Ballet, part 4

This part is narrated by Amelia's point of view.

[part 4]

Amelia had no choice but to trust the secretary. She was the only chance she and the girls had to leave that nightmare behind and go back to their normal lives. She had no idea what to tell the police, but she sure knew she was not going to let Ava grow back to size before she was in the hands of authorities. While Charlotte picked up her students one by one and deposited them inside the box, she couldn't shake the feeling that something was off, but the only thing she could do was go along with what she had been told. Watching her carefully picking them up in her hands was mesmerizing. Actual live, human beings were being moved like ragdolls by the biggest creature she'd ever seen. The whole scene made her feel insignificant, and she could only imagine what the poor smaller women were experiencing now. She gave a look at Natasha, who kept trembling as she hugged her bare ankle, terrified of her uncomprehensible surroundings. But Amelia was certain of one thing: she was glad Charlotte had come to save them. She couldn't even imagine what could have happened if Ava had managed to go on with her plan. She shivered at the thought of being eaten alive by that spoiled brat. She gave her another look, just to double check if she was still tied up. From her perspective, she couldn't see much, but she could hear her muffled screams and could see that she was struggling to get rid of her binds. If she didn't know any better, it almost sounded like Ava was trying to warn them. Amelia then turned her head towards Charlotte, to make sure she would be careful with the girls. She specifically asked to be the last one to enter the box, so she could supervise the operation. She watched as Charlotte took extra care when she picked up the differently sized twins, so she wouldn't hurt the smaller one. Inevitably, Mia came to her mind. She hoped she had not ended up crushed, or worse met a bug. She prayed she'd see her again, and then she noticed that Charlotte was still wearing her shoes. It didn't matter that the woman was hundreds of times bigger than her, she was still the one in charge there. "Come on Charlotte. You know you're not supposed to wear shoes here" she scolded the giantess. For a second, she feared for her safety, as Charlotte gave her an angry, frustrated look. But then she was relieved as she saw the colossal woman take off her flats. "There, happy now?" she had answered. Amelia didn't like her tone one bit, but decided it wasn't the appropriate time to dwell on such silly stuff.

Her attention was diverted by Sharon's scream of horror. She was pointing at the sole of Charlotte's foot, and she looked quite flustered. Amelia grabbed poor Natasha in her hand, making sure she wouldn't hurt her, and ran towards Sharon, to check what was wrong. She wasn't ready to witness what she saw: under the ball of Charlotte's slightly dirty foot, there was a minuscle silhouette that was unmistakenly of a greatly toned woman. She was as small as the smallest girls in the bunch, and her whole body had adhered completely to the surface of Charlotte's foot, probably because of the thin layer of sweat she had produced; she was facing the sole of her foot, meaning that the astonished shrunken women could only see her back side. Amelia immediately realized what had happened, and screamed the woman's name "Mia! Oh my God!". She had lost control over her composture now that she was sure that the woman had died under the immense weight of the clumsy giantess, who was yet to realize what had happened. Amelia saw Charlotte confusely scanning the surface of the sole of her foot, and when she realized what had happened, she did the last thing anyone wanted to see. She started laughing uncontrollably.

"ARE YOU INSANE?" Amelia screamed at the crazy woman. "You killed her!" as she said these words, the girls inside the shoebox who hadn't seen what had happened had started panicking. They had no way of knowing who Amelia was talking about, and started screaming in pure terror. Charlotte had actually tears to her eyes due to laughing too much. "Relax, guys" she said as she brought her foot over the opened shoebox. "It was an accident, see?" The sight of a foot bigger than a lot of them combined, made the girls scream practically in unison. For a second, it seemed like the giantess had decided to crush them underfoot, and they had all moved away. It didn't help that small pieces of dirt were raining in the box amongst the terrified girls. Realizing what the woman had tried to tell them, one of them spotted the body of Mia and pointed at it for the others to see. "Look, she crushed Mia!" Some gasps could be heard, while most of the girls cried in horror. "She's alive!" one of them screamed. Amelia sprinted towards the box to get a better view. If there was just one chance for that to be true, she wanted to make sure she could help. 

It was true. Mia was struggling to detach herself from the huge foot, but she had been trampled so hard that she had sunken in quite deep. "Charlie, she's alive!" she told the giantess, doing her best to forget the fact that she had laughed at the chance of having killed her best student. The giantess didn't believe her at first, but then brought her own foot to her face, and saw the tiny twitches on Mia's body, indicating that the girls were right. "Holy shit that's true!" She said, and she laughed even harder. "I've even wore her in my shoes! Can you imagine?" It was a mixture of feelings. True, she was relieved she hadn't killed her, but the sight of a woman who thought she was God's gift to humanity in such a state was just too much fun for her to watch. When she regained her seriousness, she thought of a way to unstick her from there. She then extended her leg towards Amelia's direction, and told her to pull the unfortunate tiny from there. 

Amelia watched as the gigantic foot travelled towards her direction and instinctively cowered in fear provoking a girlish giggle in the giantess. Then she understood what Charlotte wanted, and felt so stupid she blushed. She walked closer, and managed to truly observe what the bottom of a foot that is bigger than your body looks like. Details that would usually escape the human eye would be magnified times ten. The surface wasn't dirty in the strict sense of the term, but to someone her size it was gross nevertheless. There were visible beads of sweat as big as her hand, and she could only imagine what poor Mia was going through right now, with her body and face compressed into the bare flesh of the giant woman. With great attention not to hurt the minuscle girl, she applied increasingly greater pressure to detach her from the sweaty surface she had been stuck to. She took her in her hand and did her best to clean her of the black fluff that had stuck to her minuscle body. Even after something so traumatizing, she managed to look beautiful. She was crying, but she could see relief in her eyes. There was no blood, and she didn't seem to have anything broken; it was a literal miracle. "Are you ok?" she asked the distressed girl.

"Amelia, what happened?" The tiny girl cried, looking at the relatively giant naked woman. "Why am i so small?" Amelia realized that she had probably missed most of the unfolding events after being plastered underfoot, so she tried to give her best version. "Charlotte found Ava, and shrunk her. You, Natasha and Stephanie became even smaller because you were in Ava's hands when she shrunk you, and she must have stepped on you by accident." She showed her a trembling Natasha down at her feet. "I'm so glad you're alive!" She would have hugged her, but she did the second best thing she could think of. She caressed the top of her head with her index finger. "Just be patient, Charlotte is helping us grow back now" she said, pointing at the fact that Charlotte had put Sharon in the box with the others. 

"Yeah, about that" Charlotte interrupted them, faking embarassment. To Amelia's surprise, she closed the lid of the shoebox. The girls erupted in another collective scream, but she simply ignored them. As Charlotte looked straight in Amelia's eyes, she said "We have to talk".

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