“So let me see if I understand you...”, the young school counselor Maria asked in her thick Spanish accent.
“You want to be homeschooled?”
 
“Yeah.”, replied Pepper Lockridge, her friend Lexie sitting close by her side.
 
After the incident with the librarian a few days ago, Pepper had been voluntarily put on the school’s predatory watch list. Even still, the young girl found that she still had the same problem she’d had before the discipline; she still found herself staring at any girl she’d pass by in the hallway, her eyes going wide and her mouth beginning to water whenever she caught sight of a curvier-than-average girl within her eyesight.
 
Now she was in the counselor’s office, trying to help explain to the curvy woman behind the desk why she should get thrown out of her own school.
 
“I just don’t understand why...”, the counselor said.
“Sure, you have a few demerits on your record, but your grades are excellent and have been VERY consistent up until a couple weeks ag-“
 
“Look, I just can’t be at this school, okay?”, Pepper butted in.
 
“Because you ate the librarian?!”, Maria exclaimed.
“Oh please; we go through those girls monthly!”
 
This didn’t do much to ease Pepper’s mind, who still looked rather embarrassed to be talking about the entire ordeal.
 
“Look, Pepper...”, the counselor said calmly.
“You’re young and a predator; there’s a lot going through your brain right now. I don’t mean to compare, but I went through the same thing when I was your age; every pred girl does.”
 
“You’re a pred, too?”, Pepper asked, a look of hope briefly appearing on her face.
 
“Oh, well of course I am!”, the counselor exclaimed, resting her impressive, melon-sized breasts atop her desk.
“Where do you think I got these from?”
 
Pepper stared in amazement at the counselor’s chest; sure, they were still clothed, but she knew a good pair of boobs when she saw one.
 
Always made her feel so...
 
Hungry...
 
“Now...”, Maria continued.
“I think that the best course of action that you can take is to enroll in a predatory rehabilitation class, which, unfortunately we don’t offer but you shouldn’t have ANY problem getting into whichever one you like!”
 
The counselor’s words became muffled as Pepper began to think about what it would be like to eat her, feeling those jiggly breasts of hers run along her tongue as she slid down her throat and into her stomach. Oh, how she would thrash and scream as her energy slowly drained away, leaving her to do nothing but digest in only a matter of minutes, melting away into a thick, bubbling chyme filled with the bones, hair, and clothing of something that was once human but was now nothing more than a snack.
 
An appetizer.
 
She knew this one wouldn’t do it. She knew she couldn’t stop at just one.
 
She had to have more...
 
She could grab that secretary in the office lazing about in the office right now...
 
She could run out to the hall and grab a student or six before making her way about the town...
 
She could swallow this little “Lexie” punk. Right now. Swallow her down like she was nothing, because she IS nothing.
 
They’re ALL nothing.
 
Nothing but MEAT walking around to stuff Pepper’s gut to the max, only to be ground up and digested so she could make room for more hunks of tasty, TASTY meat.
 
All while the gluttonous predator thought to herself, Lexie and Maria gradually became more aware that Pepper had her mind in... other places at the moment.
 
“Pepper?”, Lexie asked.
“You alright, dude?”
 
Pepper didn’t respond, only making a sly, drool-soaked grin as she eyed the counselor down like a lion might a steak.
 
“Oh my God, your eyes...”, Maria said in surprise.
“You... you want to eat me, don’t you?”
 
“You want to swallow me, take every last breath out of me as I melt down into NOTHING for you, nothing but blood and bones waiting to FILL your voluptuous figure...”
 
Pepper giddily nodded along to everything the counselor said, a clear sign that the old Pepper was, once again, out of any control.
 
“Well, you’re lucky I have a thing for preds, big girl...”, she cried, standing atop the desk as she ripped open her shirt and exposed her bounteous chest clad in a black brassiere.
“So come on, you animal; swallow me! Melt me away! Churn me into nothing!”
 
“Give me all you’ve got!”
 
“With pleasure!”, Pepper to herself as she pounced atop the desk and knocked her and Maria back down onto the floor behind the desk.
 
“Woah!”, Lexie exclaimed at the sight of the surprising speed of her large friend.
“Holy shit...”
 
From there, the young woman could hear disgusting sounds of vore happening just out of her eyesight; yelps and moans of pleasure, with even the occasional feral growl, were accompanied by the constant sound of as the predator shoved her shuddering prey down her throat. Looking to make the process a bit easier, Pepper leaned her head back towards the sky and continued swallowing, letting gravity aid her in sending the horny counselor that much closer to her inevitable demise.
 
“Holy shit...”, Lexie said again upon seeing her friend swallow the counselor’s twitching legs down her bulging throat as a hawk might a mouse.
 
After only a few seconds, Maria’s heels vanished past Pepper’s lips with a satisfying pop; after that, it didn’t take long for the predator’s eyes to settle on the only other woman in the room.
 
“Hey, Pep, what are you doing?”, Lexie asked as she got up from her chair and back into the corner of the room.
“Pep?!”
 
“Oh, come on, Lexie!”, Pepper said as she crawled across the desk.
“That gut slut isn’t NEARLY enough to fill me, and without any bigger girls around, I guess I’ll just have to make due by swallowing YOU next...”
 
“No hard feelings!”
 
“Pepper, stop!”, Lexie yelled as she tried to rush past the gluttonous girl, only to have Pepper’s arm block before she could escape.
“C’mon man; this isn’t funny!”
 
“There’s no need to fight, Lexie.”, Pepper said calmly.
“We BOTH know you want this...”
 
“No, I don’t!”, Lexie replied.
 
“Oh, come on.”, Pepper said with a playful tilt of her head.
“I know you eye me, that you long for my body, just like every single girl in this town does; all so you can become a part of it just like my little gut slut here.”
 
“Because I freaking LIKE you, Pepper!”, Lexie exclaimed.
“You’re, like, my best friend! I don’t care if you’re some skinny girl or some big, fat pred or whatever; I freaking LOVE you, dude!”
 
Unfortunately for Lexie, this plea of friendship didn’t seem to please her friend, who casually drummed her fingers atop her squirming belly.
 
“Oh, Lexie...”, Pepper retorted.
“When’ll you learn that preds don’t NEED friends, ESPECIALLY ones that’ll make better ASS padding than they did a person like YOU!”
 
Lexie couldn’t believe what she was hearing; it was impossible. It was impossible that her best friend for years, the person with whom she’d shared so many memories and who she trusted more than anyone in the world, would so readily dispose of her like this.
 
There had to be some way out of this.
 
There had to.
 
“No!”, Lexie cried, her voice becoming sore from the stress.
“Pepper, please!”
 
“Aw, but Lexie; you and I can be just like what every duo like us wants to be!”, Pepper replied.
“Best friends. Together forever...”
 
“Pepper...”, Lexie mumbled to herself before taking her eyes off of Pepper and looking down towards the floor.
 
“That’s a good snack.”, Pepper said as she inched her salivating maw closer to her friend.
“I can’t wait to add that ass of yours onto mine, now come to mama...”
 
In her last ditch effort to escape her friend’s clutches, Lexie screamed as she sent her sneaker-clad foot straight into Pepper’s gut, causing the predator to recoil for a second before releasing a massive-
 
*BUUURRRRRP*
 
-from between her lips, blasting Lexie in the face with the scent of molten death that she’d just so narrowly avoided. The movement from the counselor stopped as she was quickly melted in the predator’s gut, becoming a thick, bubbly chyme that dispersed itself throughout Pepper’s body within seconds.
 
The pred collapsed to the ground as the growth rang its course through her entire body. Her breasts bulged against her shirt, snapping the already ill-fitting bra she had in and stretching the fabric to its absolute limits. Her doughy belly oozed across the floor as it stretched even further underneath her shirt than it previously did. Her legs became thicker than tree trunks, the strands of her shorts beginning to snap as her thighs became thicker and her ass nearly split the Jean shorts in two.
 
“Oh my God...”, Pepper groaned to herself before looking up into her friend’s eyes.
“Oh my God, Lexie!”
 
At that moment, Pepper looked around the room and everything came to her; the missing counselor, her newly fattened body, and the scared, incredibly tense position her friend was currently in.
 
“Lexie, I’m so sorry!”, Pepper said nervously.
“I- I have to go.”
 
Without another word, Pepper made a bolt for the door. She wasn’t sure where she’d be going once she got to the hallway and out of the school building, but
 
“Hold on, Pep!”, Lexie called out running after her.
 
Fortunately for Lexie, Pepper wasn’t quite acquainted with her new weight yet, leading to her to trip and fall shortly after she made it to the hallway that led towards the exit.
 
“You okay, dude?”, Lexie said as she leaned down to pick up her friend, only for Pepper to yank her arm away.
 
“Don’t touch me, okay?!”, the pink-haired girl yelled back.
 
“Woah, man, relax!”, Lexie replied, not that Pepper was listening much.
 
“It happened again, Lexie!”, Pepper cried out.
“I fucking ate someone against my will again! I don’t want that to happen to you.”
 
“Calm down, okay?”, Lexie said.
“You’re not gonna fix the problem panicking like that.”
 
“I- I just-“, Pepper said, taking deep breaths.
“I don’t know what to do...”
 
“I’m sure we can can figure it out.”, Lexie replied.
 
“I just...”, Pepper said before pausing to find the right words.
“I don’t feel like I can be around you, just in case I go, you know... feral...”
 
“I’ll be fine.”, replied Lexie.
“I promise.”
 
“You sure?”, said Pepper dejectedly.
 
“I’m here now, aren’t I?”, Lexie replied.
“You’re not attacking the campus?”
 
“Yeah...”, Pepper sighed.
“Do you... do you think we can... make this work? You know, being friends and all?”
 
“Can’t hurt to try.”, Lexie said with a shrug of her shoulders.
“And I wouldn’t mind making things a bit more... closer, if it makes you feel any better.”
 
“Lexie...”, Pepper continued.
“Wha- what do you me-“
 
Pepper was interrupted as Lexie leaned in for a kiss on the lips, one that, while rather quick, still left quite the impression on the bewildered girl.
 
“That make you feel better?”, Lexie asked casually.
 
“Yes.”, Pepper replied quickly, simply too stunned for anything else to come out of her mouth.
 
“I thought so.”, Lexie said, grabbing Pepper by her side (as best she could) and walking towards the exit beside her.
“Let’s get you home, big girl; we got a lot work to do.”
 
In that moment of shock of being kissed by her best friend, Pepper couldn’t find words to describe how she felt.
 
On one hand, she was still dealing with the whole “going-werewolf-around-preds” thing that, while it certainly wasn’t causing her MUCH harm, it still left her feeling nothing but guilt any time she’d eat someone who didn’t deserve it.
 
But, even with all that, walking home by the side of her best friend made her feel... good. It made her feel the best she’d felt in months.
 
Maybe she COULD work this “pred” thing out.
 
Together.
 
Yeah, that sounded nice.
 
Together, with her best friend by her side, it might just be a little bit easier.