Mesmerized by the weight and heft of Joey’s gut, Matt sits with his hand under Joey’s huge belly for at least a minute.
“It’s cool isn’t it?” says Joey, stroking his belly from above. After a moment, Joey’s belly gurgles - first quietly, then again, loudly. “Hey, it’s hungry again!” Joey exclaims, leaning forward to grab something off the platter. Matt tries to pull his hand out from underneath, but the weight transfer of Joey leaning forward makes it difficult.
As Joey leans forward, his stomach gurgles again - but this time, there’s something urgent to the gurgle.
“Boy, that sounds hungry,” says Matt. Matt sees that Joey is so fat that he’s only able to reach the near edge of the platter by leaning forward, so Matt picks up a chocolate brownie from the far side of the platter. Joey takes it in his other hand.
“Thanks, man,” says Joey, stuffing his mouth and reaching forward again.
Joey’s stomach rumbles even more urgently, and Matt picks up another brownie to give to Joey.
“Joey, do you want me to help you eat?” asks Matt, tentatively. “I’d really like to.”
“Sure,” replies Joey, “that would be great! But make sure you get some stuff for yourself!”
Matt begins to pick up lots of the goodies off the platter and hand them to Joey. After a few minutes of struggling to lean forward to eat, Joey relaxes and leans back, and lets Matt hand him the food. Every few minutes Joey says, “You have something too Matt,” and he stuffs a brownie or taco into his mouth, then goes back to feeding Joey.
“This is cool,” says Matt, “I’ve never fed anyone before. And I’ve never met anyone as fat as you, Joey, not even my dad.”
“Well, stick around here, and you’ll get fatter too,” replies Joey.
“I don’t know, I don’t eat that much,” says Matt. “I don’t eat nearly as much as you.”
“Oh, that’ll change too!” replies Joey. “OSB’ll get you eating more. I didn’t eat that much when I came here, but now I love to eat. I think we’re going to have a great year!”
Joey leans forward again and heaves himself to the edge of the sofa. “Now,” he says, “time ...