Chapter 3 - the challenge

One night, 2 or 3 weeks after Beth was born, while the same routine was continuing, Laura stopped Jeff hands as he was bringing the glass of milk to her lips. She said to him: "Are you trying to fatten me up, darling. If so, you did a good job, look at me. I'm huge! But now, enough of this! You sneaky little rat. It would be my turn to take revenge for all this bubbler you put on me!"
"But darling, you look so beautiful, so womanly and perfect" Jeff said.
"Yes a perfect hog, ready to be roasted. Now you won't get away with this. I have a challenge for you now!"
"Darling, haven't we had enough of this? Don't you think I can gain more weight, slowly, and you also? Let us get fat steadily, both of us?"
"No, you ballooned me, now it's my turn. I want my revenge. Here is the deal. The first one to loose 10% of his bodyweight can do what he wants to the other. And to be fare, we'll both weight ourselves now and write on paper we'll keep secret, what we want the other to do if he looses."

Laura was up to 220 pounds, and Jeff was down to 200.
"So if I get it right, if you come down to 198 pounds before I'm down to 180, you win. And if I'm first to 180, I win" Jeff said to Laura.
"Correct, little fat porker to be. You just wait a few weeks" Laura answered.

Laura was sure she would make it very easily and before Jeff. He had the perfect job not to loose to quickly: professional meals at restaurants with customers and colleagues, having to drive to his office, travailing all over Europe and sometimes around the word... On the other hand, since Beth was born, Laura was much less stressed. She had taken back her job, was cycling to school and had plenty of time to look after herself, and her daughter, eating very lightly and loosing weight quite quickly.

This is what happened. After 2 weeks, she was down to 209 pounds and Jeff down to a pathetic 199. "It seems that since you're not fattening me anymore, you have less time for loosing weight. Hurry up Jeff, you'll loose the challenge if a few days if you're not careful" Laura teased him.

And she won, after 3 ½ weeks, she had lost the 22 pounds, while Jeff only 7.
"Yes, I'm going to fatten you up, darling. You're going to be huge. I can wait to read you what I wrote on the paper". She embraced Jeff kneeled, kissed his belly and said: "you'll have such a huge fall belly, that if it bursts, the content could drown the whole City of Bristol. And in bed, if you lay on the side, it will be easier for you to turn around your belly, than to turn around the other way. It'll be so heavy, you won't be able to move it anymore."
Jeff knelled, kissed her lovingly and said: "yes, Darling, you'll get what you want and even more."

Laura went to get her paper, so did Jeff.
She read: "where you wrote Laura, put Jeff. And if you wrote Jeff, read Laura" She paused and laughed evilly saying: "and multiply the figures by 2.2. You remember pounds and kilos? I told you, you'd be huge!"
Before she could tease her husband, Jeff burst into laughter, took his paper and read: "I want you and me to put on 40 pounds than when we started the challenge. So, Darling, we are going to fatten one another by 88 pounds, plus the pounds we've lost. So 110 pounds for you and 95 for me. I told you we needed to grow fat together!"