“I’m getting the feeling this is way above our paygrade” Officer Schneider says, as he starts to look more towards Officer Gallagher, still keeping his eye contact unto us a little bit.

“I’m getting that feeling too” Officer Gallagher says.

“So uh, how did all of this happen? Bathroom, you guys being shrunken” Officer Schneider leads off, speaking directly to us standing on the bathroom sink.

“We accidentally got ate by that chick the corner, went through her entire digestive system, got shitted out, and found out in the toilet” Tony says, pointing toward Martina, seemingly playing some sorta mobile game on her phone, judging by her hand movements and how she’s really focused on it. 

“Ma’am, is that true?” Officer Schneider says to Martina, she doesn’t seem to look up at first, still being really immersed in what she’s doing. She looks up a few seconds and then says “No habla ingles”. Seemingly not knowing how to converse this conversation in English. Officer Gallagher mumbles into his mic saying something about bringing over a Spanish translator along with the back up. 

“Well you sir, do you know something?” Officer Gallagher say to Tom, who’s been leaning back on the bathroom wall near the door, watching things unfold. Tom scratches his stubbled chin, and then swallows some phlegm. 

“Y’know, I can’t really say that I know this whole situation all too well either. I just got called into it by my employees. Who found them in the toilet, after y’know, the woman over there defecated them out along with the rest of her waste. Now how she accidentally ate them and all of that, beats me. I guess y’know, you can actually ask the people who actually went through it” Tom says, with a little sarcasm at the end, throwing a glance towards us. 

“You guys wanna explain yourselves a little more?” Officer Schneider says turning towards us, sounding annoyed in his tone of voice after what Tom said to him towards the end.

We stay silent for a minute, I think we’re all internally thinking how we should approach this situation. Should we tell them that we all made physical contact with each other and then we shrunk, and then talk about the situation with the college kids and how that went down and how we ended up here. Or should we make up some sorta lie that kinda fits. I can tell we’re all thinking these, since I can feel the tenseness in the air between us on what to do.

“Well guys, you do speak English and we just saw that you did. Did you guys hear my question?” Officer Schneider says, again, the beeping light of his body cam really focuses on us. Something that I really think about as it’s happening.

“It’s a long story” I say.

"Well it ain’t like we ain’t got nothing but time” Officer Gallagher says.

“Hey, San Bernardino County Sheriff, open up. This is the back up” We hear a slight knock at the door, and they come in creaking it open.

“Yeah, this isn’t our jurisdiction. This is some F.B.I, X-Files type shit right there. ” An officer says as he comes through the door immediately noticing us on the sink, I can tell it’s getting almost dark outside. It’s a little past sunset. The hotel's lights are really starting to shine, and I think there’s a few customers outside in the lobby watching what’s going on, all this police presence attracting attention. Another one walks in after him, a lean looking Hispanic woman. I guess she’s probably the translator officer.

“So what do you wanna do then? Call the F.B.I and get them on the case?” the translator officer says, her name tag saying Vargas. She runs her hand through her shiny jet black hair.

“Yeah bro, this is way above our paygrade as I said earlier” Officer Schneider says, starting to scratch the scalp of his head. 

“I do know one thing though, this shit is the Jack Cooper situation of like, 2023. Never in a million years would I ever think there was more just like him, or ended up like him” Officer Gallagher says, and I notice the officer who’s last name I haven’t seen yet chuckles a little at this, and Officer Vargas gives a weak smile.

Officer Vargas says something in Spanish to catch Martina’s attention, seemingly back to playing her mobile game. They walk out the bathroom door so they can talk more about the situation, seemingly to the side somewhere outside the bathroom and somewhere more secluded. They both somewhat hurry out of the bathroom as they walk, a bit more of a crowd has formed outside but I see Jon tells them to please stop trying to stare and they do disburse. 

“I’m just flabbergasted. I have so many questions” The nameless officer says, and as soon as I get a good look at his badge I see his last name, it being Fowler. 

“Yeah, tell me about it. I honestly can’t wait for what she has to say about this” Office Schneider says, pointing out the door. The cops I notice are kinda standing in a circle now, Tom standing to the side a little. Seemingly staying quiet as all of this goes down as the cops talk amongst themselves about the current situation. I have the feeling judging by the unfinished conversation him and Tony had before the cops showed that Tony may know more than what he led on, at least about being shrunk. Maybe that’s why he’s being quiet. 

After about 15 minutes or so, Officer Vargas and Martina come back in. The cops seemingly well adjusted to our existence, seemingly ignoring us in the background. I guess it isn’t that weird once you get past the initial shock, their conversation goes from how weird this situation is, to how bored they are posted up in the Big Bear area. Seemingly mostly being from the LAPD or the Inland Empire cities police departments and seemingly mostly patrolling out there, and how boring it is being up here in Big Bear compared being a cop in Downey or Riverside or West Covina or whatever. As soon as Officer Vargas and Martina come back in, they seemingly stop their current conversation.

“So, what’s the story?” Officer Fowler says, swinging his arms back and forth and clapping when he swings them forward. 

“So she says that she doesn’t know 100 percent how they got inside her, she says she think if something like them got inside her stomach, she would know about it. She’s completely honest about this it seems. So I’m assuming she consumed them by accident” Officer Vargas says, and Officer Fowler looks shocked when he seemingly finds out all three of us have been consumed.

“Wait, so you guys…” He says, looking toward us. He had that same shocked expression that Officer Gallagher had when he found out that we talked.

“Yep, it’s as gross as you could imagine” Tony says, answering his trail off.

“This really is a Jack Cooper situation, and you guys are still in one piece and everything” Officer Fowler says, sounding amazed. 

“So do you guys know how you ended up in Mrs.Perez’s stomach?” Officer Vargas says, eying us. I guess Perez is Martina’s last name.

“Well, we fell onto her shirt, after being tossed up in the air inside the local Vons by a janitor as we were running across the floor, figured it would be best not to move to alert her, we end up on her until we get to the car, she gets in and we land in her water bottle, and we got swallowed and everything. And here we are now” Dave says.

“Does this check out for the rest of you guys?” Officer Fowler says.

“Yep, that sounds about right” I say,

“Yeah, that’s how it happened” Tony chimes in seconds after me. 

“Okay then. Yeah there’s not much we can do about this, we gotta get the big boys involved with this one?” Officer Gallagher says, using “big boys” to refer to the government agencies. 

They ask us for our names, and the like, and ages and occupations. They say that they’ll contact our wives once we get to the station, since we’re all out here from different states and on vacation, plus we’ve been gone for hours now and it’s starting to be night time. I’m sure they’ve texted and called us a million times where we’ve been. If they haven’t filed a missing persons report already.

“So, how are we going to get out of here and get to the station?” I say, once they start to wrap things up, Martina is seemingly kept in contact for future reference I notice and that’s what they tell us, she’s free to go as of now and she did leave. Her husband and kids are probably wondering where she’s at in all of this commotion, since I think she’s at least married judging by the Misses that Officer Vargas says.

“I’ll make sure to go tell the guys that we need the lobby cleared just for a minute, just for they can get you guys from here to the squad car” Tom says, speaking up for the first time in a little bit, starting to stop leaning off of the wall and heading towards the door and opens it and slightly leaves it open as he walks towards the lobby.

“Thank you” I say, and all the officers seemingly nod their heads in approval. 

“So, how are you guys liking Big Bear?” Officer Gallagher says towards us, seemingly trying to fill in the silence between us as Tom goes out and tells his employees what’s up. I’ve only seen Jon and Mike at this point, I haven’t seen anyone else get involved in this. Maybe that’s just who’s on shift at this very moment, at least down here that I can see. 

“It’s alright, y’know. Woodsy, I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and I live in the Bay Area now as you guys know so it’s nice seeing big trees and forestry and stuff. My wife proposed the idea of us coming out here for our wedding, since we’ve put it off due to Covid and the like as well” Dave says. 

“Yeah, I spent a decent chunk of my life in Charlotte and it’s a pretty woodsy city. So this isn’t too shocking to me. I remember hearing about this place a little bit from other students who went up here on spring break with their friends when I was in college myself, like 17-18 years ago. Wow, it’s really been that long huh…” I say, I realize how much time it’s been since I was in college. It really does something to you when you say it out loud. The world’s changed quite a bit since 2005. 

Tony begins to say something but Tom comes back in, interrupting him.

“Alright, you guys should be in the clear. I shut down the lobby for a few minutes, I told a few people who were on their way to check in that were outside that we’re handling a massive spill in the lobby and they should go back to the car for a bit. Surprisingly that seemingly worked and they obeyed what I said without a doubt" Tom says, closing the door behind him fully before saying what he says. 

“Y’know, you guys are lucky these bathrooms are pretty soundproof too” Tom also adds. 

“I’ll just put them in my breast pocket, if they’re alright with that” Officer Vargas says, and Officer Fowler snickers a little bit at this.

“What? It’s just a form of temporary transportation” Officer Vargas says, questioning Fowler a little.

“Y’know what, nevermind nevermind” Officer Fowler says and he waves his hands as doing it as if he's shooing her away.

Officer Fowler walks a little bit closer to us to and to the think, her nice toned figure looks nice in her uniform. Almost like a sexy cop, I’d say. Her dark eyes seem somewhat seductive towards us even though she’s not trying to be. She’s quite busty, as well too.

“Which one of you guys wanna get plucked up first?” She says, and I’ll admit. The way she says it kinda turns me on, even though she’s not really saying it in a seductive way. I’ve kinda had a thing for Latinas, ever since I first came out to Los Angeles for college and saw a bunch of them around the city dressed pretty sexy, whale tails and that type of stuff being the style back then. Not that many of them in Charlotte and Baltimore, especially back in the early 00s.  Although I never dated one due to the fact I was with Molly during that time. 

“I guess I’ll go first, I know Erica is worried sick for me by now and everything” Tony says, as Officer Vergas reaches out to softly grab him, picking him up by the back of his faded and pretty raggedy shirt, and placing him in her front breast pocket, right above her name tag. I know he can probably feel the padding of her bra. And probably the heat of her breast as well, radiating onto him. 

“I’ll go” Dave says, and Officer Vergas lays down her hand palmside up and lets him walk on it, I notice Dave tries to lightly step on her fingers as he makes her way up into her palm. I guess if he really put pressure on her hand it would hurt, or at least that’s what he thinks. Officer Vergas slowly rises her hand up to her breast pocket, and Dave climbs in, Tony reaching out his hand and pulling him in, him falling in head first, but he’s able to rotate himself up and on his feet, Tony moving over a little.

“Your turn” Officer Vergas says, looking directly at me. She gives me a warm smile and reaches her hand out to me. I feel kinda turned on, when she’s giving me all of this attention. I look at her hand, pretty wide and her fingers are pretty slender. I walk onto her hand, and she gently moves me, and it feels like I’m on an amusement park ride right with how high I am in her hands and how she’s moving me, although she’s being slow and gentle about it. 

C’mon, climb in” Tony says, gesturing to me to make my way inside her breast pocket, Officer Vergas putting me slightly closer to her pocket, making it a bit easier for me to climb right in and not have to have Tony or Dave try to lend me a hand. I notice all the other guys in the bathroom with us are seemingly watching this go one, even Tom seems to be paying attention to what’s going on. I don’t know if they’re watching us because they’re ready to leave this cramped bathroom or they’re intrigued by how we’re going into her pocket, possibly a somewhat perverted moment to look at her bosoms. 

I climb in, getting a good spot next to the end near Tony on the right side of her pocket. It’s like seeing the world from on top of a sky-scraper, although it’s just a bathroom that would have been normal sized to me just a few days ago.

“Alright, let’s get ready to roll. Sir, you’re good to go from here” Office Gallagher says,  then pointing towards Tom when he tells him that he’s good to go, and everyone starts to get up.

“Alright, thanks for your time, officers” Tom says, seeming being the first one to go towards the door, wanting to be the first one out of this situation that we’re in.

As Officer Vargas walks, and the other officers as well too, I can really feel her heartbeat a little bit behind us, behind the padding of her bra. And a little bit of her lungs going in and out as well too behind us, I notice after Tom leaves, Officer Fowler walks up to the door and opens it up for us, seemingly trying to be a gentleman. Everyone walks out in a single file line, I think that it could look suspicious to those who aren’t in the know, but then I remember that Tom temporarily told a few patrons to wait for a minute outside.

It’s nice being in the outside world again and seeing it, after being inside the digestive systems of two women .That signature hotel smell too being a nice reminder and refresher as well. Smelling actual fresh air, and not smelling air mixed with the smell of digested food and the like. As Officer Vargas walks, and we head towards the lobby. It really does feel weird seeing all these items like a flat screen TV in the breakfast area or a candy vending machine in the hotel commissary area look like it’s 100 feet tall compared to how it probably would have looked to me  just a few days ago when I was normal sized. I can feel the steps of Officer Vargas as she walks, I can see Jon and Mike seemingly behind the lobby desk, watching us as we walk away.

We make it outside and breathing even fresher air makes it even better, and I see the few Tahoes they have parked to the side of the hotel, and then Officer Vergas mumbles under her breath for all of us three to duck down for no-one can see us, something you think that would be really obvious for us being shrunk, but we forget collectively to do so since we’re already find out. We duck our heads down and sink a little bit more into her pocket as she mumbles this.  I hear some police talk on their radios about how they addressed the situation and they’re going to bring us into the station and how we’ll contact our wives and families and how it’s going to go from there

We get into the same car as Officer Fowler, the same Tahoe they seemingly came in on. I think Officer Gallagher and Schneider went along back to doing whatever they were doing, patrolling the area or whatever they were before they got our call. The crisp March air ending when dealing with the heated warmness of inside the Tahoe.

The drive to the station is pretty quiet, there’s not much talk between us shrunken guys and the officers. Besides Officer Vargas or Fowler telling us to duck down whenever we’re right besides somebody at a light or something and they don’t wanna risk us being seen by them. 

At the station we go through a separate part of the building to avoid being seen by civilians that might be there and the like, and we’re put in this little room. We tell them our wives numbers and they call them to tell them our situation, and we’re told that they’ll be coming to see us first thing tomorrow.

As I fall asleep on a napkin in this little area of some sorta secluded jail cell and Tony and Dave lying down not too far from me on it, it’s probably about 9 o’clock now and I’m starting to feel all tuckered out from all this action I’ve gone through. I wonder what tomorrow might bring, and how Nicole will react to seeing me at this size. And telling her all the history she doesn’t know about, what really went down in the Europe trip after high school and everything.

I feel a little bit of anxiety before I fall asleep about tomorrow. Crazy that all of this shit happened to me over the course of a few hours, in one whole day.