Chapter 1: The Great Escape

CJ walked with his friends down the city streets. They heard of a new restaurant Buffet that opened and they wanted to check it out. "I hear you can order like a mountain of food on your plate" said Debbie, a brown skinned, short, a mole on her left face cheek, with short black neck length wavy style, wearing a white T-shirt with red-pink sleeves with a yellow cent symbol on her shirt. Smiling wide showing the gap in her middle of her teeth as a tall boy with light brown skin, brown bushy like hair, a unibrow, a big round nose, skinny legs and arms and a skinny body, named George wearing a white tank top and tan cargo shorts with blue sandals and a band-Aid on his left shin who spoke up with a shrug from his lightly scarred shoulders. "I doubt it, buffets are big but not enough to offer that much food dude." He said as they turned a corner to the restaurant, upon entered they witnessed tons of people lining up and piling on food of every kind on their plates in a quick procession.

After the shock wore off the kids got their plates and start lining up and getting their food. "Man, I can't wait to chow down on this food! Man, they got everything here!" A boy wearing yellow shirt with a small black star on the front, blue shorts, red tennis shoes, yellow baseball cap with a tiger symbol on it, with Brown short boyish hair and light white skin tone, named Donnie said as he moved evenly down the line as he picked up a bunch of food before looking over at CJ with a playful smirk. "Say… CJ, how much you wanna bet you could eat a ton of food here?" He asked as CJ and his other friend looked at Donnie like he was crazy, as a challenging grin and across George's face as he piled on some more food on his plate. "Please I can eat more the CJ dude, I can eat more then all of ya!" He bragged as CJ frowned at him. "Hey! I can eat just as much as you George and you too Donnie!" He said as his friends slightly chuckled as they moved down the line, piling on more food absentmindedly. "No offense CJ, buddy but we're kinda the big eaters here while you… kinda not. Agony offense." Debbie admitted as they moved outta the line, collecting their plates full of fast food and sat down at a table near the window. CF huffed a bit "I can do, and I can prove it!" He gestured to his plate full of food, like a ton of food full of Greasy chili fries, double bean burritos, Triple decker hamburgers. About proximately 10 for the fries, 11 for the burritos and 8 for the hamburgers on his flimsy plate of CJs as his friends stare at his smirking face. "I bet I can eat all of this food then you guys can." He boasted as his friends glanced at each other before grinning excitedly at each other nodding at CJ, Donnie said to him "Okay then, it's a bet. Each one to finish his plate is the winner. Ready, go!" He quickly signals to everyone to begin eating which everyone did, everyone especially CJ eat quickly and sloppily as they mowed down the food on their plates.

After a few minutes of eating and eat as food scraps flied around the sloppy eaters each of CJ's friends fall from the battle, starting with Donnie stopping halfway in his meal, then Debbie stopping and nearly throwing up after eating through her meal and George was the closest in finishes his plate before slamming his sicken face on the table. CJ was the only one winning the bet, whooping it up and waving his hands with a broad grin with messy grease on his lips showing his proud winnings which he licked off later. After his friends cheered his victory admitting he's got an iron gut, but soon after when he got home his parents pointed out his unhealthy-looking big bulge in his belly making him look like he's wearing an extra sweatshirt under his hoodie making him bulky looking a bit.

"But mom, I'm fine! I don't need to go to the doctors!" CJ said desperately to his mother Frida and his aunt Maria who look at him worriedly as they talk in the dining room, after such a great afternoon yesterday winning at eating so much at a buffa but now the next day his mother and aunt are throwing a fit over his apparent bigger gut despite the thinking it's nothing. Ronnie Ann meanwhile behind the couch was listening to the Conversation unfolding in the dining room. "Really it's nothing, it's just some weight I got." CJ again desperately trying to reason with his family he's fine as Frida tears up a bit with a quivering lip. "Waaaah! My baby! My poor baby you're not fine! You've …You're a butter beach ball! Waaahh! I fail you as a mother if I raised you like a fatten pig! I'm so sorry my little baby! Waaah!" Frida cries waterfall like tears from her eyes and wails in distress for CJ as Maria pulls her into a hug to comforting pat on her back to calm her a bit as she looks at CJ with a serious expression. "Frida it's not your fault or CJ's, it's normal to gain some weight but I admit this weight is alarming a bit. So a doctor looking at might help determine if it's really serious." Frida looked at Maria sniffling a bit nodding in understanding while CJ paled shaking his head and mouth open to protest as Maria shut him down.

"Like it or not it's happening CJ. It's for your good so no lip about okay, I'll go call to make your appointment." Maria stated sternly as she walks outta the room with Frida leaving a a shaking fearful CJ stand there. Ronnie Ann peeks out from the couch after ease dropping on the talk her aunt and mom had with her cousin shooting CJ a concerned frown. She goes over to him with the same expression "CJ, um you doing, okay?" She asks him carefully as CJ looks at her with wide eyes. "Well, I'm… I'm… I'm.. I'm kinda FREAKING OUT!" He shouts in a panicky shaking a bit as Ronnie Ann looks at him concerned. "Hey, hey… It's okay, breath into this." She said as she hands him a paper bag which CJ takes and breaths into it quickly as Ronnie Ann talked him down a bit more. "Look how's about we talk in my room, okay? That good?" Ronnie Ann suggested as CJ nodded in agreement following her to her room at the end of the hall. Soon CJ sitting on Ronnie Ann's bed as Ronnie Ann looking at the bump in CJ's tummy, carefully poked the wiggly looking flesh mount lump that was her cousins' belly, gently squeezing a bit of the goopy thing as she noted it felt like gelatin in her hand. Humming in thought Ronnie Ann pulls out some measuring tape and starts wrapping it around it making it squish under its pressure a bit.

After checking its number she look at his belly with a magnifying glass a bit before chucking it away as she looked at her cousin with a uneasy expression. "I'm going to be honest with you CJ. In my professional opinion that you weight about the same as a small sea manatee, like a baby one." She said somberly as CJ gasps looking slightly offended before sighing nodding saying "Yeah. I kinda expect that after eating all that grub at that buffa." He admitted looking down shamefully. "Look cuz, I'm really worried about ya. This isn't healthy so maybe try some exercise or something to bring that big gut down, I'd rather not have my fav cuz getting a ballooning gut till he explodes or something like that." She said looking at CJ with a concerned expression before shifting to an questioning expression at him.

"Maybe try going to a doctor, I mean it might help. Why are you so against doctors anyway?" She asked as CJ shifts uncomfortably on her bed. "Well, their are sharp needles they use on me sometimes, I sit mostly alone in a small room waiting for them, the smell of stale wood that the office smells like that stinky and burns my nose, the invasive tests they make me do and the doctor loves to torment me cuz he looks like a Super villain." CJ explains his discomfort of doctors to Ronnie Ann, who looks with shock and sympathy after he adds "I understands if you hate me… For being fat scary cat…" as she shakes her head giving him a sympathetic smile. "No dude, I don't hate ya. Even with how fat you would ever get." Ronnie Ann said as she gently set her hands on his belly and gently massaged it and patted it in a comforting manner. Gently massaging it a bit in a rolling motion with her hands, as CJ smiles at the motions feeling slightly better before pulling Ronnie Ann into a hug softly crying into her shoulder. Ronnie Ann smiles returning the hug and softly pats his back and shushing him gently in a comforting manner. "Ssh, ssh I promise I'll do whatever it takes to help him avoid his visit to the doctor." She said firmly but gently to CJ with a caring smile at her cousin. This touching moment was cut short by a crackle of a walkie-talkie as the familiar voice of Maria was heard, she was in the halls meanwhile looking through rooms for something or more likely someone. "CJ!? CJ?! Where are you? I need you to schedule your doctor's appointment." She said that feed through the walkie talkie Ronnie Ann placed in the living room. Both kids in the room upon hearing that looked at each other with wide eyes and start to panic a bit by pacing around the room. "We're toast Ronnie Ann! We're toast!" CJ shouts a bit in a panic as Ronnie Ann. after they panic, Ronnie Anne stays seated on the bed and suggests that CJ goes out through her bedroom window.

"Clam down CJ, I'll get ya outta this. Here, just go out the window and climb down the fire escape and this will blow over." She assured CJ as she points him towards the window as he quickly goes through it. But unfortunately, as fate would have it, CJ got his big gut stuck through her window frame. Ronnie Ann looks at CJ's lower half struggling in her window from her view from on her bed. That his butt cheeks squeeze in an out as he wiggles, the tight feeling of the window frame pitching his hips motivating him to kick the air. She then spoke as she looks at CJ struggling with a slightly panicked expression as she spoke "Hang on CJ! I'm coming!" She then goes up to his struggling backside and starts to push on him to get him through using her left shoulder at first a bit struggling a bit and grunting a bit while saying "It's okay! I got you CJ! I'll get you outta this soon I promise. But could ya I don't know move a little!" She said switching to her right hand and left forearm to push on his butt a bit.

"I will protect you from going to the doctors I promise ya." She said gritting her teeth as she keeps pushing on his lower half before stopping to take a breath while leaning on his butt. "CJ! Where are ya?!" Maria shouted showing the nearness she is to Ronnie Ann's door freaking the kids out a bit. CJ wiggles his feet and groans as he tries to move it outta the window, his lower half wiggling hard as he could to get outta the window as Ronnie Ann in a panicked manner starts pushing again using her right side of her head with both her hands. CJ's butt felt to her while pushing hard but slightly squishy a bit, leaving her hand imprints on his butt when she stopped looking at it with wide eyes before it shifted back to normal. She takes a breath before smirking taking a few step back before running at CJ's butt at full force with her shoulder making CJ pop outta the window and falling on the graded floor of the fire escape. As if on cue, Maria looking around the room spotting a nervous looking Ronnie Ann smiling at her. "Hey Ronnie Ann has you seen CJ?" She said as Ronnie Ann chuckled awkwardly saying to her mom with a shrug "Um… I don't know but… I'll keep ya posted." Maria nods with a sigh as she opens the door to leave muttering under her breath "Okay guess I'll reschedule his appointment some other time after I find him then."

As she leaves closes the door as Ronnie Ann sighing deeply with a relaxing smile on her face as she bends forward, like she was ready to lay down right there on the floor in relief. She snaps outta of her blissful state to lean and look out her window at CJ, soon she joins him outside of the fire escape. She smiles at him as she speaks up "Well at least she left so we can think up a plan to avoid it right?" Ronnie Ann smiles at him who sighs going down the fires escape as she follows him.

A/N: Hey again it's your author Cartoonman here with another story for my buddy crafordbrian17. Though unlike the one shot this will have a few chapters, it involves another Casagrande family member in a funny situation with Ronnie Ann helping them out pre usual. I hope y'all enjoy this funny little story, leave a review for it if ya want too and above all I hope you all have a good day today. Your author Cartoonman.