Evan's expanding popularity, part one

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Evan stretched and grinned as he came to a halt outside the locker room. Ah, there she is! he thought, and headed over to the fence, where a striking looking girl awaited him. He sniffed the enticing aroma rising from the carrier bag in her hand, and asked, "All for me?"

"Well, I might have a nibble," she replied, and leaned in to kiss him. A moment later, before she could pull anything out of the bag, two more girls appeared.

"We might have known you'd be here first, Ashley," said one in a catty tone. "Feeding our favourite big guy. I brought some too, Evan," she added, in a lower, more romantic tone.

"Me too!" added the third girl, pulling on Evan's arm.

"Girls, girls, there's enough of me to go round!" Evan chuckled and rubbed his stomach with one hand, and it gurgled hungrily. "I want to eat everything you brought."

"Face in the trough again I see," said a new voice, belonging to a another guy coming out of the locker room. "Keep eating like that, Evan, you'll be too big for football by your senior year!" But he too stopped, just behind the third girl.

"Too big? Me? Never!" Evan declared, even as he took a big bite out of the meat pie the first girl produced. "I have to eat," he added through a mouthful of pastry. "Have to keep up my playing weight!"

"Keep it or expand it?" the guy asked, as another guy braked to a halt.

"Hey, any of that for me?" the new guy asked. He was the biggest of the three - bigger than Evan, which was saying something. But then, he was a senior.

And Evan was only a sophomore, despite already being one of the 'big men' on the football team. Just 15 (his birthday had been the last day of August), Evan already carried 280 pounds on his 5'10" frame - or at least he had on weigh-in day, he suspected he was up a few since then.

Maybe more than a few.

"C'mon, Evan, we're heading to the Shanghai!" said a fourth guy as he cruised up to the growing group.

"Great Rob!" said Evan through a mouthful. "Let's go!" He immediately moves off, his broad belly bouncing a little as it stretched out his XL polo, big thighs pumping as they strained the seams of his size 42 Levi's 501 ,jeans. As he went, he was surrounded by the three girls, who alternately pulled goodies out of their bags and fed them to him.

At the parking lot, Luke and Kevin, both seniors on the team, opened their minivans and the group piled in, Evan grabbing a middle seat in Luke's van as he always did, with a girl (or two) pressed up against him. With big Luke and big Evan and a full load of others, the mini-van sagged a bit under the substantial load as Luke piloted it to their favourite after-game feed....

*****

"Man, you really pack it away," remarked Luke as he passed by Evan on the way to the steam tables.

"Yeah!" replied Evan around a mouthful of roast beef . "I don't even have to get up!" he added happily, as the plate he'd just emptied was whisked away by Ashley.

"Lucky guy, you've got your own 'feeders'," Luke noted.

"Hey, he has to make up for the summer," said one of the girls. "He was sick!"

"Yeah, I lost 15 pounds," Evan notes, "but I think I've gained them back already!" he adds, thumping his heavy tummy.

"Don't want to get too big - Coach'll cut you," added Luke.

"If Coach cuts him, then he'll be all ours," noted another girl.

"All MINE you mean," retorted Ashley, returning with another plate stacked high with delectable morsels.

"All for me?" asked Evan, gesturing towards the plateful. "I think I have room for it here," he continued, grinning.

"Better go fill my plate," Luke said, turning away. "Gotta keep up with the fat kid!"

*****

A few weeks later, as September turned into October, Evan came by the Coach's office after he suited up for practice.

"Coach, I think I need new uniform pants," Evan began, then gestured to the straining seams of the ones panted onto his butt. "Don't want these ones to blow a seam."

"Evan, I got you those 2XLs only last month," replies Coach Hanes. "I don't know if I even have a pair of 3XLs - even Luke isn't that big! What's going on?"

"Growth spurt, coach?" replies Evan. "I mean, guys my age grow..."

"Yeah, Evan, but usually upwards not outwards!" replies Coach Hanes with a smile. "Much as I like having big guys on my team, I wouldn't want you to get too big and slow.... here, step on the scale, let's see what's going on with you!"

Evan stepped onto the scale, and Coach pushed the weights across, then frowned. He started again with the biggest weight, then said quietly, "Well, over 300..." He pushed other weights across, still frowning a bit, then said loudly, "Evan, what the hell is going on! The scale says you weigh 346 - that's 66 pounds more than you weighed on weigh-in day! 66 pounds in 6 weeks! What the hell are you eating? You're bigger than Luke!"

"I dunno coach, I just figured it was a growth spurt. I had to replace my jeans too..."

"I bet you did! How the heck did you manage to put on 66 pounds? All right, you know that I like bigger guys on the line, but I don't want slow fatsos - we're going to check you out. Drop and give me 20!"

Obediently, Evan got down and did 20 push-ups - he knew it wouldn't be a problem, as he'd been in the weight room with the team three times a week, keeping up his strength, and his bench-press and push-ups were all good. "Not bad," remarked Coach as Evan finished the last one, then lunged to his feet. "With that gut you don't need to drop down as far as some guys. I think some wind sprints are in order now - need to check your speed, make sure that extra girth is not slowing you down."

"Wind sprints?" said Evan, who hated them. "OK, coach, whatever you say." Evan knew he'd been growing - a trail of outgrown clothing and an appetite that, even for him, seemed enormous, told him that, but it wasn't until Coach read off the numbers on the scale that Evan realised just how fast he'd been growing - with most of it seemingly going into his gut and butt. "Can I do the wind sprints in my shorts?" he asked. "These might split," he added, flexing a thigh and making the leg seams on the football pants strain so the individual stitches could be seen, all dangerously close to bursting.

"Sure, but hurry up!" said the Coach, as he gathered his stopwatch and whistle.

Out on the field, the team was gathering for practice. Evan hurried out to where coach was waiting by the track starting gate, his jersey stretched by his gently bouncing gut. "Hey, big guy, where are you rushing too?" called out Kevin, the quarterback, warming up his arms.

"Wind sprints - Coach wants to check my speed," explained Evan. "I've put on some weight!"

"Yeah? I thought so. Good for you!" replied Kevin. "Hey, maybe we all need a mid-season check!" He jogged over to where Evan had halted by the coach, then called out, "C'mon guys, speed check!"

*****

"Well, boys, pretty impressive," Coach Hanes remarked as he finished noting the results for the last set of sprints. The boys gathered around as he continued. "You're all within a second of what you did in August - even our new resident heavyweight, Evan, is only off by four-tenths - and a number of you are faster, notably Kevin. Given that I'm sure you've all put on a few pounds - Kevin's ten pounds is all muscle, I'm sure, and I guess some of Evan's 66 must be muscle too - I'm happy. I like having a big O-line to protect the QB - as long as you keep your speed up, you can keep growing. Not too much more, though, Evan, kapisch?"

"What do you mean, new resident heavyweight Evan?" asked Luke, looking at Evan. "He's not..."

"He is," Coach replied, guessing at Luke's thought. "He's heavier than you now - unless you've put on a lot more than I think you have."

"No shit!" retorted Luke. "What're you up to, Evan?"

"346!" replies Evan, elated. "How big are you?"

"Whoa! 346! I gotta put on a few! Last time I checked, I was 324. Say, Coach, can I use the scales? "

"Be my guest."

Luke jogged over to the Coach's office, trailed by the rest of the O-line, not to mention most of the team. He stepped onto the scales and pushed the weights over.

"Woo hoo! 332!" he said, stepping down. "That means I gotta gain....14 pounds!"

The rest of the O-line weighed themselves, and all had gone up since August, but most by only five pounds or so. Kevin stepped up among them and, mugging it up with a tennis racket for a mike, said to Evan, "Kevin here for Fat Football News! So, Evan...how does it feel to be the team heavyweight?"

"I love it!" Evan replied enthusiastically.

"And Luke, how does it feel to lose your fat crown to a sophomore?"

"Well, Kevin," Luke began in a fake deep voice, "first of all I'm not fat, I'm big-boned..." he paused while the rest of the O-line howled, "and secondly I'll be back on top real soon..."

"Thanks, Luke," Kevin said, "and that's all from here. I see the boys are off to eat...I imagine Luke and Evan will be hard at it soon..." Laughing, Kevin tossed the racket into a corner and said, "C'mon, Luke, Evan, I'll treat you to Dairy Queen!"

"Don't buy 'em too much there Kevin," remarked one of the running backs, "or you'll make them TOO fat!"

"Nah," retorted Kevin, "I like having a pair of big fat asses in front of me on the field!" and with that he reached out and playfully grabbed Luke's butt, making Luke jump in mock horror.

"Oh, Mr. Quarterback..." Luke squeaked in falsetto. "Oh, be gentle, Mr. Quarterback..."

"C'mon, let's go, I'm HUNGRY!" said Evan. Quickly the boys hit the showers and headed out, being met at the parking lot by a bevy of female (and male) fans, including Ashley.

"Hey Ash, Kevin's treating me and Luke to Dairy Queen!" said Evan with a grin, giving Ashley a quick hug. "Can you come?"

"Sure!" Ashley replied. "Hope you brought lots of money, Kevin!" Ashley added.

"Oh sure," said Kevin. He pulled out his cell and dialled a number. "Better crank up the burners there Shelley," he said into the phone, "I'm bringing the team's heavyweights over."

*****

The opening notes of Green Day's "Wake me up when September ends" warbled in the air, and Evan flipped open his cell. "Hey Ash," he said, reading the screen and answering the call.

"Can I come over? I've got something for you..."

"Sure!" replied Evan.

"See you soon."

Evan had been enjoying a lazy Saturday morning before the big Columbus Day weekend football game on Sunday, and Ashley knew that - so she left her call until late, barely able to contain her excitement. She got her Dad to drop her off at Evan's house as soon as she was off the phone, and she fairly flew up his driveway to ring the bell. When her big guy answered the door in person, though, she was suddenly tongue tied at the sight of him. Evan was in his weekend gear of jeans and t-shirt, the jeans filled to almost bursting, but the t-shirt, tucked in under his 50 inch gut, was new; mid-blue, with 'HEAVYWEIGHT' spelled out in bold yellow letters in a semi-circle across his fat chest.

"Hey Ash," Evan said, his 350 pounds of bulk filling the doorframe.

"Oh," said Ashley, as he stood out of the way for her to come in. Then, regaining her voice, she asked with fake casualness, "New shirt?"

"Yeah, Ian sent it to me, he heard from Mum I'm outgrowing all my clothes - says it's the hot thing on campus. Appropriate, huh?"

"Yeah."

"I was just having a snack. C'mon in."

Ashley followed Evan into the dining room, where the remains of the 'snack' were a further testament to Evan's growing appetite. He sat down and picked up an apple, while Ashley sat beside him.

"I brought you something," Ashley said.
"Sweet I hope!" Evan replied, assuming it was more food.

"I think so," Ashley continued, pulling a shirt out of her backpack. She fluffed it open and Evan could see that it was a button-down, in a rich royal blue - and it was BIG!

"Wow," he said. "Cool."

"C'mon, try it on. I went with Dad to the Big 'n' Tall last night," she confided. "I took a photo of you, and the guy said this should fit...its size 19."

Evan peeled off his t-shirt - his abundance of flesh bouncing as he did so, as the t-shirt resisted coming untucked - and quickly tried on the new button-down. "It's great!" he said, as he tried it on - and it was a great fit, the extra-long tails hanging down enough that he could tuck them in, the sleeves exactly the right length, the fit generous over his well-fed body.

"Tuck it in, I gotta see," said Ashley.

Evan reached under his gut and undid his skin-tight jeans. "Wanna help me?" he asked, and Ashley helped push the shirt fabric under the denim, revelling in the touch of his broad fat lovehandles. "Here," she said, as he grunted to get the jeans done up again. He pulled and she slid the button home.

She stood up and looked over at Evan, standing there. His broad gut and chest filled the shirt nicely, but it wasn't tight - room to move, room to grow. It emphasized how tight the jeans were though, as his love handles spilled over the sides of the jeans and his fat gut hung over in front.

"Wow, it's great!" she said, and walked up to him for a big hug. The smooth fabric over his soft, warm flesh felt fabulous.

"I'll wear it all week!" Evan promised, as Ashley bent to her pack and pulled out another package.

"Here - if that fits, then this will too," she said, and gave Evan the plastic bag marked XXXL.

"A rugby shirt!" he said happily, ripping it out of the packaging. "From Big Adventure! Too cool!" He quickly took off the button-down, and pulled the rugby shirt over his head. Its broad green and yellow stripes fit generously, and the heavy fabric emphasized the outward swell of his gut.

"You know," he said, looking down at himself, "I need a mirror." He strode off to the front hall, Ashley trailing behind, where a big, full-length mirror showed him his big reflection.

"That does it, I need new jeans," Evan announced. "Wanna come with me, Ash?"

"Sure!"

*****

"So, what size do you need?" asked the sales clerk brightly.

“I dunno exactly, these are 42s I think,” replied Evan. “46s?”

“Bring those, and 48s and 50s - Teen Heroes if you have ‘em,” directed Ashley.

“OK,” said the clerk, and waddled quickly away.

“It’s so great shopping here!” said Ashley happily. “This is where I got your shirts.”

The clerk came back, and Ashley held the 46s against Evan’s substantial middle. “No, too tight!” she said. “Try these on,” she said, giving the 48s to Evan. When he came out of the changing room, she pronounced, “Well, those look good! Still, try the 50s,” she continued, giving them to Evan.

Evan disappeared into the changing room and was out a moment later. “Boy, these are loose!” he announced, then continued, “Think I’ll stick with the 48s.”

“That’s good,” Ashley replied. “You’ll want the 50s soon enough,” she added ambitiously.

“Having a growth spurt?” asked the clerk. “We give a discount of 15% on the second pair when you buy two at once.”

“What about three pairs? Would it be 20% if you through in some 52s?” asked Ashley positively.

“52s? Ten inches bigger than the old ones?” said Evan with wonder in his voice.

“Yeah, big boy,” said Ashley, gently rubbing Evan’s gut. “You’re gonna grow....”

*****

Four weeks later, and those size 48 jeans have become tight, tight, and the 52s are now in the comfy category...and Evan’s football uniform pants are again incredibly snug, with the seams stretched taut.

"Evan, come to my office," says Coach Hanes as the team is jogging off the field one Friday after practice.

"Yeah, Coach?" said Evan, treading tiredly into the coach's office, his big gut bouncing gently, each bounce straining the seams on the jersey and pants.
"Evan, you look like you need new uniform pants and jersey - and you got those new, bigger pants just four weeks ago. You look like you've put on a LOT more weight - what is your mother feeding you? You're getting slower too, and while I don't mind you getting bigger, I do mind you getting slower. Hop on the scales...."

Evan obediently stepped up and Coach pushed the weights over... and over.

"397! Evan, that's 51 pounds heavier than you were four weeks ago! How the hell.... I don't mind big guys on the team, but you've packed 117 pounds since August...how big are you going to get?"

"Maybe I put on even more, coach, I was sick in July, lost 20 pounds - I was down to 258...."

"You were down to 258? Evan, that means you've put on .. let's see...139 pounds in four months! Shit, boy, aren't your parents concerned?"

"Well, yeah, maybe - Mum's taking me to the doctor next week."

"Good! In the meantime, fella, I'd slow down on the burgers and Cheetohs - 400 pounds is getting really big for football."

"But Aaron Gibson is 410 pounds..." Evan tries to counter Coach's argument. "And I feel great! I don't feel fat..."

"Aaron Gibson is also 6'6", Evan - you're 5'10"!". Coach pulled out a calculator. "If Aaron Gibson were your height he'd weigh....330! Even allowing for the fact that calling him 410 is low-balling his weight- in my opinion he's probably more like 430, 440 - at your height he'd be 350, 360, not pushing 400.

"Now, I'm not about to cut you from the team," Coach continued, but was interrupted by a shadow looming at the door.

"You'd better not cut him from the team," a voice said which turned out to be Kevin, sticking his head in through the door. "This quarterback LIKES having that big fat ass in front of him when the enemy's monster trucks are bearing down on us. Coach, if he's 400 pounds, he's an asset - nobody's gonna get past him!"

"I agree," said Coach positively, "but at 400 pounds he'll have to work hard to keep his speed up. Like I said, Evan, you'll have to cut back on the cheeseburgers and deep-dish, and get out there jogging and lifting more."

"Hey Evan, if you need help with the jogging or lifting, I'm sure me and the boys would help out," Kevin added.

"Thanks, Kevin!" said Evan.

"Yeah, thanks Kevin," added the Coach. "If we're going to keep 'Big Evan' here in the line, we gotta keep his speed up. He'll make a great weapon when we meet those bovines from the Springfield team...."

"Yeah, our 'hog' here will flatten those 'cows', won't you, Evan?" Kevin said. "You'll be our 400 pound secret weapon..."

"Hey, I like that!" said Evan. "I'm 'da Hog'!" He raised his right hand and he and Kevin high-fived each other hard.

"See you out on the track tomorrow morning at 9, 'Hog'?" asked Kevin.

"Sure, gotta keep my speed up!" replied Evan with a grin. He slapped his ample breadbasket with one hand. "Cause I've already got my weight up!"

"And I'll see what I can do about a new larger uniform," said the Coach. "It'll be the first 4XL this school's ever seen..."

*****

"Yeah I know, but I don't want to let down the team," said Evan that evening, as Ashley curled up in his massive arms. "I don't mind the jogging - but cutting back on my eating won't be easy..." For the first Friday since the summer, there was no massive 'snack' sitting beside him.

"I suppose at least he hasn't told you to lose weight," Ashley remarked.

"Yeah, he said he likes my weight -said I'll be a great weapon against the Springfield Bovines - as long as I keep up my speed. And Kevin said he still likes having me guard him - 'I like having that big fat ass in front of me when the enemy's monsters are headin' for us,' he said - I think that's why he offered to come out jogging with me."

"And if you're jogging more often, you'll be burning off more calories and won't have to cut back on your food so much..." said Ashley, putting one and two together. "Yeah - you know what, I'm coming jogging with you too! And on the days you don't go jogging, we should go swimming...that burns off lots of calories."

"You're on!" said Evan, suddenly enthusiastic. "And I'll lift more too - that way I'll have more muscle, that should make me quicker as well!"

*****

"So how are you feeling Evan?" asked Dr. Johnson.

"Big - and hungry!" replied Evan.

"Well, I can see the 'big' part - why hungry?"

"Coach said I can't gain any more weight - I'm getting too slow. So I'm eating less - I'm on a diet - and doing more running and lifting - and I'm just, like, hungry ALL the time."

"And is it working?"

"The diet? Don't know, haven't been on the scales. The running - well, it's getting easier, but Coach only said all this last Friday."

"Oh, so this new plan is only six days old?"

"Yeah, and I'm starving!"

"Hmm. Well, maybe we'll check blood sugar. How are you generally? You said you're still playing football...that's good. Sleeping well? You were here last in...July. Oh yes, that strange illness. Well, that cleared up...you lost a bit of weight." The doctor looks up at you and grins. "Looks like you've gained it all back and then some. Says here you were down to 258... hop on the scale, let's see where you are now."

Evan shucks his shoes, and gets on the scale. The doctor slides over all the weights, then slides the smallest one back a little. "Well, 395! You have gained it all back and then some. That makes a...137 pound increase since July. Good lord. What have you been feeding him?" the doctor says, delivering that last remark to your mother in a somewhat joshing tone.

"Nothing out of the ordinary," she replies, "but you know teenage boys, the quantities are out of the ordinary."

"Given the size of this guy I'd imagine quite EXTRA-ordinary," the doctor continues.

"Hey, 395 means I'm down two pounds from last Friday when Coach Hanes weighed me."

"Well, that could good - or it could be just scale error, these things are only plus or minus a pound or two," the doctor remarked. "The growth is extraordinary, though."

"And that's why we've come," says your mother. "I know he seems healthy - football, etc. - but what about the future? I mean, will he be healthy? And why is he growing so fast? I know teenage boys can have growth spurts, but a hundred pounds?"

"I share your concern. You seem healthy, Evan, but let's make sure - no sense missing a problem early on. Now, when did this 'growth spurt' begin?"

"Well, after I was sick, once my appetite came back, I started really eating again, and I gained some weight. Didn't think anything of it at first - after all, I was just getting back what I'd lost sick - I really only started to notice it when I outgrew my football uniform..."

"And how big were you then?"

"Um, 346."

"I see - you only noticed once you'd gained nearly 90 pounds...."

"Well, I guess I had noticed early, the first time I had to change uniform pants, but that was no problem, coach just exchanged them - he does that for lots of guys in September....just..."

"Just...?"

"Just not again in October... and again in November!"

Doc Johnson took some measurements, and pricked Evan's finger for a blood sugar test. Then he gave Evan a can of Coke to guzzle, and took another blood sugar test, then had Evan sit for 40 minutes and checked it again.

"Well, your blood sugar is a bit low, but it bounces up and down just fine when you have a sugary drink...I'd say the hunger and tiredness are from sometimes not getting enough to eat. At your size, I can hardly counsel you to gain weight, but you probably don't want to loose any more. More importantly, you need to eat healthier - smaller portions, more often, to even out your blood sugar through the day. Regular exercise, too," he continued, then pauses as Evan dramatically tightened his chest and arms, making his polo stretch. "Well, I see the weightlifting must be underway, but don't forget the aerobic, too, for it'll help to level out the blood sugar. And,” he continued, “I think in view of this great change the HMO will cover some tests – blood pressure and heart rate are good, but I'll send you for more blood tests – c'mon, a big guy like you shouldn't be afraid of a little needle,” he said, 'needling' Evan over his grimace at the mention of blood, “and to be sure, a stress EKG.”

“What's a stress EKG?” Evan's mum asked.

“It's a test of how well the heart works under load,” the doctor replied. “Basically, we wire him up for an EKG, then put him on a treadmill or exercise bike and make him work, and observe the changes. A regular EKG only says that your heart is fine if you're lying down flat – a stress EKG says how well your heart works when you move around. And with all this extra mass, it would be good to know how Evan's heart is doing.”

“Oh, I see,” says his mother.

“Now Evan, the lab will call about scheduling, but I do want to see you again in a month regardless. Keep on trying to eat healthy and exercise, but don't forget to take a day off from the sports and exercise every week - give your body a rest. Come back in a month."

"Thanks, doc."

*****

Feeling reasured, Evan and his mom headed home. The next day at practice, Evan cut another two-tenths off his 40 yard dash, and added another ten to his benchpress, as if to celebrate his clean bill of health. Ashley was happy to see her hefty hunk looking happy again - and out setting personal bests on the track and in the weight room. She loved going jogging with Evan and Kevin, and as the three of them continued, more and more of the team's players joined them. Ashley looked forward to every game, to every practice, for a chance to see her big guy in action... and to feed him, for though he had 'cut back' he hadn't cut back by very much - his increased activity level had seen to that. In fact, while his weight wasn't increasing very much, the size of his chest and arms and legs was... and his gut was shrinking, though perhaps only Ashley and Evan himself really noticed that.

With all this real progress - and Evan's obvious increase in happiness, and continued robust health - Ashley was really looking forward to Thanksgiving - for surely Evan would relax his diet 'restrictions' for "Pig-Out Day", wouldn't he? And Ashley wanted to be there when the new, big, hungry Evan truly 'pigged-out'!

*****

Mid-November visit to Doc Johnson - "steady as she goes", and "improvement in blood sugars" and "you're looking great".


*****

Thanksgiving - "Pig Out Day" - Evan eats for a day

Ashley brings food to Evan's house early...

****

Christmas - relax for a week, eat and grow! What does an extra 10 pounds matter, when you’re already 415?

*****

Back to the doctor January 2. “Well, well, 428 - some appetite, huh? Feeling any better?”
“I feel great - lots of energy!”
“That’s good. But we need to get to the bottom of all this growth. Blood samples for hormone tests, sugar levels. And, we need to check how your body is coping with all this mass - sonagrams of your heart, liver, lungs, gut - maybe a CT scan of your bones and joints - and bone densitometry too.”

Genetic testing....the results will take months to come back.

“Oh, and back on the diet - don’t need to be quite so restrictive, if it makes you happier - but I can’t advise gaining any more weight, you’re already more than twice the weight a boy your height should be. The Surgeon-General would call you ‘morbidly obese’, though I dislike that label...”


Two weeks later...
Results from the CT scans - unusually large knee, hip and shoulder joints...



*****

“March break - continued restraint - feeling deprived - what a winter!” Evan takes his new more muscular 440 pound bulk skiing. Finding a ski suit took a little Internet searching, but Evan was overjoyed to find he wasn't the only big guy who liked to go skiing - and while he thought he'd have to settle for boring black ski clothes, he found that wasn't true...

The sight of a massive, bright orange ski suit zipping down down the hills filled with 440 pounds of confident team gave pause to the ski patrol, but fortunately he never crashed so they had to rescue him. One of the jokingly suggested to him that they could use him to help lift other heavy guys who did crash, and he took them up on it, giving them his cell number.

He did have to ride the double chairlift solo, though!



*****

"So what you're saying doc is that I'm a genetic freak, and even if I starve myself, I won't get smaller. And, really, it doesn't matter how big I get."

"Evan!" said his mother in a horrified voice. "Genetically different, not 'freak'!"

"It's the same thing, Mum," Evan replied. "Right doc? If I put on weight, my body adapt?"

Mid April, all the tests come back - Evan is a genetic freak. Months of dieting have made little difference - he's still gaining.

Evan realises that, diet or no diet, nothing is going to stop the growth - you're gonna gain! So, why restrain the amazing appetite - might as well eat. He can certainly carry the weight!

Try out sumo?

*****

"Hey Ashley, I'm going out to eat - wanna come?"

"Sure!" replies Ashley, then does a double-take. "Out to eat like old times? What did the doctor say?"

“Well, he said I could drop the diet, seeing as my health is great.”

“Really? Wow! Did he really say that? He’s OK with you gaining more weight?”

"Well, he didn't say not to put on weight..."

"Huh?"

"He said that my body seems to adapt perfectly to whatever size I am and whatever exercise I do - I'm healthy as a horse! Healthier than most horses! And, while he said he said he had to suggest I lose weight, as I was healthy, he couldn't TELL me to lose. And when I asked him if my body would keep on adapting to my weight, he didn't see why it wouldn't. Basically, I can be any weight I want to, and my body will adapt to it to keep me healthy. Isn't that cool?"

"Does that mean..." Ashley paused.

"It means, I figure, that I can get as big as I want and still be perfectly healthy - my body will adapt to the weight! I literally can't weigh too much - I can weigh whatever I want to."

"And what you want to do is..."

"Is to get as big as I can - see what this body can DO! C'mon Ashley, I gotta go EAT!"

"Oh Evan..."


*****

"OK girls, who's buying Evan lunch?"

"Me!" "I am!" "No, me!" "I will!" "I said it first!"

"Calm down! We ALL are!"

"Hunh??"

"Evan's doctor has taken him off his diet - he can go back to eating like he used to. So, we're ALL going to buy him lunch, and see just how much he can EAT!"

"Yay!"

*****

Two weeks later - Evan's clothes are suddenly tight - at least around the gut! In the two weeks since the final doctor's visit (when he had been told he could drop his diet), Evan had resumed eating with gusto - and encouragement. Lots of gusto on his part. Lots of encouragement from Ashley - and a lot of other friends.

His Monday morning jeans were the same size 50s he’d worn to the doctor’s office two weeks before - though freshly laundered - but Evan was having considerable difficulty getting them done up. He smiled as he forced the two ends of the waistband together, lifting and compressing all the new fat on his gut in the process. Slipping the button home, Evan released his grip on the fabric suddenly. Without his hands helping hold it up, his growing gut dropped back down, putting an enormous strain on the waistband of his jeans. Watching this in the mirror, Evan smiled even more broadly. Above the straining, contorted waistband of his jeans hung a ring of new fat flesh. Thanks to the too-tight jeans and his gain of the last two weeks, Evan had substantial love handles now, and a gut that hung out over the top of his jeans on three sides.

"Man, I'm getting FAT!" Evan said out loud. "Now, what to wear with this..." Evan began to dig through a drawer, then noticed an old polo - 2XL - one he hadn't worn since the fall, when he'd first gone to the doctor about his weight gain. It had been skin-tight then...what would it look like now?

Evan eased the stressed fabric over his ample torso, then looked in the mirror again. The 2XL polo, its seams visibly straining, did not quite meet the jeans. Evan pulled down on it again, then let go, and watched as the polo crept back up, revealing again the ring of new flab around Evan's middle! Just for fun, he shook his fat gut - which made the too-tight polo creep upwards even further, revealing even more fat flesh.

"Gotta show this to Ashley!" Evan remarked with a grin, then his gurgling stomach reminded him it was breakfast time. "Mum won't like it though - better cover it up!" he added, and pulled a new 5XL hoodie on. Unlike the jeans, and polo, the hoodie was new, loose-fitting, and long enough to cover up the ring of fat that was poking out between the too-tight jeans and the outgrown polo.

"Wonder what Ashley will say - hope she has her tape today," he added to himself. Ashley knows how big he's getting - after all, she'd been with him just yesterday, as he ate his way through the Bavarian Haus' 'all you can eat' Wurst Night, but that had been in sweat pants - not jeans and a polo. He headed down the stairs to breakfast - the seams on the jeans creaking as his big thighs moved - and his mother had a substantial breakfast ready for him.

"Another Monday," his mother remarked as he dropped perhaps a little too heavily into the chair. He wondered idly just how much weight he had gained since he'd dropped his diet. His mother, though, noted the creaking protest of the chair and mildly remarked, "Take it easy on the furniture, dear. Those jeans look a bit tight." Evan wolfed his breakfast - grabbed another glass of milk at the fridge and then grabbed his bag, heavy with 'snacks'.

"Bye mum, love you!" he shouted through the door, then bounded down the driveway. Ashley would already be on the bus when it stopped for him, and he couldn't wait to see what breakfast treat she had for him this morning. He hustled his substantial frame down the sidewalk to the bus stop, where two other kids were hanging out.

Zeph, as always, had his hand out for five, and Evan slapped him hard. "Evan, my man, looking bigger than ever!" Zeph remarked with a broad grin.

"Thanks!" replied Evan, then said quietly, "Hi Cath."

"Hi Evan," said the shy little girl.

The bus appeared within minutes and the three boarded, Evan going last as he really filled the doorway. Ashley was waiting in the usual seat two-thirds of the way back, and as she waved to him, Evan felt warm inside... and his stomach gurgled, knowing that the second phase of breakfast, as supplied by Ashley, was about to begin.

"Gotta a surprise for you, but can't show you 'til we get to school," announced Evan, as he set down his mass to occupy the two-thirds of the bench seat that Ashley wasn't using.

"And I've got one for you!" Ashley replied, handing him a carefully wrapped muffin. "And these muffins, too."

"Banana chocolate - all right!" remarked Evan happily after the first big bite.

With Evan gobbling down the dozen jumbo muffins like he’d had nothing to eat yet, the few miles to school passed quickly. Evan downed the litre of chocolate milk that Ashley had brought just before the bus came to a halt. The driver threw open the door, and the kids all started to file off, Evan waiting until almost the end, as he usually did. The driver, a grandmotherly type, wished each of the students “Have a nice day” as they got off, until Evan rolled up. “Have a fat day,” she blandly said, and when Ashley whipped around and stared at her in surprise, she smiled cherubically. “Now you just keep our big boy well fed,” the bus driver remarked, eyes twinkling, as Ashley stood, stunned. “I will!” Ashley finally blurted out, racing down the steps to join Evan, who was waiting for her. Evan swung around magnificently, and set off for the door of the school, as the bus driver pulled out.

As Evan rolled his newly-enlarged self towards the door, the seams of the more-than-skintight jeans creaked occasionally in protest. “Where can we go that’s private?” he asked as they approached the door. “Somehow the café won’t cut it this morning!”

“Let’s head to Mrs. Bachman’s room - she doesn’t have a homeroom class, I’m sure she won’t mind. It’ll only take a minute,” Ashley replied.

“You can see the jeans,” said Evan as he halted just inside Mrs. Bachman’s empty classroom, “but you haven’t seen this since last October!” he continued, as he grabbed the bottom of the 5XL hoodie and pulled it over his head. As he did so, the straining XXL polo rolled up off his belly to just below his pecs, exposing the mass of his two-week’s gain. He looked down and rapidly pulled the polo down to the waistband of the jeans, only to have it immediately slide up a couple of inches, exposing again the ring of fat flesh between his overstuffed jeans and his gut. Ashley relished the sight of the long handles and gut hanging over the waistband of the jeans, the polo stretched skin-tight above those.

“Wow,” she finally said, then walked around Evan, noting how his newly fattened gut and lovehandles made a ring of fat that hung out over the jeans’ waistband nearly all the way round. She reached out to grab a lovehandle, giving it a good shake and watching the polo retreat further upward from the movement. “You’re so big!” she added.

“Yeah, but how big?” asked Evan, as Ashley dug into the front pocket of her bag.

“We’ll soon know!” she replied, brandishing a tailor’s tape. “This is a new one,” she continued, “the old one only went to five feet. I ordered this one on-line - it goes to10 feet!”

Standing still, Evan held one end of the tape steady while Ashley walked around his fat equator. She brought the ends of the tape together. “60 inches! It was only 51 inches in March break. Now, around that chest,” she continued, pulling the tape up over Evan’s massive fattened pecs, “63! That’s down an inch from March break."

“Yeah, well, I haven’t done any lifting the last two weeks,” said Evan in a sheepish tone.

“Except for your fork, fat guy!” Ashley remarked. “All that food lifting might have kept your arms in shape,” she continued, wrapping the tape around one meaty biceps. “19 inches!” She looked down at his jeans, whose seams were showing every thread. “I’d measure your leg, but those jeans look more like compression shorts!” She put down the tape and then reached into her backpack and pulled out a package. “Since you’re growing again, you ought to have this!” she continued, handing a bag to Evan.

He opened the bag and pulled out a t-shirt. Shaking it open, he revealed a huge expanse of navy blue cloth decorated with a half circle of big gold letters across the top that read, “LIBERATED!” and below, in smaller letters, “Please feed me.”

“Freezer burn!” said Evan, as Ashley said, “It’s a 5XL - it celebrates the end of your diet!”

“Thank you!” Evan exclaimed, sweeping Ashley into his big arms and squeezing her against his padded chest and gut. Ashley loved being hugged by the Evan - it was like falling into a bed - and she revelled in the sensation.

Ashley disengaged slowly. A moment later, the warning bell rang, and Evan quickly grabbed the 2XL polo to change it for the new t-shirt. As he swept the tortured garment upwards over his enlarged torso, seams ripped under the pressure. Ashley smiled. “Well, you won’t wear that again!” she remarked, grabbing the failed garment and stuffing it in the trash. Evan quickly pulled the t-shirt on, and Ashley snuggled in beside him after he passed through the classroom doorway. “After school,” Ashley continued, “I think we’d better go get you some new jeans, don’t you think? Those ones look like they’ll blow a seam any moment.”

“OK,” said Evan. “They are 50s, after all.”

“Yeah, and you’ve got ten inches of gut hanging above them!” Ashley hung back as Evan passed through the classroom doorway, looking him over. "So much bulk, so tightly packaged," she murmured quietly to herself, checking out his tortured jeans - the waist band straining under the load of paunch and love handles, and the butt seams stretched taut by the massive boulders of his ass - for, unlike some fat guys, whenever Evan added to his tummy his buns grew too, as did his legs. Oh, those legs - Evan’s thunder thighs strained the side seams almost as badly as his butt did, and the calves below both seemed to be packing footballs - swelling and further straining the denim. Ashley wondered vaguely if Evan could even sit down....but of course, he’d been sitting on the bus. Sitting, and eating - which reminded Ashley that she’d better dig out his next ‘snack’....

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Early May weigh-in - 521 pounds, almost 3x Ashley’s weight. “Hey, I should put on a few pounds, see if you can catch up”....Ashley puts on five pounds in 10 days to 180, Evan puts on 19 pounds in 10 days to 540.

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Be sure to follow along in Part two!