Meanwhile, at another part of Buttercombe Academy's expansive campus, Harmony was attending her first class as well, 'Culinary Arts', a more stylish way of saying 'Cooking'. The room was laid out to have rows of shared desks in the middle and several miniature kitchen stations hugging the walls, each of them equipped with the bare minimum a student needed to make a three-course meal at the very least. "Alright, class, good morning to you all!" An athletic-looking woman with dark red hair was standing at the front of the class, the words 'Ms. Amber Crowley' written in marker on the whiteboard behind her and standing in great contrast to the students, many of them chubby, some of them properly fat, and one or two around the same size as Vera. Harmony looked around her and found Darcy from the sushi restaurant last night behind her, the wide-hipped girl meeting her gaze and smiling in recognition. The Hammond returned her smile before diverting her attention back to Ms. Crowley's speech. "Tomorrow we'll be going over proper...er, nutritional etiquette, but today, I want to see where everyone is regarding their experience in cooking. I'm going to assign you all into pairs of two, and then please go over to an available kitchen and get a feel for everything by cooking your favorite dish."
As if the stars had aligned at just the right sequence in the heavens, Harmony found to her surprise that Darcy and she would become partners, for today and the rest of the semester. After the rest of the class was paired with someone else, Amber Crowley released them all from their desks and instructed them towards the kitchens, while she would walk around and observe to make sure things were going smoothly. The kitchens, the Hammond found, were well-equipped, but quite small, something that was very apparent to her as her new partner accidentally hip-checked her for the fourth time in the first five minutes. "S-sorry about that, Harmony..." Darcy apologized with an ever-increasing blush on her face. "If you want, I can ask Ms. Crowley to switch if this is too much of a problem." Harmony, despite the blush she was mirroring, shook her head with a smile.
"Th-that's alright, Darcy. I'm happy to have you as my partner!" She smiled, putting the wide-hipped girl at ease, at least somewhat. "So, what were you thinking to cook? She said to make our favorite meal, right?"
"Pomegranate-Honey Glazed Chicken," Darcy said with a smile...but Harmony could tell that her heart was not into it, it looked strained and forced. "I mean, it's not my favorite, and I know that's what the teacher asked us to make, but..."
"How about we make my favorite, instead? I'd hate to see you eat something you don't like?" Harmony offered.
But Darcy shook her head. "No, it's not that I don't like glazed chicken, I love it! It's just...I don't love it as much as cheeseburgers..." Her blush came back, looking dejectedly at her fat-swathed rear end and thighs, swamping over the kitchen's counter and pushing some utensils out of the way. "I've been trying to eat healthy as of late, trying to get rid of this fat ass. It gets in the way and has a mind of its own. I can't turn around without accidentally hitting someone with it, which I'm sure you know now."
"H-hey, we all deserve cheat days, right? Your, uh...posterior is bigger than average, yes, but you're not so bloated anywhere else, from what I can see." Harmony tentatively moved forward to place her hand on Darcy's shoulder, not liking her new partner putting herself down. "And, if you don't mind me saying...I'd k-kill to h-h-have an ass like yours..." Harmony instantly regretted what she said the moment it left her mouth. Why did she say that!? It was so forward and personal, and she had only known the girl for less than half of a day!
But Darcy's reaction to the comment was not negative at all. "O-oh! Well...thank you, Harmony. I still think it's too big, but your right, I have all semester to get rid of it. Today's cheat day~." She turned around to put the ingredients for her glazed chicken meal away, accidentally bumping her prodigious rear end into Harmony once again. The Hammond blushed heavily from the action but said nothing, figuring she was going to have to get used to those globes of butt blubber crashing into her if Darcy was going to be her partner. And, secretly, she was planning to convince the girl to have more 'cheat days' in the future, meaning it might be more of a 'problem' at the time went on. "So, any suggestions for what we should use for our hamburgers?"
"Mayonnaise, maybe? And bacon, grilled onions, and maybe I can make some fries to go with it?" Harmony was quick to offer the most calorie-laden foods to put into their creation, which Darcy did not object to. "And...look! This freezer has Ice Cream! Do you know what goes great with burgers and fries? Milkshaks~" Darcy nodded, getting a mixer machine for Harmony to use, while the Hammond began dicing up pieces of pineapple and pie crust to make a pineapple upside-down cake flavored shake. Dumping pretty much the whole carton into the blender along with a liberal smothering of salted caramel syrup, she set the machine on low so that she could focus her attention on the other projects in the kitchen that needed attending to.
Meanwhile, Ms. Crowley, walking around the class to see if there was anyone who needed help getting settled with their new kitchens, noticed what Harmony and Darcy were making from afar and frowned. So many calories, she thought, and theirs probably were one of the more healthy meals being made out of everyone else. When she told her students to cook their favorite meals, she didn't think that most of them would make pancakes and pizza and meat pies and pasta. She was going to have a serious time of reigning in their diets this semester.
Near the end of class, Harmony and Darcy were finally done with their meal. There were two hamburgers, one for each of them to enjoy, each of them stacked high with three beef patties dripping with grease and slices of cheese, next to an impressive pile of fries and a tall glass of milkshake topped with whipped cream. Darcy knew that all the calories in what she was about to eat were going to go straight to her ass...but it looked soooooo good.
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