This choice: Sophie’s Very Little Stepsister • Go Back...Chapter #6Sophie Swipes a Shrunken Natalie by: Haro-Haze   The wedding between Lana Lang and John Henry Irons was about two weeks ago, and Natalie was excited by the prospect of finally having siblings she could call her own. Well, Step-Siblings.
Then again, Jordan and Johnathan were like her half-brothers. Biologically, at least. But their moms were alternate versions of one another from separate realities, so it wasn't the same as them having a real brother or sister.
Nevertheless, her new stepmother, Lana Lang, even offered her Sarah's room while she was studying abroad in Greece, thinking she would be more comfortable with a room all her own. Although, Natalie didn't want to take it away from Sarah when she returned during the holidays.
So Natalie devised a creative way to make herself a place to stay in the corner of Sarah's room. Using a molecular destabilizer she built herself, Natalie shrunk herself so she'd be small enough to live inside a dollhouse she had retrofitted to function as her own home.
She moved in all her belongings and shrunk them so they would be appropriately sized while she was two inches tall inside, then crafted miniature furniture and decorated the house with Sarah's help.
There wasn't even a downside to the arrangement. Since Natalie could set a timer to return to her normal-size with a switch installed near the front door, giving her enough time to step clear of the dollhouse before she could burst through the roof of her new home.
Sarah left yesterday for Europe, and Lana and John Henry were about to leave for their Honeymoon later today, which meant it would be just her and Sophie in the house for the next twelve days.
Giving her a chance to get to know her new stepsister.
Unfortunately, that chance came sooner than Natalie expected as Sophie decided to investigate the dollhouse in Sarah's bedroom, not convinced that Sarah wasn't playing a prank on her when she said that Natalie was planning to shrink herself to live inside of it.
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It was about ten-thirty in the morning, and Natalie had just gotten the text that Sarah had arrived safely at the Airport. Of course, Natalie had offered to use her Exosuit to fly Sarah there in just a few minutes, but Sarah suggested that her life should be somewhat normal, at least over the next few months.
She was about to respond to her text when she heard someone open the door to Sarah's bedroom.
"Oh, that's probably Lana checking up on me before their flight." Natalie thought, "I better say goodbye before they leave."
But before on her way downstairs toward the regrowth switch, Natalie found that her whole room on the second floor had suddenly become engulfed in darkness as a gigantic light brown eye peered through her bedroom window without warning of intrusion. What if she had been getting charged or had just come out of the shower?
Natalie froze in her tracks, too scared to move for a brief moment as she came to the chilling realization that it wasn't Lana looking at her! Her new stepmom's eyes were a distinctly darker shade of brown.
"Wow, Sarah wasn't kidding! You are tiny!" boomed a distinctly familiar voice. One she recognized almost instantly as her other new stepsister, Sophie. And while Natalie didn't appreciate the intrusion of her privacy, it was better than some random person peeping in on her, right?
"Stay right there! I want to get a better look at you." Sophie declared, grabbing the roof of Natalie's home with both hands and ripping it off to get a better look at her shrunken step-sibling. And to her surprise, Sophie was BIG, like really, really BIG.
She'd never shrunk herself around Sarah when they set up this new home for her, so this was her first encounter with a normal-sized person. So, it was honestly a little overwhelming, to say the least. Plus, Sophie had also gone through a growth spurt very recently, making her even taller than Sarah would have been, which added to her shock.
If she remembered right, Sophie was about 5'4. Making them roughly the same height under normal circumstances. But looking up at her, it was still hard to believe she was only eleven.
"Sophie! What are you doing? That's my roof!" Natalie yelled, finally finding her voice.
"No, this is a piece of plastic. I could probably snap it in half if I wanted to." Sophie mused, lowering her face over the opening she created, her eyes crossing over her nose to examine her two-inch tall step-sibling.
"I still can't get over this. Why would you want to be tiny?" Sophie asked, poking Natalie in the chest with one of her fingers, each of which was now bigger than the older girl, prompting a slight giggle from Sophie as she watched her stepsister back away at her touch.
"Hey, watch it! Haven't you ever heard of personal space? We can talk about this more once I'm back to normal size." Natalie snapped, pushing past Sophie's fingers. Unfortunately, Sophie wasn't about to take any attitude from a two-inch tall runt. Her fingers spread out like a net and lunged forward from Natalie's blind spot while her back was turned, catching her totally off-guard.
"Why would I let you do that? I prefer you at this size! And now, I can finally be a 'big' sister." Sophie teased, emphasizing the word 'big' as she spoke, curling Natalie into her fist and pulling her out of the dollhouse in a single motion.
"Hey, let me go!" Natalie yelled, wriggling in a futile attempt to escape Sophie's grasp. She couldn't return to her normal size without the switch at her front door!
"You really expect me to listen to a doll?" Sophie teased, squeezing Natalie inside of her fist as she watched her squirm, trying to push back the giant pudgy fingers crushing her ribs.
"I'll be big soon enough, just wait and see. Then I'll be the one in charge." Natalie bluffed.
"Oh yeah, do it then," Sophie smirked, calling her bluff.
What happens next?
1. Sophie hears Lana coming, so she tosses Natalie onto her bed and decides to hide her by sitting on top of her, pushing her under her butt until she can convince Lana to leave.
2. Despite appearances, Sophie says she wants to be a good stepsister to Natalie and even offers her a warmer place to sleep than the dollhouse, slipping off one of her sneakers and tossing Natalie inside before covering her with her socked foot. Bringing a whole new meaning to the term stepsister.
3. Sophie rummages through Natalie's stuff. Finding her prototype shrinking device. Deciding to test it out to see if she could make Natalie even smaller. Shrinking her to only a centimeter tall.  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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