The Bounty of Mother Earth

"Now this can't be right." Sophia Vasquez stepped off of the scale in her apartment to see if the dial would go back to zero. Stepping on it again, she read the same number as before: 118 pounds. "This says that I've gained three pounds since this time last month. That's impossible!" Sophia exclaimed.

Slipping into her spandex running clothes, she looked at herself in the miror in her bedroom. She couldn't detect any noticeable weight gain on her 5'5'' frame. Taking in every detail of her body, Sophia started at her brown hair. It was pulled back into a pony tail for her run and not a hair was out of place. Next, she went to her face. Her forehead was perfectly smooth and even without makeup on, her long lashes cast a shadow on her eyelids that made the contrast between them and her eyes positively brilliant. Running her gaze along the prominantly sharp angles of her face, she saw they had not changed or dulled at all. Her chest seemed to strain the fabric of her shirt just the slightest and she could just make out the smallest indent of her belly button. She didn't notice anything different about her legs or bum either. Seeing now where the 3 pounds had manifested themselves, Sophia vowed she would not gain another pound.

Returning to her apartment in NYC after her run, Sophia showered and prepared herself for her day at the office. Getting out of the shower, she decided to weigh herself just one more time to tripple check that she had gained three pounds. "Maybe it was wrong. In actuallity, it was probably just water weight. Let me see where I'm at after a five mile jog through Central Park...YOU'VE GOT TO BE JOKING! ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY POUNDS?" Sophia yelled to her empty apartment. "How could this have happened? I've been eating so well and running more than five miles each day. Where did this come from?"

In futile efforts to remember the source of her newfound weight, Sophia hastily dressed for work and checked out her body before leaving her room. She could still make out the slight indentation of her belly button, but quickly hid that with a stylish midsection belt. She left her slightly larger, but still perky, chest to do as it pleased.

On her walk to the office, Sophia was hit with a rainbow of aromas coming from all of the shops around her and could feel her midsection begin to toss in excitement. Wondering when she had gotten this way, she ignored her cravings and walked through and past the delicious smells and straight to her office. Sophia picked up a doughnut from the staff room and began to eat it on her way to her desk. Just finishing the fried treat, she realized what she had just done and wondered how many had preceded that doughnut in the recent past.

Going through her day, Sophia noticed that nobody paid her any more attention than they had in the past and all had failed to notice the new additions to her frame. "It must not be that big of a change if I'm the only one who noticed the difference JUST because I had seen a new number on the scale." By the end of the day Sophia had forgotten entirely about her recent five pound gain and suited up to finish her day's running.

Sophia ran in Central Park every day, twice a day. Rain, snow, light, dark. It was all the same to her. This particular evening, after she had gotten home from work, the sky had darkened considerably and there was a slight mist falling from the sky. As she was running through the park, she heard an enormous growl escape from her stomach. Ignoring its desperate cry for hunger, Sophia continued on with her run until she was stopped by an elderly lady sitting on one of the benches.

"Miss Vasquez, do you have a moment?" An older lady covered by a shawl called out to Sophia as she ran by and beckoned her to come over. Patting the bench, she said to her, "My dear Sophia... How I've been watching you since you were just a little girl has been an honor and a pleasure. I've watched you grow into a beautiful and successful young woman. You've changed so much since I first saw you. The soccer stage is over, barbies have come and gone. Your first kiss seems like ancient history when I look back on it now. It's all happened so fast. I even remember when you bought your first bra all by yourself. How the time has gone..."

Sophia, not having any recognition of who this woman was and thinkning that it was a family friend as she was growing up, suddenly blurted out "Ma'am I am so sorry but I don't recall meeting you." The shawled woman slowly nodded her head like she understood. "Are you a friend of my parents?" Sophia asked after a long pause between the two ladies.

"Yes, yes. I suppose you can say that. I've know your parents for years as well. Since their parents' parents were yet to be conceived. So many changes... Time continues on with or without you. Sometimes it even brings you along when you're trying to run from it. Have you experienced change lately, Sophia Vasquez? Are you beginning to hit another...growth spurt" The older woman asked as she eyed Sophia's midsection.

"Change? Listen, lady, I don't know what you're talking about or who you are, but I think you have me confused with someone else. Or you're just confused in general. I haven't changed in years. At all..." Sophia stated, but then had a second thought. She turned to face the old lady and asked "Do you mean my weight gain? How did you know about that? And what does it mean? How does that have anything to do with me changing?"

Placing a hand on Sophia's slightly swollen stomach, the elder woman started "Sophia, my dear, you are becoming a goddess. You have been chosen and you are now turning into Mother Nature. There is nothing you can do to stop this process. You can accept it and let it occur, or try and fight it and be disappointed. Or, you could speed it up. The choice is yours." The old woman explained to her. "You can give in to your cravings and embrace the body that your position is giving to you, or fight them and become trapped in your body. You will become ever bountiful and more fertile than any other creature to walk this world."

Sophia cried out to the lady, "You're insane. I'm sorry for being rude, but I don't think that you know what you're saying. I'm not turning into Mother Earth and I've been absent-mindedly overeating. I've gained a little weight, but nothing to make me 'ever bountiful' and certainly not to make me the most fertile thing on the planet. I'm sorry, lady, but I have to go." And with this, Sophia ran back to her apartment and went straight to sleep, ignoring her stomach's cries for food and pains of hunger.

After waking up late the next morning, Sophia realizes she has no time for a run. She noticed her reflection in her bathroom mirror as she stepped into the shower. Stepping back out, she stared at her reflection, mezmorized by what she saw. What was hardly noticeable the day before had become almost impossible to miss. Her stomach was distended out farther than it ever had been, but remained firm. Her chest however, had not stayed firm and were beginning to ache a little. Stepping onto her scale, she cried out when she saw that her scale read 130 pounds.

"Ten pounds in one night? After not eating anything? How could this be?" Sophia exclaimed. After taking her shower, she tried to find clothes to dress in that will do something to disguise her mysterious gain. After finding a blouse that did well enough of hiding the new expanse to her midsection, she was delighted but miffed to find that her pants still fit perfectly. Checking herself out one more time in the mirror before she left, she gazed up and down her body and seemed satisfied enough with how well she concealed her stomach. People were just going to have to deal with her chest if they noticed it at all.

Heading to the office that morning, again Sophia was hit with the overpowering scents of everything the bakery's and coffee shops sold. Being overwhelmed herself, she soon found herself in line at one of the shops, waiting to order a breakfast sandwich and some doughnuts. When it was her turn, she placed her order for a half dozen assorted doughnuts and one bacon breakfast sandwich. The young man at the counter stopped her when she began to take her money out of her purse and told her that her breakfast was on the house. She smiled sweetly at him in thanks, and turned to walk in to the office.

On her way in to the office, she grabbed one of the complementary doughnuts offered to the staff every morning. Finishing it off, she lick her lips and opened the bag she had been given at the bakery shop she had stopped at.She was marveled to find one and a half dozen assorted doughnuts and three large bacon breakfast sandwiches. Slightly embarrassed at the amount of food she had and remembering her recent problem with her weight, she decided against eating the doughnuts and instead decided that the three sandwiches couldn't do her any more harm than what had already been done. After Sophia had finished off her last sandwich, she finally a feeling of relief was over her stomach, which had been begging her for food for the past couple days.

"Finally, this monster my stomach has become is satisfied." Sophia said in relief. She left her office and went to make copies and speak with the editer and when she finally returned and settled into her seat about a half hour later, she noticed with a frown that her stomach was slightly resting on her lap, pulling the frills or her blouse tighter against its doming flesh. She stood up and closed her door so she could examine her growing middle more carefully. Once the door was shut, her phone started ringing and when she answered, she heard the familiar voice of the old lady from the park.

"My dear, I am sorry for upsetting you in such a way when we met last night. I wanted to apologize for my manners and say that I was wrong in how I brought up your change into Mother Nature. I know that you are experiencing cravings and your stomach is trying to think for you. Your body will soon become one to support all of nature... Soon, you will begin another step in your change... If you have not all ready. Sophia, my dear girl, this is going to be very hard on you and I am here on my bench for whenever you need me. Accept the change and allow it to happen." At this, the line went dead with no time for Miss Vasquez to answer.

Still in shock from the phone call, Sophia absent mindedly grabbed the doughnuts from her desk and began to eat them. After her third doughnut, she stopped, looking at the box and at the powder on her fingers and went to lock her door. She then lifted up her blouse to examine her newfound protrusion.

Seeing the beginnings of stretch marks at the bottom of her stomach really shocked her. Sophia lifted and prodded and groped her newfound girth as she examined it in the reflection of her shining metal cabinets. She thought to herself "she almost looked...pregnant? No, that couldn't be it. She had just put on some weight recently and hadn't noticed it until the past couple of days was all. Her scale must have been broken and was reading funny numbers. Maybe she had a thyroid problem. Yeah, a thyroid problem. She'll make an appointment to have that checked out. That old lady was crazy."

After pulling her blouse back down over her slightly bulging midsection, Sophia called her doctor to make an apoointment to have her thyroid checked out. Feeling much more secure about her weight gain now, she figured it ok to indulge a bit since she would be going to get her weight problem fixed soon. Grabbing the box containing the remaining doughnuts, she unlocked her door and seated herself at her desk. As the day continued on and lunch time grew nearer and nearer, Sophia felt her fingers graze over the bottom of the box of doughnuts. She gingerly felt her "belly" as she thought of it now to see if there was any new damage done to her globular new asset. Finding a new inch or two having been added on, she decided that she had had enough for the day and regardless of if there was something wrong or not, she was not helping her cause. It was then that several members of her staff walked through her door and invited her to join them for lunch.

"Hey, Chief! Care to join us and some of the guys from the office for lunch? We're ordering in today, but eating as a group in the lounge. We'd really like you there, Sophia." One of the desk people from the office said to her. Knowing well that it was an awful idea, Sophia hastily agreed to join her coworkers in lunch. She wasn't invited to many social gatherings in her little world. She usually ate, slept, worked, and ran. She just couldn't let this opprotunity slip up. She readily replied "Yeah, sure guys! That'd be grand! Lemme just grab my jacket... What are we having anyways?"

Mark, the man who had spoken before, told her "Your favoreite, boss. Supreme pizzas all around the offices!" Hearing his boss's stomach growl quite obnoxiously at the mention of supreme pizza, Mark exclaimed in a rather gleeful manner "And it sounds like you could well use the lunch break. Have you eaten at all today yet?" Not wanting to sound gluttonour, Sophia told me she had one of the office's complementary doughnuts this morning, which wasn't a lie, simply not the full truth. "I'll meet you guys in the staff lounge in about five minutes, ok? I've got a few pices of paper I have to file away and then I'll grab my jacket and head down. If you guys have already started, make sure to save me a whole lot. I haven't treated myself to pizza in what seems like forever!"

Grabbing her jacket and heading down to the hallway to the elevator, Sophia silently cursed herself for so readily agreeing to eat lunch with the guys. She hadn't even thought about it before answring, but was now expected to show up and indulge in greasey dough. Again she cursed herself after pushing the button to go down to the staff lounge because she always always uses the stairs. She'd never even considered the elevator before. Once she showed up, Sophia removed her jacket and placed it on its rack to reveal her glowing figure to all the men who were waiting for her. "Wait a second." Sophia thought to herself. "Men? And just men? And me? Looks like my weight gain hasn't scared off the guys yet..." At this, she strutted towards the group, who seemed estatic to see her, with her stomach seemingly leading the way. Mark spoke first while the others were still gawking and said "Hey, Chief! We waited for you to start. No offense, but this is guy time, so we all get our own pie. Feel free to share or steal someone elses if you finish up first. It's all about survival of the fittest here!" And with that, Sophia Vasquez was presented with her very own marvelous, large, supreme pizza. Knowing she shouldn't, Sophia readily dug clear in as soon as the box was set down.

Forgoing a plate and napkin once she was seated, Miss Vasquez pulled out her first slice of the magnificant pie, noticing the cheese and grease dripping off of it. Not wanting to lose any of the toppings, she hurrily placed it in her mouth, taking a devestating bite from the slice. Finding the taste somewhat ecstatic, the piece of pizza quickly disappeared in a matter of seconds. Following shortly after, a second, a third, and then a fourth slice magically found their way down into Sophia's hungry belly.

Some of the guys, not being able to keep up with her, decided it'd be best to let Sophia just go to town on the pizza, not having to get up to get more or hopefully even notice she had begun to run out. Slowly at first, but catching on at an exponential rate, more and more of the guys from the office, about twenty in all, began replacing the pieces just as quickly as they disappeared from her box. Being caught up in the sheer delight of treating herself to something that had so long been forbidden to her, Sophia didn't even notice as her twentieth slice appeared to slide down just as easily as the first. The guys however, taking notice of how much she was eating and that she showed no signs of slowing down at this point, decided to donate their pizzas to their eager boss, being carefull to not be noticed.

Finishing the equivalent of four whole large pizzas at this point, Sophia paused to go get herself a drink. Upon leaving her seat, she noticed that she had almost a whole pizza left, while the other guys were finishing off their last slices. Straightening her back to stand upright, she felt the massive pressure of her stomach push against her belt that she had placed over it in attempt to hide its growing protrudance. Glancing down at it, she was shocked to see it seemingly massive. Reaching the drinks table, she poured herself a glass of soda and glanced back down at it. Noting that it seemed smaller than when she had just looked, she decided her mind was playing tricks on her and she was letting her obsession with her stomach begin to manifest itself in her mind. Her hunger not being the slightest bit phased, Sophia returned to her seat to attack the "rest of her pizza."

Digging back in with a renewed gusto, the guys in the office again began to replace the slices that found their way to doom in Sophia's hands. Seeing her pace begin to slow after another three pies worth of pizza, the guys let Sophia finish off what's left in her box. Sophia was left in the lounge with her box of pizza after the rest of the group left after cleaning their rubbage. Not believing she was about to finish a whole pizza by herself, Sophia asked Doug, the last guy about to leave the lounge, if he wanted to help her finish off her pizza. Being sarcastic, he said to her "Jeeze, boss. I'd love to, but the other guys and I really pigged out today. You hardly had a thing. Why don't you take the leftovers? I'll even help you bring them up to your office." Sophia, however, not noticing the sarcasm, replied back "Sure Doug, that'd be great! I'll be eating pizza for days though..." with a wink. At this, she proceeded to get up to carry her box up to her office. Trying three seperate times, Sophia finally managed to roll her way out of her seat and was caught off guard by her new centre of gravity. Approaching the elevator due to thinking she would be unable to walk up the stairs being so uncomfortable, Sophia Vasquez was startled to hear Doug say, "Boss, the leftovers are over here. if you take a couple boxes, I'll bring the rest up." As she turned around, she knocked over the stack of cups with her extremely bloated stomach, and saw roughly eight more boxes of pizza, one being a sheet. "We expected more guys to come down so we ordered a lot. I think you'll be able to finish them though. Ha!" Doug proclaimed as Sophia was shocked to see so much more pizza, and even more shocked to hear her stomach let out a low rumble and ache as her mouth watered at the thought of more.
After huffing and puffing up to her office, Sophia decided to take the rest of the day off and coerced Doug to give her a ride home by pushing her very full bust out to strain the fabric of her blouse. Feeling extremely bloated and drowsy, Sophia had Doug load the pizzas into her refrigerator, which she kept empty, and she went straight to sleep. After awaking around the time she usually took her run, she used the bathroom and took a look at her reflection in the mirror. She did look pregnant. Definitely pregnant. Leaving it to the bloating from the dough of the pizza, Sophia also noticed that the angles on her face were a lite less pronounced than usual and her breasts were sagging more than usual. Deciding that it was a weight gain, Sophia reluctantly decided to get dressed in her spandex to go running for the night.

Slipping on her running pants, she noticed they were slightly more snug around her hips than they had been previously but slid on fine. Her top however was not as forgiving while going on. She had to wrestle for a second trying to unroll the material over her slightly larger bust and stretched it over her swelling middle. "Well old girl, we're going to have to bite the bullet and go out sooner or later. As Sophia was putting her shoes on, her stomach began to rumble softly and she started to feel like she was dreaming. Her eyesight became slightly blurred and her body felt like it was on autopilot without her control. Standing up and walking with a hand under her stomach, Sophia went into the kitchen and took out her leftover pizza. A note was taped to the top box and Sophia took little notice in her trance-like state, but saved it to memory all the same. The note read "My dear, Sophia. If you're reading this then fate is already building you up to be fertile beyond anyone else. Your body is in a transition and you are becoming Mother Nature. You need the nutrients to build your motherly shape and to maintain the magic growing within you. I will keep my tabs on you. Now don't you forget to clean this mess up when you're done! (:"