This choice: Molly Titan (daughter) wakes up • Go Back...Chapter #5Late Night Secrets/Tiny Power Games by: Neo-rodent   Molly's little hand came down on her alarm with undue force. Despite the fact that the clock reads 4 AM she hops out of bed and jogs lightly down the hall still in her night-dress. She creeps through the house on quiet bare feet and makes for the living room. She passes every light switch along the way, deciding to remain in the dark -- her family couldn't know. 'If Mom finds me she's gonna have me swimming laps for hours,' Molly considered with dread. If she had made a list of the things she hated and the rest of his family loved (a lengthy list indeed), laps would be at the top, right above protein-bars -- 'yuaeeck'
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"We have to start moving," Richard argued. He hadn't got a chance to speak his mind at the meeting and he was just pissed about the new skate-boarding restrictions. Now that he was a fraction of a fraction of an inch in height and his life hung in the balance he sure as hell was going to make this an open forum, "you saw the look on that monster's face, what are the chances you think, he put us somewhere safe?"
Fredrick Deems was a community leader and by no coincidence one of the wealthiest men in the Forest-Hills neighborhood. He studied law at Harvard and for many a year taught it at Yale. Presently he owned the most successful private practice in the state, but he now finds himself the size of a flea's dinner arguing with some pocked face teenager even smaller than he telling him what to do. "We know very little yet about our surroundings." Deems makes sure to look out into the crowd, not even making eye contact with the punk kid to whom his rebuttal was truly directed. "Before we act rashly and worsen our situation further, we should take tome to reconnoiter and.."
"Reconnoiter?!" the kid dared interrupt his elder and 'social-better', "are you freaking kidding me. We are sitting in the middle of some giant family's carpet. Who knows when they're gonna wake up?!"
'So its a debate you want,' Deems wrung his hand at the prospect, 'well then..' "You said you thought this scientist had an evil look about him, well if he was evil as I think we all agree he was..." The crowd, starting to coalesce amongst the carpet fibers, murmured its assent. "...then when you consider the man's intellect it becomes more likely that he would have predicted our instinctual fear and placed us somewhere where rash action," he finally makes eye contact with the little twirp, "like running, might very well result in our doom. Perhaps the family pet is sleeping just out of sight or a giant..."
The boy did not relent, 'this guy isn't just an asshole, he's also a moron and that's a bad combination.' "Man haven't you ever seen Honey I Shrunk the Kids. If there was a giant anywhere around us, even a sleeping one we'd.." THUDDD!!! Several people fall at the impact of what can be none other than a titan footstep broadcasting in waves across the sweeping plain of carpet. Before most could get back to their feet another came, this time carrying even more amplitude with it. Deems himself was knocked onto his ass. "Stay where you are everyone," he cries from his pitiful prone position.
"Stay with me if you want to live!" cried Alex as he takes off running.   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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