This choice: Haley's efforts aren't enough - she gets bigger along with them. • Go Back... For a corporate cruise, it became evident over the course of their time at sea that no punches were being pulled when it came to making employees happy.
Most of the people on the ship were in some way affiliated with their parent company. Those in the same branch (or in at least three cases, region) were sort of pigeonholed together at the mandatory activities. And while this wasn't especially horrible, given that at least three out of the four of them liked one another, it meant that Haley was spending an awful lot of time around her curvy coworkers.
And that meant that she was spending a lot of time around all things edible.
Despite any lip service that they paid to the idea of moderation, it became clear after that first lunch that not one of the three of them really meant anything by it. The way that Claire's eyes lit up whenever she looked at fried food, or how Hannah practically licked her chops over the barbecue, or that Dana would get up for another plate after unfastening her bottoms was testament enough to that. Haley could hardly believe that she'd been stuck with these losers, who in all honesty would have rather stuffed themselves than sunned themselves on the deck, but they were literally the only people that she knew here...
And they were pretty bad, but... you know, it wasn't like she got good service out here. She had to do something to pass the time.
As a result, despite her best efforts at keeping everyone on the straight and narrow path, Haley found herself slipping more often than not when faced with the tasty delights that had so often tempted Claire, Dana, and Hannah.
The endless bar (after business hours, natch) hadn't helped that any at all. After the trust building exercises and the corporate speeches and the stupid, repetitive hypothetical situations that their boss's boss's boss made everyone do for four hours a day, Haley (and lots of other folks) went straight for the bar. It was annoying and pointless and, almost, made the whole idea of a corporate cruise seem more depressing than actual work. All this boat, a month long vacation, and still having to do homework.
"Godddd I hate it here!" Haley said rather loudly after downing another martini, "If I wanted to listen to legalese I would have let Veronica get on this boat instead of me!"
"Tell me about it." Claire laughed, a happy to Haley's grumpy drunk, "Why is every one of our speakers so monotone?"
"Bueller. Bueller. Bueller."
The four of them cackled and threw their heads back at their boss's boss's boss expense, clinking their martini glasses together and downing the liquid inside. Another would soon come their way, along with another order of deep fried oysters and crab's legs. Her head swimming with booze and the vague sense of seasickness that she had just come to accept as normal, she hardly remembered how many legs she'd eaten, and with how many biscuits on the side.
Drinking champions, Claire Dana and Hannah could hold their weight, and Haley was no slouch either! In fact, the more she drank, the more that the bleach blonde office bunny found that she kind of liked these frumpy chubbettes! They knew how to kick back and have a good time...
...of course, by the morning after, she would come to her senses and resume her conscious dismissal of her coworkers, her body often struggling to digest the extra hundreds of calories that she had digested in her drunken vigor.
Claire, Dana, and Hannah were very persuasive women! They were enjoying themselves on this cruise (perhaps more than anyone else) and were happy to include Haley whenever she could get over herself enough to be friendly with them. And as time went on and her defenses weakened, Haley found herself spending a lot of time with the three women that she supposedly couldn't stand...  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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