Your stomach starts grumbling. It’s unstoppable. “Did you .. eat today?” I inquire. “I had a water,” you answer. We stare at each other for a moment. “.. You know I have food, yeah? They’re all snacks but yeah”. You shake your head. “Yeah but I don’t want to impose.” The belly noises continue to impose my ears. I shake my head and insist by laying out snacks.
It’s an array of snacks. Chips. Trail mix. Fruit snacks and some fruit. I take notice that you look at your favorite. “This one?” I point. You nervously smile. “C’mon…” I shove the favored item towards you. “Don’t make me feed you myself~” I say flirtatiously. As those words left my vocal cords, the sides of my face perk up. I’m not used to smiling.
“Go on, open up”. I poke your lips with the bag of food. “Fine”. I drop one down your throat. And just like that, it’s gone. I peek inside the bag. “Huh, still a bit to go”. You wanted to say it was enough but your organs exposed your lie before you could tell it. I put more into your mouth. I’m doing this almost absentmindedly until I feel saliva drooling down around my wrist. “I didn’t mean to put my hand-woah!” I feel a pull, sending my arm down your throat. You put the limb in your teeth and muffle, “let’s speed things up, then”. Oh. Oh no. I know I’m a tease but uhh..
I try shoving myself out when you grabbed my legs under me, hoisting me above you. You give me a small kiss before my head goes past your lips. My legs spring about frantically but do little to slow my descent. Each swallow around my ears sending me further down. With the last of my legs, I’m sealed off from the outside world. A gulp surrounds me as I’m lowered. The stomach is more spacious than the throat but not by much.
The remains of the snack float above the liquid if they weren’t in the walls. I press my hand outward. There was a ripple. I felt a hand to the back of my head. “There you are. Good snack.” “Good what now?” “Thanks to you, I’m not hungry anymore!” I could hear the giggling smile you would have wanted to hide if anyone was around. “Hahaha that’s so great..,” I say nervously. My surroundings getting warmer. “So uhh, do we feel like uhh letting me out at some point?” You laughed at such a request. It died down a little when you felt me hit a wall. “Oh oho ha! Ah, you’re serious”. You started rubbing my back from the outside. “There, there”. I don’t know what’s worse, the digestive acids bubbling or the humiliation. Or that I was feeling okay with this. Not just okay, weirdly comfort?
I tried to snap myself out of it. “Hey! It isn’t my fault you were greedy. Just.. get me out of here!” I start pounding. It only results in released air. The burping sound taunts me, reminding me my efforts aren’t going to amount to much. “Bad snack, I don’t want indigestion”. “I don’t want digestion either!” I hit you again to punctuate the point. “Owwies.. you know I was just teasing you, right?” I stop. “I’m sorry?” “Yeah, I saw the way you see me eat and, well, I thought you wanted to give it a try! You had your whole arm in me and didn’t say anything so I just thought-” I stared in silence processing the events leading up to me being here. “Okay, so what? I thought about it but I didn’t think you’d go through with it. But now it’s like.. it’s actually sizzling in here! .. please.. let me out?”
You hunch over. I feel myself pressing upwards. Going past the throat, I push myself out so you aren’t tempted to swallow me again. I push a little hard with a plop! and you catch me, then set me down. “I’m so sorry. I knew I shouldn’t have asked for a snack or anything”. I’m free. I’m not fighting for my life right now. So I have no reason to be mad, I guess. I did start this whole thing though. “You’re fine. You feeling okay?” “Yeah.. uh, were you scared?” I looked you up and down before answering, the body I was just trapped in moments ago. “Nah, of course not. It was all for show,” I lied, trying to sound confident and brave. You giggled. “I thought you were but who knows? I’m glad you’re okay.” “Were.. you weren’t actually planning to digest me, were you?” I heard you gasp. “Heavens, no! I was going to get you out when needed. Though.. I wouldn’t mind if you.. stayed,” then covered your mouth because you said too much. I giggled. “Maybe I was scared but I just didn’t know you had control of that. I thought I was so annoying that you would just have me done for and, well, I really ain’t got much to do-“. I stare down at you confused. You hug me. I laugh. “You really want me, huh?” “Well, what am I going to do without my favorite snack?” You kiss my neck. I squirm in your arms instinctively, “that tickles!”. You carry me to bed. “So, your favorite snack, huh? I guess let me know if you get the munchies then”. We drift to sleep after all that.
