Carol watched April nervously rubbing her belly all through science class and again once they made it to spanish class.
 Then the clock showed nine o’clock. Carol watched in amazed horror as April started to swell, everywhere. By the time she was done, April’s belly had an odd shape, being far more stretched sideways than any pregnant belly Carol had ever seen.
 Since April seemed to have been rendered blind regarding the unusual situation developing in her belly, Carol reached a steady hand forward to touch April’s shoulder, to see what she could see about that swelling belly.
 Yep. A lot more than one.
 “There’s ten in there” Carol whispered. “At about four months” she continued, sensing the swirl of little ones packing her friend’s womb.
 Seeing the terrified glances April was shooting around, Carol set her mind working on overdrive.
 Thinking fast, she came up with an idea.
 “Alright, here’s what we’re going to do” Carol whispered in April ear, learning over her own desk. “I’m going to take all of those babies out of your belly and into mine. Once they’re there, they should stay that size since I don’t have that tattoo you’re suddenly sporting. Even if you get new ones later, we’ll just keep transferring them to me until we get home. I’ll be huge, but at least they won’t be aging up on their own like they seem to be doing while in you. I’ll try to drop as many of them off as I can to nice mothers. I have a feeling this school is about to see a multiples pregnancy epidemic” Carol explained, hand on April’s shoulder, mentally preparing herself for the drastic ballooning about to take place. What have we gotten ourselves into now? Carol wondered to herself.
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 That sounded like a good plan. April was trying very hard not to cry. She put her hands on Carol's arm and groaned as all ten babies changed bodies. Her belly shrank down, shirt covering her over like a lowering curtain. She gave a relieved huff. "Thank you." They would have to offload those babies eventually. But at least now they wouldn't keep growing.
 April attended more classes with Carol. At ten, April concentrated and felt a new baby growing to one month gestation. But at the same time she pulled up her shirt to see the symbol start to glow again. Her belly showed no signs of the pregnancy at only a month. They'd attended all of their classes by now. So April carried Carol's book toward the locker. "We can go to the mall after this and offload the babies. Once we figure out what I did." She remembered that they'd brought a car with them. Carol was too big to be walking to school.
 April put the books in with the others in the locker. Brendi and the bitch squad walked past as Brendi said in a loud manner, "I would hate to be some big fat hippo! So I avoided sweets and spent all summer at the beach!" The other girls laughed at the comment.
 April hissed vehemently, “We need to find... oh wait! What if I keep picking up weight and drop it off with Brendi? She could stand to gain a few pounds." April didn't want to make Brendi in to a hippo. But if she couldn't make cheerleading squad this year...
 April grinned at her evil plan. She could totally ruin the bitch squad. Or perhaps improve it. Just a little to make things better. But first... April took Carol's shoulder and transferred the baby. "Now all we have is the assembly. Then we can hurry home and fix this. I can't spend the rest of my life growing a baby every hour."
 April chewed on a fingernail. It was a nervous habit she always had. April looked down at her substantial new assets. They were lovely but maybe she had gone a little overboard... she could stand to lose a few inches off her butt.
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 Carol held in a moan as her belly swelled with all ten of the babies that had been in April’s just moments ago. She was huge! Carol spent the rest of class and the next ones just absentmindedly rubbing her enormous belly. It was just so hard to concentrate when she was so delightfully full! Especially when the teachers were just handing out books and syllabuses for the semester, not even actually teaching anything. Carol was so distracted, she didn’t even notice April check out her tummy as 10 o’clock rolled around.
 At least classes were finally over for today. April was nice enough to carry Carol’s bag and books for her, given the size she’d blown up to made doing anything difficult.
 “The mall sounds good” Carol replied, having noticed the expected lack of red glowing bellies among high school girls. Not a lot of options at school.
 The bitch squad came and went, April fuming and plot revenge beside her, before Carol felt another little one pop into her already stuffed belly from April. They really needed to get home and fix that. Carol wondered how many little brothers and sisters she’d like to have… at least twins, but could her mom handle quadruplets? Just twins for now, Carol thought, planning to foist one of the tykes in her belly off into her home when she got home. She’d rather have her mother pregnant alongside her more often, then a bunch of siblings all at the same time. Anyways, assembly.
 Carol started to turn, but was halted when her pendulous taut globe of maternity smacked into the broad fit form of Bryan standing next to locker, smiling down at her, and no longer shyly. Carol was confused for a second until something popped into her head.
 It was about a month before the end of school. Bryan had finally asked her out, and one thing led to another and bam! Hmm, so that’s how this pregnancy is explained Carol thought to herself. At least he seemed genuinely happy when I told him about it she thought to herself, reviewing the for all intents and purposes real memory as reality now stood. So far it didn’t seem like the book would change a person’s personality. If he had not wanted the babies, it would have showed a nasty fight, like April had with her parent’s the first time around. That made her happy! He really liked her! Even if she was bloated with his babies!
 Carol decided to run with it, and vowed to actually make it happen without the books help once things settled down a bit. She decided she wasn’t okay with letting Bryan slip away after seeing just how great he could be.
 “Hi Bryan” Carol smiled, looking up at the hunky fella she could currently call hers, that she planned to ensure was always hers.
 “Hi sweetie” he rumbled, that deep voice in that big chest sending delightful shivers through her tight belly. “You doing all right? Want an escort to the assembly?” he intoned, offering one arm for her to latch onto, the other to April, such a gentleman. Carol gratefully linked her arm with his, afraid she was putting to much weight on him, but he didn’t seem to mind. Arm in arm in arm, they sedately walked down the hall to the gymnasium in deference to her heavy waddle from such a gravid belly. Carol made her way up the side of the bleachers, just to the third row, though the row below her was occupied by her belly. Thank goodness Bryan and April were there, she almost toppled backward at that first step. You’d think someone would save the massively pregnant girl a first row bleacher seat, but no! Apparently the book couldn’t do everything. Carol settled in for a boring assembly on uncomfortable bleachers with a seriously tight womb while her best friend created babies like clockwork. What a day …
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 When they arrived at assembly, it was Bryan who saved dear Carol from a nasty tumble. April was grabbed from behind and turned to see Brendi. "Come here April."
 April looked to Carol and Bryan giving each other googly eyes. She moved to Brendi who said, “So, now it’s your turn to get knocked up. That way you two fat cows can take up the entire bleachers."
 April watched her as a wicked smile formed. "Well, I have a better chance with Dylan than you do. I mean look at this fabulous body. Your little crush on him won't get far."
 Brendi looked livid. But she remained cool. April spotted another overweight girl and took her chance. She planted a baby in the girl then took about fifty pounds from her before taking the baby back. Her body swelled out every further as she turned and grabbed Brendi by an arm. "Maybe you can extend over the bleachers yourself! Good luck getting cheerleader."
 She didn't give Brendi large breasts or a nice ass. Instead she made the girl explode outwards from the middle. Fifty pounds turned in to a big bubbly layer of fat right at her belly forming a circle all the way around. April quickly took back the baby hoping that Carol wouldn't mind another one.
 Brendi glared at her and waddled off with her former team giggling as she went. She had developed a love for cheesecake and at the same time, a problematic thyroid issue. April turned around and paled at what she saw. There was nowhere near Carol to sit! The bleachers had filled up and the only place to sit was too far away. April looked to Carol with that same panic. Nobody knew exactly how long this assembly would take.
 April made her way over and sat near a gaggle of guys that all enjoyed the view of her cleavage. April felt a little exposed right now and vulnerable. She wasn't even sure if this would remain as one baby. She chewed on her nail as the principal came up and started his speech. The clock struck eleven and April concentrated. She saw the baby doubling and realized they were identical twins. She leaned back. So they doubled and then grew a month? April calmed down. She could handle this. The assembly would be over before noon and she could offload these babies before they headed home.
 April watched the clock and dwelled on the way Bryan stared at Carol. It was sweet. April herself realized that Dylan's desires were put on. He was only interested because she made him that way. April was suddenly jealous of Carol. The woman who had such a fabulous hunk interested in her. April looked to Dylan who smiled to her. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to make him like this. April couldn't change it right now. So she just tried to concentrate on the assembly.
 As it got closer to noon, April realized they weren't slowing down. It struck noon and April sighed, suppressing a moan as her belly grew and her load doubled. She leaned back now three months pregnant with quads. But April refused to panic. It was another half an hour before assembly finally ended and students starting heading off. April was so hungry. She knew there would be bagged lunches so she rushed out to grab some. She got two, bringing them back in to the assembly. She walked over to Carol and offered her one of the bagged meals. "I am dying of hunger. Only guessing just how hideous that would be for you."
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 Carol eased herself down onto the uncomfortable bleachers on the far rightside of the gymnasium, letting her swollen ass cushion her plop onto the seat, her belly making the row below unusable. At least Bryan was there, wrapping a big arm around her shoulders, gazing at her adoringly.
 Maybe this assembly won’t be so bad Carol thought to herself, snuggling as best she could into the circle of Bryan’s arm given how hard it is to shift with a womb full of eleven little tykes.
 Carol realized April wasn’t next to them, and sent her eyes searching around for her, spying her just in time to see Brendi explode outward around the middle, like she’d literally eaten a spare tractor tire. Carol stifled a giggle as Brendi waddled off in a huff, rolls of cheesecake induced fat wobbled with every thunderous step.
 Carol was hurt for a second when she saw April heading away from them to sit away from her, before she glanced around to find that what had been wide open seating around them had filled in everywhere. Carol gnawed on her lower lip with worry, hoping this assembly was short, she wasn’t that keen on repeating the spanish class transfer, she was quite stuffed as it was!
 Still nervous, but with nothing to be done until the assembly was over and she could meet up with April again to play host to however many babies April managed to inadvertently make in the mean time, Carol settled in next to Bryan as the principal began to drone on with some spiel about tradition and academics, when all Carol could think abut was April all by herself, the warmth radiating from the hunk with his arm around her shoulders, and how ravenously hungry she was given the eleven babies packing her womb.
 Goodness that assembly was long! Carol thought to herself. Thank goodness Bryan was there, she wasn’t sure she could have gotten her bulk up by herself after sitting so long on those uncomfortable bleachers. He was so sweet, bracing her arm as she slowly trundled down the few steps to the gymnasium floor, her pendulous taut globe of maternity leading the procession.
 “Oh! You are the best friend ever!” Carol cried, grabbing the proffered bag, and riffling through its contents, fairly inhaling the meager pickings as their little group slowly waddled their way out of the gymnasium towards their lockers.
 Speaking of waddling, the edge taken off her hunger but by no means sated, Carol finally noticed the swollen belly of her best friend. She really should have been paying more attention, she was just so hungry! Feeling bad, Carol immediately reached over to pull her best friend into a crushing hug, their swollen bellies pressing together it what was a surprisingly pleasurable sensation of maternal flesh pressing into maternal flesh.
 “Oh sweetie, I should have been paying more attention to you! I’m so sorry!” Carol apologized in the hug, while focusing on moving the.. one, two, three, four … babies in April’s womb into her already crowded one, bringing it up to a whopping total of fifteen! Carol released April, not because she wanted to, but because her new passengers slowly pushed April away till Carol’s arms could no longer reach her, her belly is such a massive globe of gravid maternity. They should really get home and sort this out ……
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 April ate her own too and waited for Carol to finish. She even handed over half the sandwich knowing the preggers girl was packing quite a lot. She smiled to Bryan. "Thanks for looking out for her. I got stuck sitting ways away. Can you help me get her out to the van?"
 A memory came to her. Carol's nice car had been replaced by a minivan. But April was the one driving it today since Carol was too big. When they hugged, April gave her the remaining babies. "I think I've figured it out. They double every hour. So uh... it would have been twenty if you hadn't taken them earlier. Let's get to the house so you can get fed." And so they could look at that book.
 With Bryan's help they were able to get the heavily pregnant teen out to the minivan. The side opened up and even had special steps so that Carol could get up in to her seat. April thanked Bryan before carefully backing out the van and heading for Carol's house.
 It didn't take long to pull up. It was a lot harder helping out Carol who was absolutely enormous with all those babies. "Feels good right? I wonder how many we can carry? We've got to be special since we have this book. Maybe we can carry way more?" She was eager to get to the mall. But first they had to fix this weird tattoo.
 Nobody was home right now. Mrs. B had gone out to the community center. April eyed the stairs for a moment. "How about we sit in the living room and figure this out?" She let Carol waddle to the living room as she shot up the stairs to the bedroom and found the book. April was on her way back down when the clock struck one and she felt a new fetus fill her belly. She returned to the living room. "So how about you start looking and I make us some mac and cheese?"
 April went in to the kitchen and started boiling two packages of noodles. Hunger still gnawed at her and she knew Carol didn't have nearly enough to eat. So they needed a snack before going to the mall. While April waited for the noodles to be soft she started to think back on how good it had felt in the auditorium when their bellies had touched. Carol was so full and April had just the barest reveal of lovely flesh.
 It had been almost sensual. April wondered about the feeling. Maybe it was supposed to feel that good? Perhaps a belly rub for Carol was due. After all the girl was helping April with her screw up... April strained the noodles and started melting the cheese whilst adding milk.
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 At least her new mini van matched the green of what had been her nice car Carol thought as she trundled along toward her vehicle. Carol wondered if the steps were made by the same people who made handicap vans, as she ponderously maneuvered her massive bulk up the small steps. At least she didn’t have to drive, what a disaster attempting that would turn into Carol thought to herself as she finagled the custom harness used to strap her into her seat around her massive globe.
 Carol blew a kiss to Bryan as the door closed and they headed for home. Hopefully they’s get this situation sorted out. Being sooooo full was delightful and all, but the law of diminishing returns was really starting to kick in. Hey!, she remembered something from economics class after all Carol thought to herself, as she cradled her belly on the short drive home, as every infinitesimal dip and bump in the road sent semi pleasurable semi painful tremors radiating through her overly fecund form, rippling through her belly.
 Maneuvering down the steps from the van was even worse than climbing them to get into the van, something Carol hadn’t thought was possible. Probably had something to do with the downward momentum and not being able to remotely see her feet Carol mused.
 “Yes, April it feels good, the fullness is incredible. Based on the lack of stretch marks and the lack of pain despite how far my belly has stretched to fit all these tykes, I bet we could indeed carry way more” Carol replied as she slowly waddled her inside. “But to be honest, after the fourth one, the rest have a lot less impact individually and you’re just so huge! Plus, I don’t know, after about 20, I’m not sure I’d even be able to walk at all. We could probably fit them, but we’d be stuck wherever we were. That sounds awfully boring” Carol trailed off as they finally made it through the front door.
 Carol waddled her way from the foyer over to the living room, plopping onto the sofa, grateful as its deep cushioning absorbed her less than graceful descent, though she knew she’d have a devil of a time getting back up when they headed for the mall. Though Carol found it hard to care as it took the weight of her legs and back from carrying all the little ones in her belly.
 Carol started flipping through the book as April went to make some food, absentmindedly rubbing what of her belly she could reach as it rumbled in hunger, as though it could sense the food being made in the kitchen.
 Carol stumbled across a tattoo …. but oh, it was the wrong one, not the same design as April had wrapped around her belly button … this one looked more like a celtic knot, though still around the belly button.
 “Want to make sure those multiples you’ve knocked your mom up with don’t get here early? Then never fear, the gestation lock knot is here! Just give the fertile mom to be a smooch on the tip of that maternal globe, and this trendy design will appear! Effects include increased elasticity, and ensuring that multiplies develop to the same size as singular pregnancies, by keeping them growing in there until the full nine month mark and not arriving a minute sooner! Most multiples try to leave early and underdeveloped simply due the mother’s body underestimating itself, but this tattoo will ensure you get the fullest maternal figure for the longest time to rest your loving eyes on until the fully developed bundles of joy can see you for themselves.”
 Useful, Carol thought to herself, throwing a piece of paper from the notepad on the corner table in the book to mark the page. I’ll use that on my mom after I give her twins, because that is definitely going to happen sooner rather than later Carol mused to herself, returning to flipping through the book propped up on her belly.
 If only this thing had an index or a glossary Carol bemoaned, but no, she’d already checked and the whole book seemed to be haphazard with little to no rhyme or reason in its layout, probably because everything was added when someone made the spell in question, which definitely suggested they could probably make their own if they ever came across a situation that somehow wasn’t covered somewhere in the books pages.