In-Between Chapters 14 and 15 by Sofia Hammerstein

Cameron Sylvester has grown up always hoping he'll live up to the heritage of his mother's family height. She was a ten-foot-tall Big, after all, and his father was a tall Mid, which meant it shouldn't have been a question that he would grow out of the Little category of height early on. A bright student, he's been at the top of his class in science and math throughout his academic career! Looking toward his high school graduation and towards college, he's received scholarships to attend Emerson University. it's a question of inches if he'll be left to the fate of being a Little with a limited future or manage to make a future as a short 'Betweener.' Even as a Betweener, the question remains to be seen if he can be a normal adult or if he'll be left 'In-Between.'  (A Tale from the Diaper Dimension)

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The Legal Stuff: In-Between © 2020-2026 By Sofia Hammerstein
 
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
 

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Part II: Forward Motion
 
 
Chapter 14: Awkward Questions
 

THE PAST FEW years had flown by for me. I was now in my fourth year in college, and the end was in sight of my undergraduate years! I had spent a very focused summer preparing and taking the national standardized test for my law school applications. When I received my scores last month, I was very proud of earning a score that put me into the top two percent of test takers! It wasn’t even late September yet, and many schools were trying to convince me to come to them. I knew no matter which I chose, I wouldn’t have to worry about paying for law school, not with the scholarships and fellowships they already offered!

Addy and I had continued to date for the past few years. She was amazing, and we complimented each other very well on our strengths and weaknesses. Going into this final year, we nearly moved into an apartment together for our senior year, but her mom had a fit and shut the plan down! My dad thought it was better to live in the dorms one more year just to be safe… It was almost pointless, though, because I spent more nights at her apartment than I did in my single dorm room!

We usually had dinner together each night, worked on homework, and then found something fun to do together. I’d learned over the years that Addy gave an amazing massage when she had time for it! I tried to help her with homework and housework as a tradeoff for everything she did for me!

Today though, I wasn’t in either place; instead, I was over at Stacy’s for a bit of a barbeque and a pool party. Meg had needed a ride out to their home, so I’d taken her myself over like I had many times the last couple of years. Since our sophomore year, I’d had to install two rear-facing car seats for when I drove Meg and Stacy around. At that moment, Meg and I were floating in the pool, talking and using pool noodles to lazily float while Stacy was doing her crazy laps. Bella was sitting in a swing being pushed by Fred.

“So, how are things going for you?” I asked Meg.

She shrugged, “I’m glad I switched my major to management… But I don’t know what I will do after this year. What business wants a Little manager?”

I shrugged, “Start your own?”

She nodded, “That’s one thought…”

“You have some others…?”

She sighed and pointedly looked at Bella, “Her life isn’t so terrible, is it?”

I noticed the large smile on Bella’s face as Fred pushed her higher.

I shook my head, “Hers isn’t, but you know Amanda and Fred aren’t normal, right?”

She nodded, “I know.”

Stacy swam up right then, pulling up quickly with her fish-level ability to swim that she must have been born with. “Why do you two look so serious?”

I looked at her swimming so easily in the water. I could stand in our spot if I chose to, but it was far too deep for her or Meg to do the same. “Figuring out Meg’s life,” Meg said.

“Oh…” she said. “You know I could still get you a bid for Lambda.”

She shook her head, “No, I’m nearly finished anyway,” she told her. “I just don’t know what I’m going to do once I graduate.”

“What, are you wanting to be adopted?” I asked as kindly as I could.

She started to shake her head but then slowly nodded, “I’m thinking about it. If I could find the right mommy... It would be better than waiting for whatever witch sees me at a store or work and decides I need them to be my mommy by force.”

“Doesn’t Emerson keep you from being able to choose?” I asked.

“There’s a loophole I found and triple-checked with Professor Marshall. If I were to find a mommy off-campus, I could be adopted just by saying I lost my ID and not fighting the adoption in court or with the registration clerk.”

“Oh,” I said.

“So, who are you looking at?”

“Addy interested at all?” She asked me.

I laughed, “I doubt it. Addy and her family constantly argue about me with her. Meanwhile, she argues about her adopted ‘brother’s’ treatment. Addy may still consider adopting a willing Little way down the road, but she just wants to get her degrees now. She’s still deciding if she wants anything to do with her family’s business.”

“She’s thinking of not?” Stacy asked in surprise.

I nodded, “It depends… Addy loves me… and her mom doesn’t like that. She says she would choose me over that any day of the week.”

“Aww…” Meg said in stereo with Stacy. Meg sighed, “Doesn’t get me any closer, though. Any other ideas?”

Right then, Megan, Amanda’s baby sister, walked through the door. She was more my dad’s height than fitting in with their Big family. Still, technically, because her parents both were Bigs, she got to consider herself a petite Big within the laws instead of a Mid. “What about Megan?” I said half-jokingly.

“She would be a good choice,” Stacy said, surprising me by agreeing.

“What?!?” Meg said, “We’d have the same name… and she’s not that much taller than Cameron… Can she even legally adopt me?”

I nodded, “It would be weird, but it’s legal. Megan’s got a good steady job now that she’s out of school, and since she works from home, you wouldn’t even have to worry about avoiding daycare.”

“I don’t know…” Meg said.

A moment later, Megan jumped into the pool and came to catch Stacy to give her a hug. She held her briefly before sitting back in the water to resume swimming. “How are you doing, Meg, Cameron?”

“Great,” I said while watching Meg turn bright red.

“Good,” Meg squeaked out.

“How are things going this semester at school?” She asked.

Meg calmed down after a few awkward moments, and we soon chatted with the four of us quite normally. When Amanda called us over for lunch, we all sat down on a picnic bench-style table. I conversed with Fred a lot, with him giving me some advice on a few things he’d encountered when he went to med school that probably also applied to my Law School applications. We had a few more nerdy conversations about some science studies coming out about chemically creating new biological pathways. I’d gotten interested in that after Stacy had told me about how she healed Bella.

Every now and then, I looked to where Bella was sitting in Amanda’s lap, feeding herself the hotdog pieces on her plate. Stacy had a smaller hamburger in its whole form that she was allowed to eat on her own. When Bella finished, she said, “Nummies?” to her and tugged at her blouse. I blushed as Amanda pulled away the blouse and began breastfeeding her in front of us.

I knew Stacy was still nursing too, but I’d only seen that once in the years I’d been her friend. I figured Amanda did her best to not embarrass her in front of me.

After a while, Amanda took Bella inside to put the Little down for a nap while I helped Megan and Fred clean up the dishes. “You don’t have to do that,” Fred told me as I carried stuff inside.

I shrugged, “Happy to help,” I told him. “I appreciate you all having me over and feeding me! As a college kid, this seems like the least I can do!”

He nodded, “I get that. It was amazing when I finally started getting a real paycheck!”

I laughed, “I figure I’ve got about three more years with law school, and then hopefully, I’ll know that feeling too!”

After helping clean up everything, I found myself in the jacuzzi with Megan, Meg, and Stacy. Stacy was giving me a weird look, and I wondered if she wanted me to help out with something.

I saw her eyeing Meg and then Megan and got the point. ‘How do I do this…?’ I thought to myself.

“So, Megan, now that you have your job and everything going well… you found anyone to date?”

She shook her head, “Honestly, I’m not that interested… At least right now. Also, I’m like Amanda because I can’t have kids naturally – so I’m not sure I can even find anyone who wants me.”

“Thought about adopting?” I asked her.

“A real baby?” She sighed, “Of course, but you know as well as I do that there aren’t that many ever out there. No one wants to give up their real baby.”

I nodded, “What about a Little.”

She scoffed, “Hell no! I have no desire to be like Cassie or Chloe!”

“What about being more like Amanda?” I suggested. “Stacy and Bella are well taken care of?”

She laughed, “Well, yeah, they are… and I guess I could see something like that. But I don’t want to make someone feel like a baby all the time.”

“So, never interested?” Stacy asked.

She shrugged, “I guess ‘never’ is a long time… but I don’t think so. I’m happy being at home with my fur baby.” I knew she had a massive cuddly cat at her apartment that she posted pictures of as often as moms did with their kids!

“What about adopting to save someone?” I asked curiously. “Like Amanda did with Bella?”

She shook her head, “I don’t ever want to live through what they lived through… not worth angering people. They could easily decide I need to go back to middle school or something even worse….”

I nodded at that, “Yeah… I get that.”

She laughed, “It would be preschool or daycare for you, I’m guessing, Cameron.”

“Probably,” I told her. “I think my worst fear is someone deciding to declare that I have a case of Maturosis and turning me into a potty-training failure to make their real kids feel better.”

Stacy nodded, “That would be bad…”

“I’ve always thought if I get adopted, I’d rather just use the diapers and get it over with it,” Meg suddenly said.

“Would you really want that?” Megan asked in surprise.

She shrugged, “It’s probably not going to matter what I want… I’m small enough that I know I’m going to get adopted. Probably this year, something will be made to happen before graduation.”

“That sucks,” Megan said sadly.

“Yeah, it does. I keep thinking I’d be better off just picking someone to,” Meg coughed, “to be my mommy instead of a random weirdo.”

Megan looked at her and said, “You know, that might be one of your better options. You’re in school at Emerson, though; aren’t you locked into either graduating, demeriting out, or giving yourself up to Student Services?”

“If I was somewhere and ‘lost’ my ID with the right person, I could allow them to adopt me without telling the clerk I was a student.”

“That would be risky,” Megan said. “You really need to be able to trust the person…”

“Not many Bigs that you can do that with, huh?” I prodded Megan.

“No… Too many are like my sisters.” She paused, “They’d say they’d be kind, then the next thing you’d know, they’d be removing teeth or something…?”

I debated about pushing any further when Stacy made up her own mind. “What about it, Megan? Would you be willing to help Meg out?”

Megan’s face visibly drained of color. “Me… adopt Meg? Absolutely not!” she said. “I’m not wanting to be some mommy!”

She said it with such conviction I felt bad for her.

“It was just an idea,” I said, trying to help Stacy get her whole leg out of her mouth.

“A terrible idea… I respect Littles way too much to become part of the problem.”

“Even if it would mean you really were being part of the solution for her?” Stacy suggested.

“Stacy, I love you to death, but keep in mind you know that you’re going home to your dimension at the end of this year. What you’re talking about is a lifetime of being enslaved…”

“With you, it wouldn’t be horrible, though?” Meg said quietly.

She looked at her, and her look softened, “Meg, I appreciate that you even think of me highly enough to think of that. But I…” she paused, “I like you way too much to do that to you.”

Meg looked heartbroken but said, “Thanks, I guess….”

After a bit, I managed to steer the conversation to other topics, and Megan calmed down. Pretty soon, it was about two hours before Meg’s slightly later senior Little’s curfew, so I packed her back up in the car seat in the back and began the drive back to campus.

I walked her back to Wenig to make sure she made it safely with a half-hour to spare on her curfew. “Thanks for taking me over there,” she told me.

“Sorry, Megan’s not interested,” I told her.

She sighed, “I know… you have to know she’s the best possible Big out there, right?”

I nodded, “Yeah, the very fact that she doesn’t want you makes her even better in my book.”

“Let me know if you think of any better options?”

I nodded, “I’ll do what I can. I’d suggest Addy’s little sister, but she’s just starting her freshman year here.”

“I liked her when I sat with you all at lunch.”

“Yeah, but she wouldn’t qualify for that loophole since she’s bound by the student code of conduct,” I reminded her.

She sighed, “I know… At least I still have all ten demerits remaining this year. Last year I’d already lost three by now.”

“Well, so you make sure you don’t get any more, you better get moving inside.”

She nodded, “See you later, Cameron, thanks!”

I turned and walked back from her dorm, heading towards my own. ‘Poor Meg…’ I thought. I didn’t want to see her turn into another Beth. ‘Beth…’ I thought sadly. I’d seen her at Christmas the past couple of years and even a couple of times this past summer since the monitoring from LPS had finally concluded. Her dad had gone and gotten a clandestine treatment done in a nearby state to reverse the mobility impediment that very next week, the monitoring was ended!

They’d been careful, though, to make it seem like she could still only crawl when she was at daycare or while they were out shopping. Only inside their house was Beth able to start at least living a little more normally. She now had the coordination to feed herself again… even if it was only soft pureed foods or formula with her missing teeth. He wanted to get dental implants for her, but Beth was clear with her dad that she was terrified there would be a random LPS visit. Beth didn’t want to know what would happen if they saw her with teeth!

She was still dependent on diapers, and daycare was pretty mind-numbing, she told me, but in the end, it beat the treatment I knew she would have had elsewhere. The same treatment that I feared Meg would get stuck in as well.

Just as I returned to my room, my phone rang, and I ended up chatting with Addy for a few minutes. Her parents had dragged her and her sister home for a weekend event with their company. Addy had floated the idea of my attendance but been shot down, ‘unless you’re going to do the right thing and put his butt in the diapers that are more appropriate…?’

I felt terrible that she was dealing with her parents like that just to keep dating me. I often considered telling her it was time to break it off for her sake.

The problem was that we were deeply in love with each other!

After I hung up with her, I started on a case study I was doing for a management class I had decided to take. It involved industry research, and I’d chosen her parent’s company for my topic. The more I learned about them, the more I hated her parents. It was unbelievable to me how unsafe the products they tested were. The fact that they presented reports to the government that claimed they were safe and effective in almost every case made me furious.

Due to their influence, I had to ensure I kept my opinions out of the paper. The last thing I wanted to deal with was a slander suit from Addy’s wealthy and connected parents!
 
 
Chapter 15: Christmas Shopping
 

OUR FALL SEMESTER of college was swiftly drawing to a close this year. With it came the pain of never-ending applications to the law schools that still seemed intent on recruiting me and a few visits across the country. There were a couple in the east that I was really focused on, including the highest-ranked school out there, The Harlan Law School. I didn’t want to move so far from home, but it seemed inevitable because all of the most respected law schools in the country were far away! I had already completed ten applications, and I had two more that I was finishing for some backup schools with later admission deadlines.

Ding! I saw a text from Meg. ‘Could you take Stacy and me to go Christmas shopping?’

I looked at the clock and saw it was just before noon. We had two days to study before our exams began the following week, so I didn’t have anything pressing I needed to do. Addy had been dragged to some event on the other side of the country again by her parents, so I was completely free of worrying about doing something with her. I was taking five classes this semester and had qualified to be exempt from all but two of the exams… so I even had an extra two days before I would even have my exams.

'Umm… sure… I’m guessing I need to pick you up from Wenig and her from her house?’

‘We’re both at her house, actually.’

‘Give me a half-hour, and I’ll be there,’ I told her.

We didn’t do it often, but we had gone shopping a few times as a trio. They both wore their uniforms and IDs while we were out to avoid anyone doing anything. Still, I was also tall enough to be a legal babysitter for anyone who questioned things.

I changed out of the pajamas I was still wearing and into a pair of jeans and an Emerson sweatshirt I liked. I took a couple quick minutes to pull the hair band off the back of my ponytail and ran a brush through my hair. Addy had convinced me to let it keep growing since I began dating her. It fell down to the middle of my back now and generally became a nuisance. Every time I threatened to cut it, she would take me to a place and give them specific instructions to only trim it… It was annoying, but she definitely blackmailed me to keep the hair with more time in the bedroom on the line. I looked in the mirror and knew that it looked more like I was a skinny girl than a twenty-one-year-old man…

‘For some reason, that turns Addy on, though….’ I smiled.

Sighing, I finished grabbing my keys and headed out to my car.

As soon as I pulled up to Stacy’s house, the gate opened, and Amanda came out with Stacy in her arms, dressed in her uniform, and Meg matching her walking behind them. “You don’t mind doing this?” She asked as she buckled Stacy into the car seat in the back.

I shrugged, “I wasn’t doing anything else,” I told her. “I only have two finals I have to take, and they don’t start until next Wednesday.”

“Stacy’s nearly the same,” she told me. “Meg still has five, though, so I wouldn’t recommend staying out all day.”

“We won’t,” Stacy said.

“Be good for Cameron,” she warned Stacy.

I laughed, “We’ll be back by dinner.”

As soon as I started the car moving, Meg and Stacy began talking with me about what they were looking for. “I want to find a good present for Amanda since this is my last Christmas with her,” Stacy told me.

“Why not go shopping with Megan?”

“She’s terrible at keeping secrets!” Stacy laughed. “Plus, I think she’s supposed to be working today?”

“Oh, yeah… easy to forget sometimes that she’s like a for-real adult,” I laughed.

They laughed too. Meg had a few ideas of presents she wanted to get for her mom and dad, but like normal, neither wanted to go someplace like a mall alone. We made it to the mall and stopped at stores they were interested in. Stacy found a beautiful set of earrings at the jewelry store that she wanted to buy. The salesman was really skeptical, “Little girl, these aren’t pieces of play jewelry. They’re seven-hundred dollars for the pair! Why don’t you run along to the store down the way, and you’ll find something…”

I spoke up then, “Her money isn’t good enough? Seems like you’d appreciate the commission off of the earrings?”

“We’re not paid on commission,” he tried to say.

Another man came right then and said, “You’re right; you’re not paid by commission. Go clock out! I’ll send your last paycheck this week.”

I watched an embarrassing argument between the manager, who was about eleven feet tall, and the salesman, who was just over ten feet tall. Eventually, the manager said, “My apologies, young lady. Are you still interested?”

“Maybe… any chance of some consideration for the boorish behavior we just had to witness?” Stacy asked.

I felt a trickle of nerves for her, but he laughed, “How about five hundred?”

“Four-fifty?” Stacy suggested. “I suspect you still make a hundred dollars at that price?”

His eyes narrowed, “Good guess… Okay, I can do that.”

I noticed an item right then that caught my eye. “May I see that, please?”

“Umm… certainly… that’s for a big…”

I smiled, “I know.” I took a close look at the piece of jewelry and ended up talking him down twenty percent below the sale price. It knocked out all the money I had set aside, but it was worth it.

“I hope she likes it!” Meg said to me as I carefully placed the box in my pants pocket to ensure its safety.

“Me too!” I told her. I looked at Stacy and said, “You are crazy...”

She laughed, “Yep! I came to this dimension willingly, right?”

Meg also found some gifts for her mom and dad before we agreed lunch was in order. Stacy and I chose a stir-fry place, while Meg chose a place with gyro sandwiches. We met at a table meant for Betweeners and sat down to eat. I watched several Bigs stare hungrily at our table. I tried to put their stares in the background as we ate.

“So, what else are you looking for?” I asked Stacy.

“Not sure; I’d like to find something I can take back home next spring.”

“Isn’t that against the law?” I asked her.

She shrugged, “There’s some leeway if it seems like it would be somewhat normal. Medical items like diapers seem to be allowed to take back too.”

“You really think they’ll just let you go back?” I asked her curiously.

She shook her head, “Nope! But I have a plan!”

She had no time to elaborate as Meg said, “Something wasn’t right with that…”

I looked down at her gyro’s last few bytes and noticed that the tzatziki didn’t look quite the right color.

I watched as Stacy looked at her wrist and tried to pull off a charm from her bracelet for some reason. “Here… swallow…” she could only get out two words before Meg curled in towards her stomach, and I smelled something that no free little should be doing in a mall like this.

“Let’s get her to a bathroom,” I told Stacy, “walk calmly, and we’ll pretend I’m your babysitter… maybe we can get her out of this…?”

Meanwhile, Meg had tears rolling down her face as we gathered her stuff and began walking to the other end of the food court, where I knew there was a single-family restroom we could use safely. ‘If we can just make it there…’

The hungry-looking Bigs did look a bit curiously at me as I held her hand like she was a child in my care. I was enough taller than her, s that would be a reasonable assumption.

We were in the final hallway to the bathrooms when I felt her violently yanked from my grasp, and her shopping bags clattered to the ground!

“What do we have here?” A tall woman who attempted to be trying to grow as wide as she was tall picked Meg up. She pulled up her uniform skirt and said, “Uh-oh, seems like someone made an oopsie in her big girl pants. Guess she’s not ready for them.”

“Put her down, please, Ma’am,” I told her.

She looked at me and laughed, “Why?”

“Because I’m watching her for a friend.”

“She’s got a university uniform, but where’s her ID?” She asked with a smirk as she ripped it from her neck. Meg screamed in pain as the chain broke, and I watched it fly to a trashcan on the other side of the hallway like a perfect 3-pointer shot. “Guess I’m going to have to take care of her since she’s not ready to do so herself!”

“Ma’am put her down,” I said again.

“And what will you do about it?” she said.

“Tell the girl’s actual mommy about the witch trying to take her little girl?” I gasped as I saw Stacy wrap herself behind Megan, who had suddenly appeared.

“Mommy!!!!” Meg screamed and tried to get loose to go to Megan.

“Haha, good one, she’s not adopted yet. She doesn’t have her ID; I got her first!”

At that moment, a security guard asked, “What’s going on here?”

“This woman is kidnapping the little girl I was watching for her new mommy,” I told him while pointing at Megan.

“Do you have any proof of this?” He asked.

“Ask her yourself,” I said, pointing to Meg.

“She’s my mommy, not this mean lady!”

“Hmm… let’s go to the security office. I’ll get a police officer down to sort this out.”

“Fine, I’ll be leaving with my new baby girl when the visit is done!” She said to Megan.

“For now, how about I hold her?” The security guard said as Meg continued to cry and squirm violently for her ‘mommy’ to try and put a good show on.

He grabbed her and said, “We’ll get you with your right mommy here in a few minutes… Pee-ew, you are one stinky baby girl, though!”

Meg continued bawling, and I just hoped we could make the case to the police officer that arrived. We were led to a back office, and to my surprise, a police officer was already there. “What’s going on here?” He asked the security guard.

“Looks like this little girl has a newly developed case of Maturosis? She’s not officially been adopted yet and is wearing an Emerson University uniform.”

“I can see that; besides the poopie pants, what’s the problem? How would she be eligible to be grabbed and adopted by this woman?”

“Officer, if I may?” I got his attention.

“You are?”

“Cameron Sylvester, sir, I was babysitting her while her new mommy went to find her purse and a diaper in her car.”

“And she trusts you to watch her new Little?” He asked skeptically.

I nodded, “So does her sister with her, Little,” I nodded to Stacy, who was doing her best to blend into Megan’s leg. “I’m twenty-one and a college student.”

“And I guess you’re just tall enough to legally be allowed to be a babysitter…?” He looked at the surprisingly quiet woman, “And just what’s your part in this?”

“I saw this one leading her to hide her poopie pull-up so she wouldn’t be in trouble!” She tried lying. “Clearly, they’re just all working together!”

Meg was sitting more quietly in the security guards’ arms then. The cop turned his attention to Meg, “What’s your name?”

“Meg…” she said shyly.

“Well, Meg, I’m sure you can see we have a bit of a disagreement here on what happened. I think we can solve this pretty easily, though. Which of these ladies is your mommy?”

Meg didn’t hesitate, pointing at Megan, “That’s my mommy.”

“Seems clear enough to me,” he said to the woman.

“Now you listen here!”

“No, you need to calm down. I’ve already reviewed the footage and found the ID you ripped off. Obviously, she will need a mommy now, but it won’t be you. Get out of here before I arrest you for kidnapping!” He told her.

The woman backed away then and got out of there.

“Well, miss, let’s get you to your mommy so she can change your stinky pants,” he said as he passed her from the security guard to Megan. “You can change her here, but then I will insist on following you to the adoption center.”

“But… you just said you saw her ID was stolen?” Stacy asked nervously.

“You’re right, but she doesn’t have it on her now, does she? And she also told me that’s her mommy, so unless you want to send her to the city orphanage, I would recommend finishing what you started,” he told Megan.

She sighed, “Guess my plans for this afternoon are completely shot. She pulled her purse off her shoulder and asked, “Can I use this desk?”

“Certainly!” he told her, “I’ll wait for you outside.”

“Well, this went wrong…” Stacy said to me…

“Or right…” I said quietly, thinking about our conversation months ago.

Megan pulled a disposable changing mat out of her purse and a diaper I assumed was for one of her nieces since it was way too big for Stacy. “Let’s get you out of those poopy big girl panties!” She cooed. A few female security officers were still in the room, so I assumed she was putting on a show for them. “Here, you can have a paci too while I do this,” she pushed a pacifier into her mouth from somewhere.

I watched her toss the pull-up into the trash can after she taped the new diaper onto Meg. She gathered her on her side and said, “Okay, you two, I guess it’s time to go to the adoption center with this one… Stacy, do you want to go with me?”

I grimaced, and she did as well. Stacy nodded, “Are you coming too, Cameron?”

I shrugged and looked at Meg in the hallway; the officer was standing there.

“Where are you parked?” he asked.

“By the food court entrance,” she said, “on the south side.”

“I’ll get my car and meet you over there. Please don’t leave until I’m with you. Do you already have a car seat for her?”

“Yes, I have two in the back,” she told him.

“Okay then, I’ll see you again in a second.”

“You want me going with you?” I asked Meg.

Meg shook her head, her face red, but at least the tears were drying, “No… I can do this with Megan.”

Megan added, “You’re just close enough in height. I’d be worried about taking you in there. Stacy, are you sure you don’t want to go with Cameron? I’m not looking forward to this, and I can’t imagine it will be pleasant…”

Stacy shook her head, “I’m not leaving her alone… I’ll go for moral support.”

“I guess, like you said, I’m close to her height… Should I go back to Stacy’s and wait for you?”

“Actually, why don’t you just go back to school. I’ll get Stacy home, and she can call you when we’re done. You can come over and check on Meg at my place tomorrow if you want?” she paused, “I guess I should say our place.” She looked down at Meg, “I really didn’t want to have a Little… but there was no way I would let anyone go to that witch!”

Unfortunately, ‘that witch’ stood at the entrance as we walked out. She pushed me away from Stacy and tried to grab Stacy and run off then. ‘Try’ being the correct word because somehow Stacy hit the woman hard enough that she dropped her and stumbled. I watched in disbelief as Stacy then somehow somersaulted directly to her feet. She kicked the lady’s ankle out and did something to her knee. From the angles a second later, I could tell that the ankle was definitely broken, the knee dislocated, and I could see now that the nose was bloody.

I was afraid things would continue to escalate, but the same police officer drove up with a partner then, “What’s going on?”

“She tried assaulting and kidnapping her,” I said, pointing to Stacy.

“What happened to her, though?”

“She tripped when she tried running with me,” Stacy said.

“Jim, get her cuffed and in the back. We’ll follow these four over to the adoption clinic and then take her to the hospital that’s next door to get looked at before we book her.”

“I’m actually returning to my car right now,” I told him.

“Your car?”

“I have a self-driving car license,” I told him.

“Oh, well… why don’t you get inside her car, and she’ll drive you to your car? You can drive off once we see you in it. I don’t want any more excitement happening today…”

I nodded at that. At Megan’s car, she placed Meg and Stacy in the rear-facing car seats she had for Stacy and Bella to use. I hopped in the front passenger seat for a quick ride to the other side of the mall, where I parked.

“Call me later?” I told them as I got out.

“We will as soon as we finish the clinic,” Stacy told me.

“Good luck,” I said to Meg.

She smiled weakly at me, tears still going down her face as she quickly grew accustomed to sucking on that pacifier. I got into my car and set it to drive to campus before calling Amanda and filling her in. “At least you all got out safely… Not sure how Megan will cope with being a mommy, though… not to mention names will get even more confusing around here!” She paused, “I guess Mom and I will have to put together a Little shower for them too….”

I soon pulled into my spot in the parking garage on campus, made my way to my dorm, and began studying some more. All I could do was sigh and hope that everything would work out for them in the end.
 
 

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