Chapter 8 - in trouble

"You know I have to report you.."

Britta was utterly humiliated. Here she was, days from graduation, so drunk that she had to crawl home. But, on some level, she was kind of relieved. Her parents were always so concerned with her appearance and she guessed she had gained about 10 pounds (she guessed very wrong), and a part of her was happy to stay away from home a little longer. So she didn't argue with him, simply turned herself in, and accepted her punishment. She knew it meant 3 more months.

At her second intake evaluation, the former hot girl weighed in at 176.2 pounds. The nurse weighing her seemed concerned.

"Britta, I know you're here to focus on your drug addiction, but you know, food addiction is bad too"

"What?"

"I mean.. there are a lot of dangers involved with obesity."

"What?"

&qu ot;I'm just saying.. being severely overweight has health risks of its own."

Britta simply looked lost, she couldn't understand why this lady was telling her about fat people. Obviously she knew that it wasn't healthy to be fat! She went to college!

The nurse saw her confusion and immediately felt bad. She knew she was supposed to build these poor kids self-esteem, they already had so little. So she decided to backtrack.

"So you don't want to, um, end up there..."

The nurse sat with apprehension, hoping she pulled it off. But when a fat girl is deeply in denial, it's not hard to do. So of course, Britta accepted her response with no question.

"Well, obviously, I would never let myself get fat!"

The nurse felt like her complete lack of self-awareness was kind of sad, but what could she do? She never told Britta her weight- if she had, it may have changed things- and let her go back up to her dorm blissfully unaware of how big she had actually gotten.

At 120 days (30 days into her second stay) Britta was even chubbier than before. She had been through one and a half graduating classes, and all those girls had seemed to really pack it on! But Britta knew she was cuter than any of them were. Otherwise, why would their chef seem to only flirt with her?

In his obsession with Britta, Jason had sort of let the rest of the girls be. Natural soberity and good food added a good ten pounds to most of the girls- hell, even the guys- but it was much less than before. He only cared about the fattening of this one magnificent girl. He didn't care about how thin many of the girls left. He didn't care about how many of them never even got thick. He didn't even care about how thick he was getting himself..