chapter 4: getting close to thanksgiving.

One morning Jeremy was getting ready, the weather was getting colder, which meant he needed to dig into his closet to find some warmer clothes.

Shuffling through his long sleeve t shirts, he pops one on. “Huh” he thinks. He feels like the shirts a bit tighter on the chest. He sort of ignores it as he does a little flex toward the mirror he ignored. He digs further in the closet and pulls out a pair of his favorite jeans. He tries to pull them up. He has a bit of trouble getting them over his thighs, and they’re pretty tight on the waist. Sucking in a bit to button them up. “Shit, must of shrunk a bit”. He pulled up his shirt and looked down. All this partying and school he hasn’t noticed he has lost all definition, and developed a bit of a pooch. “Fuck me”. He runs into the bathroom and hops on the scale. One ninety seven. “Holy shit”.

He ponders for a bit, checks himself in the mirror. He’s not totally against what he sees. His arms are fuller, still a bit muscly, yeah he’s lost his ab definition, but overall he’s not upset with the look.

Now up unto this point, he’s been kinda of keeping to himself at home. His roommate is even a bigger recluse than him. Another skinny nerd who doesn’t really get much sunlight either. But surprisingly, social. When he wants to be.

Ted
My man, what’s up.

Jeremy
Holy shit man, feel like I haven’t seen you all semester.

Ted
Yeah man, trying to clench this last year. Aiming for this masters program sucks ass.

Jeremy
Think you’ll graduate on time?

Ted
If me staying in a. Cocoon all semester proved helpful, yeah, I’ll be out by next spring.

Jeremy
Sick man.

Ted
Yeah dude, you headed to the gym?

Jeremy
No, but I probably should today.

Jeremy went out and got a quick bite to eat, he wasnt taking his supplements anymore but was eating like he was. He got his typical from Taco Bell. 2 burritos, two quesadillas, and a baja blast. That’s usually how he starts his day, lunch, Taco Bell, class, goes to the cafeteria for a snack, chips and a protein bar, class, on his way home, he hits Burger King, two burgers, 20 nuggets and fries. Dinner most nights was Chinese. If he did go out drinking that night, his go to late night munchies was the food cart outside the bars thst served the biggest plate of chili cheese fries, and most the time his friends didn’t finish theirs, so he did.

Gym time dwindled to about 0 times, a week, but his habits continued. Every other night was a party, and every meal he was eating like a body builder. A couple times being the now socialite he is now, two sets of friends would ask him out to lunch, and he’d go to both. No matter how stuffed he got. Almost like he was never satiated.