Chapter 4

He was looking at his hands nervously “yeah, I’ve been trying to get back I shape you know, after what happened last time, I decided to start to do something about it.” There was a silence where I was thinking if I was still doing this for revenge, and how this didn’t seemed correct anymore. I turned around to face him and saw him on the table. “Listen Dante, I want to apologize for how I acted last time. I should have taken those pictures and made fun of you, I’m sorry,” I said looking down. He waited for a moment and then answered me “It’s ok Nat, I mean, Natasha. I kind of deserve that, after all, I acted like an asshole when we where dating and before that too.” I didn’t know what to say, he was saying all the things that I wanted to hear from him since we broke up. “It’s my fault that I got so fat, I deserve it. I wasn’t nice with you about it when we were and item and now I’m paying for it. But I’m going to change this,” he said rubbing his belly. “I’ll be back in shape in no time but I’ll be a better person.” He looked at me, got up a stood in front of me. “You’ve been a good friend to me, helping me all the time. That’s more than I deserve. Thank you,” he said smiling shyly. Then, without warning, he hugged me. I was shocked! I didn’t know what to do! It felt a little awkward but I hugged him back. He looked at me and smiled. “Sorry, I got a little carried away. I didn’t really thought about it” His face flushing “it’s ok… am… I forgot the beer in my car, I’ll go for it.” I left the kitchen and heard him say something about taking a shower. In the car I was about to cry. What had I done to him? And he still thanked me without knowing that his weight gain was my fault. I wiped the tears out of my face and took the six pack into his house. I was going to end all of this tonight.

I waited for him on the living room. The pizza was still warm and smelled delicious. I turned on the TV and started zapping the channels, After five minutes he finally came down. “That pizza smells good.” He came in drying his hair with a towel and sat next to me. “Yes it does, it has been hard waiting for you. I bought a bigger size because it was on sale, I hope you don’t mind,” I said and took a slice. “It’s okay, I can put the leftovers in the fridge.” He put the towel away and took a slice. He was wearing a dark blue t-shirt with a bear on it and some baggy jeans and white socks. “I don’t remember that shirt, is it new?” I asked him. He looked down and then to me. “Yeah, I bought it online and it came on the mail yesterday morning. I didn’t think you would notice.” I blushed and smiled. “Well it looks good, I like it.” I saw him smile and realized my mistake. He had started to eat his second slice but stopped. “Is that so? Then I guess I’ll have to model it for you.” He stood up and started to act like a supermodel. I laughed so hard that my face started to hurt. I missed this. One of the things I loved about him was how funny he was, of course until all the problems began. He started to talk like a girl saying about how bad the new fashion was and things like that, it was hilarious. Then he walked in front of me and held his hand to help me to stand up. “C’mon girl! You’re outfit is fabulous! You must model it for me now!” I played along “Of course my friend! Sit, I’ll do it with pleasure.” He sat and I started to model in a goofy mode. I was wearing a cream blouse with green stripes and a light brown vest as long as the blouse, black jeans and green Converse sneakers that matched with my blouse and my hair was loose. I did several sexy poses and goofy dances that made him laugh. I sat and laughed with him for a while. When we calmed down I realized that he was watching me and that made me feel nervous. “What are you looking at?” I said smiling and punched him slightly on the arm. He smiled and took his half eaten slice of pizza. “Nothing, it just that you look beautiful you know,” he said and started to eat, I saw him blush after saying that. I blushed and laughed slightly “Well, yes. I always do,” I said in a diva tone, “but thanks.” I took a pizza slice and the remote control and started zapping channels. I stopped on one program about restaurant that sells huge quantities of food. We watched it for a while, I had eaten just two slices but he was finishing his fifth. As the couch was small I had ended up sitting close to him, with one of his arms on my shoulders and the other putting the last part of the pizza slice in his mouth. “Are you sure you don’t want another slice?” he asked me. “I thought that you wanted company for dinner but I’ve been the only one eating for a while,” he said. “Yes, I’m sorry. I guess that all the dieting have diminished my eating capacity,” I said picking up my last beer. He said that he was going to drink soda so I ended up drinking the six-pack, as I wasn’t used to drink, it made me feel a more relaxed but I wasn’t drunk. “And drinking beer didn’t helped me either,” I opened and offer it to him. “Would you like the last one?” He thought about it for a while, he had finished his soda and didn’t wanted to get up to get another one. “Well, why not. I haven’t had one in months.” I gave him the beer and went back to watching TV. I was a little uncomfortable so I tried to move a little “You okay?” he asked me. “Yeah I just need to get comfortable.” He put his beer on the table and the hug me with his one arm and pushed me closer to him, then he took one of my hands and put it on his belly. “Here, I know that I’m taking most of the space on the couch,” and then looked back to the TV and drank from his beer. We both blushed again but didn’t say a word, just watched the show. His belly felt warm and soft and I could feel him breathing, being so close to him made my heart beat faster. “Why did he do that? And why I’m so nervous? Why couldn’t I just hate him until the end of the month and then dump his fat ass and leave him with his wife. I hate this and I hate myself for doing this. I have to finish this now.” I came closer to his ear and whisper “You look hungry hog.” He entered the trance and I went to the inside of his mind. I was wearing the same white strapless and my hair was kept lose. I was about to look for the instructions book and the one with his traits but stopped. I was now in his mind so I could know why he has been so nice with me. I used my powers and the book with his feeling flew slowly to me. I took it opened on a chapter with my name. It has our whole story since the beginning, about the first time he saw me and thought I was beautiful. About how much he had liked our first kiss and that he thought that I always looked like and angel sleeping next to him. All the things wrote were so beautiful. But as the time passed he started to get influenced by his friends and started to “hate that fatass.” And with that my chapter ended. The next chapter had his son and wife name with a couple of pages, he really loved his son but his wife was starting to bother him. I turned it and there was another chapter with my name!