This choice: Use the box to shrink Berry • Go Back...Chapter #4Ear full of Berry by: T.J.   "Berry, one-fourth an inch", Ryan said into the black box as he watched the nervous doll twitch in worry over her bigger surroundings. Her owner's bed looked as big as a field, his pillows the size of giant hills, and even the box she came in looked like an apartment complex to her. Even her gasps felt squeaky and high-pitched, like she had just been placed in a room with helium. As the nervous girl looked at the colossus-like Ryan reaching out to her with his right hand, she was too scared to move.
"This is soooo cool", Ryan squealed in delight as he once again placed the black box near his face and proceeded to talk into it once again, the tiny Berry being lightly pressed between his thumb and pinky finger.
"Berry, one-fiftieth an inch", he said as he watched the girl become near microscopic, placing her gently in his right ear. By this point Berry was barely able to contain her fear, tears of worry running down her face. But perhaps now that she was close to his ear, she could tell him how uncomfortable this made her. So she yelled straight into Ryan's eardrum:
"STOP!!!!!"
Ryan heard the girl loud and clear, giving a frantic "AAH!" in surprise from the scream.
"Berry, is that you? Can you hear me?" he asked inquisitively the tiny girl in his ear. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, Ryan, but I really wish I were my normal height right about now..."
"Tell you what, then. If you help me with my homework, I'll restore you to your normal size. Or even better, I'll enlarge you to the size of a human."
"Really?! That would be great," an enthusiastic Berry said in reply. "What subject do you help in?"
"Math," Ryan sighed inexpressively. "It's my worse subject. And if I don't get a C on the next test, I'll have to take it again in summer school."
"Oh my! Well, don't you worry. I know exactly what to do", Berry comforted the boy as he slowly took the very tiny Berry and placed her back on his right hand. With his free left hand he then said aloud: "Berry, five foot five." Ryan watched in shock as the weight on his hand grew increasingly heavier, eventually plotting the growing Berry straight down on his bed butt first. The girl sighed in relief at being taller again and stood next to Ryan, who had already opened up his math book and got out some looseleaf paper.
"Berry, if you're not comfortable standing, I can shrink you and place you on my desk", suggested Ryan to Berry, who retaliated with a shaking of her head left and right.
"No thanks. I'm done growing and shrinking for the moment," she said to him as he glanced at his textbook.   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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