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Author's Chapter Notes:
Really incredible story so far, right? Chris here is the Scott Carey of the story, while his daughter is the grown Beth Carey of the story. The surname Carrie was deprived from Carey as a reference. I wonder though what would it been like if Scott Carey did manage to survive all those years later.
Carrie rested on her bed, as she let her legs dangled

before laying them on the bed. Chris felt sick the moment

as she dangled her legs, but was lucky enough to get out

unharmed as he walked out of Carrie’s ankle sock. He was

shocked for the moment as he looked at one side of the

room. There were headlines around, newspapers, article

clippings, all about him. WORLD’S SHRUNKEN MAN: Countdown

to the impossible, SHRINKO THE FREAKO, THE MAN THAT LOOKS

LIKE A BOY, BABY SIZE TODAY -- COCKROACH SIZE TOMORROW.

These were all the taunts he remembered so long ago. So

many names, so many names he thought. Back then being a

celebrity for the time being was incredible. But then, the

down side of it was the endless calls, the knockings on

the doors, and the cameras. He remembered that all back

then. He couldn’t bear to try to remember those back then.

They were all scumbags, the more you let them have you the

more they want more. It was as endless as his fear back

then that he might shrink to almost nothing.

Chris looked upon his daughter Carrie now, she was laying

on her stomach reading a magazine. He was deciding whether

or not should he allow himself to somehow contact her?

Part of his wanted to, so he can see if he was part of

that world still. But then the other salve said it was too

impossible. She may think of him as a bitter insect. Plus

with his voice completely reduce to squeaks, he find this

utterly embarrassing. He was ashamed of himself. He had no

right to do any contact with the normal human being. His

life was that of an insect and as the life of an insect,

he must stagger around the world for survival, he might as

well just live within his daughter instead. It was the

only part of within himself, that insisted to do. It was

no stalking love. He wanted to see his daughter’s

lifestyle, and just to see how she is and how she reacts.

Those years he spent alone was enough torment, right now

he just watched his daughter until she got up and started

to move off the bed. She took off her shoes and walked out

of the room. He remained alone once again, and thought for

a second to where to bunk for night and possibly for the

rest of his life. He looked around until he saw that the

closet door was open. He sprinted fast so that he can be

there before she closes the door. He decided that for the

remaining time, he should live inside her shoes. He picked

to live inside her clean white Nike sneakers, since one of

those shoes; specifically the left shoe itself was lying

on its side. Hopefully, by the next morning he would get

in time just in case she decided to where it.

Carrie returned back to her room, as Chris listened to his

daughter’s humming tune. By then she was already dressed

up in a white t-shirt and teddy bear pants, getting ready

for bed. Or so he thought…

She spent the remaining time on her computer looking

through old archives, archives that featured her father.

She read on and on, about how started to possibly shrink.

She read on some conclusive analysis that his shrinking

may involved with something of a mist that was conducted

as a failed experiment of a former lab that closed down

nearly twenty-five years ago. Those facts prove to either

be true or untrue. She kept saying in her mind, “what

happened?” She looked out the window and into the night.

She decided to open it.

Carrie never really opened the window that much, since she

and her mom moved to the house. They spent nearly twelve

years on the run, they weren’t fugitives or anything. They

wanted to be alone, to get away from it all. She thought

for a second, did mom really wanted to leave dad because

of all this? She never asked her mother, she tempted to at

least once, but she never gave an answer back. She

wondered what did go on in mom’s head, did she miss dad,

does she hate him, is she afraid, is she worried? It was

hard for her to remember back then. She then turned off

the computer and went straight to bed.
Chapter End Notes:
Next Chapter: Chris is about to face a new insect foe, but this time he might have to save his daughter before it gets to him after.
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