chapter 1- the affair

Santa and Mrs. Claus have been married for centuries. When they first met, Mrs. Claus was quite slender and Santa was the chubby one. Over the centuries, married life started to affect Mrs.Claus. While Santa was always kept busy working with the elves on making toys and preparing for Christmas, Mrs. Claus was in charge of cooking for the elves and for Santa. Everyone loves Mrs. Claus’ cooking so she always had to make a lot and with everything she made she always tasted it before serving it. Over the years, Mrs. Claus ended up gaining quite a bit of weight from all of the taste testing along with the larger portions that she had gotten used to eating because of Santa and the elves. It didn’t help either that most of the food she made were cookies and sweets because that’s what the elves liked. 


At first, Mrs. Claus didn’t gain any weight because she was always moving to make all of the food for the North Pole. After about a hundred years Santa finally gave her a staff of elves to help her cook. Mrs. Claus was given so much help that she no longer had to do anything. All she had to do was provide the recipes and taste them all before they went out. This is when the weight gain really started.


For the next 200 years Mrs. Claus gradually gained weight. She went from 160lbs to a whopping 400lbs. When she first moved in Mrs. Claus would wear sexy clothing and tight dresses that showed off her curves. After her weight gain she stuck with elastic clothes and fairly unflattering dresses. This left Mrs. Claus very self conscious about her body. While Santa tried to console her and tell her that he thought she was still beautiful. This didn’t change how Mrs. Claus felt; while yes, being married to Santa makes her immortal, she didn’t want to eventually be immobile too. So, over the last 100 years Mrs. Claus has dedicated herself to get in the best shape she could. While she still tasted all of her dishes, she used the off time she had while her elf staff cooked to workout. Mrs. Claus also cut back on the large portions; this caused Santa to worry a little, but knew that this is what Mrs. Claus wanted. 


After all of her hard work, Mrs. Claus has managed to get down to 140lbs. It’s the lowest weight she has ever been at and on top of that, she has become quite muscular as well. One of her favorite things to do now other than cooking is actually lifting weights. She loves feeling strong and in shape. Though while Mrs. Claus was now feeling better than she ever has, Santa has become more and more distant. Mrs. Claus just figured that he just had more on his mind since him and the elves have had to learn to make more advanced toys as technology has progressed over the last hundred years. 


That is until Mrs. Claus was tidying up Santa’s office one night and noticed that he had left his computer on. She noticed that for the last two years Santa has been in contact with a woman named Penny. She didn’t read all of the emails, but from what she did read, Santa has been visiting Penny in person once a month and on every Christmas night before he started his route.


“No wonder he’s been leaving earlier on Christmas.” Mrs. Claus says to herself.


Mrs. Claus notices that some emails even have pictures, but she decides to not even look at them. She decides that she wants to meet Penny and see what she has that Mrs. Claus doesn’t. Luckily her address was in one of the emails. It’s December 26th so Santa actually just visited her the night before and now he’s busy prepping for next year so he wouldn’t even notice that Mrs. Claus left.


Mrs. Claus gives her staff orders and trusts them to make the food for Santa and the elves as well as they always have while she’s away for the day. Mrs. Claus then set off.


“Time to see what she has that I don’t”.