The Park Your One and Only Chance (Mantis World) chapter 3 by novar

The message from your little sister encourages you to have some time for yourself and wander around, savoring what could easily be your last days of freedom, or your last days alive even. You always knew this day would come just as every male human does, but you did your best to not think about it, losing yourself with the porn and not bothering to plan anything at all. 

You decide to go to the park, thinking about the different options your family presented to you. Even if you spent your teen years at home pleasing them (and indulging in your foot fetish) instead of getting a girlfriend like most others do, they seemed dead set on shrinking you and you couldn't blame them. You weren't rich, and the world just offered no interesting prospects to men over 18 so you would quickly become a burden. But do you really want to give yourself to your family? As enticing as it sounded as a safe option, it would be the safe option for the only major decision in your life, and some part of you kept protesting against the idea. You realize you aren't even sure if you want to remain alive after shrunk or how would you prefer to die, years of consuming porn videos where the man dies in many different ways clash against the natural desire of not wanting to die, and the sliver of hope that if you choose correctly, your life could be interesting and worth living after shrunk.

The park distracts you and offers you more options with every single woman you spot exercising or relaxing around. It's been years since you last visited it, so you enjoy taking a walk and guessing what has changed while gathering up courage, it has also been some time since you last talked to a woman you didn't know. Would you dare asking one of them? You knew most women would happily agree, but that's what it made the task so daunting. If they said yes, things would end right then and there, no visit to your aunt, no final chat with your family, no other opportunities left the moment you chose and she agreed.

You finish your walk around the park noticed it has been expanded quite a bit since back then, a sign your gut wants to take as a call to action, but the options easily overwhelm you. There are plenty of women around and quite a few boys too, all of them seemingly in dates with their girlfriends. There are women sitting around having picnics, laying down and relaxing by tanning, napping or reading a book, jogging on the gravel track around the park, playing all kinds of sports. You decide for now to sit next to a tree and try to make a choice, feeling a mix of excitement and fear because as time passes by your body seems to demand you to commit to the point you start getting aroused, but a couple of different ideas also pop in your mind. 

Could you maybe shrink without anyone at all noticing? You knew how things worked but you wondered if there was a way to skip the whole step of having to ask, as weird as it sounded. Would it be worth it to follow one of those couples for a bit to see what you missed by staying at home, and maybe see how it looks when a guy shrinks? or maybe follow some of the women to see how they deal with the shrunken men they find in real life instead of on the porn movies you watch? You chuckle and shake your head, even when trying to group the options you're still overwhelmed. Maybe you should have planned things beforehand after all.

What happens next?