“And here we are, Starlight.” Spike said, “This is where your old friend lives now… Starlight?” He turned around to find the unicorn trailing far behind.
 
The mare waddled and huffed. Her form was a massive pink sphere with legs, her plot was thick, her hips were wide, and her cutie mark stretched out over the jiggling flanks. Her neck was pudgy and her cheeks were bloated, bits and pieces of popcorn clung to her face.
 
“I’m *huff* coming!” Starlight breathed before plopping a mound of popcorn into her mouth. “Mmmph.”
 
“Come on, Starlight. I know you’re nervous, but you have to stop stalling and trying to avoid this. Twilight is confident that you can do it.”
 
Starlight swallowed hard, she coughed on a kernel before staring up at the house that intimidated her. She swallowed again due to her nerves. “Alright. I guess this is it.”
 
The mare ascended the stairs, her belly hung just half way to the steps, she was already pounding in the chest, more from the walk up than from her nervousness. Starlight raised her hoof and knocked on the door twice. A dead silence followed for a good ten seconds.
 
The door clicked and creaked open. A familiar orange face peaked out of the crack of the door, the difference was a matured facile structure, a pair of thin glasses, and an orange goatee.
 
“Hello? Can I help…" His expression changed swiftly as soon as he set his eyes over the mass of pink that stood at his doorstep, “you?”
 
Starlight tried to pull on a big smile, her cheeks blushed deeply and dimples formed. “H-Hi Sunburst. Uh, i-it’s me, Starlight. Your childhood friend?”
 
Sunburst shook his head like he was coming out of a trance. “S-Starlight? Is that really you?” He said in disbelief.
 
“Yeah, it’s me. In the flesh.”
 
“W-Wow. You look… um, you look well-fed.” He gulped and started to sweat.
 
“Oh, thank you. I have been eating pretty well recently.”
 
“Yup, because you’re looking at the pupil to princess Twilight Sparkle!” Spike walked up besides Starlight and leaned his hand on her tubby stomach. He thought he’d help get the ball rolling for her.
 
“You’re the princess of friendship’s protege?” Sunburst lifted his glasses and leaned closer to Starlight.
 
“Er, y-yeah, yeah, but, I mean, It’s not really that big of a deal. I mean, you must be a very important wizard. You probably know much more than I do.”
 
“Oh… hehe, yeah, of course.” Sunburst rubbed the back of his neck. The two fell silent.
 
Spike poked Starlight and waved her over to Sunburst.
 
“Uh, so Sunburst. You may be wondering why I’m here. Well, Twilight wanted me to learn a lesson on friendship, so she s-sent me here to meet you.”
 
Sunburst’s eyes lit up. “OH! Ah, yes, I see now,” his tone perked up, “well, I should welcome you inside, so we can, uh, catch up, heheh.” He tried to pull on a smile.
 
“R-really?” Starlight couldn’t believe how open and welcoming he was. “Sure, th-thank you. Oh, I should finish this popcorn. It’s probably not polite to bring outside food into somepony's house.”
 
“Oh, don’t worry I don’t mi—“ before Sunburst could finish his sentence, Starlight emptied the entire bag of popcorn into her gaping maw, her mouth closed, and she chewed vigorously, her massive cheeks were like giant bubbles of gum. She swallowed it all down in one mega gulp, the large wade of chewed food slid slowly down her throat.
 
“Oh sweet Celestia,” Sunburst whispered.
 
He opened the door to its fullest and stepped back to allow Starlight room to enter. She waddled forward, but found herself getting caught between the door frames. Her belly squished into the sides of the door, too big to pass. Sunburst felt himself burn up, and the air leave his lungs.
 
“D-don’t worry, Sunburst. I just gotta,” she took in a deep inhale, “suck it all in.” Her belly shrunk just a bit, it still pressed into the frames, but she could move through with more ease. At least she did until her hips stopped her in her tracks. She turned around and saw her flanks stuck as her belly had been. At least this time she had Spike help push her butt forward while she wiggled free.
 
Poor Sunburst thought he would hyperventilate from everything he was seeing. When his long time friend was finally in the house she looked at him with a raised eye.
 
“T-tea?” Sunburst said.
 
The last few minutes were spent in silence while Sunburst made the tea. Starlight hung out in the living room browsing Sunburst’s house.
 
“Tea’s ready,” Sunburst said from the kitchen.
 
He took his seat and set the cups saucers out for the two of them. He locked his gaze on Starlight as she waddled into the kitchen, studying her stomach as it moved in its own way, how her legs would press into the sides when she took a step. Once she passed him his view went to her large, swaying plot. He basked in all its glory—wait, what was he saying! He shook himself again and put on a friendly smile.
 
Starlight pulled the chair out and planted her butt onto it. The chair creaked and groaned loudly under her pressure. Her belly squished into the table’s edge, but she didn’t seem to notice that much. She was completely blind to the magnitude of her form, and for some reason it made Sunburst smile.
 
He made a quick look at his stirring spoon, then pretended to grab it with his hoof but instead pushed it off the table. “Oh, clumsy me, hang on one second. He leaned down over the table and drank in the view he had of Starlight’s figure under the table.
 
Her flanks bit into the sides of the chair and rolled over the edges, her legs spread wide for her gut to dip and sag low. He noticed the legs of the wooden chair were slightly bent. Sunburst let out a shuddered breath before picking the spoon back up.
 
“Odd that you wouldn’t just use your magic to pick it up,” Starlight commented.
 
“Uh…” Sunburst was drenched in sweat.
 
“But I suppose a great wizard like you must use your magic terribly often, casting many big and difficult spells. I can see why you prefer to use your hooves on the off time.”
 
“Oh. YES! That’s exactly why I picked my spoon up with my hoof. Haha.” His hooves shook as he tried to pour his tea into his cup.
 
While his eyes were down, Starlight glanced over at spike, who gave her the look, which meant that she had to tell him what happened between the time they last met. She gulped then put on her fake smile. As soon as Sunburst put the kettle down she lifted up with her horn and started pouring her cup. “You wouldn’t happen to have any sugar cubes for this, would you?” She beamed.
 
“Sure.” Sunburst’s horn lit up, the top cabinet door opened and a box of sugar cubes gently floated down to the table, then Starlight snatched the box out of his magical grip with her own.
 
“Thank you!” She poured sugar cubes until her tea splashed and overflowed and filled the saucer. She poured a few more out and ate them plain, Starlight crunched them loudly, then stirred her sugar tea and gulped it down, eating all the cubes in her cup like it was cereal. She gave a small, muffled burp, then  filled her cup again, but she poured the sugar cubes in first before filling it with tea.
 
“So you like sugar in your tea?” Sunburst tried to start up some kind of conversation rather than sitting there, eye boggling her.
 
“I guess.” Starlight stared in her cup. “So, tell me. How was Canterlot? I can only imagine you were one of the top colts in your class,” Starlight said with a false cheery tone.
 
“Well, eh, yeah. I mean, I wouldn’t be a grand wizard if I wasn’t, right?”
 
“Oh, of course! How stupid of me to not think that. Hehe.” She took a big slurp and gulp of her tea and refilled it again. “Do you have any snacks to go with this?”
 
“Yes! I-I mean, I might have something.” Sunburst blushed as he turned away to go fetch something to feed his friend.
 
Spike saw this as an opportunity to speak to Starlight. “Come on, Starlight. You have to get to the point. This is your first lesson of friendship.”
 
Starlight frowned at the dragon. “Oh, spike,” she whispered, “I don’t think this is working. I can just tell he feels very uncomfortable with me being here.”
 
“That’s just your nerves talking. You just have to break the ice is all.” Spike glanced down at the strained chair. “Before you break the chair, at least,” he mumbled.
 
“What?”
 
“Just tell him the truth. That’s all you have to do.” Spiked went back to his spot just as Sunburst walked back to the table with a plate of cookies.
 
“Have you ever tried crystal cookies before? They’re kind of a required taste, but I think—“
 
Four or five cookies flew right off the plate and hovered around Starlight’s face. She shoved one into her mouth and chewed on it a little bit before swallowing. “Mmmm, thank you.” She scarfed down two more and washed it down by chugging her sugar tea, followed by the rest of the cookies. Her lips were coated in cookies crumbs, a small pile of crumbs had also piled on the top of her stomach.
 
“Buurrrp!” Starlight covered her mouth and turned beet red. “Excuse me.”
 
Starlight gasped as Sunburst dropped his head on the table and rolled off as his body fell to the floor.
 
Spike dashed over to the fainted stallion and tried to fan his face.
 
“Spike! Is he okay?” Starlight said.
 
“Huhmah, humeh, uuhhh,” Sunburst moaned as his eyes cracked up. His face was hot and red, and he held a crooked smile.
 
“Yeah, he’s fine. I know that face from experience.” Spike frowned at this new predicament.