Still browsing Chirper, you found more, newer videos about the mysterious quakes, and what you saw there looked like something out of a movie: Apparently, the cause behind those was a gigantic woman, larger than the largest skyscrapers in the city. You tried finding out more about this, but everyone in the comments was as baffled as you were, and of course, conspiracy theorists were quick to appear, claiming that whatever country was behind this, that this was a new kind of weapon, others claimed that it was a mass illusion to test people's reactions and there were many more, each crazier than the last and you didn't bother reading those.
However, you then heard car noises quickly getting louder, and you guessed Zuleima had already arrived, so you stood up and walked to the living room to look out the window, and indeed, she had just arrived to your house so you opened the door. You couldn't help but pause in surprise as she practically leapt out of her car and rushed towards your house. She usually kept calm and cool so this was one of the strangest things you'd seen. The short woman greeted you and hugged you rather tightly, and while your first impulse had been to break free from it, you sensed that she needed it, whatever the reason may be, so you hugged her back. She was lightly trembling, which only unnerved you.
"I'm so glad to see you. Sorry that it had to be at a time like this" She said and looked up at your face.
"I take it you already know what's going on, don't you?"
"Honestly, I've got no idea, I was just trying to find out" You replied.
"It's better off that way" She said rather quietly "Well, we need to get going" She then said.
"Huh? Where?"
"I'll explain on the way, let's go" The way she spoke let you know that it seemed to be something really important, so you decided to take her word for it. You wondered if you should tell your mother about this, or even ask her since she was likely in the central part of the city, either working or shopping, you weren't sure.
"Hey, I know this looks like I'm kidnapping you" Zuleima lightly chuckled "But everything will make sense as we go, you better buckle up! Literally and figuratively" She said.
2 hours earlier...
Miriam had gotten up early, more from force of habit than from an actual need, as she was actually off work for once, since she wanted to spend the summer with her family and friends. Raphael had left earlier, since his job hardly granted him any vacations, and Ariadne was presumably on her way home together with Jordana from their all-girls college, so it was only herself and you at home. She yawned and went to take a cool shower, which oddly enough served better to wake her up than to help her fall asleep, as most people said.
Once she got out of the shower, she put on her comfier/favorite underwear, a simplistic plain black set, made of cotton. The bottom piece was probably intended to be a pair of panties at some point, but for her massive behind it was little more than a thong, but she didn't mind, in fact, she had come to like feeling it between her cheeks, the soft material felt like it belonged there. With no one else around, and you being asleep, she felt no need to put any more clothes so she went to the kitchen to make herself some breakfast.
She grabbed her phone, which had been left charging overnight, to listen to the news while she heated up her favorite microwavable burritos. The smell alone was enough to make her salivate already, it might've been a far cry from her homeland's authentic cuisine, but it was delicious in its own way.
'I can't believe neither Raphael nor Blaise appreciate these' She thought with an amused chuckle, reaching into the fridge to get some lemonade. A little lifehack she had learned from her mother and her mother-in-law was to grow lemon/citrus trees in her yard to have easily accesible, cheap lemons, whose juice she could use to marinate various meats or to make homemade lemonade.
Her favorite and yours was a hybrid plant, which had been sold to Raphael claiming it to be Cuban lemons, but it turned out to be a hybrid fruit, literally lime-lemon, which made for a fantastic lemonade, and gave meat a superb flavor. She often joked that it was the closest thing ever to a natural version of 7up. It was then that her phone began ringing, so she brought her lemonade glass to the kitchen counter and answered.
"Hello?" She asked, unsure on who it was since she picked up so fast she didn't see who was calling.
"Miriam! Hi!" Zuleima greeted her "Sorry to call this early, did I wake you up?"
"Nah, I was already getting breakfast... why?" Miriam replied.
"Listen, uh... there's no sugarcoating this, I'm gonna need a huge favor from you..."
"As long as it's nothing illegal I'm down for it" Miriam laughed "Who are we killing?*"
"No one" Zuleima enjoyed a hearty chuckle as well "You see... I'm right about to make a huge scientific breakthrough! But we got a problem, the volunteer we had for today's scheduled trial went MIA, and it's been such a pain to even get this authorized that I absolutely CANNOT let it go to waste, but we've got no other appointed volunteers... So, I need you to come substitute them"
"Oh... so, basically you need me to be a guinea pig?" Miriam jokingly asked.
"It sounds so wrong when you put it that way" Zuleima said "It's just a harmless clinical test, and I believe you'd be interested in it, but I legally cannot discuss the details over the phone"
"Alright! What could possibly go wrong?" Miriam giggled "But I turn big and green don't be surprised! Or maybe I'll shoot spiderwebs"
"Sadly, real life is more boring than comics" Zuleima said.
"And you still haven't made me a Green Lantern ring like I've asked since we were in Elementary!"
"Maybe I will after this, but really, all joking aside, you'd be saving my life..." Zuleima said.
"Sure, no problem. I just hope it doesn't take up the whole day, I heard my son's going to the beach and I wanna join in on the fun" Miriam replied.
"I didn't think you were such a mother hen... are you afraid of something?" Zuleima teased her.
"Huh? No, not really. I'm not going as a chaperone, I just wanna spend some time with my boy... and in any case, one of the girls is my approved candidate" Miriam said with a cheeky smile.
"Haha, alright!" Zuleima said "By the way, since you're about to have breakfast, make sure to have a hearty one!"
"Hmm? What for?" Miriam asked "Is the experiment going to take that long?"
"No, no, not really... but let's say it has to do with metabolism, and it's gonna be a little intensive on body energy, so it's best that you have a full fuel tank for this" Zuleima explained.
"And here I was already worried my tank was getting a bit big" Miriam playfully patted her tummy "But okay, don't wanna faint in the middle of it" She said as she went to retrieve more microwavable burritos to heat up.
"You won't" Zuleima giggled "Alright, see ya later!" she then hung up...
After heating up all of her burritos, which made for a generous helping of about 8 of them, Miriam thoroughly enjoyed it as she ate them. Usually she tried having some restrain to keep her already plump figure from growing out of control, even when you reassured her that she looked fine, and Raphael himself expressed that she liked her better that way. Of her friends, neither Dolores nor Sheila could understand why she was so adamantly against her full figure, as they both believed it was better off that she embraced it.
With a full belly, Miriam got dressed, brushed her teeth and headed for her car. She thought about leaving a note for you but then decided against it, wanting to surprise you at the beach. With the three of you being taller than average, it's not like you'd be too hard to spot. And with that, she drove to the lab Zuleima worked at. She had never bothered to find out what they were about, though by the look of things it seemed it was dedicated to medical research, some of it related to nutrition, and some other to treating various diseases.
When she got to the entrance, Zuleima was right there, waiting for her. She held in her laughter, but she couldn't help but find the short Cuban woman dressed in a labcoat particularly cute, but she knew that her friend's height was a touchy subject at best so she refrained from talking about it.
"She's coming with me" Zuleima said to the guards before swiping a card, presumably her ID for the automatic door to let them through. The walk inside the building felt a bit rushed, but she could understand why her friend had been so tense, being so close to achieving something great only to nearly miss it out entirely due to an admittedly dumb issue was a feeling she could relate on some level.
"Sooo... what are we gonna do, exactly?" Miriam finally broke the silence. Zuleima stopped just as they were in an empty hallway leading to what appeared to be the main experimenting room.
"Well, this is a new and revolutionary treatment for people who have suffered from malnutrition or have had their growth stunted in their formative years" Zuleima explained.
"Oh! That's really nice..." Miriam said. She wondered if Zuleima wasn't planning on using such a treatment for herself, but she figured she probably wouldn't be allowed to, besides, could they even fix something that was likely genetic?
"The reason I asked you to have a full meal is that this treatment will make your body work hard to make you grow a little, and those processes consume a lot of energy from food, plus needing nutrition to get the building materials from" Zuleima explained "But don't worry, the results shouldn't be too drastic on you since you're kinda tall" she chuckled.
"You might gain a few sizes here and here though..." She said, patting her own chest and butt.
"It's not like I need those to get any bigger" Miriam scratched her head while laughing "But hey, it's a minor price to pay for helping a friend"
"Yeah, what a tragic cost" Zuleima playfully remarked, then headed for the main experimenting room and punched in a password so that the door opened, and the two ladies entered...
[*: Rough translation of a phrase often said in jest in Spanish]
However, you then heard car noises quickly getting louder, and you guessed Zuleima had already arrived, so you stood up and walked to the living room to look out the window, and indeed, she had just arrived to your house so you opened the door. You couldn't help but pause in surprise as she practically leapt out of her car and rushed towards your house. She usually kept calm and cool so this was one of the strangest things you'd seen. The short woman greeted you and hugged you rather tightly, and while your first impulse had been to break free from it, you sensed that she needed it, whatever the reason may be, so you hugged her back. She was lightly trembling, which only unnerved you.
"I'm so glad to see you. Sorry that it had to be at a time like this" She said and looked up at your face.
"I take it you already know what's going on, don't you?"
"Honestly, I've got no idea, I was just trying to find out" You replied.
"It's better off that way" She said rather quietly "Well, we need to get going" She then said.
"Huh? Where?"
"I'll explain on the way, let's go" The way she spoke let you know that it seemed to be something really important, so you decided to take her word for it. You wondered if you should tell your mother about this, or even ask her since she was likely in the central part of the city, either working or shopping, you weren't sure.
"Hey, I know this looks like I'm kidnapping you" Zuleima lightly chuckled "But everything will make sense as we go, you better buckle up! Literally and figuratively" She said.
2 hours earlier...
Miriam had gotten up early, more from force of habit than from an actual need, as she was actually off work for once, since she wanted to spend the summer with her family and friends. Raphael had left earlier, since his job hardly granted him any vacations, and Ariadne was presumably on her way home together with Jordana from their all-girls college, so it was only herself and you at home. She yawned and went to take a cool shower, which oddly enough served better to wake her up than to help her fall asleep, as most people said.
Once she got out of the shower, she put on her comfier/favorite underwear, a simplistic plain black set, made of cotton. The bottom piece was probably intended to be a pair of panties at some point, but for her massive behind it was little more than a thong, but she didn't mind, in fact, she had come to like feeling it between her cheeks, the soft material felt like it belonged there. With no one else around, and you being asleep, she felt no need to put any more clothes so she went to the kitchen to make herself some breakfast.
She grabbed her phone, which had been left charging overnight, to listen to the news while she heated up her favorite microwavable burritos. The smell alone was enough to make her salivate already, it might've been a far cry from her homeland's authentic cuisine, but it was delicious in its own way.
'I can't believe neither Raphael nor Blaise appreciate these' She thought with an amused chuckle, reaching into the fridge to get some lemonade. A little lifehack she had learned from her mother and her mother-in-law was to grow lemon/citrus trees in her yard to have easily accesible, cheap lemons, whose juice she could use to marinate various meats or to make homemade lemonade.
Her favorite and yours was a hybrid plant, which had been sold to Raphael claiming it to be Cuban lemons, but it turned out to be a hybrid fruit, literally lime-lemon, which made for a fantastic lemonade, and gave meat a superb flavor. She often joked that it was the closest thing ever to a natural version of 7up. It was then that her phone began ringing, so she brought her lemonade glass to the kitchen counter and answered.
"Hello?" She asked, unsure on who it was since she picked up so fast she didn't see who was calling.
"Miriam! Hi!" Zuleima greeted her "Sorry to call this early, did I wake you up?"
"Nah, I was already getting breakfast... why?" Miriam replied.
"Listen, uh... there's no sugarcoating this, I'm gonna need a huge favor from you..."
"As long as it's nothing illegal I'm down for it" Miriam laughed "Who are we killing?*"
"No one" Zuleima enjoyed a hearty chuckle as well "You see... I'm right about to make a huge scientific breakthrough! But we got a problem, the volunteer we had for today's scheduled trial went MIA, and it's been such a pain to even get this authorized that I absolutely CANNOT let it go to waste, but we've got no other appointed volunteers... So, I need you to come substitute them"
"Oh... so, basically you need me to be a guinea pig?" Miriam jokingly asked.
"It sounds so wrong when you put it that way" Zuleima said "It's just a harmless clinical test, and I believe you'd be interested in it, but I legally cannot discuss the details over the phone"
"Alright! What could possibly go wrong?" Miriam giggled "But I turn big and green don't be surprised! Or maybe I'll shoot spiderwebs"
"Sadly, real life is more boring than comics" Zuleima said.
"And you still haven't made me a Green Lantern ring like I've asked since we were in Elementary!"
"Maybe I will after this, but really, all joking aside, you'd be saving my life..." Zuleima said.
"Sure, no problem. I just hope it doesn't take up the whole day, I heard my son's going to the beach and I wanna join in on the fun" Miriam replied.
"I didn't think you were such a mother hen... are you afraid of something?" Zuleima teased her.
"Huh? No, not really. I'm not going as a chaperone, I just wanna spend some time with my boy... and in any case, one of the girls is my approved candidate" Miriam said with a cheeky smile.
"Haha, alright!" Zuleima said "By the way, since you're about to have breakfast, make sure to have a hearty one!"
"Hmm? What for?" Miriam asked "Is the experiment going to take that long?"
"No, no, not really... but let's say it has to do with metabolism, and it's gonna be a little intensive on body energy, so it's best that you have a full fuel tank for this" Zuleima explained.
"And here I was already worried my tank was getting a bit big" Miriam playfully patted her tummy "But okay, don't wanna faint in the middle of it" She said as she went to retrieve more microwavable burritos to heat up.
"You won't" Zuleima giggled "Alright, see ya later!" she then hung up...
After heating up all of her burritos, which made for a generous helping of about 8 of them, Miriam thoroughly enjoyed it as she ate them. Usually she tried having some restrain to keep her already plump figure from growing out of control, even when you reassured her that she looked fine, and Raphael himself expressed that she liked her better that way. Of her friends, neither Dolores nor Sheila could understand why she was so adamantly against her full figure, as they both believed it was better off that she embraced it.
With a full belly, Miriam got dressed, brushed her teeth and headed for her car. She thought about leaving a note for you but then decided against it, wanting to surprise you at the beach. With the three of you being taller than average, it's not like you'd be too hard to spot. And with that, she drove to the lab Zuleima worked at. She had never bothered to find out what they were about, though by the look of things it seemed it was dedicated to medical research, some of it related to nutrition, and some other to treating various diseases.
When she got to the entrance, Zuleima was right there, waiting for her. She held in her laughter, but she couldn't help but find the short Cuban woman dressed in a labcoat particularly cute, but she knew that her friend's height was a touchy subject at best so she refrained from talking about it.
"She's coming with me" Zuleima said to the guards before swiping a card, presumably her ID for the automatic door to let them through. The walk inside the building felt a bit rushed, but she could understand why her friend had been so tense, being so close to achieving something great only to nearly miss it out entirely due to an admittedly dumb issue was a feeling she could relate on some level.
"Sooo... what are we gonna do, exactly?" Miriam finally broke the silence. Zuleima stopped just as they were in an empty hallway leading to what appeared to be the main experimenting room.
"Well, this is a new and revolutionary treatment for people who have suffered from malnutrition or have had their growth stunted in their formative years" Zuleima explained.
"Oh! That's really nice..." Miriam said. She wondered if Zuleima wasn't planning on using such a treatment for herself, but she figured she probably wouldn't be allowed to, besides, could they even fix something that was likely genetic?
"The reason I asked you to have a full meal is that this treatment will make your body work hard to make you grow a little, and those processes consume a lot of energy from food, plus needing nutrition to get the building materials from" Zuleima explained "But don't worry, the results shouldn't be too drastic on you since you're kinda tall" she chuckled.
"You might gain a few sizes here and here though..." She said, patting her own chest and butt.
"It's not like I need those to get any bigger" Miriam scratched her head while laughing "But hey, it's a minor price to pay for helping a friend"
"Yeah, what a tragic cost" Zuleima playfully remarked, then headed for the main experimenting room and punched in a password so that the door opened, and the two ladies entered...
[*: Rough translation of a phrase often said in jest in Spanish]
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