chapter 8.2

It wouldn’t be long before Zoe would need a new uniform.
That reminded Ethan of something.
“No food for me tonight?”, he actually ment for her, but she didn’t need to know that.
“No no! I brought us something, I already put it in your fridge while you were showing of you sit ups”, Zoe smiled.
“So how was work today?”, Ethan tried his best to show intrest in her life.
But honestly he hoped to find out if she’d already indulged at work or not.
He assumed the answer was ‘yes’ looking at her bloated looking stomach.
“Ugh. Same as always. I’m going to be so happy when Victoria’ll start working again. At least with her it was fun. This new collage is the laziest person I’ve ever seen. Ethan, I swear he’s only in it for the free food, the bosses often keep money from his salary because he arrives late or leaves to early. Besides he’s really nerdy. I heard him talking to one of the other girls about some comic or something. Poor Lisa, didn’t know how to get rid of him!”, Zoe continued her story.
“But it wasn’t all bad today. One of the machines that are supposed to keep the pastas hot malfunctioned and we had to give it all away for free!”
Aha, Ethan thought. Finally a subject he that peaked his interest.
“Don’t they normally give the food to the staff if something like that happens?”, Ethan questioned.
“Normally, yes. But it was so much and only 4 of us had a shift tonight and Kim has started a diet, so they decide to also give it away to the customers.”
Ethan was surprised to hear about Kim. Last he’d seen her she looked like she weightend over 250 pounds and seemed to be happy about her weight.
“I think I might have over done it, it feels like someone has blown up my stomach like a balloon.”
While Zoe said this, she leaned back in the sofa, arching her back, which showcased her stomach even more.
Ethan started to feel some action in his pants.
“I think you’re belly looks kinda cute”, Ethan smiled while giving her belly a playfull poke.
“You’re crazy” Zoe laughed.
Then she fell silent and Ethan saw how her expression fell more serious.
“Everything alright?”, Ethan asked.
“Yeah, no worries I was just thinking about something. Doesn’t matter.”
Ethan seriously hoped she hadn’t been thinking about losing weight.
He changed the subject.
“Do you wanna watch some tv?”
“Yeah, that’s fine, I probably won’t be able to eat anything for another hour or so.”
Ethan calmed, he was glad to hear she was still planning on eating after all the free pasta that had obviously filled her stomach to the brim.

They watched some comedy show, meanwhile talking about nothing of much importance.
Ethan could feel Zoe was still a bit distant, lost in thought.
He decided to ignore it, she would talk to him when she was ready
“Have you noticed something different about my friends?”, Zoe suddenly asked.
Ethan cursed inside.
Ofcourse he’d noticed they all had gained a few pounds. Some more so than others.
But there was no way he’d tell her that.
He decided to go with the ‘I am a male I don’t notice visual changes’-card.
“What do you mean, Zoe?”, he answered, while turning to her.
When he looked into her eyes he immediately realized his tactic wasn’t going to work.
“Come on, Ethan. You must have noticed too. I’m sure Matthew has, you two probably even discussed it.” Zoe said.
She looked nervous, even a bit ashamed. Ethan was worried where this conversation would go to.
He didn’t know what to say, so he stayed quite untill Zoe continued.
Zoe sighted, annoyed with Ethan dodging the subject.
She didn’t want to talk about it either, but she felt like she had to.
Ethan couldn’t be that blind not to have noticed the weight gain of either her, Victoria, Erinn or Anna.
“Well, I guess you must’ve noticed how Anna and Erinn have been adding some pounds ever since they arrived here. But since Victoria’s injury, she too has gainded a few. And then there’s me...”, Zoe’s voice grew softer and she looked down, not sure if she wanted to see the look on Ethan’s face.
But when she looked down, she saw her own softer midsection and started to blush.
Ethan took her head in his hands and forced her took look him straight in the eye.
“Zoe, you are the most beautiful, most attractive girl I know. I think you look even lovelier now than when we met.”
He gave her a short kiss on the lips and smiled at her.
“So you have noticed”, Zoe wispered.
She lay her head on his shoulder, feeling affectionate after his sweet comment.
“Well, I have been babysitting this little foodbaby of yours, for a few weeks now”, Ethan joked.
It related to a joke Zoe had once texted him bedore their first date.
He put his arms around her, giving her belly I caring rub from behind.
“I’ve actually grown quite fond of it”, Ethan lovingly joked to Zoe.
He wanted to keep the conversation light, but also nudge her toward his preferences.
Zoe giggled as he toughed her belly. “You’re so sweet... But there’s something I must tell you.”
Zoe sighed and sat up straight again, brushing away his hands.
She needed to see his reaction to what she was about to say.
“You remember I’ve told you about my mom?”
Ethan nodded in silence, immediately recognizing a flicker of sadness in her eyes.
Zoe’s mom had died in a car accident when she was 11.
The loss had been unexpected and too soon. Zoe had told him about how her father had struggled with the loss and had thrown himself at his work. Due to the events she’d matured faster than the other kids, which resulted in her lonely teenage years, being spoiled by her aunts and father.
Even though she hadn’t had any real friends, she had been happy with her family and food.
Untill she’d met Erinn, the new girl next door and the two had become fast bestfriends.
“Well, there’s something I haven’t told you about the period after I lost my mom and before I met Erinn.”
Ethan thought she must be talking about her weight gain.
Untill she was 16 years old, Zoe had been quite chubby, nothing at all like the 18 year old athletic Zoe that had arrived on campus.
Ethan already knew this thanks to his online research about her.
Zoe ofcourse knew nothing about this, so Ethan acted like he was confused on what she was talking about.
“Zoe, whatever it is, you can tell me”, he assured her.
She waited a moment before taking a deep breath.
“Actually, it might be easier if I show you.”
Zoe put her bag on her lap and took a few pictures out of them.
“Please don’t freak out, when you see me in these pictures”, she handed them to him, her face coloring a darker shade of pink.
“After my mom died, my aunts started spoiling me with a lot of food. It didn’t take long before I started using food as a coping mechanism for the loss of my mother. Over the years the hurt softened, but so did my body... I’d gotten used to being spoiled and had grown a massive appetite.”
Ethan tried to keep his face neutral while looking at the pictures of his chubby girlfriend.
Some he’d found online, like her birthday pictures, but others were knew to him.
He was trying to hold back a smile when he came a cross a picture of her in a yellow bathing suit.
The thight material hugged her full figure perfectly.
He guessed it was taken in the last summer before she’d started dieting. He put the picture away as he was starting to feel some extra blood flow toward his private parts.
He didn’t want to explain that to Zoe.
“It wasn’t untill I met Erinn, that I started sporting and eating healthy again. I transformed into the Zoe you first met”, Zoe ended her story, looking for a reaction from Ethan.
She thought she’d saw him smile at one of her pictures, but sure that couldn’t be right, she thought.
When Ethan was done going through the photos he joked:
“Damn, I didn’t know you had such a hot sister, can I meet her?”, he teased Zoe and she started laughing.
“Don’t be silly! You know I’m an only child”, Zoe replied, she was glad with Ethan’s reaction.
She’d feared he’d be disgusted by her 160+ lbs body.
Yet, here he was, calling her sexy in those pictures.
She felt butterflies in her stomach (well besides the pressure from overindulging at work).
“So... You don’t mind me once being overweight?, Zoe asked puzzled.
“Once? I would mind you being overweight twice!”, Ethan thought. Ofcourse he didn’t say that out loud.
“Zoe... why are you showing me this?”, Ethan asked.
He had a feeling Zoe had had an underlying motive for showing him these.
Zoe nervously bit her lip.
“Well, you see, I’v already gained more than 25 pounds...”
Ethan was having a hard time maintaining his pokerface. More than 25 pounds!
He’d guessed she’d gained more than 20, put hearing her admit it, and even more, made him excited.
He nonchalantly tried to place a pillow over his lap, hoping it would hide whatever needed hiding.
“Zoe, I think you look great. And I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks so”, he assured Zoe.
Zoe blushed.
She actually had noticed people complimenting her on her new, more feminine body.
It had taken a few weeks but now that the weight had spread over her whole body, instead of all settling in her stomach, she had developed some sexy curves.
She sighed.
“Yes, maybe now, with the extra curves, I still look hot, but look at those pictures! If I don’t do something now, I don’t know where this might end.”
Zoe placed a hand on her belly, imagining it growing bigger beneath her touch.
Ethan took her hand, dragging her out of her daydream.
“In case you didn’t hear me the first time: I think you still look gorgeous in those pictures.”
Zoe laughed, thinking he must’ve been joking again.
But when she looked into his eyes, he looked serious.
“You don’t have to lie to me”, Zoe wispered.
Ethan couldn’t believe it.
Did he really have to spell it out for her?
“It’s okay if you’re not attracted to fat Zoe, as long as you promise not to dumb me because of my weight and give me a chance to try losing it, I’d be the happiest girl in the world.”
Ethan blurted out a laugh and started kissing her.
If only she knew how ridiculous her fear sounded to him.
He put the pillow on his lap away and wispered to her lips:
“Honey, I wasn’t lying…”
Zoe’s eyes opened in shock when she felt his hard on.
After one more long passionate kiss their previous conversation was forgotten and all she could think about was having sex with her loving boyfriend.

Late that night, Ethan woke up feeling cold.
Without opening his eyes he tried to move closer to Zoe, to enjoy her body heath.
However when he couldn’t find her he noticed she wasn’t in bed next to him.
He groggily walked out his room, to search for her.
He noticed that the lamp besides the sofa was on.
When he went to put it out, he noticed Zoe sleeping on the couch.
She was lying on her back, which exposed her globular looking belly beautifully.
He bent over to give her a kiss, but stopped before his lips touched hers. There were smudges on her face.
Then he realised, there were some stains on her pajamas as well.
In her left hand she was holding a fork.
On the floor next to the sofa stood a box, with 1/3 of a choclate cake left. At the edges of it he could see that Zoe hadn’t cared to cut the cake and instead had attacted it with only a fork.
He was impressed that she’d been able to eat 2/3 of a pie all alone. After all she had already stuffed her self twice before the events of tonight.
First she’d overindulged on pasta at her work and again after they’d had seks the first time. The first time she’d been on top.
The second time after they had eaten some of the leftover from her work, Ethan had gone on top. He’d quickly realized she was a bit out of breath from all the eating and with her stomach packed full it was a bit painfull for her to move.

Ethan tried to take a mental picture of the scene in front of him before waking her up.
He knew from experience that a night on the sofa would do her no good.
Besides she had no blanket and her tight pajama shorts and pink crop top hardly covered her.
He remembered the first time he’d seen her in her typical pajamas. The shorts had fitted her perfectly.
The pink shirt had always been too short for her, but before it had shown her tight stomach and small taille. However now, the short dug in her flesh a little and the shirt showed of her growing belly, reaching not even to her belly button.
He knew her belly would be less big tomorrow, however her actions of today showed great promise for their future.
He smiled and decided not to wake her up.
Instead he carried her to his bedroom.
Enjoying the sensation of her body in his strong hands, while he was still able to carry her.