Content notice:
The following story contains depictions of negative body image, weight stigma, and diet talk.
I've done my best to portray these issues with empathy and sensitivity. Beauty comes in every size, and a joyous, fulfilling sex life is the privilege of anyone who wants one.
That said, if you're someone who prefers to avoid such content altogether, you might try one of my other stories instead.
The characters depicted in the following story are all 18 or above. One of the themes involves sexual liaisons between young adult women and much older adults in a position of relative power over them.
The inclusion of this theme is for storytelling purposes only. It is not a comment on the advisability of such relationships in real life.
The Author
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M.U.F.F., Part I
Alex. Aged 18 years and two weeks to the day. The kind of girl who doesn't walk into a room, so much as float into it.
She wears shirts, skirts, and dresses that hug her slim body, that make it look like she isn't wearing any underthings. Which, typically, she isn't.
Today, she's wearing an olive slip dress, belted at the waist. Nothing underneath. She's at the lingerie store, a shopping trip in celebration of her birthday.
Alex considers her birthday to take place during the two weeks both preceding following the actual date. Birthdays are important to Alex. At least, hers is.
In the dressing room, she lingers in the mirror with the dress pulled down to her waist longer than necessary. She admires her tiny breasts, little dewdrop nipples, her belly made taut by field hockey.
Her fingertips touch the faintest hint of fat that protrudes over the belt, just below her navel. A storm cloud flashes over her face, vanishing as soon as it comes.
Alex is tiny, athletic, and beautiful.
I'm standing behind Alex.
I see myself, visible in the mirror to her and to myself. While she checks herself out, she sees me seeing her.
The girl in the mirror behind Alex is not tiny, athletic, or beautiful. She's Beth: short, fat, plain, chubby-cheeked, her many round parts curtained off by dark, loose clothes.
Beth was the first girl at school to sprout tits and big hips, which made her a lightning rod for the most horrible kind of attention. Otherwise, an invisible person.
Alex pulls her dress back into place by the shoulder straps, teases her fringey short hair, and turns.
"Let's go, babe," she says. I nod.
I help round up her various selections. She carries the keepers. I carry the rejects.
Yesterday was my 18th birthday. Today was pitched as a shopping trip in my honor, but nothing we've picked out is for me.
Halfway to the checkout line, she stops, as if finally remembering.
"We're going to find you something cute," she says.
Alex and I met last year. We've gone to the same schools since we were small children, but our circles never overlapped, until the day that they did.
Alex declared that she was making me her special project. We've been inseparable ever since.
We're not the most obvious pairing.
Alex, who lost her virginity on New Years Eve in the eighth grade and bragged about it to anyone who would listen.
Beth, who's never had sex, who's never been kissed, who includes group events in her definition of dating to avoid feeling left behind.
Alex's never said what she meant by "special project," but it's clear enough. She's going to get me laid, and, in order to do that, she's going to sculpt me into the kind of person who gets laid.
Alex leads me, without asking, to the plus size section: a small, dim corner at the rear of the store. I follow.
She sifts through bras with large cups and thick straps. She knows my size offhand. I sift through the bras to her right, as if imitating her.
She likes to tell me, "As soon as you get a boy in the shower, you're going to have the shiniest boobs of all time."
Alex likes to shower with boys, and she thinks my big tits are my best asset. You see the logic.
Alex, who, by her own account, has had dozens of casual encounters, some with boys at our school, some with older men.
I'm examining a beautiful, frilly, lacy thing, which piques Alex's interest.
"Ooh," she says, "That'll look great on you once you've lost weight."
I put it back.
We head back to the checkout line, pay for our stuff, and head for the door.
Alex has her purchases in hand, all sheer, all black. I have a full coverage lounge bra with blue polka dots. It's nothing I don't have plenty of already, but I didn't want to leave empty-handed.
Out in the mall, we cross paths with my history teacher, Mr. Robinson. He's a handsome, well-dressed middle-aged man, like an old movie star. We exchange brief pleasantries.
Once he's gone, Alex speaks in a conspiratorial stage whisper.
"Bet he's got a big dick."
Alex, who speaks with respect to male teachers and her friends' fathers, then, the moment they leave earshot, speculates about their penises and what it would be like to have them in bed.
Beth, who, having never even seen an adult penis in person, can only agree.
In the parking lot, on our way to my car, Alex makes crude jokes about Mrs. Robinson. I think there's a reference I'm not getting, but I laugh anyway.
I've never seen Mrs. Robinson before. By Alex's description, she's a bombshell. Alex has said many times that each of them is the lucky one for being able to fuck the other.
As we get into the car, she's outlining a hypothetical scenario involving herself and the two of them, which doesn't quite feel like a joke.
Alex, whose ultimate fantasy is to have sex with a boy and a girl at the same time.
Beth, for whom any sexual partner is a fantasy.
Reading between the lines of Alex's description, the girl she usually imagines in her fantasy looks like a thin, pretty version of me, a detail that I find odd. She's less descriptive about the boy.
I drive Alex home. She kisses me on the cheek before going inside.
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When I get home, it's late. I shower and towel off.
I don't look at mirrors. Mirrors are fraught for me. But, as I pass by it, I catch myself in the corner of my eye. A big white shape, blurred by condensation.
For some reason, I stop and look. Maybe it's because the fogged glass makes the girl in the mirror look like a stranger. I watch, as if hypnotized, as the watery haze clears and the girl comes into focus.
I try to see myself as strangers do. I try to get into character as someone who isn't Beth, as someone who looks at Beth and evaluates her as a stranger would. I try to think that person's thoughts.
I find myself imagining what it would be like to be someone having sex with the girl in the mirror. I move my body and let my hands play over my soft flesh as the scenario unfolds.
I imagine coming up behind her, my reflection taking its position behind hers. I feel the steam coming off of her skin, smell her thick brunette hair, the lingering scent of shampoo.
I thread my arms underneath hers, grip her heavy breasts, so big that they overfill my hands, touch her nipples--so sensitive!--and give her neck little suckling kisses. She tilts her head to give me room.
One of my hand slides down the expanse of her belly. I glide over the faint lacing of stretch marks, the deep navel, the roll at the bottom.
I keep going.
My fingertips brush the border of Beth's dense outgrowth of bushy pubic hair. She plants her feet apart. My fingers find their wet, soft home.
As I hold this poor, lonely girl, so lucky to have me, as I pepper her neck and shoulders with horny, sucking kisses, as I thumb her nipple, as I strum her puffy, hairy labia, I try to imagine who I am.
Images of people in my life float through my head, all the people I might become in this fantasy. It's as if I'm auditioning them. First, I try Rob out.
Rob is a mutual friend of Alex and me, who graduated two years ago. For a time, Alex had tried to finagle us into being a couple. "He can be your sexy older boyfriend," she would say.
I guess it made sense. Rob is a big, burly bear of a boy, and, like me, he's shy. It just never worked out for us, partly because I'm such a chronically guarded person.
But that doesn't mean I didn't want to be fucked by him.
I try to imagine being Rob. Tall, fat, disrobed, hairier and more muscular in my mind's eye than he probably is in real life. Holding Beth from behind, my erect penis a hot lump against her back.
I have plenty of practice imagining Rob's naked body. I've forensically constructed it from years of knowing him, filling out the missing details with piecemeal elements of men I've seen in porn.
I've never imagined being him before, never imagined lusting after someone through his eyes. Never imagined that Beth would be the one to turn him on.
It isn't quite working.
It's not that Beth isn't enjoying this. It's just that Rob isn't right for the job for some reason.
I drift through a few other candidates. Boys at school, movie stars, musicians. All of them varying degrees of desirable,
For some reason, I land on a memory of Alex.
She is as she appeared in the dressing room--slim, taut, sure of herself. This time, in my memory's construction of her, she's naked, her muscular legs and bald pubis on casual display.
I don't need to make up what Alex looks like naked. I've seen her enough times to know. She thinks nothing of changing in front of me, or welcoming me into her room, still nude from her morning shower.
I don't know if she's that way with anyone else. I have a strong feeling that she is.
Her image lingers longer than the others.
Then she, too, is gone.