Chapter 4 - 4

Looking around I find myself shaking. The stars seem close enough to touch tonight and even though it is warm I have chills over my body. I begin to walk to some of the more touristy parts of the Quarter. People dancing from one place to another. And then I see her. Her blond hair tumbling down her back. Her laughing blue eyes. And the curve of her body. I have never really been attracted to plus sized girls. I like a woman who can keep up with me in my activities. This night looking as her very lush curves to be completely honest she was more than a bit chubby her round cheeks as she smiled hiding some of those beautiful eyes. She laughed and hugged the petite girl next to her. I watched her from the shadows and she was the most alluring creature I had ever seen. The rest of the group continued on ahead of her but she has stopped to fix a strap on her shoes. Finishing she straightened and sensing my presence she looked toward the shadows.

I stepped out into the low light of the closest bar and she seemed frozen. I smiled at her and slowing walking to her side I circled her inhaling the scent of her hair of her skin. It was as if she had lost the power to move. I lifted her hair back from her neck and pulling her back against me I pulled her into the shadows from which I had come. A moment later it was like every vampire movie you had ever seen. My eye teeth were suddenly long and sharp. I had no other thought except to make the pain go away. Biting hard into her neck it was not her blood I craved it was the very thing that had made her so alluring to me her fat. I swallowed mouthfuls over and over of what to me tasted like the sweetest thing you could ever put on your tongue thick ice cream or better ambrosia. I moaned deep in the back of my throat un able to stop myself until I felt the girl in my arms go limp. Pulling back my fangs I looked down at the girl now completely slumped in my arms and saw the bloom of youth had begun to fade from her being. She was pale as fresh milk, but, the biggest change was the removal of any extra fat cell. Her cheeks had become gaunt. Her body as emaciated as a starving child. I gently laid her down on the ground. She could have been the poster child for ANNA. I could not believe this was the same girl I had tasted only minutes before. I was horrified at what I had done and yet for the first time in almost two days I finally felt satisfied the burning had abated. I sat on the ground unsure of what it all meant, but, as the sun rose in my dreams so it did in reality.

Sitting up I tried to shake off the last vestiges of my dreams. I felt like a new person that morning scrubbing the sleep out of my eyes I got out of bed. I noticed right away that my belly was still quite bloated from the insanity the day before trying to find something to slip into just to get some where for some "fat pants" something I had never needed before and hoped wouldn't be necessary after another day or so. I showered still feeling so much better even if my belly wasn't going anywhere for a while. I quickly found a store just off the Quarter. It was till early and there weren't many people around when I heard the scream coming from just down the street. I ran to see what had happened. The girl that had just screamed looked about for help. I ran to see if I could do anything when looking down I felt all the color drain from my face. NO! It just wasn't possible there on the ground was the girl from my dream. She looked to be half dead. I quickly kneeled down taking her wrist into my hand to feel for a pulse. She was indeed a live.

Someone had called for an ambulance and I heard the sirens a few minutes later. The girl who had called out for help kneeling close to her friend on the ground. "I don't understand,' she sniffed," what happened to her? It's as if someone has performed the most extreme liposuction procedure in the world. I just don't understand this." Tears streamed down her face as she held the other girls hand and prayed that she would be ok. I got to my feet and at first I slowly backed away from the scene as the EMTS had arrived. I kept moving further away until I found myself simply running. I had no idea where I thought I was going. This couldn't be real I tried to bargain with myself. I could not have done this. I shook my head over and over in denial.

I came to a stop in front of an antique shop. Looking through the window there was a full length mirror on display. I stared at the man reflected back and could not fathom what I was seeing. I knew my belly was extremely bloated to begin with, but, I had not truly looked at my face this morning. It looked as if I had gained 25 lbs. overnight. My features had always been rather sharp an old girlfriend had once called my features cut. The man reflected back at me in that horrible mirror this morning had begun to lose anything one might call chiseled and instead the hollows had begun to disappear and there was even sign of a slight double chin beginning to show. Touching my own face I saw the man in the mirror doing the same. There was no denying any of this anymore. I had to find that voodoo priestess and fix this before it got any more out of control. And I knew it was not going to get any better until I did as I felt the stirrings begin again.

That morning it only took about half the breakfast menu at the café I stopped at to take the edge off. Apparently my presumed dream walk that had turned out to be all too real had helped to slack the hunger. I still craved my sweeter coffee and I even had to politely ask the waitress if she would fill the container more than once, but, at least I felt a bit more in control today. I racked myself with guilt over what I had done to the girl last night, but, I tried to reason with myself that many girls had wished for their fat to just go away. The diet industry after all was a billion dollar a year industry and for now that girl would be encouraged to eat all she could possibly want without the censer he was sure she had gotten for indulging. She was alive and she would recover. That decided in my mind I paid my check and left. I had decided I would journey around the out skirts again for a while I still had a story to write and I was not going to let this little hiccup bother me. As the day went on I found I had to make more stops to fill my ever grumbling belly. I could not seem to focus on anything, but, the over whelming pain. I finished my last interview for the day and heading back to the café I had eaten at the morning before I sat in the same booth