At the Cotillion (part 1 of the chapter)

Milly POV

Here I am holding Frank' s arm as we walk down to the gymnasium turned into a ballroom. We arrive just as the doors open.

Frank walks up to the door handing Jim the tickets; Jim holds the tickets up to the light trying to see if they are fake.

They pass his little test as Jim tears the ticket in half and hands us our half of the tickets. Jim looks at me and says

"Ms. Solovieff your dress is nice, but almost breaks the dress code of not having dresses higher then your knees."

I look down at my dress strange I was pretty sure earlier that it covered my ankles earlier but now the dress was about 3 inches beneath my knees.

Huh apparently I did grow from my tenth birthday. Frank just looks at Jim thanks him for his input and heads inside.

He offers me his arm again just before we go in. Oddly enough it didn't feel like I had to reach up quite as high as before. Frank looks at me and then smiles.

"I hope you're going to have fun Milly." He said to me although I am a bit distracted.

I know earlier I barely came up to his belt but now I am almost eye level with his chest. But I let go of the thought so what if I have a growth spurt.

The music starts a waltz. A well known dance in both Russia and Texas.

Thankfully both Frank and I knew it well. We start dancing as time goes on I feel less and less awkward in Franks arms.

Frank spins me once I'm eye level with his chest.

Frank spins me again the other way I'm eye level with his neck.

I am spun again coming looking Frank in his deep brown eyes filled with wonder and innocent curiosity.

I spin for the last time and at the end of my turn I kiss Frank I don't know why. It just felt... right. I hear a tearing sound.

I open my eyes before I realize I was leaning down to kiss Frank. My dress I realize is starting to tear!

Not all of it thank-god. However I clearly realize that here I am already 5 inches taller then Frank. What am I going to do?

My dress is above my knees heck it's almost above my thighs. I look down at Frank I'm looking down at Frank.

Oh my God! I'm looking down on Frank. Even as I watch I can feel my clothes getting tighter and tighter.

I look frantically around there's got to be a way out. Frank looks up at me betraying no emotion what so ever.

He grabs my hands now bigger then his he pulls me close and whispers.

"We are going to leave without drawing attention but we need to do it by dancing."

The waltz has ended and a tango beat has begun. Frank smiles at me like nothing has gone wrong and begins to dance to the exit.

Lucky for us Jim is distracted screaming at Sissi something about her dress being too small.

It would be ironic if he saw me. My dress is practically shrinking off of me.

The strobe lights flash on and off making my growing less obvious I hope.

But still every time a light came back on; I noticed that Frank is growing smaller.

We finally make it to the exit I have to duck but I fit through barely*. Not knowing what to do I ran to the woods.

Each step I made more noise. I finally hid behind the trees by the old sewer entrance.

I lost Frank a little while back. I lost most of my dress but the important parts are covered.

I stand almost as tall as the trees maybe 10 meters tall and my body is still growing. With an occasional tear in my already shredded dress.

I sit down cross legged not knowing what to do. I just start tearing up.

"This is all my fault." I say to no one my tears fall on the ground making large splashes as they

"No, it isn't." A small voice says I assume it's in my head.

"Yes, it is I wanted to be big and now I'm 20 meters tall!" I have no idea how no one heard that.

"No, you wanted something to improve your life what happened here has nothing to do with it."

Now I know the voice isn't in my head. I look around and see Frank walking towards me very calmly.

I blush worried about what Frank is seeing. Frank speaks,

"No, don't worry it is too dark I can only see an outline and hear your remarkable voice."

"Where am I going to go I don't exactly blend you know." Frank pauses for a second then says

"What about the old Renault factory it should be big enough for you to fit into." I think for a second before I answer.

"Okay, but will you come with me?"

Frank nods "Absolutely."

"So how should we get there?" Frank asks me. I reach out my hand and gently grab him.

I stand up towering over the trees I am easily 40 meters tall.

Frank fits easily in my hand like a piece of candy.

I take several quiet steps and soon we are the River Seine I gently step into the river which comes up to my ankles.

I lift my hand with Frank in it and bring him up to my face.

"Thank-you Frank." I whisper to him. Before I gently kissed him.

As I brought my hand away from my face I realize Frank is missing.

[Sneak Peek of a future Chapter soon to be here. PM or review Ideas on what to do next. There are no bad Ideas. Oh yeah Personal thanks to Yoru no Sakka for helping me with my chapter design. You all should check his/her stories out. You all have one day until I update maybe less.]