chapter 10

-- 2 months later -- Winter

"One hundred .... ninety .......... *** ... NINE!" Pete grunted as he stepped of the scale. "199 pounds! That puts me up 8 since summer... and I don't think this is muscle mass,"
Pete pinched at the softened skin collected right above his skinny jeans. "What ever now that its winter break I can start going to the gym again... Lex will be thrilled... and Sarah for that matter she doesn't seem to look at me since this happened"
Pete slapped his little belly, as he grabbed his uniform from the closet. He was a host at a local Mexican food restaurant down the street where his girlfriend recently got hired. He started as a busboy there 2 years ago, but because of all the high school girls he was attracting to the restaurant the manager made him a Host.
Pete was quite something to look at - even if his pants were fitting a littler tighter lately. He was tall about 6feet and very well proportioned. He had crisp blue eyes and a little chin scruff that made every girl ogle. His brown hair was longer then usually, but he always styled it for work, often making a small faux-hawk in the front that drew attention to his angular face and strong jaw line. His whole family was pale and no matter how hard he tried to tan, his skin stayed a creamy white that made his eyes pop and hair look darker. As an added bonus Pete was on the swim team so ever girl knew exactly what he was working with. His tight speedo left little to the imagination, but definitely gave the girls, and some of the guys, something to fantasies about. This and Pete's quirky charming personality landed him a raise and a bump to Host after only a few months of working there.

Pete was hoping his weight gain would go unnoticed at work, but since Pete had to let-out his vest and unbutton his pants he was doubtful the other servers wouldn't see it. He had taken a small break from work so he could focus on school and this shift would be his first day back since he put on the weight.
"God this is going to be a long day," Pete thought. " No one ever comes in Tuesday afternoons all I get to do is stand behind the podium and look happy... Well at least Sarah and I can catch up a little... I mean she is my girl friend after all and we've barley even Facebook chatted recently..."
Pete really liked Sarah. They met at Pete's swim meet when she accidentally grazed his speedo on the way to the concession stand. 30 minutes later they were in the supply closet making out and lets just say Pete wasn't the only one topless. Since then they had ben inseparable until Pete got bogged down with homework. There relationship was almost purely physical, but when Pete stopped going to the gym Sarah stopped coming over, and every time he would ask her out she would have urgent matters to attend to and family emergency's, but Pete liked her so much he never got the hint. But Pete was determined to change things. He was going to tell her he was going to get back in shape and make more time for her now that college aps were done. He wanted to make it work and if that meant only eating dressing-less side-salads and exhausting himself at the gym, then so be it.

Pete got the work a few minutes early and cleaned up his station. He was dying to talk to Sarah and was practically hyperventilating searching for her. His hands were shaking, knees twitching, and he was sweating buckets, not to mention the very noticeable boner he was sporting thinking about their numerous make out sessions in the break room. But Sarah never showed up.

By Pete's lunch break; a time usually spent with Sarah in the back room, Pete was stuffing his face with comfort burritos and wallowing while he inhaled handfuls of free nachos. He could hear his co-workers whisper about his weight gain and see them make fat faces out of the corner of his eye, but he didn't really care. He was so upset that Sarah was avoiding all of his calls and now missing shifts at work so she didn't have to see him that a few jerks at work went unnoticed by Pete. After his shift ended Pete started walking home depressed about Sarah and rubbing his distended belly.

"I can't believe she didn't show up... I cant believe I ate all that food " he mumbled to himself as he began unbuttoning his work vest, "how am I suppose to tell her I can change if she wont take my calls, or see me, or even show up to work! I mean what am I suppo..."

Pete stopped mid thought when realized that his newly acquired gut burst through his button down during work. Luckily his co-workers didn't notice since his vest covered it up, but he was embarrassed just the same. "Oh man! God this sucks!" Pete took a deep sigh and just decided to forget about it for tonight since he had too much else to worry about and just go get another shirt.

Luckily Target was on his way home and since he had just gotten off work he had a lot of tip money he could spend. He walked up and down the clearance isles, but he couldn't find an actual black plain medium button down. He found 2 so called mediums already, but after he tried them on over his undershirt he found they fit tighter then the medium he had already! After an hour of his pointless denial and trying on several different mediums he finally grabbed a large and headed for the cashier.
" I cant believe this is happening. Its called the freshman 15 not the high school senior 15 .... God I hate my life!"

Feeling even more depressed Pete stopped in the candy isle to try and make himself feel better and picked up a box of king sized snickers, butter finger, and kit-kat as well as a assorted bag of dove chocolate and york peppermint paddies. The girl at the checkout counter joked if she could come to the party he was throwing, but Pete was not amused. He let out a half smile and walked away feeling even worse about his purchase.

"I cant believe I bought all of this... for myself!" Pete thought as he looked into the sacks, "I never use to eat this junk ... Lex never let me... But it tastes SOOO good..." Pete reached into the bad of chocolates and plopped it in his mouth. "So what if I put on a few pounds, I'm gunna work them off and get back into shape in time for college... I might as well enjoy tonight and get back on the bandwagon tomorrow... yeah one last night of indulgence and then back to the kale shakes and ab-workouts."

Pete continued justifying his purchase as he stuffed his face with the rest of the dove chocolates and moved onto the Snickers. Every bite made him feel happier and got his mind off his troubles with Sarah. Every chocolate chunk and caramel swirl brought him more and more peace of mind and relieved his stress from college apps. Pete was happier then he had been in weeks and it was all thanks to isle 5's goodies. He continued stuffing his face until he got home, ripped of his pants, and lay down in his bed, rubbing his distended belly.

"So full..." Pete groaned as he reached for the last of his candy stash and plopped it in his mouth. Sprawled out on his bed, Pete was rubbing his enormous stomach when he started to get hard. He wasn't really sure why, since all he was thinking about was food, but being a horny teenager he didn't question it and started jerking off. It didn't take long and was so incredible that he even let out a moan of pleasure when he came. A few minutes later, lying in candy wrappers and cum he passed out.

The next morning he woke up with a look of amusement on his face. He sat up, covered in candy wrappers and crumbs and let out a laugh as he started at the mess he had made.

"I cant believe I ate all that sugar," he thought as he got out of his bed and started to peel the wrappers off his body, "was a good night though... best Pete-time I have ever had..." Pete started to reflect on last night when his stomach let out a giant growl... " WOW can't believe I'm hungry after that..." Pete reached into the grocery bag and found only candy wrappers. "***! All gone... o well should start cutting back anyway."

Pete threw on some sweats and went to the kitchen to make himself a shake, but when he got there he saw his mom had made him a pancake breakfast before work and cooked him some bacon with scrambled eggs. "O man that looks good... Well I would hate to waste it ... and I am reallllllly hungry... so a protein shake wouldn't fill me up anyway..." Pete got a little hard thinking about all the grease food in front of him and decided he would have one last indulgence before the diet started. But after he woofed down his breakfast and partook in a little more Pete-time, he decided to make a day of it and throw in that pizza he had been craving since his mom brought it home and even bake that cookie dough that had been in their fridge for weeks. All he knew for sure was that he needed a pick-me-up and it felt good to indulge a little. Needless to say the whole getting back in shape thing wasn't going to happen...