Bets was unaware of what was going on behind her, as Jenny, Christen and the rest of the Cheerleading squad slowly swelled-up, became fat...then finally obese. When the came to a stop in front of the school, she got off first and ran to find her friends...wanting to tell them about what had happened to her mother AND what the cheerleaders had called her.
"A quarter of the fat brigade," they had said. The four of them weren't fat! Were they?
She didn't wait to see the rest of the bus depart. She didn't see the former cheerleaders slowly squeezing their gargantuan frames through the doors of the bus. The smallest of them were at least 350+...the biggest of them (Jenny and Christen themselves) were struggling along with the help of the other passengers...both of them swelled to nearly 500 lb.
Once off the bus, the former cheerleaders slowly waddled to the convince store next to the school. Once there, they (as they always did) stocked-up on bargain candies and on sale items. Growing girls like them needed lots of salted and sugary snacks.
Bets hurried through the crowd of other students, trying to get to the hedges at the side of the school. Bets, April, Chastity and Diane had been meeting behind those hedges for years. She knew that the other three (who took different busses), would be waiting there.
She wondered if they would have similar stories...or worse.