chapter 12

Despite having her old friends ridicule her, Emma didn't curb her new favourite hobby: eating. In fact, Emma now ate increasingly huge amounts of food, and thinking of the hot, skinny models teasing her big belly only made her more excited. She now wanted to walk down the street and have people look in awe at what a fat pig she'd become.
Emma would stay home all day watching TV and devouring tasty, fatty foods. The only time she'd get up was to drive to the Bella's restaurant to get more free junk food. Most days she would spend the whole day on the couch, not even bothering to get up to go to her bedroom at night, and instead sleeping on the couch. She was becoming increasingly lazier by the day: it pained her just to get off the sofa and walk to the kitchen for more food, and even the shortest of distances rendered her out of breath. Exhausted from all the eating she did, she would often fall into food comas, only to awake an hour or so later with a renewed and starving appetite.

Emma had also noticed her roommate's quickly loosening standards. Bella came home every night with two huge bags of grub from Burger Palace. Though she made a big show about having to bring Emma food from work, most nights she would sit down along side her and eat almost a whole bag of the greasy food herself. Emma had a sneaking suspicion that Bella was eating a lot more than she was letting on-her tight clothes squeezed tightly at her softening figure and her belly seemed to be growing quite pudgy. She also seemed to eat a lot more whenever that boyfriend of hers was around, which was often.

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Emma was right to suspect Bella of secretly stuffing herself: though she didn't want to admit it, thanks to Mark stuffing her whenever they were together, her appetite had greatly grown and she now needed more and more food to get her through the day. She would eat shakes and fries all day while she worked, and would often go out with Mark during their lunch breaks to high-end, delicious restaurants were she always ended up overindulging on their rich platters. Despite all this, when she got home at the end of the day, she would devour the junk food her fat roommate always kept in the kitchen when she thought that Emma was out of sight. All this didn't go unnoticed, however; Bella couldn't bear the embarrassment she went through each morning as she struggled to fit her increasingly suffocating work clothes over her doughy body, even though she knew Mark was loving every minute of it.