"Good Morning" boomed Jim's voice from overhead.
Melissa looked up. The new perspective was throwing her off.
Melissa was angry and upset. "What's happened to me? Why are you doing this to me?"
"Because I can"
"Don't you have a record? Because this is kidnapping you know. I think that might violate your parole."
"Are you going to call the police?"
"People are going to miss me."
"Sure. They might even look for you. But they're not going to find you. Unless I let you go."
"So change me back. Do it now and I promise not to tell anyone."
Jim started laughing. "Who would possibly believe you? Imagine what you would say if someone told you they had been shrunk to six inches?"
"So what are you going to do?"
"Whatever I want."
Melissa did not like the sound of that, but she wasn't sure what to do about it. She looked around the glass bowl. The top of it was almost four times her body height. She wondered if she would be able to jump that height with her new body.
"You can't escape," said Jim. He picked up the device and brought it to another room. Melissa thought about trying to run for it, but the idea that she had nowhere to go stopped her. Jim came back into the room with a spray jar of whipped cream. He sprayed it into the tank.
Melissa tried not to make an "EEEEEEE" noise as the cold cream splashed her legs. Jim was spraying circles around her. After only a few seconds, he stopped, but Melissa was already standing in a pile of cream that came up to her shoulders.
"Here's my deal. It is now 9:30 AM. I'm going to pick you up and lick this cream off of you. I think you're going to like that a lot. If you cooperate, I'll have a couple more things for you. If you are very good, when noon comes, I'll change you back. You can walk out that door with your own shape at your own height and we'll never speak of this again. Nobody would believe you anyway."
Here, Jim paused, "Would you like that? Do you want to cooperate? I would like it very much. You're very beautiful."
And that's when Melissa realized she was dealing with a lunatic. Jim hadn't thought this through at all. Never had the phrase "mad scientist" seemed more accurate.
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