A Beach of a Tale: Part Four by Paul Schilling (pschill39@aol.com) Subject: Karoline gets revenge for being humiliated twice. Part 4 After the incident at the Bent Arms, Karoline managed to stumble home. She unlocked the street door, slamming it hard as she walked in. She just stood there in the doorway, whimpering, trying to get her equilibrium back. She made her way into the bathroom where she stopped at the sink and just looked at her face in the mirror. She opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out. She just turned on the water and began to cry. After washing the grime off her face and hands, she walked quietly, head bowed, into the master bedroom and stood in front of the full length mirror on the inside of her closet door. Looking up, Karoline begins to snarl at her own reflection as she grits her teeth and hits several poses shredding every stitch of clothing left on her body. She made herself as big as she could, then wilted into a big pile of despair on the floor. "Who am I trying to kid?" she sobbed. "Yourself, that's who!" she answered her reflection. "I'd be better off if I were big and fat!" Karoline's face turns from anguish to one of delight as she stands up and throws off her rags and puts on a fairly loose pair of sweats. She heads out to the local 24-hour grocery store, buying all types of food along with vitamins and protein supplements. Once back at home, Karoline rips open all the packages, going on the binge of her life. She pigged out for almost a day and a half. By the time Karoline was done she had eaten enough for to feed a small army. "Woof!" she said satisfyingly as she finished off the last piece of pizza. "There, the only bulges I want to see from now on is from fat cells." She lifted her sweatshirt above her boated belly and took her sweatpants and lowered them below the base of her overhang. "Yep!" she said, patting her stuffed belly. "From now on, it's fat and sassy." "BRAAAAUUUUWWP!" Karoline burps aloud, several times. "WOW!... whew." Karoline began feeling warm and fuzzy all over, but this time warmer and stranger then before. She began to feel ill and doubled over. "Maybe this wasn't a good idea after all." She puts her arms around her swollen belly and feels as if she is going to get sick. Karoline manages to roll of the couch and crawl into the bathroom, getting to the commode in time as she begins to convulse and sweat. "Oh God!" she screams in pain, "why did I do this?" Then as quickly as it had started, the sharp pain began to subside. Karoline then stood up and noticed her oversized belly was beginning to go away. She went to the bedroom and stood wide- eyed and jaw-dropping in front of the mirror. "No!" she yelled, "no... This can't be happening." Karoline saw her extra large belly transform back into the hard granite type bricks that her abs once were. "So much for that idea," she sighed as she watched each muscle take back its form. She then let out with another loud burp. "Yuck!" she said, smacking her lips. "Now that was a bad taste. I wonder if I managed to save any soda?" Karoline looked around and found nothing. "Great... just great." She sighed. Just then she remembered about that small keg of berry juice that Christy had brought her. She opened up the refrigerator door and grabbed the barrel, setting it on the counter. "This is all your fault, y'know," she groaned. "But I don't like the water here and I don't want to go out anymore... so you're it." As she reached out, she heard a rip; it came from the shoulders of her top. Silently she tore off her sleeves and grabbed the cask and popped the cork, with some difficulty, out of the hole. "That was tight," she said. "Now, do I drink you like a lady or do I chug you like a drunken frat rat?" She burped once more. "I chug." Karoline clears her throat and relaxes her esophageal muscles and begins to drink the entire thing. She wipes the little bit that was dribbling from her chin. Putting the keg back on the counter, she grabs a magic marker and starts drawing an image of Laura's face on the wooden container. Karoline picks up the barrel and frowns. "This is Laura's face," she says glibly as she begins to push in. Her muscles begin to grow as she squeezes the barrel more until it begins to give. "This is Laura's face when I get done with her... someday." It finally splinters. "Yes!" Karoline jumps for joy, flexing, doing a victory dance. Even though satisfaction was not total, Karoline feels somewhat relieved and heads for a shower. Afterwards, Karoline towels off and walks into the bedroom and feels a chill. "Brrrr... I never felt like this before... I'm cold." She reaches into her dresser and pulls out a lightweight flannel nightgown and puts it on. As she buttons it, she's very amazed. "Hey... it fits." She turns out the lights and settles down for the night. Her sleep went uninterrupted until her alarm went off the next morning. Karoline reaches out from her covers and smashes her clock and destroys her night stand in the same motion. She scratches her head as she looks at the mess on the ground. "It's Saturday and I set my clock, weird." She glances at the mess on the floor. "That's it... I buy plastic from now on." Karoline crawls out of bed and heads for the door, picking up her mess and putting it in some garbage bags as she heads for the door. Groggily, she opens the front door and is greeted by the morning sunlight. She drops the garbage into the can at the curb and gets the mail that was ignored since Thursday morning and bends over to pick up the newspapers and magazines at the front door. 'RRRRIIIIPPP!" a loud noise came from behind, causing Karoline to stand straight up. She turns her back to the building and heads backwards into her apartment. As soon as she got in she dropped the parcels and reached behind to feel her back, then ran into the bedroom. Facing the floor length mirror with her back, Karoline was astounded. "Oh... mah... Gawd!" Karoline gaped at the size and the thickness of her back. "I'm a regular 3-D topography of muscle." Karoline slowly turned around and she closed her eyes as she did. "I won't get excited... I won't get excited... I won't get excited..." she kept telling herself over and over again. As she opened her eyes, her 'I won'ts' became "I will get excited... I'm HUGE!" Karoline was dumbfounded as she saw that the nightgown, which fit so loosely the night before, was now extremely tight fitting. She began to hyperventilate as her mind raced to come out with answers. "Okay, calm down," she told herself. "Take a couple of deep breaths and relax." The deep breaths only caused her buttons, stressed out by her size, to catapult off the front of the flimsy gown as her basketball-sized tits thrust out by her immensely thick striated pecs. "This must've happened last night while I slept," she said. It's gotta be a combination of the food, the berry juice, and the drinks at the bar... I should've stuck with Perrier." Looking at her big, thick body more and more over the next couple of minutes caused her to grow in confidence. "Awww, you girls wanna come out and play?" She watched the restless movement of her body under the taut gown. "Okay," she raised her arms, "come out, come out, wherever you are," Karoline sang as she spent what seemed to be hours hitting the basic poses for a bodybuilder. Cloth began to tear as her muscles swelled to unbelievable proportions. "I feel as if I could lift a battleship," she said in savage amusement. She smiles as she watches her arms form softball size biceps, then quickly dropping them, moving her wrists slightly, watching her forearm and horseshoe-style triceps leap out. "My arms are bigger than my whole body ever could be." The only words that followed as she did more posing were, "tremendous... extraordinary... fantastic." When she had finished, she wondered, "gee, I wonder how much I weigh?" She threw the remaining shards of cloth off to the side, walked into the bathroom and stepped on the scale. Again, amazement set in. "HOLY... over 200 pounds, and all of it muscle!" She went and grabbed the tape measure and pencil from her sewing room and stood in the doorjamb, marking off her height. "WOW!... 6' 3"... I hope I' ve got something to wear." Without effort, Karoline again headed into her closet, dug around a bit, and found an old spandex outfit she had once disregarded. She squeezed her large body into it. "There." She then headed for outside door. "Now as long as I don't make any sudden moves or breath too deep..." Just then, 'RRRRIIIIPPP!" Her outfit fared about as good as her nightgown. As the seams split open, the material rolled back over mountains of muscles. Karoline sighed and shook her head, wishing she had a trenchcoat, when an idea struck her. She headed into her spare room and drug out a completely dreadful-looking oversized dress. She ripped out the sleeves and, with a few nips and tucks on the sewing machine, within a few minutes, Karoline was done. "There," she said, rather pleased with her work. "From 'Omar the Tent Maker' to a suitable dress for a person of my magnitude." The dress fit a little tight around the bust and hips but it was comfortable. Putting her hair up, then donning her sunglasses and sunhat, Karoline left to do some clothes shopping. On her way back from her expedition she made a sidetrack over by the beach, where she saw Geoff and Laura working out. Not wanting to cause a scene (yet), Karoline starts to head home. "Hey... hey you," Laura looks up and spies the fleeting Karoline. Karoline stops and turns around. "Yes, can I help you?" trying to be polite as she could while the veins on her hands and arms get a workout as she opens and closes her fists tensely. "Oops... I'm... I'm sorry, for a minute you looked like someone I know." The unsuspecting Laura apologizes. "Must've been the sun. Ummm... if you don't mind my saying you're rather 'big'." Laura eyes Karoline's body up and down. Karoline, smiling ear to ear, responds. "Yep," as she flexes one of her arms. "You might say I 'drank' it on." "Uhhh... yeah," Laura laughs nervously. "Who's your trainer? I mean, a body like that just doesn't happen overnight. Does it?" "Trainer?" Karoline lowers her sun glasses as she spies Geoff starting to walk over and hits a double bicep pose. "Why, body by Christy." "Well, it was nice talking to you..." Karoline paused. "Laura," Laura spoke up clearing her throat. "Laura... nice name... gotta remember that," Karoline said. "Hey," Laura stopped Karoline once more. "Are you coming back later on. I mean, guys like Geoff are prizes to be kept but sometimes... well, a female workout chum is better." Karoline turns around. "Geoff, huh?" Karoline looks over her sunglasses again. "He's a great looking prize." "Yeah," Laura responds. "I took him from some bitchy bimbo he was seeing at the Bent Arms the other night in a wrestling contest. Yeah, haven't seen the toothpick since, either." Karoline held her temper. "Well, I'm off. I'll see you later, (for sure)." As Karoline leaves, Geoff comes over and gives Laura a hug. "Who's Titania? ...Sure is a big girl," he asks, looking at Karoline. " Yeah... sure is. Y'know, I didn't even get her name," Laura answered. "But she sure sounds familiar." "Oh well," Geoff smiled. "Let's go and get some lunch, then come back later on." "All right," Laura agreed, grabbing her blouse and putting it on. Meanwhile, Karoline gets home and is hopping mad. "Toothpick!" she says angrily, throwing her packages down. "I'll show her." She grabs two handfuls of dress and furiously rips it off. "Where is it?" Karoline talks to herself as she tears through her packages. "Ah! There it is." She hurries into the bedroom and puts on a very revealing bathing suit that stretches to the limits. Without saying a word, she slips on her bathrobe and goes across the hall to the storage room and comes back with a wrought iron grate, the kind used for decoration and security. "Hopefully you won't be missed. She begins to laugh maniacally as she takes off her bathrobe and watches her muscles become rigid as she picks up the grate. "Once more, this is Laura." Karoline watches as her muscles grow thicker and the veins on her arms puff and grow as the grate begins to creak and bend, sending her straining bathing suit to near bursting. "This is Laura, later on today, as I get Geoff back." She begins to laugh as she takes what's left of the iron grate and throws it to the ground. "Will I be back later, she asks me?" She flexes her already pumped body. "Oh yeah! Strike three, you're out." (Okay so I had a brain fart, but I promise, it's Karoline vs Laura for real next time.)