Polly could hear the footsteps but could see nothing beyond the rim of the sink. Then she heard a voice, and that voice made her weep tears uncontrollably. But not tears of fear, but joy...
"Polly, I'm back." Ellie's voice rang out slightly echoed from the bathroom walls. Polly still couldn't see her. "Mom asked me what I've been doing in my room, but I told her I was just playing." The room filled with giggles. "Anyway, I brought you..." Ellie finally breached the rim of the basin and was looking in. Her sentence was cut short and her cute tooth missing smile was began to fade as she looked down at the tiny shivering woman standing amid water with only traces of bubbles left. The minuscule woman was visibly shivering from cold and Ellie could hear sobbing. "P-... Polly... wha...," she stammered, not knowing what had happened in her absence. Polly just looked up at her with tears streaming down her face and raised her arms up, like a small child wanting to be lifted up. Ellie lowered her hand quickly to the water and surrounded her small friend's body in a fist. Modesty had left entirely as the giant girl held her in her fist as it raised out of the chilly water. Ellie, having felt the temperature of the bath water, immediately realized what had happened. She'd been away too long. Polly, wrapped in Ellie's giant hand, was quickly warmed... making her cling to Ellie's finger and thumb with all her might. Ellie quickly set Polly down amid a hand towel and wrapped her gently up in it. Seeing the tiny woman cling to the wrap shivering and sobbing made her look away in full guilt. It was Polly who broke the silence.
"W-where w-were you?!" It was the first time she raised her voice at the mountainous child. She didn't care about any size difference or consequence. Ellie fidgeted with the napkin she brought up from breakfast that had small bits of her meal that she made special for her new friend. But none of that mattered now as Ellie refused to look at Polly as she played with the food and her face began to twist in shame. "I a-almost froze to death!" Polly continued. "W-what if s-someone else came in and f-found me?!"
"I'm sorry, Polly...," Ellie whimpered, as if she were being scolded by a full sized adult. "I... I didn't know I was gone so long." Tears were now flowing from both woman and child. As warmth began to return to her tiny body, Polly started to simmer down as she sat wrapped in a pink hand towel. She was about to continue to reprimand the giant when Ellie cut her off.
"I didn't mean to leave you! Mommy says I never take good care of things! I used to have a hamster, but mommy took it away because I'd forget to feed it... or clean it's cage. I still have the cage... I even thought of putting you in it before we used the dollhouse....," Ellie wiped her eyes and her nose before finally looking at Polly on the counter. "But mommy always says I can't have pets any more! Maybe I shouldn't have you, either..." Ellie's hand descended on Polly and snatched her from the towel. Before she knew what was happening she was sitting in Ellie's open palm right in front of her face. She didn't even bother covering herself up, as it was all a blur of motion before she was looking into Ellie's big brown tear streaked eyes.
"You're not safe with me, I guess...," Ellie whimpered, as Polly was beginning to worry where this was heading. "I should just bring you back where I found you...," And there it was. Polly panicked and tried to get a word in, but Ellie wasn't hearing anything in her self-scolding. "I don't want you to get hurt again, Polly... It's better this way." Ellie closed her fingers around the tiny naked woman and started to walk out of her room.
Polly tried to wriggle free of the prison of fingers but they were not budging. She started to pound her tiny fists on the hand around her and screaming for her to open her hand. But Ellie continued to walk out her room and then her house. Before long she was at the edge of the lot behind her house where she first laid eyes on her tiny friend. She opened her hand and Polly scrambled and stood up gripping one of Ellie's fingers for stability as she felt the hand slowly descend to the ground.
"Ellie! Ellie no!!" Polly could see the ground below and recognized the tall tree sized grass as it stretched out like a vast forest. "Ellie, please no!!" Looking up she could see Ellie's face was the picture of regret and sadness as she lowered her little friend down. The hand stopped and Polly saw the ground around her and panicked. "Ellie, please!!" The hand slowly tilted intending to drop her off, but Polly gripped her giant index finger as her feet slid out from under her. "Ellie, I forgive you!! Please!!"
"Polly...," Ellie said amid sobs, "This is for the best." Ellie shook her hand and Polly lost her grip and tumbled down the hand and landed with a thump on the dirt ground. Ellie sat there stooped down towering over Polly as she watched her scramble to her feet. "Go on...," Ellie's hand moved down and gently pushed the doll woman towards the tall grass.
"No!!," Polly screamed. "Ellie , No!!" The giant girl stood back up, her face from Polly's vantage blocked out by the sun behind her. But she knew the giant girl was still crying as she slowly turned around and began to walk back home alone. Polly ran after her, but each stride of the giant girl was too much for her to match. She screamed up to her in total desperation as she imagined her life back in the wild alone. "Ellie, please take me with you!! Ellie, please!! Ellie... I'll die without you!!"
That made the giant girl stop. Ellie turned around and watched as the tiny adult ran through the grass towards her. Her words struck her hard. She didn't want to accidentally neglect her new friend... but she also didn't want her to be in danger alone out here. Polly finally reached the giant girl's feet in giant pairs of flip flops. She dropped to her knees and wrapped her arms around Ellie's second toe. She squeezed the enormous digit as she wept, pleading with the girl. "Please, Ellie... I won't make it... please, please..." Among her frantic pleading, Polly realized what she was doing... bear hugging a young girl's toe. For a moment it entered her mind just how impossibly huge this child was. She glanced over briefly at the big toe and saw the shoddy nail polish job, obviously done by a youngster. A shade somewhere between red and pink... and for a split second she imagined Ellie giving her the chore of painting them and the image broke her sobbing as she reveled in it.
Shadows shifted around her as she looked up and saw a giant hand reaching for her. It wrapped around her, gently as always, and lifted her up. In that span of a second she went from sobbing to elation that the youngster was possibly taking her back. Ellie opened her hand and Polly sat in the middle staring back with a weak smile. Ellie stared back at her, "You really want me to take you back?"
"More than anything!" Polly shouted back. A huge finger came from behind and stroked the tiny woman's hair. Polly realized she was being petted like a small animal, but she didn't care if she got her giant back. A smile broke out on Ellie's face as she stroked her hair. Eventually she realized her little friend was nude, and her eyes glanced at places she knew she shouldn't and then away again before she was caught. Only thing is Polly noticed, but pretended she didn't. She didn't care... she was safe again. Ellie turned and walked with her tiny woman in her hand as she continued to pet her, admiring her little body. Not even bothering to dart her eyes away anymore. Polly rode in her hand and she nuzzled the giant fingertip with her cheek as she sat and let the giant girl examine her with her eyes as they both went back to the house.  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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