Chapter 2

The next day, Ellie put on her sweats and made her way to the gym. Of course she wasn’t a member so she asked for Nancy at the front desk and they paged her. In a few moments, Nancy emerged from the change room and said “Oh my god, I didn’t think you’d come” as she hugged her then jokingly she pinched one of Ellie’s chubby cheeks. This embarrassed Ellie and made her feel even more self conscious. The girl at the front desk noticed what Nancy had done and just rolled her yes in disbelief. “That Nancy, she’s so full of herself” she thought.

“Come Ellie, you’ll be my pet project.” Nancy said as they made their way to the aerobic room.

“What do you mean?” replied Ellie.

“I mean, it’ll be my personal mission to whip you up into shape” said Nancy. “I am after all, a personal trainer”.

“But aren’t you busy with your clients?” Ellie asked.

“Naw, I’m kinda slow right now. Those fat old ladies can’t handle my intensity”.

“Intensity? Is that what you call it” thought Ellie. “Ok, but I really can’t afford it”

“Don’t worry about that… let’s get to it” said Nancy and off they went.

After a two hour grueling workout of aerobics and weight training Ellie was exhausted and not to mention famished.

“You want to go for a coffee?” asked Nancy.

Ellie replied “Sure, why not”.

So off they went to their local coffee house.

At the counter Ellie orders a little more than her usual she was starving after the workout.

“I’ll have a large coffee with three creams and three sugars and two glazed donuts and a chocolate chunk cookie please” Ellie asked politely.

“Excuse me?” Nancy said. “What are you doing?”

“I’m ordering… what would you like?” replied Ellie.

“Well you’re not having that. EXCUSE ME. Cancel that last order. We’ll have two cups of green tea please, black” replied Nancy in a motherly tone.

“If you’re going to be my pet project, you’ll have to do and eat what I say or else it’ll never work. No wonder you’re such a cow. Don’t you want to be thin and beautiful like me?” Nancy continued.

Ellie replied “I guess… but…”

“No buts…” snapped Nancy.

Ellie and Nancy sat down and enjoyed their tea and they actually had a good conversation, catching up on old times. Nancy was really a nice girl, sure she had her faults but Ellie figured that she could deal with the demeaning stuff especially since after all, they were childhood friends and also for the reason that a girl like Nancy was willing to spend her time for free to help Ellie get on track… and having a gorgeous friend never hurts.

Two weeks have past and Nancy was working Ellie really hard in the gym, 4 days a week.

“Time to step on the scale girl” said Nancy.

Ellie steps on the scale, Nancy slides the weights until the teetering stops.

“I don’t believe it” says Nancy, “240! You haven’t lost a pound!”

“You must eat like an insatiable pig at home” Nancy yells to Ellie.

Embarrassed and blushing, Ellie says “I can’t help it”.

Nancy storms out.

The next day, Nancy calls up Ellie “Hi Ellie, listen, I’m sorry I yelled at you yesterday”

Ellie replied “No problem, I understand that you want the best for me and I’m not keeping up my end of the bargain. I’ll do better I promise”

Nancy replied “Ok, as long as you promise, but I have an idea. I’m getting kinda tired of the city, how about we head up to my cottage for a bit… this way we get out of the hustle and bustle and we can really focus on getting you into shape”

What Ellie didn’t realize is that Nancy wanted to have full control of what Ellie did and ate.

“Oh, I don’t know Nancy, I really can’t afford it” said Ellie.

“Don’t worry about that, I’ll take care of everything… it’s not problem, really” replied Nancy.

Ellie quickly replied “Ok, let’s do it.”