I hear the sound of a pen fall down from behind me and rattle onto the floor in front of me. I was in advanced biology in the lecture hall. I glance behind me to see a gorgeous girl tapping on my shoulder.  

“excuse me.” She whispered. “Can you grab my pen for me?”  

She was absolutely stunning. Blonde hair, full figure, with tan and smooth skin. I try to stop thinking about her and more importantly stop staring at her and grab the pen.  

I grab it and hand it back to her. As she grabs it, her finger brushes against me and I feel butterflies in my stomach. I hate it. I hate that one pretty girl barely acknowledges my existence and all of the sudden, my monkey brain falls in love.  

The lectures went on and on. Every week. Always boring, and always unable to pay attention with the girl sitting behind me. I thought it would be easy to forget about that one time incident, but it turned out to not be a one time incident. I don’t know if it’s true about the dumb clumsy blonde, but she kept dropping her pen throughout the semester. No matter where it landed, she would tell me to grab it. If it would land in someone’s bag, or by someone’s feet, she would tell me to grab it and it was always awkward. Why didn’t she tell them to grab it for her?  

Whatever her reason, my money brain couldn’t help but enjoy even the little bit of interaction I had with her.  

“Now for the biggest part of your grade. A group project.” Most of the auditorium erupts is sighs. “everyone find your groups of two or three.” 

Fuck. I hate group projects and I don’t know anyone in this class. This is always so awkward. Maybe I can just do it by myself. Maybe I’ll just say my partner dropped the class and that’s why I’m working by myself.  

Suddenly a pen falls down and rattle on the ground in front of me. I instinctively grab it and turn around.  

The gorgeous girl smiles, “thanks!” 

I start to turn back around, but then I hear her again.  

“Hey, umm…” the girl says. “John, right?”  

My heart accelerates and I nervously turn back towards her. How does she know my name? 

“y-yes?” I say.  

“Oh, sorry. I saw your name on your notebook. Sorry if that’s creepy.” The girl says.  

“Oh no, it’s okay.” I reply.  

“Would you like to be my partner?” She asks sweetly. There is a pause as your brain can’t comprehend such a beautiful girl talking to you. “I’m Juliet by the way.” 

I stuttered and tried to find my words. "Uh... Uh... yeah! Yes, I'd love to be your partner… Group project partner, that is…" 

She smiles and exchanges contact information with me.  

Once her and I started working together, things were great, and we worked really well together. I didn’t really understand what we were doing most of the time. I was smart, but all of the calculations and analysis she was doing was way out of my league. She was leading the way, and I was following her lead. Or… sometimes it was almost felt like she was leading the way, and I was following her orders.   

I’ve always been a bit of a pushover and I sure as hell couldn’t help myself with Juliet. She was gorgeous and way out of my league and I knew I didn’t have a chance with her in a million years, but my stupid monkey brain would jump on the opportunity to do whatever she says.  

It was odd when one day she asked me to grab something for her, and I sprang up to grab it and hand it to her, only for her to say, "Good boy" casually. It felt weird, but I tried to think it was nothing more than a strange choice of words, until she did it again. And another time after that. 

We would always work in her apartment. She had a roommate but I haven’t seen her yet. It’s just been me and her. Alone. Which always had my heart racing. 

We would sit on opposite ends of the couch with plenty of room for Jesus between us.  

Juliet turned towards me and put her feet up on the couch, in the space between us.   

“Can you fetch me some water” Juliet asks while looking down at her phone.  

“Sure!” I say with some enthusiasm.  

I return with the water and place it on the coffee table in front of her. She is still on her phone and doesn’t acknowledge my good deed. I go to sit back on my end of the couch, but she has slightly extended her legs, not giving me much room to sit. Regardless, I squeeze to the end of the couch and avoid touching her feet, which are now nearly pressed up against me.  

Juliet glances up from her phone to see you pushed all the way to the other side, “Aww sorry to steal your spot.” She then instead puts her feet onto my lap. “There we go. Now we can share your spot.” She says with a smile.  

Her feet looked perfectly pedicured with vibrant blue nail polish. Her soft feet rested on my lap and I was frozen, unaware what to do. I wasn’t into feet, but I could easily say that they were gorgeous, just like the rest of her. She wiggled her toes and just kept looking at her phone. 

“Oh, you got my water for me!” She exclaimed. “Good boy.” She said while petting my arm with her foot.  

Confused and concerned I stand up and stuttered out, "Um... I'm not... like a dog, you know. You don't have to call me 'good boy' or anything like that." 

She laughed. "Oh, silly. Of course, you're not a dog," she said while using her hand to mess up my hair and then patting me on the head. "I'm just showing my appreciation." 

"A thanks is fine," I stammered out. 

"Aww, I'm sorry. Did I make you uncomfortable?" She asked kindly yet somewhat condescendingly. 

"Uh, no, it's fine. I shouldn't have said anything," I said back. 

Then she dropped her pen, and it landed by her bare feet. I instinctively went down and grabbed it between her feet. 

"Wow, I don't even have to tell you what to do anymore," she said quietly. 

Confused, I asked what she was talking about. 

She smiled and replied, "Oh, it's just that you’re starting to do things without me even asking now. I wonder what extent you'll go to if I do ask." She raised her bare foot and hovered her toes in front of my mouth. "Kiss," she demanded. 

I jolted backward into the armrest of the couch. "What? No." 

"Do it," she said softly. 

"No," I said as I stood up and backed away. 

"Jeez, I was just messing around. You don't have to get so serious about it," she said. "But I kinda thought you would do it. I just got a pedicure, and they are looking hot. My toes, that is. Do you not like my feet?" she asked. 

"I don't like feet. I don't know if I seem like that kind of guy, or what you think I'm here for. I'm here for the class project, and I'm not sure if you only picked me as your partner so you can mess with me and make fun of me and show me off as some sort of freak to your friends, but I am not having it." 

"Aww, John... I'm so sorry. I'm not here for anything like that. I'm not trying to mess with you," she reassured me. "It was a dumb joke. I'm sorry. Come here, sit." 

I hesitantly sit back down on the couch next to her.  

She says, “I’m here to get an A+ on this project and I sit behind you in class and always see you taking good notes, and I thought we would make a good team. You haven't even gotten to see what all of this work we’ve been doing is going to turn out to be. Do you want to see?”  

I shake off the bad feeling and come back to reality. She’s not out to get me. She is just trying to complete a group project. Nothing more.  

“Sure.” I say. “Let me see it.”  

“Okay, this is going to BLOW your MIND.” She says excitedly. “Here. Slide that chair over here.” 

 I slide the chair over next to her and sit down in it.  

“... I just need the chair.” She laughs.  

“Oh...” I bounce out of the chair and back onto the couch. “Of course, sorry.”  

“It’s okay sweetie, now watch this.” She says.  

I stumble on her calling me sweetie, but before I can even think about it, I watch the chair disappear before my eyes.  

“Holy shit.” I say under my breath. “You just... incinerated that chair. With the app we’ve been making on your phone?”  

Juliet laughs, “No, I did not ‘incinerate’ the chair.” She bends down and picks up a tiny object off the ground from between her pedicured feet and holds up a tiny chair.  

I am speechless.  

“Eh?? Pretty neat, huh?” She says casually, like she didn’t just invent life changing technology.  

“We are... totally getting an A...” I say softly.  

“Currently, yeah.” She says. “But I want an A+. And I know exactly what we can do.”  

“Oh yeah?” I say curiously.  

“Yeah! We need to use it on a human subject!” She exclaims with a big smile, a smile which I don’t share.  

“Where are we gonna find a human sub...” I start saying as I’m interrupted by her putting her hands on my lap and giving me the ‘puppy dog eyes’.  

“No. No, no, no, no and no.” I say.  

“Oh, come on. You don’t have to be such a party pooper. I want a good grade on this, and I know you do too...” she starts to say.  

I interrupt her this time, “We don’t need to shrink me to do that!”  

“This is bigger than just a grade. I came up with this, and if you want to continue being my copartner for this project, you’re going to need to do your part.”  

“I can do other parts!” I exclaim.  

“You can be the Neil Armstrong of shrinking. Think about it.” she tells me. “Kids will learn about you in their textbook as the first person to shrink. One tiny step for man… one giant leap for mankind…” 

I stop for a second and think.  

“Please...” She asks softly. “I’ve actually been working on this for a really long time. Way before this project, and I know for a fact it's safe. Here, try to break this tiny chair.” She hands it to me, and I hold it in my hand.  

Even using both hands, I can't feel the chair budge at all. “Damn. It is strong.”  

“See?” she smiles, “Now let's try it on you!”  

“Right now?!” I say nervously. “Come on. It’ll be fun. Here, let me just set up this camera so we can record it.” She pops up and grabs a camera and a tripod. 

I hesitated. "Wait, I'm really not ready," 

"Oh, come on. Don't be such a baby about it. You trust me, right?" She said sweetly. 

In my head, I wanted to say no, but I didn't have the heart to tell her that I didn't trust her. So I told her that I trusted her, but not to that extent. She took both of my hands softly and looked into my eyes. 

"Please, John? Do it for me?" She pleaded. 

"Um... Okay. Fine," I said, with a sour feeling in my stomach. 

"You'll do it?" she asked. 

"I'll do it," I sighed. 

Juliette looked into the camera, "And that's verbal consent. John has agreed to shrinking and will continue having full control of his decisions. All actions and choices are his own." She held up her phone and pressed the button in her app to shrink me. 

I tried to think about what she meant by what she was saying before she hit the button, but my mind and my world went completely blank. 

Suddenly, I was huddled up into a ball, standing between two perfectly pedicured feet. My eyes were still glued shut, but my body felt completely normal again, except for a feeling in my gut telling me that I had made a horrible mistake. 

I opened my eyes and my vision was filled with a whole new world. A new world that didn't make any sense. A world that no human had ever experienced. I saw this vast landscape with towering landmarks scattered throughout. I looked at what seemed like a redwood tree that had exploded past its already ridiculous size into a ginormous new beast of a tree. In the back of my head, I knew it was just the leg of a table, but my mind refused to grasp that as reality. 

As I turned my head, I saw a fleshy wall that sprouted from the ground and into the stratosphere. I jolted back and turned around just to see another one behind me. I slowly accepted the fact that those two mountains were just Juliet's bare feet. I cranked my neck higher and looked up her long, smooth legs, up to her short shorts, up to her belly button showing beneath her shirt, and continued looking up as my neck started to hurt. I looked past the form of her breasts through her light t-shirt and up to her smiling down at me.  

Without a word, I saw her body shift. She leaned her weight to one side and slowly raised one of her legs. I glanced to the left to see her right foot slowly taking off from the ground, like a giant spacecraft being propelled into the air against all logic and gravity. An object that large shouldn't be able to fly, yet it did. It lifted off the ground and into the air. It seemed like it should be a million pounds, but it looked weightless as it ascended. I saw the bare sole of the gorgeous girl as she raised her foot above me. It looked like a gigantic building dangling above. I felt this sense of dread that whatever was holding this enormous building above me wasn't strong enough and that it might just snap and collapse . As I thought that, I saw the foot start descending towards me. Through this whole process, I was frozen in place. I couldn't speak, I couldn't run. The fear had taken over. 

The foot rushed down towards me and I flinched into a ball, expecting to get crushed into nothingness. Instead, nothing happened. I looked up and saw the foot slowly descending like an angel coming down from heaven. Something about it’s size moving so effortlessly seems angelic and soothing. The toes of the massive foot point towards me as it approaches. Everything but the big toe leaves my field of view as the single toe consumes my entire vision. It pauses an arm's reach away. From the sky, the world rumbles. 

“Kiss.” 

I lean forward and pucker my lips. 

There is jingling of keys coming from the front door as someone enters the room. 

“Tori! You’re home already?” Juliet yells out. 

The big toe retreats back as the foot is kicked back and back into place. The ground shakes as her foot reconnects with the ground. I am left confused with my lips still puckered. My gaze moves to enormous door which swung open revealing another enormous woman, but this one seemingly miles away. 

“He was about to kiss my toe!” Juliet sighs. 

‘I was about to what?’ I think to myself and realize my lips are still puckered. Reality slowly sinks back in. 

“Oh my god. Did you actually find some loser to do it for you?” Tori laughs, “I really didn’t think anyone was stupid enough.” 

‘… I’m… I’m… tiny.’ I say to myself. 

“Yeah.” Juliet laughs. “It’s that nerd from class. John. The one I always make pick up my pen.” 

Juliet steps away from my tiny form and walks towards her roommate. Again, I’m mesmerized by the movements of the Goliath feet that trample their way through this unfamiliarly familiar terrain. 

“Yeah! That guy!” Tori says. “If anyone was going to agree to it, it would be him, wouldn’t it.” She laughed. 

“Apparently he doesn’t like feet though, so we did have that wrong.” Juliet says. 

Tori looks confused, “But I thought you said he was about to kiss your toe?” 

“Yeah exactly!” Juliet says excitedly. “My hypothesis was totally correct. I asked him to kiss my toes when he was normal sized and he made this whole big deal about it and said no and that he doesn’t like feet and was about to leave.” 

“Maybe he was lying though” Tori says. 

“I had these puppies freshly pedicured and hovering in front of his face and he didn’t even take a lil nibble.” Juliet says. 

Tori scoffs, “I don’t think your feet are that amazing that someone is just going to drop to their knees and start kissing... Mine might be though.” They both started laughing. 

“So can I meet this tiny boy?” Tori asks.  

“Of course!” Juliet says. “Oh shoot, we need to give him his collar.” 

My what? 

“No way. You made a collar for the little guy?” Tori laughs.  

“Not just any collar. It’s so we can keep track of him and also so he can communicate with us.” Juliet says while digging through a bin and pulling out a metal collar.  

She puts it on the table and uses her app to shrink it to my size. 

“I should have put this on him before we shrunk him… I totally forgot, I was just too excited.” Juliet smiles.  

“I get it girl, I would be too.” Tori says.  

“Watch your step. I don’t remember where he is and he’s REALLY small. Like smaller than a grain of rice.” Juliet says.  

“Of course.” Tori says with an evil smile. “I’ll watch my step very carefully.” 

The world around me shakes as the two enormous beasts start walking towards me. Each step causes earthquakes greater than I’ve ever experienced in my life in California. And all that caused it were smaller than average college girls gently walking through their apartment. I see one of the giants look directly at me. This giant has dark wavy hair and her toenails painted black. My eyes locked onto her feet which looked like they were aiming for me. Her eyes looked into mine and a smile stretched across her face. She stepped in slow motion as her foot raised directly above me. A shadow consumed my world as the giant wall of flesh quickly approached me. The foot filled more and more of my vision until that’s all I could see; it kept coming until I saw every detail in her sole. Every wrinkle, every imperfection. Every piece of dirt and every crumb. Suddenly is hits me mm… with a force I’ve never known could be felt. Immense pressure covers me until I feel like I’m about to burst. More and more pressure builds until finally it ends.  

Am I dead? Where am I? 

I can’t see anything, but that’s because I’m glued to the bottom of the girls foot.  

“Oops!” Tori says.  

“What is it!?” Juliet says as she dashes over.  

“Is this John?” Tori says while pointing to her foot.  

They both broke out into laughter. 

“Tori! That’s bad. I told you to watch your step.” Juliet says as she slaps Tori in the arm.  

Tori is laughing so hard she can barely speak, “I did... I watched my step go directly into the little guy. Sorry John. It couldn’t help myself.” 

Juliet plucks me off of Tori’s foot and drops me onto the coffee table. A few feet away I see the metal collar.  

“Put the collar on if you want to be able to talk to us.” Juliet says.  

I walk over to it. It is a heavy-duty collar that looks like it locks once you put it on. I kick it away. I don’t trust it. I don’t trust any of this. I need to get out of here. I make a run for it, but no matter what direction I go, a giant finger rains down from above and nudges me back towards the collar.  

“Come on. Don’t you want to talk to us?” Juliet says.  

“He’s probably not used to talking to pretty girls like us.” Tori smiles.  

I don’t know what else that collar is capable of. I know she said it can track me and that could be good, so they don’t lose me. But at the same time, I don’t know if the real reason is so I don’t escape.  

You glance over towards the blonde giantess. She slowly opens her mouth to speak and you all the saliva in her mouth and all of her enormous teeth that can individually devour you.   

“Put it on.” She demands in a harsh tone. 

Against all logic, you obey and put the collar on. It locks around your neck tightly. 

“Speak” The voice demands.  

“H-h-hello.” You squeak out softly. 

“Aww...” The two girls gush out in unison. 

“Sweetie... I am so sorry about Tori.” Juliet says. “She wasn’t supposed to be home this early.” 

Tori replies, “Yeah... I really didn’t mean to step on you. I mean I did mean to step on you, but like... I didn’t mean to want to step on you so bad. You’re just so pathetic and helpless, I really just had to.” 

“Tori, stop!” Juliet yells out. “Be nice to the little guy! He’s amazing and he is helping me out with my project, which you would never do.” 

“Because I'm not an idiot.” Tori blurts out. “No way I would trust your sadistic ass.” 

“I am not sadistic. I am nice.” Juliet says. “Right John?” 

I had been watching the two girls speak but hadn’t taken in a word. Just watching their enormous jaws go up and down with their tongues bouncing around in their saliva, I was too mesmerized by the movements to take in the words.  

“John?” Juliet says again, snapping me back into reality. 

“H-h-hello.” I say again. 

“Let’s work on our project, I have questions to ask you now that you’ve shrunk. Is that okay?” She asks nicely.  

“O-okay.” I reply softly.  

“Question one. Do you know how small you are?” Juliet asks with a pen and notepad in hand. 

“I’m... really small...” I reply with my voice quivering. 

“Yes sweetie, you’re very small. How small would you guess?” 

“Under an inch?” I say.  

“Yep, my guess is a quarter of an inch.” Juliet says. She gets a ruler out and places it beside you. The ruler absolutely towers over you. “Almost exactly! And... How do you feel?” 

I stammer out, “Small.” After being dwarfed by a ruler.  

“Aww, yes. I know you feel small sweetie. Any headaches, nausea, or pain throughout your body?” Juliet asks 

Tori chimes in, “Alright. This is boring, I’m turning on Netflix.” 

Tori turns the TV on and I turn around to see the huge screen light up. It’s like I’m at a drive-in movie theatre where the big screen is at the other end of the Grand Canyon. It looks absolutely stunning, and I still struggle to grasp the size of everything.  

As I’m distracted by the huge tv, I am surprised when one, and then two, enormous guests join me on the coffee table. My world shakes even more than when I was on the floor when Tori slams her bare feet onto the coffee table. I can't help but be absolutely stunned by the size of every new object that I see. I know I saw her feet before, but now that they are upright, right next to me, I get to be stunned by their size again. She rests one foot atop the other. Her black nail polish glistens at the top of each of the ten mountain peaks.  

“John?” Juliet asks again. 

“...w-what?” I reply. 

“Any headaches, nausea, or pain?” Juliet says again. 

“No.” I say. 

“Okay great!” Juliet smiles while jotting down notes. “How would you describe being so small?” 

“Umm, I don’t know. I don’t like it.” I speak. 

“Okay...” Juliet says while scribbling down my words, “Does it feel more like everything around you grew, or does it feel like you shrunk around everything?” 

“It’s like... Everything grew. And my brain is really struggling to grasp it.” 

“Yeah. That’s what I expected.” Juliet said while putting her notebook down and looking directly at me. “And what don’t you like about it?” 

“I feel powerless...” I say softly. “And scared.” 

“Aww I'm sorry sweetie. Those are valid feelings. You are very much powerless, and you should be scared.” Juliet says with a comforting tone that contradicted with her harsh words.  

My heart started to race faster. “W-w-what do you m-mean?” I say with a shaky voice. 

“No need to sugar coat it. You are completely powerless, helpless even.” Juliet said in a serious tone. “I understand why you’re scared. You are at the mercy of two college girls.” 

My legs tremble to the point where they give, and I fall to my knees.  

“Damn Jules!” Tori chimed in. “Tell him how it is! We can do whatever we want with you bitch!” 

“Tori, stop!” Juliet stops her. “I’m not trying to scare him. I’m just saying his feelings are valid. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do?” 

“I think you did it wrong, look at him. He’s basically crying now.” Tori says. 

“Aww John, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it like that. You can trust me. Okay?” Juliet says.  

I look down at my tiny hands which are shaking from fear. What do I do? How do I get out of this horrid situation? 

“Turn me back.” I say softly. 

“What was that sweetie?” Juliet asks calmly.  

“Turn me back.” I say with more force this time.  

“Aww sweetie. We barely just started. You’ll get used to it after a few weeks, I’m sure of it.” Juliet says. 

“Weeks?” I say harshly. 

“Come on, we have work to do remember?” Juliet says. 

“No. I’m not being your gunnie pig anymore. I’m done.” I say. 

Juliet smiles, “You haven’t even started being my gunnie pig.” 

“Turn me back.” I demand.  

“The sooner we work on the project the sooner we will be done with it.” Juliet says. 

“I’m not doing it.” I say. 

“Fine.” Juliet says while closing the app she was using to communicate with you. “We can do it later then.” 

Juliet leans back into the couch, you scream to get her to turn you back, but she can’t hear you anymore. You see her slowly kicking up one of her feet onto the coffee table.  

As I lay there, my tiny body trembling with fear, Juliet's enormous feet land on the coffee table with a thud. I could feel the vibrations ripple through my entire body, and I struggle to maintain my balance on the smooth surface. As the second foot lands, I am tossed about like a ragdoll by the force of her movement. 

As the shaking subsides, I find myself staring up at the soles of Juliet's feet, which are now just a few inches from my face, tilting forward like a giant canopy shading me from the rest of the world. The skin is soft and supple, with a faint sheen of sweat glistening in the light. I can see every wrinkle and crease, every pore, in perfect detail. 

The scent of her feet wafts over me, warm and musky, with a hint of something sweet and floral. It's overwhelming, intoxicating, and I can't help but inhale deeply to catch my breathe, relishing in the heady aroma. 

I am acutely aware of every movement, every flex of her toes and arch, as she wriggles her feet into a comfortable position. I feel the heat radiating off of her skin, warming me from head to toe.