Lauren was quite agitated. The cute boy named Rich who had been so nice last night at the mixer and who had asked her to meet him for lunch at the cafeteria, was woefully late. She had gotten there early and waited. Fifteen minutes she waited. Had he not been so cute she would have left. Angry and hungry, she had finally gotten some food and sat down by herself in the now sparsely populated cafeteria.
She was just about to sink her fork into a somewhat dubious piece of Salisbury steak when something on her table moved. Behind the saltshaker. She looked. Nothing.Lauren bit into her steak. Awful, just awful. She choked down the bite and tried the mashed potatoes. Much better, she thought, and began eating them with no small amount of gusto.I’m cute, aren’t I? She thought to herself. She had always thought so. Lots of guys had said that she was pretty. She had brown hair which she often wore in a low-maintenance ponytail. Today she had selected to wear a cute little outfit she had bought at a Khol’s grand opening sale. It consisted of a sleeveless denim top and matching shorts. She liked the outfit because she could wear it several different ways. The top was meant to be tied up at the midriff, but it looked fine down. And the shorts rode low on her hips, so if she tied the tails of the shirt up, she could show off as much or as little tummy as she wished. Today she had tied it about halfway up her stomach, so her navel was centered between the shirt tail and her pants waist. This was the best mix of sexy and cute and she had already gotten a couple of sideways glances at her stomach from boys. She liked that. She looked good and she knew it.So where was he? Lauren had hoped that Rich would be somewhat different than all of the other guys she had met at college. So far he had been. He was nicer, cuter, sweeter and certainly later than the others.“Lauren!” the voice was very quiet, not a whisper, but very quiet. Lauren glanced around and saw no one she knew who was trying to catch her attention. Odd, she thought and continued eating.“Lauren! Down here!” There it was again. She had definitely heard it. She looked around again.“Down here, Lauren, look!” Nothing. A quick glance behind her also revealed nothing. Returning her eyes to her plate, she finally saw the source of the voice.Letting out a yelp, Lauren stood up quickly, knocking her chair over with a thud. The few other people seated around the room casually looked towards the noise. To avoid a fuss, Lauren looked at them and said, “sorry, roach.” At that point several people left.Lauren looked back at her table, deep brown eyes wide with wonder and fear. Standing next to her plate was Rich, all 2 1/2” of him.“Oh my gosh,” Laura whispered. She slowly sat back down, then leaned her head closer so that her face was maybe 12” from the tiny man.Rich was wearing exactly what he had been wearing the night before. “Hi,” said Lauren, with a slight smile. “What happened?”“Long, long story,” said Rich. “Hal and I…” at this point Hal stepped from behind the salt shaker. He was shorter than Rich, maybe 2 1/4” in true size, but he was much stockier. Rich continued, “Hal and I got into some trouble and we need your help.”Lauren had held her mouth slightly open, and Rich could smell the food on her breath. He had just watched her eat a pile of mashed potatoes which equaled about six times his current mass. It was at once exciting and terrifying how easily his whole body would fit into her mouth. The fact the he would also fit easily down her throat was also a thought that he was deliberately trying to avoid.“What can I do,” asked Lauren.“We need you to drive us to my house in Fountain City. The mad scientist who shrunk us is on his way there now to shrink my entire family.”“What happened?”“No time to explain now. Can we go?”“Yeah, but my car is a few blocks away behind Carrick. Would you rather ride in my pocket or my purse?”They chose pocket. Very carefully, Lauren picked up Hal and dumped him rather unceremoniously into her front pocket. Then she picked up Rich. It was exciting to hold him in her hand, so small and fragile. The thoughts that flashed briefly through her mind scared her. The short ride was equally exhilarating for Rich. Her fingers were huge, but gentile, and he got a very good look at Lauren’s sexy stomach as she placed him in her pocket next to Hal. Rich figured that his entire head would fit into her navel with room to spare.Riding in Lauren’s pocket was a mistake. Her shorts were tight against her thighs and it was hot. Her car was quite a ways off and by the time she extracted them, they were both a little sore and ringing with sweat.“Put us on your shoulder so we can tell you where to go,” commanded Rich. Lauren did so. Later, Hal and Rich would agree that being picked up by the fingers of a giant, gentile and beautiful girl felt very good. As did sitting on her bare, toned shoulder.Lauren drove faster than she normally would have through the city streets, screeching to a halt in front of Rich’s rather nice house. It was a big, older house, very pretty.“Thanks Lauren,” said Rich, sounding almost normal since he was on her shoulder and close to her ear. “Please go back to campus- I don’t want you to get hurt.”She looked at the tiny men on her shoulder and smiled. “Is there anything else I can do?” she asked?“Yes,” said Hal, “carry us into the house!”“Good idea,” said Rich.Lauren carefully carried the tiny men in her hand and put them just inside the front door, which was ajar. Rich’s father was in the garage banging around and they went undetected.“Lauren,” said Rich, “when I get big, I want very much to kiss you!”“Okay by me,” said the girl. “I’d kiss you now but I’m afraid that if I did, you’d wind up in my stomach!” The look on her face was infinitely cute, but her expression was one of mild, half hearted concern and unmistakable curiosity.That thought sent an unexpected chill down Rich’s spine and he wondered what she had meant. “I assure you that I don’t want to go there!”“Be careful,” she said. “Listen, I’m going to drive around the block until I see you two fully enlarged.”They tried to talk her out of it, but to no avail. Hal and Rich watched her, argument lost, stroll back to her car and drive off. She should be safe enough in her car, Rich thought, so long as she kept moving. Rich and Hal made their way into the kitchen. Rich’s younger sister, Rachel, was in there, making herself a sandwich. She was wearing a black string bikini, her long redish-brown hair pulled into a tight, curly pony tail behind her head. Like many redheads, her skin turned a wonderful freckled bronze when she laid out in the sun, but she had to wear lots of sunscreen to avoid burns. She was a sight to behold. She looked good in her string bikini.“Man, Rich,” said Hal, staring at the 17 year old girl, “I wish your sister wasn’t still in high school…”“Never noticed before,” Rich said, mind on other things. He loved his sister but she was still his little sister. Pretty, popular, and bratty at times. They had gotten along much better since he had moved out of the house.Rachel finished making her sandwich. Selecting a canned coke from the refrigerator, she made her way back outside. On the floor, near her bare feet, Hal spotted a small, 2 inch high man run out the door after Rachel. “There he is!” said Hal, pointing to Rich. The chase was on.They got outside, hoping to they weren’t too late. Rachel was in her chaise lounge by the pool, sunglasses on. They thought they had spied the evil man up on the small table next to Rachel’s chair. He obviously planned to shrink her next.Rich and Hal shinnied up the thin metal legs of the table. They had learned quickly that which insects already know- when you weigh nearly nothing, even small muscles can do a lot.The top of the small table was covered with bottles of suntan oil, sunscreen, several magazines, a thick book and Rachel’s sandwich.Rachel had her sunglasses on and was reading a magazine, so she didn’t see the two tiny men crawl up on to the table. Hal stared at Rachel. From his perspective she was over 200 feet from head to toe. She looked awesome in her tiny bikini. He was surprised at how excited he was at being near a woman who was so huge compared to him. He watched sweat roll down her firm stomach and into her big, deep navel. Too bad she was only a senior in high school, he would love to ask her out, when he was larger obviously.Rich was more concerned with locating their adversary, whom they had begun to refer to as the Doctor. He was up here somewhere. Rich had run around the little table, which to him seemed about 100’ in all directions. Rich was in the middle of looking behind each bottle and magazine in turn when Hal’s voice called out.“Look out!” he shouted, and pushed Rich behind a book as Rachel reached for her sandwich. She took a large bite out of it and set it back down. Turkey, lettuce, no-fat mayo. Hal and Rich both were in awe of the size of her bite. If Rich had ever respected his sister it was now. At this size, swallowing him would not be a chore for the hungry girl. Rachel casually turned the page of her magazine, blissfully unaware of anything.At that moment, a slim, black clothed form darted from behind a bottle of Panama Jack’s and knocked Rich over. It was the Doctor! Before Hal could react, the Doctor had hit Rich again and sent him toppling over the edge of the table.“Rich!” Hal shouted. He suspected that Rich did not weigh enough for the fall to kill him, but he might be hurt and it was now up to him to protect Rachel. The Doctor flew at him next. Hal was stronger than Rich, and heavier- but, as has been mentioned before, when you weigh only grams, muscles can do more.The Doctor hit Hal in the gut, knocking him down. But Hal was quicker, seizing the Doctor’s leg as he passed and toppling him as he fell. “Now you die!” said the Doctor, “like your friend!” With surprising speed and agility, the Doctor rolled over and had Hal pinned before he knew what was happening. The man was not terribly old, maybe 40, and was no doubt more used to his small size than Hal or Rich. He began to lower his hands to Hal’s throat.Hal tried not to buy it, acting as if he were in control. “Where’s the machine?” he demanded.“As if I’d tell you!”Hal saw an opening and exploited it. He slammed his knee into the crotch of the Doctor. The man screamed and Hal threw him off- then jumped on him and began to beat his face.“Where!” he demanded, relentlessly.“Never!” Hal got angry. He hit the Doctor’s now bloody face once more and picked him up. But the Doctor was ready, hitting Hal in the kidneys and sending him sprawling.The Doctor ran towards the fallen Hal, but this time Hal was ready. He swiped the Doctor’s feet from under him and sent him, arms flailing, to fall headlong into the side of Rachel’s sandwich. His face hit a glob of mayo, which slowed him. Almost without thinking, Hal picked up the shaken man and shoved him in between the turkey and lettuce. With him trapped, Hal had him. The Doctor’s face was visible under the slice, Hal grabbed it. “Now,” he bellowed, “where is the machine, talk or you get eaten!”“Okay, okay! It’s over there!” he motioned towards the far side of the table.“Thank you,” said Hal. He began to reach into the sandwich to extract the trapped man and pull him out…Rachel had been totally absorbed in her article and had not noticed the commotion next to her on the table. But she did know she was hungry and again reached for her food. Hal barely managed to duck out of the way- the Doctor, trapped in the sandwich, would not be so lucky, unless Rachel didn’t bite that side. Maybe she wouldn’t. Hal would later admit that he was much more concerned for the nasty shock that Rachel would get if she saw a tiny man in her sandwich, or, worse yet, half of one.Rachel bit into the Doctor’s side. “No! NO! NOOOO!” screamed the Doctor as Rachel’s hand gripped the sandwich and lifted it up. “Help me!” His screams too small for her to hear, Rachel did not even look at her food before opening her mouth to eat. The Doctor got a full view of Rachel’s pretty face before her lips parted to reveal the black cavern of her mouth. Sunlight fell into it, lighting up the inside. Saliva glistened on perfect teeth, her tongue lolled and behind that, the red opening of her throat…he did not have long to look into her mouth before she shoved his end of the sandwich into it. Rachel bit into her sandwich. A piece of the lettuce was not completely bit in two and it pulled out from between the bread slices. It stuck out of her mouth. Hal saw why. Just below the lettuce, he could make out two small legs beating the air. O Rachel! Hal thought. She was obviously unaware of the Doctor’s presence. She casually slid her tongue under both him and the lettuce and pulled them into her mouth. Her eyes never left the magazine she was reading. Rachel began to chew… The Doctor flailed inside the sandwich as it was engulfed by Rachel’s mouth. He had just managed to retreat a bit into it when he felt no small pressure at his waste. Quick as lightning he was yanked out, into the blackness, legs kicking at air. Maybe she’ll notice me! He thought. He felt her tongue moved under him, sliding along his back like a great, wet snake. Then, movement as she pulled him entirely into her mouth. The girl began to chew. The Doctor was pushed all around her mouth with the meat, lettuce and bread as it was mashed to a pulp. Miraculously, he was not ground up. This terrified him more than ever, if she swallowed him with out killing him under her teeth…Before he knew what was happening, the mastication stopped. For an instant, movement stopped, then, quick as a wink, he felt himself being shoved in one direction. His eyes and mouth and nose were nearly full of mashed bread, meat and saliva, and he could hardly breathe. But he knew what was happening. The backward movement stopped, he teetered for just a moment, then down. Rachel swallowed, sending the bolus and the Doctor down her throat. The Doctor screamed as he felt the movement down. He was not dead, and at the end of her throat was her stomach! He was going down to her stomach very much alive… Rachel did not seem to notice her sandwich’s extra ingredient as she chewed it up. Hal watched her swallow, then take another bite. Well, that was that. With his eyes, Hal traced the path the food was taking inside Rachel, running his eyes from her delicate throat, across her ample breasts, finally coming to rest on her firm, flat stomach. Her bikini only called attention to that part of her body, leaving it entirely naked to the eye. Hal watched her stomach for a while, watched it rise and fall as she breathed, and flex as she turned to put her now half-eaten sandwich back on the table. Hal stood there in stunned silence. He was stunned not only because the girl was beautiful, but because what she had done was both horrible and exciting to him… The Doctor bellowed for all it was worth as he slid down Rachel’s esophagus. It was pitch black, and hot. He could hear awesome, gurgling noises all around him. Then the movement stopped. An awful sucking sound was followed by more movement, this time through a tight opening. Then, space and void. The Doctor topped into the blackness, he careened off something warm and soft and landed in a mass of thick, sticky liquid. The sounds all around him were terrifying, sickeningly terrifying. He knew in an instant where he must be. He tried to stand up on the goo, but his legs were having trouble getting a footing, and the air was so hot and muggy he could hardly take a breath.His terror was building. He was in the girl’s stomach! Alive! He was to be digested in a matter of minutes! What could he do? Carefully, he tried to feel around in the blackness, his hands finally touching the soft, slimy tissue of the stomach walls. On these be beat relentlessly, maybe she would vomit…oh the air was painful!Without warning, the sack in which he was began to move, tossing him off of the pile of goo and into a pool of liquid. Instantly his fingers and legs began to sting, then his face, finally his whole body. Acid! He was burning! He screamed just once for a brief second before the acidic air began to attack the delicate tissue of his lungs. Then the sack moved again, and he was instantly buried under a hot, moist and sticky pile of goo. His movements slowed, then ceased as his flesh began to soften and break up. Like melted wax, his flesh sloughed off his bones and added its mass to the growing glob of thick goo… Hal was startled by a hand on his shoulder. He turned to see Rich, bruised and disheveled but otherwise unhurt. He had soft landed on the grass, his body of insufficient mass for the fall to have caused any great harm. “You okay?” Rich asked Hal. “Yeah,” mused the other, seemingly in another world. He never took his eyes off the girl. “We fought, I won.”“So where is he?”Hal raised his arm and pointed to Rich’s pretty sister. “He’s in Rachel’s stomach,” he said, matter-of-factly.Rich gaped, “she ate him?”“Yeah, not on purpose! I put him in her sandwich.”“I hope he told you where the machine was.”“He did, said it was over there. I put him in the sandwich to make him talk but she picked him up before I could get him out. Then she ate him with the turkey and lettuce. Never even noticed.” Hal was visibly shaken.“Well good, I guess now she has two turkeys in her stomach.”They found the machine under the cover of a magazine. Slipping off the table, they made their way back to the garage. The operation seemed simple enough, the machine was shaped like a pistol, with toggle switch settings for “enlarge” and “reduce” and a trigger for activation.
The only problem was that it did not work.“Crap!” yelled Rich as Hal pointed it at him for the sixth time, again squeezing the trigger with no result.Hal cursed quietly under his breath, a rarity for him as Hal was something of a prude. “What do we do now?” he asked.“The only thing we can do it hope Lauren can find us, then she can takes us to the Doctor’s lab and hope he has another, working machine. Or maybe we can find something to fix this one, I don’t know what else to do.”They made their way back to the front yard, and stood on the curb hoping that Lauren would drive by and see them. It was purely by providence that, after a few moments, she did come driving by and was looking for them in their shrunken state. Seeing them, she quickly collected them and carefully placed them in her car’s cup holder. This meant that they both had a very good view of Lauren’s legs which was no bad thing.“Didn’t work, huh?” she said quietly, with much less concern than Rich had hoped.“No the machine is broken, we need you to take us back to the Lab and help us fix it. Can you do that?”“Of course,” said Lauren, shifting gears. “So what happened?”On the way they told her the whole story. Rich was surprised to find that Lauren was not horrified by what happened to the Doctor, but totally curious.“She ate him,” she mused. “I wonder what it would be like to have a little man crawling around in my stomach, waiting to be digested with my mashed potatoes.”Hal’s face immediately went white.“Lauren, I’m surprised at you!” Rich said with a forced, nervous laugh.“What!”“Listen, before we went into the house, you said that you were afraid to kiss me because I might wind up in your stomach. What did you mean by that?” Rich was more than a little agitated.Lauren fidgeted, her pretty eyes hidden by sunglasses. She nervously wet her lips with her tongue. “I’m sorry,” she said, “I was thinking out loud…”“Explain!” Rich demanded. Hal glanced nervously at Rich, then back at Lauren and began to wish that he had not listened to Rich’s suggestion to go wander around the science building last night. “When I was eating lunch I was mad at you for standing me up, and I was hungry and the food wasn’t any good. So when you and Hal appear on my table 2 inches tall, I started getting these weird feelings or vibes or something. My mouth watered and my throat tingled, all the way into my stomach. And I knew it wasn’t the mashed potatoes but I thought it might be the Salisbury steak for a moment. Then I had this awful thought; ‘Lauren’, I said to myself, ‘you could swallow them both whole, right now. You could walk around campus with two boys inside you and no one would know.’ As soon as I thought it I was ashamed, but I kept getting these…vibes.”Rich thought back for a moment. He had been thinking about her mouth, she had been so big compared to them. He remembered thinking that she could easily swallow them. A cold chill swept over him. “Uh, Lauren…”“Yeah,”“I have to know…”“Uh-Huh…"“Would you have eaten us?”The pause lasted longer than it should have. “No,” Lauren finally said, “not you.”“Are you saying you might have eaten someone else?”Lauren was quiet for a moment. Rich could not help but glance down at her bare stomach. A couple of inches of it were visible as she sat driving, her navel had been squeezed into a thick line. She took a deep breath.“Yeah, I would. If they were a bad person or a pusher or murderer or something…”“Would you have eaten the Doctor?”“Yes.”Hal’s blood went cold as ice. Had he not actually had the experience of shrinking this would have been a silly conversation. But he had seen a man eaten alive by a giant woman. It both terrified him and aroused him, and these feelings terrified him. At the same time he would both love and hate to see Lauren hold a tiny man over her gaping mouth, then swallow him down. Maybe if it was someone he didn’t know… he shook his head as a chill swept over his body.“Willingly?” Rich continued.“Yes.” Lauren was staring straight ahead. “I can’t shake this desire to eat someone alive, to feel them slide down my throat and into my stomach. To actually feel them crawl around in there as they digest…to become part of me…” she trailed off. “Oh boy…” said Rich. He just realized that he had been staring at her belly. She had sat up in her seat and more of her tummy had peeked out, as well as her bellybutton returning to a more normal shape. They got back to the campus, and Lauren parked in the student lot, it would be something of a walk to the science quad. This time the two tiny men rode in Lauren’s purse, remembering the uncomfortable ride in her pocket. Sitting in the dark with her check book and lipstick, Hal questioned Rich about Lauren.“How well do you know Lauren?” he asked.“Not terribly, I met her at a mixer a couple of nights ago and was going to meet her for lunch today, but we got shrunk. I thought she was a hottie.”“She is a hottie, but I’m afraid of her.”“No point in that, she’s our only hope now.”“I’m afraid she wants to eat us…”“Shut up, Hal! She said herself that she didn’t, she’s just confused right now is all. Don’t be so paranoid. She’ll take us to the lab and we’ll get back to normal and all will be well. Trust me.”“I can still be afraid,” insisted Hal.“Yes, but not of Lauren!” hissed Rich.Just then they were shaken as if the purse had been set down on a table. But they had not been traveling long enough to reach the science quad, and Lauren had not been running. Why had she stopped? Light poured into the purse as it opened above their head. Lauren’s hand entered and lifted Hal gently out of the purse. He vanished from view above Rich’s head. Then Lauren reached in an gently extracted Rich. Up he went in the giant girl’s hand. With no small surprise, Rich noticed that they were not in the science building, but in a dorm room. It was not on the table that Lauren set Rich, but inside a large drinking glass. Hal was in a similar glass next to him. Hal’s face was white as death, and he was visibly shaking. Rich looked back at Lauren, who was standing there looking a little confused.“Lauren!” called Rich. “What is going on!”Lauren did not speak. Instead, she reached up to her shirt and untied the knot that held the shirt tail about 3 inches above her belt. The shirt fell, completely covering her belly. The she began loosing buttons, beginning at the last fastened button at the bottom and working up. But she did not take the shirt off. She loosened all the buttons up to the bottom of her breasts. Then, taking the shirt, she again tied it up to bare her belly, only this time she tied it snug up under her breasts, exposing her whole stomach. Her bellybutton was showing, about an inch above her belt line. Then Lauren loosened the snap of her denim shorts, but again she did not take them off. Leaving them zipped, she folded the belt loop part down, exposing about three inches of her underbelly. Lauren’s abdomen was awesome, a perfect hourglass shape. Her navel was ovular, oriented vertically and about a quarter inch deep with a visible fold at the back. Tiny, nearly invisible hairs swirled around her navel and formed a line leading into her underwear, the top of which was barely visible now that Lauren had loosened her shorts. With her whole belly bare, Lauren’s navel sat about 2/3 the way down from her breasts. She was completely, totally, unimaginably, incredibly sexy.Hal and Rich were quite aroused, but still confused. What was the girl doing? Neither man could take his eyes off of Lauren’s fabulous belly. Their eyes seemed drawn into her navel.Lauren then reached up to her ponytail, which she loosened, allowing her soft, light brown hair tumble down to her shoulders. She looked awesome.“Lauren,” Rich ventured, almost too afraid to ask. This was weird. “What is going on Lauren?” he demanded. His voice was visibly shaky. When he looked up at her to speak, he noticed that he was staring right at her mouth. Again, the idea of how easily he would fit in there trickled through his mind. He tried to shut that thought out.Lauren didn’t say anything for a while, merely rubbed her stomach with her right hand. She opened her mouth to speak, then closed it again, exhaling. Finally, she stopped rubbing her belly and said, “you remember those…feelings or vibes I was having? I can’t stand it. There’s tingling, pin-pricks all up and down my throat…” she demonstrated on her neck with her fingers, “and down inside my stomach…” she demonstrated again with her fingertips on the skin of her belly. “Ever since I picked you guys up off the sidewalk, I’ve known…no, ever since lunch in the cafeteria.”“Known what, Lauren?” Demanded Rich, not in a kind way.Lauren put her hands down at her sides, inhaled deeply, then exhaled. Her breath was nervous, shaky. Was she afraid? She inhaled again to speak, “I’ve known that I want to eat you two. And now I am going to eat you.” With that, she moved her arm and reached for Hal. At that same instant, Hal began to scream uncontrollably. His words were intelligible at first, but as Lauren’s hand approached his glass, he lapsed into gibberish.“NOO! PLEEAAASEEEE!” he bellowed, as Lauren’s fingers grasped him by the cuff and hauled him out of the glass. “NOOOO! NO EAT! DON’T! DOOOONNNAAAAIIIIEEE…!” was all he could say as the girl raised him up to her mouth. Rich could only watch in horror as Lauren’s mouth yawned open and Hal was popped inside. The lips shut, leaving Hal’s legs to kick feebly at the air.“LAAAUUURRREEEENNNNN! NOOOO!” bellowed Rich, but too late. Lauren tilted her head back, opened her mouth to allow Hal to fall completely inside. Her mouth full and closed, Lauren looked at Rich and grinned at him. With a loud gulp, Lauren swallowed Hal. What happened next both terrified and excited Rich.Lauren sucked her breath in suddenly and closed her eyes. “Ooooooooooohhhhhhh,” she finally said. Backing up until she felt the bed behind her, she sat down and leaned back on her elbows. “OOOoo! Yeah!” she squealed, her lips parting in a smile, her eyes still closed. Her tongue ran over her teeth. “This is so cool, I can feel him sliding down my throat. Wait, he stopped, he must be at my stomach…AHHHHH, I just felt him fall into my stomach! He’s inside me, running around on his little feet. He’s exploring my stomach, oooo! That was too much fun!” She opened her eyes and looked at Rich. “Now its your turn!” Lauren stood up and advanced on Rich.Rich could not help but stare at Lauren’s sexy belly. His best friend was inside that stomach right now!Lauren noticed his gaze. “I can tell you’re staring at my belly. Hal is inside here now, I can feel him climbing around, trying to escape. Soon you’ll be with him, right here in my stomach!” she said, rubbing her tummy. “And the only way out is as a blob of mush!”Rich was not going to let this happen. He thought he liked this girl! Using all of his available strength, Rich began to rock the glass he was in. After two rocks, the glass fell over, spilling him onto Lauren’s desk. Quick as he could, he jumped off the desk. Lauren was not to the desk yet, and when she saw him jump off she immediately fell to her hands and knees, just in time to see him run across the room and under her roommate’s bed. She dove for him but missed, and Rich escaped, for the time being.Lauren, now agitated, began to pull stuff out from under her roommate’s bed. Albums, clothes, books, pictures, but each time she moved something, Rich found something else behind which to hide. Eventually, items became scarce and Rich had to retreat to the corner. Taking last refuge behind the phone book, Rich crouched in the darkness, mind racing.Lauren, stretched out on the floor, was unable to fit under the low bed. With her arms at full length, she could just move the phone book with the tips of her fingers. Manipulating it so that her hand could grasp it, Lauren moved the book out of the way and exposed Rich to her eyes. “Hello there!” she said, smiling. She could not reach him, at least in this position, without moving the bed and getting on top of it. So she rolled onto her side, resting her head on her arm and laying her other arm on her thigh. “You know,” she said, “you can’t escape. I will eventually catch you and when I do,” she said, licking her lips, “you’re going straight down to my stomach! I will catch you, you can either prolong the inevitable or give up now, but be assured, I will eat you.”
Rich could see her naked belly, and he immediately thought of Hal inside there, still alive and waiting to be digested. He liked Hal, they were buddies, but he had no desire to spend his last moments inside the stomach of a girl who, just yesterday, he had thought was really cute. Looking past Lauren’s prone form he could see the door of the room. It was a heavy door, but it was hung in such a way that there was a considerable gap between the bottom of the door and the floor. He thought it might be enough for him to squeeze under. Once out he could hide anywhere, but in this room he was an easy catch.
“Your friend feels so good in my stomach!” continued Lauren, “I can’t wait until you’re in there, too.”
Rich’s mind began to race. Stall her, he thought. He shouted, “you have to catch me first!”
“Don’t worry, I will. You can’t stay under there forever!”
“You can’t reach me back here!”
“Not yet. After I eat you I’m going to put on this adorable little sweater I bought last weekend. It’s a green turtleneck, sleeveless and cropped. It shows my whole belly when I wear hip huggers. Then I’m going to call Amy and we’re going to eat dinner. I can already tell that the two of you will hardly amount to a snack in my stomach! I’m going to eat until my tummy bulges a little, then you’ll be squished in there with the rest of my food. I am so hungry!” Quite without warning, she stood up and pulled the bed out from the wall a good foot. Then she hopped onto the bed.
Rich, ready for this, took off along the wall, evading her. Then he shot into the open floor as fast as he could run for the door. If he was just fast enough…
He wasn’t anywhere near fast enough. At his size, the door was a half mile away. Lauren merely hopped off the bed, swantered over and grabbed him.
“LAUREN!” he shouted, an unworded plea.
“What!” she said, “that was easy. Rich, look here.” She held him near her belly, so he could see her curvy abdomen and bellybutton. “This is where you’re going! Are you getting a good look at my stomach! Imagine your little body down inside here,” she swirled the fingers of her free hand around her navel. “Listen!” with that she pressed his tiny body against the skin of her belly, between her bellybutton and breasts, where her stomach was. “Can you hear your little friend in there? I can feel him churning and digesting in my stomach, but he is probably still alive. Just think, you’ll get to watch the last part!” Rich could not hear anything, but her belly skin was warm and soft, and not unpleasant. She moved him up to her face. “Well Rich, time for me to eat you! Say goodbye!” With that she tilted her head back slightly and opened her mouth.
“Lauren, please don’t eat me! Remember how cute you thought I was!”No response from the girl. Rich was lifted above Lauren’s gaping maw. Inside he could see her teeth, her tongue lolled in saliva. Then a sight befell Rich which made him scream. Suddenly Lauren opened her mouth just a little more, lowering her tongue and exposing the opening to her throat. Her gullet gaped open before him, her uvula becoming him in and down…down to her stomach! Hal had gone down that awful hole, and now Rich was, too.Rich, terrified, tried one more last ditch plea, “Lauren! Please don’t eat me! I’m too cute to die!”That was not what he meant to say at all, but it was what came out. Lauren laughed, then dropped Rich into her mouth.“NOOOOOO…!” screamed Rich as he fell into her mouth. He fell straight into Lauren’s mouth, glanced off her tongue and plunged into her throat. She swallowed him on reflex, sending him head first down her esophagus. It was pitch black as Rich slid quickly down the muscular tube. He could not move except to twitch. Suddenly his face was pressed firmly against a wet, fleshy mass, which suddenly gave way as he was pushed down. Then he was free, sliding along a slick albeit ribbed surface, finally sliding to a halt in a pool of something. Rich did not have to wonder where he was. Far away he could hear the beat of Lauren’s heart, the gurgle of her intestines below him, processing whatever (or, he had to think, whoever) she had eaten for breakfast. Other than that there was no noise in the girl’s stomach…except.Ahead of him the darkness, he could hear a sound. An awful moaning noise in the dark. His heart began to race.“Hal! Hal it’s me Rich. She ate me Hal, she ate us both!”The moan returned, closer. Rich could not see, but the air was pungent, rotting smell permeated the place. It was becoming harder to breathe.Suddenly, something fell on him, Rich cried out and leapt away, too late. The form was upon him. It felt fleshy, but where it touched him, his skin burned. Rich cried out as he fell back, into a pool of diluted acid. The form moaned, a deep moan that comes not from the throat, but from air wheezing through something broken. In abject terror, Rich tore at the form in front of him. It came apart easily, the moans increasing to high pitched squeals. Kicking and thrashing, Rich succeeded in tearing the form to pieces, the last heavy piece he threw from his chest, as the last remnants of life seeped out of it. A gurgle let Rich know that the stomach was working. Acid began to pool at his feet and sting his legs. With horror and shame, Rich realized that in his terror, he had pulled apart the partially digested but still living form of Hal. Perhaps it was for the best, his suffering was over. Rich’s was just beginning. Lauren’s stomach lurched and churned, tossing Rich around, coating him with acidic digestive juices. Rich screamed in pain as his flesh began to dissolve. He might have screamed for hours, but the acids quickly reduced him to what Hal had been before his arrival…Lauren felt her stomach give a little churn, just before a small burp left her lips. She had felt the sensations of Rich’s struggle with Hal inside her stomach, and the feeling had been just short of orgasmic. The vibes were gone, the dark desire to eat people was gone. Lauren had been right, though. The two-inch-tall boys hardly made a snack in her otherwise empty stomach. She replaced her roommate’s items under her bed, changed into her cropped sweater and called Amy.Lauren did not eat enough to make her belly bulge out, but it was enough to quiet the little tingle made by the two men as they digested in her stomach.