Double Date at the Dish: Lounging Around

The group decided to split up again. Once again, Adelaide took the shrinky (Tiffany, in this case) with her and they decided to go to the third level. Adelaide hadn’t been up there yet and Tiffany wanted to visit the saunas, which she had missed on her tour of the upper level. “Certainly girlfriend”, said Adelaide, giving Tiffany a sly smile. She began a slow walk towards the elevator.

This left Coco to return to the restaurant and she followed Jayden down the steps.

“You know, it really is the ultimate experience, to view things from the shrinky perspective”, she said.

“I’m not sure if I feel comfortable yet doing that. I know that Tiffany and Nance seem to really like it, and I’m a bit surprised at that, especially at Tiffany. It’s just, I have this fear, you know…”

“Of getting beanstalked”, Coco said, laughing, “I know, Adelaide’s told me all about it”, she paused thoughtfully, than said, “tell you what, why don’t you wander around a bit on your own for awhile and then I’ll check up on you later and see if you’ve changed your mind.”

“Mmm, yeah, that sounds good”, Jayden agreed.

“K, well, you should probably start in the lounge area before going out into the restaurant proper. And try not to stare at any patrons…unless it’s some girl you want to have eat you.”

“Coco, I don’t…”, he began

“I know, I know”, she laughed as she turned to walk into the restaurant, leaving him at the edge of the lounge area.

There were lots of people standing around in the lounge, men and women alike, with most of the men wearing red bracelets and most of the women wearing blue bracelets. But here and there, Jayden would find an exception to the norm. There was lots of playful banter and flirtation. It was a running joke among some women to ask wide-eyed guys if they’d been here before – one girl propositioned to swallow a man to take his ‘Dish virginity’, whatever that meant. He overheard another group of girls talking excitedly and comparing notes about their recent ‘conquests’. It seemed to Jayden that for some, it was almost like a competition to see who could swallow the most men.

Jayden had to admit, almost all of the women were on the upper end of the attraction scale and nearly all were wearing very revealing and tight outfits. On an annoying note, as the lounge area seemed to be right underneath the speakers from the dance floor above, it was a bit loud and after awhile, he became a bit leary of the looks he was getting from groups of women, or what Nance and he liked to mockingly refer to as ‘wolf packs’. He found that women just tended to be much bolder when out in numbers and especially if they’d had a bit to drink.

There was also a variety of men, some decked out in fancy duds, while some preferred a very casual look.

After several minutes, he left the area and walked into the restaurant, observing those seated at tables, but trying to not be obvious in his stares, especially if they were in the process of consuming a shrinky. One such event was occurring not too far away from him as he had passed a few tables into the long rectangular dining area, walking on the outside area where the servers traversed.

There, seated in front of him was a young family of four, with a girl about 12 years old, the brother looked a few years older, perhaps 15 or 16, and the parents looked to be in their mid-thirties. He watched as a server brought out ‘dessert’, some cookies and creme and a doughnut along with a small flask that was set between the mother and the girl. In the middle of the doughnut, his legs encased up past his knees, could be seen a shrinky calmly standing in it.

Together, the family polished off all the cookies (apparently moist chocolate chip), then the mother took the flask and poured what looked to be glaze over the doughnut and the shrinky and motioned to the girl. “Go ahead, I won’t tell anyone.” The girl proceeded to pick up the shrinky, who was now completely stuck in place from the glaze. It was a dark-haired boy from what Jayden could see. The girl opened her mouth wide and greedily took a bite right over and around the shrinky. When she pulled the doughnut away from her mouth, the shrinky was gone, along with the large bite of doughnut. The girl seemed to struggle for breath while she tried to compress the large amount of food in her mouth, then she took a couple large swallows and exhaled loudly, looking up at her mother with a look of pure delight, prompting the mother to laugh. The father and brother looked indifferent.

“Now wash it down with your soda”, her mother advised, than congratulated her on her achievement, “good job honey. Did you like your birthday present?”

“Mmmhmm”, the girl shook her head and grinned.

Jayden was stunned – it was his understanding that only adults were allowed to swallow people and yet, here was a pre-pubescent girl that had devoured what looked to be a young man, perhaps even a teen himself. And the way the mother and girl had reacted, this wasn’t the first time they had done this. He made a mental note to ask Coco about this when his phone buzzed with another incoming text. It was from Adelaide again – she was asking to meet again, but this time by the ‘dining rooms’ that were in the shrink booth area.  As he was texting back his reply, he noted with some surprise that this time, the text was addressed only to him.

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