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There is fuck all to do to lose weight in the South, but there’s even less to do as far as entertainment went in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Haley had spent her teenaged years prowling around Westgate Mall thinking that it was the coolest shit. But now that she was in her mid-twenties and almost nothing had changed (besides the fact that they got rid of that bomb ass arcade for another stupid clothing store that didn’t have anything that fit her!) Haley was far less enthused about the prospect of hanging out with her friends there.
Well, friend. Courtney was still mad at her. But Mackenzie would do in a pinch! And she wouldn’t bitch about how much she ordered at Chic-fil-A.
“…so the chair turned into a whole big thing about and, long story short—” Haley slurped on her straw before tossing the emptied sweet tea into the trash, “—now my mom’s bitching at me about getting a job.”
Both women waddled heavily along the wide berth that the mall’s halls gave them, their awkward toddling gaits unable to keep their fleshy forms apart. Even as Haley managed to lumber in the lead, she would feel the occasional brush of Mackenzie’s belly as it sloshed against her meaty backside. The tickle of Mack’s gut bouncing against her ass packed tight into leggings wasn’t as unpleasant as it was odd—and perhaps a sign that maybe it was time for them to cut back on the waffle fries.
“You could always come work at the Fish Camp?” Mackenzie’s thick southern accent really shined every time she said fish camp, “Demi’s lookin’ for new waitresses and the pay’s pretty good?”
Haley turned up her nose at the thought of waitressing for a living. Who wouldn’t? She’d gone to college so that she wouldn’t have to be a waitress for the rest of her life. Or a beautician. Or a housewife. Or whatever other southern stereotype that life could throw her way. She wasn’t quite sure what she wanted to do, but she knew that it involved something with her degree.
What was there to even do as an English major in South Carolina? Haley sure as hell hadn’t found out in her three months of barely looking, and hadn’t turned up anything new in the week or so that she’d spent searching ever since she got in a fight with her mom.
“Let’s focus on finding me some new clothes first.” Haley said with a pout, “Something job interview-y.”
Haley knew that it was going to be a long shot finding anything that fit her and looked cute. At least, it would have been if they hadn’t opened a Torrid a little while ago. Whatever they didn’t have there, Haley could scrounge up at Lane Bryant. Thank God for Spartanburg’s growing obesity epidemic.
And while it wasn’t exactly likely that they’d have any cool band t-shirts that Haley could squeeze into (at least on the rack) it was sort of a tradition that every time she came to Westgate Mall she’d stop by Hot Topic. Haley’s comparatively tiny tits and narrow shoulders meant that she could squeeze into some of the smaller “extra large” sizes without having to custom order with whoever was behind the counter. It was a decent way to stay stylish as her weight kept rising… somehow. Plus, it was fun to see good little Christian girl Mackenzie squirm at all the edgy shirts and collectibles—watching her try not to touch anything while being big enough to brush against everything was a laugh riot.
“Oh wow—”
Haley chuckled as she heard another utterance of confusion and awe mixed into one, staring up at the rack and looking at all of the shirts. She had assumed that it was her friend, marveling at the graphic tees with the pentagrams and Satan stars on them for about the billionth time. She hadn’t even realized that the voice wasn’t Mackenzie’s until it kept talking.
“What, you’re not even gonna say hi to me?” the deceptively high-pitched voice dripped with venom, “Fuck you, Haley!”
Spoiler Alert: it's Dani Gosset!
But there's a reason that Haley didn't recognize her...
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