Hi, let me introduce myself, I’m Piper Ann Joans (Pronounced as "Pepper" for some reason) and currently fifteen years old. I have short black hair and bright green eyes. Um...also I’m seven inches tall. I know it’s hard to believe but it’s the truth.

My parents died when I was three in and a car crash. They were probably tiny like me driving in a doll sized car. It pretty much ended them on the road. I do wish I’d known them. I’d been sent to an orphanage when I five after being tested for two years.

As a child the normal sized children treated me normally and we’d played our own little games. I’d always win at hide in seek being so small and tag is pretty hard since I can’t barely out run them. Sometimes a board game I’d get to be my own piece. Life was great then but I wished for a family or anyone to take me in. I remember on my ninth birthday a young, handsome man named, Edward who talked to the clerk and asked to adopt a "Piper " I knew clearly this was me. There wasn’t any other child with my unique name.

The woman in a white flowery dress carried me into her palm and placed me on the wooden table where the man could view me better. He softy grinned.

"Hello, Piper" he said in a gentle voice.

"Hello, sir" I bowed politely.

I knew from that moment I’d amused him. The clerk passed him my profile to take with him.

"I’ll take her" he said smiling down at me.

Finally I was adopted! Edward carried me in his palm that felt warm and soft that I found myself falling asleep in it the whole bus ride. When we’ve arrived home I was still asleep curling to feel more warmth. He nudged me a little with his finger and I’d awoken with a little yawn.

"I should be awake. I apologize"

"No, sweetheart it’s alright. You can go back to sleep" he whispered.

"I just wanted you to feel more comfortable. I’d made you a little bed"

"Alright" I smiled.

He’d placed me gently in the bed made for my size. He kissed my tiny cheek and I’d hugged his finger he placed on my shoulder.

"I love you already...with all my heart" Edward whispered rubbing my stomach.

 "I love you too...just the same" I whispered back.

He gave me another kiss and climbed into his huge stable bed. A thunder storm started to rage outside. Every boom and crash made me whimper. Until there was a huge BOOM! I screamed loudly.

I heard his bare feet stepping softly on the wooden floor and he’d faced me in the darkness. "Sweetie, are you okay? Are you afraid?" he’d asked me. "Y-yes" I replied shivering. "C-can I sleep with you t-tonight?" "Okay, darling" he carried me and held me against his warmhearted chest. I released tears and cried real hard as he stroked my back with a finger. "Shhhh...it’s okay. There is nothing to be afraid of" I slowly closed my eyes allowing myself to sleep breathing freely.

I had to admit. Edward is the most loving parent; not to mention the only one I have in my life. I even knew that the first time we’d met. Though I am pretty small he treated me so kindly and lovingly...we’d also have some really fun times together. Anyway there is a lot more to my life...

being the size of a child’s doll everything around me is an adventure itself. The thing is no matter how small or big you are you can still accomplish anything. Like I say: Those who say that it’s impossible might not know how many possibilities they are as we endure the future. Keep that in mind! Hold on tight. Your about to enter a world which I see through my eyes only and who knows you might even become me while enduring my story and even discovering love...

Morning rose brightly as light steamed through the window and flashed on my face. I awoken up with start and fell out of the bed of my doll house. I’d gotten dressed in skinny jeans and a black skull t shirt with red and black sleeves. I brushed my hair, pulled on my socks and laced my red converse.

"Good morning, gigantic world!" I shouted outside the opened window.

The usual red robin landed on the windowsill as I stroked her silky feathers and she rubbed her head on my chin. "Hi, Ruby" I greeted her. I fed her some sunflower seeds. Off she flew to feed her chicks some insects.

I climbed back inside to see my father, Edward still a sleep. I swung across with the long curtain chord and landed on the bed. I crawled on top of him until I’d reached his face. "Wake up. Raise and shine. Your students are waiting for you" I whispered. His lips slowly turned into a gentle grin. Edward awoken while I slid off his face and landed on his stomach. He scooped me up in his palm up to his face were I could see his beautiful blue eyes.

"Your up already?" he scratched the back of his head. "I’m the one who usually wakes you up"

"I’d say there’s been a change to our routine, dad" I smirked.

"I’m glad my student’s like you, Piper. You’ve been helping a lot with my teaching" he sat his finger on my shoulder and I hugged it.

 After he got dressed he carried me into the kitchen where he made us some scrambled eggs and he passed my tiny tea cup full of hot chocolate. He put on his shoes and placed me in his bag, away we went.

Edward, my step father happens to be a third garde teacher and I attend with him helping him with the lessons to educate the little ones. I’m too small to go to school alone which the chance of getting stepped on. So I have a tutor who comes by at lunch hours and teaches me different subjects.

Anyway Mulberry Wood school is a combination of a public, middle, high school. I’m in the tenth garde with my tutor and none of the students other than my step father’s class have ever seen me before. Surprisingly I’m kept a huge secret since my size is very unusual to most standards. Usually when we enter the classroom early before anyone arrives I say hello to every staff member in the building since they all know me pretty well. I’m also know as "Mr. Joans’s spectacular miniature daughter" although I find that really offensive.

I wouldn’t want the world to know about me. Dad starts off writing a message on the board in blue chalk and a little date in the corner. I settled on his wooden desk organizing the work sheets and getting the attendance ready. The school bell rings and children rush in greeting us.

"Good morning, class" he smiled.

"Good morning, Mr. Joans" they responded.

I’d started the attendance afterwards and lessons begun. Then I played with the kid’s at rescues. A sweet, gentle kid named, Miles held me around making sure not to drop me.

"What should we play?" he asked as I sat on his shoulder.

"Eye spy?"

"Sure" I smiled.

We’d taken turns and I had some fun. But that’s when I met someone special who endured my life.

"Miles?" said a voice. I heard Mile’s little gasp.

"Hide!" he whispered at me and he covers me with his palm and it hid it behind his back.

It was his older brother, Liam! He’s just a year younger than me. I secretly had a crush on him and he never knew of me. At times like these sometimes I wished I wasn’t kept a secret. My heart throbbed deeply in my chest hearing his foot steps draw against stone ground. He bend down to his brother’s level.

 "What are you hiding?" he asked.

"Candy" Miles replied shyly.

"Can I see the candy?" Liam grinned holding out his hand.

From my perspective I could tell he knew his poor little brother was lying. Miles started to cry worried that I’d might be revealed.

"Don’t you believe me, brother? I hate you!" he sobbed, covering his eyes

 "Shhhh...Miles it’s alright. I just want to make sure whatever your holding is safe"

Liam said in a soothing voice. He couldn’t ignore his kindhearted brother any longer and handed me to him. "

I’m so sorry, Piper" he said to me and ran off.

Liam’s glance was focused on me laying warmly in his palm helplessly.

"No, way...a tiny person?" he breathed in disbelief.

He poked me in the stomach probably checking to see if I was really alive or his definition of real.

"Hey! Don’t touch me like that!" I snapped as I stood up.

"What’s going on here?" said a calm voice.

Coming to the rescue was my father. He stared down at me in surprise as little Miles stood by his side, his face quite red from all that crying.

"Come along with me, Liam" As my dad taken me away from his hand he followed him into the classroom as Miles was scooted back to play baseball with the other kids. He closed the window and Liam still focused his gaze at me while I sat on the desk.

"Liam, this is my adopted daughter, Piper. She is kept a secret for a very important reason. The media is dying to expose her all over the television and network. I can’t place her in that danger. Besides she deserves to live like everyone else. She’s human. Isn’t she?"

"I guess so, Mr. J" he nodded.

"Of course size doesn’t matter. I believe that no matter what size you are there is always a way to achieve or accomplish anything" I explained. "Well, I haven’t decided my future yet..." I admitted, kicking a tiny piece of eraser out of my way, blushing a little.

Liam chatted to my dad for a while curious about my everyday life and after my father left for lunch, though it seems silly Liam was quite shy around me as I was around him. He was dying to hold me. I could see it in his eyes. His fingers were fiddling around nervously with a red linked pen.

"C-can I h-hold you?" he stuttered with his cheeks burning red.

The guy I liked since sixth garde wanted to hold me. I couldn’t deny the offer.

 "Go ahead" I said.

Plenty of people held me already, I was used to it by now. He scooped me into his palm and I stared deeply into his beautiful eyes that seemed to sparkle. He had great pleasure in holding me and smiled which seemed remarkable to my view. He gently stroked my back as I sat down with his remarkably soft finger. It was so relaxing I dozed off sleeping inside his palm until the school bell rang and I sprang up.

"I-I’m sorry for falling asleep" I said.

"No, it’s alright. I thought you were cute" he grinned.

I blushed a little until I thought of an idea.

"Wanna come to my place this Saturday? I have some old monster movies way back from the nineteen thirties to sixties. Though it might be boring for you..." I sighed.

"Not at all. That sounds awesome! I’ll come around by lunch hour and I’ll bring my cousin Chelsea along. She’s begged to see a monster film forever. Anyway, it’s nice meeting you, Piper"

He carefully placed me back on the desk and I gently kissed the tip of his finger which he seemed to adore giving me another smile before he left for class. The third garders rushed into the classroom sitting in their seats paying their attention to me.

"Class, this afternoon were going to talk about love"

"Ewww!" they shrieked.

I jumped over to the chalk board writing the word "love" nice and big with pink chalk. I saw a hand being raised by a glasses kid.

"Yes?" "Who’s Liam?" said a kid named, Simon a good reader for his age.

 I looked over to see I written Liam’s name in a drawn heart without noticing.

"Piper’s in love with my brother!" Miles burled out in a singsong voice.

"Oh,   god...Miles!" I blushed. The children shot in laughter.

"Hey, what’s the commotion about?" father asked with piles of coloring pages in his arms.

"Don’t ask" I groaned. "I need some sleep"

I crawled into his bag feeling my heart throbbing harder. Believe me. Loving someone WAY bigger than you makes your heart ram in real torturous pain. I should know. I am certainly small! I held on to my chest crying a little.

"Why do I love you, Liam?" I whispered to myself in tears.

I always felt too small for this world. But Liam made me feel I was normal sized and made me feel safe when he held me. I believe it was love

After school dad drove home with me in his bag.

"Dad" I said. "Have you ever experienced love?"

 "Yes. One time...in college."

He takes a quick glance down at me.

"Do you love someone, Piper?"

I panicked deep down inside my heart. Dammit. Why does he have to guess so easily? I’ll trick him for a bit.

"Of course I love you, dad" cuddling on to his finger.

"No, I mean are you in love with a certain boy?" I sighed as he seen me blush like roses.

"Who do you think?" I remarked sarcastically.

"If it’s alright with you. I invited him over for classic monster movies on Saturday"

"Not a problem. I have a staff meeting then so you can have the house all to yourself" I smiled to myself.

I couldn’t wait to see Liam again...

Saturday appeared to drop by quicker then I expected. Dad departed for the staff meeting after lunch and by then I waited for Liam to come by with his cousin, Chelsea. Just two days ago for some reason he called me (Honestly I had no idea how he knew my number) and we continued chatting for hours! That moment linked us to the term of "friends" though inside my heart it felt more than that.

The door bell echoed throughout the house. I excitedly pounced on the wooden leg of the table and started climbing up it. I hurried over to the string attached to the door knob and pulled it open with all my might.

"Chelsea, I’m telling you the complete and full truth. Piper really is a tiny human being"

Liam explained to his cousin.

"Yeah, yeah. Keep talking. I’m not believing...."

She tailed off gazing down at me and bend down to face me better on the wooden table.

"Hi, little thing. Your just the cutest!" she squealed petting me with a finger.

 Chelsea had long brown hair and light hazel eyes. I could tell she was about Twelve or so but she was trying to hard too look to attractive if you know what I mean. WAY too much make up for her age and a skirt way past her knees.

"I’d appreciate it if you didn’t treat me like a child" I told her in reasonable tone of voice. "Hey, Piper. It’s good to see you again" said Liam and he gathered me into his hands rubbing me against cheek lovingly as I embraced it. "I wanna hold her!" Chelsea nudged him in whiney baby voice. "No way," he said carefully protecting me by covering his hand over me. "She’s human. Piper isn’t like a doll or some little pet"

She just shot me an evil glare and I gulped quietly to myself. Liam when to pick out a movie as I settled on his shoulder.

"Hmmm....the blob or Godzilla? I can’t seem to decide" he said reading both the summaries on the back of the special edition DVD’s.

 "What do you think, Piper?"

"Whatever your in the mood for" I shrugged.

"Alright then. Godzilla it is"

he turned on the dvd player and opened the tray where he placed the disk in while Chelsea popped some popcorn in the microwave in the kitchen.

Though to be honest I was a little terrified of her! It was like she had something awful planned for me. There is no mistaking those grins or glares she keeps giving me. I settled comfortably in Liam’s palm as we watched some of the previews of other movies that probably came out a long time ago. Chelsea set the bowl of popcorn in the middle of the couch while I dove into it like a swimming pool. One piece had to be at least the size of my head...but a little bit bigger.

I munched on it as the movie begun, hearing the roar of Godzilla made me drop my piece of popcorn when Chelsea smirked at me as I thought she should would do something unspeakably horrible to me.

"Afraid?" Liam looking down at me in a soothing tone in his voice.

"No, of course not. Cheesy monster cinema never scars me" I assured him by touching his finger.

Throughout the middle of the movie Chelsea grabbed me away from Liam who was fast asleep.

"Let’s have a little girl talk, Piper"

"Put me down!" I scowled at her.

She dangled me upside down bringing me into my father’s bedroom and dropped me on the bed.

"Let’s play" she placed her barefoot on top of me, the stench was horrible like Parmesan cheese or at least something around that category. I pushed her foot away from me.

"I’m not in the mood for games!" I snapped walking away from her.

"Awww...itty bittie, Piper is a bit moody today"

she cooed in a voice like I was three or something.

I froze still when she stroked my back once with a cold finger and feeling her sharp red painted nail smoothed against it. She purposely dropped me on the carpeted ground. Luckily it was soft and it wasn’t stone hard like the kitchen floor or I would’ve died in no time with my tiny bones or organs in shattered pieces! She placed her bare feet beside my partly bruised body and carried me up to her cruel smiling face. I shivered in fear.

"Are you afraid of me?" she tapped a finger at my chest.

"No, just put me back with Liam, you screw!" I shouted.

I was petrified to the point I thought she would literally kill me.

"You have no right to yell at me you pathetic tiny thing!"

she shouted back in a louder tone of voice squeezing my body in her hands until I wailed in pain.

"I DO because I am my own person no matter how tiny I AM!" I screamed.

I hurried for my life escaping from her grip as she sprang after me with her feet stomping on the floor with her voice overtaken by the sound of Godzilla’s horrifying roaring. You see, when your as small as me it’s not difficult to have your life suddenly converted into a monster movie cause they is always going to be somebody that wants to play with you or in my case it’s torture!

"Alright then I’ll teach you a lesson"

She grabbed me into and carried me into the bathroom, plopped me in the freshly cleaned toilet. GREAT! The worst place anyone could be. In potty water. Thank god there wasn’t any number one or two swirling around in there!

 "Chelsea! I can’t swim. I’ll drown!" I hollered, struggling to stay above the surface.

"Good, then I won’t have to flush the toilet and I heard rats were such excellent swimmers" she smirked. "No, no don’t do this!" I cried. All it took was a simple push on my head with her index finger and I fell underneath the lemon scented toilet water. I noticed a large familiar hand slowly reaching for me or maybe I was visualizing it. Surely it wasn’t Chelsea or my dad. I closed my eyes losing breath as I passed out.

I awoke soaking wet on a towel on Liam’s knee coughing up water.

"Piper! Are you okay?!" he spoke loudly in concern.

"W-Where’s C-Chelsea...?" I panicked struggling to speak.

God, how I didn’t want to see that beastly girl again. She nearly ended it for me!

 "She’s gone home. It’s okay. Your safe with me" Liam assured me by cuddling me against his cheek.

I gave him a weak smile in return. How much I wished to tell that boy how much I loved him.

"Come on. You need to get cleaned up" he carefully picked me up.

"Yeah I smell of lemons and toilet water" I admitted after coughing the last bit out.

Liam laughed.

While in my bathing suit he placed me gently in the bathroom sink full of warm soapy water.

"How does that feel?" he asked with a smile.

"Ahhh...." I sighed. "Just wonderful"

The simply splendid feeling of the warm water relaxed me immediately. Liam may not have realized it but he’d made me a homemade spa. I scrubbed myself afterwards with a piece of soap he gave me. After I got dressed in my pajamas he lightly blow dried me. After he’d let me lay inside in palm, resting. He positioned himself to lay on his stomach and he laid in front me on the couch. My tiny heart pumped wildy in my chest not knowing what to expect. Liam spoke,

"Piper, you’re a very special person in my life. Your cute, funny, smart and brave. I don’t care how small you are...your great to have as a friend but inside my heart it doesn’t feel like we’re friends anymore. I’m sorry if this is too soon...but I love you"

He gently kissed my pint-sized lips feeling an amazing sensation reach them. We’d released our lips to breathe. Apparently I had to do most of the breathing.

"I love you too, Liam" I kissed him back the same way.

He slowly stroked my back with a finger as I laid comfortably on his chest nearly falling asleep. I finally felt I was a normal teenage girl in love and that my size didn’t matter. I know before I probably said I didn’t care but I did...my life is extremely difficult when almost everything around you is paretically bigger than you and people just treat you like your completely helpless. But neither dad, Miles or Liam treated me that way. Inside my tiny heart they were my family even though two of them didn’t actually live with me.

"This could of been a date if your cousin didn’t come along. No offence but she’s a freaking monster"

"None taken. I agree with you hundred percent" he replied.

"So my size doesn’t....you know...embarrass you?" I asked looking away in complete shame.

 He shook his head.

"It never did. I love you just the way you are and the person you are. Don’t ever try to change for other’s sake okay?" He whispered.

He’d placed a gentle soft kiss on my tiny cheek and warped his huge arms around me.

"I’ll just sleep for a while" I implied with a yawn.

"Alright" he shrugged.

I slept feeling the warm flesh of his chest from being tucked underneath his top. I sensed his gigantic heart beat warming me up as comforting thoughts plugged into my mind. Soon enough he fell asleep breathing quietly, feeling his chest raise and fall. I dreamt,

I was in a ballroom like the one in Cinderella dressed in a royal velvet red dress. Normally I hate dresses The floor was shiny and clear like a flowing river and the room filled with classical music. I noticed everyone who was dancing didn’t seem so big...like they were my size.

"Wait a minute" I said.

"I’m normal sized!"

I could finally observe a table without being raised up in someone’s hand. I picked up a small piece of cake without struggling and ate it without having to eat a tiny piece of it at a time. I found it amazing! I noticed the crowd of people broke a part as some one considerably handsome in a price’s outfit stepped into the room. It was Liam! His gaze and smile was only on me.

"Piper, your average sized now"

he said in surprise. I had tones of icing on my lips! He pulled me into an embrace and seemed to have kissed them clean. I could finally hug him normally!

"Care to dance?" he bowed. "I shall my dear prince"

I replied with a curtsey. He spun me around a couple times. It seemed we danced the entire night until the cloak struck twelve and rang throughout the ballroom. "Oh no" I cried, "The bell has rung" running away.

"Wait!" Liam called.

I hurried trying to out run the bell that rang throughout the ballroom slowly I stared shrinking back to my tiny size as Chelsea was reaching for me...

I awoke glancing around the room, then realizing it was all a dream and I sighed in relief, but then again being normal sized was actually kinda fun. Liam was still sound asleep with his eyes gently closed. He sprang up when my father walked into the door with his work bag and such.

"Oh, hello Liam"

"Ah, hello, sir. How was your meeting?"

"Great. Discussions went well. Enjoy the movie?"

Liam and I exchanged glances. We decided not to tell him the truth.

 "Yeah...Godzilla. The part where he...smashed all those buildings down to pieces" he said with a fake chuckle.

"Those horrible English voice overs are the best!" I added.

My father seemed to buy it for awhile and then he rolled his eyes knowing we’re clearly terrible at lying as he left the room.

"I better get going" Liam yawned slipping on his shoes.

"Okay. It was nice having you over" I smiled.

He scooped me up and laid a vast, but wonderful kiss on my lips. "Good night, sweetheart" he whispered

"Good night, darling" I kissed him back.

He placed me gently on the carpet and waved before he left. I walked away. I glanced up at dad who smiled warmly at me.

"Your falling for him aren’t you?" he said as he held me.

"No, dad" I smiled hugging my knees close to my chest.

"I’ve already fallen for him. No other person can replace him. He doesn’t have to be the same size as me because love is the same size itself. It’s equally felt among everyone the same way" I explained.

"Well, I’m glad you understand, sweetheart" he said.

He carried me to my doll house sitting on his massive night table and placed me down. I curled up into my tiny bed comfortably as the lights are turned off. Another day has ended.