Tonight's dinner was Jenny's favourite; cheese pizza with garlic bread and Fanta. Anna had given her daughter half a normal size pizza, a few slices of garlic baguette and a small glass of Fanta; a suitable meal for a normal girl Jenny's age.
But Jenny isn't a normal girl. She's a black hole for food.
"Thanks mum!" Jenny cried. Licking her little lips, she grabbed a slice in each of her pudgy hands and greedily stuffed them into her awaiting mouth, gobbling them up with gusto.
Anna sighed, her daughter had no patience at all when it comes to food. Of course she was polite and grateful and always asked nicely for food like she was raised to do, but it seemed like she almost never had enough. She'd gobble up a day's worth of food for a girl her age in an hour or two, then take a nap to sleep it off, and wake up hungry as ever. A never-ending cycle.
What also bugged her is how Jennifer was growing out faster than she was growing up. She needed new clothes nearly every month (or every few weeks if she'd been growing exceptionally quickly), and she was nearly too heavy to lift.
"Berp! 'Scuze me." Jennifer giggled, wiping the ring of pizza sauce off her lips with the back of her hand and licking it off like a kitten. A very fat kitten.
"All finished, Jenny?" Anna asked, hopeful that it was enough to fill her up.
"Uh-huh," Jenny nodded with a grin, "...still hungry though."
Anna sighed. So much for that. She got up and brought the other half of the cooked pizza to her daughter, the rest of the garlic baguette, and refilling her glass with more Fanta. Jenny giggled happily and dug in once again.
Within minutes, Jennifer was finished. Her plate littered with sauce and bread-crumbs, her mouth ringed with tomato and garlic sauce and the litre bottle of Fanta emptied. Not to mention a slight bloating in her middle section.
"Now are you full?" Anna asked hopefully.
Jenny went to nod, then stopped, thinking. "Well..."
Anna swore in her head. What now?!
Jennifer stared hopefully at the freezer above the fridge. "Ice cream?"
Anna sighed softly, lifting herself back to her feet and opening the freezer, getting a tub of chocolate ice cream and plopping a few scoops into a bowl, squirting some chocolate sauce over the top of them.
A little strange, chocolate sauce on chocolate ice cream, but it was Jenny's favourite dessert. She was a bit of a chocolate addict.
Jenny gleefully squeaked a 'thank-you' to her mother before stuffing spoonful after spoonful of ice cream into her greedy mouth.
Within a few minutes, Jenny had finished her bowl of ice cream, and gave a quiet high-pitched yawn.
Anna smiled gently. Jennifer always got sleepy when she was nice and full.
Taking her hand, Anna led her tubby toddler up the stairs and to her bedroom, helping her out of her food-stained clothes and into her already-too-small pyjamas. The waist on the pants was tight, and the shirt didn't want to cover Jennifer's greedy tummy the whole way, so her little bellybutton was on show. With some help, Jennifer got herself into bed and tucked in.
"Night-night sweetheart," Anna said softly, giving her daughter a gentle kiss on the forehead.
"Night-night mummy," Jenny yawned sweetly, snuggling into her bed to sleep.
Anna smiled and quietly made her leave.
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