Is She Out of His League?
DISCLAIMER: I don't own "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids," nor its sequels. Disney owns the rights to it.
Foreword: For some reason I had an itch to do this. I noticed that there aren't a lot of stories related to "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids," whether it's the movies or the TV show. Some I had noticed were stories of Amy/Russ, but I have not seen a lot, if any stories on Nick/Mandy. I know that I am doing something based on a 30-year-old movie that I remember liking as a child, even though I think the first one is the best.
Also, as weird as the stuff involving Nick and Mandy were at first, I always thought their bit at the end of the second movie was cute. So I thought why not write something based on their romance? It shouldn't be too long. Enjoy!
A week after moving to Vista Del Mar, Nevada, the Szalinski family had settled into their new neighborhood. It wasn't long until the patriarch of the family, Wayne Szalinski had started to display the family's own eccentricity, such as installing solar panels onto his GMC Astro Van.
It wasn't easy for the rest of the family, as they had to do move out of their Fresno neighborhood after Wayne had gotten an opportunity to work for a company called Sterling Laboratories, with him being known for having worked with a shrink ray to help shrink matter, and to see if he could enlarge things. The eldest child, Amy, was in a relationship with her next-door neighbor Russ Thompson. They didn't break up, as Amy had graduated from high school not long before the move, and she said that she was going to college back in California to be closer to her boyfriend.
In fact, the Szalinski family kept in contact with the Thompson family. Sometime after the whole incident surrounding the Szalinski children and the Thompson children, Wayne and Diane, his wife, had another child named Adam.
But for the middle child Nick, things were starting to change for him. For a long time he had admired his father and his passion for science. When he was 11, he had built a miniature version of his father's shrink ray, the same one that caused him, his sister, and their neighbors to shrink. But as he got a little older, he wanted to get into music, enough that he had gotten a guitar to play.
It was the summer of 1992. With his sister Amy having gotten accepted into Fresno State University, her departure was not far off, but she spent the summer at home taking care of her baby brother Adam. Nick, however, enrolled in summer school to keep himself busy, also likely because he didn't want to help his father with his experiments.
Being new in this city was not easy for him. He would be away from his old friends from Fresno like Ron and Tommy. The two knew that Nick was an intelligent boy, some considered him a nerd, but his friends considered him "their nerd." But in this city, he knew nobody, at least not yet.
Nick wanted to get out his "nerd phase." Taking up guitar was one of his steps to breaking out of it. While his interest in science was still present, he didn't want to be known as a nerd anymore. He was going into high school now. He wanted to get out of his bubble somehow.
One day he had attended summer school. Being the new kid in town was going to take some getting used to. He had enrolled in a health class, especially if he was already one step ahead of taking biology in his freshman year compared to other students within his grade range.
Nick sat in his desk in the classroom. It was the start of class. The teacher, who was female, started calling for roll. She called every name on the list. Nick sat there wondering about this new environment he was in.
"Nicholas Szalinski?" the teacher said.
Nick jumped when he heard his name. "Uh, here, and it's Nick."
"Okay," the teacher said and continued to call for roll.
Out of nowhere, the door had opened and in walked a girl with long curly light brunette hair being held up with a headband and was wearing red shorts and a pink tank-top. Nick's eyes widened and his jaw dropped while goose bumps arose in his arms.
"Hello, may I help you," the teacher said.
"Oh, sorry, I'm late, I got lost," the girl said.
"What is your name?" the teacher said.
"Amanda Park, but everyone calls me Mandy," the girl said.
"Okay, Mandy, go take your seat," the teacher said as she pointed towards the desk she was assigned.
Nick sat in the front of his row, but Mandy sat only a couple of rows to his right in the front. He looked to his right, mesmerized by this girl's beauty.
Don't look too hard, Nick! He thought to himself as he quickly looked to his front. However, Mandy turned to her left to glance towards him as he looked down with his left hand holding his head up.
Nick took a deep breath. It was going to be four or five weeks for this session, but he had to find a way to get this girl to know his existence, but how?
