It was the same every time. I'd stumble into her apartment drunk; she'd give me beer I didn't need; feed me; take off my clothes; caress all over my body while I blathered my nonsense, then I'd lose myself in her fat and the moment my eyes opened in the morning I'd escape and hope like hell I didn't run into her again — until the next time I was seriously drunk and needed to get laid.
But I made a mistake about a year ago, after about a year of seeing her every couple of months. Before I bolted I let myself feel sorry for her and said, "Why don't you lose some weight, Angela? You're developing a real problem." I didn't say this to hurt her feelings; I said it as constructive criticism and to encourage her. She was big when I met her, so big it took a lot of booze before I hit on her and she has only packed it on since. Now, she is getting past obese, I mean, the woman is so big she is getting hard to fuck.
Anyway, right after I said it I regretted it. Big time, because she got a look of desperation in her eyes that made me flinch. Then she said, "Will you help me?"
"Help you? How?" I couldn't imagine what I could do for her.
"I don't know, but will you try and help me? I know I need help."
"Do you have anyone else? Your mother, your sister, any friends?"
"I have no one for this."
"Well," I said, hiding my discomfort, "see a nutritionist, somebody like that — they can help. What can I do?"
"I have a pretty good idea of what I need to do, I just don't have the courage, the ambition, the whatever it takes. I never have. I need help."
"But what can I do?" I repeated. "Seriously. If you know what you have to do, do it."
"I need support, someone I can ... you know me, you've seen me, I have nothing to hide from you. You could help; I could really use you."
What do you say? No? That's what I wanted to say but I couldn't, I'd been over to her place a fair amount and she'd always been really kind to me as I fucked and sucked my way all over her flesh. Now it was pay-back and I couldn't see how I could get out of it. But I tried. "Food and exercise. That all there is to losing weight, eating less and exercising more." That used to be the best advice, I'm not sure it is any more.
"But if you would take an interest in it and help me." Maybe she read my face because she quickly added, "not all the time — I'm not saying that, but maybe we could get together every month and ... I don't know ... maybe, I don't know you could help some how, help me with my progress ... encourage me, stuff like that. I know I have to deal with this ... I got myself into it; I've always known I had to deal with it but ..."
Angela is a nice kid, she has a kind, generous heart. "Do you know anything about food?"
She giggled without humour. "I know how to abuse it."
My hang-over wanted this over with. "Do you have an email? I'll help you find out what and how much you should be eating and I'll figure out an exercise regime for you, but I won't help you if you don't help yourself — do you understand? I'm not going to nurse-maid you. You have to figure out how much weight you want to lose and you have to do all the work to lose it. But," and I hated to hear myself say this, "as long as you're working at it, I'll help. OK?"
It got me out of there but I hadn't reached the bus stop when I vowed never to see her again. I've always known there are strings attached to everything; I'd been lured into forgetting that: in the year I've been showing up at her door, drunk, she never once contacted me, never imposed on me in any way; she just fed me, plied me with booze and she's given me her body and she never once asked anything in return so I knew I owed her and, godamn it, by the time I sat down in the bus I knew I had to help ... if I could. But I also thought that fat people statistically had little chance of losing weight. Maybe they had a metabolism problem, maybe a genetic pre-disposition, maybe they couldn't stay focused for very long, maybe this, maybe that, I didn't know anything about it. I'd honour my commitment, I'd help her for as long as she was helping herself but the moment she stopped, so would I and that would be the end of her.
So I took my responsibility seriously. As soon as I got over my hang-over I researched a proper diet and an appropriate exercise program for her and I emailed them to her, all nicely organized so if she carefully followed the instructions she would effectively begin the process of rehabilitation, that's the way I thought of it: she would be rehabing her body, her life. I told her I would see her in a month.
I was drunk when I showed up, not falling down drunk but drunk enough to make the sight of her tolerable. She looked the same but she was a little more excited. She had followed my routine religiously and she thought it was working. She hadn't lost any weight but she said she wasn't as sore after exercise any more (mainly biking at a gym and walking outside) and her food cravings didn't seem as bad: she thought she could see some light at the end of the tunnel. I was thinking probably a pinprick.
She liked to take my clothes off in the living room, I don't know why, but as I drank and blathered she'd just slowly strip me and then she'd gently run her hands all over my body, awkwardly because of her fat — she was always leaning against it, but she seemed to really love to do this and I liked it, too, liked that she was so anxious to feel me. But she was always careful in the living room that I didn't cum. That happened once and the moment I did it was over — I sobered up with the orgasm and bolted. So now she makes sure I'm teetering along an edge until she stands up, goes to the fridge for a couple of beers (both for me) then leads me to her bedroom.
It's funny but when I'm horny and drunk fat kind of turns me on, but when I'm not it turns me off. She senses that, I think, so she kind of knows when I'm ready, knows when I want to see her take off her clothes and she does it the same way every time. When I'm lying on her bed she makes sure I have a hard-on and a bottle of beer in my hand. When she starts to strip she doesn't really dwell on it, or try to make it look sexy or anything, she just stands beside the bed and I slowly stroke as she slowly strips.
Angela is about 5'6", 25 years old and, I've never asked of course, but I'd say she's close to 200 pounds. But even so, she has a pretty face with brown hair, a broad forehead, pretty blue eyes, a nice nose and a very expressive mouth that I actually like to kiss once I get through with her breasts — the girl may be actually pretty if she got rid of the thick layer of fat that envelops her.
As she's standing stripping by the bed I'm always looking at her breasts, they're enormous, the right one much fatter and a little shorter than the left; they have aureolas the size of dessert plates and they hang down to the navel dug deep into her rounded belly which itself drops down so far I can't see the rich brown bush I know is there.