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     "Hey, Nick!  Where's the peanut butter?!" Milton called from the kitchen.  He'd only been in the house for a couple of days and hadn't figured out all the little places that Nick kept his snack foods.  As he turned again, the knife slipped out of his hand and fell clattering to the floor.  Bending down to get it, he was reminded of the roll of fat around his mid-section.  He didn't feel out of shape, but he didn't look in shape either.  It was probably just another one of the many reasons Katherine had dumped him.

     Straightening up with a sigh, he shook his head at the thought.  Katherine was the past, and he had to move on.  Maybe if he worked out a little, he could shape up and get a new girlfriend; a better one.  But right now he wanted a peanut butter and salsa sandwich to wake him up and clear his sinuses.

    "Niiick!" he called out again to his friend.

    "What?!" Nick yelled back as he came down the stairs.  Working as a Systems Analyst for a research company, he was finding it harder and harder to support himself and now his friend like he wanted.  But he certainly wasn't going to leave Milton out in the cold.  Milton had been there for him enough times that he couldn't possibly refuse him.

    "I'm heading out the door!  Is it important?" he called as he pulled on his jacket.

    "Peanut butter!" Milton shouted again, still impatiently checking cabinets.  He found one full of canned foods, one full of boxed foods, one full of pots, and one full of plates.  Could Nick be any more organized?  He might as well have little labels on the outside of every door.

    "I take that as a 'No,'" Nick said as he opened the front door.  "To the left of the oven, and try not to eat everything, okay?"

    The door shut as Milton opened the correct cabinet with the peanut butter, but also crackers and chips.

    "The Mother Lode," he muttered, pulling down all three.

----

     A few hours later, Milton snorted awake from a nap and realized he needed to use the restroom.  After dealing with that business, he noticed the mess he'd made in the living room with an empty bag of chips, paper plates and soda cans.  Collecting it all up, he took it to the kitchen trash but found it already bursting.  Pulling out the bag, he tied it off and figured he might as well take it out to the trash can on the curb.  Nick had said something about trash pick up today.

     Squinting at the noonday sun as he stepped outside, Milton headed down the short driveway.  Dropping the trash in the can, he glanced up the street and noticed a garage sale going on.  He'd never been much for looking through other people's junk before, but Katherine had been as frugal as they come.  Every piece of furniture in her house had come from garage sales and flea markets.  She'd dragged him along a few times, and he'd found a new passion; antique video games and vintage VHS movies.  Brushing a few crumbs from his shirt and wiping his mouth, he headed down the street to see what they had to offer.

     There was a lot of furniture and clothes laid out on the front lawn.  Milton spotted an older lady taking someone's money near the porch and figured she was running this gig.  Before he could ask her if there were any videos or games, he spotted a table with an assortment of just what he was looking for.  Immediately setting aside VHS copies of Robocop and Stripes, Milton was checking an Atari 2600 system when the lady came up to him.

     "Can I help you find anything?" she asked with a smile.  He turned and pointed at the gaming system.

     "Is this an original?  I mean, did you buy it new?" he asked.

     "Oh, my!  I haven't seen that in years.  My husband must have pulled it down from the attic.  We bought it for my son's fifth birthday.  He's in the Navy now.  He played that thing for hours and hours," she chuckled as she reminisced.  Milton rolled his eyes.

     "So it's an original," he repeated.

     "Oh, yes. It was all the rage back in 1977," she said.  He nodded and set it with the other movies.  She noticed the movies.

     "I do have some more tapes over here," she said, opening a wooden cabinet to reveal at least a hundred movies. "Not many people looking for these anymore."

     Milton's eyes went wide.  "Mother lode," he whispered and knelt down to start checking the tapes.  The woman smiled and left him to it for a while.

     As he worked his way through the tapes, he noticed a tape that just said 'Workout' with a pretty brunette one the edge of the sleeve.  He pulled it out immediately saw that it was a  'Pregnancy Workout' and the woman was at least 8 months pregnant.  Scoffing at the idea of pregnant women in leotards, he thought the girl on the front was actually kind of cute.

     "Congratulations!" came the woman's voice from behind him.  Startled, Milton turned to look up at her.  He stood, still holding the workout tape.

     "I'm sorry?"  he said.

     "When is your wife due?" she asked, motioning to the tape.  "I saw you looking and figured ..."

     "Huh?  Oh, I ... I'm not married.  I was ... Looking for a workout tape or something," he covered, patting his own belly.  "Sure it's for pregnant women, but 50 cents is a steal and a workout is a workout, right?" he said, trying to seem like he'd pulled the tape on purpose.

     The woman nodded.  "Oh, I see.  Of course.  Well, that tape really helped with my third and fourth pregnancies.  I'm sure it'll help you get in shape too.  In fact, you can have it free," she said with a smile.  Milton perked up.

     "Oh, okay," he accepted, setting the tape with the other six he'd found.  "How much do I owe you?"

     The woman took the stack of tapes over to a table she had set up near her porch.  Milton followed up shortly with the Atari system, and found her holding the pregnancy video with her eyes shut and whispering something.

     "Everything okay?" he asked, putting the game system on the table.

     "Oh, I'm quite alright. I was just thinking of something.  I'm sure the workout will do wonders for you," she said sweetly.  Milton rolled his eyes.

     After calculating the cost and exchanging money, she smiled warmly as she helped him stack everything.  "Do you need anything else?" she asked.

     Milton carefully balanced the tapes on the game system and carried them against his chest.  "Nope!  Thanks for the tapes."

     Returning to the house, he set the bundle down on the coffee table with a heavy sigh.  He set the workout video to one side and took the rest of the tapes upstairs to add to his collection.  When he came down he tried to hook up the Atari 2600 to the television, but immediately realized the converter box needed two screws to patch into the television, and newer TVs did have that option.  He had a converter, but wasn't sure which box it was buried in.  Shrugging, he put the Atari under the coffee table and noticed the workout tape.

     Glancing around nervously, like anyone would really be watching, he slipped the tape into the VCR.

     As the tape started to play, a svelte, brunette woman is shown, standing in a room with several pregnant women. "Welcome ladies! Today we'll be working out our bodies to help us carry that precious cargo in our tummies!"

     Milton scoffed, dropping back onto the couch as he watched.  It was curious that the lead woman didn't appear pregnant, and she was pretty hot.

     The woman starts to sit on the floor, cross-legged, and then moves her legs so her feet touch each other. "First, we'll be starting with a butterfly stretch. Come on, it shouldn't be hard to do."

     Smirking slightly, Milton sat up on the couch a bit, then pulled his feet up onto the cushion, putting them together as instructed.  It was pretty comfortable on the couch.  He leaned forward when she did and went up at the end of the count.  He was already feeling a burn in his thighs.  It actually felt kind of good.

    The instructor proceeded through several simple stretching exercises and Milton continued to follow along.  Eventually he realized he couldn't continue on the couch so he moved the coffee table and sat on the floor.  The stretches were all pretty easy and Milton found it kind of fun.  After half an hour, he was sweating a little and his body actually seemed to tingle with energy.

     "Okay, now it's time to get advanced and really get in shape," the instructor said.  A pregnant woman walked up next to the first woman.  She seemed to look like the neighbor that gave him the tape.

     "All right, expectant ones," she said cheerfully.  "By now you're feeling yourselves getting more toned in those soft hips and around that belly of yours."

     Milton rolled his arms and patted his padded belly.  He wasn't tired nor was he hurting.  He shrugged and figured he'd let the tape play.  Clearly he was already in good enough shape to proceed to the advanced portion of the training.  Maybe after a few days of this he'd start loosing weight.  That would show Katherine.

     Seeing the heavy belly on the new instructor, he did feel a little out of place.  Glancing around, he grabbed a round throw pillow on the couch and pushed it up under his T-shirt.  It was kind of lumpy, but it did kind of make him look pregnant.

     "Just one of the girls," he joked as they started the next exercise.

     The new instructor went through some more, longer stretches and squats, her belly occasionally getting full focus on the screen.  "And one, and two, and three..." She'd repeat through each stretch.

     "Come on, girls, work that belly!" she said.

     Milton was really starting to sweat now, eagerly following on with the exercises.  "Oh, I'm working it all right," he commented, glancing down at his faux belly.  It really did feel good to workout.  He'd always thought it would be painfully annoying.  He was definitely going to use this tape again tomorrow.

    The instructor went on for at least another hour, constantly remarking how important it was to keep the body and the belly healthy.  She gave diet tips and other ways to keep your baby happy.  Milton was fully engrossed now, focused on the exercises.  The tingling enveloped his whole body and felt great.

     Suddenly, the front door opened and Nick came in and paused.  "What the..." he started with his head tilted. "What are you watching?  What's going on?"

     Startled by Nick's arrival, Milton turned to the door and blushed, holding the fake belly.  There was a tense moment between them, and a strange hot flash washed over Milton's body.

     "It's a workout tape I got from the garage sale up the street," she chirped.  "It's really making me sweat, and it feels good too!"

     Milly eased herself to her feet using the couch for support and keeping one hand on her heavy belly.  Once she was standing, both hands shifted to their familiar positions in the small of her back.  She waddled around the couch and up to Nick.

     "It was supposed to be a surprise.  I was hoping I could get in a little better shape for you before you noticed.  This is only my first day."

     She stepped up and gave him a peck on the cheek. "How was work?"

     Nick pulled a bouquet of roses from behind his back.  "I got promoted!" he announced.  Millie squealed and took the flowers.

     "Congratulations, Nicky!" she said as she smelled the fresh flowers.

     "Now I can take proper care of my 'Mother Load,'" he said as he rubbed Milly's belly and kissed her deeply.

     Millie melted into his kiss as she always did.  Ever since their first kiss on prom night he'd been the one for her.  Only a little kick from her belly distracted her.

     "Oh!  Did you feel that!  They're awake!" she said, looking down and holding her belly with both hands.  "That's right, boys!  Daddy's home!"

-----

     The next morning Millie took advantage of her 4 a.m. bathroom break and went downstairs to make some breakfast for Nick.  She had a little trouble getting the pancake mix down from the cabinet, but she managed.  The smell of cooking food woke Nick early and led him downstairs.

     "Oh, Sweetie.  You don't have to do that," he insisted, nuzzling up behind her and giving her belly a hug.  "But thank you!"

     She turned off the stove and turned to give Nick a big kiss.  "Good morning!  I feel like a new woman today.  It must have been that tape!" she said.

     Nick chuckled and gave her breasts a playful squeeze.  "Hey, they 'do' seem firmer," he joked.  She swatted him away and directed him to get some plates.

     Once they'd finished eating, Nick went up to get changed and Millie cleaned the kitchen.  She was just finishing when he came downstairs and gave her his standard goodbye peck on the cheek.  She waddled after him, waving from the porch as he drove off to his first day as a Senior Systems Manager.

     After a shower, Millie got dressed and turned on the TV.  The screen stayed blank and she quickly realized the VCR was still on.  She ejected the tape and was reminded of the woman up the street.  She decided to go for a morning walk and thank her for the tape.

     The woman was just setting up tables in the yard and hummed happily to herself.

     Millie waddled into her yard and waved, her other hand planted firmly in the small of her back.  "Hi, Helena!"

     "Oh, hello again, Millie!  Was the workout tape helpful?" Helena asked with a smile.  She set a box labeled 'Baby Clothes' on the table.  Mille came right over and took a handful of the clothes to help her put them out.

     "Oh, it was great.  I feel so invigorated!  Like a whole new person!" she said, setting the pile of clothes on the designated table.  She lifted a pair of blue onesies against her belly and turned back to Helena.

     "Look!  Perfect fit!" she joked.

     "Oh, wonderful! You're going to make a perfect mother, Millie. I just know it," Helena said with a wink.

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     "Hey, Nick!  Where's the peanut butter?!" Milton called from the kitchen.  He'd only been in the house for a couple of days and hadn't figured out all the little places that Nick kept his snack foods.  As he turned again, the knife slipped out of his hand and fell clattering to the floor.  Bending down to get it, he was reminded of the roll of fat around his mid-section.  He didn't feel out of shape, but he didn't look in shape either.  It was probably just another one of the many reasons Katherine had dumped him.

     Straightening up with a sigh, he shook his head at the thought.  Katherine was the past, and he had to move on.  Maybe if he worked out a little, he could shape up and get a new girlfriend; a better one.  But right now he wanted a peanut butter and salsa sandwich to wake him up and clear his sinuses.

    "Niiick!" he called out again to his friend.

    "What?!" Nick yelled back as he came down the stairs.  Working as a Systems Analyst for a research company, he was finding it harder and harder to support himself and now his friend like he wanted.  But he certainly wasn't going to leave Milton out in the cold.  Milton had been there for him enough times that he couldn't possibly refuse him.

    "I'm heading out the door!  Is it important?" he called as he pulled on his jacket.

    "Peanut butter!" Milton shouted again, still impatiently checking cabinets.  He found one full of canned foods, one full of boxed foods, one full of pots, and one full of plates.  Could Nick be any more organized?  He might as well have little labels on the outside of every door.

    "I take that as a 'No,'" Nick said as he opened the front door.  "To the left of the oven, and try not to eat everything, okay?"

    The door shut as Milton opened the correct cabinet with the peanut butter, but also crackers and chips.

    "The Mother Lode," he muttered, pulling down all three.

----

     A few hours later, Milton snorted awake from a nap and realized he needed to use the restroom.  After dealing with that business, he noticed the mess he'd made in the living room with an empty bag of chips, paper plates and soda cans.  Collecting it all up, he took it to the kitchen trash but found it already bursting.  Pulling out the bag, he tied it off and figured he might as well take it out to the trash can on the curb.  Nick had said something about trash pick up today.

     Squinting at the noonday sun as he stepped outside, Milton headed down the short driveway.  Dropping the trash in the can, he glanced up the street and noticed a garage sale going on.  He'd never been much for looking through other people's junk before, but Katherine had been as frugal as they come.  Every piece of furniture in her house had come from garage sales and flea markets.  She'd dragged him along a few times, and he'd found a new passion; antique video games and vintage VHS movies.  Brushing a few crumbs from his shirt and wiping his mouth, he headed down the street to see what they had to offer.

     There was a lot of furniture and clothes laid out on the front lawn.  Milton spotted an older lady taking someone's money near the porch and figured she was running this gig.  Before he could ask her if there were any videos or games, he spotted a table with an assortment of just what he was looking for.  Immediately setting aside VHS copies of Robocop and Stripes, Milton was checking an Atari 2600 system when the lady came up to him.

     "Can I help you find anything?" she asked with a smile.  He turned and pointed at the gaming system.

     "Is this an original?  I mean, did you buy it new?" he asked.

     "Oh, my!  I haven't seen that in years.  My husband must have pulled it down from the attic.  We bought it for my son's fifth birthday.  He's in the Navy now.  He played that thing for hours and hours," she chuckled as she reminisced.  Milton rolled his eyes.

     "So it's an original," he repeated.

     "Oh, yes. It was all the rage back in 1977," she said.  He nodded and set it with the other movies.  She noticed the movies.

     "I do have some more tapes over here," she said, opening a wooden cabinet to reveal at least a hundred movies. "Not many people looking for these anymore."

     Milton's eyes went wide.  "Mother lode," he whispered and knelt down to start checking the tapes.  The woman smiled and left him to it for a while.

     As he worked his way through the tapes, he noticed a tape that just said 'Workout' with a pretty brunette one the edge of the sleeve.  He pulled it out immediately saw that it was a  'Pregnancy Workout' and the woman was at least 8 months pregnant.  Scoffing at the idea of pregnant women in leotards, he thought the girl on the front was actually kind of cute.

     "Congratulations!" came the woman's voice from behind him.  Startled, Milton turned to look up at her.  He stood, still holding the workout tape.

     "I'm sorry?"  he said.

     "When is your wife due?" she asked, motioning to the tape.  "I saw you looking and figured ..."

     "Huh?  Oh, I ... I'm not married.  I was ... Looking for a workout tape or something," he covered, patting his own belly.  "Sure it's for pregnant women, but 50 cents is a steal and a workout is a workout, right?" he said, trying to seem like he'd pulled the tape on purpose.

     The woman nodded.  "Oh, I see.  Of course.  Well, that tape really helped with my third and fourth pregnancies.  I'm sure it'll help you get in shape too.  In fact, you can have it free," she said with a smile.  Milton perked up.

     "Oh, okay," he accepted, setting the tape with the other six he'd found.  "How much do I owe you?"

     The woman took the stack of tapes over to a table she had set up near her porch.  Milton followed up shortly with the Atari system, and found her holding the pregnancy video with her eyes shut and whispering something.

     "Everything okay?" he asked, putting the game system on the table.

     "Oh, I'm quite alright. I was just thinking of something.  I'm sure the workout will do wonders for you," she said sweetly.  Milton rolled his eyes.

     After calculating the cost and exchanging money, she smiled warmly as she helped him stack everything.  "Do you need anything else?" she asked.

     Milton carefully balanced the tapes on the game system and carried them against his chest.  "Nope!  Thanks for the tapes."

     Returning to the house, he set the bundle down on the coffee table with a heavy sigh.  He set the workout video to one side and took the rest of the tapes upstairs to add to his collection.  When he came down he tried to hook up the Atari 2600 to the television, but immediately realized the converter box needed two screws to patch into the television, and newer TVs did have that option.  He had a converter, but wasn't sure which box it was buried in.  Shrugging, he put the Atari under the coffee table and noticed the workout tape.

     Glancing around nervously, like anyone would really be watching, he slipped the tape into the VCR.

     As the tape started to play, a svelte, brunette woman is shown, standing in a room with several pregnant women. "Welcome ladies! Today we'll be working out our bodies to help us carry that precious cargo in our tummies!"

     Milton scoffed, dropping back onto the couch as he watched.  It was curious that the lead woman didn't appear pregnant, and she was pretty hot.

     The woman starts to sit on the floor, cross-legged, and then moves her legs so her feet touch each other. "First, we'll be starting with a butterfly stretch. Come on, it shouldn't be hard to do."

     Smirking slightly, Milton sat up on the couch a bit, then pulled his feet up onto the cushion, putting them together as instructed.  It was pretty comfortable on the couch.  He leaned forward when she did and went up at the end of the count.  He was already feeling a burn in his thighs.  It actually felt kind of good.

    The instructor proceeded through several simple stretching exercises and Milton continued to follow along.  Eventually he realized he couldn't continue on the couch so he moved the coffee table and sat on the floor.  The stretches were all pretty easy and Milton found it kind of fun.  After half an hour, he was sweating a little and his body actually seemed to tingle with energy.

     "Okay, now it's time to get advanced and really get in shape," the instructor said.  A pregnant woman walked up next to the first woman.  She seemed to look like the neighbor that gave him the tape.

     "All right, expectant ones," she said cheerfully.  "By now you're feeling yourselves getting more toned in those soft hips and around that belly of yours."

     Milton rolled his arms and patted his padded belly.  He wasn't tired nor was he hurting.  He shrugged and figured he'd let the tape play.  Clearly he was already in good enough shape to proceed to the advanced portion of the training.  Maybe after a few days of this he'd start loosing weight.  That would show Katherine.

     Seeing the heavy belly on the new instructor, he did feel a little out of place.  Glancing around, he grabbed a round throw pillow on the couch and pushed it up under his T-shirt.  It was kind of lumpy, but it did kind of make him look pregnant.

     "Just one of the girls," he joked as they started the next exercise.

     The new instructor went through some more, longer stretches and squats, her belly occasionally getting full focus on the screen.  "And one, and two, and three..." She'd repeat through each stretch.

     "Come on, girls, work that belly!" she said.

     Milton was really starting to sweat now, eagerly following on with the exercises.  "Oh, I'm working it all right," he commented, glancing down at his faux belly.  It really did feel good to workout.  He'd always thought it would be painfully annoying.  He was definitely going to use this tape again tomorrow.

    The instructor went on for at least another hour, constantly remarking how important it was to keep the body and the belly healthy.  She gave diet tips and other ways to keep your baby happy.  Milton was fully engrossed now, focused on the exercises.  The tingling enveloped his whole body and felt great.

     Suddenly, the front door opened and Nick came in and paused.  "What the..." he started with his head tilted. "What are you watching?  What's going on?"

     Startled by Nick's arrival, Milton turned to the door and blushed, holding the fake belly.  There was a tense moment between them, and a strange hot flash washed over Milton's body.

     "It's a workout tape I got from the garage sale up the street," she chirped.  "It's really making me sweat, and it feels good too!"

     Milly eased herself to her feet using the couch for support and keeping one hand on her heavy belly.  Once she was standing, both hands shifted to their familiar positions in the small of her back.  She waddled around the couch and up to Nick.

     "It was supposed to be a surprise.  I was hoping I could get in a little better shape for you before you noticed.  This is only my first day."

     She stepped up and gave him a peck on the cheek. "How was work?"

     Nick pulled a bouquet of roses from behind his back.  "I got promoted!" he announced.  Millie squealed and took the flowers.

     "Congratulations, Nicky!" she said as she smelled the fresh flowers.

     "Now I can take proper care of my 'Mother Load,'" he said as he rubbed Milly's belly and kissed her deeply.

     Millie melted into his kiss as she always did.  Ever since their first kiss on prom night he'd been the one for her.  Only a little kick from her belly distracted her.

     "Oh!  Did you feel that!  They're awake!" she said, looking down and holding her belly with both hands.  "That's right, boys!  Daddy's home!"

-----

     The next morning Millie took advantage of her 4 a.m. bathroom break and went downstairs to make some breakfast for Nick.  She had a little trouble getting the pancake mix down from the cabinet, but she managed.  The smell of cooking food woke Nick early and led him downstairs.

     "Oh, Sweetie.  You don't have to do that," he insisted, nuzzling up behind her and giving her belly a hug.  "But thank you!"

     She turned off the stove and turned to give Nick a big kiss.  "Good morning!  I feel like a new woman today.  It must have been that tape!" she said.

     Nick chuckled and gave her breasts a playful squeeze.  "Hey, they 'do' seem firmer," he joked.  She swatted him away and directed him to get some plates.

     Once they'd finished eating, Nick went up to get changed and Millie cleaned the kitchen.  She was just finishing when he came downstairs and gave her his standard goodbye peck on the cheek.  She waddled after him, waving from the porch as he drove off to his first day as a Senior Systems Manager.

     After a shower, Millie got dressed and turned on the TV.  The screen stayed blank and she quickly realized the VCR was still on.  She ejected the tape and was reminded of the woman up the street.  She decided to go for a morning walk and thank her for the tape.

     The woman was just setting up tables in the yard and hummed happily to herself.

     Millie waddled into her yard and waved, her other hand planted firmly in the small of her back.  "Hi, Helena!"

     "Oh, hello again, Millie!  Was the workout tape helpful?" Helena asked with a smile.  She set a box labeled 'Baby Clothes' on the table.  Mille came right over and took a handful of the clothes to help her put them out.

     "Oh, it was great.  I feel so invigorated!  Like a whole new person!" she said, setting the pile of clothes on the designated table.  She lifted a pair of blue onesies against her belly and turned back to Helena.

     "Look!  Perfect fit!" she joked.

     "Oh, wonderful! You're going to make a perfect mother, Millie. I just know it," Helena said with a wink.