chapter 1

The Video

She lay there, breathing heavily. She didn't really do much else these days. Staring across the room to the TV was the majority of her entertainment. That and eating copious amounts of food. To any outsider, she was just another massively fat woman. Stuck in her bed, eating herself to an early grave, a symptom of the broken american dream. But this body of hers, held secrets now hidden under a sea of fat and blubber. The secret of a different life, a different past far removed from what we now see. To an outsider, she would have begged for help and tried to explain her story through labored breaths. To her once boyfriend, now captor, she simply opened her mouth and let him fill her up, resigned to her fate - hopeless and defeated.

"Time to play the video" he coo'd, sitting down and leaning into her soft, yielding adipose, treating her like a human pillow. He pressed play on his remote and the screen flickered into life. They watched this video every few months, always with newer footage at the end. He'd waited until it was too late for her to escape before starting these viewings.

Phone footage of a sports track flickered onto the screen. The perspective was clearly from the bleachers of a university sports practice. Girls were running back and forth practicing their 100 meters amongst other exercises. The camera was clearly favouring one woman above the rest. There she was, all 110 lbs of her, running like she was floating. She ran with ease and grace, her blonde pig tail flowing and bouncing in the breeze. Unaware she was being filmed, she went about her business. Clearly radiant, clearly beautiful and unknowingly done for. The video flickered and a new part began

It was footage of her jogging to and fro from her dorms around campus. Her body tight but curvy, lithe and athletic. She even nearly clocked him filming her on a video, but missed it by a whisper. the next video was her entering a night club with friends at the start of a night out, then cut to footage of her drunk and dancing hours later.

Lay there, pinned to the bed, she wanted to scream, to run away. But running was now out of the question. The body that encompassed her now could barely wiggle its toes, let alone run anywhere. Just breathing exhausted her more and more these days, a fact that terrified her.

The next footage was the most jarring. It was her and him.

They were laughing and joking, messing with the camera then kissing like any couple in love. She sees her happiness on that skinny face and wishes she could warn herself, but it's far too late. The next videos always seems to be filmed when she is eating.

In a restaurant, on a plane, at home snacking on yet another treat he has brought her, oblivious to his motives. The secret camera in his bathroom shows her skinny body then cuts to her eating then back to her looking more and more bloated. The footage cuts to a holiday and a slightly softer looking version of her, bikini clad and lying on a sun lounger, her belly pooching ever so slightly against her bikinis waist line. It then cuts to a drunken her later that night pigging out on what looks like a take away. Her belly looks full and solid from her daily feasting but she still manages to eat the lot. Each shot from the holiday seems to have her chomping on something.

Back from holiday and the eating shots continue. The bathroom footage shows her curves taking on more exaggerated dimensions as she plumps up. Footage of her standing in the bathroom, her soft bits pushing urgently against her shrinking underwear. her face showing concern and worry for the first time. She cups her small belly and gives it a slight jiggle, clearly unhappy with whats growing there. Footage of him, mixing a white powder into all her future drinks and food is then cut with her eating increasing amounts like a starved animal.

She wells up remembering this point of her life. As much as she wanted to lose the additional stone or two, her appetite had suddenly become impossible to resist. She didn't seem to be able to satisfy her hunger for more than an hour or so -it was all she could think to do. She was scared at the possible consequences of overeating when she knew she should diet, but her hunger was too great. Footage of her several stone heavier than her start weight bulging out of her clothes, arguing with him about her weight. Ending with her saying she is joining a gym and him seemingly supportive. This is the closest she came to wising up and getting away. She obviously blamed the weight gain on herself, thinking she had just become too comfortable and lazy. A few shots of her returning home from the gym, exhausted looking and resisting his over sized meal offerings. This would have been the end of it if she had been in a normal relationship, but she wasn't, and this was jut the beginning.

Next shot shows an add on to his concoctions. A mild sedative that he explains will leave her drowsy and lethargic. He smiles at the screen as he crumbles it into her drink. Footage shows her drinking it then seeming to lose all motivation. Rather than head off to the gym, she lounges on the sofa and fills up on snacks. She even eats his food offerings without resistance, albeit a smaller than usual serving.

Shot of drink, shot of her doped up on the couch eating more than the previous day. In many of the shots, she's wearing her gym gear, obviously intending to go before she was drugged. In no time she's back to eating huge portions and barely moving off the sofa. She thinks back to this time and her memories are all foggy. She remembers being constantly hungry and too tired to do anything except let him pamper her. Her thoughts of going to the gym vanished along with nearly all her thoughts.

The drug made her a suggestible zombie, happy to follow his instructions and glut herself beyond any sensible level of fullness. Footage showing her gorging on various meals as her body bulges and grows. Her whole form finally rounds out from the weight he's pumping into her. Her face grows rounder and a double chin forms, her shoulders thicken and grow with softening looking chubby arms flanking her equally chubby body. Her breasts grow pendulous, doughy and sagging from their expansion. Her belly spreads and thickens, clearly fat now with a twin fold. It sits increasingly proudly, jutting out between her legs. Her legs become large and meaty, sprouting out from wide hips with rolls on her sides. The bathroom cam now shows an increasingly fat woman with stretchmarks appearing on her hips, thighs, arms, belly and breasts.

The video cuts three separate shots of her walking across the bathroom to create one seamless piece of footage. The only thing different is that the first shot shows her at the beginning slim and healthy, the middle shot shows her chubby and then the next one cuts to her with a a lot more weight on her. her body now jiggling with each step.

It then cuts to another holiday, a cruise. This time she is clearly fat, lay on her sun lounger in a struggling bikini, stuffing her face. She should have been ashamed, the fat mess she was becoming and how much she was eating, but she could barely think. This continues much the same. Them or her sat on the sofa, snacking and watching tv. He then shows him easing of the sedatives. Her eating continues unabashed for a few shots until you see her in the bathroom again, clearly starting to get some perspective on just how fat and out of shape she has become.

Then came the fateful day, the day it all changed.

It shows her reclining on the sofa, her belly full and fat looking, hanging out of a far too small t-shirt and resting on her meaty thighs. Scraps of food and wrappers sit around her with remnants smearing her face. She's been sleeping off a huge feast and Her boyfriend is in the shower. Usually she is still painfully full at this point, barely able to move, but not today. Her hunger has been growing so fast (Drug induced) that she's actually feeling hunger pangs for the first time in months. Not even considering how self sabotaging she's being, she raises her flabby body from the sofa and waddles to the kitchen to find herself a treat. With her boyfriend cooking everything and pampering her every whim, she hasn't even thought to enter the kitchen in months, especially with it being the furthest walk from the bedroom/lounge. She lumbers in noting barely noting the containers filling the kitchen surfaces.

She mindlessly heads straight for the fridge and looks inside. Grabbing a plate of chocolate muffins and eagerly unwrapping one before shoving it whole into her mouth. Once upon a time, these behaviors would have been alien to her, but greed had changed her greatly. She munches through the first one in moment whilst already readying the second. She shoves the second one in and reaches for what she thinks is a regular bottle of milkshake.

She barely registers it saying "muscle milk" before she begins to down the whole litre, spilling some on her already food stained t-shirt between gulps. She's nearly done when she takes a break to belch. Belching is another thing she would have never done before she met him, now it was common place. She looks down again at the bottle, about to raise it to her chubby face when she sees the bottle more clearly.