As much as she enjoyed a good chocolate bar every now and then, Megan decided that there wasn't enough reason in the world to justify having all that temptation laying around, just sitting there on her desk. Between the scrumptious welcome basket she had received when she moved into her cabin, the generous grocery options she was privy to, and the fact that there had to be about a bajillion calories sitting there in brightly colored wrappers, Megan was confident that she wouldn't be missing out on much if she just... displaced a couple thousand of those calories right into the trash can.
And if that weren't reason enough, the fact that her second class left her with just as many treats (if not more!) had Megan convinced that she was better off without it.
So, during her lunch break, she took a few of the snacks aside, and proceeded to pour the rest of them into the waste bin.
"What are you doing?!" came a distressed voice, making Megan stop the avalanche of candy-coated calories, "Have you gone mad, woman?"
Megan looked up to see Jennifer Walker, another new hire. She remembered her especially, since they sat next to one another during new teacher orientation. Jen was a slight, slender thing with short brown hair and a penchant for wearing the cutest sweaters. Jen looked particularly distressed as she rushed over, putting a stop to the thundering rattles that filled the room as Megan poured snack after snack into the trash.
"Oh just, y'know, getting rid of temptation." Megan said in her easy-breezy sort of way, "My girls were so sweet to leave me all these treats, but there's just so much!"
Indeed there was. Megan had a whole plastic bag filled with candies and sweets of various sizes, threatening to stretch the bag 'til it burst.
"I can't tell if I'm more afraid that I won't be able to eat all of it or that I won't be able to stop myself!" Megan laughed
"Yeah but you can't just throw it all away!" Jen reprimanded her coworker gently, tilting the bag back away from the greedy jaws of the trash can, "How many more times are you going to get this much free candy, Meg?"
"But Jen, I can't possibly eat all this--"
"Why not?"Jen asked in a dismissive tone, "I did!"
"You mean..." Megan raised an eyebrow, "Your students left you this much candy too?"
"Candy, cupcakes, sweets, yeah!" Jen nodded in affirmation, pushing the bag back towards Megan now that it was safe, "Come on, I'd never say no to free food. We both did our time in college; you know what it's like to go hungry."
"And that's why you'll be a total butterball come this time next year, Walker." a deeper, browner voice entered the room, "Let the woman do what she wants. It's not like anyone else around here is going to throw it out for her."
Another woman entered the room, one Megan immediately recognized as Ashley Knight; another new hire. The three of them, as well as a few others, had all been hired at the same time for their respective specialties. Ashley Knight's was fitness, so it was no surprise that Buttercombe Academy's new head coach took a certain amount of offense to the decadence and lethargy that seemed to grip the campus with a fleshy stronghold. Ashley was a shorter woman, with tanned olive skin and long black hair. Judging by her attire, a tanktop and gym shorts with a shiny silver whistle around her neck, and the fact that she was sweating pretty profusely, Megan guessed that she too had just gotten out of class before lunch.
"Oh what do you know, Ashley." Jennifer said with a playfulness that didn't register well with the grumpy guss of a teacher, "You wouldn't know how to loosen up if it were in front of you."
"Yeah yeah." Ashley dismissed the laissez-faire brunette and turned her attention to Megan, who was beginning to become confused as to why her throwing out some candy was becoming such a public matter, "Listen, Meg, you should throw all that out. Or give it away, or something."
"Well... yeah, that's what I was sort of trying to do here." Megan said with an aside glance, "Y'know, out of sight, out of mind, out of my waistline, right?"
"Exactly." Ashley said with a playful (but still a little painful!) love tap on Megan's arm, "You and me, we've got our heads on straight. There's just no need for all that crap."
"Oh?"Jen put her hands on her hips and tilted them out daringly, "So what did you do with all your stuff from your students?"
"I gave it to my assistant." Ashley said sharply in Jen's direction, "Jesus Christ, you'd have to roll me into work the next morning if I ate all that."
"Well poo on you too." Jen stuck out her tongue, "Meg, you can do what you want, but I think that you should indulge yourself a little. Teaching's one of the most stressful jobs a girl can have, and you're not gonna have a lot of opportunities to spoil yourself. I say eat every last crumb while you can."
"And I say don't be a pig." Ashley rolled her eyes, "Look, I know all that stuff looks good now, but it won't look so good on your thighs. Trust me."
Megan bit her bottom lip, her eyes darting between the three points of argument. Jen was right; she probably wasn't going to get too many rewards for just being a teacher, and a little indulgence never killed anybody...
On the other hand, Ashley had a point. Megan sure didn't want to wind up as a big butterball like most of the other teachers she'd seen on campus. On the first day, she'd gotten all this. Who knew what temptations were to come in the following semester at a place where the average size was "plus"?
But all this started because she wanted some peace and quiet to throw away her candy. And now, Megan wasn't sure what she was supposed to do!
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