Holiday Jingle Holiday Madness part 1

Holiday Jingle Giantess Madness.

Debby sighed as she watched the falling snow through the passenger window of the SUV. “I don’t see why we have to go.”

Kevin laughed. “It’s the holidays. And it’s family.”

Debby turned her head as she flailed her pale arms about. “Exactly.

Why should we be spending Christmas day with the family? Your brother and sister. . .” She winced. “Ugh, I just can’t. . .”

“Well, your mother is a handful, don’t forget.”

Debby buried her head in her lap. “Don’t remind me.”

Kevin laughed as he patted her on the back. “It will be fine. We will go. Have some good food and be home in time for Christmas day. We can limit our time with the family as much as possible. Don’t you worry.”

She sighed as she sat up. “I just wish we didn’t have to go at all. Who decides to have a family gathering on Xmas eve? This is just absurd.” Debby slammed her hand on the dash. “Something is up; I know it. Nori has something planned. My sister always does this!”

“Come on. We haven’t even arrived, and you are already freaking out. Just relax. We won’t have to see them for another year after today. Besides, I don’t think your sister has some master plan to ruin people’s holiday.” He smiled. “So, let’s have some fun?”

Debby closed her blue eyes and forced a smile.

“Ok. I will try to have some fun.” She bent over and kissed him on his cheek. “For you.” She giggled. “Maybe we could do what we did when we were twenty and sneak off in a closet and—

He laughed. “After the way my father reacted when they figured out what happened, I don’t know if that is a good idea. Did you know he tried to burn the contents of the closet?” He laughed. “Oh god, if they had found us that Christmas, you would have been kicked out so fast. It is a good thing we are married now.”

“Ya. Even though your parents still don’t like me.”

Kevin laughed. “Well, it just made that moment all the sweeter.” He sighed. “The snow is really starting to come down.”

Debby pulled out her phone. “Hmm, looks like there is a blizzard watch in the area.”

“Watch? It is starting to become white-out conditions.” He shook his head. “It is a good thing we are almost to my parents. I don’t want to think about driving home in this mess.”

Debby groaned. “Ugh. Stupid weather. It better not strand us here. I don’t want to spend the holidays stuck with my crazy relatives. A few hours is bad enough.”

***

Kevin swerved into the driveway. “Fuck! Come on.

Come on.” Slowly they skidded to a stop, inches away from Debby’s sister’s truck.

“Phew.” He opened the door only to hit Nori’s vehicle and set off the car alarm. “Crap!”

A woman in a white coat with even whiter hair came rushing out. “Who the hell is trying to steal my vehicle.” She raised a bottle of pepper spray. “Come out where I can see you, coward.”

As Debby walked up towards the house, Kevin slipped out of the SUV. “It’s just us, Nori,” Debby screamed in pain as her sister sprayed her in the eyes.

“That doesn’t make me feel any better little sis. Especially because you hurt my baby.”

She narrowed her eyes as Kevin appeared out of the blinding snow. “You! Learn to drive.” Nori snorted and rushed back inside, shivering. “Can I get through one-holiday gathering without someone trying to ruin it!”

Kevin walked up and hugged Debby as she rubbed her eyes. “How are you doing?”

She shook her head. “Besides, my sister attacking me for no good reason, just dandy.

Hugh.” Debby blinked her eyes and walked towards the open doorway, focusing on the dim light. “Remind me to spike her drink.”

Kevin laughed as he closed the door behind them. “As funny as that would be, we don’t need a war like last year. So just try and keep things civil, will you.”

She kicked the snow off her shoes. “Only if Nori does. I am not putting up with another year of torment.” Debby sighed. “But you are right. I should try and keep things civil.” She threw her arm around her husband. “Now, let’s try and get through tonight, shall we?”

“Of course. The sooner we get through dinner, the sooner we can head home.” He hung his green winter coat on the wooden coat rack, covering up the half a dozen coats already hung up. Debby then slid her blue jacket off and hung her coat up, only for all the coats to fall to the floor.

“Crap!” Her eyes fell upon her father-in-law’s orange tabby cat. “If anyone asks, Squeakers did it.” She took a few steps back and dashed into the kitchen. She had to slow herself to a halt as she almost fell onto her ass on the smooth porcelain floor. “Holy crap!”

Her mother walked forward, her baggy feathers in a frown. “Debby Pathrin. I raised you better than to talk like that!”

“Mother. I. . .”

“Look at you.” Her mother ran her withered fingers over Debby’s chest. “You are just so thin! Are you eating enough?”

“Pam!”

She suddenly slapped Debby. “I told you about calling me by that name. It is mother to you.” Debby rubbed the side of her cheek. “I don’t care if you are twenty-nine or not. You will address me in the proper manner. Now stand up straight and tuck in that blouse.” Debby did as she was told. “Now go and get some food in you. Your husband is not going to love you if you are so deathly thin.” She tapped herself on her round belly. “See that. It shows I am healthy.” She slapped Debby on the back. “Now go put some meat on those bones. Go, go, go!”

As Debby rushed over to the dining table, she shook her head. “If I didn’t know better, I would say she is trying to fatten me up.”

“Don’t take it too personally.” Kevin’s brother walked up and grabbed a brisket from the table. “She is telling everyone that.”

“Zach. How goes the craft store.”

He shrugged as he munched on the brisket, bits, and pieces of bread flying out of his mouth. “Umm, good, I guess. Revenue sales are down, but I am hanging in there. The gym next to me shut its doors last week.”

“Ouch.”

“Ya. But the small business world is a nightmare. One day you are living your dream, and the next, you are wishing you were never born.” He sighed. “I am worried I will have to move in with my parents soon because money is so tight. I hope they let me come back in. You know, with the whole at eighteen, you are out thing.”

“Yikes. Hope everything works out.”

“I am hopeful.” He snatched another brisket. “Anyways, nice talking to you. I am going to go bug my father for his tablet. I have to check on my quarterly report.”

As Zach walked away, Debby waved goodbye. “Nice talking to you. See you at dinner.” She sighed. “At least Kevin’s brother is a nice person.”

“Hey!” Debby turned around to see Nori with an outstretched hand. “I come with a peace offering.” Debby looked at the small piece of candy in Nori’s hand. “Take it. You will love it!”

“It isn’t poison, is it?”

Nori laughed. “No, of course not. I wouldn’t dare do such a thing.”

“One year, you gave me food laxative so powerful I shit my pants. I didn’t even have time to make it to the restroom.”

“What can I say?” Nori shrugged her shoulders. “I overdid the dose. What more do you want me to say?”

“Well, I am still not going to trust you.”

Nori slid her hand around her sister’s shoulder. “It is a candy imported all the way from Europe. You know how good candy is over there?” She kissed the air. “You haven’t tasted sweets until you have tried their succulent food. It is like a rabbit hole of flavor. You will never be the same, sis.”

“Ok, now I know something is up. You are sweet talking me.”

Nori slid the blue and white piece of candy into her hand. “Just trust me. You won’t be disappointed.” She turned around. “Now I have to go and help mother with the ham. Todaloo.” She danced away.

Debby tapped her fingers on the tablecloth as she stared and the strange-looking candy. It was heart-shaped with a woman etched in the center. “What is this thing?” She held it up to the ceiling fan to see it was translucent. “They sure make weird pieces of candy over in Europe.

It does look good, though. But I can’t trust Nori, can I? I mean, she pepper-sprayed me for no good reason.” Her stomach growled. “Ugh, but I am hungry, and I don’t just want bread before dinner. Ohh, what the hell?”

She tossed the candy into her mouth. “Mhhh. Such flavor. It is like a party in my mouth.”

Kevin walked up and patted her on the back.

“Hey. Surviving all right?”

Gulp! Debby’s eyes went wide as she swallowed the piece of candy. “Aww. I wanted to enjoy that.”

“Enjoy what?”

She turned and smiled at her husband. “Oh, nothing. I am sure it’s better that I didn’t get to enjoy it too much anyways.” As she hugged her husband, she felt a strange warming sensation spread throughout her body. Her skin felt almost rubbery. Debby pushed away from Kevin and groaned. “I, umm, feel a bit weird. I think I will sit down on the couch for a bit.”

“Oh, ok. Do you want me to get you a glass of water?”

She smiled. “That would be great.” Gurrglgle. “Ugh, and hurry.” As she walked over to the blue couch with padded seats, Debby narrowed her eyes. “I knew I couldn’t trust Nori. She did something to that piece of candy. I am going to have to get her back for this. That. . .”

She moaned. “Ohhh, why do I feel so weird? Everything feels so. . .” She took a deep breath as she sat down. “I don’t have words to explain it.”

Debby winced as her phone suddenly rang. “Ugh, who the hell could be calling me?” As she pulled her phone out of her jeans pocket, she noticed the dirty look that her father and father-in-law were giving her. “What? I wanted to bring my phone with me. Sue me!” They went back to talking. Debby rolled her eyes as she scratched at her brown hair. “Judging old fools.” She raised the phone to her ear. “Hello?”

All she could hear was a Christmas song on the other end of the phone. “Rudolf the Red nose Reindeer.” The strange feeling in Debby’s body intensified. “Had a very shiny nose.” Debby winced as her shoes tightened onto her feet. “And if you ever saw it.” Her jeans tightened around her waist as the couch seemed to shrink beneath her. “You would even say it glows.” The couch groaned as Debby’s blouse closed in on her like a vice.

“What the hell is going on?”

Her father looked over. “Can’t you keep. . .” His eyes widened. “What in the bloody hell?”

Debby’s father-in-law gasped. “Debby! You are having growth spurts at your age? What is wrong with you, girl?”

Debby looked down and gasped as she noticed she had grown six feet. “What in the world?” As she stood up, a button burst off her blouse, hitting her father-in-law in the face.

“This isn’t happening.” Her face turned red as she noticed what she had just done to Kevin’s father. “Oh my god. I am so sorry.”

Her father-in-law grabbed his cane and stood up. “Debby. Growing in spurts like you just did is not an excuse for you to attack me or try and strip your clothing like some. . . some. . .”

“Jerod.” Debby’s father put his hands on Jerod’s shoulders. “Calm down. I am sure there is a reasonable explanation for this.”

“Reasonable? Your daughter is some kind of giantess. What kind of—

Debby backed away from the arguing old men. “I need to figure out just what happened to me.” She ran her hands through her hair. “I couldn’t of just grown without a reason. It defies all logic. Oww.” She hit her head on the ceiling fan as she walked toward the kitchen. “Damn this new height.”

“Wow. Did you bring steroids with you or something?” Nori held her hand over her mouth as she snickered. “Any bigger, and you wouldn’t be able to fit into the room.”

Debby gripped her hands into fists. “You are overexaggerating. I am only a foot away from the ceiling.”

Nori walked around her sister, tapping Debby on the sides as she walked around. “I don’t know. You seem like you are too big for the house. Maybe you should go outside, sis. Or at the very least into the garage. I mean, how are you going to sit at the table with that giant ass. Mother would be so unhappy if you broke one of her chairs at that size.” She snickered.

“I can just see it now. Mother chasing Debby around because giant Debby clumsily crushed precious chairs and tables. A sight to behold.”

Debby sneered. “That isn’t funny. I don’t want to grow again. Don’t jinx it.”

Nori shrugged as she sat in one of the wooden tables. “Hmm.

I wouldn’t worry too much. You stopped growing, didn’t you?”

“I guess.”

“Then see. Everything is perfectly fine.” Nori, the length of the table. “Now, just relax while I put on this relaxing music.”

“Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock!” Debby winced as her head hit the ceiling and her feet burst through her shoes.  “Dancing and prancing. . .”  Her pants ripped as her back pressed against the ceiling. “What is going on?”

Nori paused the music. “Oh, come now. How could you not of figured it out by now?”

Debby narrowed her eyes. “Figured what out?”

“Why I gave you a little drug that makes you grow when you hear music. Christmas music, in particular. Happy holiday sis!”

“Why, you little—

“Debby Pathrin. When I told you to put some weight on, this isn’t what I had in mind.” Her mother walked into the room. “What is wrong with you?”

“Mother I. . .” “Frosty the Snowman.” Debby fell onto her hands and knees, knocking her mother to the ground.

“Ahhhh!”

“I am so, so sorry.”

“Get off of me!”

Nori laughed as she walked towards the living room. “I think Debby should go outside in the cold. She is too big for the house.”

After sliding her mother out from under her, Debby reached out for her sister. “You conniving. . .”

“Hey!” Nori ducked under Debby’s arm and dashed beneath her body. “Keep your giant hands to yourself.” Then, as Debby turned herself around, trying not to knock over the furniture in the room, she dashed to the kitchen doorway. “Now stay there, or I will turn on the music and make things worse!”

“Nori,” Debby slammed her hand on the table, causing food to fly into the air. “You are going to pay for this.

Her sister laughed. “Sure, hold that thought.” She dashed into the coat room. As Debby dragged herself towards the kitchen, she heard the front door of the house shut.

“Nori. You can’t just run out on me after causing me to grow like this!” She kicked out only to hear a scream. Her eyes widened, and she turned her head. “Oh, crap.” To her relief, she hadn’t kicked anyone, but she had nearly kicked her mother-in-law, whose face was deathly pale.

“Oh my. Please tell me I am dreaming. Ohhh!” She fell over as Debby’s father and father-in-law rushed to her aid.

Debby then formed her hands into fists. “Nori. You have done some horrible things in the past. You have gotten me drunk. You sent one of my boyfriends to the wrong house. You even gave me a barbie doll with the head torn off when we were kids.

But this is by far the worst thing you have ever done.”

“This won’t do at all.” Her mother shook her head as she looked at the table Debby had just smashed. “Not at all.”

“I know, Mother. Nori has gone too far this time. And I am sorry about the table. At this size, it is hard for me to umm. . .”

Her mother slapped Debby on the side of the cheek. “That isn’t what I am talking about.

Sure, you messed up the food, but we can make do. No, what won’t do is your sister running out on the holidays.”

“Huh. But she. . .”

Debby’s mother grabbed Debby by the face and forced Debby to look her in the eyes. “You listen to me. Today is about family. I don’t care about your silly feud. I don’t care if your sister caused you to have some crazy growth issues. You have a special opportunity to drag your sister back here. Do you understand me?” Debby nodded her face, lifting her mother off the ground as she did so. “Good. Now, unless you can get your sister back here for dinner, you won’t be able to fill that gigantic belly of yours and enjoy the holiday Christmas special with us.”

“Umm, Mother, I don’t think that would be a. . .”

“Hush. You will enjoy the Christmas special with us, and you will like it.” She pushed against Debby’s shoulder. “Now go and find your sister. I won’t have another holiday ruined because of your bickering.”

Debby sighed. “Yes, Mother.” She dragged herself towards the coat room. “I will go get Nori.”

“And try not to grow any larger. Not only do you have to fit in here, but it is bloody cold out there. We don’t need you to freeze.”

Debby rolled her eyes. “Don’t worry.” She sighed. “I will be careful.” Debby lowered her voice. “I don’t know why I have to do this. I would rather be chasing after Nori to crush her, not save her. Happy holidays indeed.”