chapter 5: the food court

This food court was unusual in that the corridors were always open, even though the food shops were closed. Carole lumbered through the dimly lit hallways, her belly jiggling with each stomp of her feet she took while it grumbled for more food. Carole loved coming to the food court on her days off, and the only issue she was facing was which place to ravage first. She could try the sweet shop and eat her favourite jellybean flavours, there was another shop that sold pizza bases allowing you to make your own and with her new abilities Carole could just touch it and it’d be ready. There was also a massive shop of cheese at the far end, and Carole was certainly looking forward to going there. The thought of stuffing entire cheese wheels down her wider stretching mouth was making her drool. Wherever she started, there was plenty of opportunity.

Suddenly Carole caught a view of the most magical place she had seen in the building. It was a big pink rectangular shop, and its title was simply called “Shake and Cake”. Inside there were some of the biggest and well-designed cakes that Carole had ever seen ranging from special events like birthdays and weddings lavished in white icing to normal chocolate covered ones.

Carole shivered and her whole body wobbled as she gazed through the shop window with saliva dripping from her hungry mouth.

“Have you ever felt like you’ve died and gone to paradise?” She asked the blob

“I can just taste them from here” came the reply. “Let’s get you inside and feast”

“Hang on a minute, we can’t trip an alarm by breaking the glass, there must be a better way”

“In that case I may have a great idea, hang tight for a minute”

The blob went quiet for a minute, so Carole decided to recap a whirlwind night. She’d found an alien life form, it had merged with her DNA, they’d eaten relentlessly to become an all-conquering monster and devoured a newsagent as well as the shopkeeper himself. Carole pinched herself to see if it had all been a weird dream but no this was reality and she sensed the best was yet to come

“Ok Caz” the blob returned “you’ll enjoy this idea, I want you to spit as hard as you can at the door”

“Not sure what to expect here but you’ve not let me down yet”

Carole spat at the door and instead of saliva what came out was a projectile of green slime which upon contact with the door completely dissolved the glass leaving her with free entry inside. For a minute Carole worried if she’d accidentally spat her friend out but she was quickly reassured

“I’m still here Caz, I’m fused inside your system remember”

Carole squeezed inside and was ready for another feast

“Let’s do this”

She picked up a cake the size of a balloon and stretched her mouth as big as she could. Then she shoved the whole thing inside, chewing it with ease before swallowed it. Carole let out an excited laugh, and from there she was relentless. Whatever the size of the cake, she ate them at a frightening pace. Her face increasingly getting covered with sticky icing, crumbs and chocolate. The shop also had iced buns and muffins, which stood no resistance to Carole’s ravenous appetite. She chose to eat these in between the big cakes so she could savour them more. Then she had even more fun by using the powerful motor in her mouth to suck the cakes and muffins into her ever-expanding gullet. To say she was enjoying herself was describing it very kindly.

About halfway through Carole’s binge, the expansion in her body took its toll on her clothing. The braces on her pants which had looked stretched ever since she’d put her new clothes on finally had to give way. Because they could no longer snap off, Carole had to unclip them, and she could only watch as they flew across the other side of the room. She was disappointed at that but realised that she might not be needing trousers soon.

Seconds later there was a mighty POP!! as the top button on her blouse burst free. Carole was mightily relieved at this because it was getting stuck under her swelling chin which had now long doubled and was tripling so it’s popping had given her neck some much needed breathing space. Seconds later…

POP, POP, POP, POP, POP!!!

The rest of the buttons gave up and flew away revealing Carole’s dome of a stomach. This was swiftly followed by a RIIIIIP!!! as loads of tears started appearing throughout the back of her blouse and her trousers as a sea of newly formed fat overpowered them so it could have space to breathe

SNAP!!!

PING!!!

The bracelets and rings covering Carole’s hands and arms all snapped and burst away. Some of them flew into the cakes which she only saw when she chose the next one as her prey. Barely anything could stop Carole now

By the time she reached the final couple of cakes, she looked unrecognisable from the woman who’d woken up at midnight. Her body was now a big blob of flesh with a round head and face, cheeks and lips that looked like they were full of cotton, a chin that was nearly trebled and merging with her neck, arms that looked like she’d swallowed a pair of armbands, sausage fingers, bubble butt and tree trunk legs. This was the most fun Carole had had for years, but now the blob had been fed so much food it was ready to perform its grand finale.