Meal 6 "I told him I wasn't ready to start another relationship , but he wouldn't take no for an answer," said a lady on a talk show as Brian flipped channels waiting for Jasper to get ready to leave. "Tonight on Dr. Bill, the ten worst things you can say to end a relationship before it even begins." Brian changed the channel. "Get out! I never want to see you again! You disgust me!" Brian changed the channel. "While things are shaky, it is highly advised that extreme caution is taken," warned the meteorologist. "Back to you Brent." "Thanks, Lou," Brent replied. "Speaking of shaky, guess which celebrities have a rocky relationship this week?" "Why is everything on TV making my stomach go all queasy?" groaned Brian shutting it off. "There's no way I can tell Jasper now." "Tell me what?" asked Jasper entering the room. He was dressed in a new pair of pants that had the legs cut at his knees and a pink shirt the showed off his midriff. Brian's bone poked out at the sight of it all. "What can't you tell me?" "Uh, it isn't important," lied Brian, though Jasper could read Brian like a book and knew the easier way to get an answer from him. "Come now, my plump pooch," cooed Jasper gently pressing his paws onto Brian's fat cheeks and staring deeply into his eyes. "Tell me what it is?" Unable to resist Jasper's influence, Brian blurted out a confession. "I'm the one who ate all the chocolate fudge pops!" he cried and whimpered. "Oh, B," giggled Jasper rubbing Brian's fingers. "I already knew that. You had fudgy fingers and a chocolaty muzzle. But I don't mind since I know they went to a worthy cause." He gave Brian's belly a rub. "This great fat gut of yours. Now come on let's get going." "Right behind that sweet ass of yours," replied Brian pressing his bulgy crotch against Jasper's rear. "Oh, you are such a tease," snickered Jasper. "I love that playful spirit of yours." "Thanks," said Brian relieved that he avoided telling Jasper what he really wanted to tell him, but sad that he couldn't tell him it either. Walking to Jasper's car, Jasper carefully inspected it, still a bit paranoid about its condition after his recent accident. Once he was satisfied, he got in and started it up, pulling out of the driveway and turned on his GPS to help him make his way to Rex's home. "Not that much traffic for a Saturday," commented Brian as they quickly got to the freeway in record time. "Is it a holiday or something?" "Not that I'm aware of," replied Jasper. "But I'm not complaining. We'll be there in no time and I'm not sure about you, but I'm rather excited to see Rex's place. If he's as loaded as he says I bet the place is going to be amazing." To call it amazing was an understatement. The mansion stood four stories tall and looked to rival the size of a large department store. Each level was a couple feet narrower on each side to allow the slanted roof to end where the roof on the level below would being. It was made of gray marble that was cut into square blocks that glistened in the sunlight. The front door and all the windows on all the levels had arches in front of them. The door and windows were all made of solid oak and painted eggshell white. The yard was vast as well spanning a dozen meters in the front, back, and sides. In the middle of the front yard was a fountain made of the same marble that the house was made of. The eastern side of the house there was a patio with a barbecue pit and several picnic tables. The western side had a garage and a spacious parking area. From what Brian and Jasper could see of the backyard, it was being used as a garden and a very prosperous one by the numerous flowers and fences covered with grapevines. Jasper drove up and parked in a vacant spot beside the garage. "Oh, wow! Wow!" exclaimed Brian in amazement as he wiggled his rear out of Jasper's car. "Amazing barely begins to describe this place. I can't wait to see the inside." "Me too, B," agreed Jasper walking and still outpacing Brian's frantic waddle. He waited at the door till Brian caught up, panting out of breath. "Think I got a little too excited," he breathed heavily. "Must be the most exercise I've had in a long time." "If you don't count chewing food," snickered Jasper before he rung the doorbell. "This place is pretty big. I hope someone heard that." A few seconds later, the door opened with Rex on the other side to greet them. "Oh, hey there!" he said cheerfully. "Did you find the place okay?" "It wasn't hard at all," Jasper told him. "There wasn't any traffic so we got here even faster." "Glad to hear that," he commented. "Now, let me see if I remember correctly. You're Jasper, right?" "Guilty as charged," he answered flamboyantly. "And I know you are Brian," Rex said giving Brian's gut a grope. "I don't recall a few of these pounds when I saw you last. You must have been binging big time." "Over three hundred big ones," bragged Brian giving his gut a few pats making it jiggle. "Mind if I get the full 360 show?" he asked twirling his finger gesturing Brian to turn around. He complied and Rex gave Brian's folds and flab a squeeze here and there and slapped his rear giving both Brian and Jasper a bit of a shock. "Getting a little too grabby there," Jasper pointed out. "It's obvious you are really open with your fat fetish and I'll accept you might have a thing for Brian. Hey, I do too so I can understand, but he's not on the market so you will have to shop for something else." "A-aren't you with Dolly anyway?" added Brian more flustered that Jasper was. "Oh, forgive me," he apologized. "That was terrible of me. My hands have a habit of wanting to touch things they shouldn't." "Let's just forget it and go inside," suggested Brian. "Is Dolly here too?" "Yeah," Rex answered. "She's getting things ready in the kitchen. Lunch should be ready in a little bit, but how about we head to my rec room till it's ready. I can give you a little tour on the way." Entering into Rex's home, the first thing they noticed was the soft carpeting under their paws. It was so thick and cushiony it felt like standing atop a cloud. As they walked they left imprints in the carpeting, Brian's footprints far deeper than Jasper or Rex's. As they walked through the halls, they saw a lot of things they had expected to see from the expensive fine art hanging on the walls in equally expensive frames and vases and other fragile works of art on tabletops. Looking in rooms they saw each room was fully furnished with plush couches and chairs, and tables that looked like works of art with how painstakingly they had been hand carved and polished. From how sterilely clean many of the rooms were, it appeared many had never had anyone in them since they were furnished. "I don't have guests very often," admitted Rex freely as if he was answering what Brian and Japser were assuming. "But even when I do, I still don't have any need to use most of them. Actually, I'm so used to having the rooms just as they are I can't stand the thought of going into them and messing them up. Weird, I know, heh." "Not at all," replied Brian. "Jasper's guest room hasn't been doing much but collecting dust for a while now." As Brian said this, he recalled that Jasper had planned to turn that room into a nursery shortly before his divorce. Looking at Jasper, however, it didn't seem to bother him and Brian didn't say any more about it." "Well, come along over here," instructed Rex. "My rec room is just over here, though it is probably more accurate to call it my man cave." Opening the door, Brian and Jasper found it was quite different from the other rooms in the house. The couch and chairs had a worn appearance and they had a mix of smells, some from body odors and others from different snack foods and even the scent of alcohol. There were lots of crumbs all over them and on the floor and table as well as stains from drinks. The table was also covered with a lot of mechanical and electrical objects like wires, nuts, screws, and circuit boards. The only thing that was still perfectly clean was the eighty inch flat screen. "I think I can see why," replied Jasper covering his nose. "Doesn't the maid clean up this room?" "Oh, I don't have a maid," stated Rex. "Dolly does do a bit of cleaning in the other rooms, though they hardly get that messy to begin with when it's just the two of us. But when she saw this room once she refused to ever come in here again and it wasn't even half this bad back then." "What's all this stuff for?" asked Brian curiously looking at some of the circuit boards on the table. "Just some of my scraps," Rex explained. "I keep all kinds of circuit boards, nuts, bolts, and all kinds of stuff in some of my rooms so I can tinker when the urge hits." "Working on anything right now?" asked Jasper. "Well, I can't tell you about the classified stuff I'm inventing for companies," he explained. "But I can tell you about a side project I'm working on. Rummaging through a drawer, he pulled out a black leather collar and placed it around his neck. Pressing a button on the side, it began to vibrate and a relaxed look came over his face and he let out a yawn. As he spoke, his voice sounded distorted from the vibration. "Pretty great, huh? I've also got these for belts, headbands, and um..." He yawned some more and didn't finish. "Uh, yeah," agreed Jasper. "But I think I've seen massagers like those before so you couldn't really say you invented it." Taking it off his neck, Rex gave a more detailed explanation, "Oh, it's more than a massager. It vibrates, but there is more to it to allow one to have the most relaxed night sleep and wake up completely refreshed. You see, a while back I was dealing with some insomnia. Nothing I did helped and every morning I felt like crap and my neck was in knots. That's when I was inspired to make this and it made all that go away." "Wow," stated Brian. "Sounds like something you should sell. Something like that could be worth a fortune, heh, not that you don't already have one." "Well, truth be told, despite having made them, they aren't quite ready for the general public," he admitted. "Uh, quality control stuff, you know. I'm very picky over quality." "Looks fine to me," observed Brian taking the collar in his pudgy paws. Looking it over, it seemed no different than a normal leather collar with a bit more weight to it. "I wouldn't mind having one of these." "Me too," added Jasper. "In pink, of course." "If you want one, you got it," replied Rex. "I'll get to work on some a little later. What color would you like, Brian?" "Red if you can," replied Brian. "Red it is then," said Rex. "Now, how's about we lounge a bit until lunch?" "Sounds good," commented Brian taking a seat on the couch in the middle and sinking his fat ass deep into the cushion, making the springs groan in protest to his obesity. Jasper took a seat to Brian's right side and cuddled against his side. "Want a drink?" asked Rex going into a mini fridge. "If you don't think it'd ruin your appetite, that is." Hearing this, Brian and Jasper started to crack up laughing, leaning back on the couch and making the springs groan some more. "You could probably feed B here all the food in this house and he'd still be hungry for more," laughed Jasper. "Heh, yeah," snickered Rex. "I realized it as soon as I said it." Grabbing some glasses he handed them out to his guests and poured them a generous amount. "It's imported, so I hope you like it." Brian took the first sip and his eyes widened as the taste hit his tongue and he sipped down a generous amount. "Wow! This stuff is great!" "Oh, indeed," Jasper concurred after tasting some too. "The flavor is bitter at first, but then has a sweet and savory aftertaste. I'm not a wine expert, but I know what I like and I wish I could replace my blood with this." "Then have some more," Rex encouraged as he topped them off and filled a glass for himself as well. "And if you want some more, don't worry." He opened the fridge and took out a few more bottles of the wine. "I assure you, you can have all you want." "Just enough to feel a buzz," said Brian. "We're only staying for the day after all." "Well, technically I'm driving," commented Jasper finishing his glass. "I probably should have something to eat before I have anymore, but don't hold back on my account." "Then fill 'er up," Brian told Rex holding his glass out for more. "With pleasure," answered Rex happily. There was a knock at the door and then Dolly entered the room. "Lunch is ready everyone," she announced. "Thanks," replied Rex. "Gentlemen, let's going. Brian, you can take the win with you if you'd like." "Don't have to tell me twice," he stated happily. "I'm so fat I haven't even drunk enough to reach my buzz yet." "We'll have to fix that then, won't we," snickered Rex giving Brian's belly a playful few jabs.