Matt stepped into room B-15 and was impressed to find that it looked like a decent bedroom, if a little spare. There was a double bed, a big window, a set of shelves from floor to ceiling, a desk, a comfy chair, and a closet. There was also a small fridge and atop it, a microwave. It also was a single room, when he had been expecting to have to share - the school’s brochures had said little about the dorms, and he hadn’t really read them, anyway. He wondered where the nearest grocery store was, so he could keep the little fridge stocked. He dropped his bags by the bed, and went to join Percy. Coming up to Percy, he again marvelled at Percy’s sheer size; the fat gut that rolled so far out over the waist of the pants, the hugely fat pecs - tits, really - the draped down to his gut, the double chin beneath the fat cheeks. Matt also noticed some non-uniform stuff Percy was wearing - the heavy gold hoop earring, the heavy gold chain showing against the dark skin at the open neck of his shirt, and the heavy gold wrist chain. Percy’s short, curly hair was cut in a flat-top - and on the back of his head, a thick pad of fat extended down his neck. Matt wondered if Percy came from the inner city, or if his parents were rich. Instead of asking that, though, he asked Percy, “I don’t completely get it about this school. Are the kids here all trying to get fat?”
“Oh yeah,” replied Percy. “That’s why the school exists, for guys who are fat or want to get fat. Most kids here are like me - I was a fat kid, and I wanted to get fatter.”
“Why do you all want to get fatter?”
“Don’t you? Fat is cool, Matt.”
“Really?”
“Sure! I want to do hip-hop, and just look at the fat guys in that. I want to be just like Big Pun, and he did his best music when he was over 600 pounds. I’ve got the weight, I’ve got the voice, I’ve even got the moves, now I’m just trying to be discovered.”
“Wow, I had no idea he was so big.”
“There are lots of big people in music, it’s just that nobody talks about them.”
Matt and Percy get to the elevator, and Percy inserts his key. At that point