In no time at all, we were fully clothed, sitting in a place called Cottons Snack Bar that was in the property adjacent to Jocelyns apartment building.
They have the best breakfasts here! The best, David! The best!
I believe you, I believe you.
Our waiter came over, a rough-looking elderly guy, short, with a bit of a paunch, a scraggly beard to make up for his bald pate.
Joss, honey, how are you this morning? He beamed at her.
Im doing great, Cotski. This is my
friend, Dave.
Cotton stuck out his hand, and Dave shook it. It was the handshake of a man who ran his world based on the collective solidity of other mens handshakes, a handshake that sussed out who made the grade. Dave and Cotton locked eyes; Cottons chin moved slightly. They broke off handshakes.
I like him! I like this one! he said, This one, this is one of the good ones!
I certainly hope so, Cotton. Jocelyn made eyes at me and blushed.
Can I get you the usual?
Yessir, and David will have the same. Trust me Dave, its great. Perfect breakfast win!
Okay, okay, I said, chuckling, I believe you.
I gotta go tinkle, bee are bee.
She got up from her chair and hustled her fat ass off to the bathroom. Both Cotton and myself watched her walk off. She was wearing a pair of sweatpants with the waist rolled down, the way girls do. She probably shouldnt have bothered, because her ass crack poked out of the top, and with each heavy step more was revealed, the top of her flabby ass jiggling in plain view, until she one-handedly raised her pants back up before stepping into the bathroom.
That girl, began Cotton, in a conspiratorial tone of voice, I swear, that girl was already pretty big when she started eating here. But she was a nice kinda big. Lately, shes gotten even bigger, and soon that bottom of hers is gonna be as a big as a house. He laughed boisterously. Its already as big as my car, but my car, its a small car! Hahaha!
I wasnt really sure what to say, or if I was even supposed to say anything.
I suppose that Jocelyn, she is more than just a friend? Am I right?
Um
well, I
Come now, you can tell me! I know there are men who like the big ones, the bigger the better, and you are one of these men, I am right.
Because he said it like a statement, and not a question, I nodded my head and said, I hope so, yeah.
I have seen it all. I have had quite a life, been around the world, and seen everything. You dont need to feel embarrassed, so let me ask you a question, and I want you to answer me honestly: Would you like her bigger?
Excuse me?
I imagine you quite like Jocelyns figure, and I am wondering, would you like her to stay the size she is now, or would you like her to get bigger? Because I could help out in my own small way, whichever you would like. I am a very good judge of character. I think you would be good for her. I adore Jocelyn, she is my best customer! So, if I can make you happy, and you can make her happy, and certainly her business makes me very very happy! then I would like to help.
What could I say after all of that? I couldnt really believe it, any of it, but I mumbled:
Bigger. Bigger.
Alright, I will see what I can do.
He shuffled off to the kitchen. As he disappeared, Jocelyn emerged from the ladies room. Before leaving the house, she had thrown on a white Adidas t-shirt that was woefully small. She said she used to jog in it (back in the dark ages), but now she just wore it around the apartment, and when she did laundry and got breakfast. Her stomach up to her belly button was revealed, and the jiggling from her confident sashaying walk was a sight to behold. Other customers in the diner stared at her, many of them older women giving her dirty looks, for being so fat, so young, and so free. She crammed herself back into her seat.
Dang, I was hoping to come back to find my food waiting for me. Hey Cotton, hurry up with the grub! She had no qualms about yelling this out in the diner, bothering other customers.
Hes usually very quick, she said, I wonder whats taking him.
Im sure its nothing.
I was staring at her as she talked about her dream last night (is there anything more tedious than other peoples dreams, even the dreams of those we adore?), taking her plump cheeks, her thick neck and double chin, her sparkling large eyes, like a cat at night, and I thought about desire. Desire named Jocelyn, desire lost last night, and desire regained, right now and into the future. As my thoughts unspooled with the clarity of morning, a young waitress, stick-thin and all of thirteen, brought out two cups of coffee, two glasses of orange juice, two glasses of milk, and two milkshakes, one chocolate, one strawberry.
Milkshakes?
Grampy said they were on the house. For being our best customer.
Oh yeah, give it here. She was gesturing at the chocolate.
Our drinks were placed before us. Jocelyn immediately went to town on her milkshake, sucking with ferocity through two straws at once.
So you always get coffee, milk and juice?
She sucked up a little more and pulled her lips away, a little dribble of chocolate finding its way onto her belly shirt. She let out a small burp.
Yeah, I believe in a full breakfast. Its the right way to start the day.
She grabbed cream and sugar and stirred it into her coffee, with a particular focus on the fine white powder.
I like my sugar with coffee and cream, she giggled.
She sipped at her coffee, and moaned her approval.
Cotton makes good java.
I took a sip of the juice. Fresh pressed. A sip of milk. Whole?
Whole?
Yeah, I like my milk homo. Thats homogenized, sucka.
Too thick for me.
You sure? Give it here.
She unceremoniously grabbed my glass and gulped it down. After chugging that, she chugged her own glass of milk, there never being enough for Jocelyn. She let out a juicy burp that made her giggle. The blue-haired biddy behind her crane her neck around and glare.
Nummy moo juice.
Around this time, our waitress came out bearing two huge platters that had her huffing and puffing. They were really too much for her adolescent musculature: colossal omelettes, heaping piles of pan fries, buttered toast glistening in the morning light, bowls of oatmeal sprinkled with cinnamon, and enough bacon, sausage and ham to feed a family. Jocelyn was literally drooling, and sucked it back noisily as her food was being set in front of her. She grabbed a piece of bacon off the plate before it had even made it to the table.
Theres a little more of everything. And Grampy said he cooked it up extra special for you.
Awesome! said Jocelyn, as she stuffed a gargantuan bite from the omelette into her mouth. Chewing with her mouth open, she readied her next bite.
Our waitress gazed at her with an odd expression, one I might call familiar disbelief. She couldnt quite believe what she was seeing, even though she had seen it countless times before.
Is this your first time
sharing a meal with Jocelyn? she asked me.
No.
Ah, I see.
She went off, and left us to eat our breakfasts. These plates looked like the sort of plates that are usually used to cook turkeys, and they were filled with food. These omelettes must have taken six eggs to make. The toast was piled up in two towers. The amount of food was mind-boggling, but I was also really hungry myself, having not eaten a decent meal since lunch the day before, and so I tucked in myself.
I ate away, keeping one eye on Jocelyn the whole while. She was really pushing herself, seeming to goad herself on with each new bite. She would have some fries (mmm, so good!), then try the omelette (oooh, extra cheese!), then crunch on some toast, crumbs flying everywhere (more butter than usual).
The meal was huge, even for a trooper like her. She took a breather halfway through, having already eaten enough for one person (maybe two). Smacking her hands on her belly, she let out a contented sigh.
So, Im making a pig of myself again.
I put down my fork. No, no, dont say that
No, I am, I cant help it. She did have some egg yolk on her chin, and ketchup on her right hand. Its who I am. I just (urp) love food. I dont get people that dont love food. But I guess thats how they stay so thin.
She curled up her lip and crinkled her nose, registering some annoying discomfort. She pressed her hands into her stomach and:
BRRRRRAAAAAAPPPPPOORRRRRP! BUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRP!
: unleashed two sonic boom belches. The patrons of the diner were understandably shocked and disgusted by this display. The blue-haired biddy sitting behind Jocelyn turned around.
Excuse me, young lady, she said, but it is usually considered polite to say excuse me.
Yeah, well its usually considered polite to mind your own damn business, so why dont you turn back around? Jocelyn forced a small belch in the old ladys face for emphasis.
You should learn to watch your appetite, or soon youll be too fat for your boyfriend there.
Oh yeah? He thinks Im crazy hot, he told me so, and when is the last time anyone said that to you? Now why dont you turn around and focus on your senior special before I gobble it up on you!
The biddy turned away, muttering curse words under her breath.
Wow, very ballsy, I said.
Ballsy? You saying I have balls?
The lady version of ballsy.
I think thats called brassy. And thank you.
Any time, brassy lady.
I wanted to check in with you, make sure you still want me to be me.
Of course. You being you is
the best you.
Because if you dont like the way Im eating, or behaving in general, like certain old bitches I could mention, then maybe we wouldnt work out. I dont want you to think Im just (hic-burp) desperate for sex.
Like I told you last night, I want you to feel comfortable to be yourself. All the time. Okay?
Okeydokey. Say, you never touched your milkshake.
Huh? It was true. I didnt really want it. Too early in the day for a milkshake.
Too early? No such thing. Give it here.
I passed her the strawberry milkshake and she proceeded to suck it up.
We went back to eating, me slowly picking away at my massive portion, her packing it away like someone was going to take it from her. She had drained her OJ, finished her coffee, delivered her six-egg omelette to an untimely death, shovelled the pan fries in, and cleaned her plate. Her lips were greasy as they curved into a satisfied smile. A parade of hiccups began marching from her mouth, jiggling the fat around her chin and arms.
Oof, that was (hic) sooooo (hic) good (hic). It feels great to really (hic-burp) pack it away.
I have to say, you certainly have a healthy appetite.
I always have (hic hic), even when I was a skinny-mini, but over the last (hicCUP!) few years, Ive really just (hic) embraced it. Ive gotten (hic beeeelch) fat in the process, which isnt exactly ideal, but I cant seem to control myself anymore.
I think it looks great on you.
I know you do, she said, slyly, you think Im craaaaazy hot. (hic) I dont think Ill ever forget that. You didnt just make my day, you made my whole life.
Come on, you are super pretty. I find it hard to believe that youve never heard you were pretty before.
She shrugged her meaty shoulders.
I had a couple dates in high school, but I never felt totally comfortable. I felt like I was just expected of me. She put a clenched fist to her mouth and stifled a burp so rumbling that it resembled a dubstep bass drop. Excuse me. Im a pretty girl! She giggled.
So you never dated after high school?
Right after high school is when I started putting on weight. I felt too embarrassed to date anybody. And I kept getting
bigger. I wasnt a huge fan of it, but I didnt want to fucking exercise, or eat less. Speaking of eating
She stared at me, hunger in her eyes.
When you said I should be myself, you meant it, right?
I nodded yes.
Then let me have your food.
Huh?
Youre not going to finish that, right? I mean, its just been sitting there for, like, ever.
I wasnt completely full. I had just been taking a breather while I talked to Jocelyn, and had been planning at picking away at a bit more.
Are you sure you can eat anymore?
Dont question me when it comes to food.
She said it with a certain determination, like a person with no sense of humour trying and failing to tell a joke. I felt like I didnt want to cross her and so, still hungry, I pushed my plate over to her.
She set to it, much slower this time, but with a ferocious resolve. Jocelyn couldnt stand to see any food leftover. With every last morsel of my food in her bloated belly, Jocelyn let out a prolonged belch, looking completely greedy and gluttonous.
Thanks Davey. All that leftover food on your plate was too tempting. Ooof. She rubbed her belly, which was almost entirely visible, a fact she had just picked up on. Oh jeez, I am popping right out of this shirt. I didnt realize it had gotten so small.
I think it looks great on you. She looked enormous, like she was wearing a kids shirt, filling up her side of the table, looming slightly above my line of sight on the cushioned throne of her own jumbo buttocks.
I think Im about ready to go. I need a nap.
I got up and went over to her side of the table. She was waggling the fingers on her left arm about, indicating she wanted some help rising. It was hard to tell how capable she was of getting up under her own power; how much was the amount of food in her gut, and how much was simply sloth. Either way, it was quite a struggle to slide her out of the booth, but it was worth it to feel how massive she was, to see how jiggly she was, and to hear her huffing and puffing. Once standing, she gave me a peck on the cheek. I blushed, taken off guard by this kiss.
I like you more than cake, she said, cutely.
Is that a fact?
Maybe the same. Its definitely close. Her eyes shone in sync with her jokey inflection. She marched toward the exit, her blown-up butt beckoning me to follow. She turned, catching me perving her out, and smirked.
Could you get the bill? Im gonna head over to Starbucks and pick up a coffee.
Again I was stuck with the bill, and again I had no complaints. This woman ate through my wallet, but watching that greedy girl gorge herself in public was worth the price of admission.
I paid the young waitress who had served us, leaving a generous tip. Just as I turned, on my way to reunite with my gluttonous girl, I locked eyes with Cotton. He winked at me.