He couldn´t react, everything seemed to be happening so fast. Before Nick knew it, the immense woman turned. She seemed to be an older lady, maybe on her early 50´s, but she was tall. She seemed taller than Maddy, maybe she stood at 5´10”, but her body seemed thicker.

She seemed very curvy, much more than Cynthia, who wouldn´t be able to carry that much weight the same way on her slightly smaller frame. Nick noticed her butt and hips were immense, and once the woman turned, he could see that so were her boobs. She had a huge pair of breasts covered by a loose fit shirt. And yes, she also had sort of a big belly, but he focused the most on her breasts.

She didn´t see anyone as she turned, but that was before she looked down, and once her eyes turned at the floor where Nick was laying, she spotted him. He couldn´t even say he was sorry, he felt too overwhelmed by the size of this older woman. He kind of gave her a smile, in a very insecure way.

Then, the woman started bending, Nick just closed his eyes because he wasn´t sure what to expect. His first thought was that she would tell him to watch where he´s going, but what if she wasn´t so nice; he could already picture her picking him up by his ear as she lectured him. Bumping into a woman´s ass in a super market is not as funny as you´d think, even less when you´re about belly button level with her.

“Are you ok sweetheart?” the woman asked.

“Huh?” replied Nick as he opened his eyes and now saw the woman extending her hand towards him.

“Let me help you up, you´re not injured, are you?” she said with a caring tone.

“I… I´m ok…” he said as he extender his hand and grabbed hers. She lifted him easily, how much could he weight nowadays? Before he knew it, he was standing in front of her, craning his neck just to be able to see her face over her enormous chest. He had to give a couple steps back too.

“You gotta be careful, ok honey?” she said as she placed a hand over his head, it felt huge. He could feel how her fingers could cover his skull fully. But for some reason, he found it kind of soothing. He paid attention as she kept talking.

“Sorry but… are you lost?” And that´s when he figured out the reason for her behavior, of course she didn´t thought a 26-year-old man crashed with her, and her next words only confirmed what he already had in mind.

“Where´s your mommy? Do you want me to help you look for her?” she bent down as she asked, so that she could be leveled with him.

“Oh crap” Nick thought, of course she had that idea. Now he needed to speak, tell her that he wasn´t a little lost kid, that he was a man, only that he was currently shrinking… that would be hard to explain, so he turned searching for Maddy.

He saw her, just a couple feet away, she had been watching him the whole time. At this moment, she was covering her mouth so that she didn´t let out a huge laugh. She seemed to be enjoying the small show Nick was playing right now.

He turned back to the woman and said: “There´s my mo… there she is…” he corrected as she pointed towards Maddy.

“Oh, very well…” the woman said as she stood back up. Nick just started walking towards Maddy after that.

He frowned at Maddy once he was back with her. But he still turned back towards that woman. She was still standing there, as if he needed to be watched to walk just a couple feet away. He waved at her to see if she would walk away, for his surprise, she did. The woman waved back and then left thru one of the aisles.

“You could´ve helped me.” Nick said as he turned up at Maddy.

She bent down and she pinched his cheek as she said: “Awww, did poor little Nick needed his mommy to help him, were you afraid of the big scary lady…” she only made fun of him.

“N-no, and stop it already, she was just… mistaken, you don´t get to see a shrinking man every day, that´s it.” He said as he pushed her hand away.

“You must admit that was very funny” she added.

“Funny for you, what if she decided to do something else?” he asked.

“Like what?” she asked, she wanted to know where was he going with it.

“I… I don´t know… what if she took me to the front and then…” and that´s when she cut him off.

“And then calls for your mommy?” she said messing with him, she stood back up as she continued. “Can you imagine, Madeline, can you come to the storefront… you´re little baby needs you…” that´s when he realized she wouldn´t take him seriously.

“Shut up! I… that wouldn´t had happened, so… don´t make fun of me.” He was mad, and she didn´t seemed to care because she was still laughing at his expenses. A part of him felt mad at her, he wanted her to stop, but a smaller part of him felt a different way. Recently, he found that at his current height, everything was different, even his reactions towards mundane things; right now, seeing how Maddy laughed and laughed so high above him made him feel… insecure. She was his girlfriend, he was supposed to feel good when he was with her, but now, he didn´t feel that way, but he couldn´t make up how he was feeling.

“Just shut… please” he said feeling that she wasn´t paying any attention to him, but she was.

She turned back at him, now with a more serious look and said: “Hey, don´t shut me up, I wasn´t the one who crashed into a big butt and ended up feeling embarrassed.” She had a point, but she really seemed serious about not shutting her up.

“Sorry…” he said as he turned at the floor.

Maddy´s face turned into an intrigued look, he really seemed sorry, but why was he being so shy about it? There was something going on, could he be insecure because he´s now less than 3´8”? or is there something else going on inside his little head.

“Oops, there I go again calling him little…” she thought, but she wasn´t mistaken, he was getting really small. Now he didn´t even reach her rib cage. She knew she wasn´t supposed to mention anything about his current condition. He already felt bad enough with measuring him daily.

“Come on Nick, don´t feel sad, I´m not mad… listen, why don´t you go check on something else as I pick up your new garderobe, ok?” she said trying to cheer him up.

Nick turned back up to her and said: “Are you sure?”

“Yes, I know you don´t like to go clothes shopping, just tell me where you´ll be and I´ll meet you there when I´m over.” She answered.

“Oh ok, uhmmm, I guess… we can meet on the magazine section?” he replied.

“Sure thing” she said with a smile.

Finally, Nick had gotten some freedom, he would still be in the same store as her, but he´ll take this small victory. He didn´t know where to go, so he just walked into a random aisle. He didn´t care, for the first time in days, he could walk alone. And he´ll enjoy it.

He walked for a while, thru the chips aisle, the tech zone, even to the bakery area. He could go wherever he wanted, the only thing he had to remember was that he´ll meet up with Maddy on the clothes section, or was it on the storefront? He forgot.

“Shit” he thought, he just gave her a random answer and now he didn´t know where they were supposed to meet. He freaked out a little, but then he remembered: “Of course, I can call her…”

He put his hand in his pocket as he searched for his cell-phone, but to his surprise, he didn’t have it. He searched in his other pocket and the same thing happened, it wasn´t there.

“Oh crap… I gave my phone to Maddy… shit!” now he was uncommunicated. The only logical solution he found was to look for her, back at the man´s clothes section. He started walking.

“She´ll be there” he though, “besides, how much time have we been here?” his best guess was that he´ll find her looking for clothes. But when he arrived, she was nowhere to be seen. He searched up and down thru the whole section. Underwear, pants, shorts, shirts, nothing. Maddy wasn´t there anymore. He checked on the young adult section; same thing happened.

He stepped out, he wondered where she could be, his last choice was to remember what they were going to buy, “Maybe she´s at the produce section…” he thought as he already found himself walking there. She wasn´t there.

“Bread! We needed bread…” same thing happened. He tried to remember every single item, and once he arrived, Maddy just wasn´t there.

He started to freak out, he walked thru the whole store, scanning every aisle as he walked. “Not here… not here… not…” that´s all he could think of as she didn´t seem to appear.

Fear began to fill his mind, then he had some paranoic ideas. “What if she left? She wouldn´t leave me here right… crap, if only I had my phone…” he was looking from side to side, hopping that she´ll come out of an aisle with the shopping cart. Still, nothing.

He thought he could yell for her, but he wasn´t sure if she´ll listen, and what if some other lady hears him and he ends up on the storefront calling for her. That´ll be pathetic. She had literally just made fun of him with that a while ago. No, he needed to find her, but where?

He was sure he had already looked for her everywhere, at least twice. He was now falling into the arms of despair as she didn´t seem to show up. His heart started to beat faster; his hands felt cold. What could he do? He was freaking out, after a while, his eyes began to turn wet.

“Oh no…” he thought, he was about to break into tears. Why would he?

A grown man shouldn´t cry just because he hasn´t seen his girlfriend during the last couple minutes. It seemed very irrational. But he didn´t feel that way, inside him, a feeling of anxiety was growing. He wanted to be next to her, or just be able to see her. Even if he hated to admit it right now, he needed her.

Nick kept walking, looking for her in every aisle. The only thing he could see were a bunch of random strangers shopping. He didn´t know what to do, every aisle he passed just made him feel even worst. Lonely.

“Come on… Maddy, where are you?” he kept thinking as he passed by the same aisle for the fourth time. How could she not be there? Was she also looking for him? The feeling of anguish kept getting bigger inside him. His now reduced self had been walking the store up and down searching for her, and just like that, a tear fell, drawing a path on his cheek.

“No…” he said as he dried it. He couldn´t be crying, what will Maddy think once he finds her? Seeing your 26-year-old boyfriend crying just because is not something very common, and he wouldn´t dare to tell her the reason why he´s crying. When he finds her, he will suck it in and pretend everything´s as good as always.

Another couple minutes went by, now he was walking rubbing his hands. He had resigned into going to the storefront and call her thru the speaker, it was lame but it´s the only thing he could come up with. Now, as he was walking over there, he couldn´t help but to stop and take a look at the magazines that are placed near the registers. And that´s when it hit him.

“M-magazines… we were supposed to meet over there.” Jolts of joy ran thru his body as he headed to the magazine aisle. It was true, they agreed on meeting there, his only question was why didn´t he searched over there first?

He literally ran over there, and once he entered the aisle, he found her. Maddy was looking at a magazine, waiting for him. She immediately noticed the presence of his small boyfriend, she smiled, and while she looked at the watch on her wrist she said:

“Well, it took you a while to get here. For a second, I thought you…” and then, he cut her off, but not with words, he simply ran into her and hugged her tight.

Maddy didn´t know what to say, it wasn´t something wrong either, he was just hugging her, the only question was why? And also, it didn´t feel like any regular hug. Nick was hugging her as tight as he could, embracing her curvaceous body with his short arms, while he buried his head on her navel. Tears were running down his eyes, but he didn´t care, the only thing he wanted now was to be with Maddy.

Now, he felt better. For some reason, finding her and being close to her made him feel safe, secure, as if all of the problems he has had a while ago were washed away. He only wanted to be in the warm embrace of his now bigger girlfriend.

Nick could feel the tenderness of her warm body wrapping him completely. She was so much bigger now. After wandering alone thru the store and freak out, this is what he needed. He didn´t cared if he was so much shorter than her, or that she easily towered over him. He just held her tight as the sweet aroma of her perfume entered thru his nostrils.

Maddy caressed his hair, she wasn´t sure what had happened, but she knew one thing for sure, right now, he needed her. She ignored why she was feeling that way, but once his tears began to wet her blouse, she knew she needed to be there.

“Shh shh, it´s ok Nick, I´m here…” she ignored if something had happened, or if he was scared for some reason; right now, he needed her and that´s all that mattered. Although, she couldn´t help but to have some thoughts.

“Why is he acting this way? Did something happen? Is he in some sort of trouble?” those were fair questions, but there was something else behind it, besides, if he had done something he would´ve told her already, or at least try to leave the store. “No, there´s something else… but, I know it´s wrong to think this… doesn´t he look cute?” she ignored her questions and just focused on Nick.

He was tiny compared to her, and aside of that, he was squeezing himself into her. She could hear his small sobs, but she focused on their height difference, she was absolutely taller than him, but just now she realized by how much. He barely allowed her to measure him, so making a comparison of heights would be even harder. But now, as he sank himself into her, she could tell his head was not taller than her ribcage, and his arms barely covered her torso. She thought to herself:

“Well, we´re getting so little, aren´t we?” they both stood there for a while, ignoring the rest of the world and tenderly hugging each other.

The sky has turned dark and the stars had begun to show. Nick and Maddy left the store a while ago, he felt really embarrassed for what he´d done, but she didn´t seem to mind. In fact, Maddy seemed happier than ever.

Right now, he was laying in bed, just waiting for her to join him in bed. He turned to the side, wondering why had he acted that way before. She wouldn´t leave the store without him, that´s ridiculous, even more considering the idea that she doesn´t even leave the apartment without her permission. So, why did he have such a hard time. What mortified him the most were his thoughts, ideas that came to his mind out of nowhere. But why?

“It´s kind of lame, but at least it´s Maddy, I can´t imagine what would happen if it was someone else, like Ash, *ugh* or Cynthia, or maybe even…” and then, he opened his eyes wide, he remembered a certain someone, a person who had texted him before but with no reply. “Shit, Rachel!” he remembered his boss, and also the text he forgot to reply, lucky for him it wasn´t urgent.

He turned and grabbed his phone from the night´s table, unlocked it and searched for her message. He started reading:

“Good morning…” he skipped that part.

“I actually have something I want to tell you…” there it is. “it´s something you´ll inevitably find out once we meet again next Monday…” He was curious, asides of firing him, what else could it be, he had no clue. “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?” and that was it.

He needed to reply now, he was alone and he could give himself some time. It´s not like he´s hiding something from Maddy, he´s just replying a text to his boss, who´s a woman… but hey, everything´s cool. He started writing:

“Hello Rachel, sorry for taking so long to reply…” he had to make an excuse, “I´ve been very busy running some errands.” It wasn´t a complete lie, he had been busy, but with housework.

“I can´t wait my surprise.” He wrote, not completely sure if it was something good or bad for him, but who cares. At least he can pretend is something good as he replies. Now, in order to answer her last question: “I´m doing great, well, you know, as good as someone who´s constantly shrinking can do, but I can´t complaint.” And he ended up the message with: “How about you?”

And that was it, he placed his phone back on the table and rested his head on the pillow, little he knew that in a couple seconds he´ll fall asleep.

As he sleeps, someone else is receiving the message he wrote. From behind a tall sofa, you can see a hand picking up a phone from a side table, the manicured hands scroll thru the phone as Nick´s message pops up. “Great!” she says. “Although, you could´ve answered before Nick… but I´ll let it slip just because it´s you…” she said. Rachel had just received her reply, a reply she´s been waiting for. She read it as she started writing back.

“Of course, you can´t wait for your surprise… and so can´t I.” she said as she started replying. She wrote:

“So happy to hear from you! I´m well too, thanks for asking.” She wanted to tell him what the “surprise” is all about, but she needed to wait, so she ended the message with: “I bet you´d like me to tell you what I have in store for you, but I´m sorry honey, you´ll need to wait until Monday.” And that was it.

She couldn´t tell him her plans so easy, he didn´t seem very anxious to know either, it was more as if he was playing his part and asking her as a formality. “Oh Nick, if only you knew… but even if I wanted to tell you now, I can´t…” she said as she left her phone back on the table. “And the reason I can´t it´s because, it´s too soon.” She said as she squeezed one of her tits, which by the way, seemed bigger. “But trust me, on Monday, it will all be just as planned… now, it´s time for my pills.” Then she stood up and searched for them.

Wednesday morning, the middle of the week, and the best part is, it´s also the middle of the time before Cynthia stops coming. Nick wakes up, only to find a note next to him, so he reads it.

“Morning Nick, I didn´t want to wake you up, you looked so cute. I already left but my mom´s already there. But don´t worry, I didn´t forget to give my hubby his goodbye kiss. See you later”

She already left? Why would she leave so early, and that´s when he checked on the time, it was almost ten in the morning.

“Oh man, did I… overslept?” he thought. But what´s more important, he could listen to someone in the kitchen, of course, it had to be Cynthia.

But he had a question, was she going to… do yoga with him again? He couldn´t lie, he´d kill for it, more since Maddy won´t have sex with him anymore, she just made up some excuse as “I´m tired” and so on. But, taking a glance at Cynthia wouldn´t hurt anyone, still, it feels wrong.

He walked into the kitchen and just as he expected, he found Cynthia cooking. Well, not exactly, he found Cynthia´s big butt first. Swaying as she did the cooking. He swallowed. But he couldn´t stare all day, so he said: “Good morning.”

What he ignored is that it wasn´t going to be such a good morning, as he spoke, Cynthia smiled, letting out a semi-evil grin.