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Melissa had worked for the Chen Frontier Corporation for nearly nine years. She joined up after finishing flight school at 18, firstly working in orbit around the earth until she had enough experience to do the long haul journeys to the outer rims of the solar system. Melissa had been doing the ‘long dark’ runs for almost 5 years now and was finding it quite profitable, not because of her company salary but because of what she called the ‘job perks’.

Cameron had started to feel desperate. She was still the only girl in her class with no boyfriend and even though none of her classmates were heartless enough to tease her about it, she knew that they all saw Cameron as a loser. It wasn’t that Cameron wasn’t attractive or that she had never been asked out by a boy, but everyone she had gone out on a date with had turned out to be a real jerk. They all told her how much they loved her curly dark hair, her full lips and of course her big breasts, but she could tell that that was all they were interested in: her looks.

Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was fiction, of course, but for a short time they did market a line of candy products under Willie Wonka's name due to the popularity of the book and the movie. The Scrumpdillicious bar was just a chocolate bar with peanuts, and the Everlasting Gobstoppers were just multi-colored jawbreakers, but it was fun while it lasted.

The product line, of course, ended in a bout of lawsuits that shut down the production of the Wonka line for good when the company came out with the Blueberry Pie gum.

I started to inhale.

I notice air filling up in me.

I look down at my stomach and it was growing.

I kept inhaling and I kept swelling.

My arms were blowing up, my legs were getting thicker.

It came to me that I was blowing up like a balloon.

My clothes started to stretch, felling tighter and tighter, I'm afraid they
might burst.

I suddenly felt lightness under my feet.

I was floating like I was a balloon.

I rose up to the ceiling, still swelling.