“She’s invented an amazing machine!” said Edith,
“You’d better hide those now tiny pieces of furniture in the cupboard, or she
might guess that someone’s been in here.”
Connor picked up the miniaturized chair and desk
and walked over to a cupboard, put the furniture in, and pushed it to the back,
and then slid some beakers and stands in front them to hide them. He turned to
see Edith pointing the device in his direction.
He stepped to one side
Edith moved her hand, so that the device was
pointing in his direction again.
“It’s probably better if we don’t fool around with
that thing,” said Connor, “Imagine what could happen to me if you accidentally
pressed that switch, while it was pointing this way.”
“I’m more interested in what could happen to you if
I deliberately pressed it,” said Edith, smiling.
“Hey, I came along to win you over, and I like the
fun of sneaking in here, but let’s not get carried away.”
“I think you’ll be carried away in my coat pocket
soon enough. I do have a boyfriend, remember, but you’d go down my throat
smoothly and whole, if you were the size of that little chair you just put
away.”
He couldn’t believe it.
He started running towards her, ready to reach out
and snatch the device. Edith pressed the switch and smiled with great amusement
as he dwindled down to tiny size. She knelt down and picked him up, with her laughing
eyes beaming down at him, lifted him up and held him right in front of her big
lips and perfect smiling teeth.
“Edith, please make me big again. You can be happy
with your boyfriend, and at least I might have a chance with someone else one
day.”
“I can be happy with my boyfriend anyway, and he’ll
never know how much fun I’m going to have with you after all,” said Edith, “I
think we’re out of time.”
She slipped him into her coat pocket, put the
machine back into Colleen’s handbag and zipped it up, opened the science
classroom door from the inside, reset the lock, stepped out and pulled it shut
and walked to the students’ staircase.
Colleen soon came up the staff staircase, entered
the room and collected her bag and locked and left the room. She was halfway
down the hall, when she turned around and came back and had a good look at the
room. There was a chair and a desk missing.
She went to the cupboards, took out some powder and
a small brush and then managed to take her device out of her handbag, without
touching the places it was usually held by. She dusted them and found a mixture
of her own fingerprints and someone else’s. She searched every cupboard in the
room and eventually found the reduced chair and desk. Then she checked the
windows and found that one had not been locked properly.
She knew that someone had set the classroom up, so
that they could sneak in after school, and that someone had taken the machine
out of her bag and used it on the furniture and then tried to cover their
tracks. From now on, she would check that all of the windows were locked before
leaving the room, and she would always carry her bag with her.