chapter 4: consequences

And that’s how it started. Lucy blissfully unaware that Cindy was going to make her gain weight in exchange for her secret. Something Lucy would eventually regret, but right now when threatened by the consequences, figured it would be the easiest choice.

First they'd swap jobs, Cindy was an accountant and Lucy worked the floor doing sales. A nice sitting job would be perfect for Lucy, which she adapted to rather quickly. Lucy hated being out on the floor and she took to the job with gusto, spending a lot of her spare time decorating her desktop background with glee.

The next part of the deal that came into effect was the “control over Lucy's diet” and the resulting changes, which started slow as anything meant to be covert should. It started off with Cindy bringing in bags of chips, sodas, and the occasional meal sporadically throughout the first 2 weeks. Cindy would come in with whatever food it was she wanted Lucy to eat, and immediately start telling a story as she walked in, handing Lucy whatever it was, be it a donut or a bag of chips. This was done tactfully. First off it’d distract Lucy from whatever she was doing at the computer, causing her to spin her chair away from the computer and face Cindy. Second, with the distraction from the computer, Lucy would absentmindedly take whatever Cindy handed to her. Then using all of her might, Cindy would gossip like she never had before, giving Lucy more than enough time to start eating. This disguised the “control of her diet” as a hangout with Cindy. And Lucy's biggest mistake was thinking Cindy forgot all about their deal and they were becoming friends, taking away any apprehension of the meals she'd be having in the coming days. Soon sprinkled in was a milkshake here and a burger there, nothing heavy yet … but that was merely Cindy finding out what foods Lucy really liked, and training her to finish all she was given while Cindy put her public speaking muscle to work. All the while Lucy was unaware.

The final part of this plan was measurements and outfit try ons. On the surface being extremely mundane but was a crucial lynch pin in the entire situation. Lucys clothes were the most damning constant of whether or not she gained weight, and it would have to be Cindys mission to make sure nothing got too tight on Lucy or shed notice. She racked her brain on how to come up with an idea to possibly ruin Lucys wardrobe before she got too big for them on her own. Then the answer came to her and it made total sense.





After a month of a variety of foods, Cindy realized burgers and milkshakes, among other things, were her weaknesses; they became the main foods she'd eat and the portions always got bigger. After finding this out, Cindy figured it was about time to add some structure to Lucy's eating schedule, and started buying her breakfast, then 2-3 weeks later added lunch to the mix, and finally Dinner a few weeks after that. She phrased it as decisions by the union to keep up employee morale, but in reality was just another way for Cindy to put more food in front of her. Before the meals, they would just chat (more accurately, Cindy would dominate conversations until Lucy was almost done eating, then head out). But now with meal times, Cindy would come in with two meals, and they would put on a tv in the room and watch it together and eat. While Cindy would have a salad (which she’d hide from Lucy who would stay glued to the tv) she’d always make sure that Lucy had something fattening to eat. Bringing in food like this also helped to void suspicion, as lucy would see there both eating and not question a thing and would sit and eat the meal until it was finished. Less than 2 months in and Cindy has Lucy eating 3 fairly large meals and snacking through the day absentmindedly. A minor difference in the grand scheme of things that would have a dramatic effect on Lucy's waistline.

…but now Lucy found herself lugging around a lot of extra weight, misplacing that feeling for that of being tired. Lucy was starting to get fat. Luckily for her, Cindy was working on outfits and was constantly giving her cozy clothes to try on, offering Lucy that she could keep them if she would trade the clothes she was wearing for them. Lucy thought this was more funny than anything, not being too attached to the outfits she normally wore to work, she happily gave her old tiny wardrobe away in place of this better one. In time however, CIndy would replace Lucy's whole wardrobe to keep her in the dark of her blossoming figure.

Lucy's routine of coming home from work and going to sleep ensured she wasn't working off the weight, something that nagged in the back of Lucy's head, but she would aim to ignore. All the while in between, Cindy would constantly be having Lucy try on outfits, then take them off so she could be re-measure, then trying again with other clothes. Cindy had gone out and bought a bunch of different sized bras, shorts, leggings, t-shirts, and passed them off as her own, all the while tracking Lucy's blossoming figure with something as innocent as a t-shirt.