Chapter 4 - the waiting game

Kelly didn't need to worry about her gainer shakes going missing anymore. Each morning when she came down, they were sat there in the refrigerator, waiting for her. She felt relieved that her chat with Gus had worked on this front, but she also had a worried knot in her stomach about what might happen next; stressing about what Gus may say to the other guys in the house. A juicy secret like this could never stay hidden once someone found out about it. She started emailing student services, enquiring about new rooms available, each one even more expensive than the last.

First, a week went by without anything being said. Then another week passed. Kelly's tension started to ease. Maybe Gus would keep it to himself after all; or maybe he just didn't even care. Was she really that invisible and uninteresting to them all?

Despite the slow burning stress of living with the jocks, Kelly felt all the excitement of her transforming body. The lower part of her stomach started to feel a little softer and swollen. She pinched it between her fingers and smiled appreciatively. Her butt began to feel a little more hefty and sizeable, wriggling her hips to get into her usual jeans each morning with increasing difficulty. Then, when she undressed at night, Kelly noticed with pride that the waistband of her underwear was starting to mark her across her bloating middle. She squealed with excitement. The gainer shakes were working! All the extra padding was pure fat, building on to her body, altering the shape slowly. It was only twenty pounds or so, but already Kelly felt like she was started to look a little chubby. Everything she was doing was really working!

It was strange having someone in the house who knew what Kelly was up to. She could feel Gus' judging eyes as she trotted about in the kitchen, scraping copious amounts of butter into her meals, like the greedy girl she so desperately wanted to be. Sometimes Gus would just stand there silently watching, shaking his head with bemused disgust. However, as Christmas drew nearer, Gus, the serial one-night-stand to so many women, had somehow managed to commit to a girl. And now, his time was suddenly taken up with her; leaving Kelly without the ongoing surveillance and judgement. And that was never a bad thing.

A couple of weeks later, it was the last night before most of the boys were leaving for Christmas. Kelly was up in her bedroom, as always, listening to the rowdy bunch downstairs. She had overdone it so much, pushing a full gallon of milk into herself on top of a very high-calorie meal. She sat on her bed, uncomfortable and unsure how to position her body to ease the bloat. Anyone who thought getting fat was easy, had obviously never tried, Kelly thought with resentment.

Suddenly, as it was getting close to 10pm, there was a knock at her door and Kelly flew into a mild panic; the guys never usually came up to her room to bother her. It was only Gus who even spoke to her these days.

"Hey Kelly," Gus shouted through the door. "We're ordering some pizza. You want some?"

Kelly threw a t-shirt back over herself and trotted awkwardly to her door, opening it to see the handsome jock leaning on the doorframe. "Sorry?" she asked, pretending not to have heard him the first time.

Gus' eyes wandered into the room, clocking the empty gallon bottle of milk before his eyes fell down to Kelly's bloated stomach pressing against the tight material of her t-shirt. When he spoke, he was calm and softly spoken, unlike the rowdy bunch downstairs. "I'm ordering pizza for everyone," he explained. "My treat before everyone leaves for home in the morning." He managed a small smile. "Are you in?" he asked.

Kelly didn't know how to reply. She was touched by the gesture, if a little dubious; plus her stomach ached so much already.

"What am I saying?" Gus laughed, "Of course you want pizza!" he announced dramatically, pretending to have temporarily forgotten all that he had learned about Kelly's kinks. "Anything you don't like on a pizza?"

Kelly shook her head and Gus nodded, heading back downstairs to the other guys. She then heard the cheer from them all half an hour later as the huge stack of pizzas arrived; suddenly feeling awkward. Did this mean that she was expected to go down and join them all? But just as she was putting a larger fitting blouse on, she heard a thundering rumble as someone bounded up the stairs. A heavy knock sang out and Kelly opened her door to see Gus standing there holding two boxes of large pizzas.

"Happy Holidays," Gus smiled handing them over.

Kelly smiled back, surprised by the generosity, before Gus turned and ran back down the stairs to eat with the other guys.

"Better get started then..." Kelly grinned, opening the first box and inhaling the smell of the delicious cheese.