This choice: Alice - Former Land Whale • Go Back...Chapter #6Former Land Whale, Future Land Whale? by: hedkrakka   Alice sat in the back seat of the cab. She could feel her pulse quickening with each yard the cab put under its wheels. As they passed the gate, her breath became shallow and stressed. Her nerves were firing on all cylinders. "Calm down. It's just a building. It's just a building. It's just a building."
It was, in truth, more then a building. The whole of Buttercombe campus was a den of memories for the blonde. The new teacher had been a student within these very walls, and she had no shortage of good memories here.
And bad ones, as well.
"It's different now. YOU'RE different now. It won't happen again. It won't happen again."
Alice Sorenson had, in just a few short years at Buttercombe, had grown to a then-staggering 412 pounds by graduation. Given she'd only attended the school for three years and had been a mere slip of a girl at 119 pounds on entry, she'd managed to put on close to a hundred pounds of jiggly fat per year.
It wasn't hard to figure out why, if she was being honest with herself, as her appetite had been totally out of control. On average, she had been eating four meals a day on weekdays, and five or six on the weekends. Pre-bedtime and midnight snacks were the norm, and she was always eating something between classes. Her belly had initially hurt with how much she was putting away, but it was so good she didn't even consider slowing or stopping eating as potential options.
Once her belly had stretched out to accommodate her rate of consumption, Alice had watched her weight skyrocket. During her junior year, she managed to outgrow three uniforms in a single month. Her family had been stunned with just how huge she'd gotten, and their incredulity only increased with with her waistline with each milestone. Her Mum had been an endless repository of diet advice and healthy suggestions, and Alice had found her worrying exhausting to deal with.
Her siblings, on the other hand, had been simply aggravating. They had teased her mercilessly, only getting worse and worse as she got bigger. Her one sister, Cathy, developed a bad habit of slapping her growing behind or shaking her wobbly gut rolls when she was unaware of her presence, even going so far as to sneak a photo of Alice when she was seated on the couch in sweat shorts and a bra. It was a less then flattering shot of the massive young woman, with a large pepperoni on one end table and a plate with four double cheeseburgers on the other. Cathy had dubbed the photo, "the Land-whale in her natural habitat," and used it as blackmail material to force her widening sibling to eat whatever she put in front of her.
Her brother, Theo, had been just as bad in his own way. He was constantly plying her with treats and honking huge amounts of fatty foods, seeming to think if she was going to be fat, then she might as well go whole hog. Even when she was at her heaviest and could eat all day without a break, he somehow managed to force enough food down her throat to leave her painfully stuffed to the brim every single time.
It probably says something about her time at Buttercombe that Alice actually expected to lose weight during the holidays, but thanks to her and her siblings efforts, Alice's weight spiked every time she went home for an extended period.
At grad, she'd been one of the biggest girls on campus, though she knew from talking to the school nurse ("What was her name again?") that the average student weight had gone up in a big way since she'd been there. "And, more worryingly, teacher weights..."
Alice had been a little surprised to hear Shannon Polluck was still the Head Mistress of Buttercombe academy. She'd been a fairly big woman when Alice was a teen, and she was absolutely stunned when she saw just how much Miss Polluck had expanded in the years since. Miss Polluck was now a planetary ball of lard, stretching her poor uniform to its utmost and eliciting some very worrisome creaks from her hugely oversized office chair. "She couldn't even stop eating during my 'Welcome to the Team' meeting. Heck, she's so fat she couldn't reach past her belly to grab another doughnut and had me pass them to her..."
Alice could only hope that Miss Polluck's gargantuan ass was merely skewing numbers to the heavier end, but she'd find out soon enough. There was still about a week before classes start, and only a couple students had shown up so far. Her lesson plan was ready to go, so this time was mostly about meetings and getting to know her fellow staff members.
The cab had pulled to a stop in front of the main campus building as she was lost in thought, and she exited the vehicle and grabbed her bag from the trunk. She looked at nearby sign, proudly advertising Yeng Brand Stomach Aid.
Another major change from her time at Buttercombe was the new addition of Yeng. The corporation had been a major sponsor for the school for a lot of years, but now it had grown into a full partnership. Beyond extra funding, Alice wasn't too sure what this yet meant, but she had a meeting with the Yeng representative that would hopefully answer some of her questions. "What was the name? Hinaizawa?"
Of course, Alice herself had also changed a lot from her time at the academy. Her first semester at college had seen her gain until she was only a hairsbreadth away from the big 500. She'd managed to put on as much weight in three months as she'd put on in a year at Buttercombe, and this turned out to be the wake-up call she needed.
Over the last couple of years, Alice had managed to shed an astonishing amount of weight, managing to drop herself to a comparatively svelte 167 pounds. It had been a lot of hard work (and, admittedly, an expensive bit of surgery), and she was proud of her new figure and athletic prowess.
Alice remembered how she used to be. Her gigantic belly softly stretching to her knees, even when standing. Her couch-crushing ass reaching from one arm rest to the other. Stopping halfway up a flight of stairs for an extended break, panting heavily and feeling sweat pool between her wobbly rolls. Her endless, rumbling belly and its desperate need for more and more and more...
Alice Sorenson really didn't want to go back to that, and her cruel siblings were already placing bets on how much she was going to gain. The fact that they were only giving 3 to 2 odds for her breaking her old weight record stung a bit, but she was terrified that they'd be proven right. "Heck, I'm already feeling hungry."
She frowned, wondering why she felt hungry given she'd only eaten an hour ago. As she looked around, it didn't take too long for her to figure out why.
She was currently standing downwind of the campus dining hall. Her skin went pale and her lip trembled in fear. "No, no, no! It doesn't mean anything! Cathy and Theo are wrong! I can do this! I can hold out! I'm stronger then this! I am, I am, I am!"
Alice was so lost in thought that she didn't see the person behind her approach, and she physically jumped when they called her name. Turning around, she saw...   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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