(Rentals)
A rental shop even in a weird place like
Aquathena was still a rental shop in the end. A crowded place filled to the
brim with swim wear, pool gear, souvenirs, and novelty junk – when you saw one,
you saw them all…
Well, it was a ‘newish’ experience being
inside one that was three times bigger now that I was shrunken down though.
“Hey, Jay. What do you think of this one?
These look pretty coo… Jay? Where’d you go?”
“Behind here,” I called my girlfriend over.
She couldn’t see me because my head was far beneath the top of the clothing
racks. I said ‘newish’ because it felt almost nostalgic to realize I could hide
inside the circular racks like I used to as a kid. I wasn’t going to try,
though. It’d only give Eva more ammo to mess with me. She clearly was still
messing with me considering her choice in swim trunks. “Eva, no.”
My Amazonian girlfriend arrived, her swimsuit
unable to be seen because she still wore her light jacket over it. She was
holding a pair of swim trunks in her hands which had a goofy cartoon monkey wearing
sunglasses on it as a design. “You don’t like it? The shades are cool.”
“You just pulled it off from the 5 year old bin,
Eva. These are kiddie trunks.”
“They’re also too big for you it looks like,”
she confirmed by lowering the trunks down to me. Comparing it to my waist, it’d
fall down to my ankles in an instant. “Well, I guess a third of your size is
more baby-like than toddler or kindergartener.”
“That’s not something I wanted to hear,” I
frowned. Eva was having the time of her life. “So can I get some actual swim
trunks? Today’s our pool date, right? Not our ‘Tease-Jay-Day’ when you’ve
already spent money on a ticket?’”
“… You have a point.” I was glad that I was
skilled enough with my words to be able to convince her to stop fooling around
as much as she was. “Alright then. Thankfully they write the size for before
you got shrunk on here. I still remember your pant size from when I went
shopping for your birthday present.”
Eva stepped away and grabbed something out of
my reach with one hand. For a moment, I thought she had picked up a white and
blue handkerchief, but I realized it was the swim trunks. It fit so compactly
in her hand.
“Thanks,” I questioned whoever decided to put
Add-on rentals up high out of my reach but accepted the swimsuit Eva handed me.
“So is there a changing room here or do we have to head back to the other
place?”
“Looks like there’s a place over in the
corner. We’ll have to head back over there anyways because we need to put your
stuff in my locker, though.”
“Might as well change here then,” I decided
and went to get changed. The Add-on changing booth, though, was something I
didn’t expect. I probably should have though. “Looks like everything’s
one-third sized here.”
Maybe it was for saving space, but the three
Add-on changing booths were 4’ cubes made of bamboo that lined up against the
side one of the normal changing booths. When I walked inside, I realized there
wasn’t anything covering the top of the booth either, so any normal sized
person could easily walk up and look down to peep.
Which was precisely what Eva did.
“Whoa, I never looked in these before, so I
didn’t know they were changing booths until now,” she admitted. “Isn’t this too
low? I can peep right in.”
“I mean, it is Add-on size, I guess,” I chose
to just accept it and started to take of my clothes.
“W-wait, hold on. Give me a warning first,” to
my surprise, Eva covered her eyes with her hand the moment I started to pull
down my pants. For someone who was so gung-ho about shrinking me down, I didn’t
expect for her to turn away so quickly. Then I remembered.
“Oh right. You’re all attack and no defense.”
“Shut up.”
“Embarrassed? It’s nothing you haven’t seen
before, right?” I found myself chuckling. “I guess it’s less impressive now
that I’ve been cut down in size though.”
“Don’t sell yourself short… wait, that one was
unintentional,” Eva doubled back on her pun that came with the compliment she
intended to give me.
It looked like even though Eva seemed to be
more assertive while I was smaller, she still had her weaknesses. For someone
who liked to mess with others, she was bad at being messed with. This was the
reason why she preferred Athenaqua after all. Being flirted with and hit on
were things that really threw her off her pace.
Knowing this encouraged me a little and let me
loosen up some. I finished changing out of my clothes as quickly as I could and
put on the white and blue Aquathena swim trunks. Coming out, I handed Eva my
clothes, which she balled up in just one hand.
“You good?” she asked, tucking my clothes away
into her jacket pocket.
“Yup,” I answered. “It fits pretty well, so
let’s get checked out and get going. There’s a whole lot of park to go to,
right?”