chapter 4

Butterflies began to form in Natalie’s bloated belly as her and Derek continued on to their next destination. She started thinking to herself: “Derek’s bought me little things like an ice cream or a soda, before, but never a whole meal. It had to have been a date; it just had to!” The day was going so perfectly though, she didn’t want to jinx anything. That was when Natalie decided that she’d wait for Derek to make the first move. The ball was in his court now and she was just going to have to patiently wait and see what his endgame was.

“The place is about a 10 minute walk but only a 2 minute drive, what do you think” Derek asks Natalie. She looked down at her stomach and back up at Derek. “I say we drive, I don’t think I can carry around this food baby for that long of a walk.” Delightfully Derek replies: “you got it, babe”. Now she was “babe?!” Natalie pinched her forearm to make sure she wasn’t just dreaming this all.

As soon as Natalie’s butt hit the seat, she reclined her chair and rested her hands on her stomach. “Ugh, I can’t remember the last time I was this stuffed,” she lied. A typical evening nowadays for Natalie involved consuming way more food than she just did during this one meal with Derek. But she didn’t want to seem like a pig in front of him, so she just kept pretending to act like she wasn’t used to eating like this.

“Wow, your belly looks really full!” Derek suddenly blurts out. “Sorry, I don’t mean that in an offensive way, I actually think it looks cute” he tells her. “Really” Natalie replies back in shock. “Well if you think it looks cute now, just wait ’til you see it after I get my hands on one of those delicious crepes you keep talking about, or maybe even two” she teases. “Or maybe even 3” Derek adds. “You sure like a girl who eats, I never knew that” Natalie says right as they pull into the parking lot of the crepe place. Derek faces her and goes: “there’s a lot of things about me you don’t know” before exiting the vehicle.

Natalie could smell the sugar before they even walked in the place. She had lived in this town her whole life, but had never heard of this place before. As Derek opened the door for her, she was ambushed by a gust of intoxicatingly sweet air. “Is this what love at first sight feels like” Natalie turned to Derek and asked. Amused, he began to tell her all of the most popular crepes they had. Natalie was more of a savory than sweet girl, but she was in the mood for something to satisfy her sweet tooth after having such a cheesy Italian meal. She decided on a banana and Nutella crepe, while Derek opted for a peanut butter and jelly one.

They sat down at a small table for two up against a distressed brick wall. The smell of chocolate, fresh fruit and powdered sugar surrounded them in every direction they turned. It was orgasmic. Their crepes arrived within minutes and immediately Natalie began going to town. This time when eating she didn’t care if she looked like a pig, those crepes were going down! Before Derek had even finished half of his, Natalie was already done with hers. “You weren’t messing around, those crepes are delicious” Natalie says to Derek. “Do you want to try mine” he asks. Without hesitation Natalie let out a big yes and grabbed his plate. “Why don’t you go ahead and finish mine, I’ll grab us some more” he offers. Too busy eating to actually use words, with a mouth full of food Natalie goes “mhm-hmm” and gives him an enthusiastic thumbs up.

He came back with two strawberry and Nutella crepes doused in whipped cream. “Here, these are both for you” he says with a hint of excitement in his voice. Natalie’s eyes widened and instead of asking why he didn’t want one, she instantly began to demolish both of them. They had been there for all of 20 minutes and already Natalie had eaten three and a half crepes all on her own.

A worried look came over Natalie’s face and all of a sudden “pop”! The bottom button on Natalie’s sweater flew right off her and onto the floor. Without missing a beat Natalie goes: “I told you to wait and see what these crepes do to me”. Now her belly was visibly sticking out from underneath her extremely tight top. She didn’t want anyone else in the cafe to notice it though so they decided it was time to go.

Once they got into the car Natalie says to Derek “I really wish I could just unbutton the whole bottom half of my shirt, my belly is dying to be released from this torture chamber of a sweater I’m wearing”. And to her surprise, Derek told her to go for it. She unbuttoned just enough so that everything from her belly button down was exposed. The tank top she had on underneath had ridden up so much that all it covered now were her modest B cup breasts. She couldn’t believe she was sitting there with him with her stomach out like that. She felt like an out of place beached whale who had washed up to shore, but she had to admit, she loved it.