Her mother dropped her off, Muriel had gotten numerous impolite stares from the other families, saying she was embarrassed would be putting it lightly.
She groaned as she went into the meeting area, her group was surprised to say the least at her size, and they could all tell she was lying through her teeth when she said she was just putting on weight.
"Ah...Um, Muriel, we weren't..expecting you to join us this time around," said the instructor, trying as hard as he could not to get on her bad side.
As she and the group got into the pool, they all couldn't help but fixate on Muriel's massive gut, they joked about her eating watermelon seeds and swallowing those toys that grow in water, she tried her best to ignore them.
"Alright, team, time to practice holding our breath," announced the instructor, as Muriel went under the water, her belly acting as a weight to keep her from floating back up, for once it was being used beneficially, the other group members got annoyed y this, as they all thought she was cheating.
She had held her breath longer than the others, but it was an absolute chore come time to resurface and move to the wave pool.
Once they got into the wave pool, Muriel smiled a tad, as the group finally had moved onto something interesting and fun, for a change.
After the lesson was over, and since it was nearing Halloween, her friends brought out huge bags of candies and junk food which Muriel dug into with zero haste.
She forgot how much she had consumed, but it had made her belly grow and bloat, once her mother was ready to pick her up, she stuffed as much candy into her backpack as she could lay her hands on.
Thankfully, her mother never found out about it, Muriel pigged out on it each day, gaining more weight each time, at this point the doctor had advised her mother to all but give up on putting her on a diet, just as she was going to be scanned to find out what was making her tummy so large