The borrower was incredibly comfortable inside her date’s scarf. Not only was it warm, not only was she close to her, she was inundated by Sophie in all sense. It was a strange feeling, everywhere she looked was Sophie, all she heard were her breathing and her occasional comments,  all she smelled was…

Well, Sophie left in a rush and didn't take a bath. So it definitely smelled of Sophie. But with each passing minute, Sunshine noticed she was being bothered less and less by it.

In fact, she had to admit that she was starting to like the way Sophie smelled. 

She almost didn’t want to believe it. But she kinda liked the human. You don't ask people you don't like out on dates after all. 

Sunshine needed to push the thoughts of liking the way a human stinked. And the best way to distract herself was the girl on whose scarf she was in.

“Hey” the borrower said to her giant ride.

“Uh? Need s-something Sunshine?” whispered Sophie, not looking down at her.

“Why are you whispering like that?” asked Sunshine.

“We’re not alone” said Sophie, mysteriously.

Sunshine understood immediately. It would be a bad thing to expose herself to another human, she was already lucky that Sophie turned out to be a nice person, she didn’t want to push her luck.

Still, from her point of view, she couldn't tell exactly where they were. She heard the voices of humans, muffled in the distance, but she couldn't tell precisely what they were saying. And then Sophie spoke to someone. It was unpleasant to not know what was happening around her. From the light, she noticed they were inside a building of sorts.

“Psst” Sophie whispered

“Hmm?” Answered the borrower

“Do you l-like chocolate?”

“Yeah”

And then, the most bizarre thing. Sophie spoke to someone, shyly as she was, but clearly. And yet, Sunshine didn’t comprehend a word that Sophie had said. Not a single one. But the person the human was talking with responded to Sophie in what appeared to be a joke and both them and her laughed.

Oh, if her giggles were cute, the way she laughed filled Sunshine with some sort of joy, she couldn't help but smile. 

“Okay, safe” the human said, stepping out of the place she was in, and looking down at her date.

“What was all that?” Asked Sunshine.

“What was what?”

“Your words, you spoke clearly, but I didn’t get any of the words”

“H-haven't you heard of spanish?” Said Sophie, resuming her walk on the empty streets of a winter night in the city.

“What’s spanish?” Asked Sunshine.

“My mother tongue” Said Sophie

“Mother tongue?” 

“Y-yeah… you know… the first language you learn”

Sunshine had to process that. “Humans speak more than one language?” 

“Some, I n-needed to learn english to live in this city” 

“Why would you need to learn another language to live in a place?”

“Well… there's a big spanish speaking community here but the classes in college were all english so…”

“What’s a college?” Asked the borrower.

“A place where humans go to learn professions” Sophie said

Sunshine didn’t answer. There was a lot more to humans than she thought. She always believed they had to do something when they were not in their homes but she just now realized that she never asked what. 

Then again, she didn’t have anyone to ask.

“Hey Sophie, thanks” Said Sunshine, very close to Sophie’s neck.

“For what?” replied the human.

“For not losing patience with my stupid questions”

Ah yes, there was the blushing again.

“Can I.. peak out?” Said Sunshine.

Sophie stopped in her tracks. Checked around, looked at her sides and back.

“Sure” she said.

Sunshine climbed the fabric of the scarf until her head was poking just out of it and…

It was like those times she had been on top of a bookshelf. But on the outside, and the bookshelf was a breathing moving thing.

“WHOA Sophie you're HUGE!” 

Sophie giggled. Now that her head was peeking out the scarf, Sunshine was closer to her throat than neck, so the giggles resonated in a way absolutely indescribable for someone not her size.

“Haha… yeah… I get told that a lot…” Said Sophie “Im six feet six… aaand I can almost smell that confused look of yours…”

Sophie measured Sunshine’s form from under her scarf by gently touching her head with her index and her feet with her thumb. Mumbled something to herself, and proudly proclaimed:

“I'm about forty of you, stacked one on top of the other!”

“Thats… amazing…” said Sunshine, for the first time putting a number on Sophie’s enormous size… it certainly did help comprehend it.

“Well I'm actually fairly tall for a- SHIT HIDE”

Sunshine had but a second to see that there were three humans approaching from the other side of the street. A group of students. But she didn’t have any time to think of them, as Sophie’s hand shoved her into the scarf… but she didn’t calculate her force that well.

The borrower passed straight through her neck, and fell down her hoodie.

Sunshine didn’t scream at all, her borrower instincts kicked in. She had fallen before, but if the human world was filled with all sorts of nooks and crannies for borrowers to climb and hang on, surely this would be an exception.

And it wasn’t. The borrower saved her life by grabbing Sophie’s top.

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Sophie flinched in the instant she felt Sunshine falling. Her heart skipped a beat or two, but sighed immense relief upon noticing she hadn't splattered all over the floor.

If only she had chosen more… appropriate place to hang.

“Sorry!” She whispered down.

“D-don’t worry” said Sunshine. “A little help”

“Oh I… I’m afraid I can't, you’ll have to climb but I promise to catch you if it comes to that ok?”

Sophie wasn’t used to speaking so fast, she had to breathe in to keep walking. And to properly greet her classmates.

She hurried up, the sooner she could get out of this situation the sooner she could take Sunshine… out.

“Sophie? Is that you?” Said the first of the group, and the only woman.

“Rayleigh!” She said with feign surprise, she had recognized her from across the street. 

“It's been, like, months, how’s it going!” Said Rayleigh

“Fine, fine… you know, I'm going at my o-own rhythm” Said Sophie, as Sunshine had begun climbing from her top.

“Holy shit Sophie I hadn’t seen you in years!” Said Josh, the second of them. “How’s my favorite jotunn doing?”

Sophie’s laugh was sincere. Oh, how she loved Josh’s dumb jokes about her being an Ice Giant. They had charm. More now that she knew she was a literal giant to someone.

And then Chris, oh Chris.

Chris was a short, brown haired, femboy. Probably the most ecstatic person Sophie had ever met.

“IT’S SO GOOD TO SEE YOU SIS!” he said, going for a surprise hug. 

Chris, at his cute stature, didn’t even reach Sophie’s shoulders. In fact, the girl always found it cute how Chris always had to look up at her. But he still had some strength. And the hug took Sophie by surprise, immediately making her flinch again… and it made Sunshine go flying inside her hoodie…

Right into her cleavage.

Sophie blushed so profusely the whole group of people around her noticed her going red as an apple. 

“S-sorry! It 's just.. I…” She started, trying her best to ignore the tiny person squirming between her breasts.

“Aww” Said Chris “It’s ok to get shy, after all we haven’t seen eachother in a while”

“Yes.. that’s it.. eh.. guys sorry but..”

Oh god, think of something, think of something.

“I left Elden Ring on download and I really, really want to go play it so can we speak later?”

The whole group was taken aback. Except Chirs, who laughed.

“It’s fine, text us later!” he said.

“Th-thanks… uhh… bye!” Said Sophie, as she started sprinting back to her home.

Sprinting almost made her forget the fact that Sunshine was apparently chilling in her clothes. Remembering this important fact, Sophie stopped, took a time to catch her breath and went to an alley. There, once no one was looking, she tried to reach for Sunshine.

But the borrower grabbed one of her fingers with force, as if calling for attention. Sophie looked down. 

Oh god, she looked absolutely adorable there.

“Hey” Said Sunshine

“H-hey” said Sophie

“Don’t take me out of here, I like it”

“You… YOU LIKE IT!?” 

“Shhh… let’s just return to the apartment like this, I like how they bounce when you walk”

Sophie noded, closed her coat, and covered her mouth to not let a girlish scream of excitement out of her. She walked relaxingly to her place at High Bridge 819, took the elevator to the fourth floor, and made her way to appartment 43.

There, she removed her coat and hoodie, and collapsed onto the sofa.

Sunshine was, of course, looking up at her from her comfy place at her cleavage.

“Sooooo…” she said “what was all that, huh?”

“Let’s not get into that and continue our date already” 

“Ah, sure!” responded the borrower.

Sophie waited for Sunshine to ask to be taken out… a moment that thankfully never came in the three seconds Sophie granted her to ask that.

“So! I was wondering if you would like to watch a movie with me!” she said.

“I… sure!” Said Sunshine.

“Cool!” Said Sophie, smiling down at her date. 

The controller for the Smart TV was thankfully within reach, under a pizza box. Sophie picked it up and loaded Netflix.

“I assume” she said “that you aren't familiar with human cinema”

“Uh-huh!” Said the borrower “I do know what a movie is though”

“Nice” said Sophie, holding the letter N for a second “Also, I got us some dessert!”

“Oh, thanks! What did ya-” 

Sunshine was interrupted by the walls of flesh closing upon her as Sophie grabbed her coat and pulled a big, sweet brownie from it.

“-get us?” continued Sunshine.

“This, my lovely borrower, is a delicacy of the human world” said Sophie “Here, take some”

Sophie took a little piece of the brownie out for Sunshine to enjoy, the crumbs all falling on her top, some even on Sunshine. The borrower climbed a bit, so that only her legs were buried under Sophie’s chest and so that she could use her arms to grab the piece of brownie.

The human, on her part, started browsing Netflix for something that the borrower could get with her… limited understanding of human culture. She didn’t notice Sunshine taking her first bite of the brownie, but did hear the “fucking delicius” she uttered.

As Sunshine continued eating, Sophie’s free hand almost instinctively went to gently pat the borrower. Sophie smiled as she felt her index finger messing with Sunshine’s hair, the texture of her muscles… they remained there for five straight minutes.

“Sooo… does it normally take time to choose one of these things…?” Said Sunshine, breaking the silence.

“What?” Said Sophie, snapping back from her trance and pulling her hand away from Sunshine immediately.

“Hey! I didn't say stop!”