[SoylentOrange]

Mary had only made it a step through the store's automatic door when she was siezed by The Body, a rabid, feral hunger gripping her like a snare.
"What are you doing?!" Mary silently screamed at The Body.
"Food! So much food! We can smell it, all around us, sustenance enough to feed and grow immesurably strong!"
Mary tensed her hands into fists, fighting back the urges of The Body. "Idiot! Idiot! If you start feeding here we'll have swarms of predators on us in minutes!"
"Predators?" The Body replied. "Yes, of course, nothing would leave this much food unguarded. We must act quickly and take what we can."
Mary pressed her feet down into the ground, willing them to stay put with all her might. "No! There is a process! A ritual! If you just let me handle this we can get all the food you want without alerting a single predator!"
"Truly?" The Body asked. "You are capable of such a feat?"
"I am if you just let go of my body!" Mary yelled. "What did we agree on in the apartment? Out here, I'm in charge! Me!"
Mary felt the grip of The Body slacken, then release entirely. "...Of course. We will observe how you serve our great purpose." Mary let out the breath she was holding, then noticed for the first time that Katie was standing next to her with her hand on her shoulder.
"Mary? Mary, answer me, honey, you've been standing there like a statue."
"I- I'm okay now," Mary said, straightening up and adjusying her shirt.
"Was it..." Katie leaned in closer, giving Mary a look. "Was it... you know?"
Mary nodded. "Yeah, but it's okay now."
"You sure? We don't need anything freaky happening here in the store."
"I'm fine, I'm fine," Mary said, pulling a cart out and heading down the aisle.

Shopping with The Body, Mary found out, was like having an insistent, petulant child that would never shut up and could only barely be scolded into behaving. It protested when Mary told it she couldn't buy every watermelon on sale, that she had to wait for the butcher to wrap up her meat, that the other shoppers were not menu items. Always the threat of these actions summoning "Predators" quelled The Body, but mary wondered how long that would hold out. Sooner or later she knew things were going to turn bad; she just hoped she could hold out for as long as possible. There had to be some way to stop this stuff from growing, somehow, but Mary didn't have the slightest idea how to go about looking for such a "cure".
"I feel like I'm shopping with an epileptic, the way you kept starting and stopping," Katie said as the loaded their cart onto the conveyor.
"Yeah, well, you imagine Jiminy Cricket inside your head, only he's a sociopath and can hijack you when he feels like it..." Mary muttered to Katie under her breath.
A slight movement in the corner of Mary's eye caught her attention, drawing her gaze to Katie's chest. Almost at the point where she would dimiss it as a product of her imagination, Katie's chest again surged outward, a definite if subtle movement. Mary's eyes popped open, and she quickly looked around to see if anyone else had noticed. The cashier was occupied with the near-interminable parade of food, and even Katie seemed too busy filling out the check to notice. Another surge, and Mary could see a green tint seeping out from Katie's collar as she slowly turned back into the form she had in the apartment. Mary's mind raced. What could she do? Could she give her another dose of whatever it was that made her look normal? Would it work? How could she give it to her? She certainly couldn't just transform a needle out of her finger in the middle of the store, but shew couldn't just let Katie turn into the voloptuous green monster again, either.
Inspiration struck just as the first creaks of strained fabric could be heard, the kid of insane inspiration that is such close company to desperation. Mary grabbed Katie's head with both her hands, turning her face towards Mary's and practically diving into a deep french kiss even as Katie's mouth opened to protest. Once they'd locked lips, Mary turned her tongue into the needle-like fang, quickly injecting Katie despite her attempts to pull away. Mary held the kiss for a few seconds, long enough to turn her tongue back to normal, before letting go of Katie's head.
Katie pulled away, wiping her mouth with the back of her wrist, staring at Mary incredulously. "Have you lost your head or something?!" She exclaimed.
Mary stammered, unsure of how to explain her bizarre behavior. "Uhm... I'll, uh... I'll go wait in the car."
"Mary?" Katie called out after her. "Mary, what're you- oh, nevermind." Katie turned back around and finished paying for the groceries, waving off the confused looks of the cashier.

"So what was that all about?" Katie asked as she wheeled the shopping cart up to her old green hatchback. "The Body telling you to get freaky on me now?"
"No..." Mary said, putting her elbow on the roof of the car and resting her head in the crook of her elbow. "I just couldn't think of any other way to turn you back inconspicuously."
"Inconspicuousy?" Katie echoed as she opened the hatch and began putting sacks of groceries in. "Honey, I don't know what things are like in Eugene, but where I come from two ladies tongue-wrestling in the express lane is pretty damn conspicuous!" She paused for a second, her head tilting. "Wait, 'change me back'? From what?"
"You didn't feel it?" Mary asked as she helped load the back of the car. "You were turning back into... you know, right there in the checkout line!"
"Turning back?" Katie asked. "You mean, into...?" she trailed off as she cupped her hands at arm's length in front of her, mimicing hefting her previously enormous breasts.
"Yeah," Mary nodded. "You really didn't notice?"
"I guess not..." Katie said as she closed the hatch. "Damn that's a lot of food. I spent three hundred bucks in there."
"I'm sorry," Mary said. "Hopefully it'll last a while."

"So what happened?" Katie asked as she drove home. "I thought you changed me back to normal. Why'd I start turning into boobzilla again?"
"I don't know," Mary replied. "I think... I think maybe that is 'normal' for you now."
"What's normal?"
"Boobzilla. I think when The Body made you 'Of The Flesh' that he pretty much re-wrote 'you'."
"But you turned me back- shouldn't that count?"
"I made you look like I remembered you looking- but I think that's only a disguise, only good for as long as the injection lasts."
"Well can you change me all the way back?"
"I can try, if you want, but I don't know..."
"Well aren't you 'The Brain' or whatever? Don't you have a say?"
"It's 'The Mind', actually, and I only really get a say about things The Body doesn't know about. And the bastard seems to have apretty good idea what he wants when it comes to converting 'meat', as he calls you guys, into something useful to him. I'm afraid if I tried it again he'd step in and make it even worse."
"So my best bet is to just cover it up?" Katie asked as she turned into their apartment complex.
"Probably. Keep in mind I've been at this all of a day."
Katie shook her head. "It's like I'm diabetic. Like I need a shot every day or I'll die."
"You won't die..." Mary chided.
"No, I won't," Katie said as they parked in front of their apartment. "I'll just turn into a martian hooker!"

Mary had to laugh in spite of herself as she went around to the back of the car. "I don't think it looked too bad, really. You should have seen me the first time The Body changed me, all tentacles and slime and ick."
"Honey, nobody needs breasts that big. Not anyone," Katie said as she opened the back. "Good lord, I can't believe I actually bought all this food. What was I thinking?" she asked as she grabbed two bags in her arms and started towards her apartment. Mary started to grab two bags of her own when a thought occurred to her. Taking a quick glance around the parking lot to make sure no one was out, she lifted her shirt up, hefting her breasts up in the hem of the garment. With a mental command, a half-dozen tentacles wormed out of her sides, each wrapping around a paper sack. She lowered her shirt and took two more bags in her arms, quickly carrying all eight of them upstairs.
"How the- well look at you," Katie said as she watched mary approach the kitchen table, laying down her groceries in sets of two. "It's really just that easy for you, huh?"
Mary shrugged. "If it wasn't for the whole 'wanting to eat people' thing I don't know that I'd have a problem with it."
Soon they had carried all the groceries in, and Mary was practically salivating with hunger. She started to open a box of cupcakes, licking her lips in anticipation.
"Damn, girl, at least wait 'till we've gotten it all put away..." Katie said as she snatched the box away from Mary.
"Hey!" Mary yelled. "Give those back!"
Katie handed the cupcakes back, then blinked twice in confusion. "...how'd you do that?"
"Do what?" Mary asked, pausing moments before popping the entire cupcake into her mouth.
"You *made* me give those back." she said, looking at her friend with concern.
"No I didn't." Mary replied as she chewed the cupcake and unwrapped another one.
"Yes you did!" Katie said. "When you said 'give those back', I felt like I had to, like I had no other choice!"
Mary swallowed, frowning slightly. "Sit," She commanded, and Katie dropped cross-legged to the floor. "Stand," she said, and felt that odd burning sensation at the base of her neck as Katie rose. "...Oh boy."
"Mary, what did you do to me?!" Katie demanded, brow furrowed.
"Nothing!" Mary protested, butting her hands up in front of her. "I mean, not on purpose! I was just saying- I didn't mean- it was an accident, I swear!"
"Listen, sister..." Katie said, and Mary gulped. Katie only used "Sister" when she was angry.
"Look, I mean, The Body said you were made 'Of The Flesh', right? And he told me that 'The Flesh obeys the will of The Mind'. That must mean that if I really want it, I can control you like The Body does me!"
Katie's expression turned to one of fear as her eyes widened and he mouth dropped open.
"--Which means I'll never do it!" Mary hastily continued. "Katie, I promise you I'll never do it again. I didn't know I was doing it before, I'd never do that to you. Katie, we're friends, we've known each other since we were freshmen, you gotta believe me..."
Katie's expression gradually softened, until she tilted her head and gave a small smile. "I believe you, honey. It was just, it was a surprise, that's all. C'mere," She said, reaching out and pullng Mary into a hug. "It's been a hell of a day, huh sweetie?"
"You can say that again..." Mary said, before Katie swore and pushed herself away from Mary. "What? What?"
"Again!" Katie fumed, looking down at her shirt, where her breasts were once again starting to over-fill it. "Can you give me another shot of whatever it is that keeps me looking normal?"
"Sure," Mary said, reaching out a hand to form the needle before pausing. "Except..."
"Except what?" Katie said as she tugged at her shirt, trying to keep it loose across her bosom. "C'mon, honey, this shirt's got a load limit on it."
"I just, are you sure it's safe to have so much so often?" Mary asked. "We don't know anything about this stuff. I sure don't. What if it's addictive, or you only get so many uses out of it, or it gives you cancer or something?"
"Cancer?" Katie asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, I don't know," Mary said, exasperated. "But seriously, do you really need it? Are you going anywhere else tonight?"
"I'd rather not have huge boobs and green skin the rest of the night!" Katie complained.
"As opposed to not being able to get rid of them some other time when you're out in public?" Mary countered.
"Okay, okay, fine," Katie said, relenting. "If that's the case then help me get my bra off before these damn things cut me in half."
Mary went behind Katie as she tugged her shirt up over her bosom, revealing the growing and greening breasts that were fitfully overflowing her bra's cups. It was difficult to get enough slack in the straps to un-hook them, but once she did, the bra flew forward as her breasts violently pushed it away from her chest, Katie's shoulder-staps the only thing keeping the bra from firing across the room like a snapped rubber-band.
"Oh, damn, forgot about that," Katie said as she noticed the fabric of her pants creaking. She qickly unbuttoned them, then pitched forward as she bent down to slide them off her legs. Her pendulous breasts carried her down to the ground, the sudden shift in her center of gravity causing her to land in a pile with her rear in the air.
"Katie?" Mary asked as her friend finished reverting to her green-skinned, voloptuous form. "You okay?"
Katie pushed herself onto her hands and knees, the space underneath almost completely filled by her breasts. "Mary, honey?"
"Yes?"
"Is there a way you could maybe turn into this 'Body' fellow long enough for me to smack him upside the face?"
Mary giggled as she helped her friend to her feet. "I think if you want to hit The Body you'd have to hit me," She said. "And even then I doubt it'd do any good."
Katie dusted herself off, then adjusted her panties. "This damn thing wasn't supposed to be a thong," she muttered. She brought her hands under her breasts and lifted them up, feeling their weight. "Damn, girl. Just damn."
"Well, aside from the green skin and everything, how do you feel?" Mary asked.
"Lke a freak," Katie answered, turning to look at herself over her shoulder.
"Katie..." Mary whined. "I feel bad enough about all this already."
"I'm sorry, honey," Katie said. "It feels fine. "It's a little wierd having so much me up here," she continued, giving a jiggle to illustrate, "But I feel okay."