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  Thursday and Friday were just the same as the rest of the week. Fleeting glares from Diamond Tiara and her bossy posse. Miss Cheerilee's forever rambling lessons. Strike was so HAWT, he was on fire.

  When the school bell rung on Friday, I was the first to wriggle my way out the door(which I can barely fit through), run as fast as my short chubby legs could carry me, and shout, "FRIDAY!!! WEEKEND!!!!!! WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

  Ponies were starting to file out, and they could see me running like a hippo, but I didn't care. It took me about two minutes to get all the way down the lane. I was breathing hard, sweating like crazy, and the lane was only a few yards long. Oh Celestia, I was out of shape.

I ran home, and it took me half an hour. When I finally reached home, I grabbed an apple and rushed upstairs to my room.

I was reading the fashion mag I pitched away the day I fired the cook, and eating my apple when my pager rung.

It was Goody Gumdrops.

"Hello?" I said, biting the peach I got after I finished the apple. I burped.

  "SILVY!!!!" Gummy squealed from the other end. "Every pony would recognize a burp like THAT!" I felt my fat face go red again. I burped again, softer this time.

"I was thinking we could have a-" Gummy started to say, but my answering machine rung.

  "Hold on a bit." I told Gummy. I gobbled the rest of the peach in a large, swift bite. Then I finished the small bit of chips in the King-sized bag of Diet maize tortilla chips I started yesterday. I picked up the machine and held it to my ear with my shoulder. "Hello?"

"Hi there!" I recognized the voice. That little BRAT!!!! She looked in the phone book and got my number!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Diamond Tiara!!!" I burped really loud. Probably because of the soda I was sipping(slurping).

"That was really loud, Silver Shovel. Can you PLEASE stop that burping?!?!"

"I can't *BUUURRP* help it."

"I can see that. Just lose some weight already."

"I lost TWO pounds!!!"

"Whatever. You're probably lying, anyway. When foals get obese like you, it's kinda hard for them to lose weight."

"Shut up."

  "Ooh, remember yesterday when you went on the rubber tire swing hanging from the big oak in the park, and it got stuck around your extra-wide hips? How much do you weigh, Silver Shovel?? And how did you get like this? You are THE fattest, chubbiest, big-boned, bulky, skinny impaired, horizontally challenged, chunky, curvy, plump, portly, heavy, tubby, flabby, pudgy, blubbery, hefty, OVER sizable, obese, most OVER weight filly I have ever seen in my entire LIFE!! And you're only ten years old!!!"

  "Seriously, Diamond Tiara?! You're going a little too far with this stuff. If you honestly just called me just to rub in how fat and out of shape I am, that I already know, this conversation is so OVER." I hung up and went back to Gummy. "You still on?" I asked my best friend.

"Yes, I am. What was all that about?" Gummy asked.

"Nothing." I lied.

  "Well, me and the girls are inviting you back to Canterlot this weekend for a slumber party at my place. We've been planning it since Wednesday, but my pager broke, so I couldn't call you. We have so many chips, sodas, candies, chocolates, cupcakes, and pizzas that we won't even be able to do the SLEEPING part of our SLUMBER party! It's going to be AWESOME!!!!! We're gonna stay up ALL night and watch shows like Fash Bash, My Little Human, and Dragon City. And then play video games like Kite Flyer, Rainbownator, Chickens Can't Fly, Rat on a Snowboard, and MORE!!!! Woo-hoo!!! You comin'?"

  "Um...WOW!!! Sounds like a lot of junk-eating, laziness, fattening up, and no exercising! Just like we all used to do when I lived in Canterlot..."

  "Yeah! But Hula was on the Swim Team, Bella did track with me, Soft Steps did ballet and Filly Scouts, and you did ballet, but that's not really exercising, so that's kinda why you got so-"

"Chubby? Obese? Overweight? Horizontally challenged? Plump? Porky? Tubby? Chunky? Heavy? FAT?!?!"

  "Yeah, kinda. No offense. But we like a fat pony in our posse. It's what makes you you. You've been gone almost a month! I miss your fat face already. When you first came to school with us two years ago, you were very skinny, and not plump at all, but when you started hanging out with us, you gained a LOT of weight."

"THANK YOU for summing that up. Over one hundred pounds I gained, to be exact. Look I gotta go."

"OK, I understand. H-O-M-E-W-O-R-K! The dreaded eight-letter word. But you are coming to the party, correct?"

  "Of course! I wouldn't miss hanging out with you gals for the whole of Equestria. " Homework was not why I had to leave. I saw a pack of chocolate chip cookies and dived towards them. I snatched up the pack and looked at the cookies with hungry lavender eyes. Then I ate those cookies like I hadn't eaten in months. I heaved my bulky, heavy self up, and drank the rest of my soda. I picked the pager back up to talk to Gummy, but something REALLY bad came out of my mouth instead of words. "*BUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRPP*!!!!!!!!!!!!"

  "Ooh, wasn't that the famous number one Silver Spoon belch? It usually happens after you eat sweet stuff and wash it down with soda. I really missed that one, but we'll be hearing a LOT of it tonight!"

I blushed and giggled. That was kinda funny, because it was true.

"You know who you remind me of in My Little Human?"

"Who?"

  "Mia. The slightly overweight one. She's super nice to all of her friends, shy about her fat sometimes, but in the Season One finale, she discovered it made a really good pillow!"

"LOL!!!"

"See you at six tonight."

"Yep. See ya, Gummy." We both hung up at the same time.

I looked up at the clock. It was 3:36 pm. I still had some time, but I was going to start packing.

I tried to sit in my fancy wicker chair, but I was so fat, I couldn't fit it at all, and the chair halfway burst and broke down.

"Hmm, I could sit in that LAST year without my hips, and especially my belly getting in the way." I said to myself.

I got my best suitcases and packed a nightgown(that fit), some jewelry, a sleeping bag, and other nighttime necessities.

  I ran down the stairs shouting,"Fern!!! I'm leaving for Canterlot!" I tried to get through the door, but my belly refused to go through! "Fernardo!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!"

  Fern was nice and pushed me through the door. It took a while though, since he's half my weight and couldn't push me through on his own, he got a small chair and shoved me through. My belly and hooves jiggled again.

  "Bye!! And, thanks!" I left our property. Since I'm a slow runner for now, I was super lucky the train station was close, because it took me fifteen minutes to run a quarter mile.

I arrived at the train station huffing and puffing. Then I tried to get on the train, but what do you know? Stuck again!

"Help!! Some pony! ANY pony!!! I'm too big to fit through!!" I screamed.

Some ponies watched in amazement, while others laughed.

"Isn't that the Spoons's girl?"

"She is so fat and overweight!"

"HOW MUCH do they FEED  that filly?! This fattie may be a new record for Equestria's fattest foals!"

"Ugh!!" I grunted, upset about what those ponies said. I tried to wiggle my way through.

  "Some one help us!!!" The conductor called. "We need to get this gal on the train, and she's a BIG one! Does any one have any experience with pushing fat ponies onto a train?" He asked sarcastically.

  A stallion pushed my bottom, and the conductor pulled my fat legs. With  some push and pull, some team effort, and A LOT of time and sweating, they finally got me onto that train.

I accidentally slid onto the wall when the conductor let me go. "OUCH!" I yelped like a wounded dog.

"Now, get a seat, you fat, pudgy, filly!! You've caused me and this poor stallion a lot of trouble!" The conductor scolded me.

  I weaved my way through the aisles, barely fitting through, and thinking, WHY are train doors so puny?! I looked around. As far as I was concerned, every seat was taken.

  I saw a yellow mare with a gorgeous orange up-do and plumping red lip gloss. There was some room next to her. "May I sit there next to you?" I asked her politely.

  The mare smiled and chuckled. "Sorry, dearie, I'm afraid that if YOU sit next to ME, I'll get squashed to death. However, there is actually a seat next to me with enough room for two ponies, if you could even fit THAT."

  I sat in the seat(the pony was right, I could barely sit in that, I took up three-fourths of the chair). When the train started, I sat in silence and looked out the window for the whole of the ride.