Jade didn't have time to think about how Blake was faring inside her belly. She had to meet up with her friends and she had already been delayed talking to her brother. After one last quick check to make sure she had everything she needed, she strode out of her room and headed downstairs. There, she saw her mother Claire doing yoga in the lounge.
"I'm just heading out to see some friends, mom," Jade called out, barely stopping to speak to her mother. Suddenly, however, Jade felt something rushing up her throat. She hastily pressed her lips together and put a hand over her closed mouth just in time to stifle a burp.
"Alright, have fun!" Claire responded. Jade wasted no time in getting out the door and walking briskly to her destination. It didn't seem like her mother had suspected her of eating any unhealthy snacks, let alone her own brother, but she didn't want to stick around and find out.
What Jade didn't know was that that burp was a sign that she had digested Blake. Every step she took was making the contents of her stomach slosh and bounce around. It happened so quickly and forcefully that the tiny mage had no chance of avoiding the stomach juices. The acid broke his body down quickly so that he could be absorbed into his starving sister as soon as possible.
Then, soon after it went, Blake's consciousness returned. He awoke to find himself not just outside Jade's belly but outside the house. The spirits were right, he was indestructible! But something felt off. He could barely move any part of his body. He was moving forward but not of his own will, and he kept rising and falling as well. Plus, there was this gurgling noise coming from behind him that sounded like a stomach hard at work.
Oh.
"Jade!" Blake yelled as he moved as much as he could in his cramped confines. "You gotta go back home and get my spellbook!"
"Uh, no," Jade argued, "I gotta go hang out with my girlfriends, and you gotta stop me from feeling hungry." The next thing Blake saw was his sister's giant hand push down on him, and he could feel himself being yanked around as Jade rubbed her belly for a few seconds.
"No, you don't understand! You digested me and absorbed me! I've been turned into a bit of fat on your belly!"
"Wait, what?" This news brought Jade to a sudden stop and she took her hand off of her belly. She then took a quick look around to make sure that no-one could see her; she didn't want anyone to think she was crazy. Luckily, the street she was on was empty. "I thought you were, like, indestructible or something," she said as she looked down at her belly, clearly frustrated but trying to stay quiet.
"I ... I guess being absorbed into your belly doesn't count as being destroyed?" Blake opined uncertainly. He kicked and wriggled some more, allowing Jade to see for herself that her brother really was now just part of her belly. "Come on, it's really tight in here!" She smirked as she watched the fat next to her belly button bounce and wobble with her brother's struggles. It looked funny and it felt funny, but in a good way in Jade's opinion.
Suddenly, the stomach that had been gurgling away let out a loud rumble that shook Blake's entire body. Jade rubbed her belly again to try and get it to settle down, her annoyance starting to come back again.
"You know what, since you couldn't fill up my belly, you can just stay in there for a while," Jade declared, giving her belly a couple of pats to seal the deal before she set off again. "Maybe you'll even like it, you little weirdo," she added with a teasing chuckle. She could feel Blake struggling and hear him indignantly demanding that she go back home, but the only response she deigned to give him was to rub and pat her belly some more, and the only response her belly gave him was to rumble even more.
Blake sighed in defeat and exhaustion. He figured that Jade wasn't going to help him get out of her belly just yet, and all that futile squirming had left him worn out. As he bounced up and down in his sister's belly fat with each step she took, he tried to relax and not let the uncomfortable tightness of his prison get him down. However, the noisy churning and groaning sounds Jade's belly was making, along with the intermittent rumbles that drowned out all other sounds and felt like an earthquake to him, made relaxing very difficult. Surely Jade wasn't serious when she said he might like being in her belly, was she?
Suddenly, Blake heard another sound that somehow managed to dwarf the growls from his sister's stomach: his sister's phone. Fortunately, it didn't ring for long before Jade answered it.
"Hey Hannah!" Jade said cheerfully. Blake guessed that this 'Hannah' was one of Jade's friends she was meeting. "I know," Jade continued apologetically, "I'll be there in ten minutes, tops." Of course, Blake couldn't hear a word Hannah was saying, but he could make some educated guesses. "My belly's rumbling like crazy too. Mom's making me go on a diet and all it's doing is making me hungry 24/7." Considering how much Jade's belly had been rumbling since Blake first appeared as a miniature man in her room, he had no trouble believing her. "Good thing Blake was there to help me out." Wait, what did she mean by that? Was Jade about to tell her friend that she ate her brother? "Yeah, I guess he is kinda sweet." Blake then heard Jade chuckle at her own play on words, and then laugh again at whatever Hannah was saying. "Man, you all want a piece of him, don't you!" What the hell? Was Blake some kind of mythical ladies' man amongst his sister's friends? "Alright, I'll see what I can do." Was Jade planning to set him up with one of them? "Yep, talk to you later. Crop top gang!"
As Jade hung up and looked down at her rumbling belly once more, Blake was amazed that she had somehow signed off with something more baffling than the notion that her friends were into him. He definitely had a few questions about what his sister had just said, but before he could ask any of them, she had one of her own.
"So how do you wanna do this, Blake?" Jade asked. When all Blake gave in response was a confused grunt, she elaborated. "You realise if the girls hear you whining or see you squirming in my belly, they're gonna start asking questions. If that happens, I'm telling them the truth. Or you can stay perfectly still and shut up, and we can pretend you're just holed up in your room or something. Your choice." From the tone of his giant sister's voice, the tiny mage figured that she wasn't going to give him a third option.
On the one hand, Blake had hoped to be seen as strong and tough, hence why he sought the spirits' help in the first place. People knowing that he had been eaten by his own sister and made to spend the afternoon (or even longer) as fat on her belly would make him a laughingstock. On the other hand, could he really stay silent and motionless the whole time? No doubt the first port of call for Jade was going to be getting something to fill her growling belly more than her shrunken brother did. This would mean his prison getting even tighter than it already was, and who knew how long he would have to endure that for?
When Jade didn't hear her brother answer, even between the rumbles coming from her belly, she began to think she may have been a bit harsh with him. Especially since he had no idea what her friends were like. "Say, how about I give you a little heads-up about my friends?" she suggested, stroking Blake's spot on her belly. "Maybe that'll help you make up your mind."
"Sure," Blake said faintly, pushing out gently against Jade's fingers as they slid across his body, giving him a pleasant tingling sensation. Soon, though, the fingers went away and he got a good view of Jade's phone as she held it up in front of her belly. The screen showed a photo of four girls, one of whom Blake immediately recognised as the girl whose belly he was stuck in at the moment. He also quickly understood what Jade meant with that 'crop top gang' sign-off because that's what the girls in the picture were all wearing.