I think I'm being stalked. No matter what city I'm in I see her there. She wears different clothes, she sits in different seats, and she appears at different times but she's always there watching me. The look is unsettling like a predator about to pounce on her prey. The scary part is I might even want to be her prey.
My name is Kirk Trousdale and through a quirk of genetics and fate I was born into a very exclusive group. I am a dwarf. I reached 3'7" but then I stopped. It never really bothered me however. I came about my dwarfism honestly, both my parents are dwarves also. It was a condition that ran deep in my family for generations. That was what led us to the circus. Well it was more of a traveling circus complete with rides and games but we preferred to be call a circus, it sounded classier.
The Traveling Trousdales we were called. We thrilled audiences in the sideshow for years. That was of course before sideshows and freakshows became taboo. Overnight it seemed the social conscious shifted and the profiting from someone's physical deformity or differences was now considered wrong. So the old shows shut down and the freaks had to find new 'normal' lives.
We were lucky however. When the sideshow was dropped my family just moved under the big top. You see we had more than just our height going for us. We were acrobats. No seriously we did all the flips, tightropes everything the big performers did just scaled down to our size. Not to brag but we were the stars of the show.
That's the world I was born into. My folks homeschooled me as we traveled the country so social cues were never my strong suit. This was especially true when it came to women. Most thought I was cute - like a little kid. They couldn't really see me as anything else. The idea of being with me seemed to really creep them out. Of course I never asked out that many. Most were taller than me and I found it very daunting to initiate a conversation with one. So I was totally unprepared for what was to come.
It all started innocently enough - as it always does I suppose. We were performing in Bangor, Maine when I first saw her. We were just finishing up our routine and leaving the ring. I happened to look over to the entrance. My heart stopped and my jaw dropped I'm sure.
The only thing I can think of to describe her is goddess. Wavy blond hair cascaded down onto her shoulders. Large pouty lips perfectly complimented her classically beautiful face. Her arms and legs were clearly powerful despite their stationary position at that moment. But there were two things about her that drew my attention immediately. One of those was her large chest. Her breasts were larger than any pair I had ever seen. It looked like a pair of naturally fleshy balloons were trying to escape her tight little black dress.
Then again everything about her was large. I'm sure all of you out there know about dwarves but I bet you never stopped to consider one thing. As with most things there is an opposite. It is known as Gigantism. It was hard for me to tell since most people look taller than they look to me but she also towered above the average sized people who walked past her. I would later learn she was a good 8'6" -which is a record I believe - so I'm fairly certain she is a giant or giantess I guess.
Anyway there she was standing in the entrance. She never took her eyes off me. She just watched with an intensity I found both disturbing and arousing. As I walked away to rejoin my parents I saw her lick her lips. Needless to say my dreams were very vivid that night.
I thought nothing of it after that. We had a show in Boston then moved on to Hanover in New Hampshire next. As we were packing up to leave I spotted her again. She was kinda hard to miss standing there in the middle of the midway next to a ring toss game. I watched her easily win a small pink stuffed rabbit. What impressed me more, and unnerved me as well, was she did this without ever taking her eyes off me. When none but I were watching she took the toy and pushed it deep into her cleavage with only the ears barely visible. She smiled wickedly and walked off into the crowd.
A few months later we started setting up shop in Ft. Lauderdale. I was unpacking some of our supplies in the main tent. Everyone else was busy wrangling a runaway ostrich outside, don't ask. It was then that the sensation of being watched washed over me. Turning around I saw her sitting up in the bleachers.
"Hello?"
She chuckled, got up and left. Ok, that was weird. Trying not to think anymore of it I went back to work. That night I climbed into my trailer for a goodnight's sleep. After I brushed my teeth and changed into my sleepwear I walked back to my small bed passing by a large window. I stopped dead in my tracks, backtracked and looked out the window.
"What the hell?"
There she was standing several feet away watching me, smiling. I rubbed my eyes and she was gone. Was she even there to begin with? Did I just imagine it? Maybe I needed more sleep. Yeah, that was it I needed sleep. So I went off to bed. I did not see her the rest of the time we were in town.
We traveled along to Carthage, TX sometime later. We were unpacking all our things and I noticed something odd. The trunk I kept all my clothes in was gone. All of our other packages were here and accounted for. All but mine. I went to the store and bought a few outfits to hold me over until it turned up. It did, on my front steps at the end of our time there. All of my clothes were there. They were wrinkled now and smelt like perfume. A lot of perfume.
Strange little things like that continued as we migrated to Aspen. We had a really good show that first night. Pumped I ran back into my trailer to hop into the shower. I had to stop though when I reached my bedroom. Sitting on my bed was a small stuffed pink bunny. Its fur was matted down from what appeared to be sweat. Laying on it was a note.
"Take care of my little guy. I'll pick you both up soon."
What the hell did that mean?
We arrived in Fresno, California with a newfound sense of energy about us. This would be our last stop for the year. Summer was coming to an end and we were ready to close up shop for the season. After we finished up here we would all head out to a farm just outside San Francisco until we were ready to go back out again.
The first night as we were pulling up I looked out my window and saw her. She stood on the side of the road just watching. All I could do was gulp. I began seeing her in the crowd of every performance we did in Fresno. She arrived early to each show and got a good seat in the back where she could watch. From what I could tell she was on her phone for most of the performance only looking up when we were on. For this she gave her full and undivided attention.
Each night after the show I would get a call on my cellphone.
"Oh Kirk you were just wonderful," came the rich honied voice, "the way you're body moves through the air, ooh I just know you can some fun things with it in bed too."
"Excuse me?" I asked shocked.
"You and I are going to have so much fun together."
"Who is this?"
"Your soulmate."
With that she would hang up.
Finally the last night came and I was ready to get to the farm. Hopefully there I would have a little peace - or so I hoped. The owner asked me to roust any stragglers from the fun house. I hated these things but it was my turn so I did what I was asked. After placing a closed sign at the entrance I headed in. Climbing in the metal steps was a challenge as they constantly shifter back and forth. Around the next corner the footpath was replaced by a series of yellow rollers.
Having fallen three times I was not in a fun mood when I turned the next corner and found this part of the path was two metal slabs which go forward and back one going the opposite direction of the other to boot. Then came a bridge whose metal floor buckled and shook with each step I took. Finally I was able to enter the main building. All the 'fun' before was open air so other guests could get a look and want to come in too.
"If anyone's in here we're closing up, time to leave!"
"I'm here."
I nearly jumped out of my skin at the sound of the rich honeyed voice suddenly appearing behind me. Spinning around I found myself face to navel with my mystery woman. Quickly looking up I saw her looking down at me smiling like a cat at a canary. I had heard banging on the pieces behind me but thought it was just an echo in the small funhouse.