"… I'm gonna put you in the toy box for a time out. You're lucky. Next time I might put you on the top shelf by yourself or make you the size of Skipper, so you don't forget who the little girl really is."
I guess I did get lucky. I wouldn't want to be left alone on a shelf with giant surroundings at this size, and I remember Skipper being substantially shorter than Barbie, despite them both being dolls. Being 11.5 inches tall is already bad, but being shorter than Jessi while she's 11.5 inches tall is worse.
"Ok. I understand what I did wrong. Go ahead and punish me." I was hoping for a good behavior type situation where maybe she'd let me go if I understood to no avail.
"Aw, behaving even before you're punished. That's why you're my favorite doll. You're obedient. But I still have to punish you." The giant girl made her way to me. Just before grabbing me, I looked at Jessi and she was putting on the other dress and mouthed "thank you so much" and "I'm sorry". I nodded my head as her massive hand easily grasped me. She walked over to her end of her bed to where the toy box was. From my point of view, the toy box was about half her size, and God knows how many times larger than me. She opened the top and as she was about to place me in, she said, "don't worry. It's only about for an hour until my friends are over. Then… I'll decide what to do with you later."
Once inside the box, I noticed that where she placed me was almost like a jail cell. I was a room with thick (to a girl my size at least) wooden walls, and a large, barred door so I can see the rest of the toy box. I noticed other cells like mine. I wondered if there were other dolls - I mean girls - in the prison with me.
I turned around to observe the rest of my cell and noticed that it wasn't all too shabby. I had a pretty big cell, probably because it was in on of the four corners of the toy box. There was a couch, a love seat, a table, (all plastic and pink of course) on one side. I had a bunk bed, probably because this cell could serve as a two doll cell. As I continued to look around I saw someone sitting at a chair looking at a vanity mirror with the little lights on. I wondered if it was a battery operated Barbie vanity or a shrunken one. I assumed the first because I don't see how it would still work if it was shrunken, since there is no electricity in the giant, pink, wooden toy box. The only sources of light for us were the large holes on the ceiling of the toy box that were scattered around enough so that a good amount of light could enter, except in the middle of the toy box. The middle was, for some reason, pitch black. I could see faint light from what I imagined were other cells.
Up until now I was silent. I walked to the figure to see who, or what, it was. When I got close enough I noticed it was a Barbie doll… an actual one.
"Boy, you're a lot bigger than I remember." I looked at what she was wearing to see if maybe I would steal it, but it was a pink gown that looked much more uncomfortable than the cheer leading outfit I was wearing. I turned off the light of the vanity and tried to take a quick nap on the bottom bunk.
I was abruptly woken up when Olivia (the giant girl) opened the toy box, allowing light to flood in, and said, with her booming voice, "ok, dollies. It's free time. You have 15 minutes to roam around then it's back to your rooms for 55 minutes, then lunch. Oh, by the way, you have a new friend for the moment. That's why I gave you an extra 5 minutes for free time. She's the cheerleader Barbie so make sure you play nice!" She almost sounded like an innocent, sweet little girl when she spoke the last sentence. With the light from the open roof flooding I could see her removing the wooden jail cell bars to allow the prisoners to go in the "free zone". I was the 4th cell she opened up and I reluctantly went in the middle. I didn't know what to expect. To the closest cell to my right came out a tiny (even to me) brunette girl. She looked up at me and said "so you're the cheer leader, huh? Well, it's a pleasure to meet you! I'm Gabriella, but you can call me Gabby." She extended her hand out to shake mine. It was a very formal introduction on her part.
I shook her and while saying "Hi! I'm Charlotte… or at least I was. I guess I'm 'cheerleader Barbie' now. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of Barbie are you?"
"Oh, I'm not Barbie. I was Teresa, and her favorite one at that. But, I 'misbehaved' so she shrunk me down to Skipper… your little sister." I was really happy she didn't shrink me down now, as Gabby was up to my shoulders.
"Ohh ok." I replied. "So, how did you end up being shrunken in the first place?" I asked her, while looking around to see the 4 other girls, 3 blondes and one other brunette, leave their cells. At this point she closed the toy box and removed what ever object was on top to allow light to flow in the middle revealing all the Barbie things inside, like more furniture.
"I was at the mall, trying on heels when some little man approached me offering help, implying that he worked at the store. He was about 1/4 of my size, especially with the 3 inch heels I was wearing making me 6'6". I bent down to hand him the heels to see if I could get them in a larger size, when he said 'I'll just make you smaller to fit in the heels' and so he shrank me. I've been Olivia's doll ever since, and I was one of the first ones. What's your story?"
I explained Gabriella everything that happened to me and Jessi and as I was telling the story, the other girls gathered around us. There was only one other blonde girl who Skipper's size.
"So you arrived today and you're in the toy box? Wow, she must really like you to spare you like that. Usually she gets rid of the really bad dolls." One of the girls said. I didn't really want to know what she meant by that, so I began meeting the other girls.
About 10 minutes went by and Gabriella decided to give me a tour of the toy box. It was a lot larger than it seems. Two things really interested me for some reason. One was a ruler she put so we could measure ourselves for whatever reason, and the other were windows she put around in between the cells. I frantically went to them to see if I could see the doll house Jessi and I were in that she placed on top of her desk. One of the windows had a perfect view of the doll house and I could easily see Jessi. She was still in the princess dress, but looked a little different. She was roaming around the house, going up and down the floors, almost looking nervous. She was probably worried for me. Around the toy box, the other dolls were all looking for her before deciding that she was out of the room. I looked down to Gabby and asked her why don't they try to escape.
"The last dolls who tried to escape left from the window frames. They managed to knock down the glass and managed to survive the fall. They made it as far as the door before they were caught. We never saw them again. But that's why they reinforced the glass with more hot glue and added taller legs to the bottom of the toy box. No one else ever even attempted to escape, and I recommend you do the same, especially since she seems to really like you for leaving you here, and not where ever she puts the bad dolls."
"Yeah, I never considered escaping. This girl is too big."
Gabby and I continued talking until free time was over. As she loomed over us to make sure we went to our cells, I whispered to Gabby, "boy, she really does run this place like a warden." She looked up at me and replied saying "you don't know the half of it." Before going back in our cells, she said "you know, you really do look like Barbie."
After being locked up I started thinking about all the other girls that I met in here. There was a Bride Barbie, a Ballerina Barbie, a Nurse Barbie, and two Skippers, one of which was Gabby.
After being locked up for what seemed around 5 minutes she opened the top again.
"Cheerleader Barbie, it's time to go play! My friends are here!" I got off of the bed and she immediately picked me up like Janine did; pinching my top with her index finger and thumb. She put me back on the third floor of the same doll house I arrived in, but on the opposite half (remember how I said the house split down the middle? I found out it was a modification Peter himself did so they can easily find us in the houses). I looked at the door and saw a little, older looking lady, who I would say us about 4 feet fall do 4'2", escort 3 giant little girls into the room. I scanned the other half of the house for Jessi but couldn't find her. I immediately thought that I was in some big trouble with these girls.
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