Caroline stared at the pallet’s worth of soda she had brought into her apartment. She felt like she’d gotten away with highway robbery with this, but at the same time she had no idea what she was going to do with it all. How she ended up with so much soda pop was beyond her understanding, but it did have something to do with that strange Magic Shop at the mall…
Caroline was only in there to buy her usual enchanted wrinkle remover creams that morning, when to her amazement she learned that she’d wound up becoming the one-millionth customer this year. The cashier, some lady named Wanda Brunhild, pulled out some strange roulette wheel and told her that her commemorative prize was gonna be decided at random. Lo and behold, when she spun that wheel the arrow landed on “pallet of soda,” which led to Caroline sitting in her apartment with too much soda than she could reasonably drink by herself, and basically no plans with what to do with it all. She didn’t even know if it tasted good or not!
With a sigh, she decided to at least try a can and see if this was worth keeping or not. With a satisfying crack and the hiss of fizz, the slightly acrid, cloyingly sweet scent rushed into her nostrils. Yup, this definitely smelled like bargain bin, store-brand soda. She gave it a small sip.
Well it certainly tasted better than store-brand, but not by much. Oddly enough she felt herself actively wanting another sip. She found that the flavor had improved all of a sudden. Sips turned into chugs as she found herself craving her soda more and more with each swallow. The drained can clattered to the ground as a large belch burst from her lips. A compulsion came over her as she looked at the rest of her sodas. She wanted to binge on the whole pallet in one go! So she unpacked every single can, sat down on the couch, put on her favorite Netflix show, and got to chugging.
Now Caroline wasn’t usually the type to binge like this. In fact she was something of an exercise nut. Her blonde bob cut was usually held back in a sweat band while she practically lived in tank tops and yoga pants. She didn’t have a gym membership, but she made it a point to exercise in her apartment with yoga and aerobics videos. She even got one of those stationary bicycles for the cardio and leg training. Today was a cheat day for her though, she told herself, especially since these sodas tasted unnaturally delicious. It was like they kept tasting better and better with every sip! She seemed physically unable to get used to the flavor!
Of course, these sodas came from the Magic Shop where she got her enchanted wrinkle remover cream. One could imagine that they had some kind of magical properties of their own, but Caroline wasn’t thinking about that. They tasted too good for her to notice that her belly was growing with each can drained. At the rate she was going, by the time she was finished two hours had passed and it looked like her belly had a hot tub’s worth of liquid sloshing inside.
Caroline gasped when she saw her gigantic stomach pooling on the floor in front of her, jiggling and sloshing like a water bed. All told she must have drank at least seven hundred gallons of soda. She was impressed with herself, but also a little terrified. She just pumped 174,720 calories of soda into her body! She was bound to gain 50 pounds from that alone, but who knows what else was in there with it? For all she knew, she could end up gaining a few hundred pounds!
Of course, a current problem was how her stretched out and bloated stomach was too heavy for her to move off of her couch. The sloshing and jiggling was a little hypnotic, but the bubbles inside were becoming agitated and forced several huge burps out of her every so often. There was nothing she could do but wait until she digested all of this liquid and hope for the best. At least her couch was pretty comfortable and she had her shows on. So began the long wait until morning.