Madison closed her purse as she pushed her air pods into her ears. She looked down at her purse briefly. The idle thought that it was surreal that her parents were inside of a purse she had used countless times without so much as a thought. But it now not only held them, but it seemingly had also trapped them which was a bit empowering.
Never had it entered her mind before, but she wondered how many people had littles with them. Were they stuffed in pockets or tucked into a purse or bookbag like she had. As to anyone else on the street they would only see teenage girl walking down the street. It wouldn’t rise any suspicions or be a cause for concern. These were the thoughts Madison tried to tell herself as she continued to make her way back home. However she couldn’t bring herself to not keep one hand clutched onto her purse.
As bothersome as her parents could be. She definitely didn’t want anything to happen to them. She would never be able to forgive herself if she lost them because someone stole her purse, or she had a moment of absentmindedness and left the purse behind. What would be almost worse was having to face McKenzie. She would never let her live that down. No, she wouldn’t give her sister the chance to hold something as unforgiveable as that over her head.
Looking at the large clock downtown Madison saw she still had about an hour until the bus came back around to take her home. Across street saw her favorite coffee shop. She loved the coffee there, but it was always so expensive. Normally she would have to beg her mom who would begrudgingly relent most of the time. But, not without lecturing on how frivolous this was.
“Hey, wanna grab some coffee since we’re just chillin’? Oh, wait, can you grab your card from my wallet? Actually, never mind, I’ll just do it myself. Bet you can’t even open my wallet anymore, huh?” Madison said as she opened her purse. Greg and Cindy watched their daughters hand reach into the purse grabbing the giant wallet not far from them and lift it out of the purse with an ease they could never hope to do any longer.
“What does she mean by our card?” Greg asked looking at Cindy questioningly before his eyes darted upward the giant wallet. “Madison, what money could you possibly have for coffee? You are to go straight home with us.” Greg tried to say as authoritatively as he could.
“Ah, ah, ah,” Madison chimed, wagging her finger at her parents. “Looks like the bank of Mom and Dad is officially closed. As your guardian now, financial matters are under my jurisdiction. Your accounts are now mine, legally. And since I’m the only responsible one here right now, I went ahead and snagged the credit cards, bank cards, and whatever cash you had lying around.” Madison said, her smirk practically audible.
“We made you the guardian as a temporary measure. If this is going to be permanent. We will need to revisit the options. If we are going have to live shrunk like this.” Greg stated as he looked up at his daughter from inside of her purse. The more he thought about what he said, it wasn’t exactly the most powerful position to make that kind of statement from.
“Dad, wow, you’re hilarious. Yeah, because obviously, you’re totally up on the latest lingo. ‘Shrunk’—really? You crack me up. But hey, don’t sweat it. We can still pretend everything’s normal. You two are ‘shrunken’ now, but sure, you’re still my parents… or whatever.” Madison said sarcastically as she rolled her eyes before walking into her favorite coffee shop.
“Mad–” Greg started to say before his wife Cindy cut him off.
“Greg, we lost this battle.” Cindy said as Greg relented as Madison approached the counter.
“Welcome to the Coffee Bean! What can I get for you today?”
“Iced skinny caramel macchiato, extra caramel.” Madison said as she pulled out a twenty from her wallet, handing it to the Barista.
“Can i get a name for that?”
“Oh, sure, Maddie.” Madison said as she took the change leaving after leaving a tip tossing her wallet back into her purse but being sure to toss it onto the opposite of her parents. Just enough of a scare to remind them just whose purse they are now riding in without actually harming them. Looking down at her purse Madison closed her purse back up as she stood waiting for her coffee. Madison figured letting them stew in the dark would do them so good. She was their guardian. She had wanted a underbred for years and while it never occurred to her that her parents could be her underbreds. Now that they were underbreds she wasn’t about to let the opportunity pass her by.
“Maddie!” A barista said before Madison turned around raising her hand and grabbing the coffee. She slowly meandered over to an empty seat and set her purse down on the table before opening it back up.
“Honey let’s talk about this. I think clearly there’s been a misunderstanding here. No one thinks that you couldn’t care for a little. What your father was trying to say was that we just don’t want your life bogged down by this. There’s alot more to this than just now you have two littles.” Cindy said trying to make Madison understand
“I know mom. I know this isn’t going to be easy but I can do this. You and dad never never would get me a little. You were all I wasn’t responsible enough and then it was my grades had to stay up. Now and dad get get to see first hand just how well I can handle this as my actual underbreds.” Madison said excitedly before taking another sip of her coffee.
“Honey,”
“Don’t worry mom. I have this under control. Oh we got to go. Hold tight.” Madison said as she closed her purse back up and stood up walking out of the Coffee shop and dashing across the street.
Well at least they are getting the hang of this new reality and are talking about the repercussions of this situation and how it will affect them and Madison still thinking about protecting her parents at all cost is great to see they just need to have a full Family discussion about this including McKenzie and pass this inspection and hopefully it strengthens their bonds and understanding of each other
Well its one thing for Madison to belittle her parents and do things to them. But i doubt she would let a stranger or some random just harass or talk shit about her parents.
Madison being rude as ever. She didn’t even offer her parents anything. Actually shouldn’t the parents be hungry or thirsty? When was their last meal? Yesterday Morning?
Well the habitat has water. Theres is a bottle on the side. I’m not sure if I have shown a good angle of that part yet now that I think about it. I believes its been visible but i don;t think i said anything to draw attention to it.
They did have cereal they could have eaten. It’s left ambiguous as to if they ate or not
If it wasn’t mentioned, I believe they didn’t do it. No water was mentioned in the habitat and I doubt Madison filled the bottle with water.
So No I don’t think the parents had anything to eat or drink. Mostly from pride and thinking this may had been reversed.
There is no wrong answer. It’s up to the reader to decide. They were around opportunities to partake.
Next time?
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Madison phone goes off. McKenzie is calling.
“Hi sis. Are you leaving the airport? Our parents just got their chips and shots. We are heading home.”
“Yeah. Leaving now. I just got the notification on my phone about the chips and just downloaded the app.”
“Awesome right? Made sure they got the most expensive option so we always know where they are. Also it apparently checks their vitals too.”
“Yes about that. Are our parents really okay? I was checking their vitals and got worried.”
“Eh..what do you mean they are perfectly healthy. The doc just checked them.”
“Then why are our parent’s glucose levels so low? It is like they haven’t eaten anything within the last 8 hours.”
“Eh….well”
“Did you forget to fed out parents!”
“No! I gave them cereal! Not my fault they didn’t eat it!”
“Did you soften the cereal? You know cereal too hard for them to crew.”
“………”
“MADDY!”
“Sorry! Okay. I give them something to eat when we get home!”
Hangs up phone.
“Ugh. Stupid chips”
Madison later regretted choosing the most advanced chip option which recorded and monitored all her parents vitals.
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If that happens I might actually cheer for joy because now that you mentioned it I just realized they haven’t eaten at all since maybe yesterday
I love this, but the cereal Maddie gave them had been soaked in milk. So it actually was softened.
True but was it soft enough? Regardless they didn’t eat it.
The cereal is soggy and the milk was room temperature. It is unknown to the reader if they ate it or not. As you are following Madison during that portion as she goes to her room and talks to mckenzie
You are technically correct though it was implied they didn’t eat or drink anything. Madison flipped the bowl and I don’t see the parents being that desperate to eat off the sink. They were mostly concerned with flipping the bowl.
1) Maddie, your family doesn’t currently have an income, I wouldn’t go blowing money on expensive coffee.
2) I’m glad she’s atleast protective of her parents, and is somewhat trying to be reassuring towards them.
3) “shrunk” is an outdated term?
4) “empowering” to have her parents in her purse. Yeah Madison, just wait till see how empowering it is when you don’t have the financial support from your parents work anymore. (Somehow I don’t think severance payouts are available to littles anymore)
1) I don’t think she is thinking about that fact. She is still young. I think the full ramifications haven’t reached her mind yet.
2)She does care.
3)Well its not what the youth use. They would use the term underbred or little. Shes poking fun becuase shrunk is like the pg disney term of yesteryear like honey we shrunk the kids or honey we shrunk ourselves.
4) Madison dropping out of school working a 9 hour job.
1) she’ll need some seriously wealthy benefactors, relatives, sugar parents in order to maintain her life style. I’m hoping McKenzie has her head on straighter, not having her parents in hand would likely allow clearer thinking.
2) I initially, even if she doesn’t show it.
3) isn’t “little” alreadyv the PC/PG version of “Underbred”? And he’s a shrunk into an underbred body.
4) That’d be rough on her, and unless she’s lucky, she would be struggling to keep paying for their licence and crap.
Really looking forward to Madison getting a bit more hands on when they get home again.
I do like the brief moments when she worries something will happen to them. The majority is because she feels she’ll lose something akin to her property. Or that mention of not letting her sister have anything over her. But I think there’s still a tinge of caring there. Deep beneath the smirking. LOL
Its important to demonstrate that she isn’t just a monster. She is a person and she may be a brat but she is a person and does acknowledge these are my parents.
Are there things that they’ve done that have upset her sure. What teen hasn’t been upset with there parents.