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Chapter 8: Nothing But a Memory
“Whoa! What it this?”
Marina tasted the clay-like food from one of the already-opened packaging of FR foods. The unknown meat-flavor caught her off guard.
“Tastes stronger that our usual fruits and vegetables, but… it’s nice!”
Athena though, she’s still being cautious.
“Is it safe, Jack?”
“Of course, I ate it just a while ago and I feel fine, see?” Jack tried to reassure the thick-skinned Athena. “Heck, even Sena is alright,”
“Yeah, there’s nothing weird, I didn’t feel anything,” Sena feels just fine.
“Look, now y’all got a whole box of this, and there’s still more from that basement. I’ll happily escort it out for you should you need more of this,”
Athena fell in her own deep thought. She’s still in the middle when it comes to trusting Jack. But he does help them out with the food shortage and Sena turned out to be safe with him all this time…
“Hey… we’re even now, right? At the very least I brought you the food replacement for all those fruits that I accidently eaten,”
“Well… okay Jack… we’re good,” Athena just sigh… at least she needs to appreciate Jack’s effort to fix their problem despite her constant worry.
“Alright then… look, no offense and it’s fine if you don’t want to, but… now can you tell me what actually happened to all of you that caused you to be this small?” Jack’s curiosity could hardly be contained anymore.
“Okay… how about tomorrow? Return here and we’ll try our best to explain everything, how’s that?”
“Sounds good,” Jack nodded. “Well, I’ll be on my motel then. Sena… thanks for today!”
“Oh! Yeah, sure! That was fun!” Sena waves her tiny right hand as Jack leaves the house…
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Later that night…
The four tiny girls are sleeping as usual in the living room of the empty house of theirs. Bathed under the glow of moonlight penetrating through a hole on the roof, everything is quiet just like the nights before it.
…except for Sena.
Her eyes wide open, her mind drifts away with the thought of being together with Jack for the past two days. Remembering everytime that she made direct contact with him sends her flustered. The way his gigantic fingers treat her tiny body… his powerful yet gentle touch when he helps Sena with her sprained ankle that miraculously already completely healed now, the way he carried her close to his chest, feeling his gentle heartbeat… but the most hardhitting to her was during the basement exploration.
What was it? Is it the way he grabber her? The strange sensation of being helpless inside the grasp of someone thousand times bigger than her, it never leaves her mind even for a split second. The more Sena thought about it as her own imagination of the situation creates multiple possibilities of what could happen if they didn’t move on from that particular position. As her train of thought goes further and further down the track, the scene played inside her mind gradually turns from innocent interactions into… something obscener. Her thighs folded, her right hand reaches for her own crotch, her left hand playing around her own torso area, imagining what Jack could do to her in that intimate situation…
Dammit! Sena couldn’t take it anymore…
Quietly, Sena stood up and reaching for her clothes. The usual purple tanktop, blue short jeans and running shoes, she leaves the house…
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Athena opened her eyes…
“Sena…”
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The motel…
Inside the usual room, Jack hasn’t sleep yet. Lying down on the bed, Jack reads a book that he found before her arrival in this ghost town as the lantern hanging on the ceiling brighten the whole room.
“Hm?”
Putting his book away, his survival instinct caught a tiny movement near the door; of course, the familiar clothing, stood at three centimeters tall…
“It’s you… what’s up? Couldn’t sleep?”
Sena just stood there, seemingly nervous judging by her hand movements and head down.
“Come here,”
His gentle voice finally blew away her nervousness as Sena started to walk toward the bed.
“Need my help?”
With little trouble, Sena just climbs the bed sheets into the top of the bed. There she is, stood at the edge of the bed, looking at his statue-like figure as those naked sole looming high beyond Sena’s own height. Trying to get used at the sight of his gigantic body, Sena wills herself to walk on top of the soft surface of this giant bed. There, Jack’s open right hand awaits her. Quick to understand, Sena climbs on top of it as Jack carried her tiny form in front of his face.
“What’s with the night visit?”
“I…” Sena turns her face away. She seems flustered looking at Jack’s face up close. “I don’t really know… I just wanna see you,”
“Really?” Jack found that amusing.
“Uh… have you ever with a woman before?”
“Well, yeah… but not your size, that’s for sure,”
“There’s no one like us out there?”
“No, this is the first time I’ve seen someone like your size,”
“Hm…” Sena could only imagine a woman as big as Jack. What are they look like?
“My turn to ask… is there only girls in your… erm… pack? I didn’t see any tiny guy,”
“Oh yeah, well… I thought Athena gonna tell you all about it tomorrow, but… I could tell you a little about it if you wanted to,”
“Go ahead, I’m curious this whole time anyway,”
“Okay then…” Sena tried to remember everything about a tiny man that she knows in the past. “So… there were more than just us four before, we’re all at this size already. We’ve had our parents as well. But as time goes on, most of us died by old age when we were still very young, including our parents… there’s also those who died due to illness… many of the adults didn’t even successful in giving birth as well, the rate was so low. To the point there’s only just six of us; one male, five female. Thankfully, through hardships and using all the remaining tools that was left behind by those who died before us, we could survive this long until we’ve reached adulthood,”
Fascinating, Jack took a mental note of all Sena’s story.
“One day when we’re exploring as usual, there was an incident… Jesse, that was the guy’s name. when we’re exploring the book shop browsing for knowledge, there was a book from the top shelf, wind blew through the inside of the shop and that book fell… right on top of Jesse,”
Jack noticed Sena wrapped her own arms around her torso, her face clearly terrified remembering the bad memories.
“We were… depressed for days… there was five of us. But then the other girl, Jade… she hanged herself…”
Sena fell on her knees. The horrible past apparently too much for her own mind to handle.
“Azumi… she was about to do the same… but Athena stopped her and it was thanks to her encouragement that we finally forced ourselves to move on and helping each other. That’s why we could survive to this day despite knowing that we’re probably just be the four of us… until… the end…”
Tears rolling down her cheeks, she couldn’t hold it anymore. Suddenly, Jack pulled her hand back until Sena leans right on his chest, trying to comfort her as his cupped hands held her gently.
“Sorry… I shouldn’t ask you that…” Jack tried his best to comfort the tiny girl as she continues to cry remembering the painful past…
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Several minutes later…
“You okay now?”
Hands away from his chest, Jack watches Sena trying to recover herself.
“I’m okay… actually, thank you,”
“Why? It’s my fault for insensitively asking you such question,”
“No… it’s… I don’t know, I kind of feel better telling this story to other people outside my group…” Sena forced herself to smile to reassure Jack. “I feel relieved, like a whole weight off my chest, you know?”
“Really?” it’s been a long time since Jack felt a deep emotional connection with anyone, looks like that feeling somehow returned to him again. “But… you barely even know me… I’m just here for two days,”
“Like I said, I don’t know either…” stood up with hands on her back, Sena looks away from Jack again but still retains her warm smile. “What’s with me? Why do I feel comfortable around a stranger like you? A giant stranger, even,”
Giggles escaped Sena’s mouth, even Jack couldn’t hold himself either at the absurdity of this tiny girl at times.
“I wonder why too…” Jack at least relieved now that Sena could finally recover her own mood. “Hey, but if it really helps, then I’m glad,”
“Seriously. Heck, I even wish the other three girls also learn to trust you!”
“Come on, I think it’s only natural they’re being cautious when someone hundreds of times taller than them appeared, it’s alright,”
“But still…!”
“Why do you trust me though?” the straight question hits Sena like an arrow.
“Well… you treat my injury and… actually helping in solving our food supply problem. I mean… you, being the biggest here, I bet we’re not here anymore if you really are not a good person,”
Good person… suddenly Jack remembered all the cruel imaginations that somehow always automatically manifested inside his mind. He was toying with Sena’s body when she was unconscious, he even had a nightmare of eating her tiny form like a delicacy! Then the short moment between them yesterday when Jack grabbed tiny form… the exact point where it hits him that in the end despite everything…
…he could be the one in full control.
Should he wanted to do anything to them, no one among these four tiny girls are able to stop him. Really, he doesn’t need their approval at all for anything. Why should he hold back?
There’s the answer. Now it makes sense why Athena is being cautious with him…
“…Jack?”
The girlish voice snapped him from the deep thought.
“There you go with your funny face again,” Sena just giggles.
“Hey come on…”
“I think I read it in one of the books… they called someone like that… cu… cuckoolander? Yeah, that’s it,”
This tiny thing… while it’s comforting that Sena didn’t look like she’s hesitated anymore when interacting with him, he could only wonder… bringing his left hand forward, Jack extends his index finger and gently put it on top of Sena’s head.
“Uh… Jack?” Sena could feel the massive digit touches her tiny head. Then it moves gently back and forth, ruffling through Sena’s hair as Sena’s whole body bobbed a bit left and right due to the enormous force of Jack’s finger alone. Things calmed down for her as Sena closed her eyes and warm smile returned to her face, feeling the gentle sway as the gigantic finger nudged her from her right side back and forth… it’s like all of her worries are gone for a split second inside this euphoric bubble…
Jack pulled her left finger a bit as Sena opened her eyes once again… only to see Jack’s finger coming at her fast…
SMACK
The giant flicks tiny Sena lightly, sending her rolling a bit on the palm of Jack’s hand.
“HEY!!” Sena quickly got back up on her feet. “What’s that all about!?”
Now it’s Jack’s turn to laugh. “Sorry, sorry… I couldn’t help it… you’re too cute, you know,”
Just to play along, Jack retracts her right hand close to her chest, allowing Sena to vent her annoyance by repeatedly punching the shirt-covered chest of Jack. After a while, Jack pinched Sena beneath her armpits and lifts her up in front of him as she playfully struggles to break free by flailing her tiny arms and legs around despite the futility of such attempt.
Sena’s struggle slowed down until all that’s left is a pout while her whole body currently being held firm by Jack’s left thumb and index finger. The familiar feeling returned to both of them once more, but this time… there’s something more… Sena’s expression gradually turned into anticipation…
“Why did you come here?” another direct question fired upon the tiny girl.
“I’m… curious,” with her tiny hands holding on the gigantic fingers, there’s no doubt left in Sena’s answer. “I wanted to know… what you’re capable of… with someone like me,”
There it is again. That subtle dominant feeling that always creeping inside Jack’s mind. But just like Sena, it feels different than last time in the basement. The trust is already built between them and now it’s up to Jack in how he’ll play out this situation…
“You won’t stop me?” just one more reassurance is all Jack needed.
“I trust you,” ever so adventurous, Sena won’t back down.
A light nod from Jack made Sena held her breath, preparing whatever may come for tonight…