked it. It smelled like vanilla. She had obviously just put on lotion. Brian leaned in towards the big toe to kiss it when she lifted her foot slightly.
“Come on little man, you have to want it, it’s not too high.”
Brian reached up, even jumped. He couldn’t reach her foot.
“Alicia, stop it. Please.” Catherine pleaded.
“Ok, ok, chill out. I was just playing with him.” She put her foot back down, though this time slightly on top of Brian.
“Alicia! What are you doing?!” Catherine exploded.
“Don’t worry, I wont step on him. Promise. I just want him to kiss the bottom of my foot. I think it’s only appropriate.”
Brian, now under Alicia’s big toe, kissed the bottom of her big toe slightly.
“Come on little man, is that all you have. I hardly felt it. Give it a good lick.”
Brian began to lick the bottom of her toe. He did so until Catherine pleaded with Alicia that she stop. Finally, Alicia moved her foot back, and Brian rolled over on his stomach.
“Don’t worry about the little guy, he’ll be fine.”
Alicia slid her foot back into the flip flop. Just as Brian pulled himself back to his feet, Alicia took a step and sent her massive foot smashing down directly on top of Brian, smashing his tiny body between the floor and the dirty bottom of her shoe.
“Oppsie” Alicia said with a giggle.
Just as Brian was coming to his senses, he looked up just in time to see the bottom of Alicia’s flip flop as it came smashing down on top of him. Fear and panic ran through his mind as he realized that his life was soon to be over. He had been shrunk, humiliated, and now squished like a bug underfoot.
Alicia pressed down hard on Brian. Pain shot through every part of his body. His body flattened and sunk into the rubber bottoms of Alicia’s shoe. The pain became so great that he wished he would explode.
Catherine was in complete shock. She had just witnessed her tiny boyfriend get squished like a bug under her enemies foot. Catherine was trembling with anger and fear.
“Come on, chill out. Look, he’s fine.”
Just as the pain became too much to bare, Brian began to black out. Then Alicia lifted her foot, but Brian wasn’t under it. He had stuck to the bottom of her shoe. Alicia looked at the tiny man stuck under her shoe and laughed.
“That’s embarrassing.” Alicia said while shaking her foot. Brian dropped to the floor with a slight thud. He groaned and turned over. The impact had not killed him, but he pain was still surging through his body.
“You’ll find that he is much more durable now, at this state. You can’t die like that when you’ve had this to drink.” Alicia was saying as she packed up her game.
“Don’t worry, its only temporary. It’ll wear off in about ten to twelve hours.
Alicia had finished packing up her things. She seemed very pleased with herself, as if she had accomplished something great. She placed her foot in front of Brian.
“No good bye kiss?” Alicia laughed and walked out the door.
“You guys have fun” she said as she closed the door.
“Just get out.” Catherine said coldly just as Alicia had shut the door.
Here it is, Ch 2.
This is all I have for now. I want to make a couple of changes to what I have so far and then finish it. Please tell me if you like it and I will post more. Thanks.

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Catherine took a hesitant step towards Brian, careful not to place her foot down on top of him. Just one full step, and he was directly between her feet. Brian struggled to stand, but was too disoriented and fell on his bottom. Catherine wanted to do something, but she couldn’t help but to stare at her miniscule boyfriend, now no bigger than her thumb. He was seemed so sad and pitiful, but at the same time, she found him to be ultra cute in this state.
Brian stared up at Catherine in a daze. He wanted her to reach down and pick him up. He was having a hard time standing. The whole experience had made him a bit weak. He had managed to drag himself on top of Catherine’s socked foot. Holding on to her sock with one hand he waved for her attention with the other. The whole time Catherine watched in amazement at the little man struggle, just to climb on top of her foot. She giggled slightly, and then realized what she was doing; the reality of the situation. The feeling of power was great in Catherine, but suddenly a feeling of compassion swept over her as she snapped out of her daze and realized what Brian had just gone through.
Catherine crouched down, and Brian collapsed on top of her soft, warm foot. Catherine reached towards Brian with her hand and gently placed Brian in her palm and brought him to level with her face as she stood.
She stared at him for a long while without saying a word. Brian lay still in the palm of her hand, slowly regaining strength and feeling throughout his body.
“I’m so sorry babe.” Catherine said with a tone of compassion. “I knew you were going to lose, but I didn’t think she would step on you like that.”
When she spoke, Brian jerked up and covered his ears. Catherine’s usually soft voice, was thunderously loud to Brian’s diminished body. Catherine turned beat red, and felt sorrier for Brian than she had before.
“Are you all right babe, do you hurt anywhere?” She asked. Brian shook his head.
Catherine walked over to her bed and placed Brian gently on the pillow. She then climbed into bed, laying on her stomach, with her face propped up in her hands looking down at Brian.
This time in a whisper she said “It’s nothing about your intelligence, it was just her game. It took her months to find out the answers to all those riddles. I helped her with a few, but that was before I really saw her for who she is. When I found out what she was doing it all for, I really began to hate her..”
She gazed down at Brian and smiled while she watched him try and stand, and keep his balance on the soft, unstable pillow. Just as he had gotten to his feet, Catherine poked him in the stomach with her forefinger, and sent him right down on his back. She began to stroke his chest with her forefinger.
“You know,” she began “I kinda like you like this. Your cute and helpless. Its a bit sad in a way, but yet so adorable.”
She put her thumb on Brian’s chest and pressed him softly into the pillow.
“And to be honest, I do like to be able to keep you under my thumb.” She said with a sly grin.
After a moment, she didn’t move her thumb, Brian began to push against it. It was useless. However, it did add to Catherine’s amusement. She removed her thumb after a moment, she just wanted to be able to say that she had once literally had Brian under her thumb.
Catherine was by no means a dominant or out right mean person such as Alicia. In her daily routine she was very soft spoken, generous, kind and selfless. She would never hurt a fly, or care to see a creature suffer. In the sexual atmosphere however, she was much different. She liked messages and kisses at her feet and toes. She liked rough sex, she liked being on top, and she like a little pain, both to inflict and to be inflicted upon herself. Sex was her outlet for her passiveness in everyday life.
With Brian, she didn’t want to be mean, or cause him pain, but she was very amused at the way he would struggle with something so simple as removing her thumb from his chest. The idea of her sexual power over him was dawning on her. She began to get very excited..
She began to stroke his chest with her forefinger again, not saying anything, just looking down at him. She moved her long finger down the length of his chest and stomach into his pelvic region, in which she stopped at his genitals. She lifted his penis up with the tip of her fingernail and giggled.
“Looks like we won’t be having much fun tonight...little man.”
Brian quickly covered himself with his hands and turned beat red. This was quite possibly the cutest thing Catherine had ever seen.
“Aww, little man, don’t be ashamed. It’s to be expected.”
Catherine leaned forward towards Brian and kissed his midsection. She ran her hot wet tongue across every aspect and tiny detail of his body. She could feel his erection against her tongue, but he was too small to suck off, so she licked his entire body, then leaned back up and looked down at him, very pleased with herself. The look on Brian’s face was one of complete and total satisfaction. As she gazed down at him, she said softly “Surely we can have a little fun tonight. No pun intended.” She said with a smile.
She gently picked Brian up, and placed him on the floor near the bed. Catherine then stood up from the bed, with Brian standing directly between her two massive feet. She lifted up one foot and pulled her sock off. She placed the bare foot back into its spot, and with a smile dropped the sock directly on top of Brian which completely covered him. He could smell the scent of lotion on the sock, from her feet, very much the same smell he had smelled from Alicia’s feet. Just as Brian had made his way out from under the sock, he looked up in time to see another sock being dropped directly upon him. Once he was out from under that, he noticed Catherine had removed her boxers and t-shirt, and was now standing above him in nothing but her black silk panties and bra, a perfect and beautiful giantess. A goddess to be worshiped. She ran her tongue across her lips as she ran her hand down her thigh. She looked down at Brian with a smile. She swept her foot across the pile of clothing, brushing it to the side. Brian hardly noticed, he was entirely consumed by Catherine’s beauty. He wanted to fall on his knee’s at her feet, beg her for contact, worship her. He wanted to be everywhere on her all at once. Such a beautiful site he had never seen. He thought tears might come to his eyes.
With all of this, Brian had hardly noticed that she raised her right foot and was placing it directly on top of Brian.
Her big toe hit his chest and knocked him flat on to the ground. She placed her toes on top of his tiny body for a moment, and then slowly began to roll him around under her foot. From her toes to her heel, she would roll his little body back and forth under her foot while she thought about what she wanted to do with him first. She wasn’t sure if he was in the mood for intimacy at that moment, but she certainly was ready.
She stopped rolling him around her foot and brought him back to rest under her big toe. She began to rub the length of his body with her toe, slowly making her way to his genitals. Suddenly and without warning she mashed her toe down onto his genitals has hard as she could, sending him a slightly evil smile at the same time..
Brian screamed and wrapped his arms around her toe. Pain shot through his body, but not the same pain that he felt while being stepped on, this pain was good, it was arousing. She eased up the pressure for a moment, then mashing down again. This time she twisted her foot, and if she were trying to grind his tiny midsection into the floor.
Brian’s grip around her toe tightened more and more with his increasing height of arousal. After a moment, Catherine raised her foot, and Brian was still holding on hard.
Catherine found this to be very amusing, but shook her foot, sending Brian falling hard to the floor.
Catherine crouched down, right above Brian. She wrapped her fingers around his tiny body and then closed her fist around him. She brought him to level with her face as she stood.
“Well, well, well little man. What ever shall I do with you? We can’t just let you run around on your own, you may get stepped on. Though, I think our little game just a second ago shows us you are quite durable.”
She held the tiny Brian in the palm of her hand.
“Well, nothing to say for yourself little man?” With that, she licked the entire length of his body.
“Where would you like to go first?”
She brought his tiny body and dangled him between her breasts. She let go and he fell right between them. She giggled as she watched Brian attempt to wiggle and squirm out from between them, though each time he moved, his tiny body would just sink further between Catherine’s breasts.
Catherine giggled at Brian’s struggle. With her index finger she pushed down on Brian, sending him further between her breast. Brian was now fully submerged, drowning in this sea of flesh. With each movement, her nipples hardened more. The feeling of his tiny body squirming for freedom aroused her to no end, though she knew he could barely breathe in his current position. This time she dug in between her breasts with her fingers and removed Brian.
“We’ll have to go back to that later little man.” She gave Brian a smile and a wink.
She closed her fingers in around Brian and walked to the bed.
Catherine stretched out on the bed, though she continued to hold Brian inside of her hand like a small child holds an insect captive right before tearing away its wings. Catherine had no intention of tearing away any particular part of Brian, though she could not help but to revel in her power. Every time Brian moved within her hand she felt a pang of lust and control. The ability to hold a human being in the palm of her hand, to have full dominion over its entire existence was almost too much to bear for Catherine.
She sat on the bed, staring at her fist. If Brian were to stop moving, she would give her fist a little shake just to feel him rumble around. Catherine’s heart sped, she took deep breaths, this was as good as an orgasm.
Inside of her fist, Brian was as disoriented as ever. He had not come to full grasp with the reality of his situation. Somehow it felt as if none of it were real. At his size, it seemed as if his body were more sensitive. Every touch heightened his sexual arousal even more, though he was terrified. Though, his fear added a sense of arousal to his situation. It was dark inside of her fist, though light poured in through the crevices between her long, slender fingers. Eventually, the air grew hot and stale. He would try to climb to some place which he could get fresh air, but each time he moved, Catherine would move her hand, making it impossible to move within his prison.
Time had been all but forgotten to Catherine as she began to discover the complete extent to her control at this moment. She had nearly forgotten about Brian entirely. As if coming out of a daze, she could feel his tiny fist beating against the soft walls of her fist. Catherine opened her hand and let Brian fall, landing softly on her stomach.
She looked down at Brian with a smile. Brian gazed up at her, now able to fully realize his situation, he began to swell with unbearable lust for Catherine once again. Her smile was sweet, almost sympathetic, though he could see a hint of malice in her eyes. It was that look more than anything that sent chills down his spin and at the same time aroused him like never before.
She stretched her hand to her stomach and stroked his body with her finger. her finger ran the length of his tiny body to his midsection.
“Someone seems to be enjoying himself.”
Her smile grew larger. She could see Brian’s mouth move, but couldn’t make out any words.
“it’s ok little man, you don’t have to speak.”
She brought her finger up to his face as if to cover his lips, though her finger tip was enough to cover his whole face. She held her finger there until she could feel Brian’s tiny lips kissing the tip of it, then she moved her finger to her own lips.
“You must be exhausted. You better rest for a minute, because you have a whole lot of uncharted territory to explore.”
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The excitement was too much for Catherine. She simply could not lie there and let Brian rest as all the possibilities of what they could do ran thru her head. For Brian, no amount of rest could have satisfied him at that moment. He was utterly exhausted. After a moment, Catherine rolled over to the edge of the bed, and rose to her feet. She stood there for a moment, towering over Brian, gazing at his tiny form. He seemed so precious and delicate. She wanted to caress his tiny body at her bosom, yet at the same time she wanted to hold him in her hand and squeeze. The more she fought these urges, the stronger they became. It wasn’t necessarily anything personal with Brian, but she longed to dominate him, completely. She wanted to squeeze him between her fingers, crush him under the soles of her feet. She wanted him to beg.
All the while Catherine was standing there looking down at Brian and assessing her possibilities as to what to do with him, Brian rose to his feet and walked to the edge of the bed. Though he was tired, the sight of Catherine standing there was too awesome to take lying down. Brian walked to the edge of the bed, as far as he could go. He stood there, in Catherine’s shadow, gazing at her beauty. The two stood, silent and still for a long time. Neither spoke, but their thoughts were connected. What Catherine longed to do to Brian, Brian longed for inside. He wanted to be used by her if it meant to bring her pleasure. He wanted to through himself at her feet and be at her mercy.
The more each one fantasized, the more exaggerated the fantasy became. Suddenly, as if coming out of a trance, Catherine realized the reality to the situation, and almost instantly felt ashamed to having even thought about harming Brian. With her gaze steadily fixed on Brian, she unclasped her bra and let it fall to the floor. Next she removed her silk panties. With a playful smile she held them above Brian and let them fall on top of him.
Brian remained engulfed in his admiration of Catherine until he found himself engulfed in her silk undergarments. After a moments struggle, Brian found his way out of the massive pile of silk to find Catherine laying on her side, smiling at Brian. With her index finger, she poked him in the chest, sending him falling back onto her panties.
“I thought you might need something to cover yourself with tonight, incase it gets cold you know.”
Brian didn’t bother to respond.
“What’s the matter,” she said playfully “still speechless?”
This time Brian shook his head and mouthed a few words that never made it to Catherine’s ears.
Catherine fell over onto her back. The movement sent Brian back off of his feet. Before he could make his way back up, Catherine had plucked him from his spot on the bed. She held him between her thumb and forefinger and slide his tiny body along her thigh, up her stomach, between her breast and brought him to her face. She held him in the air, above her face for a moment, allowing him to dangle there, helplessly. Catherine blew him a kiss and dropped him on her stomach.
“So little man, which way will you go?”
She slid her finger from her belly button down to her thigh.
“Will you go south?”
She then slid her finger back up the length of her midsection to her breasts.
“Or, will it be north? Or both?”
Brian was not sure where to begin. The landscape of Catherine’s body stretched infinitely in both directions. He was completely surrounded in a sea of smooth, creamy flesh. Catherine lied on the bed and Brian explored every inch of her body in way like he had never done before. Working his way over every area, covering his ground in kisses as he moved along. Catherine would flex and moan as Brian moved about her body. For Brian, his whole body was one huge erogenous zone. He was not sure for how long he was at it. Time seemed to hold no authority over them. At times the pleasure would be so much that Brian would fear he would lose consciousness. He seemed to be swimming on dreams.
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He woke up and found himself wrapped in Catherine’s panties. He wasn’t sure when he had fallen asleep, or for how long, but he was still his miniature size. He looked about the area, but Catherine was not on the bed. In fact, she was no where to be found. He couldn’t tell what time it wasn’t sure what time it was, but sunlight was pouring through the windows. Brian stood and walked to the edge of the bed. He felt rested, but terribly worn out. His midsection burned.
He walked to the edge of the bed and looked down. It was certainly too far to jump. He thought, if he could withstand being crushed, he could probably survive the fall. Though, he wasn’t about to take his chances. He had no idea where Catherine was, or when she would return. He thought about climbing down, but it didn’t seem like a very possible idea. It was best to just sit, and wait.
Luckily, his wait was not long. Shortly after his decision to remain put, he heard the sound of keys turning the lock of the door knob. The door squeaked open, and Catherine came into the room.
As soon as she entered the room, her eyes met with Brian and her face lit up. She closed the door and bolted it shut. She tossed her book bag aside and ran to the bed. She kneeled down at the edge near Brian and gave him a huge, wet kiss.
“I’m so excited!” she squealed. “I thought you might have all ready gotten back to normal, which, don’t get me wrong, I wish you were. But, I’m just glad to get to see you once more as little Brian.”
She looked at him for a moment, beaming with joy. She held out her hand, palm up to Brian. “You wanna get down for a bit and walk around? You must have felt awfully trapped up there all day, though, you did sleep for a really long time.”
Brian walked onto her palm and sat down. Catherine carefully lowered Brian to the floor right in front of where she was kneeling. Brian climbed out of her hand onto the floor. Catherine got up and walked across the room. She pulled off her sneakers and kicked them into the closet. She walked back toward Brian in her socks, each step thundering louder and louder as she approached. She sat down and stretched her legs out with Brian in between them. Brian began to walk down the length of her legs, towards her feet. He got to the end and stood in the shadow of her left foot. Her foot was taller than his whole body. He stood there for a moment, facing the bottom of Catherine’s massive foot. She wiggled her toes around inside her socks.
“You can take them off if you want. If you think your big enough to.” She said with a giggle.
He might have actually tried, if he could have reached her toes. Even stretching as much as possible he couldn’t reach her toes. Even if he could, he wouldn’t have the leverage needed to removed the massive sock. He just touched the bottom of her foot. It felt warm and moist. Just as he touched her, he felt an odd sensation surge through his body. It wasn’t particularly unpleasant, though it certainly was not entirely enjoyable. Everything around him began to swim in and out of focus. Catherine noticed something was wrong as Brian began to stumble about and sat up to catch him just as the blackness hit.
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Brian woke up again in the bed, though this time his body was stretched out to the length of the bed. He looked to his right and Catherine was setting in a chair at the bedside. Brian looked at his hands in front of his face and examined the rest of his body.
“I must have blacked out when I grew back to normal.”
“Yeah, well, not at first. You just blacked out. I put you on the bed and began to freak out. I didn’t know what to do, and I very well couldn’t just bring you to the hospital like that. I almost left to go get Alicia and you began to grow back.”
“Well, that’s probably for the best. Had you brought Alicia in here, she would have tried to help by stepping on me again.”
With that, Catherine’s expression fell to a frown. She had almost forgot about the humiliation that brought about Brian’s size change. There was a moment of uncomfortable silence.
“Brian, I’m so…”
Brian cut her off. “Please, no need. What came afterwards was too wonderful to put into words. You managed to make something beautiful out of something awful.”
With that, he kissed her hand. “I should be thanking you Catherine.”
Catherine had nothing to say to that.
“Though,” Brian began “it’s going to be hard looking at her anymore. You have no idea how humiliating it is to be stepped on, by someone like that.”
“Brian, don’t say that. She tricked you. Besides, that’s just what she wants you to think.”
“Ah, **** her. I’d let her do it to me again if it meant to have another night like we just had.”
“I had an unbelievable time too.”
“The sensations you get when you are small like that are unbelievable. It’s as if your whole body as become hyper sensitive. Its as if everything feels orgasmic.”
“Well,” Catherine started “I’ve been thinking that maybe I’d like to try it, like we could take it together. Imagine, to have sex like that. Both of us tiny, making love in such huge proportions.”
Brian thought about it for a moment. “Well, that would be great, but do you really think Alicia is going to part with that stuff for any honorable reason?”
“Well,” Catherine continued “I talked to her about it today actually, and she said she’d be happy to get me some. In fact, she is suppose to bring it by tonight.”
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There was a knock at the door. Catherine put down her magazine and jumped to answer it. She unlatched the lock and opened the door to find Alicia standing in the doorway. Catherine had been expecting Brian, but given the reason Alicia was here, she was almost happy to see her.
As soon as the door was opened, Alicia made her way inside the room.
“Hi Alicia, I didn’t expect you’d come by so soon.”
“Well,” Alicia began, “I didn’t have much else to do, and I wanted to drop this off to you before I went out tonight.”
Alicia presented a brown paper bag bulging at its sides with odd shaped objects. As Catherine reached for the bag, Alicia jerked it back with a smile.
“Not so quick Cathy, this isn’t candy you’re messing with.”
Catherine flushed with flutters of anger. She hated being called Cathy.
Alicia looked around the room. “Where is Brian?”
Just as she said that she stopped in her tracks, then took her next step very cautiously, her eyes all the while search the ground.
“Cant never be too careful around here, I’d hate to step on the little guy…again.”
Alicia laughed gleefully as she checked the bottom of her shoes to make sure there was no one stuck to the bottoms of them.
Catherine just stood silent, trying her best to suppress her anger. After all, Alicia was doing her a favor.
“That’s not very funny Alicia. Besides, he isn’t here. He went out to rent a video.”
“Well, that’s probably a good thing. I bet he doesn’t want to see me right now anyway. It had to be awfully embarrassing.”
Alicia made her way to the bed and had a seat. She sat the bag next to her side.
“Well, just tell him he doesn’t have to scared to come around me anymore. I’ll be nice, I promise.”
Though Catherine would have liked to believe Alicia, her smile said everything the opposite.
Alicia grabbed the bag and dumped out its contents on the bed. First Alicia picked up a small bottle, mostly filled with a clear liquid and corked at the top. She held it in her hands and gazed at it for a moment, watched the way the light reflected off of it, and shone through it. Though the liquid could easily have been mistaken for water at first glance, it held a magic that was absolutely captivating .
Alicia showed the bottle to Catherine, but did not hand it to her.
“This is the drink, of course.”
She sat the bottle on the bed and then picked up to small glasses.
“And these are the glasses. It’s important that you use these glasses, because they’ll tell you just how much you need to drink.”
Alicia showed the glasses to Catherine.
“If you fill the glass up to this line, it’ll be enough to get you guys going for about a whole day.”
“So, does that mean if we drink less we will stay smaller less time, or does it mean that we won’t be as small?”
“Well,” Alicia replied “if you take any less, or any more than you are suppose it, it’ll really **** up your system. That’s all I can say. It’s like medicine, you take just the right amount and it does the job.”
“Yeah, but a day is a long time to be that way. Isn’t there any shorter dosage?”
“Nope, that’s it. Take it or leave it.”
“Well,” Catherine sat the glasses down on the table next to her, “I’ll take it.”
“Good.” Alicia said with a sly grin. “Good.”
Alicia continued, “I put enough in here for two servings for the both of you. That should be enough for you guys to go hog wild.”
“Great,” Catherine replied, “what do I owe you for it?”
Alicia shook her head.
“Nothing. Consider it a gift. My way of saying sorry for being such a bitch in the past, especially to Brian.”
If anything about the situation seemed fishy to Catherine, it was certainly Alicia’s sudden change for the better. However, he mind was filled with the possibilities that bottle on her bed held that she hardly noticed anything out of the ordinary about Alicia’s behavior.
Well Alicia, thank you. That’s very kind of you.”
“Well, I like to be the bigger person you know, it just sometimes takes me a while to get there.”
There was a moment of awkward silence. Catherine had gotten what she wanted from Alicia, and now she wanted to be rid of her. Ultimately Alicia broke the silence.
“Well, I had better get going. I’m going out of town this weekend, and had better pack. Besides, I think I might be doing a little drinking tonight myself, if you know what I mean.”
Alicia gave Catherine a grin, and Catherine tried her hardest to force her best fake smile. Alicia got up and made her way to the door. Just as she was about to exit, she stopped and turned to Catherine.
“When you guys planning on doing it?”
Catherine, hesitantly responded.
“I think maybe this weekend. Brian has off, and there won’t be anyone around to bother us..”
“Well, be careful. Remember, it’s a big world out there.”
With that, Alicia turned and walked out the door, leaving the door wide open on her way out.

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Brian walked into the room and drop his book bag in the middle of the floor. He walked to the bed where Catherine was pretending to read and not notice he had come in. Brian pounced on the bed and he and Catherine rolled around laughing until the both fell off. On the floor, Catherine managed to land on top. She gave Brian a soft kiss and a smile.
“How was your day dear?” She asked,
“Well, much better now, though I think that Ethics exam kicked my ass.”
“Well, at least it’s over with.” Catherine paused for a moment and smiled slyly at Brian. “I think I have something that will help you take your mind off of it.”
“Some much needed lovin’?”
“You know it.”
Catherine leaned in and gave Brian a longer, more passionate kiss.
“I’m so excited Brian. I’ve been thinking about this all week.”
Catherine got up and walked to her dresser drawer and removed the brown paper bag that Alicia had given her. She emptied the contents of the bag and tossed the bag aside.
“I wanna do it right now. I don’t think I can wait any longer.”
“Catherine, do you think its wise to be doing this? I mean, it can’t be safe to screw around with important things about our body, like our size.”
“Well, I don’t know if its safe or not, I just saw it worked with you, and I wanna try it. I wanna do it with you, to experience intimacy on a all new level. I think its worth the risk.”
Brian stared at the contents of the bottle and at the determined look on Catherine’s face. It wasn’t so much his mistrust for the potential effects this could have long term, but rather his natural mistrust of Alicia and anything she has to do with.
“Well, I guess life is all about taking risks. When you wanna do it?”
“Lets go right now. Schools out for the weekend. Everyone is going out of town, we won’t be disturbed all night long.”
After a moment, Brian hesitantly agreed.
“Well, lets go.”
Catherine uncorked the bottle and carefully poured two glasses of the clear liquid into the glasses she was provided. She corked the bottle and placed on glass before Brian.
Brian looked at Catherine. “We both going at the same time?”
“Well,” Catherine started to blush, “I was hoping you wouldn’t mind going first. You were so cute when you were so tiny, I kinda wanna see you like that again. Oh, but just for like a second, and then I promise I’ll come right down there with you.”
Brian eyed Catherine for a moment and smiled.
“I hope you aren’t trying to trick me. But then, of course, I suppose even if you were, it wouldn’t be at all too bad. So, having said that, bottoms up.”
With that, Brian raised his glass as if in toast with himself and downed the liquid in one gulp. It was odorless and tasteless, like water but somehow smoother and much colder. As the liquid made its way down Brian’s throat, he cold feel its sensation all through out its body. The cold, tingling feeling slowly spread from his stomach throughout every area of his body. Suddenly when it felt as if his whole body were covered in cold, he began to tingle and he knew the process had begun.
He looked at Catherine, and somehow she all ready looked bigger, even though he had not yet begin to diminish in size. Catherine did not speak, she just beamed with excitement as Brian slowly began to shrink. Brian too remained silent, the sensation was too overwhelming for words. It all seemed to happen so much faster before, but now it felt as if he were going down, slowly, inch by inch. After a moment, his shirt began to swallow him, and his pants feel from his waist to his ankles. By now, Catherine was considerably taller. She stared down at him, shrinking smaller and smaller before her eyes. He gaze was locked on him and her smile never faded. Brian began to shrink smaller and smaller, though it seemed like it was taking an eternity. With each inch, he felt Catherine was farther and farther away. He took a step towards her. His feet were no longer big enough to keep his shoes on, even though they were still tied, he stepped right out of them. He got so tangled in his over sized sneakers, and pants that he fell flat on his face right at Catherine’s feet.
Catherine couldn’t help to giggle uncontrollably at this. It was just too cute. By the time Brian made it to his feet, he was hardly three feet tall. All of his clothes had all ready fallen from him except his t-shirt, which now swallowed him completely. He stood before Catherine looking like a little child ready for bed. She beamed and wanted to pick him up and kiss him all over, yet, she was still mesmerized by this show, she wanted to continue to watch him shrink.
Brian shrank. Smaller and smaller. Within a few moments, he tried to free himself from the enormous t-shirt, but it eventually fell from him. His body was big enough that it could fit through the neck of the shirt. By this time, Brian was barely twelve inches, and still shrinking. He was completely naked. Though this certainly wasn’t the first time he had been nude in front of Catherine, he felt for some reason that he should cover himself. He blushed when Catherine smiled at him. He restrained himself from covering his midsection with his own hands. It wasn’t so much the fact that he was without clothing, but rather the initial fact of being so tiny and helpless and at the mercy of this beautiful woman before him. Though, he knew Catherine would do nothing but love and adore him, the initial feeling of being that size is the most naked feeling in the world.
Eventually the shrinking stopped. He had no way of knowing, but if he had to guess, Brian thought that he was maybe about four inches tall. Catherine took a step toward him. With each footfall, the ground shook. Catherine was no more than three feet from Brian’s tiny body, but to Brian it was easily the distance of a football field between himself and Catherine’s enormous sneakers.
She stopped and stared at Brian forever. She didn’t say a word. She stood in front of the small table with Brian’s empty glass and her full glass.
“Well, little man, I’d love to play with you like this, but that could last all night. Besides, I just wanted to see you shrink. Now, it’s my turn.”
And then she raised her glass to her lips and finished the entire contents of the cup.

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When the shrinking stopped, Brian finally moved. He couldn’t see Catherine, only an enormous mound of her clothing. It seemed for some reason Catherine shrank much faster than Brian had. She had hardly had the chance to free herself from her clothes as she was dwindling down.
Brian ran, pushing his way through piles of blue jeans and t-shirts. He waded through a sea of cotton calling out her name.
He pushed his way past her jeans to a further pile of clothing. He looked about the best he could, but she was nowhere to be seen. Eventually he got to her sneakers. He climbed on the toe of her right sneaker and shouted her name. This time, he heard something in response. Brian scrambled his way to the top of Catherine’s shoe and looked inside.
Catherine was inside her own shoe, naked and slightly shivering. He peered over the edge, the walls of her shoe were too high for her to climb out, and him jumping in wouldn’t do much good either.
“Hang on dear, I’ll have you right out.”
Brian jumped off the shoe and landed on a soft pile of cotton socks. The fabric was slightly moist smelt strongly of musk and the vanilla lotion that Catherine uses on her legs and feet. Brian stopped for a moment to inhale the beautiful aroma of his love and then resumed his task.
He grabbed the shoe lace from the side of her shoe and with all his might he began to pull the shoe on it’s side. After a moment of pulling with all his might, Catherine leaned all of her weight onto one side of the shoe and it came tumbling over, Catherine rolling right out onto her socks.
Brian ran to her and fell to her side. The two embraced one another and without words began to passionately exchange kisses. Neither one spoke, they just laughed and kissed, embraced and rolled around in the sea of clothing. The world now took on a whole new perspective and a whole new meaning. They were both sharing something new and incredible. Now even the smallest, mundane things were great and awesome to them. Every touch was something more. Every look said a thousand words. The two were in a new world and neither dared to ruin this new, wonderful place with speaking, they simply just let everything speak for itself.

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The two were laying on a pile of clothing looking about their room, laughing, pointing, kissing. Then, suddenly, there was a sound at the door. It seemed as if someone were trying to enter. Whoever it was wasn’t knocking, they were just making their way inside. Just then, the both of them realized that in the heat of the moment, neither remembered to fasten the deadbolt on the door. The locks in the dorms were so old that anyone could get into your room if they jiggled hard enough on your handle. Almost immediately this pulled them from their joyous high back to that feeling of fear and nakedness. Whoever it was about to enter couldn’t find them like this. The two worked their way under Brian’s t-shirt and listened as best as they could. They both hoped that who ever might be at the door would just go away when they realize no one was around.
The door continued to wiggle and shake until eventually there was a loud click and the door knob turned. As the door opened, light flooded into the room revealing the tall, slender figure at the door. Neither one needed to see her face to know it was Alicia.
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After jiggling the door long enough, it finally opened. Alicia peered into the empty, dimly lit room. She took a step into the room, careful where she placed her feet, and softly closed the door. She looked about the room and smiled. She knew what was going on. She had just gotten back from softball practice and was still in her uniform, her cleats were slung over her shoulder. She had been on her way to her room, but decided to stop in on Catherine to see how things were going. She had intended to just sneak in and ‘borrow’ a pair of Catherine’s flip flops, but now she thought it’d be funny to mess with her a bit, if she could find them. She took her cleats from over her shoulder and let them fall to the floor with a thundering crash. As the cleats hit the floor, caked on mud and dirt broke lose and scattered about the area. The crash sent a sudden vibration and a pang of fear right through the two tiny captives hiding under the t-shirt on the floor.
“Catherine? Brian? You guys here?”
She spoke softly, but her voice carried throughout the room, right into Brian and Catherine’s tiny ears.
From under the cover of the shirt, Brian ‘s heart began to pound. He felt the need to hold his breath and remain as silent as possible. Catherine however was taken over by fury. She was nearly ready to storm out and take Alicia on, despite the size difference.
They could see Alicia’s dirty sock-clad feet taking steps toward them. Each step accompanied with a floor shaking crash.
Alicia walked to the table. She saw the two empty glasses and the pile of clothes on the floor. She knew they were here some where. She noticed Brian’s jeans next to her feet. She picked them up and gave them a shake. Only loose change fell to the floor. She let the pants drop and took another step, this time sending her foot right on top of Catherine’s shirt. She shook the shirt around with her foot but didn’t feel anything squirm under her foot, so she knew they weren’t there. She kicked the shirt out of her path.
With each step, Alicia got closer to them. No item of clothing in her way went unchecked. It was now only a matter of time before she would make her way to the shirt they were hiding under.
Brian and Catherine could see Alicia’s enormous feet right in front of them now. She was so close, they could literally smell her. Now only Brian’s shirt stood between them.
At first, Alicia raised her foot as if to step on the shirt. Then, she saw a tiny bit of movement coming from beneath the shirt, and she knew she had found at least one of them.
With her foot, Alicia swept the t-shirt aside, sending Catherine and Brian tumbling out from under its cover. An unpleasant odor followed the movement of her feet and seemed to remain within the air around them.
Alicia beamed down at the tiny people at her feet. A smile stretched from ear to ear and for once in her life, she could find nothing to say. Her goal originally was not to barge in on the two tiny lover, but now seeing them tiny and naked, her mind was over run with ideas.
Catherine had managed to bring herself to her feet and stood nearly toe to toe with Alicia. The air around Alicia’s feet was pungent, but Catherine hardly took notice. She was over come with rage, which worked to shadow her fear. Brian had been tangled in the shirt and was whisked away to the side with it as Alicia had kicked it away. He could only find the strength to prop himself up on his hand and gaze at Alicia’s towering form. He was over come with waves of fear and lust and found it nearly impossible to move. The last thing Brian wanted was to draw attention to himself.
Alicia could have probably guessed Catherine was firing off a string of insult directed to her, but it was impossible to see her tiny mouth moving much less hear anything she had to say. She slowly crouched down, and lowered her head closer to Catherine’s.
“You bitch! Get out NOW!”
Catherine stamped her foot and pointed to the door. She said much more than that, but that’s all Alicia bothered to listen to before raising back to her full height. When she stood back up, she ignored Catherine and her eyes began to search about the room. Suddenly her gaze was brought to Brian, who was slowly trying to crawl backwards toward the bed.
Alicia’s smile grew even larger.
“Well, well, well, what have we hear?”
This time, when Alicia spoke, she didn’t bother to soften her voice. It seemed to ring and carry throughout the room, thundering in their tiny ears. Ignoring Catherine completely, she took a step over her and did her best to place her foot as close to Brian as possible. If only she could have seen the look on his face as her massive foot was placed just inches from his body. She placed her other foot on the other side of Brian and stood for a moment with him between her feet. She turned and had a seat at Catherine’s computer chair, stretching her legs out as far as she could.
Brian remained on his back, but Catherine stood her ground. Alicia slid her foot right in front of Catherine, then tilted it back on its heel. Catherine stood in the shadow of Alicia’s foot. The bottom of her socks were stained black and the smell was absolutely horrid. It seemed as if she had never washed her practice socks. Either that, or she just didn’t wear cleats to practice. As Catherine’s rage gave into fear of what Alicia might do, she felt that she might throw up. The terrible stench didn’t help at all.
From the angle at which Alicia was sitting, she could only see her foot and not Catherine. Alicia lifted her foot in the air to reveal Catherine still standing. Because of the distance, Alicia was unable to tell that Catherine had turned white and looked as if she were ready to pass out.
Alicia placed her foot back in front of Catherine and slowly lowered her toes towards her until she could feel Catherine’s tiny body. Alicia just gave a slight nudge with her big toe, but it was enough to send Catherine down on her bottom. Not only were the bottoms of Alicia’s socks disgusting, but they were nearly soaked through with sweat. Alicia slid Catherine in closer to Brian with her foot so that they were both in the same spot between her legs. She then brought her feet in and leaned forward to look down at the two tiny people.
“So, you guys went right to it huh? I hope your having a good time.”
She paused for a moment and looked at Catherine.
“Sorry if I knocked you down, it was really hard to see where you were in front of my foot, I just thought you’d want to be closer to Brian.
“I just got off from softball practice and I wanted to stop in and see how you guys were doing. I hope you don’t mind Catherine if I borrow your red flip flops, that’s really what I came by for.”
She paused for a moment, then suddenly got a whiff of herself and made a sour face.
“Geez, I really stink. It must be pretty bad for you guys down there.”
She lifted her foot and held it over Brian. He quickly did his best to scramble out from underneath it.
Alicia giggled.
“Aww, come on, I just wanted you to tell me if my feet stink.”
She smiled at the two tiny people.
“Well, that is kinda gross. Sorry. Anyway, it’s rude for me to barge in like this, so I’ll be going.”
With that, Alicia stood up and took a step toward the closet. She opened the closet door and found the footwear she had originally been after. She held the flip flops up and looked to Catherine.
“See, these are the ones. I’ll be on my way now.”
She turned around and took another step towards the door. She picked up her cleats and slung them back over her shoulder, but then stopped. She turned back around to have another look at Brian and Catherine.
“You two be careful, it’s a big world out there. Oh, and next time, maybe you should fasten the latch.”
She smiled down at them for a moment, and turned toward the door, but did not take a step. She paused there for a moment and then slowly turned back to the two tiny people on the floor. A playful smile formed across her face.
She shook her head.
“No, this is too good to pass up. I think you guys should come with me.”
Before either of them could react, Alicia crouched down and snatched them both up with one quick motion. She adjusted the bodies in her grip so that they were both face up, then she wrapped her fingers around them.
She stood up and brought the two in front of her face.
“Well, I can’t just be walking about with two tiny people in my fist. That’s likely to draw some unwanted attention right?”
Both Brian and Catherine began to panic and struggle their hardest to free themselves from Alicia’s grip. This only added to Alicia’s amusement.
“Oh, I know just the place!”
Alicia’s face lit up.
“It’s a little degrading, and it might smell, but it’ll be worth it. I don’t have anything else to put you guys in.”
She set her two tiny captives down on top of a nearby shelf and removed her cleats from her shoulder and held them up to the two tiny people.
“Hmm, which one should go first?”
She used her index finger and pointed back and forth at the two, trying to decide.
“Well, the saying is ladies first.”
With her thumb and forefinger she plucked Catherine from the shelf. Her tiny body wiggled and squirmed to get free. Before dropping her into the shoe, she held her up to her ear for a moment to listen to her scream.
“I’m sorry Catherine, I’m having a hard time hearing you. Don’t worry, you’ll only be hear for a few minutes.”
She then dropped Catherine into her left softball cleat. Then she looked to Brian.
“Well, your next little man.”
She plucked Brian off of the shelf just as she had with Catherine. Only, Brian didn’t scream and he hardly squirmed. He seemed to have gone limp.
“Come on little man, you need to fight more than that.”
She dropped Brian into the right cleat. He fell for what might have been twelve feet to him until he hit the toe of the shoe. The fall had jostled him out of the daze he had been in and he scrambled about to get his bearing. Though, with the awkward angle of the way the shoe hung over Alicia’s shoulder, and the constant movement, it was nearly impossible to stand. The air inside the shoe was warm and horrid. Almost instantly Brian became nauseous after filling his lungs for the first time with Alicia’s musky foot odor. He could feel the impressions Alicia’s toes had made in the leather insoles of the cleat, the bottoms of which were still moist with her sweat.
Brian gave through to waves of fear and rage. Knowing that, at the moment, he was safe from Alicia’s cruelty, he found himself in a blind rage beating against the leather walls of the shoe, screaming insults and empty threats at the top of his lungs. It almost seemed like a nightmare. At the same time, he could not believe it was happening, and how he had gotten himself here. More than anything at this point, he just wanted a breathe of fresh air. He tried in various ways to climb to the top to get a breath, but each time he made any slight progress, he would be jostled back to the toe of the shoe.
Meanwhile, Alicia removed her filthy socks and replaced them with Catherine’s flip flops. The thought of having a tiny person in each of her shoes put butterflies in her stomach, but what excited her even more were all the possibilities of what she might do with them. She brought her socks to her face and took a slight whiff. The smell was awful, so awful that she had to laugh at what it must be like for Brian and Catherine inside her cleats.
“Well, I wouldn’t want you guys crawling out would I?”
She took one sock each, and stuffed it in the top of each cleat.
“The air might be a little stale, but you’ll live. It’s really not so bad.”
The sock not only added to the stench, but it eliminated any possible fresh air, making it even more difficult to breath. Each time Brian took a breath, and thought about what he was breathing, he wanted to puke.
“Well guys, looks like I’ll be watching out for you this weekend, so much for my original plans. You should both thank me.”
She giggled at the thought of it.
“Well, you’ll have plenty of chances to do that when we get to my room. You can both show me just how thankful you are.”
She turned off the lights, locked the door and stepped out into the hall and began towards her room.
Alicia did her best to hide her excitement and not run, though the desire to break out into full sprint to get into her room as quick as possible was great within her. In just a few short moments, Alicia was at her room. She left her door unlocked. She always did. No one wanted much to do with her anyway, she didn’t have much to worry about.
She softly stepped into her dark, quiet room. Alicia flipped the switch to turn on the lights. Her room mate had all ready gone for the night and Alicia had the room to herself, at least for the night.
She removed the cleats from over her shoulder using a little more force than was necessary. She imagined her tiny captives tumbling around inside of her shoes. She held the cleats up to eye level and gave them a good swing with her free hand just for the hell of it. There was a peg on the wall where Alicia would hang her softball mitt. She tossed the mitt on the ground and hung the cleats on the peg.
She removed the socks from the end of the cleats.
“Now, no more need for these filthy things.”
She tossed the socks on her floor with the rest of her laundry.
“I think if you guys try to climb out, you’ll find it a nasty fall. Besides, you guys don’t wanna go anywhere. Being so small, you might get stepped on if you aren’t careful.”
Alicia let out a childish giggle and tried to look inside the shoe to catch a glimpse of her tiny captives. However, it was nearly impossible to get a good look at them, from her angle all she saw was blackness.
“Well, you guys just hang tight. Alicia is going to go get a shower so I won’t smell so bad.”
She giggled and gave herself a sniff and made a sour face. She grabbed a towel from a peg on the back of the door and a small tote bag and left the room.
From inside the shoe, Brian did his best to get a stable footing. It was a difficult task considering each movement caused the shoe to swing more and more. Eventually he was able to reach the tongue of her shoe and pull it back just enough for a breeze of fresh air. There was no way he could escape this way, but the fresh air was enough for the moment. Brian hung one arm out of the small hole he had managed pry open. He struggled to find a secure footing so that maybe he could poke his head out from the dark, musky inside of the shoe.
The air inside Alicia’s room was nearly as stale as the air inside her cleats, however, it was a vast improvement from the overwhelmingly rancid odor of her shoes. As Brian managed to get his head closer to the crack, he could see Alicia’s other cleat. He knew Catherine was most likely curled up at the toe of the cleat, scared out of her mind. The thought of it slowly began to enrage Brian. He knew that Catherine and Alicia had their beefs with one another, but he could not understand how anyone could be so deceptive and cruel. Nor could he imagine any such action which would deserve such harsh retribution. He tried to reach out to the other shoe, knowing full well he was unable to reach it. He wanted to call out to Catherine and console her, but he couldn’t find the words. The ball was clearly in Alicia’s court and there was very little they could do other than hope her game ends soon, and they can make it out in one piece.
Inside the other cleat, Catherine, much like Brian had suspected, was curled up at the toe of her shoe. Her eyes red, and cheeks stained with tears. She no longer cried, she was beyond it. She was not crying from fear, rather rage. Each time she felt the indentions left by Alicia’s toes, or filled her lungs with the dank air from Alicia’s feet, she came to an all too real realization of her place; tiny, insignificant, and at the feet of her enemy. She knew that she could be disposed of with one step, and that if she did live through this, it would be at the mercy of Alicia, and that is something Catherine would have to deal with for the rest of her life, how ever long Alicia decides it will be.
This series of thoughts ran through her mind with each breath, though she was unable to do anything. Screaming, crying, shouting empty threats and beating her fists against the walls of her shoe-prison would do no good. She would have to face Alicia and somehow survive.
Brian just hung from the opening in the cleat, swinging hopelessly, awaiting Alicia’s return soon, wondering what she would do with them. He heard the sound of the doorknob being rattled and turned. As quickly as he could, Brian withdrew himself and fell to the bottom of the shoe. He certainly did not want to draw any unwanted attention to himself. Alicia had obviously forgotten something, and had come back. It was certainly not enough time for her to shower. The door closed, and Brian could not tell if she was still in the room. He held his breath as if expecting at any moment for Alicia to come check in on him.
Brian could hear her rummaging about the room, but she never came near the shoes. She must have been using anticipation as a method of torture.
A moment later, Brian heard the door open a second time.
Alicia walked back into the room, her towel still slung across her shoulder, still very dry. Upon entering her room, she was quit surprised to see her roommate Katie in the room, rummaging about the place looking for something.
“Hey, what are you doing here? I thought you’d all ready left for the night.”
Katie looked up from her search and saw Alicia standing in the doorway, still dressed in her practice clothes, towel over her shoulder.
“Well, I’m late, but I forgot my tickets. I can’t seem to remember where I put them.”
Katie looked at Alicia for a moment before continuing her search.
“Decided not to shower?”
Alicia looked about the room, trying not to seem anxious, yet wondering what she could do to hurry the search along.
“Well, the showers are being cleaned, and there are all ready people lining up for them. So, I decided to wait it out a bit. What tickets are you looking for anyway?”
Katie looked up at Alicia for a second.
“I didn’t tell you? The Mars Volta is playing at Tipitina’s tonight. Greg gave me the tickets the other day to hold on to them and I can’t remember what I did with them.”
From inside the shoe, the sound of Katie’s voice gave Brian and Catherine great hope. Brian thought, just maybe if he could wedge himself out of the shoe enough, he could draw her attention and she would help them. Brian tried to regain his position to wedge himself out, but in his excitement, he just slipped and fell, causing the shoe to swing back and forth harder and harder each time he moved.
Katie was occupied with her search, but the movement caught Alicia’s eye. Alicia casually walked to the peg with the sneakers and draped her towel over it.
Suddenly as if a light bulb had gone off inside her head, Alicia remembered seeing the tickets.
“Wait! I remember, you had them in a white envelope! Top drawer by the TV.”
Alicia eagerly skipped to the drawer and happily produced the envelope. Katie checked its contents, and the tickets were all there.
“Geez, I can’t believe I forgot that.”
She eyed Alicia suspiciously.
“You’re being awfully happy for some reason, what’s gotten into you?”
“Well, nothing…yet.”
With that, Alicia couldn’t help but to smile a bit.
“I guess I am just having one of those days.”
Katie still looked at her with a suspicious stare.
“Well, it’s a nice change.”
Katie walked towards the door.
“I’d like to stick around, but I’m late as it is. Anyway, thanks for the help.”
She opened the door to step out into the hall and turned back to Alicia, who was headed towards her towel which was draped over her cleats. Alicia, noticing Katie was watching her, stopped short and tried to act naturally.
“I just remembered, we have an extra ticket, wanna come?”
Alicia looked at the cleats for a second and then back at Katie.
“I don’t know… I kinda had plans tonight. But, you know, I was such a fan of At the Drive In.”
Alicia looked back at the cleats hanging on their peg and smiled.
“Yeah, count me in! I’d love to.”
Katie smiled.
“Great, the more the merrier. We’re going to leave now and hang out before the show, but I’ll just leave a ticket here, and you can meet us there at 9:00.”
Katie handed Alicia a ticket and tried to take one last glimpse at the room, half expecting to find something that Alicia may have been hiding. Not noticing anything, she turned back and walked out.
Alicia quickly closed the door and let out a long sigh. This time, she locked the door.
She walked towards the cleats and threw the towel on the floor. She removed the cleats from the peg by the strings and let them dangle from her fingertips at eye level. All Alicia could do was smile.
She began to walk towards her bed. Smiling and whistling, she slung the cleats around in full circle three times. The forces was strong enough to keep their hostages pined to the hard rubber soles while making them very sick. When she got to the bed, she stopped swinging and let the shoes dangle for a moment before letting them slip from her fingers and fall to the bed. Though the bed was soft, the fall was considerably hard on the tiny people inside the shoes. Brian and Catherine bounced from side to side off the leather walls of their prison and ultimately rolled back down into the toe of the cleats.
Alicia looked down into one of the cleats and saw Catherine laying limp inside the oval impression left from her heel. Alicia smiled as she reached into the shoe with two fingers. Before Catherine could tell what was going on, she found herself pinched between Alicia’s thumb and forefinger, quickly being pulled from inside the cleat. As if suddenly revived, Catherine struggled, kicked and screamed. She tried, in vain, to budge Alicia’s thumb from her chest. Though, with each moment, Alicia applied a little bit more pressure until it got so that Catherine was afraid that she might snap in half between Alicia’s fingers. Eventually, Catherine just gave up.
Alicia brought Catherine up to eye level and smiled.
“I think we’re going to have a lot of fun if you can stay that feisty.”
Alicia licked her lips while holding Catherine between her fingers.
“We’re going to have a lot of fun.”
Alicia reached from the nearby bed stand and picked up an empty drinking glass. She held Catherine above it and let her dangle for a second. Then she opened her fingers and let her fall into the bottom of the glass.
Catherine fell to the bottom of the glass with a crash. She didn’t bother to get up. The bottom of the glass was sticky and all she could see from any angle was the tan skin of the underside of Alicia’s hand pressed around it.
Alicia set the glass back down on the night stand and tapped on the glass with her fingernail.
“Don’t go anywhere now.”
Meanwhile, Brian was doing his best to crawl the length of Alicia’s shoe, so that maybe he could climb out at the heel. Just as he had begun his journey, Alicia picked up the shoe and tilted it so that Brian rolled the length of her shoe, falling right out into the palm of Alicia’s hand. She closed her fingers around his body, forming a fist with Brian’s head and shoulders sticking out of the top.
She brought Brian to eye level and gave him a sexy look.
“Well, this is just how I like my men, right in the palm of my hand.”
She gave Brian a tiny lick on his face.
Alicia’s warm tongue left a trail of saliva across his face, which he could not wipe off. He might have noticed Alicia’s breath had his sense of smell not been so heavily damaged from spending the last hour captive in Alicia’s foul smelling cleats. She giggled and winked at Brian, then dropped him suddenly into a clear plastic cube which she placed on the bed stand next to Catherine.
Brian and Catherine both rushed to seeing one another, palms pressed to the glass of their respective chambers. They saw one another for the first time since their initial shrinking, and each was filled with pity for the other, and rage toward their situation. Brian could see Catherine’s scared face and tear stained cheeks and wanted to do anything to free her from this situation. Then Catherine mouthed the words “I love you.”
This sent Brian into rage, knowing full well he was unable to do anything, he began to kick and thrash at the walls of his prison.
Alicia just looked at his and laughed. She placed her hand on top of the cube and gave it a little shake to send him off his balance.
“Calm down little man, you’ll both be out soon enough.”
Alicia crouched down to look at both specimens more carefully.
“But first, we need to have play time.”
She ran her tongue across her lips and she looked back and forth.
“You both look so yummy, I’m not sure which I’ll have first…”