Kate and Emma were kneeling on the floor of their flat looking at the glass jar, both with a look of amazement on their faces. In the jar was Kate's boyfriend, now standing at only one inch tall.
Of course they hadn't believed the woman who claimed to be able to shrink people and Kate had certainly been joking when she'd asked for her boyfriend to be shrunk for the weekend. The woman hadn't been joking and now here they were, two thirty year old women and a naked one inch high guy.
"Are we supposed to put grass and water in the jar?" Kate asked as she swept her long dark hair out of her eyes with her hands.
"He's not a bug," Emma replied without taking her eyes off the tiny guy.
"Maybe some crumbs for him to eat?"
"You could fill the jar with beer, he'd like that."
"Do you think we can play with him?" Kate asked.
"I'm sure we can play many things with a guy that size."
"The woman said that he'd be as tough as usual, so no chance of hurting him."
"We'll have to put that to the test," Emma smiled.
Kate gingerly unscrewed the lid of the jar, reached in and picked up her ex- six foot boyfriend with her thumb and forefinger.
"He looks good enough to eat," Emma observed as she lowered her head, opened her mouth and pretended to eat him.
"Stop it, you'll scare him," Kate replied as she took him and gently slipped him into the front pocket of her jeans.
"My mouth is no scarier that your crotch," Emma giggled as she saw where Brad had come to rest at the bottom of Kate's pocket.
"He's never minded that before."
Brad had no memory of the incident, he'd just woken up and the world had grown. He felt normal, but everything was huge. It had to be a dream, although it seemed worrying real. Kate's pocket, for example, felt so real, the scent was unmistakably hers. What had he taken for his mind to imagine things so vividly?
Kate's pocket was just how he imagined a glazier crevasse to be, very narrow and very tall and impossible to climb out of. Unlike a crevasse, the pocket lining felt soft and warm and kept moving.
The jean denim was too thick to see through, however the pocket lining was thinner and he could just see the outline of her body and the new black lace underwear that he'd bought her. He tried to climb up to the very thin line of light at the pocket opening, but his pathetic attempts just landed him on his back at the bottom of her pocket. There was no way one, this was one very secure cell.
"I can't believe you're keeping him in your pocket," Emma repeated.
"Can you hear him complaining?"
"He's too small to hear anything he says."
"Obviously a satisfied customer then."
"Well I think it's cruel," Emma persisted.
With Emma throwing doubt on the correct etiquette when caring for your one inch high boyfriend, Kate reached into her pocket and gently pulled Brad out and placed him back into his jar.
*
They ate lunch and then Kate had to leave for work.
"You promise you'll look after him?" Kate asked Emma for the fourth time.
"I won't lose him or eat him, I promise."
Brad couldn't hear much through the glass jar but looked on with concern as he saw Kate slip on her black leather jacket. Surely she wasn't going out? Surely she wasn't going to leave him with Emma? Sure, Emma was attractive and yes like most guys he'd daydreamed about her, but she could be cruel. She'd once locked Kate in a trunk, not letting her out until way after the joke was over. This blonde certainly wouldn't be his first pick to baby sit him in this state.
With Kate gone, Emma smiled ominously as she unscrewed the jar and lifted Brad out, "Just you and me now..."
Emma was a couple of inches taller than Kate and with a slightly fuller figure, not that extra strength was required to control a guy of this size. She lay back on the sofa and dropped Brad on to the front of her sheer grey top. She watched with a wide smile across her lips as the tiny guy stood up and tried to walk around. It tickled, which made Emma laugh, which made her muscles tighten, which made him fall over.
"Careful," she giggled as she helped him to his feet.
The mischievous look in Emma's big blue eyes was worrying. He needed to get away from her and hide somewhere until Kate returned. It sounded easy, but every time he tried to move away she picked him up and put him back in the middle of her stomach. But things were about to get a lot worst.