Coexist by luvenar

New semester, same boring class…

Yawn escaped Seth’s mouth, sitting on his chair above a brobby desk as the class had just started. However, one thing seems missing… no Brobby student is sitting behind him on this desk unlike others. Seth shouldn’t have to care, but still…

THUD

Suddenly, someone slammed the door and ran inside the room. Enter a girl in her casual attire consisting of cargo pants and a t-shirt. Her presence exuded youthful vibes, even her tomboyish getup couldn’t do much in confining her shapely curves, quite plump beneath the fabric.

“Sorry I’m late!!” said the panicked student.

“Late on first day? Oh well… take a seat,” said the professor as some laughs could be heard from the students before it died down right away.

Of course, every seat is already filled up by other brobby students… except for one in the corner of the back where there’s already one human on top of the table sitting down behind the smaller table.

Oh well, at least it’s not so lonely now, Seth thought… she looked stunning too in that tomboyish getup. What was previously an empty spot behind Seth, now there’s a whole living mountain sitting down behind the desk. She placed her field-sized laptop, safe from the yellow safety line where Seth was sitting and since Seth placed himself on the corner spot, the laptop won’t block his line of sight toward this brobby girl behind him.

Time flies by inside the quiet large room as the professor keeps talking and talking… Seth knows he could just study all this by himself later, but now he’s just propping his head waiting for the class to end…

But something’s off…

Beneath the murmur of the class, Seth feels as if he’s not alone. He knows the closest person to him currently as he carefully turns his head… he’s welcomed by the sight of this enormous girl just staring at his minute form on her desk. The sight of her caught Seth off guard, what is she doing? He didn’t expect her to stare directly at him without hesitation. What’s her intention? One more time, Seth turned his head around at a slow pace… once again, there she is still staring at him with a curious look as if she was trying to comprehend something about Seth. Eyes wide open, lips parted a little, the brobby girl looked curious at the sight of Seth judging by her eye direction each looking right at him.

Cold sweat ran down Seth’s body, knowing the intense stare from the mountain-sized girl still locked on him. What should he do? Asking her to quit it? However the difference in size made Seth hesitant in doing so, afraid of what this brobby girl might do to him should he make even one wrong step.

Seconds, minutes… the clock seemed to mock Seth by letting him feel uneasy as much as possible knowing the unknown brobby girl behind her would occasionally throw a stare anytime her typing noise stopped. Seth wanted nothing but to escape this awkward situation, even her attractive looks weren’t enough to lessen her odd behavior.

“Right. I guess that’s it for now… class dismissed,”

After long, agonizing, and uncomfortable two hours for Seth, class is over as students of all sizes leave the class, starting with the brobby first to avoid any unwanted accidents for the smaller ones.

Knowing soon enough Seth could finally break free, he let out a breath of relief… expecting the brobby girl already leaving her desk, Seth turned his head around…

“Eh?“

Instead, he was welcomed by the sight of a hand moving right toward him. Before Seth could even make any attempt, a car-sized thumb and index finger grabbed her form and the giant girl immediately put Seth right inside her pants pocket.

Nothing but darkness inside the cotton-made prison. Seth tried his best hoping the giant girl could hear her, but there was no response through his earpiece. Is she ignoring him? Nothing but the sound of her footsteps as Seth couldn’t do anything but wait for whatever awaits him…

+++

A few minutes later…

What seemed to be a sound of door opening and closing snapped Seth from the silence accompanied by muffled footsteps and what sounded like a conversation. Is she chatting to someone during her walk? Seth couldn’t even recognize any voice at all as nothing entered his earpiece.

All of a sudden, blinding light entered the cotton prison from above before something massive made its way inside. Seth couldn’t do much but let his body once again pinched and lifted up and up until he was finally free from the darkness and fresh air returned to his lungs.  Everything moved too fast for Seth to comprehend where he was before the fingers released him and he fell into a hard surface below with a thud.

Trying to regain his consciousness after the wildest rollercoaster ride of his life, blur slowly subsided from Seth’s sight and he could see once again…

…until he looked up.

“WHOA!!”

Once again, the same curious looks that have been haunting him for the whole class earlier. Though this time he didn’t need to shy away from looking at her directly as he had no choice. Despite everything, even Seth had to admit that she’s a cute-looking brobby, her eyes filled with wonder looking at his small form, lips slightly parted blowing gentle breath all over Seth with fingers clawing the edge of the desk in this whole awkward silence. Also, slightly looking around… this place seems to be her dorm room…

THUD

Seth was so fixated on the beauty of this brobby girl that she was not aware of a fingertip coming right at him at high speed, rammed at him so fast that Seth rolled himself backward several times.

“H-Hey! What’s that all about!?” Seth scrambled himself back up with pain all over his body from the enormous prodding earlier.

…still, no response. As if the brobby girl couldn’t hear him at all.

“Ah!” suddenly, the girl looks like she realized something. Much to Seth’s surprise, the girl scrambled around to pick up something from her other pocket… which was her earpiece. There, plugged into her left ear and turned on. “Can you hear me now?”

Finally! Seth could hear her voice clearly and filtered through her earpiece as well.

“Hold on! You forgot to wear your earpiece this whole time!?” Seth couldn’t believe it at all.

“Whoops, uh… heh, I’m not used to it yet,” the girl seems apologetic judging by her panicked gesture.

“Not used to it? What… huh!?” Seth got caught off guard by this one; he knew the earpiece was already a mandatory thing introduced to everyone from a very young age for mixed-size communication. To have one college-year-old girl who didn’t have it as her habit…

…but still, realizing his predicament of being kidnapped by a Brobdingnagian into her dorm room, the very least he could do? Play it nice with her, hoping she would let him go.

“Ah… okay! Okay… why don’t we introduce ourselves first, alright? I’m Seth Gattis, but you could just call me Seth,”

“Introduction? Oh, okay!” with her right hand over her chest, the brobby girl bowed down a little. “I’m Marienne Lourdes, but everyone called me Marin! Nice to meet you!”

“Nice to meet you, okay! Now that’s out of the way… why you’re carrying me to your room right now? I need to go back home!”

“I’m curious about you!” Marin replied without losing even an ounce of her energetic tone.

“Curious… huh? Wait! I-I don’t even know you!”

“I mean, so it was real! You’re what they called ‘human’, right?”

“WHAT!?” the barrage of confusion rained down on Seth, especially living in a mixed-size zone since he was born…

“Whoa, you’re…” the curiosity never faded from Marin as she put down her index finger dangerously close to Seth as the tiny guy hopped back a little in shock. “You’re just as tall as my fingernail there, how cute!”

The brobby girl didn’t stop there. The hand continued its approach, thumb and index finger pinched Seth’s tiny leg as the tiny guy dragged along the surface of the desk for a second. Before Seth realized it, he was lifted and dangled upside down from his leg right in front of Marin’s billboard-sized face.

Marin smiled as she watched the tiny guy flail helplessly between her fingers, chuckling when she heard Seth shout random words in panic as the sensation of blood rushing to his head made him slightly dizzy.

“How does it feel? It must be so high for you there, huh?”  chuckles escaped Marin’s lips at the sight of the tiny guy hanging upside down.

“Put me down!” vertigo hits Seth real quick that it becomes unbearable for him.

“Okay, little guy!” Marin obliged as she put Seth back down, letting the tiny guy recover himself on the desk.

“Hold on! HOLD ON!” Seth can’t take it anymore. “Wait, you mean… you never saw a human before?”

“Yeah! I only arrived yesterday in here and I was fascinated by many of your size around me on my way to this campus,”

“Arrived? From where?”

“Land of Calcheta!”

“Calcheta?” Seth tilted her head in confusion. Grabbing his phone, Seth typed the town name and the list of search results appeared complete with the map pinpoint. “Calcheta… okay that’s quite far, how did you come here?”

“By the ship!”

Seth read further some info about Calcheta. “Whoa… a brobby-only land? That’s fascinating. Uh… Marin, so back home, there’s no humans or lillies in your hometown?”

“Nope, I only know them from TV and the internet,” said Marin. “I was always interested in this mixed-size living, that’s why I decided to enroll myself here!”

“Well, have you interacted with them before?”

“No… because of her,” the cheerful face of Marin turned into a pout.

“Her?”

 “My friend Helie, she’s so annoying! My parents knew her and decided to have her being my companion so that I could behave around humans. Like, come on! Is she didn’t believe in me at all? I had enough of my parents restricting me from doing anything, I can live by myself, I’ll show ‘em!”

“But what about you brought me-“

“Ugh, hold on… it’s kinda hot in here, don’t you think?” ignoring Seth, Marin stood up toward her drawer and without warning at all, she began to grab the waistband of her pants and slide it down her legs, revealing her panties and bare thighs toward the unsuspecting Seth.

“WHOA!!” Seth covered his face in panic and turned himself away from the shameless brobby girl. Marin removed her shirt as well, clad only in bra and panties now. Picking up some clothing from her drawer, Marin wore a pair of dolphin shorts and a loose crop top before returning to her desk once again.

“Right! …uh, Seth, yeah? Where do you live?”

“Where do I live? Um…” Seth had a second thought about revealing his location to a brobby like Marin here, but he remembered that Marin had a companion that would prevent her from acting brash and endangering the smaller ones around her. Besides, he didn’t want to make a wrong step here against someone thousands of times bigger than him, let alone inexperienced about handling a human! “There’s this small humble human town called Wolfwater, it’s on the forest area just west of this college,”

“Human town?” hand on her chin, Marin trying to visualize a town built for Seth’s size inside her mind. “So, humans have their own town too? Built to your size?”

“Well, yeah,” Seth nodded.

“I wanna see!” Marin look delighted. “Like, if you’re this small, then the cars are… oh my goodness…” hands on her lips, Marin’s eyes widened in excitement once again.

“Wait wait wait, I know what you’re thinking!” Seth raised her arm. “There’s this thing called ru-“

RRRRRRRRRRR

Something vibrates on the desk. ‘Helie’ written on Marin’s phone screen.

“Huh? Oh darn…” Marin sighed. “Hold that thought, alright?”

Marin answered the phone…

“Helie! Hey… uh huh? Uh huh? Oh… oh, right… okay,”

The call ended, and Marin just sighed once again…

“Uh… what’s up?” Seth asked.

“It’s Helie, the friend I mentioned earlier… she’s gonna be on her way to my room soon. I guess you need to go now, little fella. Can you go back on your own?”

“Huh? Oh, well I can, but-WOAH!”

“Well okay then!” still doesn’t get how to properly interact with a human, Marin simply grabbed Seth between her fingers before putting him down on the floor.

“Nice knowing you, Seth! Hope we meet again soon!” Marin flashed out one last smile before turning her attention back toward her phone.

“Uh… okay…” still confused by the whole thing, Seth had no choice but to walk toward the door and exited the room, taking a bus to his own home back in Wolfwater town…