While Dani’s well-developed investigative skills usually led her to question her situation and surroundings constantly, as the days and weeks passed, her questioning was now happening far less frequently. An alarm bell would go off in her head after something was said or when she noticed a flinch by Marker, but the bell was silenced after she gorged herself with an ever increasing amount of food. And so, she ate, slept, had weekly weights, measurements, and blood tests as her body grew softer.
It turned out that Dani was eventually given the answers to the questions she began with anyway. Glass explained that her food additives were a combination of an appetite enhancer and a chemical that blocked feelings of fullness. The snacks provided at the end of meals didn’t contain these things, and eating them neutralized these effects. Marker confided that there had been a test subject prior to Dani on whom the snacks hadn’t been used; eating nothing but enhanced food got her fat very quickly, but left her completely food obsessed to the point of being otherwise non-functional.
By the time that these explanations were provided, Dani had long since accepted her fate, and it hadn’t been too bad. Enhanced or not, the food was good. Dani discovered or rediscovered things that she had denied herself for years - calorie-laden dishes of all kinds from carbohydrate-loaded breakfasts, to piles of candies to snack on throughout the day, to indulgent desserts so delicious that she would awaken at night to consume a second portion. At first, Glass annoyed her with her upbeat, bubbly positivity about Dani’s ridiculous mission to get fat in six months, but Dani came to smile when they would celebrate milestones like every ten pounds gained or when she grew out of her sweats. Even Marker had lightened up as time passed, and meals, while still focused on Dani, had become more communal, friendly experiences in which the three of them talked and ate like old pals getting together for social time.
Three months after starting, Dani had hit 205 pounds, which had her on the verge of technically being obese. All in all though, her 5’10” frame had filled out pretty evenly, and had one not known what she looked like previously, she would have seemed pretty normal.
“This is the meal where you officially become fat!” Glass nonetheless cheered after Marker shared her latest measurements, knowing that a couple more pounds would tip Dani’s BMI into that range.
“I may not be the only one, Dr.” Dani chided as she poked the food scientist’s bulging belly.
“Definitely not.” Lamented Marker, who touched her own midsection.
Indeed, while Dani had been intentionally fattened like prized livestock, her monitors had been slowly growing themselves. Glass had started chunky, but nearly 20 pounds over three months had her curvy 5’4” body straining her clothes at the seams. More striking was Marker, whose rail thin 5’7” body had been transformed by the addition of 30 pounds. She had taken to wearing scrubs that hung loosely on her, but her bulging butt was visible evidence of the layer of softness that had overtaken her entire body.
“It’s alright girls!” Dani said. “I’ve gained more weight than both of you put together, and we all look amazing. Let’s eat!”
And they did. Once the meal started and the conversation became lively, the Drs. seemed to have forgotten the awkwardness brought on by the acknowledgment that they, too, had been gaining weight while they were supposed to be making sure that Dani did so. What was interesting, though, was how it was happening.