Though Hilary was generally pretty polite and unaggressive, she and Joseph were very close, and she had always felt freer around him - except on the question of her weight, where he had always been a downer. So this once Hilary snapped back at Joseph, "That's pretty rich coming from you, Mr. Amateur Sumo star!"
"Hey, guys are allowed to be fat!" Joseph retorts, standing up straighter and shaking his sumo gut. He rubs one hand over it as it to reassure himself that it's still there, then speaks again. "Besides, weight in my sport is a good thing."
"Yeah, well, POTS shouldn't call kettles black!" Hilary retorted. "It's not as if you're not trying to get bigger too!"
"Yeah, well, if I want to be Yokozuna someday, I gotta eat!" replies Joseph, now on the defensive himself.
Hilary smiled. "So now you're defensive. You know, we should really band together - do things together. After all, we both love to eat." Hilary proposed this after every one of her tiffs with Joseph over weight, and while their 'common front' never lasted very long, they both usually got at least one good gorge in from each time they agreed.
"Sounds good!" replies Joseph. "Let's bump bellies on it!" This too was part of the ritual - when it started, Hilary had been bigger than Joseph, even though he was older, but now he was taller and...
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