Stretching the Limits

Chapter 1

They could feel their stomach curved out pressing against the fabric of their clothing. Thankfully they had chosen to wear a jumpsuit with a lot of room, but their stomach domed from a first dinner had begun to swell outwards, too uncomfortable to suck in. As a child they had always tried to suck in: to dispell any idea that they might have a belly. It was a constant fear they had growing up, that they would become fat. They would always check for non-existent love handles peaking out over their low-rise jeans as a teenager. Too bad they loved sweets. Thanks to their uber health conscious mother, they were not allowed to have any kind of sugar from the ages 6 - 12. Incidentally this led to a sugar addiction. Whenever cupcakes or any type of candy was handed out at school, they would squirrel it away until they could enjoy privately in the safety of their own room. Maybe that was where this all started, the thrill of having forbidden sweets and the satisfaction they got from devouring as much as they could get their greedy hands on without drawing their mother's attention to their addiction.

They used to sneak into the kitchen in the middle of the night to find any kind of snack to dull their demanding cravings. Crackers, apples, peanut butter, chocolate chips... there wasn't a lot to choose from. How this changed when they became a teenager and could afford to buy their own snacks from the corner store... They would still sneak off in the middle of the night, but now they would bring back bags of candy, litres of chocolate milk, ice cream, chips. All the wrappers would be hidden in their backpack until they were able to dispose of them at school. If they put it in their garbage at home it would have alerted their warden of a mother.

Surprisingly all this midnight snacking did not have any effect on their weight. They were very active and participated in many sports, coming home late from practice having worked up a strong hankering for a treat. They liked to test how far they could go. How much they could eat in one sitting. They liked to see their belly bulge, and how tight like a drum it could be.