chapter 4

It would be wrong to describe Hilda Pzybylski as an evil woman. Neglected. Ignored. Overlooked. Yes all that and more. But truly evil? Not really. So it should come as no surprise that Hilda never set out to do Amanda any harm. She didn't HATE Amanda, she was just jealous of all the attention that seemed to come her way.

The thing to understand was that Hilda wasn't unattractive. She had a pretty, round face with just the slightest hint of a double chin. Her breasts were full and firm and her belly was ever so slightly round, about what you'd expect from a woman who stood around five feet six inches tall and weighed somewhere between one hundred fifty and one hundred sixty pounds. In fact, there were several men at the hospital who thought Hilda was quite something and tried to strike up some kind of a relationship with her. But she would have none of it. In her mind it was either Max or nobody.

Hilda knew she couldn't do anything to detract from Amanda's accomplishments. Her career was on an upward curve and likely to stay there. Amanda had a brilliant mind and nothing Hilda could do would change that fact. Which is why Hilda fixated on the one thing over which she COULD exert some degree of control, Amanda's weight.

While Max spent hour after hour coming up with new and delicious recipes for Amanda to enjoy, he was too shy to be the one who actually SERVED them to her. That task he left up to the one person on his staff he felt he could trust. That's right, Hilda.

Obviously, Hilda wasn't about to carve up Amanda's face or accidentally on purpose pour acid on it. For one thing, that was illegal. And Hilda wasn't about to spend the next twenty years in jail for the likes of Amanda Frazek. And that kind of violent behavior lacked subtlety and Hilda was nothing if she wasn't subtle. Ah, but one of Amanda's outstanding features was her supermodel figure, which is what Hilda spent all her time thinking about. She made it her mission to find a way to fatten Amanda Frazek up. Fortunately, Max inadvertently gave her the means to fatten Amanda up. After all, who was it who put Max's delicious meals in front of Amanda for her to enjoy? And if the low-cal recipes Max specialized in were slightly altered, who would be the wiser? Who indeed!!!