submitted by omicrony - May 14, 2002
Here is the first story I've written and submitted. I hope you enjoy it.
Sam meets an unusual little girl while he's at an amusement park.
Did you lose your parents?
Throughout the ages, many have searched for the secret of eternal youth. I have found it. My name is Cindy. Many would consider my youth a blessing...but I prefer to call it a curse.
I sighed as I watched my girlfriend disappear into the clothing shop. If my guess was right, she wouldn’t be out for an hour or two. She loved to shop even more than I loved the rides here at the amusement park. I still couldn’t understand how she could spend so much time in a store so small. I always got bored just walking in the door.
I decided to walk around a bit and people watch. Maybe I’d get on one or two of the “scarier” rides here. My girlfriend likes the big roller coasters even less than I like shopping.
My eyes skimmed along the tops of people’s heads. Being 6 foot 2 had its advantages. I could see a variety of people all laughing or joking. Some were hugging their loved ones and there were younger kids goofing around and playing games at the various booths. Pulling out my map, I tried to decide where I was going to go next.
Just as I decided where to go, I saw a little girl watching one of the rides longingly. She didn’t seem to have any parents with her. Her clothes were slightly too large and she had on a backpack that was definitely made for someone larger than her.
Strange, I thought, could her parents have left her by herself? Maybe she’s lost? I decided to stop and keep an eye on her.
After a while, she spotted me and looked scared. I tried smiling at her, but she looked away too fast. My brow creased in concern. But then I relaxed as an older man walked up to the girl. I watched as she shook her head. A breeze carried the latter part of the conversation to me, “…my daddy and mommy should be back.”
That just didn’t seem to click right...she had been alone for too long. I decided to approach her. She craned her head way back to look up at me.
“Hi, little one,” I said.
She looked a little scared, “Hello mister.”
"Did you lose your parents?"
"No..."
“Are you sure your parents will be back soon?”
“I think so”
After I didn’t walk away, she seemed to be considering me. A brave look appeared on her face, “want to be my boyfriend until they get back?”
I squatted down in front of her and looked at her. She had a small nose, slightly upturned. Her hair was cut short no lower than her ears and her bangs kept falling in her eyes. A nervous smile adorned her face. I contemplated becoming her “guardian” for a bit as I hid my concern that her parents may have abandoned her.
I knew my girlfriend would still be a while so as long as the little girl wasn’t afraid of me I didn’t see any reason why I couldn’t keep her company. “Well…” I tweaked her nose “at least for a little while. My name’s Sam. What’s yours?”
“Cindy”
I stood up and took the hand she offered me as she giggled. She barely came past my waist.
“Pick me up! Pick me up,” she cried, bouncing up and down.
“Okay, okay,” I relented, scooping her up, twirling her around, and settled her in right arm, “Cindy, what do you want to do now? Maybe a game?” As I pulled her to me I felt a strong tingle run down my leg. Jerking, I adjusted my keys in my pocket. Stupid keys.
“A ride, a ride, “she said, she pointed to ride near us.
I groaned. It was the salt and shaker ride. I hated rides that made you dizzy. This one had a big arm, maybe 50 feet across with two cylinders on each end…the shakers. The cylinders turned while the entire arm assembly spun around and around. “Ahhh, Cindy, how about a different one, I don’t like those….”
“Nooooo, noooo, that one…it’s my faaaavorite!”
I looked at her in my arms, and sighed, sometimes I can be such a sucker; my girlfriend knew that and took merciless advantage of it. At least I hadn’t eaten anything yet. “Okay, but I’m going to regret this….”
“Weeeee, let’s go lets go”
I adjusted her in my arms as we got in line. It was thankfully short. The ride stopped and the next load of people got on. We’d be next. She started kicking her legs back and forth.
“Woah little missy, stop yer kicking around. Want me to drop you?”
She stopped, “No….”
“How long have you been at the park?
“All day” she rolled her eyes around, “I’ve been wanting to ride on more rides”.
“It’s strange that your parents just left you here… where could they have gone?”
“Oooo, “ she said, “the ride’s stopped, let’s get on!” She started kicking again.
I put her down quickly secretly glad, she felt like she was getting heavier! But no, I shook my head, she was just kicking a lot. She ran up to the ride and climbed in. I followed her.
Inside, we strapped in and she clutched my arm and leaned against me.
The ride started to spin us over and over and I started to feel nauseous. Then the arm started to move and circle. A moan left my lips and I started gulping for air.
“Sam, are you okay? Maybe you shouldn’t have gotten on…”
I sucked in air as the ride went around and around, “ I’m okay”
Thankfully, the ride started to slow and eventually came to a stop. However, for me, the world kept moving. Around and around and around. I closed my eyes but it only made the feeling worse…now I was falling! My eyes snapped open as the attendant opened the door. To make matters worse, as I stumbled out my pants slipped down my waist a little bit so I quickly tightened my belt. Cindy stepped out while I leaned on my knees and breathed heavily. I noticed her clothes seemed to fit…that was strange, I could have sworn….
“I’m sorry, “ Cindy blinked at me like it was the first time she saw me. A look of horror flickered across her face but was quickly replaced by pity, “I shouldn’t have asked you to get on. Here, let me help you.”
She put her arm around my waist as the world spun around me. She stumbled a lot as I leaned on her. How did her hand even reach my armpit? I looked at her quickly and blinked in surprise. She was as tall as my chest and her hair seemed to have gotten longer. She looked cute now, going on pretty.
She saw me looking at her in confusion and said, “You must still be dizzy, come sit over here and rest.”
We stopped at a bench near the bathrooms and both let out a sigh of relief. We grinned at each other, then I reached down and tied my shoes, which seemed to have gotten looser on me. I looked around in confusion and back at Cindy. Funny, her shirt seemed to have become untucked from her jeans. She was beginning to look downright pretty. She started to adjust her backpack, making her straps longer. She looked over at me and said, “silly” as she reached over and rolled up my pants legs a bit. My pants legs seemed to have been touching the ground.
“What in the world?” My pants had always fit correctly, this was downright strange.
“Silly, that’s what happens when you sit down.”
That didn’t seem quite right. Finally, the world stopped tilting so much and I shook my head.
She put her arms around me and said, “Sam, do you think I’m pretty?”
I looked at her, almost directly into her eyes. Yes, she was pretty, but that’s not right, she was cute, she was a cute little girl. Alarms went off in my head. She’s not little, my mind screamed, and why did it look like she had a hint of breasts?
Sighing, like she had decided on something, she stood up and pulled me up with her. “You’ve been so kind to me, let me kiss you”
Before I could protest, she tilted my head down and put me in such a lip lock my head started to spin and I felt an erection coming on. She pressed her body tightly against mine and I felt her breasts press against me, seeming more insistently as the kiss went on.
“Get a room!” someone yelled.
“Aren’t you two a little young?” someone else yelled.
The kiss lasted longer than I could count, then breaking her lip lock she looked directly into my eyes, “I need to go to the bathroom for a minute, will you wait here?”
My mind spun, she was looking directly into my eyes!!! This didn’t make sense! This was a 6 year old! But it became obvious that she wasn’t as she pressed her breasts against me as she captured me in another lip lock. After it went on for a minute I managed to let out a muffled “mmm hmmm.”
She stopped kissing me again as I looked slightly up into her eyes. She broke out a smile that was like a ray of sunshine. “Great!” She grabbed her backpack “I’ll be right back” and she hurried into the bathroom
As I watched her retreating back I noticed her shirt was up to her navel and her pants were extremely tight. My erection surged as my mind wandered. Wait a minute, how could I even be thinking that! There are laws against that! My mind battled between what it knew and what my body was telling me. And then my pants fell down.
A bunch of kids ran by laughing as I pulled them up, this was ridiculous! I looked at the kids and was shocked to see that they were the same size I was. What the heck was happening? My clothes were too big, people were calling me kid, and children were as tall as I was! Was I was shrinking? I held my pants up as I ran to the bathroom.
I looked in the mirror and got the shock of my life. A 13ish year old boy stared back. I started to panic. “ Holy crap, what the hell is going on? This is unreal!” I heard my voice, at least I thought it was my voice, but it higher than usual. I became frantic, what was I going to do?
To my horror I noticed the sink was close to my waistline. As I stared closely at a notch on the wall I saw it getting higher, centimeter-by-centimeter. Scared as hell, I decided that it was time to get to the bottom of this. That little girl owned me some BIG explanations. Little girl…but she was as tall as me. Could she be getting bigger as I got smaller?
With new resolve, but scared of the improbable, I cinched up my pants, used my belt to tie it in place around my diminishing waistline, rolled up my pants legs, and tucked my shirt in as tight as I could.
Going back outside, I shifted uneasily as I felt eyes on me looking at my inappropriate clothes. Even though I had rolled up my pants legs, they were cavernous to my now skinny legs.
Eventually a woman came out of the bathroom with a familiar backpack. I recognized her face and stared in disbelief. She saw me and approached. She was gorgeous! Her long brown hair fell to her mid-back, she had on stylish jeans and a shirt that did nothing to hide the large breasts she was sporting. I mean they were a heck of a lot larger than when she went into the bathroom earlier. I felt a stirring in my pants, but unfortunately it went away practically before it started. But the most stunning thing was that my eyelevel was right at her breasts. My fears were correct.
I looked up at her “Cindy?” She nodded so I continued, “What the heck is going on? How are you so old? How did I get so young?”
She sniffed, “You’re calling me old?”
“Yes, I mean no, I mean… stop trying to confuse me!”
“Whatever do you mean?” She said innocently, flicking her bangs out of her eyes.
“Don’t bullshit me!” I noticed shocked looks around us as people saw what looked like a 13-year-old mouthing off to an older girl. “I’m supposed to be 20! And you were 6…but now I look like I’m 13…”
“More like 10.”
“Ah ha!” I stomped my foot, “See, you know!”
Cindy looked down at me and sighed. She adjusted her backpack and I noticed that her breast level was higher than it was when she came out. “I’m not a child,” I said in a small voice, “stop what you’re doing to me!” I gulped air as I struggled against the sudden urge to cry.
“Come sit here” she patted the bench beside her.
Why am I crying? I have better control than this. Sniffling I did what she told me.
“Actually, I’m a little sorry about this, my first impression of you was that you were scary, my perception changes when I’m young. I hope the kiss made up for it.”
“Yes, it… wait a second, no it didn’t, what do you mean, I was scary? You were practically bouncing up and down when we met.”
Her mouth broke into a terrific smile, “I was excited then, but when we first met I was practically scared to death. My impressions of the world get rather childlike when I’m that small. I’m sure you’re feeling the same.”
I stared at her in horror. She didn’t look remorseful. She just stared back at me. I tried again. “That doesn’t matter, why am I getting younger? And how do I stop?”
“You said you were 20? You should be about 5 shortly.”
I couldn’t believe it, the tears that I had been struggling to hold back started to flow, “Why me?”
Cindy tilted her head quizzically, “I don’t know…I guess you were just convenient.”
She shook her head then reached out and pulled me close to her. I was eye to eye with her.
“Now listen Sammy, you must be a brave boy…I’m going to give you some money and, wait, are you here with anyone?”
“My… my,” I couldn’t remember who I came with. “I came with someone,” I completed brightly, “but they won’t know me now.”
“Show them your clothes and your wallet, they won’t believe it at first, but they’ll have to.”
I looked up into her eyes as she sighed and stood up. She now towered above me, “I have to go now, and don’t worry, you’ll grow up much faster than before. It won't take more that 2 years."
She got up, "bye!"
“Wait!” I wailed as she walked away, “I’m scared and I don’t know where to go,” I finished quietly as she disappeared into the distance.
As I glanced frantically around the park I realized that I didn’t know where I was. I couldn’t seem to grasp it, I was 5, but I was 20, right? She was a mean lady to just leave me like this. She said I’d be young for a long time. How long was it? I couldn’t remember. Did she tell me? I couldn’t remember our conversation very well. But one thought kept going through my head. How could this have happened?
I began to sniffle.
“Hello little boy, “ a strange man said, “Did you lose your parents?”