At the same instant, Mom stops bouncing her foot. It rests squarely on her sandal, unmoving.
"Here's our chance!" Dad says.
You both quickly grab onto the side of her sandal and pull yourselves up. Then, you and Dad pound on Mom's heel to get her attention.
You both get more than you anticipated.
She immediately feels something against her foot and withdraws it instinctively. She pulls her leg up to the ottoman and then leans forward to look down at the floor. Gazing down from what seems like stories above you and your dad, you mom--with her hair cascading past her face--sees the two of you.
She blinks, her face flashing with an expression of disbelief. Then, she bends her legs beneath her and sits on her knees and continues to stare.
"Is...Are you two really...?"
She reaches down and you see her hand opening to pick you and Dad up, but she suddenly stops before doing so and instead decides to hold out her hand for you and him to climb onto. It's an incredibly strange feeling to grab onto your own mom's fingertip and pull yourself onto her hand. You nearly fall when you step onto her palm, as it is so soft that you feel as if you're walking onto a waterbed. You and Dad both sit down in the center of her warm hand as she brings you both up to her lap. She then puts both of her hands together in front of her and looks upon you.
"I can't believe it," she says, her hot breath coming over you with the scent of mint. "How did this happen?"
"The bug bomb," Dad answers. "When we opened it, it shrank us."
"Bronson too?" Mom asks. "Where is Bronson?"
"We...we don't know. He was upstairs when it happened. We haven't seem him yet."
"We have to find him!" she turns her head towards the dining room and stairs and shouts, "Girls!"
"Wait!" Dad cries out. "Don't tell them about us, yet! Let's talk first!"
Dani walks into the living room from the dining room, and Jenna reluctantly comes half-way down the stairs a few seconds later.
"Yes?" Dani asks.
Neither you nor Dad can see anything. Mom has cupped her hands together, hiding you both from your sisters.
"Um, never mind," she answers.
"Jeez," Jenna says, rolling her eyes as she turns back up the stairs. Dani shrugs and walks to her room.
"Do you know how to fix this?" Mom asks Dad when she opens her hands again.
"No. But my boss may have some ideas. Or your cousin that gave us the fake bug bomb."
"OK. Do you want me to call one of them? What should I do?"
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