“Well, Eric, now that we got you some clothes that fit you, why don’t we get you something to eat?” Natasha suggested.
“Yeah! I bet he must be starving!” Erica grinned.
It was so funny looking at Erica. I mean, she looked just like me! She had my brown hair and the same eyes as me. She had the same facial expressions and even her ears and nose closely resembled mine. She could have been my twin sister except for the fact that she was two feet shorter than me. Even her voice sounded a little bit like mine. I swear when I would look at her, it seemed as if I was staring at my own reflection in the mirror. It was amazing!
Max got a big wooden chair out of the garage for me to sit on. I guess he must have used one of the other inventions previously, or he had used the shrinking and growth device to enlarge some of his furniture just to test. The chair was perfect for my size, but obviously too big for them.
The dining table was a little bit too low for me, but that was okay. We had spaghetti to eat with green beans and salad, along with soup as an appetizer. I had seconds of course, since the first helping didn’t fill me up. The food was absolutely delicious, and it was during dinner that I found out that Max was the cook in the house, since Natasha always spent all her time in the lab working on her inventions and experiments.
Once we were done eating, Erica walked over to me and suggested she take me to the large shopping mall down the street so that she could buy me some more clothes for a guy of my size. They didn’t have any more clothes to grow in the size machine, but since I had been pulled in by the portal machine in their basement, they all considered me as part of the family for the time being, and they insisted that I stay with them. So, it was no problem at all for them to take me to the mall and buy me some new clothes.
I put on the shorts and t-shirt that they had enlarged in the machine, after having taken a nice hot shower in the bathroom. I was amazed that the rest of the house and the lab looked just like my own house and lab in my own parallel world, so everything else seemed pretty much familiar to me and I was able to find my way around.
As soon as I got into Erica’s car (I little SUV, really nice!), we drove off to the shopping mall which was only ten minutes away from the house. I recognized the area of town where we lived and all the streets, the roads, the businesses and the landmarks all seemed familiar to me. It was almost as if I was still in my own world and I had never left.
When we arrived at the mall, I couldn’t help but laugh when I realized truly how much I had grown during the journey through the portal. When we entered through the glass doors and I walked in on a large crowd of shoppers, everyone stopped and stared at me. I was a true giant in the mall, sticking out among the crown as the biggest and tallest kid in the whole shopping mall!
Erica just grinned as she noticed that I started to become a little embarrassed over the fact that I was the biggest guy in the mall, and she started making fun of me over it.
“Okay Goliath, this way!” she teased, as she led the way to the clothing store. Obviously we went to the Big and Tall place, where everything was fit for guys who were too big and too tall to find their clothing anywhere else.
Indeed, if I couldn’t find anything to wear in this place, then I knew I wouldn’t be able to find it anywhere else! I had to find the clothes to fit my body in this place; otherwise I would be in serious trouble. Luckily for us, all the shirts and pants were placed on racks, shelves and hangers that were clearly marked and labeled, so finding my size wasn’t as hard as we had initially feared. Now, it was just a matter of finding the right shirt and pants that didn’t make me stand out even more than I already needed to, just due to the fact that I was so big alone. I didn’t want to wear something in bright yellow and in lime green, just to draw even more attention to myself. So, I picked clothes in fine, pastel colors that would go with just about anything, knowing that I would look decent in school the next day.
“Okay, big bro! You’re gonna look so sharp when you go to school tomorrow!” she said to me, as she carried the clothes I had picked out to the cash register. “You can’t stay home all day long and now that you’re with us, you’re gonna have to go back to school! But, don’t worry! You’ll have a great time!”
I was just so thrilled with the friendliness and hospitality and I was extremely grateful that my family in this parallel world was willing to put up with me and treat me like a son of their own, even with this weird growth spurt I had come with after I arrived. I figured, in the end, that everything would be alright.
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