Arthur now stood a mere two feet nine inches tall. His size had been on the decline for more than two weeks now, but even so, he never imagined he would get so small.

What if he continued to shrink?

Would he have to rely on Beth and Marie to look after him? The thought was a sobering one as he had already begun to notice their different reactions to his getting smaller and smaller. There was definitely a connection
between his shrinking size and their gradual loss of interest. At first they seemed amused, but now that the surprise had worn off, they seemed to carry on with every day life as if nothing all that out of the ordinary was happening. At least that was the case with Beth. Marie was another story and was getting to be more of a cause for concern.

Arthur remembered the initial impression that Marie had left with him…a kind and gentle woman. His perception had certainly changed in the last week. That’s not to say she was evil since she was certainly not. None of the women who had recently taken advantage of him were people he considered evil. They just had no previous experience with a fully grown man standing less than half their height.

Perfectly normal reaction he reasoned. Them teasing him, laughing at him, forcing him to do things sometimes against his will…it was only human. He would be capable of committing the same acts if the situation was reversed. Arthur had to continue to remind himself of these facts.

Arthur wandered into the kitchen, having changed into his custom fit clothes the same way he did every single day. Across the room and leaning on the counter was the statuesque, Marie, bigger than life. Arthur stared at her as he did every morning, trying to fathom the difference in their sizes. He stood there as she strode past him, putting breakfast on the table, noting that his head rose no higher than about the half way point of her ample thighs. Arthur glanced around the room. Chairs were now too tall for him to merely sit in. He would have to climb onto them if he wanted to sit properly and even then there didn’t seem much of point since he still couldn’t sit level with the table.

No, Arthur had taken to staying on the floor, making his dwindling size all the tougher to ignore as legs, the width of trees, moved freely past him, coming and going
through the kitchen.

Arthur turned to see Beth enter the kitchen, tired and still wearing an armless undershirt and baby blue underwear that rode up her butt just a bit.

“What time do you think you’ll be home tonight, dear?” Marie asked Beth, whose massive legs stumbled passed Arthur.

“Five or so” Beth said, yawning widely. She stooped to rub the top of Arthur’s head. “How’d you sleep little guy?” she asked then plunked herself down on a chair at the table, not bothering to wait for an answer.
Arthur stood near the table leg, staring upwards at Beth who had taken to staring at her plate of food.

“Good, because I wanted to take him down the street to a friends house”

Beth nodded silently, starting to eat her toast. Arthur stared at her bare leg and reached out to touch it, tapping it lightly in hopes that she’d see him.

A moment later Beth’s face peered down at Arthur over the rim of the table, seeing him on the floor without any food.

“Mom, he’s got to eat too”

Marie, suddenly seeing the little man on the floor, tittered to herself from across the kitchen.

“Oh, I’m sorry Mr. Spence”, she said, “Come have a piece of toast”

Marie held out a plate to him, as if for a second forgetting that he couldn’t reach it given her height.

“Oops” she said, putting down the plate and grabbing Arthur beneath his arms, lifting him into the air and over her shoulder like a baby.

“Honey” she said to Beth, “Do we still have that booster chair?”

Beth nodded.

“It’s in the closet. I’ll get it”

Arthur swallowed to himself, dreading having to sit in a booster chair.

“Actually, I can go without breakfast. It’s okay” said Arthur, not wanting to be carried.

“You have to eat, Mr. Spence. You’re not going to college without some food in your stomach”

The room began to spin and Arthur found himself hoisted into the air, off Marie’s shoulder until his feet dangled freely in the air. His eyes met Marie’s as she easily held him at arms length, smiling as she lowered him into the booster chair that Beth had brought from down the hall.

Marie leaned back into her chair, grinning at Arthur in the booster chair.

“It’s just like having a baby in the house, isn’t it?”

Arthur noticed a trace of concern in Beth’s eyes.

“Mom, do you think he’s getting too small for school?”

“Why? Has there been trouble there?”

“No”, said Beth, “I just don’t want him getting hurt”

“He’ll be fine, dear” Marie said. “Just make sure he’s home by five, okay?”

Noticing that Arthur hadn’t started on his toast, Marie grabbed a piece in her hands and started floating it towards Arthur’s face.

“Here comes the choo choo”

Beth stood opposite Arthur just outside the doors to the college, talking to a fellow female student, Bonnie. Arthur couldn’t help but notice that Bonnie would occasionally sneak a glance down at him, as she talked with Beth. Arthur stood there, having little choice but to wait for Beth to finish the conversation, hoping that she could escort him down the hallway.

Arthur stared up at Beth, hoping to get her attention, staring up past her tall legs and upper body that seemed about as big as a tree.

“Anyway, I should be going” Beth said to her friend. “Gotta get Mr. Spence to his class”

Beth winked to her friend and her friend giggled, as if sharing a joke. Both girls stared down at the small man hovering just below their waists.

“All set Mr. Spence?”

Arthur nodded. Beth lowered her giant hand down to him.

“Take my hand then” she said.

“It’s okay, Beth” said Arthur, not ready for this additional
embarrassment.

“Afraid it’s not okay, little guy” she laughed, half to her friend, “It’s for your own good”

Arthur thought briefly of resisting her offer, but foresaw the embarrassment that would no doubt appear as Beth would undoubtedly take his hand anyway, whether he resisted her or not. Resistance, he thought, was more and more useless. Instead of a small child, gradually growing in size, more and more able to resist a parent, he was shrinking in size, less and less able to resist the wishes of the giant people around him.

Arthur reached up and put his small hand within Beth’s giant grasp, noting that the sight of this appeared to delight Beth’s giant friend, who watched with intense fascination.

The same gesture would have completely insulted him mere days ago, but now, being escorted down the hallway was a welcome relief.

Students, all of them female, turned to stare at the spectacle. The tiny professor being led down the hall like a three year old. Some smirked,vsome laughed out right, while others looked at him with a wide eyed curiousity reserved for the truly unique specimen he was.

They began down the hallway together, hand in giant hand. Beth would have been hard pressed not to notice the staring eyes from fellow students (mostly female). Gradually, a sense of worry began to show on her lovely
face.

“Should I be concerned about you, Mr. Spence?”

Arthur looked down the hallway at the numerous huge female students in the distance. Despite what had happened recently, he wanted to appear calm and
to hide his fear. To be truthful and if he acted on impulse, he would have grabbed onto one of Beth’s legs and clung for dear life.

“I’ll be fine” he said up to her.

Beth stopped and knelt down next to him, flattening out her skirt and staring at his tiny face. Arthur tried his best to project confidence as he stared back at her. Her large hands straightened his shirt, and her fingers briefly caressed the tiny black tie that hung from his miniature
collar. It was barely as thick as her thumb. Despite her concern only moments earlier, she couldn’t help but chuckle at his tiny outfit.

Beth stood to her full height, again reminding Arthur how little he was next to her as his face only reach part way up her thigh.

“Try and have a good day, Mr. Spence” Beth said, smiling. She turned and hurried down the hall.

Arthur began the few short steps to the door to his class. Was it his imagination, or were more and more students dressing in skirts? Or was he just more prone to noticing such a thing now that he would soon be in a position of having to avoid looking above those same skirts, depending how closely the giant students moved to him.

He noticed Shawna in the distance, watching him with folded arms. Her hips, shooting out to the side as she leaned heavily on her one foot, as if having stood there for some time in anticipation of his arrival. That’s how the others looked too, almost like they’d been planning their mornings around Arthur’s showing up. Each day was a new spectacle apparently, as the shrinking professor, a man many had looked up to and sought advice from, now dwindled down to something that few of them managed to take seriously.

Getting to the door to his classroom, he noted that the door was closed. Next to the door stood three giant sized students, all of them female. Two had on skirts, the other, form fitted, faded blue jeans that easily exposed her midriff.

As Arthur stood on his toes to reach the door handle, he glanced at the women’s back sides, their rear ends, as they were facing away from him, looking over their shoulders and down the hallway. Then it struck him…they were waiting for him! Worse, they hadn’t even noticed that he was standing practically inches away from them, his face mere inches from their tall, broad legs that seemed to stretch into the air higher than he dared imagine.

Arthur found that he couldn’t quite reach the door handle, and because of that, turned to face the trio of students who hadn’t even noticed him. The girl nearest him had on a skirt that was cut just below her knees. Arthur stared at her knees and at the soft skin, wondering if he should reach out and touch them to get her attention. The sheer size of them created a sense of fear, but also seemed to draw him in. He wanted to touch this giant woman’s leg, perhaps even rub his face up against it.

Arthur shook himself out of this brief fantasy, knowing that he would never again achieve normal sexual satisfaction. Every time he had tried, he had been laughed at or ridiculed. Would this ever change? He doubted it.

Arthur found himself reaching out to touch the leg which he accurately imagined to be circumference of a telephone pole. He tapped it lightly, then anabashedly looked up awaiting the inevitable discovery from the
giant above him.

“It’s Mr. Spence!” the red haired girl cried out, smiling downwards.

The other two girls instantly moved to stand by her side, glowering down at the professor, mesmerized at his tiny size.

“I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind opening the door for me?”

The three girls continued to stare, almost like they hadn’t heard a word he had said.

“Louise”, one said to another, “Don’t you have this class now?”

Louise, a brunette, nodded excitedly to her friend while keeping her eyes glued to Mr. Spence.

“I sure do and you know what? You’re late Mr. Spence!” she said happily down to him and wagging her finger as if to a child.

“Yes” he managed to say, “It took a little longer to get down the hallway than I imagined it would”

Arthur felt his stomach tighten into a knot as his feet left the ground. He was lifted into the air from behind by the third girl, Charlene, who hugged him to her chest, lowering her chin to fit between his head and shoulder. Arthur could feel her breath fan his neck and chest as she laughed and shook from behind him.

“Open the door, Louise”

Louise did. It sank in that Arthur was going to be carried into class by one of his students.

“Put me down!” Arthur’s voice yelled out at the young woman carrying him.

But it was no use. Despite his flailing and his kicking legs, nothing could stop the gargantuan blonde woman from carrying him through the doorway and into the classroom, where a dozen or two other students, mostly female of course, began to laugh.

Charlene’s confidence, bolstered by the student’s reaction, seemed to grow proportional to her huge size. She held Arthur out at arms length, liftingvand lowering him as if he were a puppet and she the puppet master. Thisvdelighted the girls sitting in the first two rows of chairs and they
laughed even harder at Arthur’s predicament.

Finally Charlene lowered Arthur to his feet and promptly took a bow. The rest of the female students clapped and continued to laugh at Mr. Spence, their amusing puppet with the red face.

Some of them appeared surprised when Arthur began towards the door.

“That’s it” he said outloud, “That is officially the last straw!”

Arthur emerged into the hallway. Despite his haste, he was quick to notice Shauna, who had watched the whole affair from the doorway.

“For what it’s worth, Mr. Spence, I wouldn’t have lasted as long as you have”

Arthur kept walking, making a feeble attempt to walk faster than Shawna could keep up.

“If you knew that, why’d you let this happen?”

Shawna’s long legs propelled her forward, easily matched Arthur’s frantic march.

“I would have stepped in if it had gone much further than that” she said, suddenly stopping.

“You don’t want to continue teaching, do you?”

Arthur stared up at her angrily.

“Is it that obvious?”

Shawna nodded.

“The Lotto board knew this the would come when you can no longer carry out your duties at the college”

“Does that mean I don’t have to come here anymore?”

Shawna nodded.

“There wouldn’t be any point, would there? Certainly not if you’re to keep getting smaller”

Arthur looked up at her with urgency in his eyes.

“How much smaller will I get?”

Shawna moved towards him a step, then crouched down so that their faces met, hers more than twice the size of his own.

“I’m sorry but I can’t share that information. You understand”

“Please? I need to know”

Shawna reached out and put her massive hand on his shoulder, her fingers stretching out over his back and well down over his chest at the same
time.

“I’m sorry, really I am”

Arthur looked down to the floor.

“Is there anything I can do for you in the meantime?” she asked him.

Arthur looked up to meet her eyes and saw a bit of what looked like genuine compassion on her face. It had been a while since he had seen this. A second later, he collapsed forward into her arms. Shawna rubbed Arthur’s back, soothing him then standing to her full height, carrying him
with little or no effort whatsoever.

Sensing the sympathy coming from her, Arthur held on for dear life, closing his eyes in earnest.