"Uuuuuuurp!" Serena belched loudly and grimaced at the taste of her near-endless binging. An aftertaste of chocolate, raspberry, and pastry dough haunted her taste buds and forced her to stuff her cheeks with a handful of chocolate truffles to stifle the flavor. Two straight hours of eating had left her exhausted and, for the first time in a long while, full to the point of nausea. She leaned backwards, her mouth hanging half-open, and let out a low groan. Her overfull belly hung down past the edge of her lap and down to her knees like an apron, catching spare crumbs and drops of various sauces in her deep folds. Thankfully, her burp freed up a tiny amount of room, and she quickly shoved another slice of pie against her lips, willing herself to swallow it. Serena barely registered the flavor of the pastry, simply swallowing it in a few large gulps after minimal chewing. She washed it down with a chug of the tall glass of soda in front of her, then contemplated the remaining food before her.
Serena's space on the table consisted mainly of empty plates, bowls, and platters which bore only crumbs and smears of frosting as proof of the desserts they once carried. A small corner of the dishes, farthest from Serena's reach, contained the last of her feast. A large banana split, surrounded by an assortment of cookies and cream puffs, were the only thing in her way of finishing the course. The desserts had not disappeared into thin air, however; they showed themselves even more obviously in Serena, whose form sagged and bulged with plush skin at every angle and joint.
Her body possessed less of a figure than a general semicircle shape, in which her mammoth thighs and rear dwarfed the chair they sat in. Each side of her ass looked like a beanbag with the tight fabric of her skirt bursting at the seams, and where the tight skirt ended, her thighs merely flared out farther. Her belly and love handles curved down to her hips so widely that, if not for being propped up in a seat, Serena's sides would plunge in a straight slope from her head to the floor, ending in a base nearly two meters across and creating a bottom-heavy pyramid of fat.
Her numerous folds and bunches of loose weight seemed so haphazardly piled on that, exposed by her bra-like shirt, there was not an inch of taught or muscled skin to be seen in the entirety of her midsection. As for her clothes, they had not fared well during the meal; her shirt and skirt may have been strained, but they were still visible. Serena's broken belt, still attached to the loops on her skirt, was almost completely engulfed by two quickly-expanding folds of back fat which oozed over her restricted hips. Meanwhile, towards the beginning of her immobility-obsessed gorging, her stockings had reached their limit and gave in to the pressure of her thick, meaty lower legs. They now lay as scraps of fabric underneath the table.
However, Serena wasn't satisfied by this progress. She grimaced at the sensation of food practically backlogged up to her throat and pulled the cookies closer. She grabbed three off the plate in her shaking, bulging hands, both of which had plumped up along with the rest of her, and crammed the sugary treats into her mouth. She swallowed the lump of greasy dough, then began to repeat the process of mechanically stuffing herself for the rest of the cookies.
"Ok, I was impressed by your appetite at first, but something's wrong here. I'm all for overeating and gaining, but I don't know of anyone that would push themselves to pain just for an extra pound or two," Korrina remarked skeptically with a concerned expression.
"What? I'm fine! I'm just really hungry." Serena tried and failed to speak through a mouthful of melting strawberry sorbet.
"Did I tell you I once tried to see what my eating limit was? When I finally gave up, I didn't look half as uncomfortable as you do now. Come on, now, what's the matter?"
"Well... Can you keep a secret?" Korrina nodded in response. "I overheard Ash talking about how he would like for me to be immobile, and that he thinks I'm taking too long."
Korrina gave the red-cheeked trainer a playful smile. "Someone's got an admirer, huh? I didn't take Ash to be that type of guy, but I get why you want to impress him. But-" She waggled her finger at Serena. "This isn't the way to do it."
"You don't think I should overeat to gain weight?"
"I wouldn't go that far! I just think there's a better way to go about doing it. Trust me, I've seen immobile people and I've experimented with a lot of techniques for gaining. If you're really committed to it, then I'd be glad to help you."
"Thank you! But what would Be more effective than just eating all these desserts?"
Korrina shook her head and poked Serena's deep gut, startling her and eliciting a small squeak. "I've got something in mind. Eating should be fun and something you just do automatically if you want to get really big. You shouldn't have to force yourself to eat, like you're doing now." She signaled a nearby waiter and called him over. "We're going to need some more over here... Just keep it coming. And a refill on our drinks, too?" She held up her and Serena's glasses, now emptied of their fizzy contents.
"Um... I'm appreciative of the help, but I can't imagine eating another bite. Maybe we could do this sometime else?" Serena said timidly.
The waiter came back with both their drinks and handed them back to Korrina while two more employees wheeled out carts of freshly baked treats. Korrina emptied an extra sugar packet into Serena's drink and handed it to her. "First, let's try getting you used to some sweeter things. I promise that if you follow one simple piece of advice, you'll be hungry in no time." She waited until new trays of pastries, cakes, and other sweets had been placed in front of her friend, then snagged a few for herself and put them on her own plate. "Before we start, go ahead and drink that soda so your mouth doesn't dry up."
Serena gazed nervously over the spread before her. She quickly gulped down the glass of soda in a few sips and set it down, turning her attention to the food. She picked up a single cream puff and took a nibble out of it. "So, what's the advice?" She asked Korrina, but her question was met with only an expectant stare. Suddenly, she felt a churning within her belly and barely had time to cover her mouth. "BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!" Serena let out a massive burp that resonated around the room and caused tiny ripples in the dimples around her cheeks. She popped the rest of the cream puff back in her mouth, expecting to find a little space freed by the release of gas, and instead found a gaping hole in her insides. She pressed one hand against the cool blubber of her belly, trying to stop the pains shooting through her body, while she quickly jammed a slice of cake in her mouth with the other.
"You just took the advice, actually." Korrina said with a chuckle. "It's amazing what a little beverage break will do, isn't it?"
Serena muttered out a choked agreement through the mixture of apple pie and cinnamon roll she was busy chewing on. She managed to push that down her gullet, then immediately reached out and grabbed a bowl of melted ice cream and began to pour it directly into her mouth. "Wow! A little *mphh* sugary *mmmm* drink can do all *mftt* this?" Serena asked incredulously. She felt like she was beginning to make a dent in the gnawing emptiness in her stomach, but it was a long way away from being satisfied.
K"Well, the drink does help a little... It's probably more because of the berry mixture I put in it." Korrina held up the sugar packet, which Serena now saw wasn't labelled as sugar at all.
Serena froze at that comment, and at the sight of the packet. She finished off the ice cream to clear her mouth, then licked her lips and spoke. "You mean... That wasn't sugar?"
"No, actually. It's this new berry that's been circulating around some of my friends in the Kalos fashion industry... It's supposed to increase your appetite permanently. I haven't taken it myself, but I figured if you're really dedicated to gaining, you may as well try it!" Korrina waited for Serena to say something or give any reply other than her frozen expression. "...you're welcome?"
Serena's brain processed this information for a few moments, and a seeping sense of cold dread started to spread through her body. She looked down at her belly, at the empty glass, and then back at her friend. Her instinctual rising panic made her breaths shorter and shorter until she was hyperventilating. It's not the end of the world. I can fix this. There's got to be a cure, a reversal. Or maybe I can withstand the hunger. After all, if Shauna said this berry inflated your stomach to five times its size, then I only have to eat one twenty-fifth of what I feel like having. That's not too hard! Maybe eating a second berry wouldn't even have an additional effect?
"Serena? Are you ok there? You're kind of spacing out. Is this a side effect of the berry?" Korrina began to realize that something was wrong.
"Korrina... I've already eaten one of these berries. I was already having increased appetite from it." Korrina's face fell, and she immediately realized her mistake. Serena put on a hopeful expression and pointed to the packet her friend still held. "There wouldn't happen to be a way to reverse that berry, would there?"
Korrina gulped nervously and cautiously shook her head. "It's totally permanent... Look, I'm so sorry, I just wanted to help..."
Serena tried to regain her composure and calmed herself down slightly. "I know, it's not your fault. I should have told you about it." She turned and faced the food laid out in front of her once more, already feeling the hunger returning to her. "And you're right... I wanted to get bigger, and this will make me bigger. I may as well use two berries if I'm going to be immobile anyway. Really, it's ok." She picked up another slice of cake and felt her senses narrowing, tuning out everything else as she became more focused on her hunger and the prospect of delicious cake. Somehow, she knew that one cake wouldn't be enough by the time she was through.