Chapter 1

Angelina didn’t know when it started happening, but she was slowly getting bigger while her partner Joshua was slowly (or not so slowly) getting fitter. She was glad that he didn’t seem to mind that she was gaining weight, appreciating how it was going to her breasts, hips, and bottom at the beginning – now she was getting a little worried, as the extra fat was being added to places like her stomach and thighs. At the beginning she viewed it as a healthy thing, her body was beginning to look more womanly instead of the stick-figure thin she had been in high school but now she had begun wondering if she shouldn’t be more like her boyfriend and begin going to the gym with him.

Her health had taken a nose-dive at the beginning of the previous year and that was why she had stopped going to the gym and the stress of having a sick partner had pushed Joshua to start going to the gym more. Being bedridden for a couple of months with only Joshua to help her, made her realize how nice it was to depend on him and how he was an amazing cook. Even as their lives returned to normal, she still wanted him to cook for her and he seemed excited to do so.

She had been staring at herself in the long mirror, noticing her curly brown hair and blue eyes, full lips that her boyfriend always appreciated and the further down her body. Her once C-cup breasts were now a size D, not too much of a change there, there was a pouch now on her belly, it had started to sag a little over itself rather than being perfectly flat. She could see that her thighs would rub together as she walked and that her ass would likely jiggle whenever she moved.

She heard the door open from across the apartment and knew that Joshua had gotten home. “Angelina, I am home!” He shouted and then worked his way to where she was. “Admiring your beauty in the mirror?” He asked her teasingly, walking over to press a quick kiss to her red lips.

“I was just looking at how much I had changed, I am starting to think that I am moving past the size of healthy weight gain,” she said with a small shake of her head.

Joshua’s brows furrowed at her response and quickly shook his head in response, after having dealt with the illness she had gone through this was a much better look for her. He had worried constantly that she would lose too much weight while her body fought it off, as the medications made her not like so much of the food she had liked before. Now there was a cushion of reserve fat on her – even if it was a little extra than perhaps necessary.
“You look gorgeous, Angelina, if you want to start coming to the gym with me again you can, but I don’t want you to pressure yourself. You look beautiful and you are very much at a healthy weight. I think that it was such a drastic change though that your mind simply hasn’t caught up. Most women have fat on them, in fact, you are supposed to have more fat than men are, I think that it makes you even more attractive, it means you are fertile,” the last bit he said teasingly and she couldn’t help but blush.

He was right, it was important that she had a bit of fat on her, that she made sure that she was healthy. “Maybe I can at least go to the gym a couple of times a week, even if I don’t lose weight it will be good for my body to start to move again.”

If she could have been in his body, she would have felt the tightening around his heart as he thought about the idea, the worry about her hurting herself – what if she lost so much and got sick again. He would have to make sure that he gave her enough food to make up for the calories that she was losing in the gym. “I would like for you to join me, it would be nice to spend more time with you,” and he meant that even if he was worried about what would happen.

“I’ll have to get some new work out clothes, nothing that I used to wear would fit me now,” she said as she pouted a little bit, he shook his head and gathered her close to him.

“Don’t you worry about that I will take care of it, don’t think about what you used to look like because you are so beautiful now, and I wouldn’t want you any other way, I just want you healthy and happy.”

It was a bit of relief to know that he would buy her workout clothes, he knew the sizes that she wore now; she didn’t want to go and look at the clothes that she used to wear and become upset that she could no longer fit into them, and it seemed he realized it too.

“Now are you going to come into the other room dressed like that, or do you want to put something on? I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing you there with just your underwear and bra on,” he teased her, and she laughed a little bit turning her head so that it would rest against the crook of his neck.

“I will get dressed.”

“Great, I will make some dinner for us.”

It was then that she noticed that he had just returned from the gym, the shirt he was wearing showed off his muscles. Even though she had gotten bigger, he had gotten bigger in certain ways as well, mostly with his muscles, she didn’t complain though, she found him to be quite handsome.

Her thoughts were on his looks as he spoke again. “Baked mac and cheese, with chicken on the side, and a bit of chocolate for dessert,” he said, and her stomach rumbled at the thought of some of her favorite foods.