chapter 3

The rest of that week continued much the same until I woke up a week later to find that I couldn’t button my trousers to go down for breakfast.

“Babe I think I might have gained weight?” I said to Amy who was already looking my way quizzically because of the grunting noise I was making struggling to close my trousers.
“Maybe a little” she said “But don’t you normally gain a little weight while your on holiday anyway? When you go back it’ll all come off don’t worry”
“Yea i do but its never normally so much that I can’t get into my trousers”
“It’ll be okay Zach just enjoy yourself, we can worry about it when we get home”
“I guess but what do I wear now?”
“Pop on your trunks they have an elastic waist they should fit. Well see if theres a shop on board maybe they’ll sell some clothes”
“Okay” I said with a smile she always new how to calm me and always had a solution to everything.

We went down and had breakfast I didn’t hold back this time, I was going to enjoy myself this week, I had decided. I wasn’t going to worry about my weight at all till we got home.

Later in the day just after dinner we were laying by the pool watching the sun go down when I sighed and said
“I wish it could be like this all the time.”
“What do you mean?” Amy asked.
“Us together all the time, not having to worry, not having me going back in 6 months looming over our heads. I just wish I could get out of the army and get a normal job where I can come home every evening eat dinner with you, get into bed with you, fall asleep with you and then wake up in the morning with you and do it all over again, instead of living away for months and months on end.”
“I wish that too, it would be perfect.”
“It’s just a shame the army is so difficult to get out of” I said sitting up to face Amy and feeling my newly acquired belly fat roll over the top of my swimming trunks, I was still debating whether going shirtless was a better idea than just melting in the heat.
“Yea it’s nice to think about though, like wouldn’t it be nice if we could do thinks like this more often? To be able to go on holidays like this or just pack up for a quick weekend break away?”
“That would be amazing” I said rubbing my fingers under the roll of fat sitting over my waistband. It looked like a proper little gut when I was full and sitting like this.
“That’s it!” Amy said pointing right at my stomach “Your gut!” I looked at her perplexed
“What do you mean my gut? It’s not that big is it?”
“There’s weight restrictions isn’t there in the army?”
“Yea? Why?”
“You could gain weight in the next 6 months and get out of the army”
“You’d want a fat husband?”
“I don’t know” she said looking thoughtfully at me “I like what you have now you know I was never keen on the six pack, It turns me on a bit to see you putting on weight though. Is that weird?”
“It is a bit yea but I can kind of see why, like I’m loving the relaxed me that can eat anything I want whenever I want and not worry about it. It would be nice of that continued after the cruise. But I didn’t think you’d want me fat. And to get out of the army i would have to get pretty fat, i dont know if it would even be possible in 6 months to gain that much.”
“Well how much would it be?” She asked
“Well you have to have a BMI of obese which is 30-31”
“So what weight would that put you at?”
I got my phone out and googled it “I would have to weigh in at 240-250lbs.”
“What did you weigh before the cruise?”
“182lbs”
“So that would be 58-68lb gain that could be difficult but not impossible. And like I said I’m loving the gains at the minute and if you didn’t like it at the end of it you could lose the weight again.”
“I don’t know how I would feel that big but I certainly like being softer, I love being over full though and if this continues I don’t see me getting any smaller and I do like being softer too”
“Is that a yes then?” She asked grinning from ear to ear.
“Yay!” She said jumping up “Ill go see if i can get us a weighing scales from somewhere so we can see what you weigh now and then we can set a goal for each week of what you will need to gain to get to that weight before the 6 months is up” I just smile up at her loving the enthusiasm of finally getting a normal life with each other.
“I best stay here and finish this bowl of cheesy nachos and the bottle of beer I just opened.”
“Yep meet me in the room in half an hour”