Toni's story - Chapter 4

Chapter 4

The alarm clock rang and Toni woke up. The first thing he noticed was that he was not in his bed. Then he noticed that he was shirtless, still wearing the same jeans as yesterday, and Riku was next to him. Riku’s hand was resting on Toni’s belly. It was the next day after Toni had decided to start gaining weight and apparently the two of them had fallen asleep on the sofa, perhaps due to being stuffed to the maximum.

Toni still felt that he was full from yesterday’s pigging out. Riku had prepared a supper for them and even though Toni had been full from the dinner, he had managed to eat lots of food after Riku gave him a very pleasant belly massage. Toni got up and shut the television, which was still on, waking up Riku.

“Oh, I am here,” Riku said sounding sleepy.

“Yeah, I guess we fell asleep after the supper,” Toni said and smiled.

“Ah, speaking of food, what is the time? Do I have time to prepare a proper breakfast for you?”

“It is 7 am. I won’t have to go to school until 10 am. But I think that it should be my turn in the kitchen as you’ve been cooking so much lately,” Toni said.

“No, no! I love cooking and I am more than happy to help you to round up,” Riku said and winked.

Toni smiled and went back to the sofa. Riku left for the kitchen after patting his belly. Toni didn’t know if it was his eyes, but Riku’s belly seemed significantly bigger than when he had first taken off his shirt yesterday. He thought that it had to be the food that they had eaten. Then he looked at his belly and was shocked. How on earth would he fit this massive, ballooned gut into any of his shirts? He pushed the thought aside and figured that he’d think about it after eating breakfast.

Riku was ready with the breakfast quite soon. The mouthwatering odors of eggs, bacon, pancakes and maple syrup had filled the apartment. Toni got to the table only to be surprised by the amount of food that Riku had been able to prepare in such a short time.

“How can you cook so fast?” he asked.

“Oh, I’ve practiced it a lot since I started gaining. My mom has been very helpful as well – she is a professional cook. I’ve also asked my grandma for recipes. Her cooking is the most fattening that I know.”

The two of them dug into the food and Toni was surprised by the amount of food that he could still eat. He had to unbutton his jeans in order to keep going, though. When he was done, he belched and rubbed his belly. A loud creaking sound emerged from the old chair that he was sitting on.

“The food was delicious, thank you very much for cooking,” he said to Riku.

“My pleasure. You better watch out for the chair though, it might break at least according to those creaks!” Riku answered laughing.

“Nonsense. I am not that fat …” Toni started and paused as the creaking got worse. Then all of a sudden the chair collapsed. Riku was laughing out loud. Toni blushed. “How is this possible? Shouldn’t you be the heavier one of us?”

“Well, since the chairs are old, I bet that your chair was weaker than this one,” Riku answered, still laughing. Toni laughed as well. He was excited that he had been able to break the chair only by sitting on it.

As Toni got up, Riku came to pinch his belly. “You’re a big eater. To be honest, eating a lot was very hard for me in the beginning of my journey, but you just got to it straight away in the buffet in June.” As Toni didn’t answer, Riku pushed his warm gut against Riku’s belly. Toni smiled and cuddled him. They stayed there cuddling for a while. Toni felt that Riku was excited about the moment as well.

“I think… I should get to home. We’ll meet at work in the evening. I prepared some snacks for you for school. Eat them, and remember to eat the school’s lunch as well. Even the not very delicious calories help you to grow,” Riku said with a smile. Toni smiled back.

Once Riku had left, Toni went to his closet to get some proper clothes on for school. He was still in the same jeans as yesterday, but as he had unbuttoned them, he hadn’t thought how to get the button back on. He tried to do the button with no success. Then he sucked his gut in, which didn’t help much as he was full of food.

Eventually he got the button done, but he felt it having a struggle to stay on. When he stopped sucking in, the button flew to the floor leaving astonished Toni to stare at it. He patted his gut and watched it wobble. What would he wear now? These size 32 jeans were his largest ones. He figured that he didn’t need the button to keep them on, but people would still notice that the button wasn’t there. He decided to put his belt on in hope of covering the damage. He’d have to buy new jeans after school.  

Then it was time to find a proper shirt. He tried one of his button-up shirts, only to notice that he couldn’t even close the buttons in the middle no matter how hard he tried. It was an old shirt which he had worn before the summer. He figured that he had to buy new shirts as well and grabbed his biggest sweatshirt. He got it on and noticed that it was skin tight even when he was sucking in. When he released his belly again, the shirt rode up a bit revealing the bottom of his belly. He tried to push the shirt down, but it rode up again. As he had no choice but to wear it to school, he decided to suck his belly in for the whole day. After all, he wasn’t that confident about himself that he would show his belly to his friends like that at school. After dressing up, Toni grabbed his school bag and gym bag, since he would have PE that day, and left for school. He couldn’t help but notice how tight his leather jacket was, though. It literally revealed all about his new shape.

When Toni got to the school, he was almost late from his first class. He rushed through the door and as he saw people looking at him weirdly, he noticed that his shirt had ridden up again. He blushed, tugged his shirt back down and chose a desk in the back row. During the lesson he noticed that it was hard for him to suck his gut in all the time. As his history teacher Mrs. Koivisto talked about the subject of the course, he couldn’t help but to slowly release his belly in all its glory. His shirt rode up immediately and revealed his lower belly. The guy next to him, whom Toni only knew by name, noticed this immediately.

“Wow, Toni. Shouldn’t you start thinking about what you’re putting to your mouth?” the guy, Matti, asked whispering.

Toni was surprised by the straightforward question and didn’t manage to answer at all.

“Not to be rude or anything… But you’re pretty much the new hot topic of the school. You really let yourself go during the summer. Shouldn’t you at least buy fitting clothes, fatso?” Matti continued in a mocking tone.

“I’m afraid that’s none of your business,” Toni said, whispering as well. Matti didn’t say anything, but he just poked Toni’s belly. The poke wasn’t playful – it hurt. Toni tugged down his shirt  and hoped that it wouldn’t ride up again.

After the class Toni soon found out that there were three kinds of people when it came to reacting to his weight gain.  Some people were friendly, poking him playfully, others ignored it and acted like nothing had changed and then a few people seemed pretty hostile about it. Toni was excited about the attention he got and the hostile people didn’t really bother him. His calmness surprised himself as well, since last year he’d definitely have minded if he got sort of bullied. He figured that being fatter gave him more confidence, but he continued sucking in as he figured that revealing a part of his belly was a bit too much for most people.

As the day went on, Toni noticed that he was getting hungry again despite of the huge breakfast. Luckily it was lunch time and today the school’s kitchen would be serving meatballs. When it was Toni’s turn to grab food, he took about twenty meatballs and a lot of potatoes as well.  He got to a table where he saw a few people that he had chatted with that day, and started eating. His mountain of meatballs got a few amused glances, but nobody said anything about it and Toni enjoyed the chat in the table.

After the lunch Toni was full again. His next class would be PE and he wondered what his teacher would say to him as Mr. Ståhlberg was a health fanatic. As far as Toni knew, the old man counted all his calories and used almost all of his time at gym. As Toni entered the locker room, he was a bit nervous about changing his clothes in front of the others. He had no choice, though so he quickly changed his jeans for his gym shorts and his college for his gym t-shirt. He found out that it had been a mistake not to look into his gym bag when leaving for school. He had accidentally taken his old gym bag with him and it contained his old gym clothes. The shorts couldn’t cover his butt properly, so his underwear was visible to everybody. His t-shirt didn’t even cover his belly at all; it rode all the way up to his moobs. All the boys in the locker room were staring at him.

“Are you really going to the PE class in those clothes?” a guy next to him asked.

“Well, looks like I’m short of other options,” Toni said. The guy slapped him on his gut.

“Oh wow, you really got quite jiggly during the summer,” somebody laughed.

Toni just grinned. He had learnt to like the comments, even though they had been his greatest fear. It was time to get to the school’s gym and so the boys left the locker room, still chatting about Toni and joking about his figure. Toni had to admit that he was quite a sight, when he saw himself in a mirror on the way. He tugged his tight t-shirt down, but it didn’t work. He was getting quite anxious about what his teacher would say.

It turned out that Mr. Ståhlberg ignored Toni totally, except in the roll call. He did appear quite astonished at first, but after that he stayed politely quiet about the subject, which seemed a bit scary to Toni as he had no idea what Mr. Ståhlberg was up to. The teacher put the boys to run circles around the gym, and Toni soon found out that he couldn’t run for longer than a couple of minutes. After that he walked. It didn’t help that his belly was full of meatballs and he felt his belly jiggling on every step he took. The others seemed to notice it as well.

 The rest of the gym class didn’t go any better as Toni wasn’t able to do any proper push-ups and his full belly was on his way when he tried to do sit-ups. He was good at lifting weight though, thanks to the weight lifting that he had done at gym during the summer. After the PE class was over, Mr. Ståhlberg asked Toni to come to talk to him.

“It seems that you’ve been quite a porker during the summer. Next time don’t show up like a stuffed sausage. The fact that the sports stores don’t have big enough clothes for you doesn’t mean that you can come here half naked!” the teacher said to him in a rude tone.

“Excuse me? I don’t think that the changes in my physique are any of your business. To tell you the truth, I accidentally picked the wrong gym bag at home and thus the clothes are so small. As you don’t tolerate normal clothing during the lessons, I had no choice but to show up like this,” Toni answered angrily.

“What happened, Toni? How on earth did you end up like such a disgusting, fat slob during the summer?! You were one of the best athletes at school! We can’t have you on the swimming team like this!” Mr. Ståhlberg yelled.

Toni walked away without saying a word. He went to the locker room that was now almost empty since the boys were in sauna, changed his clothes quickly and headed for the store, where he was working at. Mr. Ståhlberg’s aggressive comments had surprised him – after all a teacher shouldn’t speak to his students like that – but he didn’t get too upset about it. He liked himself the way he was and more importantly so did Riku. The thought puzzled him though. Why did he care so much about Riku’s opinion?

Toni's story - Chapter 3

Chapter 3

It was August. Toni had been working at the store for two months now. Also it was Monday and the school would begin that day. During the summer Toni had found out that the people who he thought to be his friends weren’t really his friends as after the first week of him working nobody had tried to contact him. He guessed that they had only been friendly to him because of Aleksi, who was very popular at school. Toni hadn’t been lonely at all, though, thanks to Riku whom he had met every day both at work and after work. The two of them were now very good friends, in fact Toni realized he liked Riku much more than he had ever liked Aleksi. Toni’s economical situation had also got better and he had finally been able to buy a proper bed.

Things at work had stayed pretty much the same as his first day, though now Toni was rather serving the customers than cleaning storages. He thought the job was okay, but the reason why he really enjoyed it was Riku. Besides being an awesome person, Riku also made Toni get excited on a more and more frequent basis. First of all Riku had been gaining weight over the summer, which was the main reason for Toni’s excitement as he now realized. Riku was no longer just chubby as his soft gut hung over his way too small work pants giving a hard time for any of the shirts he was currently wearing. His love handles spilled over his belt as well and his previously angular face was now rounder.  It was as if he was proud to show his gut to everybody as he rarely wore big enough clothes. Toni thought that he must have gained at least 20kg (44 lbs) during the summer, though of course he couldn’t know for sure as weight was pretty much the only thing they didn’t talk about. His gain was not surprising at all, since he had continued pigging on the pizzas and besides Toni had seen him eating huge dinners and late night snacks. He had also found out that Riku was a huge gamer at heart and thus they spent their evenings playing Toni’s Xbox or Riku’s Playstation 3. As far as Toni knew, Riku didn’t do any sports during the summer. He lived practically next doors to Toni, so neither of them had a long walk to visit each other either.

Toni suspected that Riku would not have minded to talk about his weight. Toni, on the other hand, was quite self conscious about his weight. Due to spending lots of time with Riku, Toni had also eaten much more than he did before that summer. He had not only eaten pizza every day, but he had also not been able to decline Riku’s offers for very delicious, greasy and calorific dinners or snacks. He now ate much more even when he was alone. Before the summer Toni had had a health check for the military service and he had weighed 72 kgs (159 lbs). He had checked his weight in the beginning of July and he had been at 85kgs (187 lbs). After that he had been scared of the scales, but he had tried to go to the gym at least three times a week. His heavy eating habits had been proven hard to break, though, and he hadn’t been able to restrict his eating. Hitting the gym actually made him eat even more as he always got very hungry when training. Toni knew that some of his muscle mass had turned into fat as well. He had moved up to L sized shirts and 32/32 jeans.  He was quite worried how his friends, especially Aleksi, would react to his new figure and thus he had chosen the loosest possible clothes for school. Not that it mattered much, as even his loosest clothes were almost skin tight.

As Toni approached his school by foot, he noticed how out of shape he really was. This roughly two-kilometers-long walk was the first cardio activity that he had done since June. Riku had offered him a ride to work every day, as the two of them were always working at same times. He was out of breath before he had even walked half way to school.

When Toni opened the door of his school, he noticed that he was one of the last students to show up at least according to the amount of people who were standing in the lobby. He started looking for his friends quite reluctantly. He spotted Aleksi, who was leaning to the wall near the front door. He was staring at the floor. Toni was surprised that Aleksi was alone, since usually he was always surrounded by people. Toni walked to him and greeted.

“Hey Toni. How was your summer?” Aleksi said silently, not even looking up.  

“It was… Fine. What’s wrong?” Toni asked.

“Well, nothing. I just…” Aleksi started but paused when he looked up to Toni. “Oh wow! You have changed during the summer,” he continued and poked Toni’s gut. Toni felt his finger dig into his soft belly.

“And I’m not the only one!” Toni said louder than he meant to. He had just noticed that Aleksi had gained a bit of weight as well. Toni could see that his belly was now soft and he clearly didn’t have his six pack anymore. His muscles appeared bigger as well, though. Toni poked Aleksi’s gut as well and blushed a bit when he noticed how soft it was.

“Well, I am building mass! You’ve just turned into a fat couch potato when I was away,” Aleksi said angrily and walked away. Apparently he was a bit self-conscious about his belly.

The situation left Toni feeling both embarrassed and excited. He knew that Aleksi was right: he had been lazy and it showed. Then again he weirdly enjoyed the attention that his belly was getting and as the day went on, he stopped sucking it in, which got him even more comments and pokes as that way his shirt was really skin tight. Occasionally his belly even poked out of the shirt.

 Toni also found out that his normal awkwardness was gone and he had nice chats with many people whom he hadn’t really talked to before. Of course he heard whispers behind his back and saw the weird looks that some girls gave to him, but he had never really been interested in girls except a few friends that he had.  Toni saw Aleksi a few times, but when he spotted Toni, he always rushed away. Toni was quite puzzled about his behavior.  Other than that the rest of the school day was not very eventful. Toni did get a message of a new appointment with the school’s doctor, though. It was another health check for the draft so that Toni could receive the certificate that either freed him from military service or forced him to attend one way or another. Toni’s health check would take place in September and he was quite nervous about what his doctor would say. The more he thought about it, the more his mood went down and when he was walking home again in heavy rain, he was in an awful mood.

When Toni got home, he was surprised to see Riku waiting for him with a bag full of food. It cheered his mood a bit. Both of them had a day off from work and Riku was still having holidays as his college would begin in September. The two of them entered Toni’s apartment and Riku insisted on cooking for his friend as he had spotted his sour mood. Toni insisted on helping Riku first, but Riku told him that he needed to rest after the school day so Toni just went to lie down on the sofa. He took his tight shirt off and felt truly comfortable for the first time that day.

Once Riku was ready with cooking about an hour later, he started bringing the food into the table. Toni saw Riku giving him a few glances, most likely because Toni was shirtless. Toni realized that it was the first time since June when Riku saw him shirtless. He had been self-conscious about his rounder form so he had avoided taking his shirt off, but today’s pleasant chats and noticing that most people didn’t mind his weight had made him more confident about himself. What was weird, though, was that he clearly noticed Riku’s glances were rather excited than awkward or full of disgust.

The two of them sat on the table and Toni noticed that Riku had really prepared a feast for him. There were meatballs, pizza slices, French fries, burgers brownies, an apple pie and a huge chocolate cake. All home made. Toni realized that Riku must have had planned this dinner beforehand.

“You shouldn’t have cooked so much. I should be on a diet, you know,” Toni said blushing and patting his belly, which made it and his moobs jiggle, to emphasize his words.

“Don’t be silly, you look very handsome,” Riku said blushing as well.

Toni was unsure how to react. “Well… Thank you,” he said and started grabbing food on his plate.

“You seem worried. What’s wrong?” Riku asked.

“Well, I will have a health check again in September. I just got to know it today,” Toni said.

“So? You’re not sick, are you?”

“No, but it will be embarrassing nevertheless,” Toni said poking his gut again.

Riku seemed surprised. “Oh… I thought… Well, never mind.” He started shoveling food to his mouth.

“What is it?”

Riku seemed to be reluctant to answer at first, but then he made up his mind. “Well, I guess that we have to talk about it at some point anyways. You know, I didn’t gain weight in college. I started gaining on purpose in April and I’ve gained 30kgs (66lbs) since then.”

“Are you trying to gain muscle?” Toni asked, even though he knew that Riku wasn’t trying that. He never went to the gym.

“No. You see, I haven’t done the military service either.  When I was eighteen, I got permission to do it later as I was studying. I have to attend the draft this year again, as they never postpone the service by more than three years,” Riku said and sighed. “During these three years I’ve realized that I don’t even want to go to the army and the civil service seems to be a waste of time. Thus I decided to attempt getting rid of the whole thing all together. Since I don’t have any serious health problems, the only way to do this is getting fat. You need to be obese: the BMI limit is 34. Currently I’m at 110kgs (243lbs) and I need to gain only a few more kilos to reach BMI 34.”

Toni was shocked. He had never heard that it was possible to get freed of military service due to being too fat. The idea was exciting, but then he got doubtful as being at BMI 34 would require him to get fatter than he had ever been. He’d be the fattest kid at school. What would his friends say then?

“Don’t you mind being fat then?” Toni asked immediately regretting his choice of words.

Riku laughed. “Do I look like I mind? No, seriously I did feel very self-conscious about it at first but then I really started to like it. I liked to become bigger and softer. I loved the comments I got and that got me eating more and more. The job was also perfect due to the pizza buffet. To be honest, when I heard your opinions about the military service, I thought you were on this “quest” as well.”

Riku’s feelings were very much the same as what Toni had experienced today at school. Now that he thought about it, he was happier than ever before as well despite of getting fat. Toni had recognized that his reaction of excitement when seeing Riku’s belly was not only because of Riku. He liked bellies – or more specifically chubby guys - in general and since he had thought about it, he had liked them for a long time. When he had watched porn with his friends, he had never really enjoyed it. He got much more excited about seeing young guys getting chubby and he had always been secretly spotting bellies on the beach in summertime. He had never really thought about this trait of his before this summer, though.

He wondered whether Riku thought similarly about chubby guys. “Can I ask you something personal?” he asked and when Riku agreed, he continued: “This might sound weird. Please don’t get mad at me or think that I’m a weirdo or anything. I just thought that I’ve really had very similar experience to what you described this summer. I’ve also liked watching at other chubby guys… I just wondered whether you liked chubby guys as well.”

Riku gave him a wonderful smile. “I have indeed, as long as I can remember. Nothing is hotter than a cute guy getting fat,” he said blushing. Toni blushed as well, and to his delight Riku also removed his shirt revealing his huge, soft belly, which jiggled when he started eating again.

With a great effort, the two of them finished all the food that Riku had prepared. Toni was surprised to notice that he had actually eaten even more than Riku had. He felt more stuffed than ever before. He heard Riku belching and saw that he was stuffed as well. Struggling to move, Toni went to sit on the sofa and Riku followed him. They started playing Xbox. Neither of them could focus very well, though, as the feeling of extreme fullness made them sleepy.

After the boys had played for a while, Toni suddenly felt a warm hand touching his belly. It felt very comfortable and got Toni to smile. As Riku saw Toni smiling, he started rubbing Toni’s swollen belly, which felt extremely pleasant. Toni rubbed Riku’s belly in exchange. They continued doing so, ignoring the game.

After a while Toni had came to a decision. “Riku, I think that I will join your quest. It is just too good to be true, though. I don’t even know how much I weigh. I was only at 85kgs in July, so it might be impossible for me to fat enough to be freed of the service in time.”

It was obvious that Riku was excited about Toni’s words. “Well, we better give it a go. You are sure about this, right?”

“As sure as I ever could be,” Toni said thinking about his friends at school.

“Great! Do you have scales? It’d be nice to know how much you’ve gained since July,” Riku said enthusiastically.

Toni wasn’t quite sure whether he should lie that he didn’t own scales as his weight was still a bit tough spot for him. Nevertheless, he went to the bathroom and took the scales with him to Riku.

“Would you like to be weighed in first?” Toni asked Riku.

Riku agreed and stepped on the scales, which creaking a bit under his weight. “112 kilos (247lbs)! Some of it must be due to the food we ate but then again I am always full. It was only two days ago when I was at 110 kilos.”

Toni patted his friend’s belly and Riku stepped off the scales to give space to Toni. Toni stepped on the scales feeling excited. The scales told him that he was now at 99kgs (218 lbs). Toni was both shocked and happy about the number.  He was shocked because he had tried to get in shape as he had been hitting the gym, but apparently he had still been eating too much. It didn’t matter now that he had decided that he wanted to gain but he was a bit worried whether he would ever be able to stop gaining. He certainly didn’t want to become immobilized by his weight.

“Wow, you’ve been growing fast!” Riku cheered and poked Toni’s belly playfully. The finger stuck into Toni’s soft flesh for about an inch.

Toni smiled and used a BMI calculator on the internet to know how far he was from his goal. His height was 180 centimeters (5”11’) so with the weight of 99kgs his BMI was 30.56. It was still quite far away from his goal as he only had a month to gain the weight.

“I am so far from the goal!” he groaned to Riku.

“I’m sure we can do it,” Riku said smiling.

Toni's story - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

The next day Toni woke up noticing that he was almost late from work. He cursed his cell phone as it hadn’t waked him up earlier. He would have to return the rent van to the car rental before work as well. He dressed up quickly and rushed to the van. 

It seemed that it was his lucky day. The traffic wasn’t very bad that morning, possibly because most people were having their summer holidays. Thus he could return the van in only ten minutes and as the clothes store was located fairly near to the car rental, he got to work just in time. He found out that his boss, a middle-aged woman called Helena, was waiting for him on the counter.

“Ah, hello! You must be Toni,” she greeted him.

“Yes, I am Toni. Nice to meet you,” Toni replied.

“Let me get you your working outfit. What sizes do you need?”

“Well, my shirt size is S and I use size 28/32 jeans.”

“Here you go. The locker room for men is over there,” Helena said and pointed towards a door next to the front door after getting the clothes from a cupboard under the counter.

“Thank you. How did you know it was me and not a customer, by the way?”

“Well, there’s somebody you know working in the store. I hope that you get along well,” Helena replied with a smile. “I think you will find him in the locker room. He will guide you on your first day and tell you about our rules and other basic things.”

Toni was a bit surprised as none of his friends had told him that they’d be working in the same store but he managed to smile back either way. As he walked to the locker room, he inspected the store more carefully. The store was small but stylish, decorated with bright colors. It sold clothes mainly for young men and women; in fact it was Toni’s favorite clothes store.

When Toni entered the locker room, he noticed that it was more like a cupboard than a room. There was hardly space for three lockers, which made the room quite intimate as he would have to change clothes in a very narrow space if his co-workers were there at the same time. One of the lockers was open and Toni heard some rumbling behind it. 

“Erm… Hello?” Toni said unsure whether he should just remain silent and wait.

“Oh, hello!” the other man said in a cheerful tone while getting up to shake Toni’s hand. “I am Riku. You surely remember me from school though.”

Toni did indeed. Riku was a couple of years older than Toni - he had been a senior when Toni was a freshman in high school. Toni had chatted with him quite a few times and really liked him as well. After Riku had graduated, they had not contacted each other, though.  Toni was quite shocked to see him now. Riku was still very handsome with his dark brown hair, brown eyes, angular face and tanned skin. Two years ago he had also been fit, being one of the most athletic students in his school. He had always been victorious in the school’s sports events. Now that seemed to be a thing of Riku’s past. As Toni had surprised Riku when he was dressing up, Riku was shirtless and Toni could see his gut hanging slightly over the tight work pants that he was already wearing. He wasn’t obese, but he had clearly softened up. Toni just stared at the sight, excited for an unknown reason.

“Are you all right?” Riku asked, frowning. 

“Oh, yes. I indeed remember you. It is just that you have changed… Somehow,” Toni said awkwardly. 

“Ah, I had a busy year in college. I don’t mind it though, don’t worry,” he said patting his gut, which made it wobble in a way that excited Toni even more. Toni managed to smile to him and Riku smiled in return. 

“You better get into your new uniform as well,” Riku said as Toni continued staring at Riku. 

“Uh, you are right,” Toni uttered and as Riku didn’t move away, he just squeezed himself into the tight space between the wall and the lockers. 

Changing his clothes was both an embarrassing and exciting experience. As there was so little space, he couldn’t help but touch Riku’s softened belly and love handles in the process. From a corner of his eye he saw that Riku was staring his lean body. Riku appeared to be surprised as well. Eventually they got dressed up and Toni looked at Riku to notice that his shirt’s buttons had quite a struggle to contain his belly. “He must have gained the weight recently rather than in college”, Riku thought.

“I am not the only one who has changed,” Riku said.

Toni knew exactly what Riku meant: a couple of years ago Toni had been quite chubby himself but now, thanks to his best friend Aleksi and his gym enthusiasm, Toni was buffed. Toni smiled and shrugged as they left the locker room. 

“Helena told me that you would teach me the basics of working here,” Toni said.

“Oh, yes. Well, the job is simple. We help the customers should they need help and somebody stands at the counter on the cash machine. Surely you know the deal,” Riku said speaking quickly. “There are three workers working here at a time and we have a total of six employees here this summer. We have two coffee breaks, which we can have when we want as long as somebody is running the store, and one lunch or dinner break. What is special about lunch or dinner is that we can eat at the pizza buffet next doors for free since we have promised them to advertise their business. I have to say that the food is delicious there,” he continued smiling and patting his small but very noticeable gut. 

“Got it, thank you,” Toni said. The thought of Riku stuffing  himself with pizza somehow excited him, even though he didn’t know why. 

“Good. Now we’ll just have to open the store and wait for customers.  You can start by cleaning up the storage room. By the way, would you like to have your lunch with me today?” Riku said pointing at a door that said “No entry”. 

Toni agreed both on his next task and the offer for lunch and headed for the storage room that Riku had pointed for him. Toni soon found out that the storage room was a smallish space filled with clutter. Clothes, accessories, bags, advertisements and other such things were hanging here and there messily. Toni sighed and started his boring job.  Toni found out that time passed surprisingly quickly since after a seemingly short amount of time he saw Riku coming to the storage to tell him that it was time for lunch. 

Toni had never visited the pizza buffet before and thus he was surprised by the variety of pizzas that it offered. There weren’t many customers in the buffet since the normal lunch time was almost over. Riku showed some kind of a pass to the salesperson who gave him two trays. Riku handed one for Toni and rushed to the counter full of pizzas. Toni watched him as he piled dozens of slices of different kinds of pizzas on his three plates.  Toni decided that it was for the best to act like nothing unusual had happened, so he just followed Riku, took a few slices of pizza and followed Riku to one of the tables.

“I can see that you’re hungry,” Toni said with a silly smirk on his face.

“Hungry? Oh, not really after the breakfast that I had,” Riku said smiling. “These pizzas are just so delicious that I can’t resist them. You don’t seem so hungry, though”.

Actually Toni was hungry, but he was used to eating small portions when he had company. He didn’t really know why, but he found it a bit unpleasant to eat heaps of food when others were watching. Somehow he knew that Riku wouldn’t mind to see him eating a lot, so without any explanations he rose from the table with his plate and went to grab more slices of pizza. Then he returned to the table.

“Now that’s more like it!” Riku said cheerfully looking at Toni’s plate that now contained almost as much pizza as Riku’s.

At first the two of them just focused on eating, but after a couple of minutes they started chatting. Toni soon found out that Riku was just as easy going and fun to chat to as before. Unlike Aleksi, he also seemed to listen to Riku instead of pursuing his own thoughts. The pizzas also tasted delicious and Toni didn’t have to wonder why Riku had grabbed so many slices on his plate. As Toni got fuller and fuller, he wondered whether he could finish his portion or not.  The food tasted so delicious that he couldn’t help but try. 

When Riku had finished his food, Toni heard a loud belch and then a sound that made him look at Riku. It was a button of Riku’s shirt. It had popped and flown on the table. Toni stared at the button and then at Riku, who was blushing but also smiling. The sight made Toni blush as well.

“So, it seems that your shirt didn’t enjoy the food as much as you did,” Toni said after an awkward moment of silence.

Riku laughed. “It seems so. But you weren’t a light eater either,” he said pointing at Toni’s direction.

Toni knew that he was right. His belly was swollen since he had eaten more than ever before. It was obvious through his shirt, but he was glad to see that the buttons weren’t about to pop. His shirt did feel quite a bit tighter than when they had entered the buffet, though. “I can’t eat like this again,” he thought even though he actually enjoyed the feeling of being full. He still wanted to finish his food, since it was free, so he ate the last slice of pizza quickly, which seemed to impress Riku.

After the boys had gotten back to the store, Riku went to get a bigger shirt and told Toni that he would help with the cleaning of the storage. Toni enjoyed the task a lot more now that he had somebody to talk to and they actually got the cleaning done before the closing time.  After work Toni walked back home despite of still being full. Later that evening he was invited to play some football, but he turned the offer down as he thought he’d be better off by digesting the food slowly at home.  He felt unusually sleepy for the rest of the day and fell asleep on his mattress much earlier than usual.