Seth and Tess looked to have 600 pounds apiece, over half a ton of young flab sharing an apartment no bigger than Alice and Zack’s. Over the course of the lunch and chit-chat afterwards they would see that the two were well-versed in navigating the ‘economic’ apartment (‘We like to think of it as ‘intimate,’’ Tess said later, prompting a Gomez Addams-type leer from Seth) without colliding into something. Zack noticed there weren’t any end tables or bookshelves or whatever else could be casually knocked over. Everything was put up on shelves running along all the walls, kept at shoulder-height at a minimum.
Obviously the two had not been transformed overnight. Not that Zack thought the Freshman 15 ever went so overboard as to be a Freshman 450.
As comforting, in an odd way, as meeting with two out-and-out fatties was, there was still an awkward period of getting past that initial shock and seeing Seth and Tess as Seth and Tess and not two blimps of blubber. It was hard to look at their face or follow their hands as they gesticulated when said face or hands were lost behind bellies bigger than a beanbag or when Tess, sitting across from Seth at the table and thus around the corner of both Alice and Zack, was resting on a butt big enough to double as a loveseat.
Tess, a natural brunette, was a pear. That was the first thing Alice and Zack noticed. They couldn’t help it. When they had walked into the apartment’s tiny foyer and turned towards the kitchen, they had seen her bent over in front of the stove, her rear rising so high and so far back it was brushing against the fridge on the opposite side of the room. Her hips expanded so wide they masked the oven and part of the cabinets on either side.
Not that the rest of her was given the shaft. Her breasts – great gelatinous mounds that jiggled at the slightest provocation – exceeded any department store’s underwear section. Bras had to be specially made for her, and today it looked like she was going without. And her belly, tiny as it was compared to the rest of her, still bulged out like a gravid womb, rolling over the waist band of her skirt.
Seth was mostly belly, but he had so much middle that after a couple attempts Zack and Alice realized they couldn’t just walk around him in the hallways of the apartment, or outside the apartment either. His belly was too big for him to wrap his arms around, falling past the middle of thighs and looking perpetually stuffed (which, Zack later mused, it might be). Every part of him was a collection of rolls and bulges, but his belly was like a solid sphere for fat leading him around everywhere.
Probably in search of more food, if his performance at lunch was any indication of his appetite. The spread laid out on the table was a feast, the kind of meal that made Alice and Zack flashback to the heftier part of their life. And not necessarily in a bad way.
There was a giant bowl of lobster bisque, a single crab cake the size of a cake, cheddar biscuits overflowing a basket, lobster rolls, fried calamari strips, mashed potatoes with sour cream and chives, steamed carrots drowning in butter, French fries seasoned in garlic salt and for dessert pieces of tiramisu as big as bricks.
Alice and Zack spent all of five seconds fighting the urge to pig out, an effort that fell away as Seth and Tess dove in. Filling their plates until they almost spilled onto the table, the two Abercrombie natives greedily claimed massive portions of every dish for themselves and began chowing down. They went at it with such gusto that you could see their bodies shaking and quivering as they scooped food to their mouths and they chewed furiously.
They weren’t out and out pigs, but it was clear from their excitement that these two didn’t come by their size by happenstance. They had done this to themselves, and they felt no regret about it.
Well, Alice said silently as she looked across the table to Zack and shrugged, when in Rome.
Taking the lead of their hosts, the two newcomers filled their own plates, taking as much as they thought they wanted. One bite was all it took to get them hooked; for Alice it was the crab cake (she had cut off a sizable piece) and for Zack it was the lobster rolls. Both were so delicious it was almost surprising. They both knew how good food could taste, but they hadn’t expected anything like this from a simple get-together. This was almost gourmet-level cuisine.
If this was what Seth and Tess ate normally, no wonder they were so large.
The first course went into seconds, Seth and Tess leading the way as they refilled their plates to the threat of spillage and Alice and Zack following suit later. They didn’t eat as fast or as much as their hosts, but the two had both decided to let loose this one time and enjoy the food to the fullest. So they went into seconds, thirds, and then fourths.
The final course was a dish-cleaning exercise, as everyone took the final portions of whatever dish they fancied and cleaned it out. Zack grabbed the last two lobster rolls and the last few cheddar biscuits, while Alice finished off the mashed potatoes and calamari. Seth pulled the remainder of the crab cake (a full third of it was left) onto his plate, and Tess picked up the bowl of lobster bisque and drank straight from it to finish it off.
At the end Alice and Zack were almost in pain, their bellies swollen uncomfortably, but Seth and Tess looked like they were thinking about ordering a pizza.
“Oof,” Alice moaned. Her duties as a guest pushed through her food-hazed mind. “Thank you for the food. That was...” she trailed off.
“It was outstanding,” Zack finished. “Are either of you guys a cook?”
“Not professionally,” Seth said. “But I’ve taken a few culinary courses at school, and Tess has always known her way around the kitchen.”
“Well I’m impressed,” Alice said. “I couldn’t help myself, that was all too good.”
“Yeah,” Zack added. “I thought this was just a normal get-together. I wasn’t expecting you guys to go all out.”
Seth chuckled, his eyes meeting Tess’ as she smiled coyly.
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