chapter 5

After that night, Liz could tell something had changed in Emily. She seemed more despondent and shrugged off her questions about Logan and how the night had gone. Emily assured her she was okay and that nothing bad had happened, but still her mood had shifted.

Liz was determined to uplift her friend’s spirits; worried she may have caused the issue to begin with. She eventually cornered her in their room one night wanting to get to the bottom of it.

“You’re not leaving until you tell me what’s going on.” Liz said blocking off the entrance to their door.

“I’m staying in tonight anyways.” Emily replied rolling her eyes.

“I’m serious Em, I’m your friend and I want to know what’s going on with you, I want to help. “ She pleaded.

Emily had been dodging Liz’s questions for two weeks now. She was getting tired of it and she finally just decided to lay it all out on the table. Whether she believed a word of it was up to her, at least she would stop badgering her with questions.

“Fine. You want to know? There’s something wrong with me.” Emily stated plainly to her friend.

“What? There’s nothing wrong with you.” Liz immediately thought she knew the source of the issue. “Its completely normal to like guys on the larger side. Did that boy Logan shame you about it? I’ll find him, I’ll end him if that’s the case.”

Emily butted into the rising anger in Liz’s voice. “No it’s not that, well I guess it has to do with him, but its nothing he did. It’s me. I ruined him, it was an accident, but I did and now I don’t want that to happen to anyone else.”

“Oh how dare he make you feel like anything was your fault he…” Liz started to spout off again.

“No, stop Liz, its nothing like that. I caused him to gain a bunch of weight that night. There’s something wrong with me and whenever I have sex I end up fattening the other person up. I don’t know how, I’m still figuring it out, but it’s happened every time I’ve gone to bed with someone. It happened to my boyfriend in high school and now its happened to Logan. I don’t know what to do about it and it just sucks.” Emily interrupted and finally came clean about her ability.

“Wait what?” Liz’s frustration faded, replaced with puzzlement. “You made Logan fat? What do you mean you made him fat? Have you lost it girl? Too much stress from your classes? The boy was already on the soft side when I introduced you two.”

“Well I made him a whole lot fatter, it was an accident, I should’ve stopped myself, I just got caught up in the moment, but the damage is done and I feel terrible about it.” Emily continued.

“Okay lets get you an appointment with the student counseling office, something’s snapped.” Liz said picking up her phone.

Emily grabbed her hand to stop her. “I’m serious, I’ll show you proof if you don’t believe me. I’ll take you to his place. I’m sure they are going out for the night soon. Just trust me on this.”

Liz was very skeptical of her friend. She wanted to believe Emily on the one hand, but how could she when the girl was saying such ridiculous things. She cautiously agreed to follow her to Logan’s and see her so called “proof”. If what she said wasn’t true, then she would work on getting her friend the help she desperately needed.

They went out into the crisp night air, Emily leading the way. She found the house and chose a spot several houses down and shrouded by bushes. They waited for what felt like ages to Liz, but in reality was only 20 minutes before they saw movement from the house.

A group of guys began to filter out the front door. One after another, none looking particularly familiar to Liz. Finally bringing up the rear of the group was a larger guy, both in stature and weight. He awkwardly lumbered out and locked up behind them.

Emily excitedly pointed and whispered. “See! That’s Logan. I told you. Believe me now?” She was glad to see that he seemed to have found some new clothes to fit his enlarged form.

Liz squinted trying to make out the guy she had remembered handing off to Emily weeks before. He did look familiar, some of his features surly called back to that guy at the bar, but obviously encased in a layer of chub now. A prominent belly stuck out in front of him, drawing her eyes to its mass. She was still unsure this was in fact the same guy though. It wasn’t until they picked up a conversation between the guys that she got her confirmation.

“Good luck grabbing a hookup tonight Logan.” One of the guys teased. “Try and leave some for the rest of us will ya?”

Emily’s heart immediately sank. The poor guy was getting ridiculed for his weight and it was all her fault.

“I told you Chris, it’s a gland thing. I don’t know what happened, but I can’t help it so ***.” Logan snidely replied.

“Yeah Chris, ***. Why do you always have to be such a dick?” Another of the guys chimed in.

“I was just messing around guys, geesh, take it easy.” Chris said defending himself.

“Well it’s not funny so knock it off.” Another replied as the ambled around the corner and out of the girls sight.

Liz’s eyes were wide when she finally looked back to Emily. Two weeks was not enough time to put on that much weight. Gland explanation aside, she finally had some confidence in the story Emily had told her.

“I…I don’t get it. How is that possible? He is huge and you say you did that to him? Through sex?!” Liz’s voice was rising in excitement from how impossible it all was.

“Shhh, keep it down, but yes.” Emily cautioned as they moved out of their hiding spot and back to the dorms.

It was all Liz could do to keep her questions to herself as they walked back to the dorm. They came flooding out as soon as they were safely back in their room with the door locked.

“How does it work?” “Can you control it?” “When did you discover this?” “What if it was a girl?” “How do you stop it?” “How fat can you make someone?” These and more came at Emily and she answered as best she could.

The initial excitement of this groundbreaking revelation out of the way, they finally relaxed a little. Emily did feel a lot better having opened up to someone about it. She thought she would have to carry the burden alone, but now she had Liz by her side once again.

“This must be a like a dream come true for you in a way.” Liz spoke up, her thoughts still lingering on the topic.

“Sort of, but after what we saw tonight, you can see how it’s not that great in reality.” Emily replied think back to Logan’s roommate teasing him. She wanted to do something about it, to help the poor boy, but what?

“True, unfortunately for you, fat is not super accepted in today’s society. Though I’ve always wondered what some curves might look like on me, track definitely has kept me in prime shape over the years.” Liz pondered, half to Emily and half to herself.

This got Emily thinking. “The guy, Chris was his name? He was teasing Logan for getting fat, but what if he gained a little weight himself…or maybe more than a little.” Her devilish thoughts started to devise a plan that might at least help end Logan’s torment.