You let out a yell as you tumbled against the plastic jar and out into the open air.  Never had you been as scared in your life as you have been when you looked up at Beth’s inquisitive stare.  She was always curious trying new things or asking questions.  You always thought her curiosity was cute and harmless, that is until today.  Never would you have dreamed that it would be the death of you.  Beth used her other hand to pick up a couple of cheese puffs and tossed them carelessly into her mouth and started to chew.  The sound of her eating was intensified due to how close you were to her mouth.  After she was finished mushing the puffs into a soppy orange paste she opened her mouth and you could see your final resting place.  The smell wafted up to you and you felt nauseated at the smell of her breath.

Suddenly you heard your guardian angel come to your rescue, “BETH!”  Everything stopped the moment Hana sternly called Beth.  Beth quickly closed her mouth and had a guilty look on her face as she looked to her mom.

“Thank God you’re here Hana!”  You shouted even though you knew she couldn’t hear you.  Hana was standing at the entrance of the kitchen with her hair still damp from her shower.  She had a frown on her face as she looked at her daughter.  She quickly marched into the family room and looked down at her daughter who was still sitting on the couch with an innocent look on her face.

“Yes mommy?”  Each syllable she spoke, her mouth flashed open giving you a view of you what was about to become of you.  Luckily Hana noticed your plight and was here to save you.

“What are you doing?  I was going to make dinner and you’re over here eating snack food.  Now you won’t eat.”  Hana said with disappointment in her voice.

Beth instantly gotten sad as her mother scold, “I’m sorry mommy.  I promise I’ll eat dinner.”

Hana let out a long sigh, “Come on then, let make some dinner.  Oh, and put that buggy down, you have no idea where it’s been.”  Beth did as she told and dropped you in the jar with the rest of your friends.  Hana picked up the cheese puffs and the jar with you all in it.  “You can play with your bugs after dinner,” Hana said as she set you all down on the counter top in the kitchen.  Following behind her mother, Beth let out a sound of disappointment.  “Now let’s make some dinner.”

You watched with completely dread.  Neither of them knew it was you were a bug trapped in Beth’s jar.  You shouted for Hana to turn around, but she continued to prepare for dinner.  She picked up some ingredients and set them on the counter top so.  She started the stove and prepared to make the chili.

“What spices should we put in the chili,” Hana asked her daughter.  She opened the cabinet and picked up her daughter so she could pull out some spices.

“This one,” Beth said enthusiastically.  It was chili pepper.

Hana laughed, “Maybe not.  That’s spicy.”  Beth still wanted to put her spice in the pot.  “How about this one,” Hana said pointing to the garlic powder.  Beth grabbed it with the same eagerness as with the chili powder. 

“This one,” Beth said holding the garlic powder.  Hana laughed again and started to make the chili.  As she was stirring the food Beth asked if she could try.  Hana said ok, picked up Beth, and held her up so she could mix.

It didn’t take long for the food to be finished and when she was done Beth rubbed her belly and said, “Mommy I’m hungry, is it finished yet?”

“Yep,” Hana said picking up Beth and putting her in her chair at the dinner table.  “What do you want to drink?”

“Can I finish my soda?”  Beth asked her mom as she sat there kicking her feet that dangled in the air.

“Your soda?”  Hana asked slightly confused.  Beth shouldn’t be drinking soda. 

“Mhm, it’s still out there,” Beth said pointing to the family room.  Hana went to the family room and saw that there was a soda can sitting on the coffee table.  Walking over to the table she picked up the half empty can of soda and stepped in a small puddle of liquid.  Looking down she noticed that it was from Beth’s soda.  Letting out an aggravated sigh at a mess she didn’t want to clean up.  She went back to the kitchen first to dump the soda and get some juice instead for her daughter to drink. 

“Next time sweetie, please tell mommy when you make a mess,” Hana said as she prepared to clean up the small spill.

“I’m sorry mommy,” Beth said sincerely.

“I know.  Here let’s get you some food before I go clean up.”  Hana put a small serving of chili and filled a sippy cup with some apple juice.  Hana then proceeded to clean up the mess while Beth ate her meal.

You watched as Hana ignored you and your friends’ pleas for help as she cooked.  When they finished making dinner Hana got Beth some food and went to clean up the spill that Beth made.  You watched Beth take a bite of the chili and tasted it; she made a yucky face.  She didn’t seem to like the flavor.  Beth looked around as if searching for something.  She kept searching and searching until she spotted what she wanted… you.  Her face again lite up as got another idea.  She quickly got out of her set and went toward where her mom left her jar of bugs.  Quickly you backed up.

“What’s going on,” Patrick asked.  That was when everyone else noticed what Beth was doing.  She came over to the counter that they were on and looked at her jar.  Beth’s face quickly scrunched up as she seemed to be concentrating.  She was too small to get to them.  “There’s no way she can get us,” Patrick stated the obvious.

You looked closely and followed Beth’s line of sight.  Your heart sank as you saw what she saw, it was a kitchen stool.  “Oh no,” You said.

“What,” Kaylee asked.  Beth answered for you as she went over to the stool and started to climb.  She got to the top of the stool and gleamed at all of you in the jar. 

“Buggies and chili,” She said with a clever look on her face.  She picked up the jar and tilted it causing everyone to scream and cry for help.  You didn’t know what was happening until it was over.  Again you were out of the jar and in the giantess’ hand.  You looked back at the jar and noticed that Kaylee was the only one there.  Looking at the rest of the Beth’s hand it was you, Trixie, and Patrick in her hand.

“No don’t leave me,” Kaylee shouted.  As if you had a choice.  Beth climbed down the stool and headed back to the table where she got back into her seat without Hana even noticing.  Again you looked up to see Beth cheerful smile grinning down at you all.  She picked up Trixie and held her over her bowl of food.

“One for me,” Beth said dropping a screaming Trixie into her food.  Beth than picked you up and held you over Hana’s bowl of food, “One for mommy.”  She let you go as you fell through the air and land in the hot mushy liquid.  “And another for me,” Beth said joyfully dropping Patrick into her bowel.  You watched as Patrick fell through the air and out of sight.  You couldn’t see anything passed the rim of the bowl.  Things couldn’t get worse…

“Ok the mess is all cleaned up,” Hana said after finishing her cleaning.  Her voice could be heard throughout the room.  Hana came into view and sat down.  She filled the sky above you as she didn’t even look down.  You tried to get her attention but she didn’t notice you at all. 

Hana just finished cleaning up the spill and sat down to eat.  She noticed that Beth had a particularly joyous look on her face as she played with her food.  She was mixing and mashing her chili with her spoon.  Laughing she picked up her spoon too and started to mix her food too.  Hana watched her daughter put a spoonful into her mouth and made a disgusted face.  Suddenly Hana remembered, “Oh sweetie, I forgot to add salt.”  She got up and sprinkled some salt on Beth’s chili and her own chili, “I’m sorry, baby.”  This time when Beth scooped up the chili and ate some she made a delicious smile.  She went for another spoonful one after another.  Hana couldn’t help but laugh at her eagerness to eat her dinner.

Patrick hit the chili with a splat and sunk in a couple of inches but then stopped.  He saw Trixie a little further away from him and started to head toward her.  Before he could even make it he saw a metal spoon dip into the chili off to his right.  It suddenly upturned a giant spoonful of chili and flip it over on top of him.  Patrick let out a yell as it landed on top of him.  Patrick had no time to get use to the new situation as suddenly he felt himself being pulled around and moved.  He became quickly disorganized as his world kept moving: up, down, left, right.  He didn’t know which why was up.  Beth kept mixing her chili until she eventually stopped.  Taking a chance Patrick decided to move in the direction he assumed was up.  It wasn’t long before Patrick poked his head out of the surface of the chili and pulled himself up.  Looking around he called out for Trixie and saw her on the other side of the bowel.  Before he could move he heard her tell him to look up. 

Patrick looked up as Hana’s hand sprinkled salt down into the sea of red chili.  He long ago gave up trying to get her attention; he didn’t bother trying to call for her.  Trixie on the other hand still tried screaming for help but she didn’t notice.  Patrick trudged through the meaty sauce to get to Trixie.  There was a shadow that hovered over Patrick’s head that caused him to stop moving.  He heard Trixie call out for him with horror in her voice.  Patrick looked up and saw what was happening.  A giant metal spoon was hovering above him.  It quickly descended into the chili and started to scoop up a large amount of chili.  Patrick just happened to be on this mound.  Patrick was in the center of the spoon and had no time to move.  He quickly ascended into the air was greeted by a giant face that giggled at him.  The mouth opened wide and he quickly was heading toward the dark cavern that would seal Patrick’s fate. 

“Ahhh,” Beth said as she opened her mouth wider and put the spoon on her tongue and closed her mouth.  She slid the spoon out of her mouth completely spotless and leaving Patrick inside with her food.  Patrick couldn’t see anything inside of Beth’s mouth.  The air was damp and hot with a stench to it from her previous meals.  Patrick couldn’t move from pure shock, he couldn’t believe this was it.  Suddenly, almost if like someone flipped a switch, everything started to move.  The tongue he was on suddenly tossed him around.  He hit something hard and was covered with a pile of mushy food.  Patrick barely had time to realize he was on a tooth and move out of the way.  Just as he got out of the way, there was a squishing sound of the food being pulverized by the teeth.  Patrick fell into a puddle of juices and was covered with the mushed up food and was flicked around again.  Everything was happening so fast that he didn’t have time to react.  Finally everything stopped and he was still alive, covered in a meat smelling liquid that oozed all over him.  Before Patrick could do anything the monstrous tongue below him came to life.  It lifted up and flung Patrick and the pile of food deeper into the mouth.  Patrick let out a yell as she flew through the air and landed in a heap in the back of the throat. 

“No, NO!!”  Patrick shouted know what was next.  Beth gulped.  Beth’s throat opened up and pulled everything down her gullet.  Patrick was squeezed by Beth’s muscles as they pulled him down, down and down…

Trixie cried more as she watched Patrick disappear from this world.  She cried more and more as Beth chewed her food and then swallowed with a loud gulp.  Beth let out a yummy sound and quickly glanced around the bowel.  Trixie knew that she enjoyed the taste of bug now and wanted more.  Trixie dived down into the chili hoping to find cover as Beth started to shovel spoonful of chili into her mouth trying to find the other bug.  Trixie stayed buried in the food and didn’t move an inch as the sound of the spoon hitting the bowel every scoop frightened her more and more.  Then it was her turn.  She was being lifted up into the air.  Trixie was too petrified to even move as she was tossed into the same maw that killed Bobby, Patrick, and now it was her turn.  She was pulled off the spoon and was quickly shoved around.

Unlike the others, Beth didn’t know she was in her mouth.  Beth quickly chewed and swallowed the mouthful like the rest as she went to search for the other delicious tasting buggy. 

“Whoa, slow down there baby,” Hana said as she watched her daughter devoured her meal quickly.  “It’s not going anywhere.”

Beth swallowed her mouthful and said, “Ok mommy.”  She poked around the remaining chili trying to find her precious surprise.  Sadly she couldn’t find it.  Did she eat the bug already?

Trixie fell through the air and landed on a pile of mashed up chili.  Suddenly there was a quick down pour of something that smelled of apples; must have been apple juice that Beth swallowed.  Trixie shivered from the cold apple juice but the heat from Beth’s stomach quickly warmed her up making her wish that she got another shower of juice.

“I’ve been eaten,” Trixie said blatantly.

“Trixie,” a voice called out.

“P-Patrick?”  There was some sound of something moving through a liquid and then she felt Patrick near her.  “You’re alive!”  She said joyfully.

“For now,” He said.  Almost if on cue there was a rumbling sound and everything started to move. 

“What’s happening?”  Trixie yelled frightened.

“She’s beginning to digest us.”

“What do we do?” 

“I… I don’t know,” Patrick said whispered.

“HELP!!!”  Trixie shouted.  “HELP!!!”

She kept shouting over and over again until she grew tired of it.  There they stayed in the dark humid stomach of a 4 year old waiting to be digested…

You watched as Beth sat back contented with her meal.  She feverishly finished her meal quicker than she ever did any of her other meals.  You saw Patrick disappear behind Beth’s jaw but not Trixie.  She must have been under a pile of chili because it didn’t look like Beth missed anything. 

“You must have really been hungry,” Hana joked as she was still eating her food.  You watched in horror as it was now your turn to be devoured.  You were running out of chances as there were only a few spoonful’s left of chili.  The spoon scooped up your section of chili.  You let out a shout for help but Hana didn’t notice at all.  This was it… Hana’s mouth opened up and you headed for the humid entrance of Hana’s beautiful mouth.  You felt a gust of hot air rush over you as you were just about to be placed on Hana’s tongue.

You were quickly jerked out and Hana let out a gasp.

“Is that a bug?”

“I put it in to make the chili taste better,” Beth said happily.

“WHAT?”  Hana said shocked.

“I put bugs in my chili to taste good.  I shared some with mommy too,” Beth said innocently.

Hana quickly put the spoon down as she looked at her daughter confused.  “Beth you put bugs in the chili?  Beth did you eat any bugs?”

Beth nodded happily, “I ate 2 they were delicious.”

Hana let out a groan, “Beth I don’t want you eating bugs.  You don’t know where they been and you they could make you sick, baby.”

Beth didn’t seem to understand it but knew that she made her mom upset, “I’m sorry mommy.”

You watched as Hana picked you out of her chili and looked at you in her fingers.  She gave you a disgusted look and quickly walked over to Beth’s jar of bugs and dropped you in with Kaylee.  She then went over and picked up Beth and carried her over to her jar.  They both stood above the jar as Hana said, “Beth I want you to never, ever, eat bugs again.  They can make you sick and not feel well.  You don’t want to feel sick do you?”

“No mommy,” Beth answered.  “I promise I won’t eat anymore bugs.”  She than hugged her mom.

“That’s a good girl,” Hana said as she hugged her. 

“But mommy, can I still play with my buggies?”

Hana looked at her daughter with a loving expression, “Of course.  You know mommy hates bugs and loves to see you having fun with them.”  Hana set Beth down next to the jar on the counter as she went to put the dishes away.  Beth picked up the jar and looked down into the jar with a grin on her face.

“Mommy says I can’t eat you anymore, but we can still have fun,” She said giddily.  She hugged the jar pressing it up against her tummy.  You could hear a faint screaming that belonged to Trixie and Patrick.  There was gurgling and growling and other noises as Beth’s stomach slowly digested your best friends.  They were slowly being digested by Beth’s strong stomach acids.  They will soon become nothing but food for Beth.

“Ok, dishes are done.  Want to watch your favorite movie?”

“Yay,” Beth shouted holding up her hands to be picked up.  She was still holding the jar and was picked up and carried to the couch where Hana set her down and prepared the movie.  Beth set her bugs on the coffee table as she waited patiently for her mother to return to the couch.   Hana returned shortly after starting the movie and sat down next to her daughter.  Beth leaned up against Hana and put her head in her lap as lay there watching the movie.  You couldn’t help but notice that every once and awhile her eyes would drift over to the jar and twinkle as she watched the two of you huddle in the jar in fear of what was to come next…