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Chapter 10- A Kiss

Nellie didn’t know how tired she was until she closed her eyes and let her mind drift to her dreams.

She hadn’t had a dream in a while. The last one was after her parents had died. It wasn’t a nightmare though. It was just a happy dream. It was like they had come back to life. They’d been at home when she came back from school as if nothing had happened. And she acted as she would have that day if her parents hadn’t died. She knew she was dreaming about that day because they all wore the same outfits they’d wore that day.

All three of them watched TV together and then Nellie and her dad helped her mom with dinner. They ate baked chicken. It was delicious. After she’d stuffed the last bite into her mouth and swallowed she had looked from left to right at her parents, they smiled at her with all the love in their hearts. Nellie closed her eyes and had tipped back her head to let the last drop of her grape juice drip onto her tongue.

But when she lowered her glass to the table and opened her eyes, the large smile on her face disappeared, along with her parents. Their places at the table were empty, their food was gone too.

And then she woke up and the dream ended. Her parents were gone and she still ached for their loss. They hadn’t entered her dreams since that night many weeks ago. She wished they would.

Tonight, though, she dreamed of Colton. He was the golden boy every mother wanted and every father wanted their daughters to date. He maintained perfect grades, has never been in trouble with the law, and he was the captain of the warball team at his final school. It’s like the giant version of American football and European rugby combined. You can’t drop the ball. But it is an extreme contact sport. But giants have thicker bones and their vital organs are much stronger than any earthling, even in human form. They are stronger that’s why they live longer.

But they also are less fazed by full body tackling. A concussion is a word that very few people know about because it doesn’t concern the giants. They merely enjoy the rough and tumble of the sports without a worry about the consequences, because they don’t really need to. Its doctors like Colton’s father that keep the giants the way they are.

Giants didn’t use to live to be as old as they can now. It’s taken many generations and live times to make discoveries that can cure fatal illnesses and diseases that the giants may have developed sometime in their life. Now no one hardly ever gets sick. They once had an incurable disease similar to cancer, they found a cure. Now no one has cancer, at least none of the giants do.

But the giant and human anatomy, however similar they appear to be, is still completely different. The cures for the giants don’t work on humans. So this is why humans can still die from accidents and sickness.

The doctors like Colton’s father were here mostly for research and on the off chance that someone actually required medical attention. Like Nellie had earlier that day.

Anyway, Nellie dreamed of Colton. He waited for her in his mobile, honking the horn from the driveway. And she looked in the mirror one last time before she opened the door and ran outside into his shiny new mobile, slamming the door behind her. She was a giant too. She didn’t have to worry about ever getting sick or hurt. She could go to final school with Colton in the mornings just like every other student. She was normal and no long just a tiny human. It was a wonderful dream.