~Linda~
It was near the end of school, and I feel pretty tired so far. It sucks for me,
because I have to drive home. I pretty much dazed about things, that I remember when I
was younger: elementary school, middle school, Julia and her mother, times I spent with
my dad, and even times I spent with my mother. It was a good feeling. As the bang rang,
I gathered my books, and place them in my backpack as I walk out to my locker. While
walking, I saw a few of my friends that just said hi and bye, and the usual talk to me
when you can.
I then walked out the door and into my car. I was about to go in, when I just saw
across from school, a park. There was a little girl playing with her father in the play
structure, and then they were dashing to the swings. I couldn’t help but smile, as the little
girl looked at me, smiled, and waved. I waved back, knowing I saw my own reflection
through her. She really looked like me when I was 6, having those feelings again, really
do take you back. I decided that during Spring Break, I just wanted to spend time with
my daddy. I then got into the car placed the key into the ignition, and I was off. It usually
takes me at least ten minutes or so to get home. I didn’t mind the traffic anyway. It was
only 4:00, I’ll cook dinner tonight, I decided. I was now near the end of the block to my
house.
~Paul~ (15 minutes ago)
What just happened now? I said to myself. I felt like my body was torn at the
worst parts, but now I feel fine. My eyes were blurry; it seems that I was in this room,
where the ceiling extends forever. My eyes then began to focus. I was incomplete shock
that went on forever. Oh my god! What the hell just……..I mean where the hell am I?
What is this place? I looked around to see that everything was now familiar at the point,
and I figured it all out. I’m in my bathroom, only it’s twice my size. But everything isn’t
big, I’ve shrunk!
Oh dear god, what the hell just happened to me? I kept saying. I was so scared
now, more than ever. I was so scared that, I even began to cry and yell. I was cursing out
like never before. Why me? Why my wife? Why my family? Why me? I don’t get why I
shrunk. Could all that pain really set forth my shrinkage? I was confused now, and scared
as hell. This couldn’t be permanent; no way was I going to spend the rest of my life as a
shrinking freak. Okay, I need to calm down, just breathe. I inhaled and exhaled. Okay,
I’ve got to get it together I said. First things, first I need to know how small I am. Luckily
the measuring tape is here, so I measure myself, standing straight still, holding my hand
right on top of my head.
I was now 2’8. Jesus, I thought. What am I suppose to do. I must have pondered
for some time, until I came up with a result at least. I needed to Linda to help me at my
least. It’s sort of felt awkward at first, but there wasn’t any choice left. She’s the only one
who can help me now. I couldn’t believe that I was the size of a small child. I couldn’t
even think straight anymore, but I wasn’t thinking like a child. I was more of a lost soul,
who needs to be guided, possibly. I wasn’t prepared to face the outside world, at my
situation. In the same terms to leave the bathroom, I was embarrassed, afraid, angry, and
upset all at once. I had a lot of thoughts of what would it be like if I just went outside
right now.
They would just think of me as a freak as well. What’s worst was that, what if I
keep shrinking, just like the movie, The Incredible Shrinking Man. I read the book, when
I was very young, and I admit I was a fan and when my father showed me the movie
when I was young, I was so scared at the possibility of being eaten by spider, at that size.
That movie has become a full fantasy come to life. I didn’t want to be killed or eaten by
an insect, or be stepped on. I had a vision now; of what would it be like if I was barely a
millimeter tall.
I imagined myself, a tiny speck in my living room floor. All around was like a
desert. I yelled out a couple of times, until I felt a trembling earthquake coming. It felt
like an earthquake that would bring the world to its core, if not other worlds could feel it.
I then figured out that I know who it was: Linda.
“No, Linda. Stop! Please baby, don’t come near me.”
It was no use; my voice no longer couldn’t be heard to a normal size person, as I
look upon her as a giantess. My own daughter was incredible giantess, from my view
now. I gulped; as I looked upon her…There was no word I can think up now. She was
stomping down from the hallway to the living room, in her black flat shoes. I was now
running for my life, but I knew I’ll never escape her. She was a thousand times my size
and a thousand times stronger. I just had to let it end. But a part of me can’t so I kept
running, for my life until I tripped and fell very hard to the ground of the wooden floor. I
couldn’t move my leg or stand up, I was going to die, as she was stepping closer and
closer to my position. At least if I die, I’ll always be a part of her, even though I’ll be
nothing but a speck of tiny blood in the sole of her shoe that will eventually be dirtied up,
by whatever she steps on. I just closed me eyes, not even hesitating or even flinching. Her
left foot was going to step on me, and I know it, I just let out a yell, and called her name.
She then stomped on me.
I woke up from that fantasy, it was only a dream. That can never happen, there’s
no way I’m going to let that ugly fantasy be a coming foreshadow of my own fate. I just
have to prepare for the worst, but I know that even the worst can only just be the
beginning of what would be the even more terrible.
Just then, I heard a slight noise, in the front door, Linda was home. Oh my god!
What am I going to do? I was trembling in fear again. I couldn’t let her see me like this. I
was now smaller, than her. I was child-sized. It’s pretty ironic in an odd way, that I’m the
parent who is now the size of a child, while my own daughter is the size of a mother. This
was the strangest situation, I can ever be in now, and there’s no turning back.
“Daddy, I’m home.”