"Boring!" Candy announced, lying on the couch upside down, her legs sticking up over the back of the couch.
"You said it!" said Cindy, strolling into the room from the kitchen, a big bowl of popcorn in one hand. As she passed Candy's feet, she reached out to tickle them. Candy kicked back and rolled onto the floor, giggling.
"Where are all the parties tonight?" Heather asked from where she sat facing the TV.
"Midterms!" yelled Ellie from the bedroom. "Too many damn midterms! Everybody's studying!"
"Midterms!" Heather grumped.
"Oh, don't whine!" Cindy said, looking at Heather. "You just want to torture boys by waving your boobs at them!"
Heather giggled, and wiggled her large chest suggestively. Ellie walked into the room and said, "Is Heather doing her boobs again! Give me a break!"
Candy giggled. "If you had 'em, you'd be wiggling 'em, too!"
Ellie sighed and peeked down her t-shirt at her flat chest and thin, almost gawky body. "Too true," she sighed. "All too true."
"So what are we gonna do?" asked Cindy.
The women all fell quiet, each drawing a blank.
"Boring," Cindy said.
Suddenly, Candy sat up. "I know! Let's go to Balloon Land!"
The three girls looked at her like she was crazy. "Balloon Land?" asked Heather.
Candy blushed. "It's a game I used to play when I was a kid," she said. Then she slumped down, blushing, and hugged her arms around her. "Oh, never mind. It's silly."
Cindy said, "No! It sounds like fun. What is Balloon Land?"
Candy said, "Well, it's a place where all the people are balloons, the houses are balloons, the animals are balloons.... up in the sky there are no clouds, just big bunches of white balloons!" The women all giggled.
"OK! How do we get there?" Ellie asked, sitting on the couch beside Candy.
"Like this!" Candy leapt up and ran into her bedroom. She came back with a big cardboard box, which she up-ended in the middle of the living room. An endless rain of colored balloons fell down.
"Where did you get these?" Heather asked, laughing out loud.
"At the homecoming celebration!" Candy said. "Someone bought too many, so I snatched 'em. I guess I was remembering back to when I was little how much fun I used to have."
Cindy picked up a balloon and started blowing. "This is childish," she said. Then she resumed filling the balloon.
Heather nodded, filling up a bright red balloon of her own.
It was not long after that they had most of the balloons inflated. The living room was swimming with them. Dizzy and out of breath, the women fell easily into a balloon fight, swatting the balloons around the room. They stood laughing in a blizzard of brightly colored rubber.
Cindy smiled and closed her eyes. "Balloon Land...."
Heather closed hers, too. "Balloon Land...."
Cindy did the same. "Balloon Land!"
Ellie sighed, closing her eyes, and said, "Balloon Land, here we come!"
They all opened their eyes, and drew a collective gasp. They were standing on a broad, shiny green plain, with shiny, puffy balloon hills not too far away. The ground was rounded and springy, and the horizon curved noticably. A brown stripe ran across the plain not far from where they stood.
Cindy murmmurred, "What the.... ?"
Candy bounced up and down on the springy ground. "Balloon Land! This is the first time I actually made it!"
Heather and Ellie looked at each other and shrugged. "Some crazy dream," Ellie said.
A voice came from nowhere. "Hello!" it said. The women looked around and then finally looked up. Two balloon women were drifting gently toward them from the sky. "Welcome to Balloon Land!" The two balloon women touched down softly, and bounced over to where the women stood.
"Who are you?" asked Ellie.
"I am Blimpy, and this is Breezy," said the balloon woman. They were both almost completely round, with little hands and feet sticking out their sides and bottoms, and merry round heads on top. "Have you been here long?"
"We just got here," said Heather.
"Well, then, we'll have to give you a tour! Follow us!" said Breezy, and she bounced into the air.
"Um... we can't fly," Candy said.
The two balloon women looked surprized for a moment, then said. "Of course! You are looking rather flat. I apologize; I should have noticed. But it's no problem; look!" She threw something from her hand and it landed on the ground. Almost immediately there was a hissing, and a bump started to grow. It pushed up, and started to take shape. Pretty soon it turned out to be a rather over-sized, inflated mini-van.
"Hop in!" said Blimpy, as she hopped into the huge back seat.
"You drive!" said Breezy, hopping in beside her. "I can't really reach the wheel."
Candy climbed into the driver's seat, and the rest of the women climbed into the car. Candy mananged to get it started, and then they set off with a puttering sound. "Stay on the road!" Blimpy said cheerily. Candy turned onto the brown stip that ran across the plain and started following it.
They passed a farm, and marvelled at the collection of balloon animals there. A balloon milkmaid walked out with a bucket to milk the inflated cow there, but all she seemed to get was air.
They drove past a shopping mall made entirely of balloons, where little balloon people bounced merrily along making their purchases. Blimpy and Breezy went to buy some groceries so they could make a nice dinner for their guests. The women wandered around wide-eyed looking at all the latest balloon fashions. A little while later, they all piled back into the mini-van, groceries piled in the back, and drove on.
Pretty soon, the big bright balloon sun began to drift toward the horizon. Candy said, "Gee, it's getting kind of late, and I'm kind of hungry. Um.... where are we staying tonight?"
"Stop the car!" annouced Blimpy. "We're staying right here!"
The women looked baffled. They all climbed out of the car. "Watch!" said Breezy. She again tossed something onto the ground, and suddenly a huge bulge appeared. It started to grow taller and taller. Pretty soon the women could see that it was taking the form of a house. Soon it was fully inflated; a very comfortable-looking balloon bungalow!
"Wow! You just blew it up like a balloon!" said Heather.
"Everything inflates in Balloon Land!" said Breezy proudly.
They all went inside, and found it quite roomy. The walls were inflated, and about six inches thick, so the doorway and windows held their shape as the women looked out. Blimpy and Breezy threw some more things on the ground, and soon the back of the bungalow was a very complete kitchen. The women all started bringing in the groceries from the car.
Cindy glanced at the groceries as they piled them on the counter. "Balloon Land chocolate, Balloon Land creme, Balloon Land Butter... say, isn't this kind of fattening? I'm on a diet."
"Don't worry!" said Blimpy. "The food is all zero calories in Balloon Land! It has to be or else or else we'd get all weighted down, then we couldn't fly!"
"Promise?" asked Cindy skeptically.
"Promise!" Blimpy beamed.
So they cooked up an incredible feast of chocolates, pasteries, berries, creme sauces... anything and everything that any of the women could think of. When the cooking was done, Blimpy inflated a large dining room table and chairs. They all sat and dug in.
It was a feast like none other that the women had ever had. Helping after helping of rich foods and delicious drinks. Occasionally they would ask, "Zero calories? Are you sure?" And the balloon women would smile and nod.
Before too long, the table was bare. Completely stripped of food. The women leaned back in their chairs. Cindy was left holding a berry-covered pastry that she was trying to find room to finish. Ellie looked like she was trying to burp, but just smiled instead. "Wow! That was wonderful!" breathed Candy.
"How about some TV?" asked Heather.
"Sure!" said Breezy. Again, she threw something on the ground, and magically a good-sized TV inflated from it. On the screen three balloon women started frolicing around.
"Oh, no!" Blimpy said. "More re-runs of Charlie's Balloon Angels!" All the girls giggled.
"Tell me," said Ellie. "What's that you keep throwing to inflate things?"
"Air berries! Of course!"
"Of course!" laughed Cindy, waving her pastry in the air. A berry fell from it and landed on the ground. A little bubble blew up where the berry had landed.
Ellie noticed this, and a frown furrowed her brow.
"Boy, I feel full," Heather said. She groaned, and re-adjusted the waistline of her jeans.
Candy patted her tummy. "I feel kind of gassy." She tried to burp, but couldn't.
"Well, I sure hope so!" said Breezy happily.
Ellie frowned. "What do you mean?"
Blimpy said, "Well I sure hope you feel gassy after all the air berries we all ate! We have to get you girls filled up! You're way too flat!"
Breezy smiled and nodded happily.
"We ate air berries?" Cindy murmurred.
Breezy nodded. "And float creme, and fill sauce. And we were drinking 100% helium juice. Have to keep nice and big and inflated here in Balloon Land."
Candy's eyes went wide as her waist button popped open on her shorts. "Oh, no." she said.
"Don't want to be big," Heather murmurred. She stretched her shoulders and began rubbing her breasts.
"Or inflated," said Ellie. She stood up and stretched, and then peered down her t-shirt.
Cindy moaned loudly, and began fumbling with the zipper of her jeans. Then, a loud hissing sound came from her. Just as she unzipped the jeans and shrugged them free, her belly swelled up beneath her light blouse.
Heather groaned, and reached into her sweater. She was frantically fumbling with the clasp on her bra. Her chest was rapidly filling it, then over-filling it. Finally the clasp burst with the strain, and her chest swelled to fill the sweater with giant curves.
Ellie squeaked. She was holding two cantalope-sized breasts in her hands. Her hips were round and full. She had and ideal hourglass figure.
Breezy laughed with delight. "Boobies! You've got boobies!"
Blimpy added delightedly, "...and a figure!"
Then Ellie had slightly more than an ideal hourglass figure. Then a lot more. Her hips filled out, her chest grew to mammoth proportions, and her arms and legs looked inflated and rounded. As she took a couple of panicked steps, her thighs squeaked where they rubbed together.
Candy moaned as her whole midsection inflated. Her face was round and puffy, and she kept saying, "Oh no! Oh no!" She waved her arms feebly in the air as they, too, swelled and filled with gas. Then, gently, she lifted from the ground and floated toward the ceiling.
Blimpy squealed with delight. "Floating!"
Cindy's belly now was a huge globe in front of her; she clung to it with puffed-up arms that squeaked as her belly inflated more. Her breasts were enormous round balloons pushed up her chest, almost obscuring her puffy cheeks.
Heather's breasts were gargantuan, and reached out for nearly six feet in front of her. They were as round and shiny as two enormous balloons. The tattered remains of her sweater still dangled around her neck.
Breezy frowned. "Oh, dear. We should have got them all balloon clothes, Blimpy."
Blimpy nodded. "I completely forgot! My apologies, dears!"
Ellie's waist finally surged forward, and raced to fill as large as the rest of her. She squeezed her eyes shut on her swollen face. "How... big...."
Candy completed the thought from where she floated. "How... big... will we... get?" Her rounded face looked strained, too.
"Too big," Heather muttered, her hands squeaking as she rubbed her gargantuan breasts.
"Going to pop!" cried Cindy, her belly now the size of a small car.
Breezy looked confused. "Well, now, just use your balloon magic when you think you're big enough!"
Blimpy nodded, looking concerned.
Ellie gritted, "But... we don't have.... balloon magic!"
Breezy looked started. "You don't have balloon magic? But...."
Candy gasped, "We're not balloons!"
"Oh, dear," said Blimpy.
"They're real women!" said Breezy.
"Oh, my!"
"Goodness!"
"Do something!" cried Ellie, her body almost completely spherical. Heather groaned loudly, and rolled up onto her huge breasts. Her puffed-up legs kicked feebly in the air behind her.
"Oh, I am so sorry..." said Breezy. "But when we saw you having so much fun with those balloons...."
"We just sort of assumed...." continued Blimpy.
"That you were just a bit deflated. Oh, my." Finished Breezy.
"Help us!" cried a round Candy from the ceiling. She wiggled her hands and feet helplessly.
Blimpy said, "Well, if you're not balloons, you can't be in Balloon World!"
Breezy added, "Everything inflates in Balloon World."
Blimpy said, "So back you go! It was a pleasure meeting you!" She waved her hands.
The women suddenly found themselves back in their living room, surrounded by balloons. But they were just as large as they were before. "Wait!" cried Candy. "You forgot...." Suddenly air rushed from inside her and out her mouth. Her lips went "bbb...bb.b...bb...b...bbb..." as the air rushed from her, pushing her around the room.
Ellie, Heather, and Cindy also began deflating, the air rushing out their mouths at a furious rate.
Finally, Candy deflated enough that she landed with a thud behind the couch. Cindy rubbed her tummy as it shrank back to it's nice flatness that it had been before.
Heather cried, "My boobies!" She held her breasts with a delighted smile as they returned to their normal, large-ish, size.
"My boobies!" cried Ellie with some dismay as hers disappeared.
Candy cleared her throat. They all turned to look. "Don't worry, Ellie. Look what I snagged on our way out." Smiling, she held up a large, full basket of air berries....