chapter 4

With that Jared left, and Lex closed the door with a sigh of relief. He had completely forgot about his missing tooth since he had been avoiding looking at himself in the mirror, but his appointment was tomorrow so he was glad he was reminded.
"Oh rats," he muttered as he headed back towards to kitchen, "I guess I will have to start my diet and exercise another time. Can't be running and lifting weight if I'm high on that knock-out gas." Lex was relieved by the opportunity to skip his workout, but immediately regretted it when he remember he wasn't allowed to eat for the rest of the night since the gas had to be given on an empty stomach. Hungry and frustrated Lex hid the cookies he had gotten out from his brother and went up to bed.

Part 4 - Dan's Story!
- - -2 week earlier - - -
"I'M GOING INSANE!!" Dan yelled as he hobbled over to the kitchen to make a protein shake. " I can't take this! I need to go running or biking or something. I mean a broken leg isn't that bad, I mean Neal Armstrong could do it ... and he had cancer." Lex looked at his brother with an amused grin on his face, "First off Dan, Lance is the one you were looking for not Neal, I mean in less you were complaining you couldn't go to the moon with that cast you got there. And second, it's only been one day since you got back from the hospital you big baby. Your not suppose to put pressure on that thing for months so saddle up cause your stuck on the couch for a long ass time."
"Whatever," Dan said as he put in some kale and brussel sprouts into the blender, "I can still do crunches or something. Gotta have some way to maintain this..." Dan lifted up his shirt exposing his perfectly cut abs.
"Good luck with that," Lex sighed, "with 2 cracked ribs, a broken leg, and all those bruises I'm surprised you made it over here without crying, look at yourself, you really think you can lift weights now?
Dan knew the answer. His brother was right, he couldn't even lift his shirt up without feeling pain throughout his entire body, he would never be able to lift his usual set, or even his mom's 5 pounders, He was screwed. He had months more of bed rest and no way of exercising until it was over. Sure his bruises and ribs would heal more quickly, but the doctor said any strenuous activities could seriously effect the placement of the bones in his leg.
Dan turned on the blender and began mumbling to himself. "Il just have to be a little more careful about what I eat. Ill stick to a juice fast, Yah that's it! Cant get fat if all I'm eating are these protein and herb shakes." Dan pored the muddy looking concoction into a cup and made his way back to the couch. He took a sip and snarled, "Gahh gunna be a long couple of months..."

- - - 1 week later - - -

Dan was getting nervous. He had to go in for X-rays to see how bad the break was and his girl friend wasn't around to comfort him. She was still in New York for some conference thing for the restaurant she managed. Normally Dan would be fine with this... it would give him more time at the gym or with the guys, but not now. Now he needed her to stand by his side and tell him everything was okay.
See Dan looks to be big and tough, but he's a crybaby when it comes to hospitals. That's why he pushed the x-ray off for a whole week before he had to agree to come in. He always thought the worst of a situation and this was no exception. "What if I have to be in this thing for the full 6 months?! Or maybe even a whole year?! What If I can never walk again?!" All these thought were pouring through his mind as he absentmindedly grabbed at the grilled cheese the housekeeper had made him.
" I would never be able to walk again, or run, or even exercise. I would have to sit on the couch for the rest of my life watching ESPN and god knows what." The thought resonated with Dan for a while before he knew what to do with it. "Be on the couch for the rest of my life." He thought again as he polished off the grilled cheese and started munching on the Cheese puffs next to it. He expected to feel sad or angered by the idea of never getting off the couch again, but instead he felt kind of excited. Not having to run 8 miles a day anymore. Not having to spend every second he wasn't at work or with Jenna at the gym. The thought of just relaxing on the couch eating his favorite junk foods started to fill his mind. "I could eat cheese and bread all day long and not have to work extra hard at the gym to burn it off. I could cook pastas, and lasagna, and casseroles with real butter! Ohhh real butter... I cant even remember a time when I haven't used that organic flavorless crap you get at those health food stores ... and I wouldn't have to feel bad about it the next day!"
The more Dan thought about all the foods he had been deprived growing up in the Leer household the more he could practically taste them in his salivating mouth. His whole body was excited by the idea and after he finished the last puff on his plate he began slowly massaging his crotch. He began literally getting hard at the idea of his body getting soft.
Dan begun to imagine himself gorging on anything and everything he had tried so hard to resist. Pizza, bagels, butter, doughnuts, butter, Ice cream, candy, more butter, he couldn't help but yearn for all the savory and sweet tastes he had been forbidden to try growing up.
The more he thought about gorging himself the more turned on he got and as he got closer and closer to finishing he experienced a whole new level of fantasy. He wasn't just eating the food, but being fed it by Jen. He envisioned her unwrapping sticks of warm gushing butter and slowly rubbing them all over his body. Only it wasn't his body, it was someone else's, someone much much fatter then his own. She was making out with a man 5 times the size of Dan and she didn't seem to care. She didn't seem to be disgusted by the guy's enormous belly or the soft expanding love handles he had oozing from his sides. She didn't seem to notice that the man had boobs twice the size of her own or the fact that his neck was so think and chubby you couldn't tell where his face began and his chest ended. "What did she see in this guy, was he rich or... err...smart? Or did she loose a bet or something?" Then Dan heard his name being whispered by Jen. "Mmmm... Dan..." she said, "your so hot Dan..." He couldn't believe his ears... or his eyes for that matter... that tub of lard Jen was on was himself. All 400+ pounds of the guy Jenna was feeding was Dan. He couldn't believe his senses, but before he had time to digest it he keeled over in pleasure and came back to reality.
"Did I really just jack-off to my girlfriend making me fat?" He mumbled to himself Jeeze these pain meds there giving me must be stronger then I thought!"
Just then Lex came back into the room as Dan finished zipping up his pants. "Ready to go," Lex said, annoyed he had to take his brother to go get the x-ray.
"Yeah," Dan replied as he began hobbling over to the door.
Once they were both seated in their moms SUV, the last working car on the Leer property, Lex headed over to the clinic by his families Gym. Dan was fidgeting the entire ride over and Lex was munching on a bag of Doritos he took from the house. "Jeeze Lex has really let himself go," Dan thought as he reached for his brothers Doritos. "I bet he doesn't even realize that his little starter belly is peeking out of his wife beater. God he's gunna blow up in college, if he's already putting on his freshman 15."
Dan's thoughts of his little brother growing a belly were interrupted when the car pulled to a halt outside the hospital. Dan got out of the car, picked up his crutches, and started making his way to the door as Lex sped off in the car. "God," Dan thought, "He cant even get his *** out of the car and help me to the door. He probably doesn't want anyone to see him with that paunch he's got growing..."
Dan slowly made his way inside the hospital. It was pretty empty so there wasn't much of a wait time, but Dan was sweating through his hoodie and jeans. He was so nervous he barley heard to nurse call him back. The nurse brought Dan back to the examination room and went through the whole spiel before he could take his x-rays. She pulled out the chart and started mumbling to herself, "eyes: green, hair: black height: 6'4, weight: 220, Body Fat, 2%..."she continued reading the chart, but became to quiet for Dan to over hear. "OKAY," She yelled as she helped Dan up on the scale, "Just gotta make sure these are all correct from last time you were here..." She started moving the balance on the scale to adjust the number. Dan looked nervous. He knew he hadn't stuck to his liquid diet this whole time but surely the damage couldn't be that ba... "234.6," the nurse said in an annoying chipper voice.
"WHAT!?!" Dan Yelled jumping off the scale and lying backwards against the counter. "That's impossible! Run it again!"
The nurse was visibly startled, "Sorry Mr. Leer but the scale is completely accurate, I even factored in the weight of the cast and clothing..."
Lex couldn't believe it. "14.6 pounds in 1 week!" he mumbled to himself, "how is that even possible?"
Overhearing, the nurse proceeded to rant about how common weight gain was in bedridden patients, but Dan was to consumed by his weight gain to listen. "14.6 pounds! 14.6 POUNDS!" He kept repeating it too himself as he started rubbing his former 6-pack. All his once perfectly defined abs had softened and molded themselves into one doughy cushion that hung down slightly and wrapped itself around Dan's hips and back. He couldn't believe it, but he wasn't exactly disgusted by it either. From the second he heard the nurse say he gained nearly 15 pounds he started getting hard. Luckily his jeans were bunched up over his cast so it was easy for Dan to conceal the erection growing in the folds of his pants.