In following Ashley's advice, Adeline was pleasantly surprised to have found the overall quality of her days improving.
While taking away all the junk food that any of her thoughtless girls whipped out in class was a physical punishment, it gave her a surprising foothold in intimidation. Now she had shown these girls some form of reprimand for their actions, and they knew that their zaftig instructor meant business. She broke bad on a few of the rowdier girls, shooing out the clowns and whatnot, and eventually Adeline's borrowed style had yielded a class of mostly well-behaved young ladies.
There were downsides, of course. Most of the fault in Ashely's teaching style lied in the extra inches around her bottom half. In disposing of confiscated confections, Adeline had successfully managed to expand her ass even further which, while troublesome as far as her girlish figure went, was also not without its benefits. Sometimes Adeline would steer her mighty glutes directly into her desk and pivot, causing something trivial to fall over, or turn and 'accidentally' erase something off of her white board. When someone'anyone'dared laugh at her, she quickly made an example out of them by ushering them directly to Ms. Polluck in the form of that calloused Holloway glare and a few sharp words.
Everything, even her backside, had its silver lining.
Moreover, Adeline was contented to find that their similar no-nonsense attitudes towards their respective instructions had gained her a friend and confidant in Assistant Coach Ashley Knight. Perhaps it was because of how collectively cold they were together, but it seemed neither women had been particularly popular beforehand. In fact, Adeline remembered vaguely some years ago when Assistant Coach (then simply Coach) Knight had made a big scene at her welcoming party when she found out that her cake hadn't been fat-free, sugar-free, and low-cal. If memory served, she was a lot thinner back then'
'Yeah, guess that's what happens when you break your leg in a place like this.' Ashley confided from her seat on the sofa in the West Wing teachers' lounge, 'All it takes is one semester in a wheelchair before all the free sodas and snacks start to catch up to you.'
'Oh right, I remember when that happened'' Adeline said from the adjacent loveseat, 'I heard about it from Rita. Weren't you just teaching and''
''Yeah, freakin' potholes on the track.' Ashley scoffed, 'Ms. Polluck nearly shit herself when I screamed 'lawyer'. Turns out you can get a lot of leverage when campus maintenance starts to get slack.'
Ashley accentuated her point by licking her full pink lips, extending one pillowy arm over to the table between the two seats. She gripped a Coke between her chubby fingers and raised it above her head before setting the can back down, now empty. She rested her hands on her mountainous middle region, painted lilac by her track suit.
'Ugh, but you know how Polluck is.' Ashley groaned, her fingers aggressively kneading the top of her stomach as she rambled, 'I got my own office when I was bumped down to 'Assistant' for that fatass Courtney. Supposed to be less stressful for me, y'know with the chair and all, but all it did was piss me off. Just fuckin' sucks that I'm all better and that bitch still has my fuckin' job.'
Adeline nodded, enwrapped by Ashley's sea of swears and stories. It wasn't often she got to do this with anyone, having found long ago that most of the women here were only interested in idle gossip. She plunged one pudgy hand into the bag of Doritos and pulled out a sizeable serving, placing one cool ranch chip one her tongue at a time as she eagerly listened to Ashley rant and rave.
'Hey, gimme some of those.' Ashley grunted as she leaned fruitlessly forward, caught by the border of her bulbous breasts and belly. Adeline held out the bag and her newfound friend grabbed the bag (hardly what Adeline was expecting) before continuing.
'Mph, whur wush' where was I?' Ashley swallowed, 'Oh right. So while Courtney gets to baby all my students, I had to sit down behind a desk with nothing to do. And when all you can do is bitch to the wall or eat some fuckin' candy, you learn to like candy pretty fucking quick.'
Ashley paused, looking down at a body vastly different than she would have liked to remember. Letting the bag of chips fall off her thigh and onto the couch, Ashley's hands found their way to the flabby flanks of her gut as it sat heavily between her thighs. She pressed inward lightly and gave it a little half-shake, causing the mountainous middle to bob ever so slightly. A tight frown came upon her chubby face as she pressed tighter, perhaps in an attempt to compress or otherwise shrink her obscenely obese belly.
'Guess you see how that worked out.' She said bitterly before reaching for the chips again, 'I threw so many temper tantrums, Ms. Polluck loaded me up. Microwaves, ovens, a fuckin' vending machine' well, you saw my office. I was so pissed I didn't even fucking care. I just ate and ate and ate and ATE.'
'I'm sorry to hear that...' Adeline apologized, 'If it makes you feel any better, you handle those girls a lot better than Courtney does.'
'Pssh, you don't have to tell me twice.' Ashely said with a snort before grabbing another handful of chips, 'And it's not all bad. I mean yeah, I'm a total fucking fatass but I've practically got Polluck wrapped around my little finger.'
'And that's worth it?'
'Not really.' Ashley said with a wicked smile, 'The fact that I'm treated like a fuckin' princess makes up for it though.'
'If only we could fill the holes in our hearts with the food we shove down our throats.' Adeline said mock poetically as she took a polite sip of her own Coke, 'We'd all be happier then.'
'Ain't that the truth.' Ashley said with a smile as she clacked her empty can against Adeline's, 'Hey, my lunch break's coming up. Y'wanna grab a bite?'
'I'd love to.' Adeline said with a smile