It happened while they were on the bus. The four had grabbed seats in the back when their changes occurred.
April was reading the latest issue of Teen Beat magazine. She suddenly felt like her clothes were getting tight.
Bets was watching the view out the window when she noticed that her arm seemed a bit flabbier than earlier.
Chastity was listening to her Spotify playlist when she absentmindedly noticed that she felt a little confined, having to move her legs further apart and arms up higher to be comfortable.
Diane was taking a nap and snoring a bit loudly when a sudden shrill shriek bolted her awake. “What?!” she blurted in surprise. She looked over at her friends and noticed that three really fat girls had taken their places. Her eyes suddenly went wide when she recognized who they were.
The four friends had been transformed into hyper obese parodies of themselves with huge bellies, wide asses, and extra chins. Alice was about the smallest, at a mere 350 pounds or so, most of the weight in her belly than anything. Chastity was next in line at a generous estimate of 365 pounds, her body sporting the most even weight distribution. Diane had ballooned out into a heaving 420 pounds, with a prodigiously ponderous pear shaped body. Bets was the biggest of them all at an absolutely enormous 500 pounds with gigantic sagging breasts. All of the girls' bodies jiggled whenever they moved, and the blubber was pushing them apart from one another.
Besides the weight, their hairstyles were gone, replaced with long frizzy manes, April brunette, Bets ginger, Chastity blond, and Diane black. Their previous outfits were stuffed into their shopping bags as they were suddenly wearing ridiculous tacky clothes that made them look even more obese. April was stuffed into a lime green polyester skirt and suspenders with a lemon yellow Sailor Moon t-shirt. Bets was clad in a bright pink muumuu dress dotted with yellow daisies. Chastity was squeezed into a bright purple latex mini dress with pink fishnet stockings and pink denim jacket with her name embroidered on the back. Diane was encased in a bright red jogging suit with orange trim.
The four girls looked at each other with flabbergasted faces. They looked down at themselves and suddenly shrieked in terror.
“HEY! Would you lard-balls shut up!” a scrawny young boy called from the middle row. The girls stopped screaming, but April broke down into tears.
“Oh my god! Oh my god!” April panicked in between sobs.
“We’re like TOTALLY huge!” Bets squealed.
“Yeah no shit, Tubby!” the scrawny jerk chided, “Next time skip the fries and eat a salad!”
“Hey! You stay out of this, dickweed!” Chastity snapped at the bully, “We were as skinny as you not even five minutes ago!”
“You were what?!” The boy snorted, “God, are you delusional too?” He started laughing hard. Chastity’s face went beet red and she backed off.
“Jesus, man!” Diane groaned, “I turned into my mom! Look at this! I can’t be seen like this!”
“I can’t either!” April cried, “I spent years trying to get rid of all my baby fat so that I could make cheer squad! I stopped watching Sailor Moon when I was eight!”
“Girls! I think I have an idea of what’s going on!” Bets announced.
"Yeah we've turned into the dancing hippos from Fantasia!" Chastity said.
“Yeah, but think about it!” Bets explained, “Is there any way that something like this could happen just out of the blue?”
“Wait! The fat guy!” Chastity replied. "I know this sounds strange, but hear me out! What if he's some kind of... I don't know, wizard or something... and we offended him?"
“Oh please,” Diane scoffed, “You expect us to believe that?”
“No, no,” Bets stroked her primary chin, “She has a point. How else would you explain four skinny teenagers turning into Goodyear blimps?”
"I... I... can't," Diane confessed.
“Precisely!” Chastity nodded, "Whether or not he's a wizard or something, I think that man is the one behind this. And I think we need to find him and convince him to undo whatever he's done to us."
"Chastity is right." Bets looked at all of her now blimpy friends. "I don't want to spend the rest of my life like this!"
“Let’s go kick his ass!” April cried.
They got off the bus at the next stop, so that they could catch a bus back to the mall. They noticed people all around giving them looks. The guys didn't look at them with welcoming grins the way they used to, now it seems they had become objects of others' amusement. Now they knew what it felt like to be snickered at behind their backs.
But would they be able to find the mysterious fat man? Or would they be stuck in these new obese bodies forever?