Chapter #4A Fateful Choice by: Tocks Kate. Not that she was vain or anything, but Tessa might be too much competition in the cute category. Kate was good looking (after all, Jenn wouldn’t hang with someone who wasn’t), but came across more scary than anything. Besides, she was closer. Wow, the town sure looks different from way up here, thought Jenn, beginning to walk towards Kate’s place. One step later, her 34 foot flip-flop crashed through the house on the corner with no effort. Intrigued, Jenn stood there, treading in place to see how long it would take to completely flatten it. Not long at all, she thought, treading down the road leaving a crushed pile of masonry and timbers squashed into two wavy treadmarks.
After that, Jenn stayed mostly on the road and people’s front lawns. Passing her principal’s house, she remembered getting caught stomping in his prize rose garden as a Halloween prank last year and the weeks of detention. Thus, she made a point of now squashing his garden into colorful mush, slipping off a shoe to squash it barefoot.
A 200 ft girl strolling through the town tends to attract attention. Sirens screamed in her direction and Jenn began to get panicky. She ran the last few steps to Kate’s place, not caring what she stepped on, houses, cars, little old ladies and their dogs, whatever. And there was Kate. Ever since she quit school and got kicked out of her parent’s place, Kate rarely went out in the day time. Turning the dial hastily, Jennifer shrunk herself back to normal.
“Wow, that’s some power you have, Jennifer,” Kate said in her usual manner, as if growing and shrinking were something like a talent for singing.
Jenn explained how she’d discovered the device and crushed her first guy and her subsequent breakthrough in personal growth. “It’s totally amazing. And so much fun. I never imagined the thrill of stepping on jerks and twisting them out under my dirty foot. We could totally smash everyone who disagreed with us and then shrink back and no one would know anything.”
“Maybe with discrete shrinking,” Kate pointed out over a chorus of sirens, “but you’ve been seen know by hundreds of people and I know I recognized you right away, Jennifer.”
Jenn hadn’t thought past the immediate enjoyment of squashing little things underfoot. Presumably she could remain a giantess forever and be safe from persecution. But how would she eat? Or more importantly, how would she shop? She went past panicky into shocky. And missed something important Kate just said. “What?”
“I said I could protect you, or my powers could anyway. I could perform one very powerful amnesia spell and then provide a permanent disguise spell for when you want to be huge again.”
Jenn was surprised, “You mean that magic stuff isn’t just a lifestyle thing. You can really do stuff?”
“Yes, and as much as I would like to join you on a rampage around this stupid town, my powers won’t let me. Do you wish my protection?”
Blue lights flashed as emergency vehicles and cop cars tried to get past the enormous holes Jenn’s feet had made in the street. Jenn entered Kate’s home.
It took about an hour while Jenn watched TV footage of herself crushing through a large 2 story house. Finally, Kate emerged from her bedroom workshop. She made Jenn prick her finger and say some strange words. Kate uttered an incantation of her own. In mid-sentence, the newscaster refocused her words.
“The girl, identified as Jennifer Mueller, obviously needs to be stopped. It is unbelievable that (short pause) such a massive series of sinkholes would occur in an area with such magnitude and regularity. They are all similar in shape.” The scene switched to the newscopter view which before had shown a giant Jenn laughing now scanned over deep impressions (remarkably footprint like) and the collapse of the principal’s house. No evidence or memory remained of Jenn’s brief stint as a giantess.
A very tired Kate said that she’d never have the power to cast that spell again but had modified the device to fog out her features when she achieved giantess status.
Jenn didn’t care how or at what cost Kate had done it. She hugged her friend and left to start her new life.
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