He finished his breakfast, and washed the dishes as she asked him. Not because she said so, but he always did whenever Maddy wasn´t home. He can´t stop but hate the fact that Cynthia´s there.

There were not much dishes to wash so he finished in no time. He shut the sink faucet and turned, but when he did, Cynthia was standing right on the kitchen, watching him from behind in silence. His expression turned into a bitter one as he realized she was there, but then he wondered: “How long has she been there?”

Cynthia was completely obnoxious towards Nick, but he must admit she had a nice body. Even if she was way passed her golden age, she still had a nice body for a mature woman. She wasn´t a top-heavy woman, on the contrary of Maddy. But what she did had was an ass, a big round ass together with wide hips. You may tell because she has already been a mother and her body had adjusted for that change. Together with that, her legs were thick and from Nick´s new perspective, of around four feet tall, she seemed more imposing.

He now had to look up to her, which he hated, and now she was looking at him with a certain intrigue on her face. Nick was trying to figure out what she could be thinking of, but he wanted to avoid thinking about Cynthia as much as possible.

If he could go through the day without talking to her at all, or at least maintain a distance from her to avoid as much contact as possible, then he´ll have a small win by the time Maddy comes back from work. But right now, it was really hard since she was standing there, saying nothing. “What´s she thinking?” he thought wondering if the seconds had turned into minutes as they both watched their faces for what now seemed to be a while.

In reality, the whole time she had been there, which were about five to ten minutes, she only had one thing in mind, which we could resume on the last thought she had: “Oh my, I don´t get how my daughter can be with him, even if he was a clumsy guy at least he seemed a man, but now…  he´s puny.”

She was surprised that something like this could happen, and even more surprised by the fact that someone she actually knew was the one going through it. She didn´t care much, she had no concern at all, in fact, a part of her was happy with it. In the past she saw Nick as a threat, someone who will eventually marry her daughter and if she allowed it, they could spend the rest of their lives together. An idea she disliked very much.

Now, seeing him as he now was, she knew it was just a matter of time before Maddy grew tired of him and return to being a single woman with the possibility of meeting someone better than Nick.

“Can I help you with something?” Nick said breaking the silence, if she was not saying anything, then he could leave, the last thing he wanted was to be with her in the same room for much time.

“Not really sweetie” she said with a nasty tone as she approached to him, as she walked her hips sway from side to side, and after a couple steps she stood right in front of him. He had to crane his neck to meet her gaze. He wanted to leave, but he stayed mainly because he wanted to know what she had in mind. He knew she´ll say a stupid mean thing, but he was still curious about what she´ll say.

“You know…” she started, “The floor seems a little dirty, I think it´ll be a good idea if you sweep it and mop it, don´t you agree? After all, Maddy will be happier if she came back and the house´s clean.” He knew she only wanted to order him around, but it could really cheer Maddy up to see the house clean, so he agreed, but not as smoothly as usual.

“Sure, why not” he said in a plain tone as he went away to look for the broom. He could´ve vacuum, but when they searched for an apartment, they wanted one with tile floors, they figured out tile will last longer than a carpet. But having tile floors also implied mopping, which he didn´t like very much.

Moments later, Nick was sweeping the living room´s floor. He knew it was too early, but he already wanted Maddy to come back and Cynthia to leave, he hated when she was there, feeling her eyes judging him from behind. He could tell she was always thinking her daughter deserved better, but now it seemed more than obvious.

And for some other reason, he felt as if he needed Maddy to be there, not precisely because he wanted to kick out Cynthia, but because he could feel her absence. He had always wanted to be with her when she was working and he was too, but now, he felt as if he needed to count the minutes for her to come back home. He thought he was being impatient, but there was another reason for it, a reason he completely ignored.

All the while, Cynthia was watching him from the other room, looking how the broom seemed way bigger for him, watching how he half struggled with it´s length, it gave her some satisfaction. “Well, just look at that, he can´t even sweep properly… why has Maddy stayed here for this long? I mean, how hard is it for someone to see that he´s turning into a completely useless man?” she thought.

In the past, he seemed like a man, if he couldn´t provide with a substantial amount of money, then he could at least do some hard work around the house, carry heavy stuff and well… Cynthia was a lude woman, so she carried the idea that a man should also satisfy a woman´s needs, her erotic needs. But as she was looking at him now, she doubted he could do anything a man should. At his size, doing small house work and couples talking could be the most he could do.

Once Nick was done with the living room´s sweeping, he heard Cynthia coming in from the hall, she was carrying a bucket with one hand and the mop on the other hand. Nick left the broom on the side and walked closer to the now towering woman coming in his direction. “Thank you…” he said extending his arms towards the bucket.

“Hold on, I don´t think you can carry this heavy bucket on your own, allow me…” she said as she placed it on one of the corners of the room. “There you go, I´ll leave it right here, now… here´s the mop.” She said as she extended it to him.

“Thanks” he replied feeling underestimated, “Of course I can lift the fucking bucket, who does she think she is?” he though as she left.

As she stepped out of the room, Nick couldn´t help but to notice how huge her butt seemed now. Her feminine silhouette caught more attention now than it did in the past. Maybe it was because his gaze stood below boob level with her, but her body seemed more imposing than ever. He knew she was a bitch, and overall, she was Maddy´s mother, but he couldn´t help not to glare at her.

Cynthia was wearing clothes, let´s say not for a woman her age; she had divorced and was now a single woman who took care of her figure. She often worked out and as soon as she started noticing some changes, she changed her wardrobe for something more… well, more Maddy´s age actually. She was wearing a cheetah pattern top, slightly loose, her hair had been done and her nails were long and shiny. But that´s not what caught someone´s attention, what was really outstanding was the huge butt she had, it wasn´t colossal, or immense, but for a woman her age and height, it could catch some glares.

She wore the tightest jeans she could, they did nothing more than embrace her figure and show everyone the thick worked out pair of legs she had. Starting from the bottom, you could see how her flesh started rounding all the way to her calves. And if we go higher passed her knees, the amount of flesh on her thighs just grew exponentially. She wasn´t fat, although she was not as thin as Maddy, but she did have thick voluminous legs that attracted anyone´s attention.

But there was something else, behind those juicy legs, there was a round peach shaped but, that did nothing more than sway from side to side as she walked. She could be an average height woman with a molded body, carrying her curves right where she should. But for Nick, at the height he was, she seemed impressive, he couldn´t lie, a part of him was aroused by her shape. The only thing that stopped him from starring at her like an idiot was the fact that he knew she was a toxic lady.

He returned to mopping as he came back from the small trance in which he was while he saw her leaving. He never would´ve thought that seeing her depart form a room could be as satisfactory as it now was. Both sexually and for his sake. But he knew he was doing wrong as he stared at her with a luscious look on his face.

“Come on, think of something else, she´s your mother-in-law, besides, she´s a bitch.” He tried to guide his thoughts into somewhere else. He felt some disgust for glancing at Cynthia that way, even if it had been for only a couple seconds. But even if he was not very aware of it, his mind was beginning to turn into a different way from the one it once had. There was something else together with his shrinking that he ignored. But he´ll find out sooner or later.

The rest of the cleaning was the same, he swept and then mopped the rest of the rooms, by the time he had finished, it was lunch time. Lucky for him since he now felt his stomach growling, he could´ve had a large breakfast, but all the house work he had been doing, even if it wasn´t so hard for a regular person, for him, it had become something really hard.

“You can finish there, I´ll make some lunch… go wash your hands” said Cynthia from the kitchen.

He hated that she was still there, but even an unpleasant woman like her couldn´t let a man starve; even more considering the fact that he wasn’t just a random man, but her daughter´s boyfriend… who she happened to be taking care of.

Cynthia knew she wasn´t there to take care of the house, but to take care of Nick. It was obvious by now; he was too short to do regular things or reach for certain stuff. That´s why Maddy asked her to come and “keep an eye on him” during this week. Cynthia was no fool, even if Maddy didn´t say it out loud, she wanted her to help him with whatever he could no longer do, and one of those things was cooking. There were a ton of things out of his reach on the kitchen, and a lot more around the house. But she was not going to treat the little man as a king, that´s why she will have him do some house work while she was there.

Nick left the mop and the bucket on the shower and the broom on the cleaning closet. He washed his hands, but before, he needed to check on his phone, he hadn´t check on it in all morning. Mostly because he was busy, but now it was a great chance for him to do it. So, he entered to their main room and picked it up from the night´s table.

When he unlocked his phone there was no message or missed calls from Maddy, which was logical given the fact that her lunch time was still an hour away, but there was something else he found. Together with his social media notifications, Nick found two messages from Rachel, his boss.

He was surprised about it, his first thought was that maybe she had some things in mind for him, some assignments for when he came back from these unexpected vacations. Maybe she wanted to let him know before he forgot, but when he read the message, it was a whole other thing. The first message said:

“Good morning Nick! I hope you enjoy this week off. I know I will.”

First message, everything cool, but when he read the second one, he was kind of confused, it said:

“I actually have something I want to tell you, it´s something you´ll inevitably find out once we meet again next Monday… but I don´t want to spoil the fun here, let´s just say it´s a special surprise for you. BTW, how tall are you honey?”

Last time he received a message from his boss, it was just a regular “how are you?” message, but now, the whole thing seemed weird. After he read both messages he was thinking: “Ok, good morning… all cool there, but WTF with the whole surprise thing?” he found it strange, it wasn´t his birthday or anything, why would she want to give him something.

“Fuck, I just hope she doesn´t fire me because of the shrinking… am I… could it be possible that I´m running behind with some papers?” The message didn´t seem that way, it wasn´t a plain stern message such as “we need to talk” it was something more “friendly” per say. She greeted him and told him about a surprise, it sounded more as something good. But what?

On top of all that, she asked him about his height, why would she need to know about it? Maybe she wanted to make a personalized size desk? He had no clue about what was going to happen next Monday, he just stood there next to his bed wondering if he should answer the message or not. “Should I send a text right now… or maybe later…” he thought.

Within a couple seconds Cynthia called for him from the kitchen: “Hello? Nick, lunch´s ready… aren´t you hungry?” the last part was said in an annoying tone, of course he was hungry, he found it as a very stupid question. But maybe he thought of it that way because he hated Cynthia.

Nick went into the kitchen with his phone inside his pocket, but maybe it wasn´t such a good idea since the weight of the phone was dragging his pants all the way down, he had to semi carry it with a hand to avoid his pants from falling. It will be really embarrassing if he entered the kitchen and allowed Cynthia to have a full view of his underwear.

Once he entered the kitchen he totally forgot about his pants. Cynthia was facing the stove, serving a plate with whatever she had cooked. His attention was dragged into her butt, her round firm cheeks. He couldn´t help but to feel some arousal as he saw her. From behind she actually seemed like Maddy. With a few more pounds and well, a killing ass.

Maddy had a sensual body, and she had a nice butt too, the main difference between them is that Maddy has boobs three or four bra sizes bigger and Cynthia´s got a peach shaped butt over a pair of thick thighs. Nick was more a boob guy, but he couldn´t miss the chance to stare at such a breath-taking butt. He was surprised by the way a woman Cynthia´s age could maintain such a firm pair of cheeks, a big and toned but that sway from side to side as she walked.

Then she turned, he blinked and turned away as soon as he could, still turning red with embarrassment. He would´ve died if she found out he was glaring at her from behind, but it seemed as if she didn´t notice.

“Well, hello there… I thought you were not coming” she said.

“Well… I´m right here” he replied in a dry way, he wasn´t very excited to have her there, even if she had cooked for him. He was wondering if she´ll cook something like a bunch of spinach or some boiled vegetables.

“Ok…” she said as he sat down and she walked closer to the table, she was swaying her hips from side to side as she walked towards him. With his now reduced height, he couldn´t tell what was on the plate, he could only see the lashes of fog that were emanated from over the plate, it smelled nice though.

“I hope you liked it, I had to work with what´s on the fridge and on the cabinets, tell Maddy she´s got to go grocery shopping, you guy´s don´t have much stored…” he found it very annoying, but it was true, most of the time they ended up ordering pizza or burgers for dinner.

“Sure… I will.” He replied as he rested one of his arms over the table and laid his head on his hand.

She knew he wasn´t much eager on talking to her, it seemed that by now they both knew they didn´t like each other. But she didn´t care. Right now, she knew two things, it may be just a matter of time before her daughter realizes she should dump him and sail away; and number two, it doesn´t matter if he doesn´t want her there, even if he doesn´t know, she´s the one in charge.

Maddy didn´t literally said so, but it seemed obvious for Cynthia. For her, Nick was a huge asshole, he wasn´t mean to her, or too sarcastic, but the mere fact that he seemed to live from her daughter just lead her to the idea that he wanted her to work for him. That and the fact that he always seemed pissed off whenever she was around.

“Here you go…” she said as she placed the plate right in front of him. She just adored the fact that he was now shrinking, in a way, she could do with him as she pleased, but she´ll save it for later. There´s some limits Cynthia would like to test first.

Nick was amazed by what she had cooked. It wasn´t a plate filled with vegetables, in fact it was fried chicken with macaroni and cheese. He was surprised. He really liked macaroni.

“Wow, ehm, thank you” he said as he turned at her, way above him.

“You´re welcome” she replied as she went back to the stove and served herself a plate. He watched her butt for a couple seconds before he started eating. The food didn´t only smelled great, but it also tasted great.

“I figured out you´d like it…” she said as she sat down, Nick just smiled at her while he swallowed a mouth full of chicken. “Oh wow, look at your hands, they´re tiny hahaha” she last said.

His grateful expression turned into a stern look as she cracked up laughing about him. The second he thought she had actually done something nice, she completely ruined it with her annoying words. He kept eating for a while until she decided to speak again.

“So… Nick, this whole shrinking thing, it´s not contagious right? I wouldn´t like my daughter or me to get something you know… no offense, but better safe than sorry…” she said as she took a sip from her drink.

“No, it´s not…” he replied saying nothing more.

“Thank god, I mean, I´m sorry for you, but I wouldn´t like Maddy to suffer from it, but you get it right?” she added, Nick just nodded not turning his gaze away from his plate. Cynthia noticed he didn´t wanted to look at her, so she decided to test his limits, just a little today.

“You know, it is unpolite not to look at someone when they´re talking to you… it´s rude.” she said.

He swallowed his food hard, wanting to kick her out, but he decided to shut it for a while. He just rose his head, looked at her and said: “Sorry” more like sorry not sorry, but he wanted to have a better excuse to explode and change her for Ash.

“I mean, if someone cooks for you, you could at least have the decency to look at her while she talks to you… don´t you think?” she said it, not really meaning it, she didn´t care much about it, but she wanted to see how far she could get before he turned red and started yelling.

Nick was starting to regret having her there, even if her butt was so alluring to the view. This first day didn´t seem so promising for the upcoming days, he was just half way thru on day one, and there were still four more days to go. And also, what could he reply to Rachel?