Full Body Inflation

The university's courtyard was full of people bustling about. It was a particularly sunny and warm day (it was after all still mid-March) and consequently everyone looked particularly cheery. Tanya was lying down on the grass, her beautiful lips slightly open, book on hands and sunglasses in place. People were buzzing around her and she pretended to not care but all she did was observe, glancing over the rim of the page she was currently reading – for the past twenty minutes or so. And her mind roamed...

“Hey Billy.” Rob greeted his flatmate with a sigh. “Move up, you’re taking up all the sofa.” Billy huffed and budged over to let his friend sit down.

“Where have you been?”

“My hypnotherapy class.”

“You’re still going to that?” Billy took a swig of beer. “Thought you were going to give up?”

“It beats sitting around here with you, wearing… what is that?”

“A dragon onsie. What does it look like?”

“Yeah. It beats that.”

“What did you try to learn tonight?”

I woke up at ten in the morning- the perfect time, really. Since the spherification procedure I always slept so well- it had made my life so much more comfortable. I wiggled in the bowl-shaped bed where I slept, my huge round body rubbing against the soft padded rim of the bed. 

"Good morning." I heard a soothing female voice- the house's computer had detected that I was awake. I decided I might as well get up- I had a party later that day to get ready for. 

"Morning procedure, please."

Jack leaps over the fence and lands in the grass beside Shelly. He cautiously looks back over the four foot tall wood fence and doesn't see anything out of the ordinary. He breathes a sigh of relief and sits next to Shelly.

Shelly half winces and smiles as she holds the side of her belly, "That went well."

Jack pulls aside her hand and sees the bite mark. Worry and concern fills his eyes, "No, no, no."

Shelly returns her hand to the wound, "I got bit."