Chapter 2
That
evening, while Mark and Julie were watching the evening news. Mark noticed how Julie always removed
her shoes and placed her feet on the sofa. She always did this during the
news. During the
commercials, Mark looked at Julie’s feet and noticed that they were relatively
normal feet for a woman. No
scars or marks, but soft and delicate. And she always kept her toenails
painted. Just as he was
staring, Mark began to feel a little achy. And as Julie turned to ask him what
was the matter, Mark stood up and bent over holding his stomach. “Julie, I think I’m going to be sick,”
was the last thing Mark remembered saying before the room started spinning and
he fell to his knees. He
began to crawl around and for some strange reason he felt like his clothes were
slipping off as he moved. He
had visions of Julie’s face with a horrified look on it but couldn’t
distinguish between hallucination and fantasy. Finally, he passed out for what was
probably a couple of minutes. Julie
was completely in a state of shock over what she just witnessed. One minute she was sitting next to him
talking about the news and the next she was watching him shrink and crawl out
of his clothes in front of her. He
had passed out about a yard from her foot and appeared to be about 8” tall. Her first thought was that he might be
dead. But just as she was about to get up, she noticed some slight
movement. The first thing
Mark noticed was that he was completely naked. “Oh great! Now what have I done”, he
thought. “Julie must think
I’m some kind of idiot.” As
he stood up to regain his composure and look for his clothes, he noticed what
appeared to be one of Julie’s red high heels. But it was so big. Just as he thought he must be
imagining things, he heard a sound and turned only to be staring directly at
Julie’s foot. Only now her
foot was huge. There was nothing “soft and delicate” about it now, it was
immense. This couldn’t be
possible. As he followed
the leg upward he noticed a gigantic billboard Face with a confused look
staring down at him. Somehow,
he had to get control of himself. Could
it really be Julie, had she grown or had he shrunk down to the size of her
Foot? Since everything else
seemed huge, it must be him that shrunk. Julie broke the silence, “Mark, are
you OK, what happened?” “I
don’t know.” he said, “What’s going on?” Julie leaned a little closer, “Don’t
be afraid.” ‘Don’t be
afraid’ he thought. There
he was standing nude in front of a gigantic woman. How could he not be afraid. Without realizing it, Julie moved her
foot closer to Mark when she tried to get a closer look and he backed away immediately. “Oh, I’m sorry”, she said, “its just a
little hard to hear you.” “It’s
ok, you just look so big”, he answered, trying not to show the terror he felt
inside. “Well, it looks
like I am pretty big compared to you”, she
replied, trying to ease the tension. “Sorry”,
she said, realizing that Mark didn’t think the joke was funny. “It’s just so unbelievable, looking at
you so small. I’m seeing it
but I don’t believe my eyes.” Without
thinking, Mark blurted out, “How do you think I feel, I’m the one who
shrunk!” Realizing the tone
of his voice, he stopped himself saying calmly, “I’m sorry Julie, I know it’s
not your fault, but what am I going to do now? I can’t stay like this.” They both just stared at each other
for a minute. Neither one
could believe what they were seeing.
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