“I’m Percy, the prefect in Dorm 3, and you need to hurry up, or you’ll be late for lunch. C’mon,”
said the great dark figure from above. He grinned, and Matt got a view of a dazzling white set of enormous teeth set in an enormously fat face. Percy’s white shirt stretched to cover a gargantuan gut that spilled out so far over his trousers that even looking up the stairs Matt couldn’t see Percy’s belt. Huge legs splayed wide below the massive load of the gut. Fat arms filled Percy’s shirt sleeves and rested at a 45 degree angle against his fat pecs.
“Can you help me with them?” Matt asked Percy.
“Only once you get them up here,” replied Percy. “I don’t do stairs anymore if I can help it.”
Matt struggled the rest of the way up the flight of stairs to the landing. Percy grabbed a bag from him, and waddled over to a door in the wall. Inserting a key, he opened the door. “Special treat for your first day, I’ll take you up in the elevator,” he said.
“Why can’t everybody use the elevator?” asked Matt, as he set down his bags beside Percy. Percy seemed even bigger when Matt was standing beside. Percy seemed to occupy nearly half the elevator, his gut and love handles stretching his shirt and sagging below his belt, his fat pecs hanging around his side, his fat calves filling the bottom of his pant legs. Percy jabbed with one very fat finger at the “3" button, and the elevator started moving.
“The elevators are old and slow, so the Principal reserves them for staff and prefects. There are also a few very fat guys who aren’t prefects who have permission to use them. If you get fat enough, I’m sure the Principal will give you a key.”
“How fat is fat enough?”
“Probably fatter than you think. How big are you, anyway?”
“264 pounds.”
“Ah, Ms. Peach weighed you, did she?”
“Yes. How big are you?” Matt asked, deciding suddenly to be bold. He couldn’t explain it - Percy was grossly fat - but Matt thought Percy was attractive, somehow.
“264,” said Percy wonderingly. “How old are you? I weighed 250 back when I was eleven.”
“I’m fourteen,” replied Matt.
“Well, you’ve got some growing to do to catch up, then,” replied Percy. “As to when you might get a key to the elevators, I haven’t heard of Mr. Walters giving one to any boy under 500 pounds, unless he was on crutches or in a wheelchair. Better figure on doubling your weight pronto. Of course, if you do that, you might end up a prefect, like me.”
“How do they choose prefects?”
“Well, you have to be in grade 12, have good marks, and be a good role model. Also definitely helps to be fat, though I’m not the fattest,” remarked Percy, slapping his vast belly with one hand. His belly fat rippled under the impact.
“So how fat are you? And if you’re not the fattest, who is?”
“Oh, Terry is the fattest prefect - he’s the fattest guy on campus, he outweighs all the staff! I’m a few pounds lighter than him - I weigh 684,” said Percy as the elevator doors opened again.
“684 pounds! Wow!” replied Matt. Even standing beside Percy, Matt found it hard to imagine that Percy weighed 400 pounds more than he did.
“Yeah, it’s impressive,” said Percy, slapping his gut again for good measure. “That’s why I don’t do the stairs if I can help it - it takes a lot of work to haul this gut up stairs. I came to OSB when I was nine, and haven’t looked back since.”
“How big were you when you were nine?” asked Matt.
“Oh, I was already a tubby tyke,” replied Percy. “I weighed 150 then. Come on,” he said, slowly waddling down the hall, “I’ll show you your room.” Matt watched Percy waddle, fascinated. Percy clearly could move - but various bits of his body bounced greatly as he did so, fat thighs slapping and rubbing, huge arms bouncing as Percy swung them back and forth for balance. The floor creaked gently under his feet as he moved. Percy stopped in front of a brown door and opened it. “Room B-15 is all yours. If you hurry and drop your bags, you can ride down with me in the elevator to lunch. Dorms eat together here, so always look for table B.” Matt stepped into the room and found: