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– I don't know what to do Astro – muttered Sprout annoyed, crossing his arms
– She's been acting so distant lately and it's gotten pretty stressful –
Astro’s half lidded eyes paid no mind to the toon that was speaking
in front of him, distracted in his own self sabotaging intrusive thoughts.
– Are you fucking listening to me man? – the strawberry boy snapped his fingers as he shouted, startling the moon-faced caterpillar.
– Yes, yes, I am indeed listening to your babbling Sprout. Perhaps have you considered that I do possess the ability to listen without holding direct eye contact? – Astro spoke, guiding his gaze towards him, but not looking directly at his fellow toon's eyes and sighed very loudly - all of this chatting up with you about her keeps making me uncomfortable, it's almost like I'm invisible to you. Can we talk about anything else that does not regard Shelly?- the blue caterpillar tilted his head slightly, his expression reading mostly as boredom and disinterest.
The berry boy opened his mouth to object, but quickly closed it, he didn’t wanna make his friend more uncomfortable than he already was after all that went down with cosmo. -Alright then dude, whatchu wanna talk about then, bedbug? -he said, pouting slightly at the fact that his worries about his beloved archaic friend being pushed aside.
-Have you noticed the strange way Dandy has been behaving lately? - he stated, carefully examining his friend's expressions.
-Jeez, you still think about that guy? Talk about having hope for a lost cause. - retorted Sprout, still slightly sour at the caterpillars' apathy for their prehistoric friend.
-Yes Sprout Seedly, I am still thinking about my best friend, perhaps you would still talk to yours if you didn’t badly screw that up. - Astro stated plainly, not an ounce of sarcasm in his venom laced voice.
- Don’t talk about Cosmo like that, we ARE still friends, we are just taking a break! - sprout screamed in bitter annoyance getting up and grabbing Astro by the shoulders and slightly pressing on his collarbone with his thumbs- Can you for once not be mean to me! It 's not funny man! - he said as he shook his friend.
> Hey, what's up with all this ruckus? Are you guys fighting again?
The two toons turned around looking at their fossil friend, not really wanting to answer her question.
> Uhm… sorry if I interrupted something I was thinking about eating some cupcakes if that's alright?
Sprout sprung up from his seat and grabbed Shelly's hand. - Yeah Shelly, go ahead! I left some in the fridge, so take as many as you'd like! - he smiled and then let go of her relatively rough hands.
Uh... yeah… thanks Sprout!
And so, Shelly went to the kitchen.
-Wait, isn't Dyle by the kitchen as well?- Sprout spoke, his voice slightly raised and panicked.
-Eh, I don't think Dyle is going to pick on Shelly, she's pretty quiet when she goes to the kitchen- Astro said, while partially true, he knew full well that Dyle was vicious when it came to bullying others.
-How exactly do you know that?- The berry boy asked, slightly concerned and incredulous to the words of his insectoid friend.
-Shelly tends to raid the kitchen at night, that's why she's so… ‘chubby’ right now, and before you ask ‘Aaastrooooo how do you know that!’ I once went to get a glass of water and found her binge eating a whole tray of Ginger's cookies, bitch genuinely ate two full batches somehow and I was amaz– - Sprout shushed him loudly and then spoke
-Yeah yeah Astro, I know, but that doesn't matter, she's still our friend, no matter what. - the strawberry boy sighed.
Meanwhile Shelly just arrived in the kitchen, her steps muffled by the layer of fat under them, perfect for becoming invisible when she needed to, sadly for her, this wouldn’t save her from what was to come.
-I know you are there Miss Fossilian, no need to be quiet when i can see you from a mile away - Dyle spoke, his voice thunderous and imposing and proceeding to look up and down at the poor dino-girl.
> Uhm… yeah… I just came to eat something, Sprout made some cupcakes and allowed me to eat a few from the fridge.
-Sure, whatever. - the vintage clock toon stated, looking at Shelly's tummy.
> Oookaaaay then… I hope you don't mind.
As Shelly took out 3 cupcakes out of the fridge, and stood against the colourful and proceeded to joyfully eat the sugary pastries.
Dyle scoffed at the sight. - No wonder you've gotten so fat, don't think I haven't noticed your little escapades to the kitchen in the middle of the night. - he got really close to her, grabbing the sides of her hips and squeezing them harshly.
-Perhaps you could stand to lose a few pounds, you wouldn't like to look as big as Squirm, would you? - he said with a smirk, his words laced with venom.
> I… I'm… I need to go, s-sorry! Byeee!
And so, Shelly scurried away to her room, tears streaming gently down her cheeks.
As she arrived at her room, she clumsily crashed her door, and rushed inside, running to the bathroom.
> Why-, what- but,- am i really that heavy? i me-mean my dress does really feel tighter i suppose, oh no, oh no oh no oh no I look so awful, im so ugly, thats why astro and sprout looked at me that way? God fucking damn it Shelly you are so stupid! you shouldn't have eaten those cu-cu-cupcakes! may-maybe i can… no that would be stupid… or-or… mmmay..maybe
and so, shelly gently shoved her thumb down her throat, gagging and choking on it, wet noises coming out of her muffled maw, tears welling up in her eyes, clear whitish snot running down her nose and thick saliva falling down, as she forced her gag reflex to do it’s magic, she curled down on the rug of her dinosaur themed bathroom laying her head in the rim of the toilet bowl, the smell of clorox and leftover urine combined with Dyle’s taunting were the perfect push to finally get the poor fossil girl to barf the contents of her stomach, what came out was a mushy mixture with a sickenly cheesy smell, the sprinkles from the cupcake were faded to white and between the nauseating paste you could see one of Shelly’s pills.
she bawled her eyes out, still tasting the sugar and the gastric acids in her tongue
> I.. aughch… this… hurts… ugghhg… I ho-hope this… works…
As she finished wailing, she dragged her body to bed and laid on it, looking at the ceiling and cuddling a velociraptor plushie.
> Tomorrow I'm going to exercise… yeah… and im going to be… pretty…