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Emily met Lia for lunch again today. It was an everyday thing; the two had been best friends since they had been lab partners in chemistry last year. Next year when they move out of the dorms they'll probably get an apartment together.

"What are you doing for that physics project?" Emily asked.

"Shrinking physics." Lia smiled. It was that I-know-something-you-don't kind of smile.

"Shrinking? You're not actually going to shrink something, are you? You know they just passed a law.

"Oops. Too late." she said with no regret at all. Lia raised her hand, showing that she was holding what looked like a passenger train car in it.

"Is that-?" Emily gawked. She couldn't tell if it was a scale model or not. "Is that real, Lia?"

Lia's smile got wider. She pushed in the car's door with the index finger of her other hand, then tilted it and gave it a quick shake. For a second Emily could swear she heard lots of little people screaming. A tiny man fell out and landed on her thumb. He wasn't some plastic miniature. He was very much real and alive, trying to regain his balance on Lia's thumb. Lia pinned him down with her finger tip and lightly rolled him between her digits until the little man's shirt somehow snagged and tore off. She held him up to show him off to Emily.

"How are you even going to turn this project in? What's the professor going to say?"

Lia didn't flinch at all. "Relax. The professor will accept it. You know, because the professor doesn't want to join this little guy."

"You're not really going to threaten..."

"Or maybe the professor DOES want to join this little guy. Which would also be fine."

Emily looked around to see if anyone else was seeing or hearing this. It didn't look to be the case. When she looked back, the little man between Lia's fingers was gone. She didn't crush him, did she? Lia was on a little bit of a power trip but she wasn't a psycho. Besides, there was no blood on her fingers. She didn't drop him; there was no tiny body on the ground. Did she hide him in her hair? Emily knew for a fact that outfit didn't have any pockets for Lia to put him in. Did she go on a power trip and pop him in her mouth? Did she get flirty and drop him down her collar? "Lia, what did you do with that little guy just now?"

Lia just smiled.

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Emily met Lia for lunch again today. It was an everyday thing; the two had been best friends since they had been lab partners in chemistry last year. Next year when they move out of the dorms they'll probably get an apartment together.

"What are you doing for that physics project?" Emily asked.

"Shrinking physics." Lia smiled. It was that I-know-something-you-don't kind of smile.

"Shrinking? You're not actually going to shrink something, are you? You know they just passed a law.

"Oops. Too late." she said with no regret at all. Lia raised her hand, showing that she was holding what looked like a passenger train car in it.

"Is that-?" Emily gawked. She couldn't tell if it was a scale model or not. "Is that real, Lia?"

Lia's smile got wider. She pushed in the car's door with the index finger of her other hand, then tilted it and gave it a quick shake. For a second Emily could swear she heard lots of little people screaming. A tiny man fell out and landed on her thumb. He wasn't some plastic miniature. He was very much real and alive, trying to regain his balance on Lia's thumb. Lia pinned him down with her finger tip and lightly rolled him between her digits until the little man's shirt somehow snagged and tore off. She held him up to show him off to Emily.

"How are you even going to turn this project in? What's the professor going to say?"

Lia didn't flinch at all. "Relax. The professor will accept it. You know, because the professor doesn't want to join this little guy."

"You're not really going to threaten..."

"Or maybe the professor DOES want to join this little guy. Which would also be fine."

Emily looked around to see if anyone else was seeing or hearing this. It didn't look to be the case. When she looked back, the little man between Lia's fingers was gone. She didn't crush him, did she? Lia was on a little bit of a power trip but she wasn't a psycho. Besides, there was no blood on her fingers. She didn't drop him; there was no tiny body on the ground. Did she hide him in her hair? Emily knew for a fact that outfit didn't have any pockets for Lia to put him in. Did she go on a power trip and pop him in her mouth? Did she get flirty and drop him down her collar? "Lia, what did you do with that little guy just now?"

Lia just smiled.