Natalie laughed as she got in her car, setting the jar of growth globes down gently next to her. For the first time in her life, she found herself reaching down to adjust the seat backwards, and to tilt the steering wheel up a couple of notches. Being tall felt fantastic!
By the time she got back to her apartment, she was almost dancing on air. Six feet tall! Incredibly, with one swift stroke the old man had fixed the one problem in her life she thought could never be corrected. She almost tripped on the stairs in her rush to get back to her room, for now the steps she was used to taking were far too long. She even found herself unconsciously ducking down to avoid bumping her head on the doorway as she went through, even though she actually didn't quite reach the frame. Imagining that she did sure was fun, though!
The little efficiency apartment seemed perfectly comfortable to her before, but now, it seemed almost oppressively cramped. She loved it, though! The furniture that always seemed slightly oversized to her normally five-foot frame was now properly sized. She sat down in the reclining chair and leaned back, amazed that she could actually keep the soles of her shoes flat on the ground as she did so.
She spent the next couple of hours just reveling in being tall. Everything she picked up, sat in or touched was like new to her. After a while she discovered the difference extended to her wardrobe as well. Nothing fit her now! All her clothes were designed for her formerly petite frame, and except for a couple of stretchy Spandex exercise outfits, she risked ripping whatever she tried to put on. She was fortunate, she thought as she got back into her enlarged jeans and shirt, that the stuff wore off after a while. She would have to pay a fortune to replace all her clothes if she grew permanently!
After a couple of hours, the novelty wore off somewhat and she began to think more practically. The next volleyball game was Friday night. She was going to have to think up some kind of explanation for her height change, for it would be obvious to everyone on the team, and there was no way to hide something like that. Plus, she couldn't use the stuff all the time. She just dropped a couple hundred bucks on that jar of little glass balls! They were only for games, she told herself.
While she was thinking about that, there was a knock at the door. "Hey!" called a man's voice. "It's Todd! You decent?"
She grinned when she heard her boyfriend's call. Man, was he going to be surprised! Quickly sitting down on the couch, she yelled, "Yeah, come on in!"
He opened the door and stepped inside. Todd Lewis stood about five-ten, with a thin and wiry look about him. He was moderately handsome, certainly no male model or anything, but attractive enough, with short dark hair and a Roman nose that had a classic little bump in the middle. He smiled when he saw her and shut the door, then headed over and set his books on the nearby table. "Hi, Nat," he said amiably, not yet detecting anything unusual about her. "Sorry I'm late, but they made me stick around past closing."
"No problem," she replied, smiling widely. He still hadn't noticed, she thought with an inner laugh. "See anything different about me?"
He looked down appreciatively at her slim form as it reclined on the couch. "Nothing I don't like," he chuckled. "You didn't cut your hair again, did you?"
"No, silly!" she laughed at him. "Here, let me stand up and you'll see what I mean."
He started to reply as she got to her feet, and then stopped dead as he realized he was looking UP into her twinkling blue eyes. "Holy shit!" he gasped, looking down to make sure she wasn't standing on a couple of phone books. "You're--you're taller! What the hell happened?"
She cracked up laughing. "Ain't it great?" she managed after a moment. "I met this old man who runs a little shop downtown. He gave me some glass beads that put out--well, it's a growth gas, if you can believe that!"
He just stared at her. What he was seeing was amazing! She'd always been short, and though he'd never thought about it much, that was something he really liked about her. Now, to have her standing there, taller than himself--it was indescribably weird! "I guess I have to believe it," he muttered. "You're huge!"
"Not just my height, either," she told him. "It grew me in all directions. I weigh more, and my arms are longer--everything's proportioned so I'm six feet high, not five! Wait till I get out on the volleyball court now!"
Todd nodded, but he wasn't thinking about that. Something she said had started his mind rolling down a particular path, and he was now looking at her in a different light. His eyes moved downwards of their own accord until his gaze fell on the gentle swell of her breasts against the thin fabric of her blouse. Yeah, it was true, he realized with a smile. She really had grown in all directions!
She suddenly giggled at him. "Yeah, you noticed that, too! I was wondering how long it'd take you to figure that out."
"Well, I, um," he stammered, reddening slightly and looking away. "It's just that--well, this sort of thing doesn't happen to your girlfriend every day, you know?"
"It's all right," she laughed. "I've been thinking about it all evening, too. You want to, um, try out my new stature a little more...noisily?"
"Oh, hell yeah!" replied Todd enthusiastically, reaching out to take her in his arms. They kissed, letting their arms caress each other's backs gently. For Todd, it was amazing having to reach all the way around her like that, and the press of her enlarged bosom against his chest felt fantastic. Natalie, on the other hand, had to stifle a giggle at how small Todd felt compared to herself. Why, she had to lean over just to kiss him on the lips! The idea was absolutely hilarious--but more than that, it felt somehow empowering. Suddenly she didn't need to be so timid in his grip. Now he was the one who was smaller and weaker. What an amusing--and strangely arousing--thought!
He seemed to sense her reaction and reached up to caress her breasts gently. At her original height, she always seemed proportionally well endowed, though physically no larger than other women Todd had known in the past. Now, though, she was something else again. He'd never wrapped his hands around a bustline quite this expansive before! Natalie laughed at his manipulations and started pulling off her blouse, reveling in the sensation as he leaned down and ran his tongue over her exposed flesh.
In due course they made their way over to the bed, stumbling and kicking off their shoes as they went. They had trouble getting their clothes off, considering how their bodies seemed to be constantly entwined around each other, but they managed it somehow. Todd sighed contentedly as he stroked and petted Natalie's larger body, and she moaned with pleasure at the sensation of his skin against hers. Such things had always felt wonderful, but never quite so much as they did just now, she thought happily. Those little glass beads certainly had more than one application, didn't they?
Finally, their lovemaking progressed to the important part as Todd bent her back onto the bed and entered her. She gasped in surprise, but not in a good way. She had indeed grown in every direction--which, to her dismay, made him seem twenty percent smaller! The implications of this were immediately apparent and obvious, as he could no longer seem to find the places that normally made her cry out in ecstasy. After such wonderful foreplay, this was a huge disappointment, she thought, crestfallen.
Still, Todd was certainly enjoying himself, she realized, even if she wasn't as much as usual. She had almost decided to fake it when suddenly a familiar, faint tingling ran up and down her spine. The shivering sensation felt exactly like that mist soaking into her body back in the decrepit old shop. Before she could think about that any further, though, she suddenly realized something else, and it made her gasp aloud. Todd was growing!
Well, that wasn't true, she knew instinctively. The vapors were wearing off, and she was returning to normal size, right in the middle of sex! "Oh, wow!" wailed Todd, stepping up his gyrations as she gradually dwindled on the bed in front of him. "This is--ungh!--fantastic!" he managed between heavy breaths. "Oh, Nat, that's--uh! Amazing! W-wo-o-o-www!"
She started to reply but all that came out was a moan of delight. As she shrank, he seemed to fill her up, and the sensation was incredible. In the space of a few seconds he went from all but ineffectual as a lover to someone who was hitting every button she had all at once. She began to scream in ragged gasps, for with every stroke of his pendulum-like hips he seemed to cram himself deeper and deeper into her body. Finally, she could take it no more, wailing in ecstasy as he took her over the edge. At the same instant she felt the thick warmth shoot into her, and they arched together, their voices joined in harmony.
At last, they both collapsed against each other, their sweat mingling and soaking the bedsheets. They hyperventilated in unison for about a minute until finally Todd pulled away, rolling to the side and sighing in satisfaction. "That was something else!" he told her honestly. "I was worried there for a moment, but then when you shrank back to normal--wow! We've got to do that again!"
"I know," she replied with a happy smile. "It was fun to be big like that, but only for a while. I think the stuff wore off at just the right time!"
"Oh yeah!" he agreed, rolling over to look at her. "Nat, I--" he started, but then his eyes opened in shock.
"What?" she asked, taken aback by his sudden, horrified look. "What is it, Todd? What's the matter?"
"Look," he told her, pointing and shaking his head.
She glanced down at her naked body, afraid of what kind of side effect might have overcome her, but didn't see anything different. Her figure was still just as slim, her breasts just as well-proportioned as ever, and her muscles were just as nicely toned as always. "I don't understand," she told him. "What are you looking at?"
He got out of the bed and pulled on his undershorts. "Come here," he told her, reaching out a hand to help Natalie to her feet.
Still not understanding, but somewhat frightened by his shift in mood, she complied, sliding off the silk sheets onto the floor. She looked up and started to say something when suddenly it hit her what was wrong. She wasn't just looking up at him from the level of his shoulders, as she was used to doing. Now her head stood no higher than his stomach!
She gasped in horror, for there was only one thing this could possibly mean. When the vapors wore off, she got a lot smaller than her normal height of five feet. She was probably somewhere around four feet tall now!
"Oh, no!" she gasped in shock and fear, looking around at the suddenly larger apartment. "I've shrunk!"