"Okay", announced Katie when only three of us left in the room, "I"m sure we"ll have enough time tonight to talk about everything, Nata. And don"t forget to tell me about growth spurt you obviously experienced since we"ve met last time. And now - are you already acquainted to Nick?"

She came closer to me and put her arm on my shoulder. "I"m sorry, Nick, you"ve probably been feeling abandoned, but I promise to mend my ways. By the way, I think, it"s time for us to have a closer acquaintance..."

As usual, she spoke a lot. "You see, Nata, we only met earlier today and didn"t have a chance so far to look at each other"s eyes. Would you help me please?" With these words she took me under my armpits from behind.

"Sure", replied Natalie and grabbed my waist. It was embarrassing but yet exciting: steadily I had been lifted up to Natalie"s eyelevel; thus, the top of Katie"s head first - and maybe last? - time happened to be BELOW my eyes. My feet were dangling about 60 cm (2f) above the floor! I was absolutely speechless. Even my thoughts at the time were as simple as single "Wow!"

"I think, you look better this way even then on TV screen", declared Katie. "What"s your opinion?" she asked Natalie.

"I... I don"t know... I haven"t seen the show... But he certainly is pretty..."

"Well girls, I must admit that from this point you both look gorgeous!" My embarrassment gone, my excitement rose, and I even began to fear that soon it would become visible for them. So I added, "But I"d prefer to be down there again"

"Why?" Katie pretended to be disappointed, "don"t you like to be literally suspended between two young beautiful women?"

"Course I do", I said, "But I would rather like to be literally captured between four magnificent legs of them".

"Ha-ha, it"s cool! Now I know how you managed to become a runner up fortnight", laughed Katie while she and Natalie simultaneously lowered me down. "All right, time for a drink, huh?"

Finally, we all settled down: Natalie sat next to me on sofa, Katie grabbed an armchair next to the table to be capable to mix some cocktails for us.

Then, Max, Alex and Sarah came back from the kitchen. Their shining eyes betrayed the fact they have loaded alcohol not only into the fridge but into themselves as well. So, we all were equalized. I mean, our moods, not the heights of course. The reminder of who was the shortest in the company followed some light meal and more drinks, when Katie turned up the volume of hi-fi, took Max"s hand and declared, "We"re gonna dance. Anybody?"

Having no doubts that within few seconds Alex would engage Natalie, I started to prepare myself to do the same to Sarah, when the tall guy unexpectedly came to the redhead and gave her a hand.

It was so much surprise for me that I felt completely lost. After a long pause Natalie took an initiative: she moved closer to me and asked, "Fancy a dance?"

"Sure", I answered automatically. However, in two seconds or so I almost felt sorry for my childhood when I learnt that that wasn"t polite to say "no" to a woman.

I got up immediately and stretched my arm towards her. She took it and stood up too. The very first moment, everything seemed to be brilliant: I was looking directly in her flirting green eyes. The next moment her eyes already were beyond reach. Yet one moment later all I could see were here breasts. The moment she stopped standing up I found myself staring at her stomach.

I put my right arm on her waist but it obviously was too high. After 10 or 15 seconds I gave up and lowered my hand down on her hip. This helped, but not much, really. Music was quite loud, so Natalie had no fear to be heard by others. "Feel free to position yourself comfortable", I heard her voice from the skies, "You can move your hand further down, I don"t mind. The tune is long, and I don"t want you to be tired soon".

Now, my hand was rested somewhere between her ass and thigh. Giving the height difference, long conversations were virtually impossible, so I was just moving slowly and looking around.

"Jesus", I thought looking at Sarah and Alex; her red head rested on his chest, "wish I could look at me and Natalie from aside now". It definitely must have been a sight: my hand on her left thigh, top of my head was clearly under her breasts, my nose near her navel, the lower edge of her miniskirt at the level of my chest...

Usually, while dancing with a girl shorter than yourself you have to lower your head a bit to keep a conversation. Now, all I could see lowering my eyes were two impossible legs ended up somewhere under the skirt, I guess, at the level of my collarbone.

I began to get used to the unimaginable dance with - I was absolutely sure - one of the tallest women in the world and certainly the tallest one I would ever have chance to dance with. By the way, I was the only guy she had been dancing with all the way. I didn"t mind though, moreover, I was pleased but yet surprised with the fact that Alex never engaged her. He seemed to be satisfied with Sarah and didn"t even make an attempt to switch to Natalie.

After a while Max turned down music and proclaimed, "Who"s gonna have a barbeque? Max and I are pleased to invite you to the patio, guys!"

Everyone moved towards the back door. Suddenly, Katie asked me, "Nick, could you please stay for a minute?" "Sure". I replied being unable again to reject a request and staring in disbelief at Natalie.