Chapter 3

Two camera men had munched on Melody's cookies and vanilla ice cream while taking the shoots of her getting ready for her date. She seemed to have become even fatter that pass month, and she had to ask from Frank to help her with her dress' zipper. He pushed and pushed, Melody's face getting red both from the effort of sucking her belly inside, and also from the disgraced she was passing in front of these strangers.

"You won't show that part in the show, right?" she begged, as Frank kept stuffing her back fat inside the fabric and close, bit by bit, the zipper. She had no idea how she is going to breathe today, not to mention sit down, but this should worry her later.

The production crew and the band manager himself – the legendary Kory Murphy - explained her more or less what is going to happen today. First, the entire band will come to her apartment; see all of her posters and Vanilla Lumps items. After that, she and Ursula will go out to a theater play, where Ursula will dedicate one song for her and sing it before the play will start. After that, they will go to a nice lunch at a fancy restaurant, a walk in a luxurious park, and at the end they will join the rest of the band in their hotel suits.

While they will be out, the band itself will follow them on the television while the cameras will be recording them, and talk among themselves and give amusing comments about how Ursula is dealing with the date. When Kory heard Frank is also a big fan of the band, he invited him to join them in the hotel, where he could give his own comments about Melody.

But in the mean time… in the mean time Melody was sweating like a pig – until that in a last swing the zipper was close. She felt a bit like a captive as one member of the crew begun to put a lot of makeup on her. Although she wasn't used to it, after she looked in the mirror, she was shocked to see a whole different glamorous face over there.

"You could have been so pretty," said the woman who gave her hair and lips the final touch. "if you would only loose all that extra weight…"

Even through the make up, it was easy to see that crimson color that spread on her cheeks. The dress dug into her flesh and she tried not to move too much.

And then, the bell rang.

She went to the door, barely breathing out of excitement and effort. Frank was standing next to her, all of the cameras on them, as she opened the door.

There she stood – the most magnificent being Melody had ever had the privilege of being next to. She felt like a tiny fat hobbit next to a beautiful elf princess, as her eyes stuck into the familiar face she only saw on TV, the computer or her posters. The huge blue eyes that were usually static, or looking at her band members in live shows, were now examine her.

"H-hey" said Melody weakly.