chapter 6

Stella and Steven arrived that night. To the girls' surprise, Stella had gained quite a few pounds from her honeymoon, and bulged out of her dress quite noticeably and quite unattractively. All three of them went out for supper that night at a fancy steakhouse in town, where they caught up on everything that happened since they'd last seen each other. They drank heavily and were enjoying themselves, but when Maggie asked Stella about how her honeymoon had gone, a strange look passed across her face.
"The food was so amazing! There was a free buffet 24/7, and it was so nice to just lie down at the beach and sleep all day, and to have everything done for you by the resort workers." She paused.
"B-but me and Steven didn't get along very well. H-he called me lazy! He said he was concerned about my weight, but I was just enjoying my honeymoon! I deserve to have some fun too-maybe I gained a pound or two, but he's just being a jerk."
Both Sophia and Maggie avoided Stella's gaze.
"Oh, girls, it was awful. He didn't even try to touch me once the whole time we were in Hawaii."
The three old friends each ordered a large slab of steak and a thick slice of chocolate lava cake that night, along with two bottles of red wine shared between them. Sophia stayed over at Maggie's house that night.
In the middle of the night she awoke famished, and tiptoed downstairs to the kitchen, where she found Stella gluttonously feasting on the various cupcakes, donuts, cookies, and candies Maggie kept stocked in her cupboards.
"Oh, hey! Want some?" Stella whispered through a mouthful of girl guide cookies, shoving the rest of the box at Sophia, who gratefully crammed them in her mouth.
"God, I didn't want to say anything to Maggie, but she's gotten so huge! She's a blimp! I wonder what the others are going to say at the reunion behind her massive ass." Stella giggled and popped a Twinkie in her mouth. She'd clearly been drinking.
Sophia regarded her friend in disgust and watched as she lowered the rim of pyjama pants and pushed her shirt up to her breasts to allow for her large, protruding belly. Sophia grabbed the open donut box from beside her and stuffed it in her face, trying to distract herself as Stella rubbed her bloated stomach, groaning and burping loudly. She must have gained at least another twenty five pounds since she'd last seen her, and was growing rapidly. Sophia put down the last, half-eaten donut. She needed to start eating healthier or she would end up just like her hefty friends.
"I'm so scared that this marriage isn't going to work out," Stella slurred. "Steven has been acting so cold towards me since our honeymoon." She bit into a Twinkie, and the icing squirted out into the cleavage of her large breasts.
"Do you think I'm fat and lazy, like he said?"
Sophia didn't know how to respond. Her friend was so obviously deep in denial it was almost comical.
"Of course not, sweetie! You look gorgeous. You uh, you look even better now than before the wedding!" She lied through her teeth, cringing as her friend smiled widely, revealing a mouth full of food.


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