The Notebook
II
The TV was on in the background as the football game announcers talked about the offensive team’s strategy. However, Scott Hansen and Anna Marie Zelman cuddled on the sofa opposite it not paying attention. Each was reading a textbook assignment for the first day of class after fall break, but the long weekend had had an unexpected beginning as Scott had found a peculiar notebook. The high school seniors had discovered, much to Anna Marie’s surprise, its power.
Two days before they had started off as just friends then within a couple of hours things had changed. Anna Marie had gone from a slim 138-pound young woman to the verge of immobility then back down to under 300-pounds. During that time, Scott had expressed his infatuation with her and not knowing the power of the notebook they had had sex. Afterwards, Scott’s guess had given Anna Marie back her mobility and that night he got rewarded. The next day and a half the two settled into a new routine as a couple, not thinking about the repercussions that could result when it was time for school in a few days. And with a ring of the doorbell, both quickly had to face that challenge right away.
The chimes echoed one last time as Anna Marie shifted her 288-pound body away from Scott who had to begrudgingly give up palming her right breast. He walked across the living room turned at the banister and went down the flight of stairs that ended at the landing for the front door. The person at the door rang the bell again just as Scott reached for the doorknob. He opened the door to see a slender young woman of East Asian descent who looked very anxious. “Thank god!” she exclaimed before turning around then waved to an older woman in a midsize sedan before turning back, “You won’t believe how glad I am to see you here my parents were smothering me.”
“Sarah,” Scott said loudly in an alarmed voice so Anna Marie could hear him, “You’re a day early.”
“I know, I’m sorry, but even with this long weekend they won’t let me do anything,” she said as she gently pushed her way past him onto the landing and helped him shut the door, “They’re afraid of senioritis already, which will endanger any scholarships or get me rejected by good schools thus I won’t get a good degree and won’t marry a doctor, etc, etc.”
“You don’t say,” Scott replied trying to delay her.
“They won’t even let me have my car on the weekends,” she said then waving her arms, “They put a freaking boot on it! Where the hell did they buy that?” Sarah headed up the stairs quickly as Scott couldn’t grab her. “So they already knew about tomorrow so I convinced them to let me come today with the ‘we can work on the project more and blow the teacher away’ argument.”
Sarah headed for the kitchen with Scott in hot pursuit; they both arrived at the doorway to see Anna Marie in the opposite corner up against the wall. Without missing a beat Sarah said, “Hey Anna Marie, keeping Scott busy?” She then swung her backpack onto the table as Scott and Anna Marie looked at one another.
Sarah opened her backpack and started grabbing stuff then looked up, saw Scott and Anna Marie staring and asked, “What?”
“Nothing,” Anna Marie said, “Just surprised,” continuing in faltering voice.
“Well, surprise!” Sarah said before turning to Scott and asking, “Where’s your desktop again?”
“First door on the right.”
Sarah walked past him leaving them alone. After they heard the computer beeping on, they turned to one another not believing what had just happened, “She didn’t even notice, your,” Scott searched for the words.
“Fat?!” Anna Marie whispered, “How could she miss this?” she continued slapping her backside then jiggled her belly.
“Should we bring it up?”
Anna Marie was about to answer when Sarah called out, “Hey, you guys fooling around or something?”
The two exchanged a look before Scott whispered, “Could have been,” before shouting back, “We’ll be right there?”
Anna Marie maneuvered her rear end through the doorway and the angle between a closet wall and desk in the study. Scott followed, resisting the urge to ogle. They sat down around Sarah, who had books opened, and an academic search engine on the computer screen already for their study session.
The hours passed as the three worked on the project, soon they had had enough of the small study and moved out into the living room where Scott and Sarah set up their laptops to continue their work. Anna Marie for her part was making notes for herself and writing out long hand. As they continued, the kitchen table became filled with notebooks, textbooks, reference books, and other assorted materials.
None of the three students could study forever and it was Sarah who blurted out, “Okay, I’ve had enough and I’m hungry, how about you?”
“My stomach has been groaning for at least an hour,” Anna Marie answered while Scott only nodded.
Sarah wasn’t interested in warming up the left over pizza Scott and Anna Marie had from Friday and truth be told neither were they. It was decided on some fast food that Scott would get, in case Sarah’s parents called the house and no one was there. The two girls gave Scott some cash and a few minutes later he was headed down the driveway. The two young women then decided to do their own thing, Sarah wanted to reorganize her stuff and Anna Marie wanted to take a shower.
The
288-pound Anna Marie headed downstairs leaving Sarah alone on the upper
floor. The senior from
As the shower ran downstairs, the petite young woman organized everything on the table. She separated her belongings from that of Scott and Anna Marie, but as she worked a notebook became homeless because she didn’t know whose it was. She left it for the time being until everything else had been accounted for.
Sarah was sure it wasn’t hers as it would have her name placed on it and for what subject it was for. Knowing it was either Scott or Anna Marie’s, she thought about leaving it. Then in resignation sighed, “Damn anal perfectionist personality.”
Grabbing the black covered notebook she flipped it open and started reading, suddenly as if a cloud lifted from her mind she realized something, “Oh my god!”
Still holding the notebook, Sarah raced down the flights of stairs to the bottom floor and burst into Anna Marie’s guestroom. “You’re fat!”
Anna Marie was in matching bra and panties with her auburn hair still wet from her shower. Sarah took in her classmate, especially her posterior, her mouth gapping open. Then on the opposite side of the hallway Scott walked in from the garage carrying dinner. “I got food!”
“Sarah noticed I’m fat,” Anna Marie replied.
Sarah turned to Scott then back to Anna Marie before saying, “How the hell did you gain so much weight in such a short time? Why aren’t you freaking out?”
“It took her long enough,” Scott said almost like he was ignoring Sarah’s barrage of questions.
“Hey, I am freaking out right now,” Sarah exclaimed, “Don’t ignore me!”
Both Scott and Anna Marie looked at one another before the latter asked, “Why did it take you so long to realize I was fat? I’ve been this big since Friday; we’ve gotten use to it. You on the other hand didn’t notice until after being with me several hours. What changed?”
Sarah thought for a moment, “Good question. I remembered arriving and seeing Anna Marie fat almost like it was natural. But then when I was cleaning up, it just came to me like a veil lifted and bam! I knew you had changed.”
“What specifically were you doing?” Anna Marie asked.
“Just looking to see whose notebook this was,” Sarah held up the black bound notebook.
Scott took it and opened it up before saying, “Interesting. You didn’t notice until you read the book that transformed Anna Marie.”
“What?”
Scott handed the notebook back to Sarah and said, “You were probably not reading it too closely, look again. Starting with the inside cover.”
Sarah examined the notebook and as she did her eyes grew wider, she looked to the notebook paper and looked at Scott. She then punched him in the arm and asked, “Why the hell did you try it on poor Anna Marie?! And why did you make her so big?!”
“Actually,” Anna Marie stated, “I didn’t believe it did anything and wrote that I would gain to my mobility limit. It was Scott who figured out how to make me slim, so to speak.”
Their bewildered classmate looked at them before saying, “How the hell did you get it?”
“I just found it on the floor at school Friday, basically tripped over it. Almost like deus ex machina in how we have it.”
“Why I have no problem talking about this,” Anna Marie said before Sarah could ask another question, “I’ve smelled that food for five minutes, my stomach is growling, and I’m still in my sizeable underwear. So can we move this up stairs?”
Sarah didn’t protest and headed out into the hallway followed by Scott who took in Anna Marie’s lower extremities before closing the door. They headed up the flights of stairs before Scott turned immediate into the living room. Sarah waited until he sat down and grabbed his food before walking over to him then asking, “Something is up between the two of you, I almost want to say the both of you are dating, but a small part of me says I’m too suspicious after finding out she was fat the whole time I was here.”
“I won’t deny it, we’re dating or a couple or whatever you want to call it,” Scott answered without missing a beat, “But that’s neither here nor there right now, we got to figure out why you didn’t realize Anna Marie weighed 150-pounds more until you looked in that notebook. It has to be some sort of magic fail safe or something.”
“Wow you’re real romantic, it doesn’t matter that you’re dating Anna Marie.”
“If she and I had been at school and kissed before going to separate classes, basically signifying we were going out would anyone had been surprised considering how we’ve been friends since, well since forever?”
Sarah looked at him for a moment before saying, “Point taken. Give me my food.”
Minutes later, Anna Marie made her way up the stairs, grabbed her food, and sat next to Scott on the couch. The three asked and answered questions well after they had finished eating, but none of them could figure out how Sarah had not noticed Anna Marie’s weight gain. However, Sarah was looking at the undecipherable gold writing under the rules.
The young woman had concentrated on them since she had fully looked at the notebook. Suddenly an idea popped in her head and she grabbed a pencil. Anna Marie shouted, “Sarah what are you doing!” and tried to get off the couch fast, only to realize she wasn’t as agile as she use to be.
But Sarah had finished writing and put the notebook on an ottoman opened up. Anna Marie and Scott looked at it before looking at her. “It’s a hunch,” she replied to the unasked question.
Written out under their entries was, “An individual’s weight gain can be continuously changed to equal that of their karmatic balance if specially noted.”
Suddenly the third line of the unknown writing change to English letters reading, “Weight connected to karmatic balance can be made a continuous gain and loss by stating so.”
“A hunch?! A freaking prediction is more like it,” Scott looked at Sarah.
“It seemed that it just made sense considering it talked about karma and balance. But now we know there are more ‘rules.’”
“We?” Anna Marie asked.
“Well, yeah. I mean the two of you discovered that it actually worked, which isn’t a misuse of its power. However, now that we know there are ‘rules’ it seems to me that this is some sort of judging device. It can’t be used carelessly; one of those rules might apply to those that use it in a reckless or biased manner which could trigger their karmatic balance to be shown on their bodies.”
Sarah statement made Scott and Anna Marie look at one another, but before anyone could say anything the door bell chimed. Scott looked outside the window to see a familiar car, “Sarah it’s one of your parents.”
The young woman got nervous and said, “Oh my god, they’ll think we were having fun and partying or something.”
But as her classmate worried, Anna Marie grabbed some of her notes and waddled down the stairs to the front door landing. Opening the door she was greeted by the sight of Sarah’s stern looking mother. “Hi Mrs. Wu, how are you doing?”
The short middle aged woman of Chinese descent with salt-and-pepper hair looked at Anna Marie like nothing was different about her. “I’ve come to pick up Sarah.”
“Oh yeah, after breaking for some takeout we just went to work,” Anna Marie said as she made the handwritten pages she held make noise touching one another, “We got locked in and got our first drafts done.”
Mrs. Wu looked at the sheets of paper before Sarah appeared out of the kitchen with her backpack and headed down the stairs as Scott appeared at the top of the stairs. “Hi Mrs. Wu.”
The middle aged woman smiled and said, “Hello. Sarah, looks like you were very productive. I expect to see an A on that project. Goodnight.”
“Night,” Anna Marie, Scott, and Sarah said almost in unison as they divided up with the latter head down the sidewalk following her mother before turning around and mouthing, “We’ll talk at school.”
Anna Marie closed the door and after seeing the taillights of the car vanish down the driveway, turned off the light outside. The 288-pound woman then said, “Well. That was interesting,” and without skipping a beat, “Last night for sex before your parents come home. Don’t be late.”
“Let me check my e-mail and I’ll be right down.”
The next day, Scott woke up early as usual and ran three miles before lifting weights for half an hour. When he got out of the shower ready for breakfast, Anna Marie was munching on pancakes with a platter of others in front of her. Partaking in the little feast, Scott and Anna Marie didn’t want to think about the notebook at the moment. After breakfast they went studying and after finishing assignments for the next few days at school along with another draft of their individual papers for their project, they cuddled and groped before the hum of the garage door broke them apart as Scott’s parents arrived back from their weekend trip into the spot in the garage where Scott had vacated his car earlier in the day.
They braced themselves to see if pattern started with Sarah and Mrs. Wu would continue. Mr. and Mrs. Hansen came up the stairs carrying their bags, and said hello without missing a beat as they passed the 288-pound auburn haired young woman. Scott replied, “Hi mom, dad,” while Anna Marie just said her usual, “Hi.”
Scott’s parents went about their usual return day routine, washing up, loading up their dirty clothes to wash, and on and on. Anna Marie and Scott quietly talked, not wanting to alert his parents that they had become a couple over the weekend. Though later in the evening while Mrs. Hansen and Anna Marie were in the kitchen, Scott’s mother then looked her ‘unofficial’ daughter and said, “Don’t think I haven’t notice something different.”
Alarmed that she had seen the book, Anna Marie looked at the middle aged woman with black hair freckled with gray strains. Mrs. Hansen was on the pudgy side thanks to having added a few pounds to her 5’5” frame over the years. Looking up slightly at the 288-pound high school senior said, “You and Scott have finally decided to hook up.”
“Hook up?” Anna Marie huffed relieved.
“Well, whatever you call it now.”
Her pale face blushing a little before Anna Marie nodded her head, when Mrs. Hansen asked, “So how was the first time?”
Caught off guard, “First time? Huh, you mean out on a date?” A nod by Mrs. Hansen, “Well there hasn’t been an official first date, yet. We just, you know, decided he’s not going out with anyone, I’ve never gone out with anyone, we’re seniors and why not, you know the usual friends decide to date conversation.”
Scott came into the kitchen looking for a snack, which presented the opportunity for his mother to walk over to him and said firmly, “Make sure you take her someplace nice. It’ll be her first date, make is special. No friend thing, date like the other girls who’ve done stuff with.”
He looked at Anna Marie who shrugged her shoulders and said, “Yes, mom.”
His dad came in, four inches taller than his son when his wife walked over to him and said, “They’re finally going out. Remember to do your dad thing.”
Mr. Hansen looked at Scott before saying to his wife, “He knows what to do, don’t complicate things.”
Scott and Anna Marie left the kitchen, exchanged a look before Anna Marie said, “Some type of mom thing, we didn’t conceal it well enough.” They then sat down on the couch next to one another as Scott turned on the TV for his usual Monday ritual, wrestling. After a ho-hum show, they headed to bed ready for their newest challenge the next day, school.
The Hansen house was a buzz of activity starting before sunrise, Scott was up and did his three-mile run before taking a shower. Anna Marie, dressed in her black and green outfit for school, was making herself a lunch while getting breakfast ready as well. Mr. and Mrs. Hansen were already in their business suits ready for their first days of the week at the office after their weekend trip. Scott came into the kitchen, which had noticeably less room now that Anna Marie was close to 300-pounds.
Scott and Anne Marie were the first to leave, going out the front door and down the sidewalk to the driveway where in a makeshift four car parking lot was his Sundance. Putting their bags in the back, Anna Marie for the first time maneuvered her body into the usually comfortable seat, finding it snug but still comfortable. And five minutes later was getting out next to a red Honda Civic that she had left in the school parking lot over the weekend, as usual.
With ten minutes before the first bell and all of Anna Marie’s belongings transferred to her car, the couple headed into one of the side entrances of Greendale High School. The hallway was just filling up with students as some buses arrived while everyone else was arriving in their cars. Scott and Anna Marie gave each other a hug, noticed by a few other students, before heading to their respective first classes.
While Scott headed to senior English, Anna Marie made her way to French II making her way through her fellow students and missing a call out from Sarah in the noisy hallways. The bottom-heavy young woman headed up the stairs to the second floor and down another hallway before finally arriving at her destination. She entered the room where her teacher was answering another student’s question. Anna Marie went to her assigned seat in the class and looked at the chair with attached desktop. She then sat down in the now small seat for her backside, squeezing in, and brought up the desktop from its down position at the side of her chair to make a tight fit. She settled in, getting use to her new life as an overweight student and all the new ‘challenges’ that came with it.
Eighty minutes, Anna Marie waddled out of the room with the rest of the class. No one seemed to be treating her any different, it was like they had always known her fat. The pale skinned young woman went up another stairway to the top floor of the main building for her Accounting class, which she shared with both Scott and Sarah. As Anna Marie made her way into the classroom, she heard familiar giggles behind her but paid no attention. Inside Sarah and Scott were talking when they saw her; Anna Marie came over and asked, “What’s up?”
“Where’s the notebook?” Sarah said looking from one to the other.
“In my backpack,” Scott replied, “Why?”
Sarah looked at him, “You brought it to school? Isn’t that dangerous?”
“Better with the people who know about it than by itself, don’t you think?”
“You could have left it in your room!”
“Why?”
The bell rang ending the conversation as the three found their seats, Anna Marie squeezing into hers. Class was all about their team projects, which their teacher announced would be due next Monday not later in the week. The class divided into their groups and devoted the time to their projects, which meant the three were just revising their drafts and any conversation on the notebook was out of the question thanks to they’re close position to their teacher’s desk.
The bell rang ending the 80-minute class and signaling the beginning of lunch as the school went into controlled chaos. As they were leaving, Sarah said, “Okay, the best room we can talk about this in is Mr. Hick’s homeroom. See you both there?”
Scott and Anna Marie agreed then together walked to the nearest stairs to head to their lockers. “So how has your day gone so far?” he asked.
“Well, no one as noticed that I’m different from when I left school Friday. Everyone basically treats me the same and so far I’m getting use to sitting in confining desk chairs. Though I thought I would notice or feel the sensation of hanging off the side of the chairs.”
Getting to the second floor they headed down a clearing hallway to a room of lockers. Upon arriving Scott hugged her and pecked her on the cheek before saying, “See you in Hick’s room.”
“See you in a few.”
Anna Marie headed to her locker in a corner of the room. As she transferred books from one place to the other, she heard someone walking into the room behind her. Moments later the familiar giggling she had heard before Accounting class started up then, “Well if it isn’t the girl who can’t live up to the legend of Whitney Zelman physically or academically that she became a Goth?”
The 288-pound young woman stopped what she was doing as the comparison to her sister hit a nerve. She turned around and saw the familiar face from which the somewhat familiar insult had come then slyly shot back, “Hello Alexia how’s the back doing?”
The
blond haired fellow
Anna Marie smiled at the stylishly dressed blond, “If I am whoring myself,” she moved close to Alexia and her friends, “At least I’ve done it with a state champion not 22 perennial losers, if my math is correct.”
Alexia’s face twitched. But then with a comeback was Traci who confidently said, “We don’t do offensive linemen, we do the back-ups.”
Anna Marie smiled while Alexia closed her eyes in embarrassment, Traci didn’t realize what she had admitted when Amanda attempted an insult. “Anna Marie my little brother watched this new cartoon over the weekend. It turns out you copy the dress of one of the characters to a T…except she was a stick and you’re a blimp.”
Kari’s high pitched giggling erupted as a result before she added, “That’s pretty pathetic style advice.”
“Amanda,” Anna Marie stated to the African-American senior smiling, “If that show just started and I’ve been dressing like this since we started high school, who copied who?”
Before she could answer Alexia snapped, “Shut up!” to her companions, “You’ll give her more ammunition.”
Just then into the locker bay walked Rosa Garcia and a few more students. Alexia then said, “Thank god, Rosa we’ve been wondering where you’ve where. All the other locker areas are spacious,” then glancing at Anna Marie,” But this just seems to be cramp for some reason.”
“Yeah, no need to help some people out,” Alexia growled at her fellow cheerleaders.
Anna Marie watched the cheerleaders leave before heading to her meeting with Scott and Sarah. Once at Mr. Hick’s room, it was Sarah who dominated the conversation. She believed they need to only write down names of people who really deserved it. Neither Scott nor Anna Marie disagreed, though Anna Marie joked that they could write down Alexia’s name just for fun. Both Scott and Sarah laughed. The conversation turned to the cheerleading co-captain as Anna Marie told them what happened.
“How the hell did she know we were dating?” Scott asked, “I don’t remember seeing any of the cheerleaders when I hugged or kissed you?”
In his little side office, Mr. Hick was on his computer when he laughed at something before coming out into his room. The balding biology teacher then said, “The Bear Truth has some interesting stuff today,” then looking at Scott and Anna Marie before glancing at Sarah, “Ms. Wu, you might want to leave the two lovebirds alone.”
“It’s in The Bear Truth?” Scott asked, “How the hell did the webmaster find that out?”
Sarah then said, “No wonder people are finding out, everyone looks on The Bear Truth website for the latest gossip, real or imagined. That webmaster must be lucky to spot you, have good sources, or guess really well to know so much.”
“Whatever,”
Anna Marie said, “I’m not ashamed of dating
“Two-time defending state champion thank you very much,” Scott said proudly with a smile on his face.
“I’m sorry,” Anna Marie laughed then kissed him on the mouth before adding, “I didn’t mean to make you any less important.”
Sarah looked at them and said, “Yes, rub it in.”
They looked at her before easing away from one another. Scott then put the notebook into his backpack and Anna Marie then asked what The Bear Truth’s web address was so she could look at it. The bell rang and the trio all headed to their next classes. Scott and Anna Marie exchanged kisses before he went to Pre-Cal & Trig with Sarah while she headed to Senior English.
After an uneventful 80 minute class, Anna Marie was finished for the day as fourth period started. The big butted Goth headed for her car when from behind came, “Ms. Zelman, can I have a word with you?”
Anna
Marie turned around to see
“Anna, I was asked by Mrs. Graham if I could arrange a meeting between the two of you sometime this week. She is interested in talking with you.”
“Mrs. Graham the school counselor? The new counselor brought in this year by the county?”
“I know you don’t like talking with school counselors,” the middle aged principal said, “Lord knows they don’t seem to be the same after they talk to you. But the county school board has guidelines that Mrs. Graham is quoting to me every time you ignore her calls on the PA or your parents ignore her letters and calls. So for both of us could I arrange something?”
Anna Marie didn’t look happy, but said, “Okay. The only day I stay during fourth period is Friday while Scott is grading for Ms. Applegate. We can do it then if she wants, but we’re on my time schedule not hers.”
Mrs. Carter smiled and said, “Don’t worry. If she complains, I’ve arranged the meeting and the fact that you don’t have any problems and apparently have started dating our school’s best athlete basically ruins any argument she can make to the school board. There is no way any alumni of the school would want to make Scott consider heading to college early. Have a good day Ms. Zelman.” The administrator turned around showing off that she was succumbing to a case of middle age spread.
Anna Marie smiled, “You too, Mrs. Carter,” then headed to the parking lot and her Civic.
Meanwhile in Ms. Applegate’s office, Scott was finishing up grading quizzes when there was a knock on the open door. He turned around to see an African-American student with a cocky smile on his face. “How’s it going player, heard you finally got yourself a girlfriend.”
“It’s going good Todd, how ‘bout yourself?”
“I’m always good. But enough about me, you’re the man of the hour. The school is abuzz with your hook up with Anna Marie. And may I say one of the biggest, thickest, butts in school, you lucky dog,” Todd said, “I should have gone after her before you staked your claim. And damn you’re lucky, got one of the best looking big beautiful women in school.”
Scott laughed as he wrote down the scores in the grade book. After quickly putting them in, he got up and stretched. He walked out of the office into the hallway next to his best friend, leaning up against the doorway. “So a good pick up?”
“Man, I got to tell my FA friends on the web about your pickup. You’ll be the envy of a lot of girls.”
Then around the corner where Ms. Applegate’s office was located came Karen Sager. The two stopped their conversation as she passed. She whipped some of her long dirty blond hair way from her face before waving and saying ‘hi.’ They returned the greeting while noting the stylish, yet draping shirt she wore along with a pair of jeans.
“Wish she’d wear a tighter shirt one day,” Todd said once Karen was out of earshot, “Alexia would be pissed after all the work she had done to make herself seem the biggest in school. If my sources in the girls’ locker room are right her bra is a 48E.”
“I don’t think she’s that big,” Scott countered, “I’ll admit I don’t know how bra sizes and cups work, but I think she would appear bigger if she was 48E.”
Todd then said, “Well, I think she got overloaded with endowment genes, because her sister, Monica, isn’t that big. She looks good but can’t be compared to Karen. However, Monica has a sweet bubble butt. Mrs. Sager has some great genes, but her daughters only got half of them, each overloaded to a different body part. If those two were to gain weight, I would be on them. But, if we talk bottoms besides Anna Marie, I think Rosa Garcia would be fantastic. If any one of the girls here were to become instantly fat, I would want to choose her.”
Scott looked at his friend, “Must be frustrating with all the skinny girls you have to settle with.”
“Yep, none of the big beautiful girls want to go out. Alexia and the others have made them insecure, the only exception being Anna Marie who just doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Wish I could find a confident big woman like that. Or convince a girl like Karen to fatten up because that would be sexy. But being a fat admirer makes people afraid sometimes.”
Scott nodded in agreement. He then looked at Todd then down the hallway before saying, “I want to show you something you’ll be interested in seeing.” Todd looked at him as Scott opened his backpack and took out the black bound notebook. “Read from the inside cover on.”
Todd looked at him with a quizzical look as he took the notebook. He opened it up and started to read. Scott watched intently and saw Todd’s eyes pop open and his jaw drop. He jerked his head to look at Scott dumbfounded for several moments. Then shouted, “Anna Marie,” Scott clamped his hand over Todd’s mouth and pulled him into the office, shutting the door. He let go of Todd’s mouth with a finger over his.
His eyes still wide Todd started again in a lower voice, “Anna Marie got fat! This notebook made her fat?” Scott nodded making Todd reply, “You are the luckiest son of a bitch on the face of the earth. Does she even know?”
“Yeah, she wrote down the sentence for her mobility limit.”
Todd looked at the first written sentence and said, “How did she look?”
“500-pounds bigger and just as beautiful,” Scott said slipping the notebook out of Todd’s hands, “But you didn’t see anything different with Anna Marie before reading the book?”
After thinking for a little bit, Todd shook his head, “No. It was like I always remembered her like that.”
“That’s what Sarah said,” Scott thought out loud.
“Sarah? Sarah Wu? How did she find out? You wrote her down? Or you told her before you told me?”
“Yeah, Sarah Wu, we didn’t tell her, she came to my house for our Accounting group project. She accidently opened it up, read, and she suddenly knew.”
Before Todd could answer, Ms. Applegate came in. Scott put the notebook in his backpack and Todd quickly exited the office telling Scott he’d talk to him tomorrow. Scott nodded and quickly returned to his job, handing the senior English & World History teacher the quizzes for the latter subject and the finished grade book. Thirty minutes later, after making copies of a handout, Scott left Greendale High for the day.
The next day Scott and Anna Marie arrived around the same time, about ten minutes before the day’s first class. They headed up to the second floor where both their classes where. He then asked, “So anything happen at home?”
“Not really. My parents treated me the same as always, my mother adding some lines about my weight making Whitney look bad which I was expecting,” Anna Marie said as she waddled beside him, “And we’re having our first date tomorrow.”
He looked at her, “We are?”
“Yeah, Whitney is bringing her boyfriend over and since I don’t want to sit through that, you’re going to take me to a fancy restaurant.”
Scott stopped and looked at her, she smiled back, he then said, “Well the other guests are going to see a new kind of high class style,” he paused and then asked, “What about the rest of your wardrobe, did it expand to fit your new figure like the clothes you brought to my house?”
“Yeah,” Anna Marie answered, “That was one of the first things I checked. Luckily I don’t have to go shopping for new clothes and I have the attire perfect for our first date.”
The early bell sounded and after they exchanged a kiss, Scott headed down the hall while Anna Marie entered a nearby classroom. An hour and twenty minutes later, Scott and Anna Marie met up at the stairs heading down to the first floor. They walked together into Economics class and took their assigned seats when Todd came in, nodded to Anna Marie, and took his seat next to Scott.
He then whispered, “You bring the notebook?”
Scott nodded then tried to motion towards Anna Marie about how he hadn’t told her yet about their conversation. But Todd didn’t get the message and said, “Can we talk about it later today?”
Anna Marie turned her head with a concerned quizzical look making Scott turn to his best friend, motioned with his hand across his neck to cut it out along with moved his head like he had a tick towards his girlfriend, and then handed Todd a pencil from his backpack. Todd got the message then said, “Thanks, I owe you one.” Anna Marie turned her head back after raising an eyebrow.
When the bell rang signaling lunch, the three seniors started gathering their things up and Todd asked, “Scott, you want to join me and some of the guys for lunch?”
“Sorry Todd,” Anna Marie said, “We’re talking about where we’re going for our first date tomorrow.”
“Wow Hansen, for someone who can take down heavyweights on the mat, your just getting your ass whipped!” a voice said obnoxiously near them.
The
three turned to see a brown haired young man in a letterman jacket with a smirk
on his face. Jerry Cabot, the
quarterback of
“Big?”
one of
Scott smiled before saying, “Yeah, make fun of my girlfriend’s weight. The least creative insult one can think up, no wonder we’ll have another losing season. Creativity on offense is just lacking, don’t you think honey?”
“Not like I haven’t heard fat jokes before,” Anna Marie said heading out of the room through the crowd of gawkers.
“Later Jerry, see you after lunch Todd,” Scott said with a wave.
Todd looked at Jerry who didn’t look happy then said point blank, “A fat joke? To her face? Alexia is the smart one in your relationship,” making those who watched the incident laugh.
The couple enjoyed lunch together, talking about where they were going to go on their first official date. After finally deciding where, Scott asked when she wanted to be picked up. Anna Marie threw out a time, saying she really didn’t know when Whitney or her boyfriend where going to be there and didn’t want to be there when they were. Scott agreed.
The bell rang and the couple separated with a kiss. Scott headed to Spanish II while Anna Marie to her Pre-Calculus & Trig class. Scott met up with Todd in class, but couldn’t talk about the subject the latter wanted because of the proximity of their fellow students. At the end of class, Scott was talking to Monica Sager about an assignment and Todd looked at his backpack. The notebook was visible inside.
For
a moment Todd thought about not doing it then glanced into the hallway to see
Todd
Walker darted through the students headed for their last class or out the door,
like Scott and Anna Marie he didn’t have a fourth period class and had
petitioned to leave early. He wasn’t in
a hurry because
Todd
took a seat outside the room, whose double doors were open at all times expect
for the full band practice. He had found
a good line of sight of
The
cheerleading co-captain at first didn’t know something was happening, but it
started at her waist.
A
second chin had appeared while her cheeks were becoming chubby and turning into
jowls as they started to sag over the jaw line of her fat oval face that was
slightly rounding.
Todd
watched fixated as
In the band room, Rosa Garcia realized that she had stopped expanding but still couldn’t express her shock as she couldn’t find her voice as she tried to grasp how she looked. Her enchanting brown eyes were still the focus of her face, but now it was a fat rounded oval that was exposed by her loosely curled hair thrown back behind her. Her second chin, jowls, and neck had started to merge though not fully. Rosa’s breasts were sagging with weight over a small paunch that bulged in front of her and that was down low on her forefront with love handles that seemed to link to her fat back. Her butt was bulging out and heavy with weight as well, though not dominating her body as it was shown off by her tight jean skirt which hid thick thighs before showing her fat knees that flowed into fat calves. Her body seemed proportional to what it had been just moments before, a fact lost on her that had surprised Todd.
In III
Scott
and Anna Marie learn of