Lindsey and Kylie Smith walked along the fence that surrounded the perimeter of the Gaea House property. Lindsey who was thirteen and her little ten year old sister Kylie were bored. They both missed their school and their friends. Lindsey now stood twenty-five feet tall while Kylie was only twenty-two feet tall. Both girls were thankful to have normal growth spurts now. Lindsey and Kylie were both skeptical about joining Operation Titan at first, but they both enjoyed their new view of the world, well at least at first they did. Now they both missed their old lives.
“I wonder what the kids at school would think of us now, Linds,” Kylie said. Lindsey smiled at her little sister.
“I don’t know Kyle, but I bet a few of them would run scared,” Lindsey said with a laugh.
“Do you miss it, Linds? I mean if we didn’t do this we would be going back to Iowa with titanic ‘rents.”
“I sort of miss it. I don’t miss the cliques or the bullies. I don’t miss feeling like I have to impress people with my clothes, but I do miss my friends,” Lindsey said as they approached close to the road still walking along the twelve foot chain link fence. The fence wasn’t to prevent the giants from escaping but rather from the human getting in.
“Yeah, there are not a lot of fashion options when you’re over twenty feet tall,” Kylie said, looking down at her simple blue sundress. Lindsey wore a pink one. All the giantesses pretty much wore the same outfit, between the sundresses or the scrub like outfits. The fabric was stretchy and made from materials found in a landfill. Alex Anderson invented the material shortly after the evolution began.
The two adolescent giantesses stopped walking for a moment. A car passed by the fence. A man in his twenties with a fourteen year old boy were cruising the countryside when the man stopped his red convertible in front of the two giantesses.
“Hey, my little brother was wondering if one of you would let him look up your skirt,” the man said with a laugh and sped off. Lindsey started to cry. To the humans Lindsey and Kylie could be adults trapped in adolescent bodies but they weren’t, they were the age they appeared.
“What a little prick,” Lindsey sobbed as she sat down and held her knees. Kylie pats her on the back. “I feel like a parade float. Hell, I’m bigger than one.”
“Small people, small minds. Remember that’s what Dr. Gunderson told us,” Kylie said with concern. “We are not like them and they are not like us. We are so much stronger and smarter than them.”
“But we are still kids, Kyle. We are still growing kids and they don’t have a clue,” Lindsey sobbed.
Then the giantesses heard a noise, the sound of pedaling gears. Someone on a bike is coming. Kylie wanted to test her telepathy. She reached her mind out to the passer-by. She found out that it was boy around her and Lindsey’s age and that the boy comes by at least once a day in hopes of spotting a giant. Kylie found it to be cute that this boy seemed curious. Lindsey dried her tears just as the boy came into view. He stopped his bike in front of the two blond giantesses and stared at them.
The boy wore a knit cap over his shaggy blond hair and a gray hoodie. His blue eyes wide as Lindsey and Kylie gave him a friendly smile.
“It’s not polite to stare,” Kylie playfully said with a giggle in her voice.
“I-I-I’m sorry, it just that I’ve never seen a … Well you know,” the boy said nervously. Lindsey laughed.
“Bigger than you expected,” Lindsey said and the boy nodded.
“What’s your name?” Kylie asks.
“C-C-Cody, Cody Matthews. Wow, you’re really big,” the boy said in awe.
“You don’t need to point out the obvious,” Lindsey said as she felt the tears coming back on.
“Hey, I didn’t mean to make you cry. It’s just that…” Cody said, trying to amend the situation and then he thought for a second. “Aren’t you guys old? You act like the girls in my class. I was told that only the older people are evolving.”
“We’re not,” Kylie blurted out and Lindsey gave her a dirty look. Good job Kyle, you’ve just blown our cover. Dr. Gunderson and Mr. James will never let us out again. Lindsey transmitted to her big mouth sister.
“You’re not? You mean kids are evolving too?” Cody said.
Say no more, Kyle. Please just say no more. Lindsey transmitted but it was too late, Kylie gave the boy a nod.
“But you can’t tell a soul. The others will get mad at us and not let us go far,” Kylie said. Cody gave her a crocked smile that Lindsey found cute.
“You’re giants, who’s going to stop you?” Cody said with a shrug.
“The adult giants that live here,” Lindsey responded. “We are not the biggest ones here.”
“Your secret is safe with me. What are your names?” Cody asked.
“I’m Kylie and this is Lindsey. We’re sisters. I’m ten and Lindsey is thirteen,” Kylie answered.
“I’m thirteen too,” Cody said, smiling up at the giant girls. Lindsey looked like no other girl Cody had went to school with. She put the most popular girl in his class to shame with her thick wavy blond hair and sparkling blue eyes and her flawless skin. Cody noticed that Lindsey had no acne much less a freckle. Even under the potato sack of a sundress, Lindsey had a body that a girl in high school would envy. “I go to Spartan Falls junior high. I’m in the seventh grade there.”
“We’re not from around here. I went to Appleton junior high in Iowa,” Lindsey answered shyly. Lindsey thought Cody was cute. Back at her old school, a boy like Cody wouldn’t give her the time of day. Lindsey wasn’t popular but she wasn’t quite a nerd either, she was one of those kids that survived day to day.
“I’ve never met anyone from Iowa much less a pretty giantess,” Cody said with a blush. Lindsey blushed too. No boy has ever called her pretty before. Lindsey never thought of herself as ugly, but she never thought of herself as a looker either. Now she has the body and looks that puts the most beautiful cheerleader to shame, even her body is much stronger and flexible than that of the whole cheer squad. Lindsey of course was unaware of this as is most of the newly evolved are about their looks.
“Will I see you again?” Lindsey asked the doll sized boy.
“Every day if you want, I have to go now or my mom will kill me if I’m home late,” Cody said as he got back on his bicycle. “Oh, don’t pay a mind to Chad and Derek Harper. They’re just a couple of douchebags. They think that because they’re family owns everything that it gives them a right to bully everybody. Apparently they don’t care about how big you are either. His family has tried and failed to get the Gaea House closed. They hate giants.”
“Good to know,” Kylie said. “I wanted to step over this fence and have my foot meet his pretty red car.”
Cody gulped and Kylie laughed.
“She wouldn’t have done that. Kyle’s bark is worse than her bite. We wouldn’t hurt anyone. People with four digit I.Q.’s don’t do that sort of thing,” Lindsey said while glaring at her little sister. Kylie just giggles.
“I’ll see you tomorrow, Lindsey? Same time, same place,” Cody said shyly to the beautiful Titaness.
“Sure, I’ll see you then,” Lindsey said, waving at Cody…

Steve regularly checked on the wards of Operation Titan. His concerns went to the two Smith girls who seemed bored being here at the Gaea House, so it was no surprise to Steve that the girls like walking the perimeter around the property. They were trying to get as close to civilization as they could. It was also no surprise to Steve that the girls befriended a local boy. Of course he had the power to forbid them, but Steve knew that would only make thing worse. Both girls had knowledge that far surpassed man and the strength of charging elephants, but that one very human part of them still lived, the part that is so much that of a young teenager, the need to have contact with others in their age group. Some days, Steve wished they found subjects more like him at that age, shy and backwards.
Steve let this Cody Matthews come around and he didn’t let the girls know that he knew their secret. In the meantime, Steve looked though his files for newly evolved with children, particularly teenagers. To his delight he found a family from the same Iowa town the Smiths are from, he had Caroline make the call immediately…

Calvin Harper had started growing. He delighted as he watched his guard/ doctor / physical therapist Sven’s gaze change every day until one morning he woke up and had hit his head on the top of the door frame. The old Calvin would have to go to the hospital immediately for fear of a fracture or maybe a brain hemorrhage, but the new Calvin was different, he just laughed it off and ducked before walking through the door.
“Six foot, nine inches, Mr. Harper,” Sven said as he had to look up to his boss for the first time. Sven was not used to looking small next to another person and his reaction was less than stellar. Sven really didn’t like it when he saw that the once brittle old man could now bench press more than him without even breaking a sweat. No, Sven didn’t like this one bit but Calvin did. Calvin Harper felt like he could rule the world…

Every day, Dan Hester made it a point to visit Gaea house. Construction began on a new house for all the giants in his life. He moved into Bradley’s barn so they could demolish the old house. It made Dan sad to see his old life knocked to the ground like that, but it had to be done. Dan’s world was growing around him. He thanked his lucky stars and Brad’s that his little brother had officially stopped growing, but Brad’s new height came as a surprise to everyone, especially the giants of Gaea House. If Brad had never suffered from Downs, he would have been in the seven foot club as a human but as a giant he stood a staggering thirty five feet tall.
Despite Brad’s massive size, Dan liked to see that his brother found a love in his life. Allison Hayes and Bradley Hester became a couple, an odd couple considering Allison’s small size. In the giants’ world, Allison Hayes was the equivalent of a five foot woman and Brad a very tall man built to play basketball.
Brad had a hard time ducking through the doorway of his barn but the forty foot peak made it comfortable for him to stand up straight. Brad still had an angelic face and a shy demeanor despite the fact that he had to look down at everybody. His whole entire hand covered Dan’s body and he can hold Dan in one hand without any difficulty, but Brad still didn’t enjoy being big.
Today Dan and Brad were planning a homecoming for Leah. Leah didn’t want to come home until she was fully grown and now that Leah stood twenty-eight feet and two inches, she was ready to go back to the farm. She didn’t like leaving Josh but she understood why they didn’t want him off Gaea property just yet. She also knew that even though Dan was all for Josh taking the serum, Dan felt uncomfortable around his thirteen foot son. It made Dan feel less like a man to be towered over by a four year old.
Leah and Allison walked on the road with four cop cars flanking them. Leah didn’t like that people stared at her as she passed their houses. Allison was quite used to it. Leah wasn’t sure if she would ever leave the farm again once she got back.
Poor Brad, I bet they run when they see him. Leah broadcasted. Allison smiled up at her and patted her arm. No wonder he is still shy. I wonder if they know that we are more afraid of them. Allison giggled.
Relief swept over Leah when they started down the gravel drive. The cop cars pulled over and stopped. Allison and Leah were all alone for the first time since they started their little walk. Leah had heard about Brad at Gaea House but she had never seen his full growth before. Brad made her feel small. She ran to him and Brad picked her up into one of his famous hugs.
“I miss you my swan,” Leah said, smiling at the most beautiful giant she had ever seen.
“I miss you too sis. It’s been hard keeping Dan in line,” Brad joked. Leah and Brad quit communicating to one another. Leah wanted her new appearance to be a surprise to her brother in law and it was. Leah’s straight dark hair reflected the sunlight and her blue eyes shone. Leah still looked like the old Leah to Brad, but only healthier.
“Dan,” Leah said and she scooped him up in her hands and kissed his little head. “I miss you baby.”
“I miss you too,” Dan said with a laugh. “Even though I just saw you yesterday. I’m glad you're home honey.”