Adoration

chapter 8

May crawled into June and the mercury began to rise, James and Mike had been staying in a lot more because neither of them wanted to go out and sweat in the heat of summer. Merida kept the freezer and fridge full of summer foods while she worked, the rise in temperature meant more time in the hospital with heat related illnesses, no one ever seemed to listen to those advisories to stay hydrated and cool when it got hot out. It meant more time away from her fat boys and less time to make sure that machine James built worked.

James knew how much it hurt for Merida to miss out on his gaining so he tried extra hard to eat as much as he could take so he could fill out for her when she did get those rare days off work to spend with him. Mike's summer vacation would be starting soon so he would be home all day for two months, Mike wanted to spend those days eating and getting bigger for the new school year. Mike was actually wearing some of James' clothes that he had outgrown recently so it saved some money on getting him new clothes too.

"So you have everything you need right?" Merida asked.

"Yes baby, fridges and freezer fully stocked and ready; AC is working fine and there are plenty of things to watch on TV, I'm good." James replied.

"I hate that I have to miss this but work is work. And someone needs to make sure you fatties are well fed and satisfied." Merida said.

"I know but I will try really hard to make sure you have your happy fat man waiting for you when you come home."

"I love you." Merida said.

"Love you more baby." James replied.

Merida left with a sad look of longing at him and James rubbed his chubby paws together; he had a whole day of eating and stuffing planned and he was raring to begin. Only thing that stopped him was getting up to get the food. Last month was good for him, he'd put on about 12 pounds of new fat and the stretch marks were beginning to deepen on his pale belly. His weigh in had placed him at 466 recently and he loved it. Mike's weigh in put him at 316, his boy was gaining quicker than he was and it made him proud. Mike was wearing some of the clothes they had cleared out for his feeding machine that was really working well.

James knew it was because of the machine that he was gaining quicker than before, liquids were so much easier to get down and he loved the sloshy, heavy feeling it gave him after he drained a whole jar of weight gain shake over the day. James had several stove burners going with some bacon, eggs, fried chicken, sausages and everything else fryable he could find, in the oven he had a family sized lasagna and a Shepard's pie going. He turned the sausages over and flipped the eggs, his mouth watered as the smells of all the fatty foods wafted through the kitchen. Mike was at school and would be home soon so he had something working in the microwave for him too. James' belly made it hard to bend over the stove too far and the last thing he needed to do was scar his beautiful belly with burns or his shirt which was already riding up again.

He popped a handful of the jalapeno poppers he had already made into his mouth as he turned the chicken over. He had nuked a whole box of them, a family sized box and they still didn't last too long. Even after the three butter drenched popcorn bags he'd already inhaled before them didn't satiate his hunger. The eggs and bacon were done so he shut off the burner and loaded them onto a plate; the sausages were next then finally the chicken. He loaded the plates up and carried them over to his spot on the couch, the coffee table was already filled with the empty boxes of cookies and candy he'd had after his first stuffing this morning. He sat down with a grunt and began filling up, the channel was set to his favourite show Iron Chef and his mind was racing about how he could make the dishes they were on it for tomorrow. James took notes on the show's dishes, making substitutions for fatter options than the low calorie ingredients that they were using.

He did want to be healthy but he also didn't want to eat like a rabbit and feel unsatisfied afterwards. The food commercials that came on also gave him ideas for more food. Like the Taco Bell Double Stuffed Taco with all that melted cheese and beef layered between two hard tacos and wrapped in a soft tortilla. He drooled at the thought of all that sliding into his gut. Even the Cheesy Gordita Crunch that had more cheese inside the tortilla, he planned to make a Taco Bell run because of that alone.

James had to look at the debit card online to make sure he had money left in there to make his food run with. Along with grocery shopping and other fixed costs he had to pay for, the money train was getting pretty small. He worried that he would have to go back to work just to support his eating habits. He didn't want to leave all that on Merida, it felt wrong for her to have to pay to keep him and his son fat and full of food.

As a man, he had to be able to provide for his family and make sure that they have everything they need. Mike would soon be off to college and that would be another expense that would be coming up, it would deplete his food budget. James pulled up the college fund that he and Allison had begun for Mike when he was a baby and there was enough in there to pay for a two year college degree, tuition, books, rent for a house or dorm room on campus, as well as any other surprise expenses that might come up. It would make the food budget for Mike smaller so he would have to have a part time job as well. It was a discussion that the three of them needed to have soon. Mike was nearing his seventeenth birthday and his senior year of high school; James sat back and thought about how long it had really been. It felt like only yesterday Mike was a bouncing baby boy and now he was getting ready for college. Where did all that time go?