Dinner Dates 7 - Save the Day (Danielle, the ‘innocent’
server)
Three tables over, the waitress Jackie held a tiny man in
her hands. “I am so excited you guys!” she said to the group of people
clustered around her.
They all shouted their encouragement to her.
“Okay. I’m ready,” said Jackie to the man in her hand. “Are
you ready?”
“Totally! Do it Jackie!” said the man.
“Okay here you go!” she cried, opened her mouth wide, and
placed the tiny man inside to the roaring applause of the men and women
watching. Jackie closed her mouth on the tiny man, who was waving to his
friends, and swallowed him whole.
The crowd erupted in cheers. Jackie grinned. “He was good.
You guys have great taste in friends!”
“Okay! Okay! Me next!” said a man next to Jackie, pushing
papers into her hand.
“No me next!” said another, man in front of her. “Can you go
shrink me down now?”
“Pffft. You guys”, said an attractive auburn-haired female
colleague of theirs who was dressed to the nines, “you’re such preysluts. Wait
your turn.”
“Don’t worry everyone. I’m going to eat all of you. When I came over to serve you, I certainly didn’t
expect to eat the whole table. And I’ve never eaten a girl before,” said Jackie
to one of the females next to her. Some of the table laughed and the girl
squealed excitedly. The entire table of six people had requested that Jackie
eat them all. Jackie was only too pleased to oblige. As a new member to the
restaurant, she was always particularly excited whenever she was able to eat
someone.
“Well the newbie seems to be doing well,” Kim observed from
the bar as Jackie tossed her head back. A tiny pair of legs disappeared into
her mouth and a moment later Jackie gulped. She opened wide to display her
empty mouth to a group of laughing people.
Danielle looked over at Kim. “Well good for her. I knew she
was excited about this whole eating people thing.”
“Whereas some of us wish to abandon it entirely,” said Kim
idly.
“I like eating people Kim. I just restrict myself to willing ones. I think it’s terribly
cruel to eat people who don’t want to be eaten. I met the most distraught woman
the other day who had shrunk her boyfriend and hadn’t realized she couldn’t
take him home. The poor thing ended up giving her boyfriend away to another
lady so she could swallow him. Imagine how hard it must have been for her. And
think of how scared her boyfriend must have been. They’re not chickens or pigs.
They’re living, breathing human beings who want to live!”
“Yeah, because that guy really wants to live right now,” Kim
said, pointing out the tiny man who jumped off Jackie’s hand and into her
mouth.
“I’m not talking about the willing ones,” said Danielle.
“You know who I mean.” The restaurant had a firm policy that stated once a
customer was shrunk, he was the property of the restaurant and must be eaten by
another customer or staff member. Since her arrival, Danielle had obstinately
refused to eat anyone who did not want to be eaten. No one cared about that too
much. Lindsay’s reaction had simply been “More food for us.”
What got under everyone’s skin was how Danielle absolutely
refused to serve unwilling shrunken men. It meant that the other servers had to
make more trips to the kitchen. Some accused Danielle of laziness, stating that
is was unreasonable that a staff member refused to serve the staple dish of the
restaurant.
Meghyn had eventually allowed Danielle to have her way due
to her stunning addition to the serving staff. Meghyn only hired the prettiest
of girls.
However, to appease her other servers Danielle had been
restricted to working in either of the two bars in the restaurant. She was told
that she had better keep on top of the drink orders and ensure that there were
plenty of fresh glasses. This meant Danielle was almost always behind the bar,
serving drinks rather than people. Her tips weren’t as large as she was
commonly excluded from tabs that covered dozens of shrunken men but she didn’t
mind as she was making more money at the Forbidden Dish than anyone could hope
to earn at even a high end restaurant. Despite being behind the bar, it wasn’t
uncommon for someone to ask her to eat them and she happily obliged anyone who
did. But she was still considered the “hippy” of the group.
“Before someone can be shrunk, each man has to sign a
contract stating he is doing this because he wants to. After that they are
given multiple chances to bail out. After turning them all down, then they try
to escape at the eleventh hour? That is not how the world works Danielle. They
chose to be shrunk. They should be eaten.”
“I think it’s cruel.”
(Danielle)
“Then find another job!” shrugged Kim. She was sick of
hearing about how Danielle felt bad for people who deep down, probably wanted
to be eaten anyway. “Listen, you and Kara can talk about sparing people all you
want. She seems to have a heart for them as well. I’m the wrong person to talk
to.”
“You don’t have to stop eating people Kim. Just stop eating
the wrong people.”
“If they’re on my plate, they’re the right people,” said Kim
over her shoulder She started walking away from the conversation under the
pretense of checking up on a few customers.
Just then, a young man came up to Kim’s side. “Miss, I’ve
been watching you for a while…and I came to the realization that you can do
magic.”
“Magic?”, said Kim, a look of bewilderment on her face.
“Yeah”, the man quipped, “I was just thinking that you could
make me disappear. Hungry?”
Danielle rolled her eyes. “You’re sweet”, said Kim, grabbing
the man playfully by the collar, “Come on cowboy. I’m gonna take you for a
ride.”
As Kim and guy walked away, Danielle sighed and leaned
against the bar.
“Hey miss?” said a man at the bar, wearing a red wrist
bracelet. “Miss, excuse me. It says here on the menu that your name is
Danielle?”
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The tiny man slid down Danielle’s throat easily. He didn’t
even wiggle. Danielle paused. He had been tasty. She would be lying if she said
she hadn’t enjoyed eating him. It had been fun.
Her food wasn’t wiggling in her belly very much. Usually,
someone who had just been swallowed alive was trying to climb out of the
stomach acid right now so what was the problem with this one? Danielle remembered
that when she had swallowed the man that he had cried out in pain but if he’d
been having second thoughts it was way too late for her to save him. Thinking
back though, she had thought she had also heard a ‘pop’ sound when she gulped
him down. Perhaps she had broken some of his bones. That would have explained
the cry of pain. If she had hurt him while swallowing, it had been
unintentional. But people were fragile at that size and it wasn’t the first
time she had heard of injuries to tiny men being swallowed.
Well, not to worry. He would be digested anyway.
Danielle walked out of the shrink room and headed back to
the bar. There she found Kim serving new drinks to a couple at the bar. They
had been there for about a half an hour or so. The girl was obviously planning
to eat the guy and the guy seemed all for it as long as he got his mitts on her
boobs between now and then. From the look of things, both of them planned on
being completely loaded when the girl ate him.
“So,” said Kim. “How was your snack?”
“Delicious,” said Danielle truthfully.
“Ha. See? You like this just like I do,” said Kim. “Actually
I’m a little jealous. I was eyeing that guy when he sat down. I was actually
going to subtly pitch him an offer on being an after work snack but he
obviously took a liking to you since he asked you right away. How did the
dancing go?”
“Okay, I guess,” said Danielle.
It was common knowledge among the staff that Danielle was
the most shy on the staff and the least comfortable with wearing explicit
clothing or dancing privately for someone she intended to consume. She never
wore anything aside from a tank top and shorts or pants, albeit tight fitting
pants that showed off a remarkably nice ass.