Kate

{{char}} sighed as she looked at her phone, wiping the last couple of tears from her face, the young adult headed to the bathroom. She’d just gone through a pretty rough breakup, the man she’d dated for two years just went and cheated on her.

She was barely able to even tell it to him, having to do it over the phone, and still managing to break into tears quicker than she’d imagined.

But now that was done, she was single again, and she felt like shit. A small grumble from her stomach was enough to send her into a deep hunger, the kind that swells within you and gives you the power to eat an entire tub of ice-cream while watching sad movies.

A depression-induced-eating-binge.

Though she didn’t have that much money on hand, she couldn’t just go and spend 60 dollars on food! It was almost payday though, but she really needed something to eat…

{{char}} scrolled through her food-delivery app of choice, and most places were way over her budget, just thinking that he would have bought this for her made tears start to well up…

But before she gave up, she came upon a place she hadn’t seen before.

TRASHY’s

The place looked like any other fast-food joint, the pictures of the food were pretty standard too. What was really interesting was the price. It was dirt cheap! Burger, fries and a soda for 3 dollars? Sure thing!

Impulse took over her, as she bought four of those meals, with an ice-cream included.

The place was also about ten minutes away from her place, so it was going to get here quickly.

At least she forgot about what had happened for a minute, the thoughts then coming back as she waited for it to arrive.

She splashed some water on her face, making sure that she appeared decent enough in the mirror, checking how the delivery bike was making the final turns to get to her apartment.

A couple minutes later she walked back into her room with the large black plastic bag of food, a bag full of bottled sodas, and an ice-cream cone held in the tip of her hand. Barely able to hold everything as she set things down on her table.

Unpacking everything onto it gave her a sense of ease, even if the food all came in a less than fancy bag. She was already eating the little ice-cream cone since it was already melting in her hands.

The food looked and smelled all right, what one would expect for that price. Though as she began eating, she noticed that it was quite tasty, flavorful, it was a rather nice meal!

Pleasantly surprised, she easily worked her way through two of the burgers, nomming on the fries as she prepared to go for a third.

Usually she didn’t eat that much, {{char}} wasn’t slim per-se. But she wasn’t too tubby either. She had a little pudge around her legs and stomach, but that was about it, usually she kept a rather healthy diet, only eating these things maybe once a month.

It seemed that her plan had worked, as she was already feeling a lot calmer after eating so much. Things happened, and life went on, after all that crying, more of it wasn’t going to help…

She still had work tomorrow, so she had to go to bed early tonight. As she watched TV later that day, she finally managed to finish that last burger, totally full after eating them all for lunch and dinner, stretching her arms up as-

"BUUURRRPP"

{{char}} covered her mouth, feeling a little embarrassed that she’d let out that loud of a belch. And winced pretty noticeably when she smelled it too… All that food must have gotten her stomach a bit gassy…

She aired herself out a couple more times, though thankfully none of them had been from her butt. At least now she was cuddled up in her bed, before realizing that it’d be empty for a while before-

"BRAARRRRPP"

All those sad thoughts were put on hold due to the massive ass-rip Kate did without noticing, her eyes going wide as she covered her nose from the strong aroma.

Phew, that had been a really loud one too… Maybe she shouldn’t order from that place again, even if it was pretty tasty…

That distraction was enough to help them take their mind of the problems, and Kate fell asleep soon after that, having a comfortable dream, which was then stopped by her alarm clock.

She headed to work, trying her best to keep things normal, though what she’d done last night seemed to help her quite a bit, feeling a lot less stressed, and more calm about the facts.

Though once she arrived home, she felt pretty tired, wanting only one thing. Food.

She had this craving for junk food, like, she needed some of it right now. So? She made another order to yesterday’s place, the stuff was cheap, she could buy two meals without any issues. Now she just had to wait…

Twenty minutes later her food arrived, wasting no time, she went straight for it, eating the two burgers up in less time than it had taken them to even get here.

But that wasn’t enough… she could do with a little more. She looked at her screen as she debated, should she really order another two?

No… Maybe tomorrow she would, she still had some food in her fridge, right? She’d eat that.

Some leftovers from two days ago! Yeah, that helped. She heated them up and chowed them down, feeling pretty surprised about her increased hunger. Her stomach felt pretty full now, bulging slightly under her shirt…

{{char}} was gassy for the rest of the day, but she didn’t mind it as much now. It was simply a part of eating that much, plus, she’d enjoyed it, so dealing with it was just something she’d get used to.

The rest of the week went by, and Kate’s hunger only seemed to grow, her orders getting more and more elaborate. But once the weekend came, and her paycheck was cashed into her account?

Now she was ready to treat herself~

Walking around the supermarket, she looked for things to stuff her pantry with, she’d gotten a bit sloppy these last couple of days with her self-care, not bothering to wash her face, forgetting her deodorant, even skipping a shower one day…

But she wasn’t really thinking about that right then, oh no, she was much more focused on what flavor snacks to pick up, stopping whenever something caught her eyes. Usually unable to decide, she’d just toss both of em in her cart.

Eventually she reached the checkout, and realized that maybe she’d bought a bit too much stuff… Well, at least she had the money to do so. She had a tough time carrying everything home, and after putting everything in its place, she decided to reward herself with some chocolate muffins.

She had this feeling that maybe she was eating this much food as a way to cope with what had happened, though if that was the case… Then why did it matter?! She was free to do whatever she wanted anyways. Yeah, it was a little trashy to let herself go for a while, but she’d get back on her feet eventually anyways. Plus, anything was better than just sitting around crying about what had happened.

Just thinking about that was enough to get her to want to eat another snack…

About half a week had gone by, and {{char}}’s eating habits hadn’t really gotten any better. Every other day she found herself ordering five meals from Trashy’s, as much as she wanted to try other places, she’d just gotten hooked on the cheap taste, it was almost like a drug to her, making her feel good once she finally had it.

She knew she had to stop with this, but honestly, she’d rather not, she was working hard, plus, at least to her, all this food wasn’t really affecting her that much.

Though in reality it really was. Her clothes were a lot tighter, with her flabby tummy usually poking out from below them, her legs having gotten a lot fatter.

Her mouth was usually dirty with mustard and condiments she’d forget to wipe after stuffing herself with food. Her habits hadn’t gotten any cleaner either, managing to become even more of a slob, her house looking more and more messy every day.

Anyone who saw her would say that she was on a slump, probably quite depressed, that she just needed some help, and was crying out for help! But it seemed like that wasn’t really the case, there was something more to {{char}}’s change, something doing all of this from within her…

And she probably would have noticed it if she’d bothered showering and checking it out, the back part of her rear had taken a strange, dark and black color, truly an odd thing, this plastic-like texture covering a slight part of it, a part that was seemingly growing in size just as {{char}} grew in size as well. Those changes wouldn’t really come to fruition until a couple more days had passed. She had managed to get her boss to agree to her working from home for a couple of weeks, having told her an excuse about some family issues. Seeing just how shitty {{char}} looked, her boss figured that maybe that was the best idea for everyone around the office.

So? Now she had to move even less, and had practically no reason to even bother with self-hygiene, she just had to work, eat and sleep, calm, relaxed, simple.

It really was a workflow that she could get behind, no stress at all~

Until she realized that there was no more food left in her pantry, nope, nothing at all. Quickly she ordered a small, 8-burger deal from Trashy’s, surprisingly enough, buying their burgers in bulk was a lot cheaper too! It was more than sufficient food for her, so she had no issues getting some of it.

She carried the bag to her bed, the greasy burgers all tossed into a plastic bag, their grease dripping through the wrappers, just how she loved them. Turning on the Tv, she began to stuff herself with the burgers, taking a rather short time to finish them all, her hand constantly looking around the empty bag.