It had become nine inches drained off of Amy and given to Lina, then a full foot, now a foot and six inches.
Lina had become a usually tall young woman, her shirt unable to cover her belly and tightened over her chest uncomfortably, her waistline on her jeans starting to constrain her roughly, pant legs not even covering her ankles. She had long ago been forced to remove her shoes after they had pinched her feet so badly. She had not exactly grown completely larger. She was a little skinnier and appeared to have been stretched upwards, but she wasn’t freakishly disproportionate.
Poor Amy was shrinking completely smaller, not just losing tallness, ever since she started involuntarily giving her size to Lina. Losing a foot and a half over the last fifteen minutes had been quite a shock. It really started to sink in once Amy’s pants and underwear had finally become too big for her to hold up, and her $100 sneakers had fallen to the ground as she walked with Lina. Poor Amy was now clad in just her oversized t-shirt, Lina having picked up their things and put them in her backpack.
Oh, the stares they got as they walked down the street, some people shaking their heads in disgust, some people taking a second glance in disbelief as they turned to see if that small girl had just gotten smaller. Most people ignored them all together.
To both their mounting alarms it didn’t seem to be stopping and Amy was still steadily shrinking, just about four foot nothing, and Lina was still steadily sapping her friend’s size away, the collar shrinking with Amy and the handle of the leash growing with Lina.
They were just a block away from the store when something drastic happened.