TWISTED REALITY FOUR BY MATT L.
1.
There was a comical smirk upon Priscilla Forster’s charming face as she watched her mother struggle into the dress.
The 40-something Elizabeth Forster had gained a considerable amount of weight over the years, especially after her divorce. The sheer fabric hugging her waist, accentuating her thickest roll, tightly snaring her hefty rear.
Priscilla absentmindedly let loose a shrill of a giggle, causing Elizabeth to spin around.
“Ha-ha”, Elizabeth sarcastically droned.
Priscilla took a step toward her mom, “You knew about this party months ago, mother. Didn’t you even try to lose some weight?”
Elizabeth turned around, facing her daughter with a hollow expression, “I’ve tried ever diet you can imagine, some of them twice. I can’t help it if I can’t lose weight.”
Pricilla folded her arms over her well-developed knockers, “You should try harder, put a little effort into it.”
“I try, Priscilla, but dieting is much more difficult than you think.”
“No”, Priscilla sternly quibbled, “You don’t try. I’m beginning to think you don’t mind being fat.”
“Think what you want”, Elizabeth answered back.
Priscilla chuckled, “Oh please, you have an uncontrollable appetite and eat nothing but fattening food!”
Elizabeth’s dejected eyes admitting defeat, she simply began disrobing.
“Please step outside while I undress”, Elizabeth bitterly requested, “I needn’t your snide comments.”
Priscilla elevated her chin, mumbling something pertaining to her mother’s figure being blubbery, then exited the changing room.
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It was something of a novelty that Priscilla had accompanied her mother to the Central City Mall.
Elizabeth admired her daughter’s flair for fashion and invited her along to help select a dress for a friend’s dinner party. Truth be tone, Priscilla wasn’t crazy about coming along, she was flooded with embarrassed over her mother’s weight and appearance.
Nothing exactly new, Priscilla was often self-conscious about being seen in public with her portly mother. What if Priscilla would run into one of her girlfriends or worse, one of the guys she dated.
Even at Priscilla’s high school graduation she purposely avoided her mom. What would her peers think of such a stylish -beautiful young lady having such a fat mom.
It wasn’t just Elizabeth’s size that bruised Priscilla’s ego but her mother’s wardrobe and career.
Elizabeth felt she looked nice and proper, though the fashion princess considered her mother’s choice in wardrobe utterly shoddy and lackluster. Furthermore, Elizabeth worked as a housekeeper for a second rate motel chain.
Now in her junior year in college things hadn’t improved.
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Priscilla always maintained her appearance and was usually meticulously garbed.
Case in point, for her afternoon excursion to the mall, Priscilla wore her brown hair in an upward style that complimented her exquisite features. Likewise, the sleeveless dress of a cheerful shade of red adequately accommodated her charmingly trim figure.
Elizabeth emerged from the changing room, clothed in a very mature looking auburn colored top and brown slacks that detailed the utter magnitude of her portly figure. Elizabeth’s brown mane, moderately short and windswept, reinforced the swollen aspects of her pretty face.
Priscilla quietly stood as her mother waddled over to her.
“That dress was too showy anyway”, the 270-pound Elizabeth demurely commented, “I’ll look around, see what else they have.”
Priscilla held her hand to her willowy hip, “Dresses here are rather expensive, you’d be doing yourself a favor buying something from that discount clothing store near the food court since you’ll probably outgrow whatever you buy.”
Elizabeth gazed over at Priscilla with an annoyed expression, “I wouldn’t be making fun of you if you were fat.”
“I’m just being honest”, Priscilla said insensitively, “With your disregard for calories, you’re only going to get bigger.”
A bone cold chill zapped through Priscilla’s svelte body as she caught Elizabeth’s sneer, “Ignorance is never attractive, Priscilla_.”
Priscilla felt overwhelmingly uncomfortable, causing her to swiftly turn around and walk out of the boutique.
Elizabeth impulsively added within her thoughts, “_you wouldn’t be so shallow and arrogant if it was you wearing plus size clothes and ate like a hog.”
Elizabeth jerked back her head, shocked at her thoughts, although she couldn’t deny the humorous image of Priscilla in stretch slacks and eagerly consuming fast food.
Priscilla half-smiled as her mother walked out of the boutique, “Are you ready to check out the discount clothing store or do you just want to leave. You could always wear one of your pantsuits for the party.”
Elizabeth was adamant as she addressed her smug daughter, “I’m going to a dinner party not a causal get together. I want to look nice.”
Priscilla looked her mother up and down; Elizabeth noticed the hypercritical look from her daughter’s eyes.
“Not a mention of my weight”, Elizabeth calmly remarked. “I think I will check out the discount shop after all.”
“Fine by me!” Priscilla answered back.
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The females proceeded toward the discount clothing store, Priscilla walking a short length in front of her mother. Sandy’s Old Fashion Ice Cream Shoppe situated in a corner of the food court, the flashing neon lights capturing Priscilla’s eyes.
The appealing young woman paused in her tracks, a kernel of shameless hunger invading her mind.
Priscilla had stopped so fast, Elizabeth almost plowing right into her.
Priscilla momentarily spacing out, Elizabeth calling her name, causing Priscilla to blink before returning to consciousness.
“You know”, Priscilla said with a beautiful smile, “I have a taste for ice cream, want to stop in after you buy a dress?”
Elizabeth replied with a comical smirk, “Ice cream, huh? Aren’t you afraid you might get fat?”
Priscilla held a hand to her waist, emphasizing her trim -shapely figure with her stance, “Oh, I believe a little ice cream won’t hurt my figure. One of the principles of dieting allows a little splurging now and then.”
“Well, since you mentioned it”, Elizabeth agreeably uttered, “I wouldn’t mind some ice cream. Let’s go now, we can shop after.”
Yes”, Priscilla concurred, the ladies then made tracks inside the ice cream shop.
Standing in line, Elizabeth pondered over what to have.
“A banana split would be nice but if I know Prissy, it’ll only incite another lecture about my weight_.”
“_though it would be cute if Priscilla had the banana split, the jumbo one”, the thought zigzagged through Elizabeth’s head, “Watch her make a pig out of herself for a change.”
Priscilla approached the counter and giddily spoke to the thin red haired girl who was taking the orders, “Could I please have the banana split, the jumbo one with extra chocolate syrup!”
Elizabeth gaped in surprise, “this is amazing!” she thought to herself.
Priscilla stepped aside to let her mother order, but in a weird paradox, she didn’t require something loaded with calories and simply ordered one scoop of vanilla ice cream in a plain cone.
“Wow, glad to see that my critique about your appetite and weight has some influence over you”, Priscilla chirped in a confident tone as they walked to a table.
Elizabeth shrugged her shoulders, “Maybe, Prissy. And maybe if I lose enough weight I could wear your clothes.”
“Get real, mom!” Priscilla giggled.
A few minutes later Elizabeth was nibbling on her ice cream cone while Priscilla was enjoying her jumbo size banana split with extra chocolate syrup.
Elizabeth eased back in her chair, discussing their plans for the evening, attentively observing the method in which Priscilla lapped up the banana split.
Priscilla didn’t eat as she usually did, instead of modest bits, she shoveled spoonful after spoonful, occasionally slowing down but was back at greedily scooping up the spoonfuls.
“This is so good”, Priscilla uttered with a silly grin, her lips drenched in syrup.
“You’re going out with your friends tonight or do you have a date?” Elizabeth asked.
Priscilla didn’t respond right away, much to engrossed with the feeding.
“Oh”, Priscilla finally replied, “Going out with Pam and Cheri, nothing special, just a club where we’re meeting some guys.”
Priscilla gobbled up another bite, posing the same question to her mother.
Elizabeth casually explained that she wanted to join in on a card game held by one of her friends but had absentmindedly forgot about an obligation concerning babysitting for their neighbors.
“It’s just nickel-dime antes but I really wanted to hang out with the girls”, Elizabeth sighed.
Priscilla nonchalantly grinned, “I’d like to help you out and look after the Baxter’s baby for you but I already made plans.”
Elizabeth didn’t seem that concerned, her error being her own fault; she’ll play cards with the ladies some other time. Anyway, Elizabeth had chocolate syrup on her nose which caused her to chuckle.
“What’s the joke, mom?” Priscilla inquired as she finished the banana split.
Elizabeth boldly smiled as she gazed over her arrogant brat daughter, her lips, chin and nose smeared in chocolate syrup.
“Go wash your face, Prissy. I’ll pay the check.”
Priscilla shrugged her shoulders, advancing upward she then left the table.
It was obvious that Priscilla’s figure was in excellent shape, garbed in an expensive dress that beautifully broadcast her figure. Elizabeth felt uncomfortable in comparison to Priscilla’s gorgeous appearance and another thought skipped through her mind.
“I’d feel much better if Priscilla didn’t dress so fancy just to go shopping_
_and didn’t look so trim.”
Elizabeth left the table and once paying the check, walked outside the ice cream shop and waited for Priscilla.
Elizabeth scrunched her nose in bewilderment as Priscilla approached her.
Priscilla was now sporting a much more causal hairdo, basically combed back and curling over her shoulders. Not a trace of makeup upon her face which hardly cancelled her beauty yet still her features did appear a little fuller.
Elizabeth keenly observed the changes to Priscilla’s attire and figure without questioning the cause of the transformation.
The fashionable gown that Priscilla had originally worn was swapped for something more practical for a jaunt to the mall. A short sleeved - rather plain looking dress of a lackluster red hue.
Priscilla appeared to be wider in the hips, her hindquarters looked somewhat bigger and the material exposed her not so flat tummy. Not exactly a bulging potbelly by any length but it was a small swollen patch of fat that suggested she wasn’t all that familiar with working out or mindful to what she ate.
Priscilla’s voice no longer sounded so high-tone when she addressed her mother, “I think I’m going to have to start a diet, mom. My bell’s starting to get squishy.”
Priscilla clutched her tummy for effect and squeezed the flabby tissue.
Elizabeth held back her grin, although she was extremely giddy that Priscilla’s figure wasn’t in such marvelous physical condition, and nodded, “If you think so, but you’re not exactly a fatty.”
“Yeah but if I don’t watch it I could get as heavy as you!” Priscilla screeched.
Priscilla’s statement didn’t sit well with Elizabeth.
“Maybe I’m heavy, yes but I’m not a cow”, Elizabeth huffily replied in her thoughts.
Elizabeth swayed her full figure toward the direction of the discount clothing store, her voice barely audible, “You never know, Prissy, someday you might outweigh me.”
Priscilla wasn’t quite sure what her mother said, as they pair traveled side by side, she asked Elizabeth to repeat herself.
Elizabeth laughed it off, “Where’s your sense of humor, Prissy! Who knows, maybe I’ll lose weight and you’ll be bigger than me!”
Priscilla didn’t appreciate her mother’s humor and snidely uttered, “Oh that’s improbable, women like you don’t have the discipline to lose weight!”
Elizabeth chuckled, “Is that right? Please explain.”
Priscilla rattled off her opinion, “You’re domestic stock, gaining weight is natural but with your irresponsible appetite and fondness for fattening food, you’ll never drop any weight.”
“And I’ll probably get even fatter!” Elizabeth comically buzzed upon reaching the discount clothing store.
“If you don’t restrain your appetite, you sure will!” Priscilla audaciously replied.
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