Millie knocked on the bathroom door for the second time, rolling her eyes.
"Shower's been off for a while now, Clara! I've got to get ready too!"
"I - mmmph - sorry!" came the reply from the other side of the door. "I've just got to - you know."
"I do know!" Said Millie, feeling a little bad for her frustration. "But you can do that anywhere. Use the kitchen sink or something!"
Wet footsteps and a brief ruffling of fabric came from just beyond the door, and then it opened with a click. Clara stepped out, her red hair sitting wet on her shoulders, a towel wrapped around her short, curvy body. The dark-haired Millie raised an eye as she looked at Clara's chest.
"Extra long shower today?"
Clara blushed, the towel stretched out around her volleyball-sized chest. "I don't have a morning class today, and sometimes it's just nice to enjoy a regular person shower, you know?"
"I know." Said Millie, sympathetically. Clara's condition meant she usually showered fast, and even though she hadn't been in there 10 minutes, she considered that a luxurious shower.
"Now go take care of yourself, I can see milk patches forming on your towel!" She pushed past Clara, closing the bathroom door behind her.
Clara sighed as she looked down at her towel, two dark patches certainly forming on her chest. Usually at smaller sizes like this, Clara's milk wouldn't come out without intentional pressure, but the towel was wrapped around her so tightly that it was slowly squeezing her milk out. She made her way across the apartment to her room, closing the door behind her. Clara dropped the towel to the floor and looked at herself in the mirror, sighing.
At 5'2, Clara was short and curvaceous. She had thick thighs and ample hips, a soft round ass, and just a little bit of belly. Looking at herself in the mirror though, the part of her body that stood out was her chest. At present, her tits sat on her chest like two heavy volleyballs, light blue veins running across the pale skin. A dusting of freckles lay across her chest and shoulders, courtesy of her redheaded genes.
Sliding open the cupboard, Clara pulled out one of her smaller sets of milk pumps and attached the cups to her gently swollen nipples. Flipping the switch, Clara let out a groan as they began to push and pull, the attached container slowly filling with milk.
"Damn, why does it have to feel so fucking good?" She mumbled to herself, as she sat her curvy form down on the bed, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath.
Lately, Clara had been undergoing some internal turmoil. She was at university, studying finance and trying to forge what seemed like a proper adult career for herself, but her mind was increasingly drifting back to the family business. In Clara's family ran an incredibly rare condition called lactohydrosis, which caused water to be absorbed through the skin and converted into breast milk. Clara's mother ran a sort of wet nurse business. She was capable of producing and expressing several gallons of milk a day, shipping it to hospitals in need all over the country.
Clara's mother had been trying to convince her to join the business for a long time, for one simple reason. Her mother could produce several gallons on a good day, spending most of the day with her feet or hands resting in tubs of water. Clara, on the other hand, was a genetic marvel. Her body was capable of producing several gallons of milk in a warm, 15-minute shower, whilst she was consciously trying to make her body absorb as little water as possible.
Clara's mother was insistent that she would be incredible at the job, and would help thousands of families across the nation, not to mention she'd make a lot of money too.
As much as she hated to admit it, the idea of a career spent getting paid to grow and lactate was very tempting. It was what her body was built for, the reason she put on curves in all the right places so very easily. It was like her body was desperate, crying out to her to touch water, let it do what it was built to do. But what was it really built to do?
Clara wasn't the adventurous type and had never really pushed her body to its limits. The biggest she'd ever grown was not much bigger than she had been after her shower. When her mother reached this size, she groaned about how full she felt, how she knew she couldn't take much more, how she had to release. Clara had never felt that feeling before. In fact, at her mother's biggest size, Clara somehow still felt... empty. She knew her body was capable of so much more. How big would she need to grow to...
The pump began to whirr as it pulled in air instead of milk. Clara was snapped out of her daydreams, unaware that her chest had already shrunk back to her regular apple-sized breasts. She glanced at the time on her phone, and her eyes widened.
"Fuck, I forgot the study group!." she said, not realizing how much time had passed. Pulling on jeans and a baggy orange sweater, she grabbed her laptop bag and hurried for the door.
Clara hurried across campus as fast as her body allowed her to whilst keeping modest, her soft curves not built for sprinting. Eventually, panting, she reached her friend Aubrey's dorm, and let herself inside.
"Jesus, I'm thirsty now." She mumbled to herself, swinging her bag over her shoulder and fumbling inside. She felt her irritation grow as she didn't find her water bottle inside. She usually carried a good quality water bottle with her everywhere, one that had an attached rubber straw that needed to be sucked on for water to come out, to avoid accidental spillages. Her eyes drifted to a water fountain on the wall of the hallway. Hesitantly, she walked towards it. She wouldn't normally, but she was so thirsty, and...
Clara leaned down and pressed the button on the spout, and water sprayed out at completely the wrong angle. She released it quickly, jumping back with a yelp, but the water continued to spray, dousing her at high pressure. As suddenly as it started, the torrent died off, but the damage was done. Clara's jeans and sweater were soaked. She looked around for somewhere to duck into to quickly dry off.
"Clara! Are you okay? I heard a shout." Clara spun around to see Aubrey sticking her head out of her doom room door. Her eyes drifted down to Clara's clothes.
"Ah, you used that fountain, huh? It's been broken for weeks, but they still haven't sent anyone out to fix it. Come in, I'll get you a towel and you can try to dab yourself dry." She leaned in closer to Clara, a cheeky grin on her face. "I've invited someone you might know, and I don't mean to play matchmaker or anything, but she's definitely into you."
Clara blinked. "Wait, who are you..."
Aubrey turned and walked back into her dorm room, leaving Clara standing, flabbergasted.
Clara followed Aubrey into her room and shut the door behind her. Another girl from their economics class, Sarah, waved at her from the table. They'd rarely spoken, but Clara had often caught her staring from across the room in class. Clara had to admit, she was seriously cute, slender, and pale with silky jet-black hair, and Sarah had caught her staring a few times too. But there's no way she'd be into Clara, right? Although Aubrey was a serial matchmaker, and she wasn't usually wrong...