Hallie West woke up in her room, but not in her bed. Stretching all her limbs downward under the unfamiliar blankets, the brunette rolled onto her side and looked around. The bed was right there, and had clearly been slept in.
Slowly, recollection came back to the twenty–one year old West daughter. Her big sister Tara had moved back home, something about losing her fancy–schmancy job in Charleston, and Hallie, being the baby of the family, was forced to give up her bed to her big–nosed sister.
To be fair, it had been Tara’s bed first. But that didn’t make the sheer injustice of it any more palatable to the youngest West.
“Hallie! You’d better get down here and get breakfast while there’s still some left!”
Mrs West’s voice carried up the stairs and into Hallie’s room, and she practically jumped out of the cot she’d slept in.
‘That was weird.’
Something in the back of Hallie’s mind tickled at her, it seemed much easier to get up out of bed than it should have.
Hallie shrugged. She’d never seen much point in thinking about things too hard if she didn’t have to. She checked the buttons on her pajamas, noticing they were getting a little snug around her middle, to say nothing of her hips spreading just a bit wider than her shoulders.
‘When did I get so fat/thin?’
Both questions passed Hallie’s mind together, and her brow furrowed in frustrated confusion. Luckily she was saved by the aroma of frying bacon and warm syrup. The brunette wiggled in excitement and bounded down the stairs.
Hallie West was greeted by a sight both familiar and very, very foreign. Her mama was cooking up a storm as usual, and her sister Tara was sitting at the kitchen table wolfing down waffles. She looked the same as Hallie remembered, though she’d obviously been eating pretty good out in the big city.
The second occupant of her mama’s table was both a stranger, and completely familiar. Perhaps a little too familiar.
‘Is that… me??’
The girl seated at the table opposite Tara had Hallie’s face, sort of. Big round cheeks turned the woman’s eyes into piggy little slits, and she was working on a third chin. Her fleshy jowls wobbled as she shoveled big bites of blue syrup drenched waffles into her mouth. She was even bigger than Tara. A lot bigger. If she couldn’t see her big sister sitting across the table, Hallie would suspect this girl had eaten Tara for a pre–breakfast snack. Her fat breasts puddled against a gigantic tee shirt, and her belly rolled forward onto the table, looking like the folds were trying to eat the formica top. Her big fleshy hips strained a pair of black leggings to their limit, and Hallie was startled to see that the girl was using two chairs to hold her enormous ass. Hallie was never one for diets or exercise, but someone needed to take this girl’s fork away once in awhile.
“What’re you staring at, twerp?”
The girl had her voice, too!
“Haley don’t be mean to your sister.” April West chided. “Come on sweetie, sit down and have some breakfast before your sisters eat it all.”
Hallie complied as her mama pulled out a chair and set a plate stacked four high with waffles. Mrs West added a pile of bacon to Hallie’s plate and doused the lot with the same blue syrup flooding Haley’s.
‘I’m being silly.’ Hallie thought to herself as she forked up a big mouthful. ‘Haley’s been here since she moved back from Charleston, what? Four… no, five years ago?’
Mrs West carried a skillet from the stove, holding a flipper in her other hand.
“Last of the eggs, who wants some?”
Hallie opened her mouth to speak, but Haley reached out a huge, wobbling arm and five plump sausage fingers in a grabbing motion, mouth packed with food.
“Here, girls…” Mrs West scooped a single fried egg onto each of Tara and Hallie’s plates, then slid the rest of the half–dozen onto a small bare corner of Haley’s. The biggest West girl bounced greedily in her seat, making both of the chairs supporting her ass creak ominously.
April sipped her coffee while her daughters ate, then started cleaning up.
“You girls have any fun plans today?”