I was scared , really , really scared . I kept mumbling , " Oh god , please . Please , let me wake up . " A lot of good that did me though . I was already wide awake . Why was I hoping to be asleep ? Well , I was so small that lint was like a huge cable . I had no idea how I got this small , nor why I seemed to be glowing like a dim light bulb . I could see it really well , since my clothes hadn 't shrunk with me . I was totally naked . I had just waked up like that in my own bed . I mean , I went asleep like every evening . In the middle of the night I woke up because I had to go to the bathroom , but suddenly found myself drowning in a huge bed on an impossible hard mattress . My room was like a huge cathedral , and I still had to pee . After what seemed forever , I reached the end of the bed and I looked down into an abyss . ' The bed isn 't really all that high , I 'm just so small . How did this happen ? Did some mutant or other villain reduce everyone in height ? Or did this only happen to our house or maybe even only to my room ? ' I managed to use the string to slide down to the ground and looked around me . ' So , now I 'm on the ground , what am I going to do now ? I still need to pee , and there is no way I can get to the bathroom in time . I can 't even use the toilet . I 'm so friggin small that I can 't use anything normal in this house . If only I had a sister with a doll house or something . ' I really needed to pee now , so I looked around and saw a piece of fluff on the floor . It wasn 't big , but to me it was huge . I thought that it would absorb fluids , so I got a hold of my penis , which wasn 't as easy as I had thought . First things first though and I whizzed onto the fluff , feeling relieved while doing it . As I suspected the fluff absorbed the fluid and even kept the smell bearable . Now I had time to look why I had so much trouble finding my penis . I looked down and saw to my dismay that it looked a lot smaller than it should . ' What the fuck ! What is going on ? Is this shrinking thing effecting my penis more than the rest of me ? ' Then I noticed that my hands looked a bit thinner and my chest was a bit flabby . I didn 't have more time to think about that as my door opened and I looked towards it in horror . ' Who is that ? Are the bad guys here ? What should I do , get attention or hide ? ' The light in my room was clicked on and I blinked against the harsh light shining in my room . Next thing I heard was my father 's voice booming , " What the hell ? Where is Keith ? The alarm hasn 't gone off , so he should still be here . " " No way , I was in the bathroom for a long time . He never went there . I would have heard him if he went downstairs as well . I think some Mutant got him . " Yep , that was my dad , always thinking bad things about mutants . Well , come to think of it , I wasn 't thinking much better about them as well . I did have an answer to my question though . The shrinking only happened to me . Neither my father nor my mom had been shrunk apparently . My little brother even woke up in his room . " Mom , dad ? What is going on ? " He turned off the light of in my room , but as he was closing the door , our cat , Nibbles scooted inside . She immediately went towards me and I got really scared again . Jeez , that cat was huge now . Nibbles sniffed near me a little and then opened her gigantic mouth . ' Oh , crap . She 's gonna eat me . ' I started running to get away from her , but with my small stature I didn 't make a lot of progress . As her mouth was closing over me I was even more frightened and felt something wrench inside of me . Suddenly I was shrinking again . I was getting smaller and smaller and fell down into a crack in the wooden floor . The mouth with the rough tongue closed above my head just clearing it by a foot or so . Well , what a foot would have been in my normal stature . Nibbles was perplexed as she didn 't get something in her mouth and started looking around for her snack . I was so small however that she didn 't even notice me . I was still glowing however and that would attract her attention eventually . So I tried to get myself not to glow . It doused suddenly and that 's when I realized that I hadn 't been shrunk by a mutant . I was the mutant ! I said out loud , " Oh crap , I 'm a mutant . " I should 've kept my mouth shut though . Nibbles apparently heard me and began looking for me again . She came close to my hiding spot , but didn 't see me , fortunately . She backed off and searched around the room for me or anything else that she could find . I relaxed a little for the first time . But as I looked down at me , I freaked out again . My chest had changed again . Now it looked like I had breasts . Small ones , but definitely breasts . I looked down at my penis and it was even smaller then before . ' What the fuck is happening ? Why am I looking like a friggin half girl and half boy now ? ' I was so confused and down that I sat down and started to cry silently . I mean , I hadn 't cried since I was 4 , and now I couldn 't stop crying . ' I 'm such a baby . What boy cries at 14 years old . ' After what seemed an eternity I stopped crying and decided that it was time to see what I could do to get out of this situation . I mean , if I could shrink , I should be able to grow as well , right ? I stood up , and was about to see if I could grow , when I remembered Nibbles . ' Is she still in the room ? I can 't really start growing then . If I 'm not fast enough she 'll see me as a snack and I 'll be a goner for sure . ' I climbed the edge of the crack I was in and carefully glanced over the top to see around . I almost fell down , as I saw that Nibbles the giant cat was lurking nearby and was looking straight at me . I let go and landed on my butt . I half expected the rough tongue of Nibbles to come probing into my hiding spot . But nothing happened . ' Maybe she didn 't see me ? ' I started waiting , but I 've never been good at sitting still during waiting . When I got tired of it , I lay down and promptly fell asleep . I woke up from a loud noise and for a moment I didn 't recognize it , or where I was . ' This isn 't my bed . ' Then it all came back to me . Somehow I had shrunk down to less than miniature proportions during the night . I was a mutant ! The noise intensified and with dread I suddenly recognized it . It was the vacuum cleaner . Someone , probably my mom , was vacuuming my room . The noise got even louder and then I got sucked up out of the crack into the nozzle . ' Oh , crap . Now I 'm being sucked into the dust bag . ' I got banged against the walls of the hose before it opened into the big bag that was already half filled with dust . I was flung against the back and held there by the incredible force of the rushing air . Even worse , a lot of dust , skin cells and dead animals were thrown against me by the oncoming rush of air from the vacuuming . Just as I thought , that I should do something about it , the rush of air subsided , as did the deafening noise . For a moment I thought , ' I 'm saved , she stopped vacuuming . ' I was wrong though , the next thing I knew was that the bag was shaking and I was thrown around in it . ' What is going on now ? ' Well , I didn 't have to wait too long to find out . I got shaken out of the bag into the garbage bin . I landed in a big pile of goop that turned out to be sauce from the spaghetti that we had yesterday . ' Yuck , I 'm covered in spaghetti sauce . Can this get any worse ? ' I learned that it could . The garbage bin was taken outside and I ended up with the rest of the garbage in the trashcan . Thrown around with all the garbage made my situation a lot worse . I was sticky , and lots of things clung to me . I was a walking garbage heap all by myself . I tried to get out of the trashcan , but couldn 't climb well enough through all the stuff . It didn 't help that I got caught in everything I encountered and that my hands were slippery from the sauce . I was getting desperate , ' Is today garbage collecting day ? ' I didn 't remember , I feared that it was . Maybe now it was time for me to find out if I could grow in size again . I tried to figure out how to do that , but nothing happened . I even said silly things like , " Grow . Up , up and away . Grow please . Big . Shazam . Grow sesame . " Of course nothing worked and I got scared . ' What if I have to stay like this forever ? I may never see people again and will always be hunted by any animal I encounter . If I don 't get dumped with the trash on the landfill first . ' As I got more and more frantic , I suddenly felt that wrenching feeling inside of me again . ' Oh no , am I going to shrink even smaller ? ' Well , my fears were justified , I did start shrinking again . It wasn 't all bad though . Being microscopic small allowed me to move around more freely . The sauce particles didn 't stick as much anymore and I found a small hole in the trash bag through which I could escape . As I was contemplating on how I could escape the trashcan , or to grow bigger , I felt the trashcan being lifted . ' Yep , it 's trash collecting day , ' I thought with some resignation . Well , at least I was out of the bag , so to say . But I wasn 't out of trouble , as I soon discovered . The trash bag was forcefully yanked from the trashcan and little old me was yanked with it . As soon as I was out of the trashcan , I fell down into the grass , which were more like giant trees to me . I was sure that I would get killed hitting the ground , but my microscopic small statute must have included being very light , since my speed was relatively low , with the air currents breaking my fall . I still hit the ground quite hard , but nothing I couldn 't handle . I lay still for a while , before getting up . I didn 't feel any pains , but I decided to examine myself anyway . Another mistake on my part . I now sported real breasts on my chest ! As I looked past them , my body had sort of an hourglass figure and then I noticed the worst that had happened to my body . My penis was almost all gone . ' Shoot , I 'm changing all the way to a girl ? Why is this happening ? What am I going to do ? ' I looked around me for some shelter that I could use , but everything looked so big . A piece of dirt was the size of a huge boulder . I could probably hide in a ridge of a sole , easy ! Luck was with me this time and the sounds died down , meaning the garbage men were already gone . I wanted to sit down for a moment and catch my breath , before thinking on what to do now . I sat down in despair and started crying . I cried on feeling lost , small and insignificant . I hadn 't even been upset about running around naked yet . I cried for I don 't know how long , till suddenly I got splashed by a big splash of water . I sputtered and tried to get a breath back into my lungs . ' What the hell happened ? Was it going to rain ? ' Then I noticed some other dew drops hanging on the blades of grass . It made me laugh for a moment . I was so small that a dew drop was like a pool to me . My laughing soon stopped as an ant grabbed my arm and tried to drag me away . I was screaming and kicking for all that I was worth . It wasn 't much , but I tried my best . The ant had a death grip on arm and dragged me towards I was sure would be the nest . ' I better get out of this things clutches , or I 'm a goner . ' I knew that once the other ants saw me , they 'd subdued me fairly quickly and I 'd be larva food moments later . I planted my feet in the dirt and got a good grip on its mandible with my free hand . Then I tried to pry my arm out of the mandible . I didn 't get it out though , but instead I lifted the whole ant up into the air . I used a bit too much power and swung it over my head in a half circle and slammed the animal upside down into the ground on the other side . The ant let go of my arm at that point and I made sure to get out of there . I started running , but after a few paces I was bouncing up higher than I should be able to . ' Am I super strong or something ? I can leap higher than normal and I just swept an ant three times my size over my head without any problems . ' I jumped up a small flower and sat on a petal to think about these new revelations . My arm was hurting a bit , and I remembered that it had been mauled good by the ants mandible . I looked at my arm and was very surprised . There were only a few superficial wounds visible and those were even healing up right before my eyes . ' What is this ? Am I also a super healer ? I should have a lot more and more serious wounds than this on my arm and my legs . But there is next to nothing anymore . ' Now I was really getting upset about everything that had been going on . I mean , I was a small as a grain of sand , I was quite strong for my size and I healed faster than Wolverine from the X - men . This was really getting weird . Mutant weird , and I was the mutant being weird . Well , at least the water had managed to clean the sauce and other dirt from my body . I felt really clean again , except for my feet that had been in the mud while I was wrestling with the ant . I really needed to clean them again , but without shoes or anything , they would get dirty again moments later , so it would be pointless . As I thought of all this , I realized that I should be feeling cold . But I didn 't in the least . Well , I knew it wasn 't warm , but the cold didn 't bother me at all . Not the morning dew water drops , nor being outdoors naked in November . Things were getting weirder and weirder . I really wanted to get back inside , however dangerous that might be . In my current state I didn 't have to watch out that much for Nibbles eating me , as I was too small to be noticed by him , though some smaller animals might want to eat me . The ant was a good example of that . I did have to watch out for anything else , since I was too small to be noticed and someone or something could slam into me , hurting me a lot or even kill me . I started jumping like a grasshopper towards the house and made good time getting there . I was so small now that I could just walk underneath the closed door . I said , and meant , walk , not crawl . I never knew that we had such a big gap between the door and the sill . I didn 't encounter anyone on my jumps towards the stairs and quickly jumped on each step to get up to my room . I kept to the side , but not too close . I didn 't want to get jumped by a predator animal that wanted me for food . Without surprises though I reached the door to my room and walked in underneath the closed door . ' Gee , no wonder it was drafty in here . There is enough room to drive a 18 wheeler through . ' Well , finally I was back in my room , but what was I going to do now ? I had no idea at first , then I remembered . I was going to see if I could grow big again . It hadn 't worked for me earlier , but I had shrunk again . I tried to get that feeling again , and this time I found it easy enough . The wrenching feeling was there again , but not as bad as before . I shrunk a little more , but noted that I could control it somehow . I tried to get that feeling again , but somehow to direct it in reverse , if that made any sense . Well , it worked , I started to grow slowly but surely . Soon I had reached a size that wasn 't too different from what I used to be , though I didn 't really know if I was the same height or not . I also didn 't know if I should be the same height , since I knew that girls usually were a bit smaller than boys . I didn 't worry too much about it anyway , I could grow a bit more I thought , if I needed . I just wanted to find some clothes that would still fit me . I 'd had enough of running around naked . I turned towards my closet and almost missed the door opening to the hall . The door hinges creaked a little and I turned towards it . In the doorway was my mom . She just stood there gaping at me standing buck naked in my room . I was painfully aware that I was naked and slammed a hand before my crotch . I was suddenly made aware that there wasn 't much there to hide . I then remembered that there was a lot more to hide higher up and slammed my other arm before my breasts . I was really startled by that outcry . I mean , sure I look different , but to call me a mutant directly ? Even if I was one , she didn 't know that . Mom was shoved aside moments later and my dad appeared , with a his 12 gauge in his hands . He saw me and pumped a round into the chamber . ' Oh no , he 's gonna shoot me first and ask questions later . ' Before he could fire , I panicked and felt the wrenching feeling again . I quickly shrank to a miniature size and tried to get away as fast as I could . I guess I wasn 't shrinking fast enough though , since my dad pointed the gun towards the floor where I was standing . He fired a shot just as I jumped away behind my bed . Dad barged further into my room to find me again and surely to blast me again . I could hear him pump another round into the chamber . I thought , ' What I wouldn 't give to be able to fly right now . ' Somehow my prayer was answered I think , because next thing I knew , was that there was a tearing sound and feeling in my back . I suddenly saw something appear on both sides of my peripheral vision . They appeared to be some kind of wings , so how to flap them and get under way ? Again I was stunned that they seemed to have heard it . My wings started beating very fast and I soared up into the air . I quickly tried to make a turn and almost lost what was still in my stomach as I turned so fast that it felt like my internal organs were left on the old heading with my body going into a new one . I felt scared and exhilarated at the same time . ' I 'm flying , I have wings and flying really fast . ' I had to react fast , too . I was heading towards the door , but straight towards the wall behind it . As I shot out of the doorway , I made a quick turn again towards the stairs and went downstairs . My dad was following me , fortunately a bit more slowly , but he still managed to get a shot off in my direction . I felt some pieces of buckshot hit me and my wings . ' Oh no , I 'm hit , ' I thought and imagined spiraling down to the floor and die in a horrible crash . I kept on flying however , and headed towards the door . The screen door was closed to keep bugs out , or me in , in this case . I crashed straight through the screen , ripping a big hole in it . This did damage the wing enough to send me spiraling out of control towards the ground . I landed at quite a high speed in the grass and careened off some boulders of dirt and sand before coming to a full stop . I even thought I heard some bones crack and snap , but I couldn 't be sure about that . I was hurt and felt awful right after my crash landing . I lay still for quite some time . I heard my dad and my little brother coming out of the door searching for me . They didn 't find me though , and after things quieted down I groaned , " Owie , that really hurt . " Then I thought to myself , ' Better inspect the damage . I hope I can recover from that and still be able to fly again later . ' As I got up to inspect myself , I got another surprise . My wings were all in perfect working order . I didn 't have any bruises , cuts or any other injuries visible . I checked for broken bones , but there didn 't seem to be any . ' Now I know for a fact that at least one wing was damaged . So how come there isn 't any damage visible ? Am I that fast a healer ? That would be neat and very welcome . ' As I was thinking all of this and examining myself for injuries , the enormous impact of the events that just happened a short while ago , made me realize that now I was all alone in the world . My family had tried to kill me ! I was a mutant and was considered dangerous . They thought I had kidnapped myself and was probably a wanted felon . And I was still naked to boot . Realizing all of that made me sag down and I started bawling . I really cried my heart out right then and there . I stopped crying when it started to get dark . I looked up thinking , ' It can 't be that late yet . It can 't be more than afternoon , I think . ' I was right about that , though I didn 't wear a watch . What I saw filled with dread again . A dark cloud had shown up in the sky and I realized that it would start to rain soon . Damn , I hate to be right . As soon as I had thought of it , the raindrops started to fall already . Out of instinct I flew up and went for a tree to hide from the rain . I barely made it . Some drops hit me like a bathtub had been poured out over me , all at once . I almost fell out of the sky because of it . Somehow I just managed to right myself and get some altitude again . I was exhausted once I got under the leaves of the tree and sat down on a branch to rest . Finally I could relax and let my guard down a bit , or so I thought . It was quiet out there and in the tree . So , I started to examine my body a bit more . I had only done a quick inspection of my skin and working order , but now I was going to be more thorough . As I started it , I was unpleasantly surprised again . My breasts had grown , I had real hooters now . My hourglass was even more pronounced , and I seemed to look like a Barbie doll come to life . Well , if Barbie had dragonfly wings that is . Below my waspy waist , I found that I didn 't have any penis left . I had never been very hairy down there and now it wasn 't any better . I could see a slit going down and realized that I now had a . . . Gee I can 't even think it . I muttered out loud , " Don 't be such a pussy , you 've got one now . " That made me laugh a bit , but it came out more like a giggle . ' Oh boy , now I 'm even giggling like a girl ? ' Then I realized . I really was a girl now . I probably was all girl now ! My mood swung back from laughing to being depressed . Dejected I continued my inspection . I really was a healthy girl now . Emphasis on Girl , that is . I couldn 't find anything wrong in the sense of injuries or flaws . I hadn 't realized it earlier , but my hair had grown out a lot . Not only was it down past my shoulders , it had also changed color from my chestnut brown to being a honey blond . ' Gee , I really am a Barbie doll . Or maybe Tinkerbelle is more appropriate ? ' My mood sank even more , and I felt a few tears leaking out of my eyes . Loudly I said , " No , I 'm not going to cry again . I 'm a big boy and I don 't cry . " Then I realized what I said . ' I 'm not a boy anymore , I 'm a girl . Maybe that is why I 'm crying so easily . ' I didn 't get more time to think or to feel miserable though . Suddenly a bird popped up on the same branch I was sitting and it started pecking in my direction . ' Oh no , do I look like food to birds as well ? I need to get out of here and find someplace to hide ! ' I dropped from the branch and flew away from the tree , straight into the rain . The bird was following me closely and I had to weave and turn like crazy to avoid ending up in its beak and stomach . The falling raindrops made it even worse as I got hit by several of them , hampering my flight capability . The bird didn 't seem to suffer as much inconvenience as me from the rain , so I was starting to panic . I started thinking , ' Is this it ? Am I going to end as bird shit ? Oh , what am I going to do ? ' Then I saw a hole in a fence separating two gardens . I quickly made my way over there , still weaving and bobbing all the time . I dove through the small hole , only just clearing it with my wings . Then right behind me was a loud crash . I guess the bird didn 't make it and hit the fence . I didn 't look around though , I kept on flying at my highest speed . I was still weaving though , I didn 't want to take any chances that that bird or another was on my tail . I kept it up till I got to a hedge thick with leaves and branches . There I sat down on a branch and started shivering and shaking . I couldn 't believe that I made it . My adrenaline was subsiding and now I got the shakes of my narrow escape . Before I knew it , I was crying again . Damn these female hormones . I don 't know how long I sat there sniveling and shaking , but eventually I pulled myself together and thought about what to do now . It was still light out and the rain had stopped . I flew down to a puddle and washed myself a bit . Frantically I kept looking around me , I was fearful that I would be noticed by a bird or other predator again . In this state I even had to watch for rats and mice . Nothing happened fortunately while I washed myself , and as soon as I was clean enough I flew back into the hedge to hide . I thought hard about what I should do . Going home was out of the question . I was now effectually dead . Or rather missing and presumed dead . No one would believe I had been Keith Wallace . Not only was I now obviously a girl , almost everything had changed about me . I had now blond hair , curves that would make most girls green with envy , and naked . Even if that wasn 't a problem , I still had wings on my back , and I was only a few inches high at the moment . Well , I could probably change that , but would my wings disappear ? I didn 't know , and didn 't want to find out . I mean I might need them soon again to escape another predator out for my flesh . I waited in the hedge till it got a bit dark , keeping a look out for any animal big or small enough to get to me and that might pose a threat to my existence . When I deemed it dark enough I flew out again , keeping a watchful eye out for night birds and bats . I already knew that they were flying about in the area . I could hear the sonic cries with which they were hunting . I didn 't realize it immediately but apparently I could hear in the ultrasonic range of bats . I didn 't know if I could emit sounds like that , but I didn 't want to try , since it might attract unwanted attention to myself . I just flew slow enough to see ahead , and in an erratic pattern . I didn 't know where I was going , and what I was looking for . Well , I was looking for a place to spend the night free of predators . But I didn 't have a clue as to what kind of place that might be . I was just trying to find something , anything that would provide me with enough shelter , so I could get some sleep . I narrowly avoided getting caught by a bat while flying . I got just enough warning from the high frequency modulated tones that it was after me and quite close . I ducked behind a bucket and the bat swooped by immediately after I did that . I was shaking in fear again from my narrow escape and thought , ' I can 't fly in the daytime because of the birds and people . I can 't fly at night because of the bats . Will this be my fate now ? Going around scared to be eaten all the time , till it really happens ? ' I really hoped that I would find a way out of this . But I didn 't have a clue yet as to how I could achieve that . I flew away from the cover of the bucket and got bombarded again with the high frequency tones of another bat . This one was even closer than the previous one , and with a utterly stupid dive I avoided it . It did however make me slam into the ground . I lay dazed for a moment , not knowing where I was , till everything came back to me . Just in time too , as a scurrying snake approached me looking for a tasty snack . " Shit ! " I exclaimed , flying up almost into the path of a nighthawk trying to catch insects . I think it was surprised to encounter me as well , but it still tried to catch me with its bill . I barely managed to avoid this threat and dove back into the cover of yet another hedge . There I sat shaking like a leaf again . This was getting ridiculous . I had to dodge attack after attack on my life . When was this going to end ? I had the answer ready too , probably with my death . I really had to find a place to hide now . I was getting tired and sleepy . I couldn 't hold out much longer and as soon as I let my guard down I might get eaten out here . I noticed a house nearby with a low light source in an upper window . Probably a nightlight or something . Probably a child was sleeping in that room , but I didn 't care . Besides , children would be sleeping right now . I managed to fly to the house without too much trouble and the window and noticed that though the window was shut , there was quite a gap between the window and the frame . I shrunk myself down to half my last size and crawled into the room between the frame and the window . Inside I returned to my former size of Tinkerbelle and looked around in the room . I noticed that this was a little girl 's room , and she seemed to be sound asleep . She had quite a collection of dolls standing or sitting around , and she even had a big doll house on a low table . Now this was what I needed . I quickly flew over to the house and noticed that the girl had everything in it . There was a bed in the bedroom that looked very realistic , with sheets and a blanket that looked like the real thing . I looked at the girl , but she just seemed sleeping and didn 't have a direct line of sight into this bedroom , so I thought I could risk it and sleep here . I pulled the top sheets out a bit and tried the bed , expecting it to be hard like wood . But imagine my surprise when it felt like a real mattress . Overjoyed , I slid between the sheets and pulled the blanket over me . I was asleep moments later because I was very tired . I awoke very refreshed and relaxed , when I saw a big head of the little girl looking straight at me . I jumped out of bed and tried to flee from sight . I couldn 't find a way out of the doll house in my scared state though . The girl started to whisper an apology , " I 'm sorry I startled you , little fairy . I didn 't mean to . " I hesitated . What I should do ? Should I get out of here as fast as I could ? Or should I talk to this little girl ? I could end up being mauled and mutilated or worse . Or I could find some refuge here , and live a little . The bed sure had been nice to sleep in . I think that won me over in my considerations . Her eyes went wide , " You 're not a fairy ? But you look just like one . What are you then ? I 'm not imagining you , am I ? " Maybe I should tell her that I am a figment of her imagination ? That would be so much easier . But I decided to trust her and be open and honest with her . " No , I 'm not a fairy . I think I 'm a mutant of some kind . " I sighed , " I really don 't have an answer for you . I wish I knew myself . I woke up yesterday being this small . " Then I stopped talking as my stomach rumbled . I asked her , " I 'm sorry to trouble you , but do have something to eat ? I 'm starving . I haven 't had anything to eat for more than a day . " She put s a smile on her face and said , " Of course . Well , I don 't have it here , but I 'll get something from the kitchen . What would you like ? " She came back quite fast with a small platter and looked around to see where I was . I was hiding underneath the stairwell , and as she didn 't see me , she asked , " Where are you ? I have all kinds of fruit for you to choose from . Please show yourself . I am not going to hurt you or anything . " Hesitantly I stepped out into the open and she smiled as she saw me . " Hi again . Here is some fruit for you . " She put down a platter with a strawberry , a grape and a slice of banana and apple . I looked at it with eagerness , I really was very hungry . As I flew to the platter , the girl squealed from excitement . " You can fly ? " she said with surprise . I didn 't answer as I was busy biting into the strawberry and chewing it before getting it down into my very empty stomach . I kept at it till most of the strawberry was gone . I wanted to try to other fruit , but I was already full . ' Being this small sure cuts down on living costs , ' I thought . I flew back to the doll house and the girl sat down before me , looking at me with eagerness . She said , " My name is Giselle . What is your name ? " She giggled , " You can 't be a Keith . That is a boy 's name . You must be Keisha . No , that is an African American name . I 've got it , your name is Kestra . You look like a Kestra to me . " I shrugged , I knew that I couldn 't be Keith anymore . And Kestra did have a nice ring to it . So my new name would be Kestra then . " Okay , my name is Kestra . " I looked around , " Do you mind me staying in this doll house ? I like it , but I don 't know if I can stay here . Your parents might come in here and I don 't know if you have a brother or sister or even a pet . " Giselle giggled at me , " Of course you can stay here . My mom does clean my room , but if you stay still inside the house , I 'll tell her that you 're just a new dolly that I got from Granma . As for the rest , I don 't have brothers or sisters and I don 't have a pet either . " I relaxed a bit at that , so now I only had to worry about the rodents in the house that she didn 't know of . This might be not such a bad place to stay for a while . Giselle giggled again and said , " You do know that you don 't have any clothes on , do you Kestra ? " ' Oh no , I 'm still naked . And in front of a little girl . ' I slammed my arms and hands before my genitals and tried to scurry away . " Please Kestra , don 't go away . I don 't mind , I think you are beautiful like you are . You look kind of some of my dollies . In fact I think some of those clothes will fit you . If you want to take a bath or shower , my father made this house fully functional . He even installed a working shower in here . " " Really ? " I couldn 't believe it . I had to see that for myself . I went to the bathroom in the doll house and saw that it looked like a real porcelain bath tub was there . With a real showerhead above it . I stepped into the bathtub that had a real drain in it and turned the handle on the side . The water started to come out of the shower head and though it was cold , it was quite nice to shower and get clean . As I turned the water off I shook myself dry and wanted to see where the water came from . I flew up a bit and saw a tank of water in the attic . Then I wondered where the water had gotten to after my shower and it appeared to go into another tank with water in the basement . Giselle 's hand went past me and she grabbed the tank of dirty water . She emptied it into a sink in the corner of her room . As she replaced the tank back to accept more water , she put something on the floor near me . " Here you go , Kestra . I hope this dress will fit you . I 'll look for underwear . I think my Barbie has some . " I was hesitant to put on a dress , but then again I was a girl now , so it should be normal for me to be wearing a dress . Still , as a former boy I had my aversion to wearing a dress . I didn 't know how to put it on anyway . ' Should I step into it , or put it over my head . How do women put this on ? ' Giselle already returned from the other side of the room and had some more items in her hand . " Kestra , don 't put on the dress yet . Oh , good . You haven 't started yet . You need to put on this bra and panties first . Mom said that big girls always wear a bra and panties . " Now I was even more mortified , ' Me wearing a bra ? ' But I knew I had to . Women wear bras to support their breasts , well I didn 't really need that , did I ? Well , better do as she suggested and I took the garments from her . After donning the bra and panties , which I had some difficulty putting on till Giselle helped me to do it , I picked up the dress . It too was made out of silk and felt really nice to the touch . Giselle helped me to put it on over my head and it fell real nice around my body . It had an open back which was nice for my wings , and I really liked how if fit on me . Giselle showed me where the mirror was and I looked into a full length mirror on the wall in the doll house . I was stunned . there was a stunningly beautiful Tinkerbelle standing there in a silk dress that fit her like a glove . My wings were like those on a dragonfly , shiny and iridescent , but kind of see through . I didn 't understand how they could be so tough , they looked so delicate . But I knew they 'd ripped through the screen door at my parents ' house like paper . They really are tougher then they appear to be . ' Giselle quickly got out of her P . J . 's and got dressed in a simple blue dress . " I 'm going to have to leave you here for now , Kestra . I have to go to school . Will you be here when I get back ? " I nodded and even meant it . This was much safer for me to be than out there . Being out there , the size of a doll , meant I was fearful of my life almost every moment . Here I could relax and catch my breath . I probably could go out there at normal height , but I didn 't have any identification or a place to stay . I would probably get picked up by the police and put into a home or a foster family . So I thought I was better off here living in a doll house as a Tinkerbelle or a fairy . Giselle went out the door of her room and I had the place to myself . I did some snooping around the room and familiarized myself with everything in it . Around noon I ate some of the banana and the apple , saving the grape for last if I got hungry again . In the afternoon I was feeling a bit bored and sitting at the table in the doll house when suddenly the door opened and Giselle 's mother stepped in . I shrank down to microscopic proportions from the fright of getting caught . I didn 't know how to shrink my clothes with me , so once again I was naked . The clothes just sagged onto the chair I had been sitting on . I ran under a closet in the doll house room and hid there looking out towards the woman . She cleaned the room of her daughter and when she got to the doll house , she saw the clothes on the chair . I could hear her mutter , " Why did she leave these clothes out here in the doll house ? She should be more careful with these delicate things . Maybe I should lock it away for a while . That 'll teach her to take better care of them . " I didn 't know what to think . On one side I was already used to flying around naked , but I liked those silk clothes a lot as well . ' Oh , why do I shrink without shrinking my clothes with me ? I should find a way to shrink my clothes with me . ' I saw the mom put the clothes into a small box and after dusting a little more , she left the room to do other things and I was alone again . I quickly grew to my Tinkerbelle height and flew towards the box . The lid looked heavy and I doubted that I had enough strength to lift it . As I pushed against the lid , it flew open to quite easy . ' Gee , , I guess I don 't know my own strength . ' I took the clothes out of the box and put them on again . This time I knew how to do it , and it wasn 't any problem for me to do anymore . I closed the lid of the box and then thought of something . I got a good hold of the box and proceeded to lift the whole thing up without any effort . Next I flew to a small chair in the room and got a good grip on a leg . I lifted the chair into the air as well , without too much effort , though it was a lot heavier than the box . How strong was I now ? I had no idea . Then I thought of something . Maybe I still had the strength I had when I was my normal size , which meant that I was a lot stronger for this size . Well , that was good to know . The rest of the afternoon I practiced my shrinking , I tried to shrink the clothes with me . And after a few failed attempts I got it right . Quickly I found that I could shrink anything I was touching . Even more , if I had shrunk something and afterwards shrank it again , it would be smaller all the time . And somehow everything still worked . I shrank a radio I found and put it into the doll house . It was still playing well enough , but how ? I mean radio waves have a certain wavelength , and with the antenna shrunk to a much smaller size it should not be able to receive it . But it did somehow . It was weird time again . I put everything back like it had been before I thought that Giselle would come home and she arrived moments later . She was overly excited and told me everything about her day at school . I listened with half an ear , as I wasn 't really that much interested . I played with her and her dollies for a while , till she was called down for dinner . She brought some vegetables and fruit to her room for me and I had a copious meal with the few scraps that she brought . It made me think . My strength was the same as a person of normal height , but my appetite fit the size I had . I wondered how that worked . But I wasn 't complaining . Giselle gave me a nightgown to sleep in . It was made of silk again . Though I wasn 't happy to wear a nightgown , it was nice to wear it . I could get used to that really easy . I shouldn 't though , I mean , why should I like wearing silk women 's clothing ? Was I some kind of cross dresser ? No , I was a girl now , so maybe it was just my new hormones and this body that liked it . It was very confusing for me to think about all that . At least I had some clothes on my back . Well , on my entire body actually . My back was a bit difficult with the clothing . The wings kept getting in the way . I 'd better sleep a night on it . Giselle brushed her teeth and I tried to do something similar before retiring . Giselle was asleep quite fast , while I tossed and turned for a while till I finally fell in a deep sleep . In the morning Giselle woke me up again , but this time it wasn 't such a shock to me . Well , I did had a fright , because I forgot for a moment where I was and how that big little girl was . But it came back soon enough and I greeted her , " Good morning , Giselle . " She bubbled from excitement , " I had such a weird but nice dream . You put some fairy dust on me and I shrunk down to your size and had wings as well . We flew through the flowers together and had a great time . " " I 'm sorry I have to tell you this , but I think that it is only a dream . I don 't have fairy dust . Nor can I give you wings , " I replied a bit sourly . " Oh , I know that . Still it was a nice enough dream . Oh , I 'm so happy that you chose my room to fly into . I hope we will be best friends forever . " I thought , ' Well , forever is a long time . Still , I will be her friend for quite some time . I do hope that I live as long as I should . Not only is the outside world dangerous for me , my small size might mean that I have a shorter lifespan as well . ' However I said to her , " Sure , we 'll be best friends . But please keep my existence a secret okay ? I mean , nobody is allowed to know that I exist . They would take me away from you and do horrible things to me . " She shook her head . " They don 't want to play with me . They think I 'm weird that I believe in fairy tales and such . Well , I can 't help that I do . And you 're the living proof that I was right . " ' Oh , what 's the use ? ' I thought . ' She 's never going to stop seeing me as fairy . ' Well , I did look like one with my size and my dragonfly wings . Giselle got dressed as did I after a short shower , then she went out the door to get breakfast . She returned for a moment later to give me some fruit and disappeared again for school . During the daytime I practiced my power of shrinking and growing again . I got better and better at it with my clothes and other things . Then I tried growing to my original height . Well , as close as I could get to what I thought was my original height . My wings stayed on me ! I briefly tried to fly and they still worked ! \ In the afternoon I thought , ' These wings are great , but sometimes they are a hindrance . I can never wear normal clothes . I will always have to have something with an open back , like my silk dress and silk nightgown . ' As I was thinking those thoughts , I felt a scrunching sound at my back and suddenly I didn 't see my wings anymore . I quickly went to the big mirror in my doll house and sure enough . My wings were gone . I was panicking now . What if they are gone forever ? Giselle wouldn 't want to play with me anymore and I would be out there again in the big bad world without anything . I desperately wanted my wings back and as I was thinking it , I heard the tearing sound again on my back and my wings were back . ' So I can hide my wings and make them appear again ? Yes , this is good . Now I can maybe have some kind of life again . ' But then I would have to disappoint Giselle . I didn 't want to do that . What was I going to do ? I didn 't tell Giselle anything about my discoveries , but I did grew myself to her height and played with her in her room that evening . We had to be careful that her parents didn 't enter though . Giselle was ecstatic that I was able to play with her as a normal girlfriend . But she preferred to have me get back to my Tinkerbelle height and play with me and her dolls . I let her do that . I liked being that size better as well . I didn 't know why I was more comfortable as just a few inch high girl . After we went to bed , I kept thinking about it till sleep claimed me . The next morning Giselle was surprised that I didn 't have my wings . I was sleeping better when I didn 't have them in bed , so I had hidden them when I went to bed . I quickly brought them back out and Giselle squealed again . I think she liked that I could appear to be a normal girl , albeit in miniature size , or appear as a fairy for her . The rest of the day was more of the same like the previous days . I also washed my clothes by hand and hung them to dry out of sight . Giselle had given me some more clothes to wear and I now had 4 sets of underwear and 3 dresses to choose from . Over the weekend I had more time to play with Giselle but we had to look out for her parents . They almost surprised us once as we were playing in her room . I froze and Giselle told her father that I was a fairy doll that she got from her grandmother . We barely got away that time . The week after I got even better with my powers . I could now shrink objects without shrinking myself in the process . I shrank some books that I found in her dad 's library and started studying a bit . How weird was that ? I used to hate studying , but now I did it of my own free will . Even weirder was that I could remember the stuff I read much better . The next weekend I was even more lonely . Giselle was away with her parents to visit relatives . I read more books from the library and enjoyed it even . I never thought I would find reading science books and economics that interesting . Another week past with me being mostly alone and reading books . I think her father suspected something as he asked Giselle if she had borrowed some of his books . She said she did not to know of any books , but asked me to be more careful . We had lots of fun playing in her room , but I asked her why she wouldn 't want to play with other children . She said that they still didn 't want anything to do with her . But I wasn 't so sure that she was giving me the entire truth . Another weekend of playing went by quickly and I couldn 't even imagine another life than that of being a real life playing doll for Giselle . I was there for her and she made sure I had everything I could want . Well , not everything . It wasn 't a real life that I had right now . But I had a place to stay , food , enough time and material to study , and a friend . I should have known that it wouldn 't last . She looked at me with a glum face , " Betsy made fun of me . She said that her fairy doll is the best of the world . She said that it was the most expensive doll ever made . She dared me to take my fairy doll and compare it to hers . " " Yes , I can ! I can 't go with you to your school . What if they find out I 'm real ? They 'd put me in a lab or give me to the MCO . We 'd never see each other again , " I explained . " Oh , " Giselle said , " I hadn 't thought of that yet . But tomorrow we only have a half day . I 'll only show you to Betsy for a few minutes . You 'd be hidden from view most of the time . Please , can you do it for me ? " I thought about it , which I shouldn 't have done , of course . It signaled that I was about to cave in . Giselle took control , " I 'll let you have another soak in my mom 's bubble bath , and I 'll brush out your hair . " Now she had me , I 'd had a bubble bath in her mom 's soap before and liked it a lot . And when she brushed my hair , it felt so wonderful that I really wanted that again . " Okay , but only for a few minutes , and only to Betsy , Okay ? " I should have known better and stand tall with all of my 5 inches . I never should have allowed her to take me to her school and to others . But what can I say ? Mistakes are made all the time . That evening I was about to get ready for my bubble bath and I showed Giselle a new trick . I shrank very fast without shrinking my clothes and flew out of them and grew back to my former size . I was undressed in a second . I took a long bath , while Giselle got ready for bed . After drying off , which I did by shrinking smaller than the water droplets and growing a little further , Giselle brushed my hair out with her Barbie comb . We talked a little more about the next morning and though I was still worried , the plan looked sound . The next morning I dressed in a pale green outfit with matching underwear . I hid in a small purse that Giselle usually had with her and sat back for the ride . It wasn 't too bad and I dozed off a few times . Giselle checked on me several times and I gave her a thumbs up every time . At last the time had come , Giselle looked at me and gave me a wink . Then she picked me up out of the purse and set me down on her desk . I just stood still like a real doll and could see the other girl , Betsy , with her doll . She put it next to me and though it looked very good , it couldn 't compare to a real live one of course . Betsy started to curse and was about to get ugly when a teacher noticed the commotion and got closer . She took both girls and their dolls out of the classroom to an office . Betsy was scolded for cursing and got send to another teacher for punishment , while the teacher had Giselle sit down . The woman started , " Giselle , I know you don 't like making friends . But I think you should try harder . Why did you bring your doll to school ? Betsy 's parents are extremely wealthy , I 'm even surprised that your doll looks so much better than hers . Usually she has the best and most beautiful things available . " Then she looked at me again and took another closer look . Oops , I let the cat out of the bag so to speak . The teacher was stunned for a moment . Then she regained her wits . " What the . . . Giselle ? Is this a living fairy ? " Miss Boucher stormed out of the office and Giselle picked me up to put me back into her purse . Neither one of us noticed something about me . Giselle was about to open the door when Miss Boucher returned with a woman . I pretended not to have heard her , and looked for a way out . But she continued , " Where are my manners ? I 'm Lisa Felder . Please , don 't be alarmed . I have seen much weirder things before . " " That 's better , but I would like it if you grew to your normal height . I know you 're not a fairy . I 've met some . Please come sit with me and talk as normal people . " " Now that is much better , don 't you think ? Lisa said . " I would like to have a talk with you . I 'll ask you some questions , and I would like you to be totally honest with me . You can lie or hide things of course . But since I 'm an empath , I 'll know if you do . " " I 'm bleeding ? " I looked down at myself . I didn 't see anything , but then I saw a few spots on my underwear . " Oh no , what can I do ? I can 't go to a hospital . Please , can you help me ? " Lisa smiled again , " Oh my dear , it 's not that bad . You 're having your menses . " At my blank look , she added , " Your period , you know , the time when a girl menstruates ? " Now I got it . I hid my wings at her request and Lisa took me to the bathroom . She instructed me in a whole new activity of women that I didn 't like . Afterwards I followed her back to the same room . " Okay , Kestra ! Well , that is a pretty name . You 're a mutant , right ? Because fairies don 't shrink and grow . I was curious about your wings , but seeing that you can hide them at will would make that another part of you mutant power I guess . Why were you posing as a fairy doll ? " " Well . . . " I started , " I was flying around as a Tinkerbelle , but I was being attacked by birds , bats and all kinds of other animals . I took refuge in Giselle 's room . She has this amazing doll house . I went to sleep there in a nice comfy bed . The next morning she was looking at me when I woke up , and I kind of stayed that way to be a friend to her . " I snarled , " They think that I kidnapped myself . My father shot at me . He even hit me and destroyed a wing . If not for my healing power , I 'd already be dead . " " Oh dear . I had no idea " Lisa said to me worriedly . " So , that 's why you stayed as a fairy doll with Giselle . " I nodded . She smiled again . " Well , I can help you get back on your feet . I know of a school where you 'd fit right in . It is a school for mutants and such . Maybe I can even help you get back in touch with your family . They might want to know what happened to you . " " I really don 't think so . My father is a Humanity First guy . He really hates mutants . My guess is that he would shoot me on sight . I don 't think I can go to that school , either . I don 't have any money . It must be expensive , and that is without the costs of food and clothing . No , I think I 'm better off being a fairy doll for Giselle . " Lisa shook her head . " I disagree . The school has scholarships and I think something can be arranged for your other costs . I just need to know if that would be something you 'd want . I completely understand if you refuse it , though I would advise against it . " I was really in doubt now . I didn 't want to leave Giselle , but could I get a life of my own again ? Was that possible ? " If I say yes , would I ever see Giselle again ? " Lisa smiled at me , " Of course . She could visit you , or you could visit her . Friends are important . I would never ask you to choose between them or the school . " I smiled at Lisa , " Well , okay then . I will go to the school if I can . So , what happens now ? Can I say goodbye to Giselle first ? " " And that is how I ended up at Whateley , " I told Dr . Bellows . He was counseling me about my tendencies to shrink and hide whenever I was surprised . This was our first session and he had asked me to tell me what had led me to Whateley Academy .