Cory couldn't help but feel a little smug when he noticed that Katie had also been shrunk. After all, it was her fault the shrink ray went off in the first place. Maddie, who was unaffected, was smiling adoringly at her and reaching down to pick her up. Just as he was about to laugh at this, however, he saw Gabby's hand reaching for him. As it grabbed him, he caught the expression on his eldest sister's face, which looked quite similar to Maddie's smile.
"Aw, Katie, you look so cute!" Maddie cooed as she brought her little sister up to her smiling face. She couldn't help but giggle when she saw Katie struggle to break free from her grasp.
"You too, Cory! You look adorable!" Gabby gushed, bringing Cory up to her face. Unlike Katie, the tiny brother didn't try to break free, instead just staring in awe at his two giant sisters.
"Hey, that's enough, Maddie!" Katie demanded. "Put me down and turn me back to normal!" She looked over to her brother, hoping he would support her, while Gabby took a look at the notebook and the shrink ray.
"Well, according to this notebook," Gabby explained, "if the shrink ray's at critically low power, then it can't be used until it's spent at least 12 hours charging. So it looks like you two are gonna be tiny all day. Oh, but it also says you'll be safe from injury, so we won't have to worry about accidentally killing you or anything."
"Well it was you who wanted to start messing with the shrink ray, Katie," Cory pointed out, "so it's only fair you have to stay this small." Katie simply grumbled in response, not wanting to admit that her brother had a point. Maddie couldn't help but chuckle at this at first, but then something occurred to her.
"We should keep our little brother and little sister with us," Maddie proposed, "just so they don't get lost in this giant house." The smaller siblings looked at each other and nodded in agreement. If they got stuck somewhere that neither of their big sisters could get to, they could be stuck at their miniature size forever!
"Alright," Gabby replied, "but I'm not carrying this little guy around in my hand all day and, knowing you, you'll put Katie down somewhere and forget to pick her back up again. We need to come up with a hands-free way to keep them with us." The eldest sister then started looking through the notebook again. She already had an idea that sounded fun, but she wanted to make sure it would work.
"We could put them between our boobs," Maddie suggested, "or we could put some socks on and keep them in there." Katie grimaced at both of those ideas.
"Ugh, Maddie, why'd you have to pick two of the sweatiest parts of your body?" Katie complained, although part of her distate for going into Maddie's cleavage was due to her envy of her big sister's bust size, even when neither of the girls were shrunk.
"Don't worry, Katie," Gabby said in response to her tiny sister's complaint, "I've got a better idea. This notebook says that if a shrunken person gets eaten, they will become body fat on whoever ate them, but they retain their consciousness and can still communicate. Also there's a setting on the shrink ray that can 'un-digest' someone, turning them from body fat back into a human being." She then looked hungrily at her two tiny siblings. "What do you think, Maddie?" she asked, licking her lips.
"Yeah, that could work," Maddie replied in the same tone as when she suggested her own ideas. "I can't lose Katie if she's part of my body."
"Um, on second thoughts," Katie stammered, "I'm sure your boobs will be fine!" Cory started laughing when he heard his little sister backtracking so hastily. He wasn't sure which of his big sisters' ideas he wanted them to go with, as they each had their pros and cons. He was pretty sure if it were up to Gabby, she would just eat both him and Katie, but with Maddie weighing in, he didn't know what would happen. Whatever she did, though, Gabby would probably follow.