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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