//------------------------------// // Blind Girl meets a Tiny // Story: Tales from Tinies. // by MrAquino //------------------------------// Jack runs down the hall, holding a few crumbs he’d just taken from the kitchen. He only has so long to get back to the small hole in the wall he calls home before the giants get back. He doesn’t know how it happened, he must have vanished during the night a week ago, but now he’s here in a giant version of Earth where everyone is technicolor, or at least the family whose house he ended up in. The dad is usually gone all day, along with the older one of his daughters, but the mom and the younger daughter are still here, and it’s them he’s avoiding. He turns a corner in the house, it’s the final stretch when he runs into something, soft yet resilient, that knocks him and his prize backwards. What he bumped into was none other than the bare foot of younger daughter that resides in the large house Jack ‘lives’ in, a girl named Moonstone. The girl’s skin was a very faded blue, her hair being white from the top, as when it cascades down, her hair is a somewhat pastel rainbow of colors that mix well with it. She was wearing a hoodie over her pajama gown that looked more like a dress. It was a different shade of light blue with purple tips around the ends and some over parts of it to give a little design. Her bangs were covering her eyes when her head was raised by the touch of an unfamiliar object. “Huh? Did I bump into something?” She moved her foot a little to see if she could locate the item again, a little nervous as it felt warm. “Oh, I hope it’s not a rodent.” She got chills just thinking about it. The baby blue bow that kept her hair in a low ponytail bounced when she moved her head, trying to hear any movement in case it was a little intruder. Jack might not know this, but Moonstone was blind, only relying on her other four senses to go around the house, never going outside alone. He scoots himself away from her, still sitting on the floor, practically hyperventilating. She was staring straight at him, or at least from his perspective. ‘Oh no! This is it, I’m doomed!’ He thinks to himself, his prize lay next to her foot forgotten. He pulls out a rock, barely even a pebble to her. ‘One chance.’ He says to himself waiting for her to try and pick him up, if he was lucky and she didn’t just stomp him out of existence. Moonstone decided that using her hands would be better to find what she felt come against her foot, feeling the ground before one of her fingers brushed against something small and hard. She flinched, not sure what it was before she tried to find it again. ‘It felt hard, but I could swear before it was soft before. This might be a rock, but the thing that bumped into me felt like some old fabric… why do I hear small breathing? I-is it a mouse!?’ She got a little nervous, but swallowed up her fear before she spoke. “Uhm, h-hello? Is someone there? Or is this just Susu playing another prank on me?” She rolled her eyes as she hated it when her older sister sometimes pranked her. ‘I-it’s almost like she doesn’t see me.’ He thinks to himself, before her finger got close and he hit at it with the rock, at his size literally doing nothing, if anything she probably felt like she just touched something. When she starts feeling around again is when he realizes the truth. ‘She’s blind, thank goodness, I could still get out of this.’ He hears her speak, saying hello. “Goodbye.” He says, not knowing she can hear him, before throwing the rock at the wall, it bouncing off of it with a clack, while he takes off running the other way, running right under her and straight for the hole in the wall. Her eyes widened a little when she actually heard a response, but before she could even say anything, she heard the rock hitting the wall, it sounding louder to her ears as she could hear whoever spoke took off to. “W-wait, who are you?” She asked out loud, turning her head to see if she could find where he went or if he was still around, but it was silent all around her. She sighed as she sat down, feeling for the small rock that was thrown before she picked it up and felt it. ‘Hmm, granite. Quite common.’ She thought, telling what type of rock it was just by feeling it. She put the rock in her pocket before she stood back up. ‘Who was that? And why would they throw a rock so small?’ She asked herself, not even sure how someone can come into their house without anyone else knowing. ‘I really do hope that this isn’t just Susu pranking me again.’ She sighed as she started making her way to the kitchen since that’s where she was going. ‘Hmm… maybe I could try and find him again by bringing him back out.’ She thought, thinking just how she’s planning to do that. Having got to his little room in the wall, Jack collapses onto his makeshift bed, glad to be “home” in one piece. ‘Thank goodness she’s blind otherwise, I probably wouldn’t be here. Wait, she’s blind eh? I guess that means there’s one less person to worry about finding me.’ He thinks to himself, sighing in relief. Once Moonstone got what she came for, she went back to her room, unsure on how to catch this sneaky intruder that no one else has noticed but herself. ‘He must be some kind of ninja. So I can’t just up and confront him, I have to get him at his most vulnerable point.’ She thought, still thinking on how to get this person that’s been hiding from everyone for who knows how long. After that, things were practically back to normal for Jack, his daily raid now a little easier since there was one less person to worry about, which was great because for whatever reason, she’d be walking right along with him. He figured as long as he didn’t cross her path he’d be safe, to make sure she wasn’t following him one day, he stopped and luckily she just walked right on by. Their destinations seemed to be just about the same. She’d get into the pantry and feel around for something and he’d wander from food container to food container nicking crumbs. What Jack didn’t know is that she was well aware of his presence though she couldn’t see him and made sure to keep him in the dark about that, she had got him used to her presence and now she was going to use that to catch him. ‘I can’t believe it’s been a week, two since I’ve been here and I’m still alive.’ Jack thinks as he heads out of his “home” for another pantry raid. Keeping closer to the wall he walks along headed to the kitchen. ‘She isn’t here today, well I guess I don’t have to worry about watching where I walk for now.’ He thinks to himself as he continues toward the kitchen. Moonstone waited by the entrance of the kitchen, listening to every small step he was taking, thinking that he was very low to the ground. ‘Once he gets close enough, I’ll stop him so I can ask some questions on why he’s stealing food from the kitchen.’ She thought, breathing silently so she could hear where he was and how close he was to where she was hidden. Jack makes it into the kitchen without any issues and starts heading toward the pantry, never noticing the giant girl standing hidden around an upcoming corner he didn’t need to take. The corner led to the laundry room, possibly another pantry, and maybe also their garage, but he was focused on the kitchen family ahead of him. ‘Okay… ready… set… now!’ “Gotcha!” She was quick to target where he was and quickly dove down to catch him with her hands. At first, she thought she would grab his ankle or arm, but she was very surprised to feel that she grabbed something much smaller. “Huh? What’s this?” Jack’s world had suddenly gone black and he was pressed in between to warm, fleshy objects, and with how they felt, he could only assume that someone had just grabbed him. Then he hears her voice. ‘Sh-sh-sh-she knew!?!’ At this point he knew struggling would be pointless, after all, what chance did he have at what looked to be less than an inch high, against a skyscraper sized girl. So instead he waits, shivering in fear. “Wait… is this a toy?” She asked out loud, feeling the boy trapped in her clutches. But once she felt the familiar touch and warmth of human skin, she knew it wasn’t a toy. “What the..?” Jack, still shivering in fear, swallows nervously in the darkness as he was trapped between the palms of her hands. As he waits, he imagines every dark end he could think of, being crushed between her palms, dropped from her height, stepped on, and many other endings for his short life, only just having turned sixteen. She gently placed one of her hands under him as she curled her hand behind him. Bringing him a little closer, not wanting to drop him or make him run away. “Uhm, can you talk?” She asked, not sure what else to say. Jack sits in the palm of her hand, his heart beating like a drum, his breath coming in short rapid bursts. He shivers in fear, even after her question. “D-d-d-d-d-don’t h-hurt m-m-me!” He stutters his plea for mercy, staring into her milky, blind eyes. She noticed that by how small he felt that he most likely would be scared. Which he was, obviously. “Hey, hey, hey. It’s okay. I’m not gonna hurt you. I… I just wanna ask some questions.” She explained. Still shivering in fear he manages to nod. “O-okay.” He manages to stutter weakly. “But, let’s continue this in my room. I’ll grab a little something for you.” She said, already moving to the pantry to get a bag of chips and a drink before she made her way back to her bedroom. Closing the door behind her before placed the food and drinks down before she placed him down on the bed with her. “Now please. I just want to know, who… and what are you?” Jack flinched when her door closed, and he takes a nervous gulp. ‘I’m in her world now. I’m completely at her mercy!’ He thinks to himself before being placed on her bed. “I-I-I-I’m J-J-Jack. I-I-I’m a-a-a human too! Please don’t hurt me!” He says with a stutter, answering her questions before pleading for mercy as he’s still not sure that she’s friendly. “Well, I’m going to guess your not a human from around here, since I never heard a human as small as you. Unless, you’re a borrower and you creatures are real.” She smiled a little at the idea. “And you also have a weird name. My name is Moonstone, but you can call me Momo from now on.” “N-no, I w-w-went t-to b-bed o-one night and w-woke u-up h-here. I-I-I m-must h-have v-v-v-vanished a-and I g-guess p-people e-end up i-in g-giant p-places like this.” Jack replies, still scared. “I-I-I gu-guess y-you c-could c-call m-me a borrower th-though, I-I’ve b-b-been l-living that way s-since I-I got here, t-t-two weeks ago.” He says with a nervous gulp, worried about what she’d do, finding out he’d been stealing from them, not that he stole much more than crumbs, or small amounts of floss and other stuff. “Hey. It’s okay, no need to wet your pants cause of me, if you’ve read those weird G/T stories online like I do, I promise I’m not going to be like those cold heartless giantesses.” She said, ‘looking’ down at him. “Now, I want you to take a deep breath and slow down your heartbeat. Just calm down, and everything will be fine.” Jack breaths slowly attempting to calm himself down. His thoughts not helping. “H-how d-do I-I know that e-everything will b-be fine? I-I’m c-completely a-at your mercy. Y-you could do whatever you wanted and no one would know.” He says, curling up, clutching his legs to himself as he trembles under her, albeit unseeing, gaze. “I-I j-just want to go home.” He says defeatedly, as he thinks about the many things he never got to do. “Well, nothing bad happened ever since I got you, right?” She said, not waiting for an answer as she opened the bag of chips and even passed one to him. “And I know it may seem that way, but all I wanted to know is who you were and why you were sneaking into my home without my other family members to notice. But, I guess you answered both of those questions.” She ate a chip, clearing her mouth before she continued. “And besides, you could’ve stayed quiet when I caught you. Maybe snuck away while I waited for an answer. But you didn’t. I believe that somewhere inside, you believe me. Really, what purpose would I have if I just caught you to harm you?” “B-but you caught me so easily? You had to have heard me, because you can’t see me. How could I sneak away if you can hear me so easily?” He asks, still curled up. “Besides, you could be like those giants in the stories that seem all warm and friendly just to lure you in, but are really mean. Or maybe you want to keep me as a pet or a toy or something.” He says watching another chip disappear down her throat. “Or a snack.” He whispers to himself, hoping she hadn’t heard him. “Well, yes I would’ve heard you leave, but I would also understand that you really don’t want to be around me… no one really does.” She glanced away for a moment, a hurt look on her face before she turned back to him. “And I wouldn’t want to keep you as a pet or anything, that’s just cruel. And a bit weird since you can talk and show how you feel.” She said, ignoring the fact that he thinks she’s gonna eat him. “If you really don’t want to be here, then you can go…I understand.” She looked away as she pulled out a book, placing a hand on the dots for words as she began to ‘read’. Jack stays put, partially because he doesn’t trust that she’ll let him leave or that she’ll tell her family about him, and the last thing he needs is an entire family of giants deciding what to do with him. The other reason he stays is that she does seem sincere, and lonely, just like him. “I-I-I’ll s-stay h-here. I-I might as well, i-it’s n-not like I can leave your house, a-and you already know about me.” He says still stuttering in a bit of fear, but calmer than he was before. “No, no. It’s fine. It’s not like anyone is going to believe I captured a tiny person from another world in our home stealing crumbs and things we don’t use anymore.” She said, closing the book as she still felt he wanted to leave. “I’m not making you stay, so you can just go.” “N-no, I-I want to stay. You seem lonely, th-that’s something we have in common.” He admits, figuring that the pro’s would outweigh the con’s. She seems nice enough, and getting food and drink without having to steal it sounded nice, even if it was just crumbs. Who knows, maybe she would be like those kind, gentle giantesses that only want a friend. “Well, yeah. But I bet you’re already used to being alone.” She said, crossing her arms as she rested her head on her pillow. “And who knows what might happen if you stay with me.” “N-no, I’m only alone because I had to be. For the past two weeks I’ve been living in fear of being discovered and having who knows what happen to me. It’ll happen eventually, it already has, I bet you even know where I’ve been living.” He replies, curling a little tighter, no longer in fear but in sadness, starting to sniffle a bit. She turned her head to where she could hear him crying, quickly scooping him up to bring him closer. “Hey, hey, hey. It’s okay. There’s no need to be scared or afraid. Please, I don’t want to hear anyone crying.” She said, being able to actually wipe the tears that were starting to form away. “It’s okay. I’ll be here for you, I promise.” She smiled, it being genuine and quite motherly. He sits there in her hand, waiting for her to finish, as her giant blue finger strokes across his entire head with just the tip of it. “I-I’m not crying because I’m scared, I-I just miss my family, my friends.” He explains, before hugging her finger. She tensed up a little at the sudden grab on her finger, but she relaxed before she used another finger to lightly pat his head. “Hey, uhm, I… might not be the best when finding things, but I would want to help find your family and friends. I mean, if you’re not the only one who came here, who’s to say that they may or may not be here as well?” She smiled a little. “Besides, I think you would need some help finding someone without some means of ‘transportation’.” “But there’s a whole world out there, and it’s giant. Who knows where they ended up, or if they even ended up here. What if they ended up in another world, or they could still be home worrying about me.” He says dejectedly, while still hugging her finger. “They could have ended up with other people, who aren’t as nice as you, or even been eaten by the neighborhood squirrel or sparrow. I was just lucky enough to pop up in here, and not get eaten by a spider or something.” “Hmm, that does seem to be the problem. But, I haven’t heard about small people appearing all over the world, so possibly it could be just you, or maybe in this small town that doesn’t get a lot of recognition.” She suggested. “And believe me, my mother tells me everything that’s going on in the world.” “I-I guess they could’ve been found by some nice people who are keeping them secret so that no one hurts them.” He says a little hopefully. “Like you.” He adds before letting go. “Yeah. There are more nice people than mean folks. I mean, ever since that Canterlot High place started to become more welcoming and friendly, I guess the positive attitude spreaded throughout the town.” She moved her other hand away before she put him back down. “I hope so, maybe at some point you could introduce me to your family. Maybe they’ll be friendly too.” He says a little hopeful, before thinking cautiously again. “J-just make sure you see how they’d feel or react first. Being small and fragile is no fun.” “Why don’t I just introduce them to you one at a time. You can choose who you want to see and I’ll wait when you’re ready.” She smiled, making sure she knew where he was just in case. “But for now, I think you should get used to being with one giantess for now. Wouldn’t want you to get overwhelmed.” “Yeah.” He agrees quickly, still a little overwhelmed at the moment. “S-so, um, how’d you become, you know, blind? Was it by birth, or did something happen?” He asks curiously, flinching a bit though afraid he might hit a nerve and she’d turn on him. “It was… an accident. To be honest, I don’t remember much of it, but when I ask my parents or my big sister, I guess it’s too much for them to tell me. To be honest, the last thing I did see was the scared look my sister had before everything went to chaos. I couldn’t feel anything, but I knew whatever happened was the cause of my blindness.” “Oh.” He says staying seated near her on the bed. “Sounds like your sister might’ve caused it by accident.” He comments, only wondering how her sister felt after that. “I really don’t know, but I think she feels as if it’s her fault. She… doesn’t really talk to me unless she has to, and most times she talks about more positive things.” She said, glancing down as she messed with her hands. “They’ve also kind of banned the word seen or saw. Like, ‘You’ve gotta see this.’ or ‘Did you just see that?’. I think they just don’t want to leave me out of some conversations.” She couldn’t help but already feel out of place just talking about that. Jack saw how she was feeling. “S-sorry for bringing that up, it sounds pretty painful.” He apologizes not wanting to have caused her discomfort. “I guess you could consider it kind of like me though, I couldn’t even get down off your bed if I wanted to, it’s too big a fall for me to risk.” “It’s okay. Had to talk about it sooner or later. At last I have these super cool blind eyes.” She smiled as she showed them, them being a milky white, but he could also see where her irises were. “Susu said that they look just like the eyes some character on TV who’s also blind. And she’s super awesome.” She smiled bigger. Jack was about to comment when there was a knock on her door and the handle started to turn. Moonstone’s mother, Gemstone, coming in. “Hey sweetie.” She starts as she opens the door. Moonstone was quick to tense up before she scooped Jack up and brought him close to her stomach, her arms folded close to her lap to hide him, while also guiding him off of her and possibly hide behind her pillow or under her quilt. Having a fruit basket nearby, she grabbed a banana from it and brought it close to the side of her head as if she was using it as a phone. “Oh, uh, y-yes mom?” She called out, moving the ‘phone’ away from her head. Gemstone enters the room, Moonstone’s ruby red mother, with wavy topaz yellow hair, currently wearing a purple blouse with a pair of skinny jeans. “Hey, so I’m gonna go pick up some groceries, and I was thinking you could come along. You know, to get out of the house, have some fun, and maybe we could get a bite to eat while we’re out.” She says merrily, before noticing the banana and giggling a bit. “Playing with your food huh?” “Wah?” She felt the banana before she ‘realized’ she was not using her phone. “Oh! No wonder no one was responding, I just thought they were letting me talk.” She giggled as well, putting the fruit back in the basket. “And sure mom, I’d like some time out of the house.” She nodded, but not getting up from her spot on the bed as she didn’t know where Jack was. Jack found himself suddenly behind the giant girl. Scared by the new giantess he quickly hides under the girl’s pillow and praying not to be discovered. Gemstone giggles at the joke. “Alright, want me to get out some clothes for you? Oh, and I should probably get your sheets washed before we go.” She says, getting closer to Moonstones bed and reaching for her pillow to get the pillowcase. “No!” She quickly shouted, leaning against her pillow while pulling her quilt close to herself. “I-I mean, I can do it on my own. You don’t have to do everything for me mom. You do enough as it is.” She showed a fake smile, hoping that her mother would be convinced and leave her be. Gemstone had been a bit taken aback at Moonstone’s tone, but her quick recovery made up for it. “Alright then, get up and get your pillowcase and sheets off, and I’ll get them started while you pick out your clothes.” Gemstone was pretty glad to have invested in a braille label maker, so that Moonstone could still tell the difference between her clothes, such as color and designs. “After all, these sheets do need to be washed, I mean look at them, chip crumbs everywhere.” She said a little exaggeratedly. Jack freaking out, as it was a little too soon to be discovered by yet another giantess. “Oh, come on mom. If they really were a problem, I would’ve done this a long time ago.” She said, rolling her eyes. “Now, uhm, d-do you mind giving me some privacy please?” She asked. “Alright.” She replies, causing Jack to sigh in relief. “After you give me your bedsheets.” She says adamantly. “I’m doing everyone’s, and that includes yours.” Jack’s relief disappeared quite quickly at that. “Okay, once I get dressed I’ll take the sheets off and hand them to you, now can you please go mom?” She almost begged, wanting her out of the room now. “Fine, fine.” Gemstone says and leaves the room. Jack, having watched her leave, wipes the sweat off his head and sighs in relief, before walking out toward Moonstone. Moonstone sighed as she could finally relax now. “That was too close.” She began to whisper, not sure if her mom was still listening. She started getting up from her spot on the bed before she went to her dresser and opened her shirt drawer. Jack sees this and immediately turns around to give the girl privacy. He decides not to risk it and lies face down on her bed. Not wanting her to think he’s a bit of a perv. After a small change into a white short sleeve, a cyan colored hoodie, and regular navy blue jeans, she was finally ready. “Hey Jack, are you still here?” She called out. “Yeah.” He replies moving his head so it wasn’t muffled by her bed. “I’m not peeping.” “It’s okay. I’m already finished. Let me move you off the bed before I accidentally scoop you up with the rest of the bedsheet.” She said, offering a hand out for him to get onto. He climbs onto her hand and sits down in her palm. Suddenly, the sound of footsteps along with the turning of her doorknob occur, signalling Gemstone’s return. Moonstone didn’t have enough time. “So sorry.” She quickly apologized before she shoved him into her mouth, sealing it shut by the time her mother opened the door again. Jack didn’t even have time to ask why before his world suddenly went dark, wet, and warm. A loud clacking sound and the writhing muscle he found himself on quickly answering the question. Unknown to him the spell makes his eyes adjust rather quickly, and he looks around inside her cavernous maw. ‘W-well, a-at least she apologized, I guess.’ He thinks to himself as he sits up. Unknown to him also is the other effect of the spell, changing his taste to that of frosted sugar cookies. He shivers as he watches her throat flex from her breathing. ‘I-I really am completely at her mercy now!’ He thinks with a nervous gulp. Gemstone comes in again, looking like she was going to say something, but had seen her quickly put something in her mouth. She just giggles. “I hope those crumbs weren’t there too long. Oh, and since you’re ready now I’ll have your sheets.” She says, figuring that would make her task easier, walking over to her daughter, but because of her independent spirit she gives her time to start taking off the sheets herself. She didn’t answer verbally, but she only nodded before she made her way to her bed, grabbing her pillow first before she started taking off the sheet, beginning the small independent task she gave herself. Jack found himself sliding across her tongue in whatever direction her head tilted, especially frightened when she tilted her head up and he found himself sliding toward her throat. Gemstone while waiting for the sheets unknowingly decides to make life far worse for Jack. “So where would you like to go for our little mother/daughter lunch out?” She asks. By now, Moonstone was sweating bullets, shrugging as she didn’t know where to go, while also using her tongue to pull Jack back to the front of her mouth, keeping him in one side of her cheek. “We could go to Sugarcube Corner and get some tasty treats or we could go to that burger place and get some lunch, which do you want to go to?” Gemstone asks. Jack struggles against Moonstones tongue, not liking the feeling of being pinned in her mouth. Gemstone notices the odd behavior that Moonstone is exhibiting and walks toward her. “What’s wrong Moony?” She asks with concern. “Something wrong with your mouth, think I should take a look?” She was now really scared, not wanting her to see Jack until he was ready. ‘Jack, please forgive me.’ She thought, before she lifted her head up and swallowed what was in her mouth…or more like who. “N-nothing’s wrong ma. It doesn’t matter to me.” She answered, now freaking out on the inside as she could actually ‘feel’ him going down her esophagus, only making her guilt rise. Jack’s world seems to go into slow motion as Moonstone’s tongue scoops him up and he slides down into her throat, the muscles grabbing and pulling him further down into her body. He fights, trying to climb against them, but it’s no use and he eventually plunges into the girl’s stomach. He looks around, the massive pink walls ripple and pulse as her body works on the stewing chip soup in pooling in the middle of her belly. He finds a spot in her stomach that seems drier than the rest, which doesn’t amount to much and he swims to it, dragging himself onto the slimy surface of her stomach lining. He curls up against the wall, hoping to keep out of the massive pool which logic dictated would be the end of him. He shivers, wondering to himself what he’d done to deserve this. “Oh, okay, um, I guess we’ll go to Sugarcube corner then. It’s been a long time since we’ve had their milkshakes.” Gemstone giggles, as she takes the sheets. “Alright, come along then, I’ll get these in the washing machine and then we can go.” She says, unknowingly not giving Moonstone the time she needed to save her new friend from what she thought his fate would be, neither of them knowing of the spell keeping him safe. “Y-yeah, let me just use the bathroom before we get going.” She called out before she started heading for the bathroom while mapping the house in her head, closing the door behind her before she tried to get him out one way or another, the first one being to cough him out. While sitting in her stomach, it had shaken with every step she’d took getting to the bathroom, forcing Jack to struggle and fight to stay on the “shore” of the acidic “lake” then in but a moment, he felt a strange sensation as air suddenly came rushing in from above and accompanied soon after by a strange sound. He was suddenly shot into the air flying up into her throat before landing on her tongue. He could hardly believe it and started excitedly patting his body as if to check if it were still there. “I’M ALIVE!” He exclaims, just glad to be anywhere but in her stomach. She was quick to spit him out and onto her hand. “Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry for doing that.” She pulled him in for a large hug as she felt that he would’ve died if he stayed inside any longer. “I… I just didn’t know what else to do.” Pushed against her chest with her hand holding him there, he tries his best to hug her back. “I-it’s o-okay. I-I-I mean it was kinda scary, b-but I’m fine, it didn’t hurt at all.” He admits, looking back with hindsight. “I-it was so, um, I-I don’t know how to describe it, it was like you had suddenly become my entire world, literally.” “W-well, I don’t know if that’ll happen again, so we should make sure that we aren’t in that situation again.” She said, putting him down before she took a piece of toilet paper and cleaning the leftover saliva and gunk off of him. “I’ll bring my purse since that seems like the safest spot.” She said, already having her bag on. “Unless you’d rather stay in the house while me and my mom is gone.” “A-are y-you sure it’s safe in your purse? I-I mean I know I was just in your stomach, but something might crush me in your purse. I’d like to come, but can you think of a safer place?” He says, remembering his own sister’s and mother’s purses tending to be filled with any number of random items. “I-if it’s the only place you can think of though, I’ll sit in your purse.” “Well, I could also put you in my pants or hoodie pocket or even the hood itself. You can choose since you’re going to be the one in it.” She said, already putting her hands in her pocket. “H-how about your hood? I-I should be safe, even if you forget and put it up.” He says, thinking if she did then he’d just hang onto her hair or stay at the back of her neck. “U-unless you’d feel better if I was in your hoodie pocket and you could feel me to make sure I’m still there. Not the jean pockets, jeans are too tight. I-I think you should chose, I mean I’m kinda the stowaway on your body.” “Again, you’re the one that’s gonna ride there, so you should choose.” She said. “I really don’t like picking for others.” “B-but I-I don’t feel comfortable choosing, I mean, you’re telling me to pick somewhere for you to keep me on your body. It feels, kinda perverted.” He explains with an embarrassed tone, his face bright red with a blush. “Oh, please. I don’t mind, Just pick and then we’ll be on our way. I’ll even pass you some snacks for you to have. And, maybe once you get more comfortable, you could finally meet my mom. I mean, I think she would love to meet someone else who could keep me company. That is, i-if you want to keep me company.” She said, glancing away as she messed with her hands. “Wh-what if I said I wanted you to put me in your bra?” He asks with a blush, half feeling like asking her to put him there, half completely embarrassed and berating himself for thinking it. “In my bra..? Why would you want to be placed there? I mean, there isn’t much room, and I wouldn’t want you to poke your head out and lf my mom see you and thinks you’re a bug or something.” She said, obviously not knowing the more perverted reason a guy would ask to be in some girl’s chest. “W-well, I-I-I mean I-I’m only an inch tall, I don’t take up much space, a-and you’d know if I’d slipped or something… Besides, even if I did poke my head up, all I’d see is the inside of your shirt or hoodie.” He explains, keeping away from the explanation that his hormones would have him say. “O-oh… well. O-okay then, I-if you really want to be placed there instead.” She mumbled, not sure how to feel about this while she gently felt for where he was before she picked him up and started to open her shirt and bra out before she placed him inside. “I think this isn’t a good idea.” She said, securing her shirt and bra before her purse strap went over and between her chest, it being the same spot Jack was placed. Jack feels it squeeze down on him and struggled to get out from under the strap. He succeeds eventually and slips into one of her bra’s cups, holding onto the edge so he didn’t slip underneath her breast and have what to him might have been tons pressing down on top of him. “No, i-it’s fine. P-p-p-panties would’ve been a bad idea.” He says, blushing almost as bright a red as Gemstone, glad that he hadn’t let his hormones take that much control. “Oh, okay then. W-well, I’m gonna start walking, just be prepared.” She said, before she made her way to the door and felt the doorknob before she turned it and left the room. “Hey ma. I’m ready.” She called out as she was feeling her way to the living room instead. Gemstone comes in from the kitchen. “Alright then, let’s get going.” She says, grabbing Moonstone’s hand and leading the way, excited to be spending this sort of quality time with her. After getting to the car, she let’s Moonstone get in on her own, remembering how independent she is. She starts up the car when they’re buckled in and they drive off to the grocery store. “So, who were you talking too all day?” She asks, having heard not so much the context, but that she’d been talking to someone. “Oh, uhm, j-just to myself. Since, you’re always too busy I didn’t want to call you just to banter about stuff you already know.” She answered, ‘looking’ down at her legs as she couldn’t help but feel a little tense sitting in the car. “I… I sometimes do that in the shower too, so, I guess I could’ve been fine talking to myself in my room.” Gemstone giggles. “Pretending you found one of those little people from those movies.” She jokes, remembering how Moonstone loved them. Moonstone couldn’t help but giggle as well. “Y-yeah. Guess I started thinking about that movie again. I always wished I could be a borrower too.” She smiled, messing with her hands again. Gemstone giggles some more. “I used to imagine them all the time too, actually.” She admits with a bit of a blush. “Do you just imagine talking to them, or do you do things with them too?” She asks, remembering her own imagination running wild. “D-do things to them? What do you mean?” She asked, turning her head a little to aim her ear to listen to what he mother had to say. “Oh, well, you know, play with them.” Gemstone replies, her emphasis on the word ‘play’ changing it’s meaning, with a bit more of a blush, her usually ruby cheeks practically glowing pink. “Sometimes I even used to pretend gummy bears were little people and I’d pretend to feel them squirming around. I’d play with them in my mouth before swallowing them. Of course, when I was in the shower… let’s just say I was pretty naughty.” She admits with a bit of a cough. “I mean, I always pretended they were fine afterwards, but, it wouldn’t work that way in real life.” Moonstone showed a blank look on her face when her own mother revealed that she would literally pretend to eat borrowers alive. “Mom… you do know that you’re telling your daughter this… right?” She said, holding herself while also secretly holding Jack close, thinking that perhaps her mother shouldn’t be the first person Jack would meet once he was ready. “Yeah, it’s only natural though, we all have a little something that gets our attention.” She says, though a little embarrassed. “I bet you have your own thing too, it’s probably just a little too personal to share for you.” “O-or maybe I just don’t have anything.” She said, turning her head away as she leaned against her seat. ‘Perhaps this is another reason why I’d rather talk to myself.’ She told herself as she thought perhaps her mother would be the last person to show Jack to. Gemstone giggles. “Oh well, maybe when you feel you can trust me a little more. So, what do you do with the tinies you imagine, just talk, maybe a more regular kind of play, like hide and seek?” She asks curiously. “I used to do that too when I was little. I didn’t have many friends so I’d imagine some little friends of my own. It just kinda grew when I got to my teen years.” “W-well, just some light conversation, sometimes I would just lay down on the floor to feel what it’s like being so low to the ground.” She said, not mentioning that she used to look through their point of view. “Awe, you like to get down to their level. I used to do that too when I was little, I imagined that I could shrink myself and we’d go exploring the nooks and crannies of my room, fighting spiders and ants, and finding hidden treasures.” She says with a sigh. “I still did that as a teen too, I just, well, I already told you what else I did.” Moonstone only nodded as she remained silent this time, not sure what else she could talk about. “We’re here.” Gemstone announces as she pulls into the parking lot. The two get out and Gemstone helps her daughter around the store as they get some groceries. As they go through the store, the conversation changes to things that aren’t embarrassing in public, things like stuff Moonstone learned in her online courses, among other things. When they finish they go to Sugarcube corner, Gemstone sits Moonstone down at a table. “Okay, what do you want to get? A milkshake, maybe a cupcake or a brownie, an ice cream sundae?” “Hmm, I don’t have anything in mind. You can pick for me, you know what I like anyways.” She smiles as she made sure her hands were on the table so she knew where it was. “Alright.” She says, heading over and standing in the line at the counter. Once she heard her mother was gone and waiting on the line, she started speaking to Jack in a whisper. “You still here?” She asked. “H-huh? O-oh, y-yeah I’m still here.” He says, and she feels him lean back against her breast, before he flinches and pulls away from it. At the table behind her, a certain butter yellow girl glances over at the girl, her quiet demeanor helping her hear the girl whisper and looks to see who she whispered too, only to see no one. She gathers up the little courage she has and whispers to the blue girl sitting to her back. “Have you found a tiny too?” She asks. “Wh-what?” She stuttered, not even hearing anyone come over as she was taken by surprise. “Wh-who’s that?” “Oh, sorry, I’m Fluttershy. Sorry to startle you, but I kind of overheard you whispering to someone, someone who isn’t sitting at your table, so I’m wondering if you have a tiny with you too?” She asks. “Wh-what do you mean a tiny too?” She asked, more confused on the question than answering it. “A tiny little person, like in some movies, only real.” Fluttershy explains. “They only get to be about an inch high. They appear here after vanishing from their world.” “O-oh, uhm, y-yeah… I met one today.” She said, ‘looking’ down at the table. “And by met, I mean caught while he was stealing some food crumbs in my home.” “I-is he scared of this big world?” Fluttershy asks, ready to at least alleviate them a bit. “I can tell you both something that might make this all seem less scary.” She stayed quiet for some time, before she nodded. “Okay.” “Alright, so these tinies are coming here, and to another world because some spell is bringing them here. This spell also makes them really durable, you could accidentally step on them or bite them and they’d be okay, it’d hurt them but that’s it, also, I mentioned biting for a reason. See, the spell also makes it so that they can survive inside us and gives them a flavor to make them tasty to us, not to mention the spell causes them to feel really nice inside us.” Fluttershy explains. “H-have you eaten him yet?” She asks. An embarrassed blush started forming on her cheeks as she also showed a flustered look, giving a good enough answer by her reaction. “So what did he taste like?” Fluttershy asks, curiously. “The tiny I’m taking care of tastes like butterscotch. She usually likes to stay in my tummy while we’re out of the house. It’s actually one of the safest places they can be, a bit ironic isn’t it?” “I… I thought I killed th-the only friend I know.” She mumbled, not really liking to remember that moment that happened not even two hours ago. Fluttershy puts a hand on the girl’s shoulder to comfort her. “It’s okay. He’s still alive, and now you know he’ll be safe in there, so you won’t have to worry if you do eat him again. Just make sure he knows that he’ll be safe and that the spell is protecting him so he doesn’t have to be scared all the time. Oh, and also tell him, if he is ever in your stomach again to keep his distance from your intestinal entrance, the spell helps to keep them in our stomachs a bit, but it works better for the, uh, ponies in the other world, so sometimes they might end up… Coming out the other end, if they aren’t careful. A friend of mine’s did, and it took a few showers for him to get rid of the smell.” She explains. Moonstone only stayed quiet as she didn’t know what to think about this. “O-oh… uhm… o-okay then.” She mumbled as she stayed ‘looking’ down at the table. Fluttershy removes her hand from the girl’s shoulder and turns back around. “Um, do you, do you have any questions?” “W-well, I… I’m just a little confused. I mean, y-you could’ve just ignored me and th-think I was a crazy blind person. But you came and t-talked to me about something rather strange. Just… why?” She ‘glanced’ up at the yellow mare, her milky white eyes looking right at her. “As I said, I’m taking care of a tiny too, and from how you said you thought you’d killed him, you obviously needed to know about the spell so that you’d at least feel a little better. Most importantly though is that these tinies are starting to pop up more frequently and they need people like us to protect them. They may be protected by the magic making them small, but they’re still tiny in our world and still vulnerable. You are one of only a few people so far that know of and are protecting a tiny.” Fluttershy explains, before writing down her phone number in reverse on a strip of paper, using extra force so that the numbers could be felt on the other side of it. “This is my phone number, call me if you have any other questions.” She says placing the paper in Moonstone’s hands. “Goodbye, and keep him safe.” She whispers before leaving. “Oh, uh, b-bye.” She turned her head to where she last heard the girl’s voice before she started feeling the numbers on the small slip of paper before she put it in her pocket. Now having a lot to think about, not even sure if Jack heard everything already. Jack, still in his awkward position clinging to the portion of her bra along the interior side of her breast, speaks up. “So what was she talking about, whoever it was you were talking too, and why’d you mention me?” He asks, confused and only really having heard her side of the conversation. “She… she knows about you. They call you ‘Tinies’. And I think there’s more of you guys here.” She answered. “She went on about magic and having to protect you. Also that this magic stuff keeps you safe from any harsh physical contact from me or anyone else… including eating you.” She blushed when she said the last part. “Oh, no wonder you mentioned me.” He replies, things making a little more sense to him. “So, I-I’m safe from being crushed? I can’t be digested?” He asks, confused, yet hopeful and starting to lose some of his fear of her and the other giants, considering he was safe with them to a point. “Y-yeah, I guess. I mean, magic doesn’t exist, but that girl knew I was talking to you, and she didn’t sound like she was lying.” She said, still not sure if what she said was true or not. “E-even so, I still wouldn’t want to eat you.” “I-I’d be okay if you did, at least right now anyway. I’m still kinda scared I’ll fall and either end up dead on the ground, o-or, s-somewhere you p-probably w-wouldn’t want me to be.” He says, looking down from his position, swallowing nervously. ‘It’s like a fifty foot drop from here, probably more!’ “You… you want me to eat you? Are you sure?” She asked, knowing she would have to eat something else and not want to bury him in her own food mush. “Y-yeah, I kinda feel like a pervert where I am now, and the drop is pretty terrifying.” He explains, still looking down, fear noticeable in his voice. Gemstone returns to the table, a hot fudge sundae in her right hand and a milkshake in the other. “Right or left?” She asks Moonstone as she sits down. “Does it matter? I don’t know what you bought.” She said, quick to make sure Jack was hidden from her mother before she ‘looked’ up at her. “That’s what makes it a surprise. So, right or left?” She asks again, giggling as she knew Moonstone would enjoy either option. “Hmm… i think I’ll go with left.” She smiled a little, hoping that she got her order right. “Here you go.” She giggles, putting the cup in moonstones hands. “It’s your favorite milkshake. I get this hot fudge sundae.” She says before starting to eat it, before whispering to Moonstone. “Oh dear, I can’t help but imagine my little tiny friends in my sundae because of our chat in the car.” Moonstone didn’t wait as she soon found the straw on the milkshake before she began drinking it as if it was her last milkshake, humming in satisfaction as she could probably live off of milkshakes alone if she wanted to. But once her mom brought up the tiny people again, she couldn’t help but just want to tell her mother what she just heard from an unknown girl. But, she had to keep her mouth shut, since soon she might ask why this girl came up to her and why she was telling her daughter this. She wanted to ask Jack if now would be a good time, but she couldn’t do that without raising any suspicion on her own. Gemstone continues eating her sundae, and from the sound of it is taking her time enjoying it, and Moonstone knows another reason why. Jack on the other hand is still in his predicament, staying hidden as she’d directed non-verbally, focusing more on the wall of cloth in front of him than the wall of blue flesh behind him. Once she finished her first long sip, she decided to tell her mother what she learned… but not in the way she acquired the information. “Hey, uhm, sp-speaking of that tiny people talk. I… actually heard something about it online.” She said, messing with the glass cup that held her drink. “Oh?” Gemstone giggles. “What about it? Have they found tiny people?” She jokingly asks, part of her wishing that it were true, the other part knowing it was impossible. What she didn’t know was that just underneath her daughter’s shirt was a real tiny person. Moonstone only stayed silent, showing a blank look on her face as she kind of pinpointed what she was going to tell her. “Erm… yes. Well, kinda… sorta.” She said, fumbling with the cup some more. “Wow! So there are tiny people around here?” She asks, thinking that Moonstone was just pulling her leg, so she played along. “Y-yeah. Some teens have been talking about it. O-of course, I’ve never… seen one before. B-but I think there only appearing here in our town. I… no one understands why, but they said that something just made them go from their world to here.” She said, not knowing that her mother was playing along. “I also heard that they can’t get hurt by us cause of some strange force.” She acted as if she was fixing her bra, but was actually showing some sign, hoping that maybe Jack could pick up the small hint if he wanted to be seen by her mother or not, not really sure how long she could keep him a secret if she was being nosier than before. Jack grabs onto one of Moonstone’s fingers, not all too sure what she’s intending, but not wanting to slip under her breast. Gemstone continues to play along, still not taking Moonstone seriously. “Wow! Sounds like my dream come true! Have you found one? Are you perhaps keeping them in your bra?” She asks keeping herself from giggling, as she figured that Moonstone was faking it, though she seemed actually serious about it. Moonstone thought that with him grabbing her finger, it meant he wanted to come out and be shown. “W-well, uhm...” She looked down a bit flustered, ‘looking’ at Jack before she lightly nudged her head at her mother, wanting to make sure if that is what he wanted. Jack having been more focused on keeping hold of her finger as she continues to ‘adjust’ her bra, not knowing that his grip was answering her question as an affirmative. Meanwhile Gemstone is starting to be a little embarrassed about Moonstone fidgeting with her bra in the pastry parlor, but allows her to continue, becoming curious seeing as she definitely seems serious about this. She gently lifted him out of her bra, cupping him close before she ‘looked’ back at her mom. ‘Well, even if he didn’t mean for me to show him, we’re too far to go back now.’ She thought, hoping that her mother wouldn’t do anything weird, crazy, or just rude once she showed him. “I… I found him today. He’s been living in our home like a borrower, but he says he’s human too. We… talked a little bit, and I learned that stuff before you came back.” She explained. “I was… just a little scared since you said all those things about eating little people. I didn’t want the same to happen to him.” She took in a deep breath before she lowered her hand to place Jack on the table. “Mom. This is Jack.” Upon seeing the tiny teenage boy, Gemstone freezes in place, staring wide eyed at him. ‘Oh my gosh! A-a tiny person! Th-they, she…’ She thinks to herself, while listening intently now. As soon as she places the tiny boy on the table, she reaches a hand out and carefully covers him, keeping anyone else in the shop from seeing him. “S-so, J-Jack? Y-you found him in our home?” She asks before looking around to see if anyone is paying attention to them, before thinking about the tiny boy in front of her. “Um, you probably should’ve waited to show me him in the car, but since he’s out now, I guess we’ll just quietly discuss him now.” “W-well, I could just put him back and wait until we get into the car.” She said, hoping that her mother’s hand covering him didn’t mean she was gonna pull a fast one and eat him, knowing it since she was trying to feel for him and only felt her mother’s hand. “A-alright.” Gem replies, taking her hand off of the boy. “Be careful, that poor boy has probably been through enough, you don’t want to hurt him.” She says with concern, even though she remembered that Moonstone had said that the boy had some spell on him to keep him safe, she wasn’t sure just how true that was. “Don’t worry ma, he’s been with me the whole time.” She said, finding him with her hands before she gently scooped him back up and back in her bra. She blushed, knowing that her mother was watching. “He… he chose to be there. I, um, l-let him decide.” “It’s okay, let’s just hurry back to the car.” Gemstone says before finishing off her sundae. She gets up and carefully, but hurriedly leads Moonstone to the car and they both get in. “Okay, Moony, could you go through the whole story with me, please?” She asks, sounding rather adamant that she hear it. Moonstone only nodded before she brought Jack out again and placed him on her lap instead. “So, uhm, a few days ago, something bumped into my leg and I didn’t know what it was...” ~A Convenient Time Skip Later~ “And then when you left, a girl named Fluttershy came and told me about these little people coming into our world and another one, having this magic stuff on them that protects them from anything we might do… i-including eating them. And, once she told me that, I just had to tell you since I can’t keep him hidden from you forever. I… I’m sorry ma. I just didn’t know what to do after you went on and on about eating small people… I didn’t want Jack to get hurt cause of me.” She finally finished, one of her hands close to Jack while the other was rubbing her arm, the girl looking down shamefully from keeping something from her own mother. Gemstone reaches out and puts a hand on Moonstones shoulder. “It’s okay, you were just trying to protect him, I would’ve too if I were in your position.” She admits. “I mean, you found this tiny little guy and you don’t know how fragile he is, and then someone you know talks about how she imagines doing things to tiny people that would probably be harmful, and in most cases deadly. So what next then?” She asks, still looking at the tiny boy staring up at her with a hint of fear. “Well, I don’t know exactly. I… wanted to wait until he was comfortable with me before I introduced him to anyone else in the family, but I’m not sure if it would be better to get it out of the way… even if he may or may not want to do it.” She explained. “He… also wants to find his family, but we don’t know if they’re here or maybe back on their home world.” “I think we should wait a bit before introducing him to Sunstone and Hardstone. He seems scared enough as it is just with us, let him have time adjusting to two giant women in his life. As for finding his family, maybe that girl and her friends would be able to help. Though right now, I think we should probably get the groceries home before they spoil.” Gemstone says. “Don’t forget to put him somewhere safe.” She reminds Moonstone as she starts the car. “Oh, uh, y-yeah.” She ‘glanced’ down at Jack before she asked the question. “Uhm, d-do you want to try it out now? The, uhm, spell thing to see if you really are safe inside?” “U-um, sure, it would probably be better to figure it out now instead of later.” He replies, looking between the two of them, curious as to who he would be entering. His pretty new friend Moonstone, or her mom, who was definitely where she and her sister got their looks from. “Well, I just wanna ask, who do you want to be with?” She asked, not wanting to force him into going somewhere he didn’t like. “W-well, I’d like to stay with you, b-but if you don’t want to eat me then I don’t want to force you too.” He replies. “A-after all, you seemed pretty scared when you were talking to that one girl about it.” “W-well, yeah, but I thought I almost killed you.” She glanced away for a moment before she turned back. “B-but I know that you might’ve been scared about it too, so we could try and get through this together.” “Okay then.” He says, climbing onto her nearby hand. Gemstone watches the two of them, a major portion of her wanting to volunteer to eat him, the other part of her told her to just let it happen and let them make their own choice about it. Moonstone didn’t need to say anything else as she slowly lifted her hand off her lap with him on it, already smelling the sweet icing topped sugar cookie that was actually Jack’s scent for some reason. She took in a deep breath before she brought her hand close to her mouth in which she was opening it for him to walk into, a little nervous herself by trying this. Jack, being nervous as well, slowly walks forward, until he finally steps onto her tongue, not knowing that the spell was already going to work on her mind, making his taste unlike any other sugar cookie before. A sugar cookie whose taste can absolutely not be beat. Moonstone couldn’t control herself as she closed her mouth and actually started to lick and suck on him as if he was a jawbreaker, humming in satisfaction as she could taste what she knew was the best icing topped sugar cookie she ever tasted. To say Jack was surprised when her mouth closed suddenly would be an understatement, especially as he finds himself being essentially a piece of hard candy to the girl. He is flung too and fro in her mouth, only pausing for her tongue to grip him tightly and practically crush the taste out of him, luckily he didn’t get hurt by her antics. Gemstone watches in a particularly large amount of jealousy as Moonstone really, really enjoys her soon to be tiny stomach guest. Moonstone kept licking and coating the small boy in saliva before she swallowed the small boy, feeling the taste of the sugar cookie goodness going down her throat, but after awhile, she came to her senses and blushed red in embarrassment. “O-oh my gosh, J-Jack I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to do that.” She apologized. “I-it’s okay. I’m fine. I guess I taste really good, huh?” He asks as he moves to the shore of her stomach, though he knows he’s safe, he’d rather not be swimming in a lake of digesting food. Little does he know that as he comes into contact with her stomach lining, the spell sends little ripples of pleasure up and down her body. She tensed up a little when she could actually feel him moving in her stomach, her blush still on her cheeks as him moving around actually felt good. Like, really good. She wasn’t going to admit it though, so she just stayed quiet as she got herself ready for her mother to start driving. Gemstone giggles. “You were really enjoying that. I’ll have to try at some point. I know Hardstone would probably appreciate the effects.” She says licking her lips a bit, partially jealous and partially giddy that these tinies exist and in such a manner as well. She turns on the car and starts driving home. “I think that spell does much more than protect them, huh?” She asks, curious as Moonstone continues to blush and quiver. She places a hand on her daughter’s shoulder while at a red light. “Are you okay?” Moonstone jumped at her mother’s touch, but quickly answered. “Y-yeah, I’m fine.” She turned her head away, resting her head on the seat while she closed her eyes. “Just…just trying to get used to this.” Gemstone removes her hand when the light changes to green, continuing to drive. “Is he okay? C-can you hear him?” She asks, both curiously and concerned. “Well, y-yeah. But he’s quiet now.” She said, a little concerned on how silent he was. Jack sits in the corner of her stomach that he chose, looking around and watching her stomach working on the milkshake along with the chips she’d eaten earlier. After hearing the concern in her voice, he rubs a hand along the wall of her stomach. “I’m still fine, just resting.” He says laying back against the wall of her stomach, his movements causing more ripples of pleasure. She tensed up at the sensation again as she folded her legs together. “O-oh, okay.” She mumbled. Gemstone catches the action in a glance as she continues driving. “Wow, he’s really having quite the effect in there. Think I should take him for a bit?” She asks, before giggling a bit. “I’m sure you must be glad there aren’t any other tinies around with him feeling like that just in your stomach.” “N-no. I’m okay.” She said, an embarrassed blush on her cheeks as she really didn’t want her mother to see her like this. Gemstone could tell her daughter was embarrassed about the sensations and feelings that were occurring and knew she would be even more embarrassed if something happened in front of her especially. “Alright, but if it becomes to much, then don’t hesitate. I mean I’m sure you know I’d like to for my own personal reasons, but I also care about you, and I know how much it would embarrass you if… something happened.” Jack hears the embarrassment in her tone. “I-is something wrong Moonstone?” He asks, wondering what is making her act funny, not knowing the spell causes him to feel good, and pats her stomach wall out of concern. “N-nothing’s wrong. I’m fine, really.” She said, controlling her reaction to the pleasurable touch of Jack on her stomach. “Let’s…let’s just go home.” They continue making their way home, the entire way Moonstone flinches and is racked with pleasure every time Jack moves, and even just feeling him against her stomach wall was transmitting an, albeit dulled, consistent feeling along her as well. Gemstone would occasionally glance with some worry at Moonstone, but kept silent as Moonstone strains against the feelings. At about the halfway point Gemstone pulls into a parking lot. “Moony, sweetie, I think you should take a break now. You look like you’re going to fall apart, or give in.” She says with worry. “Y-yeah. I’ll just go to my room to let him out.” She said, not waiting as she got out the car and wanted to get into the house, but couldn’t really locate where it was without her mom’s help. Gemstone gets out after her. “Moonstone, we’re not home yet, I stopped here because it looked like you were having a hard time.” She says as she rushes over to Moonstone and grabs her hand to lead her back to the car. “What? Why didn’t you just bring me home?” She said, now a bit upset, but also a bit angry at her mother making her think she was home. She didn’t have a reason to fight back with her mother helping her into the car. After helping Moonstone into the car, she gets in herself. “I was, but you looked like you were having a hard time keeping yourself under control so I pulled over.” She explains. “So do whatever you need to to get him out and take a break, okay? Just hold him in your hands or something. I-I would offer to keep him until we get home, but that’s your decision.” Moonstone stayed quiet the whole time her mother spoke, pointing her head downward as she knew her mother was right. But it wasn’t as if she didn’t like the feeling, it was just a little too good for her, and felt that she might lose herself again just cause of Jack touching the walls of her stomach. She let out a sigh through her nose before she finally responded. “…fine.” She mumbled, she didn’t bother in telling her mother to look away or anything, not even being able to see her mother’s reaction on how she had to bring him out. To be honest, she wasn’t fond of letting him out, even though this is just his second time. It made her feel like a cat hacking out a hairball or something. Thankfully, it didn’t take long for Jack to come out, landing in her cupped hands before she put him down on her lap, now feeling a little empty in her stomach since he was out. ‘So that’s how you get them out, good, I was thinking I’d have to puke, or let him progress naturally.’ Gemstone thinks to herself, after seeing her daughter cough him up, and seem a little disappointed. She starts up the car again and they start heading home again. Gemstone doesn’t speak, but every so often glances at the teenage boy sitting on her daughter’s lap, wishing she had a tiny of her own to protect. ‘No, that’s a horrible thing to wish for. Poor Jack here has just been torn from his friends, his family only to appear in our world as a tiny being that we can eat to give us pleasure. Sure he survives, but still he didn’t even know this when he appeared, and worse this won’t go away he’s stuck that small for the rest of his life.’ She thought remorsefully, sympathetic to him and the others that have started to pop up, according to some teenage girl she never met, but obviously had more knowledge on the matter. It was a natural reflex for Moonstone, but every once in awhile she would lightly rub one of ther thumbs against him, making sure he was still there as she had to do something to pass the time. Before, she would normally look out the window and just have random thoughts popped in her head… but she couldn’t do that anymore for obvious reasons. Jack stays in his spot on her lap, feeling her thumbs stroke his back every so often. He let’s out a depressed sigh, looking up instead of down, not wanting to be focused on her private area even if it were clothed. ‘I know she said I’m not a pet to her, but I feel like one. For the rest of my life I’m going to be completely reliant on someone for everything, food, water, shelter, unless I steal and become a squatter. I can’t get a job and earn anything. If I went to school I’d probably end up in someone else’s stomach more often than learning.’ He looks up at the girl behind him, and then at her mother. ‘I’m like the family mouse, actually I’m smaller than a mouse, more like a pet cricket.’ Moonstone heard his sigh, being reminded that Jack wasn’t some pet she could… pet. She moved her thumb away from him as she started to just rub her jeans instead. She let out a small sigh of her own, her mind blank. She rested her head on the seat again and closed her eyes, almost close to falling asleep due to the warmth and movement of the car. Jack let’s out a sigh again, realizing that she’d been doing that for some kind of comfort. “Y-you don’t have to stop.” He says, still more focused on the reality of his situation setting in. ‘I might as well get used to being treated more as a pet. It’s not like I’m good for much else, besides being eaten.’ He thinks to himself, still not knowing that he was also an effective aphrodisiac as well, especially to the girl behind him. “Or if you or your mom want to eat me, that’d be fine, I guess.” He adds, figuring that being inside someone is something he’d have to get used to as well. “No. It’s okay if you don’t want me to do it.” She mumbled, not even moving to start it again, now starting to feel sleepy. Gemstone listens to Moonstone’s sentence to the tiny boy on her lap. “What did he say?” She asks curiously as she pulls into their garage, since she can’t really hear the tiny boy, not at the current distance anyway. “Oh and we’re home now.” “Oh, I… was petting him and I stopped, but he told me I didn’t have to.” She answered, opening her eyes as she picked him up and placed him in her bra again this time. “Oh, okay.” Gemstone replies, watching as she puts the boy in her bra. “I think Sunstone is home, you should probably be extra careful. He’s got enough giant women in his life at the moment. Let’s let him get used to us first.” She cautions, noting her elder daughter’s motorcycle in the garage. “Oh, can you have her come out and help bring in the groceries?” She adds. “Well, okay.” She nodded, starting to walk into the garage and to the door to the basement, then up the stairway to the rest of the house. She did it so easily, of course having to get used to moving around the house… but not without tripping, bumping, and slipping over some things before she got used to mapping the house in her head. Jack, being in her bra, does his best to keep his grip on it, but when she climbed up the staircase, the bumps became too much for him to handle and he slips out of her bra, and tumbles down her front. Her shirt keeps him from flying away from her and he claws desperately to grab onto the shirt. He fails and falls along her jeans, before eventually hitting the floor. The impact leaves him out of breath so he can’t tell her he’d fallen out, her footsteps likely drowning out the sound anyway. He aches, but it doesn’t feel like anything is broken. Getting up, he looks toward the top of the stairway just in time to see the girl leave his sight. Moonstone finally reached the top as she started calling out for her big sis. “Hey Sunstone! Mom want’s you to help her with the grocery bags.” She called out, going to the kitchen fridge only to open it and search for something to drink. Of course, the kitchen was the one thing that always changed, so she had to feel her way to get something to quench her thirst. Jack, still on the stairs, gulps nervously looking up and back down the stairs straining to hear if someone is coming. After a moment he hears the rapid thuds of someone quickly rushing down the stairs, and turns around just in time to see a giant bright yellow foot coming straight at him, he lands heavily on him, knocking him on his back and pressing his form into the sensitive portion in the middle, before it quickly continues on, leaving him once again, in a lot of pain but otherwise okay. “Owww.”He manages to wheeze as the steps suddenly stop. “Huh?” Sunstone looked around for a bit, before she shrugged and continued going downstairs to help her mother with the bags. Jack slowly gets back up, just in time to hear a quick exchange between the new voice and Gemstone and then the sound of someone walking up the stairs carrying grocery bags, turning to stare straight at Gemstone’s face as she heads up the stairs, being at eye level with him. Sadly, she had her eyes at the exit to the basement and right towards the hallway to the kitchen and pantry. “GEMSTONE!” He yells as loudly as he can, trying to get her attention, even waving his arms and jumping, hoping that she’d find him, because if she didn’t then the other girl probably would as she might be paying more attention to the stairs on her way back up to see what she stepped on. Gemstone almost dropped her things as the sudden sound spooked her. “What? Who said that?” She looked around before her eyes finally met Jack. “Oh gosh, Jack. Did Moonstone drop you?” She asked, not even waiting to pick him up and carry him on one of her hands, the mother quickly going up the stairs so that her daughter wouldn’t see what she was holding other than her grocery bags. Once they reached the top, she set both him and the bags on the table. “I’m sorry, but I have to get the rest of the grocery. Moonstone! I think you dropped something.” She called out before she went back to get more bags. Jack stands near the grocery bags, waiting for Moonstone to enter, but instead hears the new girl rushing up the stairs and into the room. He sees the bright yellow girl enter the room, look to the table and suddenly freeze, her eyes focused on him. He gulps in a bit of fear. ‘Oh no! What’s this one going to be like?’ “Coming ma!” Moonstone called back as she began walking back to the kitchen counter. “So what was it that I dropped?” She asked, oblivious to what was happening right in front of her. Sunstone breaks out of her daze, and not knowing who this tiny person was or why he was there, decides to investigate privately, snatching him up and keeping him gently but firmly in her fist, blocking out any sound he might make after setting her grocery bags on the table, all of it happening within an instant. Sunstone heads past her sister. “She probably left it on the table, or maybe in one of the bags.” She informs her not knowing that it was Jack she dropped. Jack finds himself in a firm grip within seconds of meeting the gaze of the yellow girl. The walls of flesh formed by her fingers hold him in place and prevent any of his calls for help from getting beyond her hand. It isn’t long before it opens in what must be the giant girls room, the door closed and the girl staring straight at him, holding him by his shirt at eye level. Jack can only react by nervously laughing to himself and waving. “H-h-hi.” ‘Woah, a real tiny, and just standing in plain sight.’ She didn’t reply as she began to just start poking and prodding him. ‘He looks like a normal human… except not as colorful as everyone else.’ She thought, even lifting his shirt up using her pinkie. “Are you really a tiny?” She asked, still messing with him as if he was some freaky toy. “Y-y-yeah.” Jack replies nervously as the new girl continues to look over him. As she looks him over he looks her over. She continued to look over at him before she asked him a different question. “Is it true that you can’t be hurt by whatever we do?” She asked. “Physically I mean.” She corrected herself. He gulps nervously, hoping that this isn’t going to go where he thinks it’s going. “Y-yeah, I-I think.” He answers to the best of his knowledge. “...even if I eat you?” She wasn’t going where he thought she might be heading with that question. Still nervous, he’s a little relieved to hear that question, thinking she was planning to play with him a bit, and he really didn’t want to end up under her feet again. “Y-yeah.” He replies honestly again. “What if I threw you? Would that hurt, or maybe not since I made that happen?” She asked, careening off the eating part as she was more curious on the more physical parts of him being immune to her physical harm. “W-w-well, i-i-it a-a-all hurts, I-I guess i-it just keeps me from dying, or breaking bones like when you stepped on me.” He says, now a lot more nervous and fearful as she returned to his more feared scenario. “P-please don’t hurt me!” He pleads, curling into as much a shivering ball as he can. Before she could respond, a small knocking was heard from her closed door. “Sunstone? Who are you talking to?” It was Moonstone, and it seemed like she heard her sister talking out loud. “ME!” Jack shouts at the top of his lungs hoping that Moonstone could hear him. He remains as curled into a ball as he can in Sunstone’s grip. “Jack? Wha- Sunstone! Give him back, he’s not ready for your crazy ass!” She called out, the door knob jingling, but obviously being locked from the other side. At first Sunstone was going to open the door and hand Jack back, but then she heard the rest of Moonstone’s sentence. “Oh, so you think I’m too much for him, that I’d hurt him. Alright, I’ll give him back, after I prove that he’ll be okay.” Sunstone replies confidently. “What!? Sunstone, please, he met enough people already and I don’t know how he’ll feel about you.” She responded, banging on the door as she sounded a bit worried and scared. “Oh don’t worry, he’ll be fine.” Sunstone says, tucking the boy into her bra and opening the door and looking her sister directly in the face. “And I’m going to prove it.” “Susu, just give him back. He isn’t some new toy you can just claim as your own.” She said, pointing her head down. “He isn’t some pet either, you have nothing to prove.” “He isn’t a pet? You sure Momo? You could get a job if you wanted, you’re even still in school, this little guy, he’s absolutely tiny, I doubt he could get a job in a million years. He’s going to be completely reliant on whichever one of us he’s with at any given moment.” Sunstone points out. “In all technicality, he’s a pet, only this one is capable of conversation. I know it sounds harsh, but other than like or love, there really isn’t much he can pay us back with. Let me ask you this, have you done anything to him that you’d do to a pet without thinking?” Moonstone was a little hurt by calling Jack nothing but a pet, but she knew that she did rub his back, petting him like some pocket pet. But she mustered up the courage to respond. “Yes I did, but at least I stopped when I knew that it wasn’t right. And at least I waited for him to climb onto my hand than just snatching him up like some mouse. He can do lot’s of things that I can’t, and I know you could guess which one of the obvious is.” She could feel a lump in her throat. “Just forget it, enjoy your new pet.” She stormed off to her room, slamming the door shut as she laid right on her bed, wanting to be there for Jack, but knowing she wasn’t any better than Sunstone. Sunstone let’s out a sigh, before heading straight to Moonstone’s room. She knocks on the door softly. “Momo, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to take it that far.” She apologizes. “Can I come in?” She asks softly. “No. Just enjoy Jack… and leave me alone.” She teared up, covering most of herself in her quilt as she wasn’t in the mood. Sunstone sighs and hits her head on Moonstone’s door, ‘Why do I always do this?’ She thinks to herself. “Come on Momo, let’s just talk this through okay?” She asks once more. “I don’t feel like talking Sunstone, just go and prove how great you are with Jack and leave me alone.” She responded, covering her face now as her cheek pressed against the cold surface of her turned off phone screen. “Well, I don’t feel like it anymore either. I know, I’ll give him to mom! I’m sure she’ll find something fun to do with him since Dad’s on that business trip for the next two weeks.” She replies, turning away from the door and very slowly walking toward their Mom’s room, seeing if Moonstone will react or let it happen. ‘Might as well, I could tell by her tone earlier that she wanted to have some quality time with Jack.’ She thought, curled close to herself, too upset to really do anything about it. But after some time, she remembered just what her mother told her before she met Jack. “W-wait!” She shouted, not seeing her foot was still under the sheets as she tripped and fell out of bed. Sunstone heard the thud, still pretty close to Moonstone’s room. She turns and opens the door in a rush. “Momo! Are you okay?!” She asks practically at her sister’s side, trying to help her up. “Yeah, I’m fine. Just tripped ‘s all.” She mumbled, helping herself up as she sat down on the floor instead. “Bet you already gave him to ma anyways, always felt you were too lazy to even handle the responsibility of owning a pet.” “Nah, I just said that to see how you’d react.” Sunstone replied. “Though, if you hadn’t, I think I probably would’ve just gone to my room and introduced myself properly, maybe played a game or two with him.” “Well, now that you see I’m fine, you can go and enjoy him.” She waved her hand away. “Since that’s the thing you want to prove today.” “Prove that I can enjoy him?” She asks sarcastically. “Sure, I can prove that.” She pulls Jack out of her bra. “Well little guy, want to see how fun I am?” She asks seductively with emphasis on the fun, though really just trying to goad another reaction out of Moonstone. Jack’s only response is a nervous gulp while blushing profusely. “Well if you’re gonna do it, can you do it in your own room, I may not see it, but I could sure smell and hear it.” She said, only getting up and sitting down on her bed. “Besides, he’s much better off with someone other than me.” She turned her head away, the lump in her throat coming back for revenge. Sunstone giggles, which turns into a fit of laughter. “Alright Sis, if you’re really fine with it.” She says laughing even more, if Moonstone could see, Jack’s blush had essentially spread across his entire body. Moonstone didn’t show her enjoyment, or embarrassment as she hid most of her face behind her knees to which her arms were hugging her legs, a lump in her throat coming back for revenge. Sunstone stops laughing after a while, looking at Jack. “Oh come on there little guy, I was just joking.” She says still giggling a bit, before placing him on Moonstone’s right knee. “Here you go Momo.” “Gave up on proving your point..?” She said in a bit of a harsh tone as she turned her head away from the two. Sunstone snatches him up again. “Fine, if that’s the way you’re gonna be!” She says, her jovial mood gone again. “He’s coming with me.” She says after walking to the door. “I’ve got a nice little place for you, little boy, and this time I mean it.” Jack’s only reaction is to pale, he would’ve called out for help, but after seeing Moonstone’s current behavior, he knew it wouldn’t help. She then leaves the room with him and heads to her own. Moonstone didn’t bother in trying to stop her, knowing that Jack was really better off with her sister than herself. She let go of her legs as she felt her feet touch the floor, her bare feet feeling the small vibrations that was Sunstone’s footsteps. She lightly tapped her hand on her bed, feeling almost uncomfortable just sitting on her bed. She didn’t usually do it with her family around(her mother sometimes doing errands and leaving her alone), but she just had to do something to get her mind off of everything that happened. ‘I should just forget about Jack...’ She got up from her spot, moving out of her room, down the hallway, past the kitchen, and downstairs where the floors were hard, cold, and thick. ‘Maybe now I could do it this time.’ She told herself. Through the ceiling, she hears her sister’s sultry tone as she talks to Jack. She can’t make out the words, but the way they are delivered is very clear. Either Sunstone is trying to play her again, or she meant it and Jack is getting a lot closer to her than he did even with Moonstone. Moonstone’s brow furrowed at the sounds, automatically assuming that she was just trying to make her come back like some wanting puppy, and she only focused more on what she was going to try. She began to empty her mind, erase all her thoughts, and mute every outside sound except for her own breathing, heartbeat, and the targeted sound she was looking for. It didn’t take long for the girl to start hearing the faint buzzing of a fly in the room. She remained still, eyes closed as she stood absolutely still, the only movement being her breathing, and her eyes moving to where the sound was being heard. It was five minutes before she made her first move, being quick to try and catch the fly with her bare hands, either dead or alive. … She missed. In her frustration at missing, her focus disappears and she hears a thud from upstairs in her sisters room. Her sister’s speech has switched from sultry and sensuous to seemingly out of breath and making very real moans of pleasure. The blind girl took in a frustrated, breath, before she let out a more relaxing exhale, knowing she had to be calm to do this first. Once again, she was in her zone, finding the sound again, sometimes leaning a bit to get a better target at her goal. And once again, she tried to catch the fly again. … And she missed again. Her frustration at missing again, once again opened her range of hearing. Footsteps were coming down the basement stairs toward her, and in the meantime she can also hear her sister heavily breathing. The door opens and Gemstone peeks in. “Dinner Moonstone.” She calls, before heading back up. Moonstone sighed as she was now reminded why she did this alone, any outside sounds just making her get a little tense. “Alright ma.” She called out, slowly going up the stairs as she made her way to the dining room table and was actually the first to be there, not hearing any grinding chair legs against the floor like she sometimes hears. Gemstone finishes setting the table, and getting dinner set onto the table, placing some salad and a piece of lasagna, on each of their plates. Sunstone slowly makes her way in, and sits down. She sighs, before letting out a giggle and shifting in her chair a bit. The blue girl decided to ignore her sister, taking her fork before she began to eat her dinner, not needing any help in doing that since it was kinda obvious. Gemstone and Sunstone join in, and the three eat their dinner in near silence. Near, because every so often Sunstone will shift in her chair and sigh a bit, sounding much more relaxed and feminine than her usual self, who’d actually probably have already finished her dinner and rushed off by this point. Gemstone catches on that something is up, but isn’t sure what. “Where’s Jack?” She asks in a whisper to Moonstone, leaning closer, a bit of worry in her tone. “I think you can put the pieces together. Jack’s not on the table with us, Sunstone is acting weird, I think you know where he is.” Moonstone said, now more messing with her food than actually eating it. “Sunstone? I thought you were gonna keep him hidden from her?” Gemstone asks before looking to Sunstone and observing her behavior. “She’s acting a lot like you were when you ate him in the car.” She whispers to Moonstone again, Sunstone not noticing as she continues to slowly eat, while shifting some more. “Yeah, but I’m sure you can tell how she so brilliantly snuck Jack away from me after you called me to go and get him.” She said with a bit of an attitude, still not okay with her older sister taking Jack from her. “Hey! I tried to give him back and apologize but you wouldn’t let me!” Sunstone exclaims, defending herself. “But if you want to pretend I didn’t even make the attempt, go ahead if it’ll make you feel better.” She says, rolling her eyes. “Oh yeah, cause trying once is all you can do before you throw the towel and just do whatever you want. So I’m sorry that I wasn’t so easily manipulated to just forgive and forget.” She snapped back, just hearing her voice making her more ticked off. “Yeah, I do know to throw in the towel against you when it comes to trying to get ‘The Rock of Self Pity’ to do anything.” Sunstone shoots back with a hiss. “Oh, well at least this Self Pity Rock actually cares for people that are made to be pushed around like some pet. Well, at least I did for less than a day before you came barreling in and just ruined the only friendship I could ever get in this dumb house!” She quickly responded. “Where is he now, huh? Enjoying your little ‘quality time’ with him? Bet he was forced into this like everyone else that you associate with.” “Good one! You cared about him, up until I had him! Then it was all ‘Oh, he’s better off with you anyway.’ So yeah, I am enjoying my quality time with my new friend.” She replies with a bit of anger. “And this would be the first time any force was used to get an ‘associate’ to do anything, because I do things on my own!” She yells angrily. “ENOUGH!” Gemstone yells at the both of them, standing up. Moonstone can hear her mother as she seethes, and Sunstone immediately backs off at the look she is giving the two girls. Moonstone honestly wanted to go hide in her room after what Sunstone said, but she could feel the angry glare aimed at her, it telling her to not get up unless she wanted to get in more trouble, but no matter the location, Sunstone’s last comment hit her hard, not even having the strength to hide how much she was hurting inside, her eyes feeling watery, the lump in her throat, and her now dry mouth stopping her from speaking out again. She just placed a hand over one of her eyes as she angled her head to the point where she was looking at the center of the table. “... and who’s fault is that?” She was able to speak out in a cold and harsh tone, knowing full well that it was all Sunstones fault. Gemstone immediately turns to Moonstone, her focus on the first one to speak out after her warning. Her gaze so dark and angry that the entire room seemed to suddenly go pitch black besides the now very angry woman. “Moonstone.” Gemstone addresses the girl in a voice so cold that it practically froze the water on the table. Upon hearing said tone, Sunstone felt as if she were suddenly Jack’s height. Even at her mother’s death-tone, she tried to stay strong, not being able to see the look her mother was giving her. She didn’t bother speaking out this time, feeling that she already crossed the line. Gemstone continues staring down her younger daughter. “When I say enough, I mean enough! You know very well that Sunstone didn’t mean for that to happen, and that she feels very, very badly for it! From what it sounds like, you weren’t too fond of your little friend if you put your anger or sadness in front of it!” She says in a voice of fire and brimstone, before turning to Sunstone. “Now Sunstone, you know your sister has always been more sensitive, especially after the accident! I’m sure if you at least attempted another apology then this would never have happened!” She finishes her short, yet razor sharp verbal assault on the both of them. “Now then, first things first. Sunstone, go to the bathroom and retrieve Jack from wherever inside yourself you put him, wash him off, and bring him to me!” She orders. Sunstone immediately gets up and rushes to the bathroom. After a short moment she comes back with a washed and dried Jack, who was blushing, up until he saw the very angry giantess that is Gemstone, after which he went absolutely pale with fear and even paler after being handed to her. “All right, Moonstone, Sunstone, both of you are grounded from Jack for a full twenty four hours. That is six thirty two tomorrow that you two can have him back.” ‘He’s not like some toy…’ She thought with some anger as she was nowhere near to apologizing to her sister. Gemstone looks between the two again. “Now then, you two will not be leaving this table until you both apologize to each other. You both started it so I’m finishing it, right here, right now.” She says, her anger still clearly noticeable. “Now then, you may take this time to get whatever you want off your chests, but as I said, you two aren’t leaving this table until you’ve apologized, and I mean a real apology.” Moonstone didn’t say a word, still having a somewhat pissed, yet hurt look on her face as she was pissed at how her mother was treating Jack like property, and what Sunstone said last. ‘I don’t see why I need to apologize. Unless it’s for telling the truth.’ She thought. Gemstone sits down at the table, making sure the two would sort out their differences. She carefully sets Jack on the table, who sits down where he’s set, no longer certain who he could trust, scared of two of them, and now untrusting of the one who’d found him. Gemstone glances between her two daughters, Sunstone looking guiltily at her feet, and Moonstone seeming a bit angry. “Moonstone, is there something you need to tell us?” Gemstone asks. “...no.” She simply answered, her eyes moving downward as she had her arm resting on the table, and her head leaning against her knuckles. Gemstone starts tapping the table with her nails on one hand. “Well, now’s the time if you need to get anything off your chest.” She replies a little coldly. “I won’t stay here all night, but if you two have to then that’s your problem.” “I have nothing to get off my chest… not like I could see it anyways.” It first came out harshly, then a little depressing, starting to lightly tap her own finger on the table. “Mmmhmm.” Gemstone hums a sarcastic reply. “Well, if you two are just going to sit there, I have some dishes to do, and a tiny boy to watch over for the next twenty four hours.” Moonstone remained quiet this time, not wanting Jack to be taken from her… again, yet knowing that her mother would be better suited even if she had those weird fetish moments. She let out a small sigh through her nose before she crossed her arms on the table and rested her head on them, getting comfortable as she felt she wasn’t going anywhere. Sunstone slumped to the table as well, however, she wasn’t trying to get comfortable, she had begun crying instead. Gemstone on the other hand, got up and took Jack with her, putting him in her pocket and going over to the kitchen sink to start her dishes. Moonstone closed her eyes, only hearing her big sister actually crying, and the sound just making her tear up as well, but she kept it hidden by facing away from her mother and sister. Of course, thinking more about what was happening, her situation, and how much she really needed to apologize, made her shed more silent tears at a faster pace, but still not budging to make the first move. Sunstone continues to cry into the table, sad that she’d been so harsh on Moonstone, but considering her sister’s stubborn side figured apologizing would be pointless. The only noise besides Sunstone’s sobs is the sound of the water running as Gemstone does the dishes. Moonstone thought the same thing after some time, feeling that a mere apology wouldn’t fix anything now. ‘Not like anyone wanted to be me after what happened...’ She thought, starting to get a bit of a headache just thinking about it. “I’m sorry.” Sunstone manages to say between sobs, muffled by the table as she stays in her position, not daring to look at her sister whom she attacked verbally, all because of her pride. “... me too.” She was able to utter out, curling closer to herself while she was sitting on the table. For a moment, nothing happens, until Sunstone suddenly wraps Moonstone in a hug. Holding the other girl against her tightly, but remaining silent. Gemstone also remains silent, finishing her dishes and letting them have their moment. Moonstone’s eyes snapped open, widened and in shock as she didn’t even hear her sister coming. Once the small surprise was over, she buried her face in her sister’s shoulder as she couldn’t hold in any longer and began to cry herself. “I-I’m so sorry… I didn’t mean to.” Her shaky voice spoke out. Sunstone remains silent, but tightens her grip on Moonstone, resting her chin on Moonstone’s shoulder, while she just let’s her tears flow. “I am too.” Sunstone replies eventually. Gemstone breaks her silence. “That’s much better, now get along you two.” She comments before returning to her dishes. Moonstone was silent once again, unsure on what else she could say if she could while still crying her heart out. Sunstone continues to hold Moonstone in a hug, crying as well, the two letting out their emotional baggage. After some time, Moonstone finally finished crying, but she still held onto her sister’s hug, not wanting to let go. Sunstone finishes as well, her mind drifting a bit, and she felt a twinge of jealousy at her sister’s form. ‘Man, how does she do it? If I had her curves all the boys would be after me at school.’ She thinks to herself somewhat glumly. Gemstone finishes up the dishes and walks over to the two, joining in the hug, happy that her daughters are getting along again. Once her mother joined the hug, a small tinge of blush was on her cheeks as she very rarely gets hugs from her ever since she became a teenager, it being a little embarrassing now. “Okay you two, no more arguing for tonight, got it?” Gemstone asks a lot happier than before. Sunstone nods in reply before breaking off and heading back to her room. Gemstone in the meantime turns to Moonstone. “Now, I know this is opening up old wounds, but you seemed to have something you wanted to say a little while ago, so now that everyone’s backed down, how about you tell me?” She requests honestly, wanting to know. Moonstone glanced down for a moment, not sure if she should say it or not. “I… it’s nothing, really.” She lied, starting to get up from her seat herself. “It’s what I said about Jack, isn’t it?” Gemstone asks. “How I took him away as if he were a toy you two were fighting over?” Moonstone lightly nodded, her head still pointing down as she didn’t want to exactly face her mother. Gemstone puts her hands on Moonstone’s shoulders, in an attempt for reassurance. “Moonstone, I didn’t mean for it to sound like that. We all know that he’s a person, with his own thoughts and feelings. It’s just, you know, his size, and that in a sense he’s practically a pet, or a new baby.” She replies. “Do you understand where I’m coming from? He’s going to rely on whomever has him for everything, food, water, shelter. He was lucky enough for those first two weeks he was here, and only just.” She continues to explain. “It’s not that I think less of him, it’s just the truth of his situation.” “... But I don’t want him to feel like I always do.” She said, now tilting her head up to where she heard her voice. “I… I know what he’s going though and how he feels, and it’s terrible. I don’t want to treat him like some pet, or a new toy, or just anyone you could push around.” She began to tear up as she listed those things. “And I know where he’s from, he didn’t need to be taken care of, just like I didn’t need to have someone hold my hand like a wandering child. I want to at least help him find his family, or even his friends. And… and maybe live with them instead, not having to be treated like a baby like everyone always sees me as.” She turned her head back down, feeling her mouth go dry, signalling her to just stop talking. “I don’t want him to feel like I do every day...” Gemstone pulls Moonstone in for another hug. “We don’t mean for you to feel like that, Moony. We love you, and we don’t want you to get hurt again, that’s why we’re a little too overprotective. Now, Jack, while he isn’t family or anything, he’s still under our house, and he’s small and defenseless on his own. Regardless of how capable he was before, that’s gone now, so we also need to be a bit overprotective of him too.” Gemstone explains, pulling her daughter in a little tighter. “It’s not that we see you two that way, it’s just that we don’t want either of you to get hurt. As for the baby comment Moonstone, you and Sunstone will always be my babies.” Gem finishes, tearing up a little. “It feels like you do… I can’t do anything anymore.” She still had tears going down her cheeks. “I c-can’t work, or pursue my dreams, n-nothing. I’m nothing but a pet myself.” Gemstone continues to hold Moonstone in the hug. “I know it feels that way, but trust me, we don’t intend it too. That’s why I got you into that online school, and the program for your computer that allows you to take those courses.” She replies. “We want you to be able to live, work, and pursue your dreams.” “I can’t do my dream mom, cause I need to see to even do it.” She said, really not wanting to say it, but knew that she had to. Instead of responding, Gemstone then begins to cry. It starts as a sniffle, but doesn’t take long to develope into a full fledged sob. Her grip tightens as she holds Moonstone ever closer. Moonstone stayed quiet this time, not wanting to make her mother feel any worse by adding more onto her reason why she felt so useless like Jack does. Gemstone continues sobbing, slowly managing to choke up words. “I’m so sorry Moonstone. I failed you, and that’s why you feel this way.” She says, clearly blaming herself for Moonstone’s blindness. “I… it’s not your fault ma. I already came to conclusions that I can’t undo this. I really don’t want Jack to feel this way, so please… just stop treating him like this. He can do things on his own, I know it.” She said, slowly hugging her back as she rested her head on her mother’s shoulder. Gemstone continues sobbing. “But it is, I could’ve kept you and Sunstone inside that day, and if I did you would’ve been fine, but no, instead I let you go out into that storm. That’s why it’s my fault, it’s my responsibility to keep you two safe and I failed! That’s why I treat Jack that way, too, because he’s so small he could get hurt so easily and he doesn’t have his family to look after him! If anything happens to him it’s my fault too!” She explains how she feels still sobbing. “Ma, he has that weird magic thing to keep him safe, almost anything we could ever do to him will keep him safe. And it wasn’t your fault. You warned us about the storm, it was no one else’s but our own fault.” She said, her eyes looking down, hugging a little tighter to her mother. “...I didn’t mean for you to feel that way. I’m sorry.” “But we don’t know just how much it protects him from!” Gemstone points out. “Or what if he gets eaten by a wild animal?! What if one day we find him in a spider’s web and it’s too late?!” She manages to say before her sobs grow again. “What if one day I get a call and find out you walked into traffic?!” “Mom. Do you really think that would happen? Jack wouldn’t be caught dead near a spider web, and I would hear a car coming miles away before I dared cross a street without you or Susu to help me. I may want to be my own person, but I haven’t quite mapped out the whole town as much as I know my own home.” She smiled, hugging her mother a little tighter once again. Gemstone sniffles some more. “But it could happen and that’s the whole point! That’s why I’m so protective, I’m scared that I’ll lose you, and though I’m not his mom, Jack’s still living with us and I’m responsible if anything happens! I’m treating him like this because I know how his mom must feel!” She explains, reaching into her pocket and pulling Jack out, giving him as much a hug as she could. “Mom, if you’re saying that I can’t go outside without being hurt, or Jack not even being safe in the house, that’s pretty much just saying we can’t do anything. Then I can’t think of any dream to even pursue or that Jack can’t even find his real family.” She said a bit harshly. “You want us to believe that we could do things on our own, yet you don’t believe your own words.” “I’m not saying that you can’t, I’m just saying that when you do, all those thoughts and images pop up, and it scares me to think I could lose you.” Gemstone explains tearfully. “I’d never keep you prisoner here, you have your own life to live, I’m just scared.” “I can see why you’re scared, but nobody ever said that life is safe, or comes without any scratches or bruises. I… I’ll stop complaining about being taken care of like a child, but only if you could at least trust me when I say that we are safe and wouldn’t do anything to make you more scared or worried.” She finished, hugging tighter before she broke the hug. “Okay.” Gemstone replies still sniffling and carefully holding Jack. “It’s a deal.” She wipes her eyes with her now free hand. Jack sits there, his trust rebuilding toward the two at least, Sunstone he would have to think about still. “So, I know you already finished cleaning, but I think you forgot to give someone his dinner, since he was ‘busy’ at the moment.” She said, knowing that Jack was probably hungry all day. “Oh, well we shall have to do something about that, now won’t we?” Gemstone asks, holding the boy up to her face while walking to the fridge to grab some of the leftovers. “I just put it in there, so it should still be warm.” She says with a smile, using a knife to pick up some lasagna crumbs for him. He certainly was hungry as his only reaction was to grab the crumbs and start chowing down immediately. Gemstone closes the refrigerator door and carefully sets Jack down on the counter so he can eat his meal in peace. “I guess I’ll just go back to my room too.” She said, not sure on what else she was needed for in the dining room, already making her way to her bedroom. “Hold on there Moony.” Gemstone says. “Don’t forget your little friend here. Oh, and don’t tell Sunstone, make her think I’ve still got him.” “What? Why?” She asked, confused but a little glad that her mother might not be keeping Jack for the twenty-four hour punishment. She still felt that Jack would be better off with anyone but herself, but didn’t verbally say it yet. “Well, you didn’t want me babying and doting on him, didn’t you?” Gemstone asks, pointing to the end of their little conversation. “If I keep him with me, that’s what’s gonna happen, plus, there’s our discussion this morning about the tiny people I used to imagine. I doubt Jack would like that very much, especially with an older woman like me.” She explains, knowing that she’d very well be tempted to eat and ‘have fun’ with the little boy. “Plus, if I kept him you’d be worrying about him like I worry about you.” “Well, yeah, but I think that you or Sunstone would be a better fit in keeping an eye on him, since I can’t.” She glanced away as she rubbed her arm a little. “You didn’t even see how easy it was for Sunstone to take him away when he was probably right in front of me.” “That may be Moonstone, but there is something that makes you the better choice.” Gemstone replies. “What Sunstone did with him and what I’m tempted to do… You don’t seem to want to. I think he’d be much happier with the one person here who isn’t tempted to use his size, and that spell for some ‘fun’.” Gemstone explains. She stayed quiet when her mother reasoned with her own choice, her eyes glancing down as she was still unsure if she was good enough to even look after someone she could easily lose. “But I could hurt him without even realizing it.” She spoke. “He could even be in trouble and I wouldn’t be able to see it.” Gemstone giggles. “See, you do worry about him just like I do you, both of you.” She points out. “You haven’t so far Moony, plus if he gets into trouble you’ll be able to hear it, and at least you won’t be tempted to ‘use’ him, unless you’ve been hiding those too?” Gemstone asks, curious if Moonstone had similar feelings and temptations. Of course, her assumption caused her daughter to blush. “What? N-no. I would never use him like that.” Her blush only seemed more noticeable as it was obvious she was thinking about it. Gemstone giggles at her daughters now flustered appearance. “I see, so we’re all a bit tempted.” She replies with a chuckle, watching as Jack continues to ignore them, happy to be filling himself with something much tastier than cracker and bread crumbs. “But at least one of us is less tempted than the other two.” She says, licking her lips a bit, but also pinching one of her arms so that there was just enough pain to keep her focused, as it was all she could do to keep herself from living her dreams. “Much less tempted.” She whispers to herself. “I… I guess that’s true. But I still feel like I wouldn’t be able to at least make sure he okay.” She admitted, the blush fading as she was still not convinced. Gemstone giggles a bit again. “Just ask him. I’m sure he’ll be honest, especially if something is wrong.” She replies, even though experience with her own kids taught her otherwise, causing her to giggle. “And if he quickly says everything is fine, then you know something is wrong.” “I thought only girls did that ‘I’m fine’ thing.” She said, never really catching a guy doing that. Gemstone just giggles some more. “Nah, it’s actually even more common among guys. The whole, they’ve got to be strong and do things on their own thing. Your dad and uncle do that all the time.” She replies. She still wasn’t sure if she was the right person to keep an eye on Jack, but she began to remember that she promised him that she would help him find his family, or at least someone from his world that he knows. And she couldn’t really know who was a friend or family without him. “I… I guess I could try.” She said shyly. Jack finishes up his little meal and looks up between the two giants, now realizing they were having a conversation about him. Gemstone stands there smiling pleasantly at him. “Okay, I think he’s ready to go Moony. Probably needs a bath to get the sauce off.” She says, before giggling. “Maybe a nice tongue bath, and then you could put him in his new bedroom.” She suggests jokingly. Moonstone did show a small pink blush on her cheeks, but she didn’t do anything to make it a reality. “M-maybe he could just take a bath with me. I-I mean, after I take m-mine, I’ll let him bathe himself.” She quickly corrected herself, blushing red at what she was almost suggesting. Gemstone’s giggles turn into a laugh. “I’m sure either way he’ll enjoy the show!” She exclaims, still laughing. Imagining Jack standing on the bathroom counter watching Moonstone bathe, a bright red blush on his face, matching his current one. “I-I didn’t mean it l-like that.” She blushed more. “J-just forget it, I’ll take a shower by myself.” She was quick to start walking away to get her things first to change into her pajamas after bathing herself. “Does this mean I get him for the night?” Gemstone asks, still giggling, her tongue sticking out a bit. “N-no!” She shouted, still flustered as she got her things and went to the bathroom. “J-just put him in m-my room for now.” “Uh uh uhhh. If you leave him with me, he’s staying with me for the night.” Gemstone giggles. “And I’m sure Sunstone heard that, so she knows now. Probably don’t want to leave him in your room.” She explains, still giggling. Sure enough, Sunstone’s footsteps can be heard as she peers around the corner. “Mom, just stop. I really just want to take a shower and go to bed, I’m really tired after all that, and I don’t have time nor the energy. Please, just put him in my room or just put him in the bathroom with me if you really think Sunstone would take him again and just start this whole thing again.” She said, in all seriousness and already reaching her limit to give a good enough reaction to what her mother said. Gemstone carefully picks up Jack and walks over to Moonstone, handing her the boy. “Not a good start to being responsible for him, but I’ll let you off this one time. Next time though, I’ll be taking him.” She says, warning her of the consequences. “Remember, at his size, it’s your responsibility to make sure he stays safe, and with you. Here at home you won’t have too much trouble, but if you go out there, someone might snatch him if you don’t have your guard up.” “I got it, ma.” She mentally rolled her eyes. “And it’s not like you would let me leave the house alone.” She added, before she placed him down on the sink while also closing the bathroom door. “You’re right. You won’t be leaving the house alone, you’ll be leaving with your seeing eye borrower.” Gemstone says, suggesting that Moonstone could actually leave the house with Jack and technically be on her own. “Wait, really?” Her eyes widened when she reopened the door to see if her mother was telling the truth. “Of course. Just make sure that you two start out with baby steps so you can find your way back home.” Moonstone replies. “You want to find him some tiny friends or possibly his family after all, right? Well, they aren’t just going to appear here like he did. Just make sure you have your cell phone in case you get lost, and take my lesson to heart. You don’t want to lose your new friend.” Moonstone couldn’t stop herself from showing the biggest and purest smile she’s ever shown ever since she became blind, quickly hugging her mother. “Thank you so much!” Her hug was almost bone-crushing as she honestly never thought of doing that, and was even glad that she wouldn’t have to sneak out if she did. Gemstone hugs her back. “Your welcome. He’s better than a seeing-eye dog right? He can actually talk and tell you what’s coming up and describe things.” She replies. “Make sure to ask his approval first of course, better make sure he’s okay with it after all, and don’t forget to thank him if he agrees.” She suggests. She broke the hug from her mother and nodded in agreement, not wanting to force that onto him as she went back into the bathroom and closed the door behind her. “This also means that you can hang out with your sister and me without feeling like we have to lead you around everywhere.” Gemstone calls out before heading off to go inform Sunstone of the developments. She heard what her mother said before she sat down on the closed toilet and looked to where the sink was. “So, uhm, d-did you hear all that?” She asked, wondering if she should even explain or ask. “Y-yes.” Jack replies a bit shakily, after all he’d been through that day, he had lost some of his trust in the girl, and is still also a little scared around the giant women. “A-a-and sh-sure, I-I’ll be your eyes.” He adds quickly, partially because he did actually want to, and partially because he was scared of what she’d do if he said no. “Oh thank you so much.” She was quick to pick him up and bring him in for a hug close to her cheek, pressing him against it as she was really happy that he would do this for her. “Um, I’m still kinda covered in tomato sauce.” He replies, accidentally smearing some of the gooey red paste on her blue cheek. “It’s okay, I’m taking a bath anyways.” She said, putting him down again. “Uhm, d-do you mind not watching?” A small hue of pink was on her cheeks when she asked. “Oh-okay.” He replies, turning away, and keeping his eyes closed, even though his hormones were telling him to watch the giant shapely girl undress. “I-I’m not looking.” He tells her, almost wishing that she’d take him with her into the tub, but at the same time wanting to preserve her privacy, and not wanting to look like a perv. Moonstone only nodded before she started to undress herself, starting from the bottom before she made her way to the top. Halfway, she turned on the water and let it run and fill the tub. So she started from taking off her shoes and socks first, and her black bra being the last to be removed. Once she was finished, she checked the water again to see if it was warm and that it filled most of the tub already. Eventually Jack can’t handle the temptation, and he turns and looks, blushing bright red and turning back upon seeing the nude girl. After a moment, he comes to his senses and lowers his head in shame. “Sorry.” He says, apologizing to the girl, somewhat hoping she hadn’t heard him. “Huh? Sorry for what?” She heard him easily, not sure why as she slowly lowered herself into the water, sighing in relief as she almost went entirely into the water. She only sat there, enjoying the warm water as her improved sense of touch made it almost as if she was in a hot tub instead. “I, I uh, kinda, peeped.” He admits to her, ashamed of himself. ‘I should’ve stopped myself! I could’ve just hidden behind some of the stuff on their sink and not looked, but no, I have to take a peek!’ He mentally berates himself. ‘I hope she doesn’t get too mad at me.’ “O-oh, uhm, i-it’s okay.” She had a red blush on her cheeks as she made sure that almost everything was hidden in the water. “J-just as long as you did it once.” “B-but I said I wouldn’t, and I did, s-so, I’m still sorry.” Jack gulps nervously, still staying turned away, feeling he broke her trust. “Y-you’re beautiful, by the way.” He admits to her, still ashamed of his actions. The blush on her cheeks only spread as she wanted to scold him for peeking, but knew that she couldn’t really say anything since she kind of knew he would do that. “A-again, it’s fine. J-just as long as you don’t do it again.” “I-I’ll try.” He says to her, knowing it would be just as hard not to watch when she got out. His own blush growing as he could already imagine it. “M-maybe you should put me in a drawer or something.” He suggests, knowing that his hormones might overpower him again. “What? N-no, I wouldn’t do that… and I can’t since I’m in the tub already.” She said, really not wanting to leave the warm water. He gulps nervously again. “B-but I don’t want to peek again, and it’s going to be harder not too, especially since you’re so pretty.” He blushes a deeper red as he admits it. “And giant.” She only blushed more as she was close to just using the shower curtains to cover herself instead. “P-please stop saying that, y-you’re making me flustered.” She admitted, already starting to try and find the curtain with her hands. “B-but it’s true.” He replies, still blushing himself. “C-c-could you please put me somewhere I won’t be able to peep from?” He pleads, even though that would mean she’d have to get out anyway. “N-no, it’s okay. I’ll... I’ll just cover myself.” She said, finding the curtain as she moved it to hide herself from him now. “I-I hope you can do that when you get out too.” He replies, not wanting to peep, but at the same time wanting too. Especially since, being blind would make it all the harder for her to get a towel. It was silent between the two, an awkward silence that both of them shared while one of them took a bath. After half an hour, she finally finished, moving the curtain out of the way and slowly getting up with the help of the bars her mother installed for her. The water was draining when Moonstone got out and was now feeling her way for the towel, the girl slightly shivering when the water met the small wind in the room. When the curtain was pulled, Jack quickly looked over out of reflex, only to get an eyeful of the wet, nude girl. He watches as she gets out, transfixed on the giant blue girl. “U-u-u-um, t-t-t-to your l-left.” He says admitting that he’s peeping, directing her to the towels, as he stares at her form, the light reflecting off the water and her free flowing hair only helping to keep him watching. He knew he should look away, but he couldn’t. “Oh, uh, th-thanks.” She spoke, moving her hands to the left until she felt the fabric of a towel and pulled it off the rack it was on, She covered her front, drying her face first before she moved to her neck, chest and stomach, quickly switching the towel to her back and drying her back next. She was standing on a rug the whole time, so there was no worry of her slipping on water or anything. Jack blushes and finally gets himself to turn away, feeling much more ashamed than before. He sits in silence as she finishes, waiting for whatever punishment she might think is necessary considering it was probably obvious to her he’d been watching. Once she dried herself and was sitting on the toilet, she kind of knew what he was waiting for. “I’m not mad Jack.” She told him. “I kind of knew you would peek at least once, but I’m glad you were honest in saying you did then keep quiet like a little perv.” She couldn’t help but smile, starting to get dressed in her pajamas. He only felt more ashamed and deserving of punishment after she said that. She was letting him off the hook even though he’d violated her privacy. “B-but the last time, I-I stared for a while.” He says, lowering his head in shame. “Well, yeah, but you also helped me. If you didn’t, I would be more upset that you’d rather watch me struggle than help me.” She said, already having her purple panties on and a white t-shirt over her top half and covering some of her lower since it was a large loose shirt. “I-it still doesn’t feel right.” He says, a bit sadly. “I was raised not to do that, not to violate someone’s privacy like that, but I just did, twice, and the second was much longer than the first.” He explains, practically begging for some kind of punishment. “B-but it’s okay, really. I’m not mad or upset. And I really don’t know how to punish you if I was.” She said, finish dressing herself up before she got up and hung the towel up again. “Really, why would I be mad at my new seeing eye partner for just doing their job and seeing things?” “Things that I shouldn’t be seeing unless we were dating or married.” He says with shame in his voice. “Hey, it’s okay. We’re practically family now, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if some family members saw some more personal parts of other family members. And I know you probably got closer to Sunstone, so I don’t think seeing it is any worse than what you were forced to go through.” She said, picking him up from the sink before she started setting up his own bath in the sink, making sure it was sealed shut, and that the water wasn’t too high. “Th-that was different, I-I didn’t have a choice, here I did, and besides, it’s only been a few hours, not even a day since we really met and got to know each other.” He says now sitting in her hand, waiting. “Besides, you can’t even see me to return the favor, you don’t even know what I look like.” “Well, I don’t need to see to know that you’re a sweetheart, and a cutie. At least like this, I could get to know you how you really are instead of just how you look like.” She placed him down again before she grabbed the soap, somehow taking a piece off of it and placing it next to him, with a small piece of a sponge they never used. Jack slides down into the sink with the soap and sponge in hand, getting his clothes nice and soaked before taking them off and wringing them out before putting them on the dry portion of the sink. He then washes himself off and gets out, standing next to his clothes on the same dry portion. “C-could I have a, uh, a towel?” He asks shyly even though she can’t see. “Oh, sure.” She smiled, instead grabbing a dry rag that was pretty much a miniature towel to her, but a big quilt to Jack. “Will this do?” “S-sure.” He replies, taking it and drying himself off before putting his clothes back on. “O-okay, I’m ready to get out of the sink.” He says. “Alright.” She felt her way in the sink before she found him, gently pushing him up onto the rim around the sink before she started to drain the water out. “There, feel clean now?” “Yeah, physically anyway.” He replies, still ashamed of what he’d done. He places the soap and the sponge on the sink so he could use them again at some point. “S-so, wh-what next?” He asks, not knowing what they’re going to do. “Well, we could get a snack if you’d like, but if not, we could just go to bed.” She gave two options as she carried him to the hallway. “W-well, we did just have dinner, so, I guess we could go to bed.” He replies. “S-so, wh-where will I sleep?” He asks curiously, but shyly. “Well, I could make a temporary bed for you, o-or maybe just give you the stuff to make it yourself.” She suggested. “O-or, you could try and sleep on the bed with me… o-or maybe inside me instead.” She blushed pink when she said those other two options. He stays silent for a moment, remembering just where he was before, when Sunstone had him. He shakes his head to get off the thought, remembering instead Moonstone’s stomach. “W-well, um, whichever one you’d like most.” He replies. Sunstone walks by them, heading to the bathroom. “Goodnight Moonstone, goodnight Jack.” She says to them both, adding a bit more sway to her step when she sees Jack, giggling and winking at him, even blowing a silent kiss at him before going into the bathroom, all of which causes him to blush. Moonstone didn’t seem to notice as she only kept on walking, heading to her room before she closed the door behind her, and set Jack down on the counter before she sat down on her bed. But the assumption of her not noticing was soon gone. “She’s so selfish.” She mumbled. “C-could’ve been worse, she could’ve just grabbed me and ran off again.” Jack points out. “Sh-she does c-care about you though.” He adds, hoping she doesn’t lash out at him for defending her sister a bit. “Yeah, she cares about me so much that she would try and seduce you. I know she was walking all attractive-like, her walking pace was different then when she walked towards us.” She said, knowing full well that her sister just wanted Jack for her own dirty wants. “W-well, she’s got a lot of work to do if she’s trying to seduce me away from someone as pretty and kind as you.” He comments, not realizing he said it out loud. Her eyes widen a little at what he said, a small pink blush over her cheeks as she was never complimented like that, no less being called better than her big sister, who was better at her with everything. “R-really?” She asked, not sure if what he said was true. Jack blushes, realizing that he’d said that out loud. “Y-yeah. You’re nice, gentle, loving, and, uhm, well, your sister is really jealous of your, uh, well…” He drones off coughing a bit, figuring she’d understand exactly what he meant. “She can’t be jealous of me. She has everything, and… and I don’t have much. Heck, the accident that caused this, she didn’t even have a broken bone. Fractured, yes, but you could fix that.” She laid down on the bed. “She probably has tons of friends… while I can’t have a single friend cause my mother thinks they could take advantage of me.” “She is though, she told me. You, uh, you have a really good figure. Um, the kind that, uh, guys like me, well, really, uh, really like. See, she’s athletic and really thin, you’re thin too, but you’ve got, um, bigger, um, breasts, and wider hips.” He explains, blushing red. “B-besides, aren’t I your friend? A-and, it’s easier for you to take advantage of me, than it would be for me to take advantage of you.” He finishes, still blushing. “I think that’s one of the reasons why she agreed since you can’t really do much… like I can’t do anything either.” She said, a pink blush on her cheeks due to the other stuff he said. “And it’s not like she could kick you out, the guilt would be too much since it’s more or less like kicking me out of the home, whether or not I’m her daughter.” “Sh-she’s just being protective. She loves you and doesn’t want you to get hurt.” Jack points out. “My mom felt the same way. They’re just looking out for us, maybe because they already went through that stuff, and they don’t want the same things to happen to us.” Jack blushes some more. “Especially since you’d probably be swarmed by boys because of your figure. I think you inherited your mother’s good looks.” The blush on her cheeks never faded when he said the last part. “I know, but after what happened, is as if she doesn’t trust me anymore. That she doesn’t believe that I learned from it, that I’m just going to do it again. And… and...” She couldn’t finish as she let out a sigh. “And afterwards, even Sunstone couldn’t look at me. I know I couldn’t see, but I could feel that her eyes weren’t on me, her tone of voice just waiting for the moment to leave, and the slight movement of her just moving away from me. Like… like I’m a mistake that she wants to forget… but could never leave.” “I think it’s more like they can’t trust themselves, that they hurt you permanently and now they’re trying to make up for it by keeping you as safe as they can.” Jack says. “They just don’t want to see you get hurt like that again.” “It seems like they don’t trust me is more like it.” She said, crossing her arms. “I want to make it feel like they care… but I just can’t see it as that.” “Your mom said that you could use me to walk around on your own, and your sister became a sobbing mess after getting too involved in that fight and attacking the inability from your blindness. If that doesn’t show care or trust, I don’t know what will.” He says, getting a little angry that she can’t tell her family cares. “Be glad at least you have a family around you that cares about you like they do, because I don’t, I lost mine when I popped up in this giant place. I couldn’t even apologize for all the things I’d said to them because when I was last with them we had a big fight and I said I was gonna run away. They probably think I did and that I’m just out running as far as possible.” She stayed silent the whole time, slowly sitting up from her spot as her head sagged downward. She really didn’t know what to say, not sure if she should shoot Jack back with something else, or try and sympathize for what he had to go through. “If you weren’t found, I would’ve still been stuck here. And I know my sis was crying for the right reasons. But that was honestly the first time I’ve seen her cry after what happened. Before then, she gave me the cold shoulder, and I just acted like I was fine with it. And I know my mother loves me, but sometimes caring about someone a little too much might make them feel different, same if you don’t give them enough.” She crossed her legs as she rested her elbows on them, intertwining her fingers together, starting to mess with them. “I’m not saying I don’t appreciate what my mom does for me, but she makes me feel useless sometimes. Makes me think I can’t do anything anymore. Like… like I don’t have a reason to be here anymore… nothing but dead weight.” She couldn’t help but tear up when she said that, covering one of her eyes as she began to sob. “I… I don’t mean to say they are d-doing things wrong. I… I just want things to go back to normal. I want to go to school like a normal girl, and make lots of friends. And actually see who’s looking at me, and thinking that I’m pretty or hot… or something!” She shouted the last part angrily. “I want to get a crush, I want to have my heart broken, I want to feel the best and the worst, but I can’t do anything anymore!” Jack jumps and backs off, running and hiding behind something on her desk, quivering in fear. As soon as he’s hidden he curls up into a ball, not even daring to speak anymore. Of course, with her improved hearing, she heard his quick footsteps, signalling his running away and hearing it stop at a portion of her desk, behind a few of her things. Now all she can hear is his rapid, scared breathing. After a moment of silent and breathing, Moonstone seemed to calm down enough. “... Jack. I’m sorry. It… it wasn’t towards you.” She apologized. “If you want… I would understand if you’d rather be with someone else. Just know it wasn’t towards you.” She finished, laying back down as she covered herself with her quilt, turning to her side and facing away. She hears Jack get up, and while still quivering, walk back around so he could see her again. “I-i-i-it d-doesn’t matter, I-I’m scared of everyone else anyway.” He admits. “A-and you call yourself useless. What can I do at this size? I can’t even pick up a pencil and write, or even a penny.” He says sadly, before slumping down. “Why are you even treating me this nicely? It’s not like I can do anything that matters anymore. I’m more suited to be a pet, or a toy, than a person now.” He curls up again. “Well, other than size and situation, we’re pretty much the same. You can’t write with our pencils, yet I can’t see what I can write. You can’t pick up a penny, while I have to literally be on all fours to find it even if it’s right in front of my face. And I can’t go outside without someone to guide me, and you probably can’t cause of all the possible dangers, same for me too.” She said, turning her head. “I… I just don’t want you to feel like I always do, yet I feel it’s already too late.” “Yeah, about two weeks too late, when I woke up here and had to live off of whatever crumbs dropped my way, and run scared whenever anyone entered a room, and steal bits of common household objects like floss or toilet paper to make it easier to get more crumbs or for a makeshift bed. You don’t even want to know where I got water from. I had a pebble, practically dust, as a weapon just in case some bug decided I looked tasty.” He says. “I’m guessing your ‘weapon’ was also the thing you used to end our first encounter early?” She said, pulling out the small rock from under her pillow. “I mostly keep a bunch of stuff under there, but a small rock is a new one.” She commented, placing the rock down on the desk. “Y-yeah, that’s the one.” He says, looking over at it, before slumping again. “I-I just can’t see how you feel useless, when there’s so many things you can do that I can’t. You can walk down that hallway all by yourself without fear. You get to eat real food, not crumbs you find or that a benevolent hand gives you, not to mention things like clean water. You can climb stairs, go grocery shopping with your mom, have fun with your sister, hug even.” He continues. “What can I do? Barely survive unless some giant is providing literally everything for me, and then she complains to me about how terrible it is to have someone providing for her and keeping her safe, and family that looks out for her and has practically normal relationship. I can’t even have that. Where I am or what I do is completely reliant on whoever I’m with, even with you it all depends on what you want to do. Heck, you could do what your sister did, and what your mom wants to do without a second thought, and all I could do is squirm and make things feel even better on your end.” He sighs sadly. “You probably should put me somewhere inside yourself so something doesn’t come by in the night and you wake up to find a dead me.” “That’s a lie and you know it. You lived for two weeks without none of us knowing you were living with us. I definitely know that I wouldn’t be able to last long, and you were also prepared.” She said, sitting up as she turned to ‘look’ at him. “And you stayed strong all this time, even having the guts to be near me even though I was blind. To be honest, I think it should be you taking care of me.” She couldn’t help but blush after saying that, turning her head away. “No, I didn’t live for two weeks, I survived, barely. During those two weeks, you were living, you may not have been enjoying a lot of it, but you didn’t have to worry about having the basics. I was only surviving, doing my best just to stay alive, and that’s the reason I wouldn’t hide when you were around, because at the time I figured you had no idea I was there and as long as I stayed out of your way, I’d stay alive. Now I know that you knew I was there, and if you’d stepped on me I’d have survived it, and no way was I prepared for this. How on Earth could I have been prepared to wake up one day in some giant world?” He asks to prove his point. “Well, you weren’t prepared, but you had a plan. I would’ve been killed or seen in less than an hour if I was in your situation.” She said, rubbing her arm as she looked down. “I would really feel lost and scared, more so since I can’t see it happening.” She admitted. “And I would also see how much I took my family for granted.” “Yeah, some plan, hide out until everyone’s gone or not in the kitchen at lunch, then go gather as many crumbs as I could.” He says with a sigh. “But at least you seem to understand why I don’t like how you keep saying they don’t care.” He stays curled up in a ball. “S-so, where do you want me to sleep? Next to you on the pillow, in your hand, s-somewhere… inside you?” He asks, blushing and feeling awkward with the last part, not wanting to talk about his earlier days in their house. “Well, which one do you want to choose?” She asked, not sure if he would like any of his options. “W-well, I don’t want to get hurt or woken up if you roll around in your sleep, so, probably…” He blushes pretty brightly. “I-inside you. Y-y-you can choose where, i-i-it’s y-your b-body after all.” He says feeling all the more awkward. “N-no, no. It’s okay. I m-mean, it’s not like I didn’t like it. I-it’s just my sense of t-touch is stronger, s-so it probably felt more, uhm… pleasurable, th-than what my sister probably f-felt.” Her plush was almost red now. “I d-didn’t want my mom to know in the car, b-but I guess I failed.” “I, uh, don’t think it was nearly as… pleasurable as what your, uh, sister felt. She, kinda, well, um… yeah, um, I kinda got to know her, a, uh, a lot better than you or I would’ve liked.” He stutters, blushing so red that he was practically glowing in the dark room. “She uh, was late to dinner, because she was cleaning up after herself.” “Please stop talking about that… I think I know what happened.” She spoke. “O-okay.” He replies, staying silent after that to let her think of where she wanted him to sleep. “I… I think I’m just going to put you, uhm, i-in my stomach.” She said, already placing a hand on the table for him to climb up on. “O-okay.” He says, as he climbs onto her hand. “Um, goodnight, and uh, bottoms up.” He says unsurely, waiting for her to put him in her mouth. She only nodded as she lifted her hand up and brought him close to her mouth, waiting for him to go in and try to not let his taste make her suck on him like a gumball. Jack gets the message and slowly walks into her mouth. He walks along her teeth, trying to avoid touching her tongue, unfortunately, the mouth is a wet, slick place and he slips onto her tongue, quickly sliding to the middle of it. ‘Oh dear, here we go. Now I’m gonna know how a jolly rancher feels, again.’ He thinks to himself, waiting for it to happen. Her eyes nearly dilated once she tasted his flavor, closing her mouth shut as she began to lick and suck on him like a jawbreaker once again. She hummed in satisfaction as she held him in one of her cheeks as she swallowed her saliva, quickly moving back to sucking the flavor out of him, even though she couldn’t. Being tossed around and sucked on like a piece of hard candy, Jack does his best to keep himself from getting a mouthful of her saliva. ‘It’s like she’s giving me the world’s biggest kiss, or… NOPE! Keeping my mind off that subject.’ He thinks to himself, now trying to cover a very specific part of himself and hoping in her current state that she doesn’t try to get at it. She continued to lick and suck on Jack more before she finally swallowed him, sighing in relaxation as even him going down her throat was good. She laid down on the bed as the nice feeling was literally lulling her to sleep. As Jack lands in her stomach, his world suddenly tilts. “Woah!” He exclaims a bit as the stomach flattens out. He looks around, noticing that with just a change of position her stomach’s layout is quite different. He picks a spot close to where he came in that’s dryer than the rest, especially since her stomach is still hard at work on her lasagna dinner. He curls up, laying on the actually rather comfortable flesh, patting it. “Sweet dreams Moonstone.” He calls out, little realizing that he’ll probably wake up in a very different area further along inside her. She let out a small sigh as she curled close to herself, enjoying the stomach pat as it was just as good as a back rubbing… but from the inside. “Woah!” Jack exclaims again as her movement causes him to slide around along her stomach lining until they both come to a stop. “I’m going to have to get used to that.” He says to himself as the massive living cavern around him has changed again, now positioning him so that the entrance he came from is beyond his reach. “I guess somebody likes having her tummy rubbed, doesn’t she?!” Jack asks jokingly, now rubbing her stomach wall with both hands, and just as with every other time he’d been in contact with her stomach lining, and especially interacting with it, his actions send ripples of pleasure throughout the giant girl’s body, its power doubled through his use of both hands, let alone the aftershocks of his little slide inside her. She blushed pink as the rubbing was much better, the girl almost becoming putty from within her belly. She wanted to tell him to stop, but it was too good to even utter a negative word about it. She felt that she either might not get enough sleep, or possibly pass out from how good it all felt. “D… don’t stop.” She was able to say, a pink blush on her cheeks. “Okay.” Jack replies, as he continues, broadening the area of his hands movement. The effect being similar, but over a seemingly larger area. As he massages and rubs her stomach lining he starts to crawl a bit as well, only causing even more ripples of pleasure as his feet and knees joined in. She almost shouted in both surprise and pleasure as the over the top sensation coursing through her body was starting to make her reach her limit at such a short time. Jack continues rubbing and massaging along her insides, hearing her breath and heartbeat quicken. Something he’d heard before, but when he was in a different area, and with someone else. “Oh my gosh.” He says to himself, stopping himself. “Uhm, wow, I didn’t know that that’s what it was doing. Um, I guess I could continue if you really want though.” He says, suddenly realizing just what about her is becoming active. ‘I’m really glad I’m in here, and not within arms reach.’ He thinks to himself thankfully. ‘I guess she could probably just cough me up though if she decided to go for that though…’ He suddenly realizes with a nervous gulp. Once he finally stopped, she was a panting mess, her hair frizzy from most of her head moving, out of breath for obvious reasons, and was at her last string, not sure if she could keep it in any longer. She had no response to him speaking. Jack hears her panting after the “pleasure attack” and her heartbeat, while still going fairly rapid slowly going back to normal. “Moonstone? Are you okay? D-do you want me to keep going or stop?” He asks, all while being glad to not be in a certain portion of her, unlike his experience with her sister. “N-no… it’s okay.” She said, sighing as she began to relax, the feeling fading away for a moment. “Just… just don’t use all your limbs next time.” “I-I guess whatever this spell did to me works pretty quickly, huh?” He asks, not realizing that just his presence in her stomach was also causing her pleasure, albeit much less than any active massaging or rubbing. He returns to rubbing her with just both his hands. “S-so, like this?” She lightly nodded. “Y-yeah, that’s fine.” She curled close to herself as she hummed and began to relax again. He continues his massage of her stomach wall, listening as her breath and heartbeat, while much more rapid than usual wasn’t quite as rapid as when he’d been moving around as well. “So I guess it must be the spell doing this, cause without it I doubt you’d even be able to feel me that much. Probably why your sister took to it rather well too…” He says, thinking more to himself, not realizing he’d said the last sentence out loud. “M-maybe, but she was someplace else. I… I don’t know why I started f-feeling that way.” She said, not sure on how it was possible that feeling good in her stomach caused her to feel that way in a different location. “M-maybe we should stop this, I don’t know what might happen if this keeps up, o-or if you stay in my stomach for a long time.” “Well, what did that girl tell you?” Jack asks, only knowing about her because he’d overheard her mom and her talking about the strange girl that knows about tinies. She shook her head. “She just told me that you’re not the only one. Perhaps your family could be here, or whatever place you guys are mostly appearing around.” “D-did she give you her phone number? Maybe you could call her and ask.” He suggests, while continuing to rub her tummy from the inside. “She could probably answer a lot of our questions.” “Y-yeah.” She felt under her pillow until she pulled out the small slip of paper and an old flip phone she had to use. “Are you sure you want me to do it now?” “Y-yeah, I’ve got plenty of questions she could answer too.” He says, before thinking about the time. “Besides, if she doesn’t answer then just leave her a message and she’ll call back some time.” “Okay. Do you want to come out so you could ask her yourself if she does answer?” She asked. “Um, sh-sure, I-I guess.” He replies, hoping that she won’t still be under the effects of the spell, and/or decide to find out if he feels good elsewhere. She didn’t wait a minute as she started to try and cough him out, it feeling weird like always, until she finally spat him out and onto her hand, already trying to clean him with her shirt. He waits till she finishes and when she’s done he stands up on her hand. “So, let’s get calling shall we?” He asks, ready to find out more. She nodded, placing him down on the bed between her legs as she had to take a while to dial the number before she pressed the call button. ‘Man, why can’t iphones be used for blind people?’ She mentally thought, putting the call on loudspeaker for both of them to hear. The phone rings for a while before someone answers. “H-hello? Wh-who is this?” A soft voice sounds out into the room and if it weren’t for her sensitive hearing, Moonstone would probably not have heard it. “Uhm, hello. This is the girl you gave your number to. The blind girl that was talking to herself.” She answered, thinking that she might remember meeting a blind girl before. “Oh. It’s you. Sorry, I probably should’ve asked for your phone number too, so I would know if you called.” Fluttershy replies from the other end. “S-so, um, wh-what’s up?” She asks, getting to the reason for the call. “W-well, uhm, Jack wanted to ask a few questions, and so do I.” She said, laying down close to her phone as she made sure that Jack was close by as well. “A-alright, well, um, go ahead and ask. I-if I can’t answer my friend Sunset Shimmer can, she’s spending the night and also has a direct line to the other world.” Fluttershy says. “I-I’ll let you ask the first question.” Jack says to Moonstone. “Wait, other world? Is that where Jack is from?” Moonstone decided to ask, not hearing about any other world. “N-no, the other world is the other world they’ve been appearing in. It’s a lot like our world except the people there are ponies.” Fluttershy explains. “Sunset has a magic diary that has a twin in the other world and she can use it to communicate with a pony princess there who’s come here on a couple occasions.” “Wait, I’m just more confused now.” She commented. “Why is there a place that takes you to another world, and why ponies of all things?” “They have this mirror there that allows them to come into our world, it’s a portal or something and when they come through it changes them into, well, what they look like here. Apparently, our worlds are, um.” She stops for a moment, and She can be heard chatting for a bit with another girl. “Here, Sunset can explain it better than I can.” A different girl’s voice sounds through the phone. “Hello, so your world and my world are connected through a portal, like Fluttershy said. Our worlds are alternate dimensions, one being human and one being well, ponies. We each have an alternate on each side of the portal. So there’s Fluttershy here, and the other is in my world and she’s a pony. Each pair also seem to share personalities for the most part, with some minor changes due to upbringing, technology, lack of magic on this end, and other varying factors.” Sunset explains. “I… I don’t understand.” She only became more confused, so many why’s and not enough answers for it. Sunset sighs on the other end. “Okay, so a pony on the other world goes through an enchanted mirror, he or she pops up on this end as a human and vice versa. The tinies started popping up in the other world first, up until a small group went through the mirror and ended up here, still tiny and still human. Now these tiny humans are popping up on this side, so far it seems just in our town.” She explains. “So, are you saying more tiny humans are appearing from around that portal thingy?” She asked, wondering if perhaps looking there first would be an obvious choice. “In a way. No more have actually come through the portal, but they’ve started to appear here, it started at Canterlot High, and has been slowly spreading through the town.” Sunset says. “So around the portal is where we’d most likely find more tiny humans… hmm.” She rubbed her chin a little before she ‘looked’ at Jack. “I think we know the first place we need to go.” “Sounds like a plan, for tomorrow of course.” Jack replies. “Maybe your mom can take us there and we can look around.” He suggests. Sunset sounds from the other side of the phone. “You’re looking for more tinies? Well, okay, I can’t promise anything, they’re pretty rare right now.” She says. “But I can keep a lookout as well. So, any other questions you want answered?” She asks. “Jack?” She asked him, looking to see if maybe he had a question himself. “S-so, uh, how many of us are here so far, that you know of?” He asks the girl on the other end. “Let’s see, there’s about thirteen so far, including you, but there could be more.” Sunset replies. Jack looks up to Moonstone. “Alright your turn.” “Uhm… will anything happen if a t-tiny human is inside for too long?” She blushed pink as she asked that, not sure if she should’ve asked that. “What do you mean, like will they digest?” Sunset asks, wondering if the girl is concerned about any dangers posed to them. “Something like that.” She answered, still a little curious and embarrassed for asking about something like this. “No.” Sunset replies. “Any tinies inside your stomach will be absolutely fine, better than fine in fact. From what I understand, the spell keeps them safe, allowing them to breath and see, while we get a nice feeling from them being there. Now, of course, from what I’ve heard, and experience first hand, the spell is more meant for the ponies to keep tinies within them, so the size and anatomical difference does give us a little bit of a hiccup. See, where the spell for the ponies keeps the tinies from ‘moving along’ unless they decide to, in us, well, tinies have to fight to stay in one place or they eventually end up coming out the other side. They come out fine, but, obviously they’ll need a few showers.” She explains. “It’s, uh, it’s a pretty interesting feeling.” Moonstones cheeks were now red once she realized what would happen if she actually let Jack stay the night inside her. And she definitely didn’t want that. Unless there was a way for that to not happen, then she wasn’t going to leave him inside her for the night. “Um, is there any way to avoid that?” Jack asks, not all too sure he wanted to go through that yet. “Well.” Sunset says thinking a bit. “If you tie some floss around the tiny and then around one of your teeth, he should stay put, as long as the floss in the stomach doesn’t digest. You could also swallow him and then let him crawl back up into your throat.” She comments. “Otherwise, well, you can always let him out in the morning, or just keep him somewhere else.” She suggests. “I… I don’t think I’m going to eat him at night before I sleep.” She said, not wanting to wake up to have to let him out through the natural exit. “Well, it is the safest place for them, and they can always crawl back up into your stomach. Feels pretty nice actually. Anyway, there are of course other places you can keep them. In your mouth or nose, between your breasts, and um, other, places.” She says, a little more awkwardly. “Um, if you’re going for not in your body, then one of your cloths drawers will do the trick. I’d suggest the underwear drawer if there’s anyone you’re keeping them secret from. However, if your family already knows and you’re worried they’ll try to take him during the night, along with all those insects and other pests that come out during the night hours, well, the best bet is within you.” Sunset explains. “I, uh, d-don’t have any ideas. I mean, my sister could try and take him, b-but I could always just lock my door, or put him someplace she wouldn’t think of looking… that’s not inside me.” “Well, if she knows about him, she’d probably look in all the places you’d think she wouldn’t. Just don’t forget, it’s not always something sapient that’s a danger. You also have to make sure some night time pests can’t get them either. After all, at their size, quite a few things, including insects are a threat.” Sunset warns. “As I said, it’s safest for them within us, though, again as I said, if you’re not comfortable with that you could try in a dresser drawer, like, among your socks or underwear. Those’ll keep him away from pests for the most part, but not anyone who might want to snatch him. It’s not my call though, it’s your room and if you can think of a safe space then go for it.” She suggests. Moonstone crossed her arms as she thought about it, unsure on what to do about this, wanting to believe that her sister wouldn’t take Jack after hearing that he was his seeing eye tiny, but knew that Sunstone would be selfish and greedy enough to not care. She slumped on her bed as she didn’t know what to do. Jack just looks at her for a moment. “Wherever you decide to put me is fine with me.” He says truthfully, happy as long as he was out of the grasp of one of the other giantesses that were more active in wanting to have fun with him. “As long as it keeps me safe with you.” He adds with a bit of a blush, causing two voices on the other end of the phone to coo at his statement, giving him even more of a blush. Moonstone blushed as well when she heard what he said and the two on the other line. “I… I just don’t want to wake up to let you out the other end, but I also don’t want you to be caught for someone else’s perverted reasons. Can’t they just see that you could actually help me? That… that I could finally go outside without the worry of getting lost, or hurt, or whatever stuff my mother assumes might happen to me?” She said, feeling a little down that her own family would try and do that to her. Jack sighs, sad that she’d immediately assume her family was going to take him away from her forever, especially when they knew he could help her and encouraged it. “I don’t think they’d keep me out of your hands forever Moonstone.” He says. “I’d still prefer to stay with you, but I can see why they might come in the night to borrow me for a bit. Not that I like it, but I can see why.” “No. I don’t. You may be smaller, but you’re still human. It just feels wrong what my sister did. I… I would never do that, and I’m sure I didn’t make her. I mean, I was more upset that she just took you right in front of me… knowing that I couldn’t see her doing that.” She said, clearly more upset about that, but also a bit angry at her sister for using Jack like she did. “Well, perhaps at that time your sister didn’t know I was what you dropped, after all, your mom just said that you’d dropped something and it was on the table.” Jack suggests. “You were also the one who wouldn’t accept me back, even when she threatened to do what she did to me.” Jack points out, a little disappointed that even when offered to have him back she wouldn’t accept at the time. “You even called her a irresponsible coward for trying to give me back to you instead of sticking to her word, so she did, and it happened.” As she heard Jack actually picking her sister’s side, she turned her head away from him as she thought out of all people Jack wouldn’t. “Well I’m sorry if I was too upset that my sister would just grab you and run, she knew I wouldn’t see, and she didn’t even tell me that you were just standing there on the counter.” She said in a bit of a upset tone. “So don’t act as if you were too upset to not even care. I’m guessing you felt just like me when you told your parent you were going to run away.” “Well how was she supposed to know I was what your mom was talking about? Your mom said, you’d dropped something, not someone. She said that to keep me secret from your sister, so how was she supposed to know? Unless you think she was supposed to see me and automatically assume I was what your mom was talking about, like I suddenly belong to you as just a pet or an object.” He points out. “As for that crack about my parents, I’ll have you know that was about me going to some stupid concert, I wanted to go and they said no, so I ran into my room and told them I’d run away. Not like I was really going to do it, just threatening to see if I could change their minds.”He replies bitterly. “Again, she found out she hurt you and tried to apologize, and even give me back to you after finding out, but you refused. So what am I to you? An object, pet, or person?” “Well how do you want me to treat you then? Like some mindless pet or an object I could toss anywhere. If you want me to treat you that way, then I could just go to sleep since pets should have everything they need, and I never have to keep an eye on my lamp.” She said, sitting up as the argument was starting to let her slight anger spark. “And if you want me to treat you like a person, then that would also mean I wouldn’t have to take care of you since people are supposed to know how to take care of themselves.” Wordlessly he jumps off her hand and onto her bed, and walks to the edge. He jumps off that, considering he’d survived a longer fall fairly well. After hitting the carpet, he takes a moment to get over the pain before heading off, once again, wordlessly, allowing Moonstone to say whatever she wanted. Moonstone didn’t bother saying anything else, hearing Jack leaving her as she could feel the tears forming in her eyes. She only hung up the phone before she laid down on her bed, covering herself as she knew she screwed up her only chance of going outside on her own, but at the moment, she didn’t care as she curled close to herself. She was also starting to think how much better her somewhat sad life was when Jack wasn’t in the picture. She was never in an argument like that with her sister, she never told her mother that she was bad at taking care of herself… and she was never told how beautiful she was from someone who wasn’t in her family before. Jack stops at the crack under the door and turns around. “Take care of yourself Moonstone, I guess it’s what you’re best at.” He paraphrases from an old movie he’d seen, replacing a character’s name with hers. “Oh, and don’t get a pet, sounds like you think their food and water replenishes itself. If you change your mind, I’ll be on my way to either Sunstone’s room or Gemstone’s room, I haven’t made up my mind, probably your sister though seeing as your mom is your mom. You have about, probably thirty minutes before I get under her door and out of your hands.” He says before ducking under the door and heading down the hall. ‘Why doesn’t he just go to his little hole in the wall and find a different home… at least, that’s what borrowers do once they’re seen.’ She thought, covering most of her face with her quilt as she was bias against wishing he would just leave her life entirely… but also to stay and comfort her. She didn’t know what to do… so she just stayed on her bed. Jack gets out into the hall, heading toward Sunstone’s room. Slowly he makes his way there, a light in the living room, along with the noise from a television meant someone was still up, so, curious, he decides to go check that out first. Even while heading toward the living room, he would occasionally glance back at Moonstone’s room to see if she were coming, and he would let out a sad sigh, tearing up a bit when he saw she wasn’t. After what felt like five minutes of thinking, sulking, and silent tears staining the pillow, she sat up. She still didn’t know what to do, or how to even fix it. After another few seconds, she really couldn’t see why she deserved to go back for him if she couldn’t even keep him in her room for the night. ‘Maybe Sunstone would be better off. At least she could help find his family if she decided to help him...’ She thought, starting to tear up again. Not even sure if she could even find them herself. ‘How could I find someone if I can’t even see myself..?’ Jack continues to the living room, and finds the ruby red giantess Gemstone laying on a couch, watching television. Either she was having a hard time sleeping without someone with her, as is pretty common among married people, or she was feeling lonely and needed some form of company, even if it was just from the television. She has a blanket on and it touches the floor. ‘Well, maybe she’ll just want some conversation.’ He thinks to himself before heading over and starting to climb up the blanket to the giant matron of the family. Gemstone was currently leaning against a pillow she most likely brought from her bedroom before she noticed the light tugging on the quilt and notice Jack. “Huh? Jack? Shouldn’t you be sleeping by now?” She asked, helping him up by picking him up off the quilt and onto one of the arms of the couch, now facing eye level to the giant mother. Jack rubs one of his arms. “Moonstone and I got into a bit of a fight, it escalated quite a bit so I just kinda, walked out.” He admits, not telling her what it was about. “So I was looking for someone else to stay with for the night and hopefully we make up in the morning.” “What? How come? Not even two hours ago you two seemed to be getting along just fine.” She said. “I’m guessing you weren’t supporting Moonstone’s opinion on things.” She crossed her arms, putting all her attention on him instead. “I think we both know that Moonstone is the better pick, you already know what Sunstone will do to you, and I am feeling a little lonely right now. I think we both know what will happen if you stay with me instead.” She said with an all knowing smirk. Jack let’s out a sigh. “Well, it’s just that, she has such a low opinion of you two, and she really doesn’t seem to care about me as a person as much as she says she does.” He slumps down on the arm of the couch. “She just seems to think of me as a person when it’s convenient for her.” He says, curling up a bit. “She blames Sunstone for all of what happened, when she’s partly to blame. I-if I were important to her, then wouldn’t she have taken me back when Sunstone offered? Wouldn’t she have come after me just now?” He asks. “Well, Moonstone is a bit of a tricky person. I mean, have you ever been proven wrong, but just can’t accept it? Perhaps that’s what Moonstone is doing, or maybe, after what you told her, she might think it’s better for you to be without her.” She said, knowing her daughter well. “And don’t worry, this happened a lot when she and Sunstone got into fights, it was mostly Sunstone who would be the first to patch things up, but I guess that grew into her, and she’s either coming up with something to counter your claims, or is just waiting for you to come back instead.” She relaxed as she used a hand to keep her head up. “And if she wants to treat you like a person, she might be proving that by leaving you alone, like some people do to give the other some space.” Jack just sighs some more. “I just don’t know.” He replies, curling up a little more. “Besides, I’m a little afraid to go back in case she’s still mad at me. Even if I’m the one in the right in an argument, it’s still not a good idea to argue with, essentially a goddess, and compared with me, that’s what you three are.” He admits, curling up a little tighter. “Oh, don’t say that. I know that Moonstone would not like you seeing her as a goddess. So I don’t think she would do anything bad to you, perhaps, she might admit she was wrong, or just apologize for her negative input.” She said, curling a hand around him to give him some comfort. “And by tomorrow, this will all be in the past.” “How else am I supposed to see her, let alone the rest of you?” He asks rhetorically. “You all are capable of doing everything I can’t here. I couldn’t even push a button on your tv remote if I wanted to. I should know, I tried once when it was on the floor.” He says, sadly. “Besides, I’m probably the last pers… thing she wants to see right now.” He says, starting to sniffle as the reality of his situation comes back to haunt him again. “I wish I could see my family again.” “Oh, please don’t cry.” She said, knowing that he was gonna. “And besides, I know there will be one thing you can do that none of us can. Just think of the many things you can do since you’re small now. Have you ever thought of doing something like those movies and TV shows where someone is small like you?” “A little, I guess.” He replies. “What good is that though?” He asks. “Well, you could do a lot for Moonstone just as much as she could do for you.” She said. “Like we talked about earlier, you could be her eyes, while she could be your body… kinda. And you could help her find and collect things that she can’t do alone. Sure, I know that you can’t do much for me or Sunstone, but I know that she want you to come to her as much as you want her to come to you. Maybe you should just be by her side from now on, I have a feeling you wouldn’t want to be away from her for long.” “Well, it’s not like I’m opposed to getting to know you and Sunstone better, I mean as people. The way Moonstone talks, she makes it sound like I’m stuck with one of you forever no matter what and that I can’t associate with anyone else at all. She was scared either you or Sunstone would come into her room and take me, forever. As if either of you would actually want to hurt her that much.” He replies. “And as much as I want to go back to her side right now, a-at the same time, I just want to be with someone who understands for a little while. Or at least someone who can truthfully sympathize with what I’m going through right now, and she seems to understand only half of it.” “Well, that’s Moonstone for you, she may want to be on your side to make sure that you’re still treated like a human, but is secretly no better than someone who thinks what their saying is right.” She said, making sure to keep her want to just use him to stay in the back of her head. “And to be honest, after hearing what I wanted to do with a tiny person and what you went through with Sunstone, I could somewhat see why she wouldn’t want you to be taken by either of us.” She used her pinky finger to move some of his hair to fix it. “And don’t worry about us, I think she still wants to keep her promise on going one at a time, even though that plan is long gone. She probably wants you to get used to her first before she considers to bring Sunstone into it. She does care, but we can both see she doesn’t really know how to show it without seeming defensive.” Jack chuckles a little at the irony. “Yet she complains when you and Sunstone are a little too protective of her.” Then he lets out a sigh. “Still, we seem to get along great for a while, then we get into an argument, she yells, run and hide, then we make up and start over again. I’m scared it’s going to be a continuing pattern, and it’s already a short cycle, and it seems to get shorter.” “Well, I think one of you should try and make sure the argument doesn’t start again. Neither of us knows if Moonstone may be the one, but you should always be ready just in case.” She said. “She may argue with you a lot, but we both know that she cares for you a lot, even though she doesn’t want to treat you any less than she does. If she could, she might even find a way to bring you back home, just so you wouldn’t feel like she does… somewhat.” She said, getting into a sitting position so he would get out of his curled position. “And what she’s trying to do is pretty hard if she wants to help you, but not in a way to make you feel inferior to her.” Jack sighs, staying curled up. “I-I know, but I can’t help but feel inferior, because technically I am. I’m tiny, my choices all end up being influenced by everyone around that’s, well, a goddess in this case, compared to me. It was like that before she found me, and continues to be like that even now.” He says depression tinging his voice. “Hey. Don’t talk like that.” She said in a bit of a stern voice. “You are human just like all of us, you can make your own choice, do your own thing, and go wherever you want to go. None of us are going to make you feel any less.” She said, wishing she didn’t say that as she just wanted to do what she always wanted with him, but knew it wasn’t right. Jack sighs. “I know you want me to feel like all those options are open to me, but they aren’t. Say I wanted to go to the mall, or some random store, do you really think I could get there all on my own? Or what if I wanted to change the channel? I’ve already tried pushing the buttons on the remote, it’s way too big. I can’t even type on a computer, or pick up a pencil.” He explains. “Now before you say ‘Well just have one of us help you.’ remember, you were the one who said I can do my own thing, make my own choices, and go wherever. Thing is, I can’t it’s physically impossible for me to do all those things on my own. Even more, what if one of you decide you really want to do something with me, the only thing I can do is say no, other than that, well any protest of mine would be viewed as cute. That’s, that’s just the reality of the situation.” He sighs again, curling up a little tighter. Gemstone let out a sigh herself, feeling that this teen was going to be just like Moonstone. So, if he couldn’t accept that his difference is actually great, all she could do was comfort him and only try to make things better for him. Using the hand she curled around him, she brought him closer to her and even pressed him against her cheek, it being in the form of a small hug. “I know I said you could do your own things, but it doesn’t make you weak or insignificant by just needing some help from time to time. It might take you a bit longer to go to the mall, but that doesn’t mean you can’t. Everyone moves at their own pace, and no one is pressuring you to go faster. As for changing the channel, who’s to say you won’t find a better and efficient way to change the channel. True, their are a lot of things you can’t do, but if humans like us kept on thinking like that, the most impossible things wouldn’t be made possible.” She only pushed him closer to herself, moving the hug just under her head as she sat up. “If everyone did think like you, then we would never have landed on the moon, or made phones, or even created the many things you only see as problems you can’t solve.” He returns her hug, grasping as much of her neck as he can at his inch height. “I-I’m sorry. I-it’s just hard not to be depressed after all this.” He replies, apologizing for venting at her like that. “I-I just, you know, miss all my friends and family and everything.” He says sniffling a bit. “D-do you think, w-we could be a f-family, like surrogate I mean?” He asks. Gemstone couldn’t stop herself from letting out a soft chuckle. “And who’s to say we aren’t one right now?” She asked, using one of her hands to tear a piece of tissue paper and handed it to him. “Besides, I secretly always wanted a son to take care of.” Jack continues to hug her, while clutching the piece of tissue. “Thank you.” He says, finally feeling like the gap left by being brought to this world without his family is being filled. “So, are you ready to go to sleep now?” She asked, pulling him away from the hug as she waited for his answer. “Uh, okay.” He replies, not too sure if she’s going to take him to Moonstone’s room or even have him stay with her for the night, and he didn’t really mind either way he supposed. “So, do you want to go back to Moonstone or want to come back with me instead?” She asked, not quite sure if he wanted to go back or not. “I-I should probably go cheer Moonstone up. Sh-she didn’t take it well when I left.” He replies, still remembering how she curled up and started crying. “Th-then again, that might turn out just like when Sunstone tried to give me back.” He says, sitting down in her hand, being pretty tired after the long day. “I-I don’t know, wh-what do you think? Do you want me to go back or should I stay here with you for the night?” He asks. “Well, you could go back to her, but what you say might happen, but if you decide to stay with me or Sunstone, she might think that you don’t want to be her around anymore, and that would also give me the chance to live my dream.” She couldn’t help but giggle. “I-I guess we could see how it goes with Moonstone, and if it turns out like that, then I guess I’ll stay with you for the night.” He says, still sitting in her hand. Even though he knows what her dream is, if Moonstone didn’t take him back, then he’d help her fulfill it, even though it would be really awkward. After all, she’d had this dream probably since long before he was born, and who was he to crush it? But Gemstone didn’t have a single second to let her weird dream become a reality once Moonstone’s door opened and she poked her head out. “Jack? Are you still out there… or is it too late..?” She asked, with a hint of sadness. “I-I’m here.” He calls out from Gemstone’s hand, a bit surprised that she actually came out after him. Moonstone followed the sound of his voice, leading to the living room. “Uhm, J-Jack, I’m really sorry that I acted that way.” She apologized, feeling a little uncomfortable as she very rarely had to. “I… I guess just you choosing me over what my sister did to you made me a little upset. I… I thought you would be on my side, given what she did to you. But I guess that maybe you were into that or whatever, and I just assumed you weren’t.” “No-not really, it got pretty scary really quickly, s-so i-it wasn’t that, i-it’s just you seemed to think that she’s just out to get you and a horrible person.” Jack replies with a bit of a blush at the first part. “And being separated from my family, I just couldn’t, you know? I just didn’t want you thinking that your own sister would be so horrible to you. You know she cares about you right?” He asks, looking to Gemstone for help. “Well, yeah, but she didn’t show much of being a bad person after ignoring me after the accident, and when you came, she just took you. I know she tried to give you back, but that only made me more upset. Just, Sunstone giving you back to me like you’re some toy she ‘borrowed’.” She said, trying to defend herself. “Yes, Moonstone. I get where you’re coming from, but rejecting Jack wasn’t any better, and only made it worse for all three of you. Now, I know I can’t force you all to make up, but I just want you to try, and put this aside for whatever may happen in the future.” Gemstone said, giving a look that both sympathized and was a strong motherly type. Jack sits there for a moment, looking between Moonstone and Gemstone. “But Sunstone didn’t even know that I was yours until you knocked on her door after hearing her talk to me.” He says, defending Sunstone, who keeps being made out to be some villain. “Even if she didn’t know, you still think it was fine to just take a tiny human and do you-know-what to you. Seriously, a stranger, what she did was technically rape you! How are you okay with that?” She said, it making some sense. “I-I never said I was, but you seemed okay with it. You even told her just not to do that in your room.” He replies with a bit of a stutter. “What I’m saying is, for what happened, just like your mom said, you’re both at fault.” “Well of course it’s my fault too. Sorry if I thought my sister wasn’t serious after fooling me into thinking she would give you to my mom.” She said in a bit of a sarcastic tone. “I bet you even thought she was kidding as well, right?” “Not after she grabbed me again, after handing me back to you and saying she meant it that time.” He replies. “I would’ve called out to you for help, but I knew it wouldn’t have mattered. Especially after you told her that she was just being lazy leaving me with you.” He says looking away. Moonstone mentally growled before she just given up at this point. “Just forget it. I hope you enjoy Sunstone and my mom, cause apparently I’m not good enough… I’ll never be good enough.” She teared up before she turned right around and went to her room, door slamming shut as it seemed there was only one choice to sleep with now. Jack let’s out a sigh, before flopping on his back in Gemstone’s hand. “Why can’t I do anything right?” He asks rhetorically. “First my parents, then Moonstone. Could you just, drop me off on your front porch or something? I’ll just go find a frog or bird to call home, I obviously don’t deserve to live with people I’m just going to drive crazy like my own family, one after another, after another.” Gemstone sighed before she turned off the TV and got up with Jack still in her hand. “I think it was obvious that she wasn’t upset about what happened. I think she was more upset that you chose Sunstone’s side after her. Kind of like how parents aren’t supposed to say who their favorite child is.” She explained. “And I’m not going to kick you outside, obviously it seems talking to each other won’t work, so the next big thing is to give them space.” She finished, placing him down on the bedroom counter before she sat down on her bed. “More so on the length she went to try and help, while also trying to treat you equally. To be honest, if I was you, I would’ve chosen her side. Especially after what my oldest daughter did to you.” Jack sits there on her desk. “Well, it’s not like it matters anymore, I chose, now I have to live with the consequences. She’s probably not going to want to hear my voice for a while.” He sighs sadly, propping his head on his hands, with his elbows on his knees. “So, obviously I’m spending the night with you. Now the question is where?” He asks, not really caring what happened to him anymore. “Of course. I mean, there’s no chance that I would let Sunstone have you, and now that Moonstone and you need some space, we could spend quality time together.” She said, her tone now sounding more sensual. “Very close quality time.” Jack tugs on the neck of his shirt nervously, a blush on his face. “O-oh, y-yeah…” He gulps nervously. It’s going to be a rather... interesting night indeed.