Nick rushed through the crowed of relatives as he headed to the group of his cousins that he played tag with.  He found two members, Seth and Tiffany eating some food.  He went up to both of them and said, “Hey guys check out what I found.”  Nick opened his hand and showed them the bug.

“Cool…” Seth said.

“What is it?”  Tiffany asked.

Nick gave her a look, “It’s a bug, duh.  Seth go get the others and tell them to meet me outside.”

“Alright,” he said as he finished his food and went looking for the others.

Nick headed out side with Tiffany.

You didn’t like this at all.  You finally made it home and now you were captured by Nick, who you barely even know.  You tried to get to know him the last couple of times you meet him but he always ran off with other kids his age and played.  Granted there is nothing wrong with him wanting to play with friends, but now you realized it may have been a mistake.  It is probably why he doesn’t recognize you at this size.  Plus you tried to say something but they couldn’t hear you.  Marissa couldn’t hear you the other day without putting her ear up toward you so what luck do you have of telling them when they think you’re a bug.

The sound of the sliding glass door to the back yard was heard through the fist that surrounded you.  Why are we going outside?  Whatever the reason behind this it can’t be good.  Now you were away from any adults or anyone who might recognize you or help you.  Calming your nerves you tell yourself you have been through worse situations and you will get through this.  The prison that held you started to heat up and beads of sweat were forming along Nick’s closed hand.  You figured it was either from his hand being closed for too long or anticipation. 

Nick stopped moving and you were still enclosed in his hand as you heard him say something to Tiffany.  You couldn’t make out the words but you figured he told her to do something, which she would do.  Every time you see Nick playing with his cousins they always follow him around.  He was always the leader of them and they all probably look up to him because he is about one year older than any of them.  It felt like forever but Nick eventually opened his hand and dropped you.  You didn’t fall very far just a couple of inches as you hit the bottom of a plastic bucket. 

Looking around you saw the group of cousins.  There were four boys: Nick, Seth, Kevin, Trey; and two girls: Tiffany, Michael.  The six kids towered over the bucket peering down at you as they all asked questions. 

“So now what,” Seth asked Nick.

“Seth, Kevin go look for some other bugs, we are going to have a battle to see whose bug is better.”

“Ok,” they both said.

“What kind of bug is it,” Asked Michael.

 Nick just shrugged, “I don’t know.  All I know is it better win.”

“Found one!” Seth shouted from somewhere.

“Me too,” Shouted Kevin.

Both kids came back into view with big grins on their faces.  Nick looked at both of them and said, “Let the games begin.”

You got ready to fight for your life as the two kids dipped their hands into the bucket and released their bugs.  As the hands retract you could see what the two bugs were.  To your right was a spider that was easily the size of a car.  To your left was a beetle that was the size of a truck.  You didn’t move an inch hoping that they were attracted to movement.  The beetle itself didn’t scare you as much as the spider, since at your size you would be easy prey for it.  The thing could eat you easily if it was hungry.  You heard it let out a hiss but other than that it didn’t move.  The beetle moved further away from you and bumped into the side of the bucket and turned around and walked into another side of the bucket.  You relaxed to a degree but that was all.

Ten minutes passed by and nothing changed; the spider was more interested in the beetle and the beetle kept running around in circles.  You could hear the kids getting restless and wondered how long it will be before they get bored and leave. 

“This is boring Nick,” said Seth.

“How was I supposed to know that your bug doesn’t know how to fight?”

“Wait I think the spider is going to attack…” all the kids held their breath waiting for the spider to kill something. 

The spider took a step toward you.  You got ready to fight for your life.  It took another step and it hissed again.  Pulling your fist up, you got ready to go down fighting.  The spider was nearly toward you, you let out a shout as you took a step toward it ready to do some damage when it spun around and ran away scarred.  Wow, you didn’t know spiders were that scarred of you.

“Dude your spider sucks,” Nick said.

“It does not; you wait and see.  It will kill your stupid bug any second now.”

You looked up to see the kids fighting and smirked, yeah any second they are going to get bored and leave.  The only problem now is the fact that you are stuck in a bucket with two bugs and no way out.  Maybe you could climb the spider and ride it out. 

“Nickkkkkk,” Tiffany complained, drawling out his name.  “Are they going to fight or not, because I have to go to the bathroom and I don’t want to miss anything if I leave.”

Nick got a grin on his face that you didn’t like.  He leaned over and whispered in her ear.  Tiffany’s face turn to pure disbelief as she pulled away and said, “No!  I will not!”  She started to head to the house.

Nick just shrugged and said, “Fine I guess you don’t have to be part of the group.”

Her face then turned to pure horror at the thought of not being able to play with them, “No, please.  I really want to be part of the group.” 

“Then you better do it then,” he said in a bossy tone.

“But...”

“What are you scared?”  Nick said mockingly.

Now the other kids started to grin and say: “Yeah are you scared?” or “Are you chicken?”

Tiffany’s face turned red with rage, “I’m not scared!”

“Then prove it,” Nick said smugly.

You looked up as Tiffany stepped closer to the bucket.  The discussion that just took place made your skin crawl.  Whatever Nick told Tiffany to do she really didn’t want to do it.  You couldn’t help but wonder what it was, as she got ever closer to the bucket.  All the other kids gathered around to watch what Nick dared Tiffany to do. 

Tiffany got right up above the bucket and looked straight down at you.  You gulped as her size.  She was the youngest of the group yet she easily made you have to tilt your head back to look up at her.  She took a deep breath as to firm her resolve and did what Nick told her to do.  Tiffany grabbed her shorts and quickly yanked them down. 

You stood there shocked at what was about to happen unable to move an inch as you saw her close her eyes shut and had a look of concentration on her face.  She bent her knees so she was directly above the bucket and let out a soft mmmmmm sound as she released her bladder.  The yellow stream came showering down into the bucket with deadly speed.  The stream was aimed to your right, near the spider, as it hit the plastic of the bucket there was a deafening sound made as the force of the yellow liquid splashed everywhere.  You couldn’t hear anything over the roaring sound Tiffany was making. 

Tiffany closed her eyes as she let her bladder go as she peed into a bucket while everyone watched her.  She tried not to focus on that too much as she really needed to go badly.  When she felt the liquid start to leave she opened her eyes and saw that she was peeing in the bucket.  She didn’t mean too but the stream had a mind of its own as it started to flow toward one of the bugs.

You only got a glimpse of what happened to the spider that was trying to run away.  The spider wasn’t fast enough as the stream moved slightly toward it.  The spider was killed instantaneously by the pee; it was pulverized to tiny pieces.  The only thing left from it was a piece of its leg that floated with the liquid toward you.  The bucket quickly started to fill with warm pee as it washed over your legs and started to rise.  The stream didn’t move from where it was at as it continued to pour and pour into the bucket.  The liquid started to get up above your head forcing you to start to swim.  The current slowly pushed you around as you tried to stay afloat.  You saw the beetle floating around too but in the opposite direction.  The steam then started to die down as the current slowly came to a stop with you in the dead center of the bucket.

Tiffany pulled up her shorts and beamed at Nick, “See I’m not chicken."

“Yeah but you could have killed another bug,” Seth pointed out.

Tiffany’s face turned red, “I didn’t mean to kill your bug.”

“Well that leaves only two left now,” Nick said as he pondered what to do now.  “Does anyone else need to go?”  Nick looked around, and saw no one raising their hands.  Slowly Seth put his hand up, then Trey, and everyone else except Tiffany and Nick.  Nick grinned, “Well what are you waiting for?”

You looked up in pure disbelief.  You couldn’t believe your eyes, as you saw four faces grinning down at you.  Why me… was all you could think as one by one they dropped their shorts and started to relieve themselves into the bucket.  Four yellow streams poured down in all directions as, unlike Tiffany, they started to move around.  You saw one head toward the beetle and push it under the ocean of piss, as two others started to head toward you.  Knowing that if you get caught under the current you would not be coming back up, took a breath and dove under the surface of the pee and tried to swim somewhere else. 

Your leg got caught by one of the streams and was forced down sending your body with it.  If you weren’t prepared for that you probably would have gotten a mouthful of the disgusting liquid.  You felt your body being pushed down unable to swim up, so you continued to swim to the side, away from the current.  You came up a couple of feet away from where you were, and looked up.  What you saw was four kids laughing as they peed on you.  You saw one of the kids turn his head slightly and pointed, at you.

“Over there,” and they all tried to drown you again.  You again took a breath about to dive when all at once each stream slowed down to a dribble and stop before they got close.  Each of them made a sound of disappointment as they pulled up their shorts.

Nick just chuckled, “Looks like my bug wins.”

“Well now what?”  Michael asked.

Nick was about to say something when you heard a voice you thought you would never hear.

“What are you doing,” you heard Mary say.

Sarah was finishing her dinner with Mary and her family, when someone asked her about Mike.  The mere mention of his name started a conversation about him ditching the family, or he is with some hooker, or gambling.  The discussion was getting kind of heated and words were being used like: Bastard, and Fucker.  Not wanting her child to hear those words Sarah said, “Mary have you meet your cousins, yet?”

She shook her head no. 

“Well why don’t you go and play with them for a little while.”

“Ok mommy,” she said leaving the table and heading toward the backyard where they went.

The moment she left more cuss words were being tossed out and then there were argument about other topics popping up.  Sarah sighed as she realized that coming here was the worst mistake in her life.

Nick turned his head and saw Mary there.  He didn’t really know her very well, but that didn’t matter right now.  “Nothing,” he said, “right guys?”  They all said yeah.

“Well… can I join?”  She said shyly. 

Nick grinned at the opportunity that was presented.  “Sure… but you have to pass the initiation test.”

“Initiation test,” she asked, “What’s that?

Nick couldn’t help but grin, “It’s something everyone must do in order to be in our group.”

“Well… ok.  What do I have to do?”

“First you have to swear you won’t say anything to anyone outside our group.  What happens with us stays with us.  You got it?”

Sarah nodded her head, “I swear I won’t tell anyone.”

“How much do you hate bugs,” Nick asked.

“Bugs?” she asked with a sound of disgust in her voice.  “I hate bugs.”

“Good, come over here then.”

Mary walked over next to her cousin and peered into the bucket.  She was appalled at what she saw.  There was a bucket of piss that they were all looking at.  She was about to turn away when there was something in there that got her attention.  At first she thought it was some dirt but when she looked closely at it she realized it wasn’t dirt, it was a bug.

“I want you to drown that bug by peeing on it.”

“I can’t,” she said.

“Come on, everyone did it.  Now it’s your turn.”

“No, I can’t.”

Nick just shrugged and said, “Fine if you don’t want to be part of the group then…”

“No, I mean I can’t.  I don’t have to pee.”

“Well if she can’t do it then I’m leaving,” Kevin said.

“Me too,” Tiffany and Michael said together.

As everyone started to leave Nick tried to stop them but they kept walking away.  Letting out a sound of disappointment, Nick said, “If they leave you can’t join.”  He turned to leave too.

“No wait everyone,” Mary said.  “I can try…”

You heard every single word that was going on outside your vision.  Your heart stop beating when you heard what was about to happen to you.  How could they rope your daughter into this too!  You looked as all the face plus your daughters stared into the bucket.  You tried to get her attention but it was useless she didn’t recognize you at all.  You felt yourself weeping on the inside as she got ready to try and murder you.  You could see her face starting to turn red as she took her pants off and was ready to drown you in a bucket of piss.  You shouted some more only to be drown out by the other kids chanting, “Do it, do it…”  Yeah you might not make of this alive.  Your only hope was that she didn’t have much to drink the past couple of days and really didn’t need to go. 

She already had her pants and underwear down and was concentrating on going.  You tried one more shout as the kids stop talking and heard Mary give a grunt and then a powerful stream shot out and hit you.  You didn’t get a word off and instead got a mouthful of your daughter’s piss.  You were pushed under the sea of pee and you started to fade out as everything turned to a dark yellow…

Mary gave it her best and hit the stupid bug dead on.  She was embraced of peeing in front of everyone but they didn’t seem to mind.  They only cared that the bug got killed; she felt sorry for the bug, but it was just a bug.  Her bladder wasn’t that full so she could pee for a few seconds but it was long enough to keep the bug under and drown.  Mary pulled her clothes back up as the rest of the kids cheered her for her actions.  Feeling good at her action that now lead her to being part of the group.

“Now what,” she asked Nick.

“Now we can…”

“Hey look,” Michael said point at the bucket.

You woke up coughing and gaging trying to get the foul liquid out of your lungs.  You opened your eyes and felt them starting to burn, due to the liquid getting into your eyes.  Still coughing you tried to rub the liquid out when you heard some say ‘look’.  You looked up to see all the kids staring at you with disbelief.  You figured it was too late to play dead, and you had to stay afloat in the sea of yellow.

“What?  Awwww come on I thought it would have died from that…” Nick said pouting.

“Sorry Mary but you can’t join if the bug is still alive,” Kevin told her.

“But I did what you told me.  Besides I can’t go any more I just tried.”  Mary said desperately trying to at least get them to reconsider.

Nick let out a sigh, “He’s right, unless…”

“Unless what,” Mary pleaded.

“Unless you … eat it,” Nick said with a grin.

Mary scrunched her face up, “That’s disgusting.  I’m leaving.”

“Fine go ahead but just remember that we won’t talk to you, ever, because you aren’t in our group…”

Mary didn’t move.  “That’s not fair; no one else would eat it.  Its cover in… pee,” She said making a sound disgust.

“We didn’t say you had to eat it without washing it first.”

“Still, I don’t want to eat a bug.”

“It’s ok, you don’t have to.”

“Really?” Mary said with hope.

“Yeah it’s fine we just won’t like you.”

“No… please I’ll do it just don’t hate me.”  Mary couldn’t stand people not liking her.  If she had to eat a bug then she will if it meant that they would like her.

“Kevin go wash it off quickly…”

Now you panicked, your daughter is going to try and kill you again just so these kids will like her.  That’s just messed up.  You were carried into the bathroom and washed harshly by Kevin.  After running you under the water, he looked at you and grinned. 

“You’re about to get eaten little bug.  Enjoy your trip,” he said laughing as he closed his hand and left the bathroom to take you outside to meet your fate.

Mary was regretting this but she was determined to complete the tasked handed to her.  Kevin came back and handed the bug to her to eat.  She took the bug in hand and looked down at it.  For some reason it looked vaguely familiar but she couldn’t put her finger on it.  Grimacing she lifted her hand above her head and asked, “Do I really need to?”

“Yes,” they all said looking excitedly.

You looked down just about to give up hope.  Mary was looking right at you and still didn’t recognize you.  Feeling your doom approaching you decided to give it one more try.  Mary closed her eyes and released you to your doom.  You let out a shout, “Mary please don’t!”

It was too late you were already falling through the air and toward her mouth that was wide open in anticipation for your arrival.  You passed her lips and landed on her tongue as you felt her saliva cover your back.  You tried desperately to climb up her tongue but her lips closed shut covering you in darkness.  Mary then proceeded to swish you around and cover you in saliva.  There was a deep mmmmm sound coming from the back of her throat as she tasted you.  To your horror you felt her tilt her head back and began to swallow you.

“Ahhhh that tasted good,” she said opening her mouth to show everyone she finished swallowing. 

“Wow she actually ate it,” Kevin said shocked that she would eat a bug that was pissed on.

Nick even looked surprise, “I thought you would chicken out at the last second.”

Mary shook her head no.  “So I’m part of the group?”

“What do you all think,” Nick asked the rest.  They all nodded and agreed.  “Well let’s go play tag!”  They all ran toward the house shouting, not it.  Nick pour out the bucket and ran after them saying “Ready or not…”

Sarah was glad to see her daughter playing with her cousins.  It looked like they were having fun.  She wished that Mike was here to see her.  Deep down she really wanted to know where Mike went, but would have to wait until tomorrow to find him.  Hopefully he was safe where ever he was.

Mary played with her cousins for a couple of hours before they had to go.  When they finally left she rubbed her belly feeling kind of hungry but knew that it was bed time.  Heading to the bathroom she went to go brush her teeth.  She opened her mouth to brush her teeth.  Right before she did she reached into her mouth and pulled out her dad…

You were about to fall down into Mary’s throat when she didn’t swallow.  Instead she flipped you under her tongue then swallowed keeping you from going down her throat.  You couldn’t believe what was happening.  You heard Mary say that she swallowed you.  Your heart leaped with joy as she fooled everyone into thinking she did.  You don’t know why she didn’t eat you but you were glad.  Mary kept you in her mouth doing her best from swallowing you, but not alerting anyone of your presence.  After spending a couple of hours in the hot humid and constantly wet environment you were getting slightly worried why she hasn’t release you yet.  Finally after Mary said her goodbyes she went to the bathroom and let you out of her mouth.  She kept you in her hand as she looked closer at you.

“You are my dad!” she said excitedly, “I thought I heard your voice.”  Then she frowned, “Why are you small and…” then her face turned to pure horror and tears started to fall down her face.  “I-I-I’m sorry d-d-daddy, I didn’t-t-t mean to…” she sobbed

“Mary don’t worry about!  Everything is ok!  You have to get me to mommy, OK?”

Wiping her face Mary nodded her face, “Ok but I need to brush my teeth first.”

You didn’t care as long as you got back to Sarah all this would be put behind you.  You let out a long overdue sigh as Mary brushed her teeth and took you to Sarah.  She was already in bed and made room for Mary when she frowned.

“Honey what do you have there?”

“I think I found daddy,” she said.

“What?!”  Sarah said as she got out of the bed and quickly came over and looked in her hands to see you waving up at her.

“OH MY GOD!  What… how… when…” she sputtered as you saw a look of worry spread across her face.  She picked you up and brought you close to her face as she said, “I’m soooo sorry I will never ever shrink you again I swear.”

“Look I’m ok just please I have had a rough couple of days.  Can I please go back to normal?”

“Of course,” she said with a smile on her face as she whispered the words to change you back to normal.  You were your original height in a flash and you couldn’t be happier.  You bent over and picked Mary up hugging her and kissing her on the forehead.  You then pulled your wife into a group hug as you embraced them.

“Sarah it wasn’t your fault.  There was no way you could have known what would have happened to me.”

“Daddy I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to-”

“Mary its ok, remember whatever happened between your cousins stays with your cousins.”

Mary nodded but still clung to you.  All three of you stayed that way for a while until you pulled away.  “I had a really long day, so if you don’t mind I think I’m going to go to bed.”  You were about to get in the sleeping bag that was still on the floor when Sarah stopped you.

“I know the bed is kind of small, but do you think we could all try to sleep together?”

You smiled and nodded as they both joined you in the small cramped bed.

Waking up next morning you were expecting it all to be a dream but there in your arms was your wife.  Your daughter was snug up against her.  You let out a relieved sigh as you got up.  You may be back to normal but you still had stuff to do…

Marissa was having the worst time of her life.  After her sister found out about Mike escaping she went on a rampage through the house.  She blamed her for Mike’s escape; even though she did help Brenda didn’t have proof but still blamed her.  The first thing she did was breaking all her toys, and then took dinner away from her.  Marissa was so hungry right now that she couldn’t stop her stomach from growling.  She did have breakfast but it was just scraps of what Brenda didn’t want.  Even through it all she didn’t regret helping Mike out.

She was just glad her parents are coming back tomorrow.  Marissa was forced to sit in the family room for the rest of the day without T.V.  Brenda was still fuming about what happened and was in her room doing something. 

Marissa’s stomach growling was cut off by the doorbell.  She was about to get it when Brenda growled, “Who the hell could that be?” 

Brenda went to open the door to see some woman standing there that she has never seen before.

“What do you want?” Brenda shouted at the woman.

“Are you Brenda?” she asked.

“Yeah what about it?”

“Someone wanted me to give you his regards to you.”

“Who,” Brenda asked with a scowl on her face.

“His name was Mike,” she said and then started say something under her breather.

“How do you know him… what are you say-” Brenda then blacked out.

Marissa was on the couch when she say her sister disappear in thin air.  Marissa got up off the couch to see what happen to only see a woman she never saw before holding a small object in her hand.  The mysterious woman walked into the house.  Marissa didn’t know what to say as she walked toward her.  Marissa was about to shout for help when she saw Mike in the door way.

“Hello,” he said.

“Mike?  You’re not small anymore!” Marissa said.

“Nope,” he said smiling, “Oh, let me introduce you to my wife, Sarah.”  The woman waved at her and said hi. 

“Marissa, I wanted to thank you for helping me.  So I decided to come back and do you a favor.”

“What?” Marissa asked curious.

Sarah walked over and handed Marissa the object in her hand and realized it was her sister about couple of inches tall. 

“Is this Brenda?”

“Yeah it is,” Sarah said.

“How did you make her small?”

“It’s a secret,” she said winking at her.

“Marissa do you think you can take care of your sister from now on?  You can’t tell anyone, not even your parents about this ok?”

“Yeah,” Marissa said run over to Mike giving him a hug.  “Thank you,” she said.  “Will I see you again?”

“I’ll visit every summer.”  Mike promised her.

“Ok,” Marissa said smiling.

“Bye Marissa, it was nice meeting you.”  Sarah said as she and Mike left.

When they both left, Marissa looked down at Brenda in her hand.  She started to wake up rubbing her head.  She quickly looked around shocked and fearful.  She then noticed Marissa who smiled down at her.

“Don’t worry sis, I’m going to take good care of you from now on.”

“She looks just like Gloria doesn’t she,” Sarah said to you.

“Yeah, she does, but she is nothing like her,” you replied as you drove back to Sarah’s parent’s home. 

When you got back to the house you felt at peace.  Tomorrow you would be heading back home were you belong and you can put this whole mess behind you.  All you had to do was survive that long.  As the day started to turn to night more of Sarah’s family came to say goodbye, many of them were wondering where you were.  You just said meeting friends, and left it at that.  Uncle Charlie pulled you over at one point for more cash.  At that point you told him to go fuck himself. 

The next morning you got ready to leave without any bags (the airlines still didn’t find your bags).  Becky, Chuck, Christina, Rose, and Peter all said their goodbyes.

“You’re coming back next year, right,” Becky asked.

“You can count on it.  Next time I’ll try to spend more time with you mom.”

“You better,” she said jokingly.

“How about next year it’s just us?” Chuck said.  “It got kind of crowded this week.”

“Sounds like a plan,” Sarah said.

After saying goodbye the three of you headed to the airport.  There you meet Dave and Terra, who were going to see you all off.

Dave came up to you, “I can’t believe we missed you the other day,” he said ashamed, after you told them about your adventure.

Trying to make him feel better, “If I makes you feel any better it all worked out in the end.”

“Still,” Terra tried to say but you stopped her.

“I’m serous don’t sweat it.”  You said your goodbyes to them as you started to board the plane. 

Dave stopped you and said, “Sam is due in a couple of months, I hope to see you then.”

You smiled at him, “Wouldn’t miss it for the world.”  With that you board the plane and took your seat with Sarah and Mary in the same row with you.  This time you were behind the annoying kid and you decided to kick his seat all the way home… ok so you weren’t going to, but still you thought about it. 

The plane was midway through its flight when Sarah turned to you and tried to apologize again, “I’m sorry, that I made your week horrible.  I promise when we get home I’m going to get rid of that book and never use those spells again.”

“Honey don’t worry about it.  Besides when we get home I think I might need some therapy to help fix my traumatic experience,” you said winking at her.

She gave you a sly smile and leaned in closer to say, “You know I’m wearing your favorite panties…”

You smiled at her, what could possible go wrong?