Incredible Shrinking Haley

I guess this is my life now...

Maddie's much longer stride allowed her to easily move past me and get out of the living room as she looked for the open bedroom door where she left some clothes out for me. Still holding the doll, I decided to place her back in the third story. I approached the doll house, that I was still shocked by the fact that it is taller than me. Before I placed her back, unrealized it had been well over a decade since I had last held a Barbie, and I forgot what her hair feels like. I gripped one of her pig tails, and started stroking it, just to get a feel for it. Of course Maddie came back and saw this.
"You know, if you like her so much, just keep her! I'm sure Hannah wouldn't mind. She doesn't strike me as a doll collector."
"Oh, but I do?" I asked her, who's turning my attention to her.
"Well, you seem to really like her! Maybe it's just been so long you forgot. Besides, now you're more of size! If you go to a toy store and look at dolls, I'm sure it'd be easier to browse the selection. If you don't wear you're new adult clothes, people would just think you're a kid!"
"Oh, ha ha," I turned my attention back to the doll in my hand. I did kind of miss them. I always liked their outfits. I remember the excitement of opening a new one, and all the fun I had playing with them. But maybe I was just nostalgic for older days. "I wouldn't even be able to see, let alone reach, the dolls placed higher on the shelves." I said.
"Well, that's why I'm there, duhh." We both laughed a little, and I was still holding this doll even after a few seconds. I think I was thinking about the rumor of people shrinking again, all the way down to this size. I'm 3 feet tall myself and this still absurdly small. Maybe Hannah was collecting them in case she shrank again. This way she at least has some clothes. But I can't imagine removing these clothes from dolls that are your size would been any bit easy. Maybe I should buy some... just in case, of course. "If you want..." Maddie started saying as she walked over to me and started grabbing my hair, splitting it into two halves, "I could totally give you her hairstyle." She started doing my hair, making these two long pig tails. I kind of wanted it done, but I also didn't want to look more like a kid. I think the last time I wore pig tails was when I was maybe around 8, which was bigger than I am now. "Hmm, her hair is longer than yours it seems. Relatively, obviously. You're much bigger than her, of course."
"Yeah, for now..." I mumbled. I didn't think she could hear me, but I guess she did because she asked what I meant.
"Oh, you didn't hear? There are unconfirmed reportings that people who shrank once, shrank again. Some end up as small as this Barbie. If it's true, it could happen to me."
"Oh, that's terrifying! Do you think Hannah has this doll house and dolls for that reason?"
"Honestly, maybe. I was actually wondering the same thing." Maddie was just about finished putting my hair in the pig tails by this point. When she did finish, she refused to let me see how it turned out, despite saying how cute I was. She wanted me to get out of these little girl's dress before, maybe so I wouldn't be horrified by how little I look. She guided me to Hannah's spare room, where there were tons of clothes laying out. It was honestly really exciting to see. I couldn't wait to stop wearing kid's clothes. Hannah separated all the clothes into categories (dresses, skirts, shorts, jeans, crop tops, t shirts, etc), and even sorted them by color. And there was. So. Much. Clothes. If I took even half of all the clothes here, I would probably have more clothes than I did when I was full size. I'm not sure when she has the time to separate all these into sections like this, it makes me wonder if she's done this before. She probably has, for Savannah and Jessie. I always wondered how she was able to get this much clothes. I know she shrank in the first wave, but between this, the miniaturized apartment furnishings, and all her sponsors, I can't help but wonder money she has made from all this.
"I cannot wait to dress you up." Hannah said, as she moved over to the dresses first. "Between your hair and now this, you're like my..."
"Barbie doll?" I asked, approaching her. Like I mentioned, it was sort of my fear that  this is how she sees me as now.
"Hmm, I was going to say  daughter, but I guess that works too. It goes with what I said in the living room too!" I wasn't sure why shrinking had caused Barbie to take such a prominent role in my life. From wearing her clothes, to a potential Halloween costume, to constantly being compared to or called one. I liked her as a kid, but I think like most my Barbie phase ended once I reached a certain age. It might have to be something I have learn to live with. It was interesting to see Hannah have an actual doll house with a considerable amount of dolls. Honestly, some of them were very fashionable. I swore I saw one wearing the same silver dress she was wearing when I met her. But it made me wonder why she had so many.
Maddie was looking at all the dresses she wanted to dress me up in, while I looked around the room for all the other clothes she had laid out. I would have put money that Hannah something akin to a shrink ray, because all of these clothes here looked like full size clothes meant for adults. From the mini skirts, to the stiletto heels, to the high waisted shorts, to the tank tops, of course the bras I mentioned earlier, and much more. She even had so many pairs of sneakers and other shoes out. Unfortunately, her feet are not the same size as mine, so it wouldn't have done me any good to keep any. Which was a shame, as these shoes didn't look "chunky" like regular kids shoes do. These actually are shaped like they are made for adult's feet, which made it seem even smaller than kid's shoes.
I circled back around the room to Maddie who had selected probably 25 or 30 dresses at this point. A safe estimate of about half of them were pink. She was still looking for more too until I intervened.
"Got enough dresses?" I asked her.
"Ugh, gosh is there ever really such a thing as 'enough'? She has so many different styles! Look at this one!" She said as she stretched out her arms and held a dress out. It was embarrassingly short compared to her.... If she was even able to get it over her head, it'd make for a cute top. The dress itself was actually very pretty, despite its size. It was a pink and white striped zig zag spring dress, which stopped at my knees if I had to guess. It looked awfully familiar, but I wasn't sure why. I couldn't figure it out before Maddie showed me the matching straw hat. "Oh, I think I see the heels and maybe even the handbag!" She strode right past me.
"Well, I won't fit in the heels, and I don't know what I could possibly store in a handbag made for my size..."

"Oh, please, it's all about fashion over function! Start trying these dresses on! I'll grab some more outfits for you. She walked over to me easily holding the child sized clothes, with the smallest pair or heels being suspended in the air by being inserted into her fingertips, and her pinkie holding the chain of the handbag. She stood towering over me again, and for some reason I felt particularly helpless. I am not sure why. It's not like I didn't want to get clothes made for me, but I really did feel like a little girl who is going shopping with her mom. 

I tried on all of the dresses she choose for me, and I must admit it was nice having a personal stylist. It's a shame the heels didn't fit, cause she matched them all perfectly. I think out of the 25+ she chose, I only didn't like one or two of them. But she really did a good job choosing a lot of different styles for multiple occasions. She mentioned that she didn't go through all of them, and would like to circle back around to the dresses. Next were the skirts and tops she chose for me, and then the jeans and shorts. I tried on probably 200 or so outfits, which really got me tired. Taking the clothes on and off were tiring in it of itself, but Maddie would always make do a little fashion show for her. Through it all, I was surprised by how cute this hairstyle was. It worked with a lot of outfits. I think I did end up with either as much clothes as I had before, or even more. Hannah was still going to be a few hours until she was free, so she said it's ok if Maddie and I hang out.

Maddie and I went back to the living room to watch some TV, where I easily feel asleep and had a peculiar dream...