“Agnes!”

 “Agh!” Agnes shrieked as she tumbled out of bed her soft chubby body thumping on the floor.

“Honey, you better be getting ready for school!” her mom called to her again.

She fumbled to her feet and hastily picked up her glasses looked at her clock and gasped nearly falling back to the ground once she saw the time. It was 8:30 she was going to be late for school.

“Crap I knew I should have stayed up so late watching that marathon!” she panicked as she fumbled taking off her pajamas. “But it was sooooooooo good!” she groaned to herself not regretting messing up her sleep schedule if it meant that she could see the long-awaited final of her favorite anime without even the slightest chance of seeing a spoiler, so it was more than worth it.

She ran to the closet but stopped as she looked in the mirror and frowned a bit. She was quite chubby and borderline fat she had massive breasts but they weren’t the kind that people would gawk over or be impressed at due to them being mostly fat, and it was the same with her butt and thighs they were equally massive but not in the way that most people consider flattering. But at least she didn’t have that prominent of a belly, so that was a plus for her being a plus-sized girl. She tried to lose weight but she couldn’t keep up a healthy diet or secluded exercise and always fell back on her old habits. Everyone told her that her chub made her cute, but she felt that they were just being nice to her. She sighed and opened her closet grabbing a long shirt, a button-up blouse, and a sweater vest. She smiled at herself and blushed a bit, she thought that she looked cute dressed this way at least with how frumpy her outfit was it made it hard to distinguish her chubby curves. Looking at her clock one more time she gasped and “ran” out of her room and out of her house to try and make it to school on time.

She somehow made it to school painting and was completely exhausted and she knew that she wouldn’t even survive PE well she would be more doomed than normal. She sat down on a bench and fanned herself, her body did not like this much movement she felt like she could die from exhaustion any second now.

“You look awful?” A bubbly voice called to her. Agnes turned and looked up to see her best friend Sky looming over her wearing her typical clothes that seemed too small for her assets and a bubbly smile. “You doing ok Agnes?”

“Yeah… slept in… ran to school…” she panted. “I… think… I am… going too… die…”

“Come on, you are going to die every day after gym class.” Sky sighed and shook her head. “Let me guess you were marathoning that anime you like to prepare and watch finally?”

“Worth it…” she smiled through her exhaustion. “I can… die… happy…”

Sky giggled at her strained rely and helped her up. “Come on, you can tell me all about it on our way to class.”

“Thanks…” she gasped taking Sky’s hand nearly pulling her down instead of Sky pulling her up. “You won’t believe what happened!” she energetically exclaimed as her life miraculously returned to her.

“Typical Agnes.” Sky mockingly laughed as she elbowed her. “Mention whatever anime she is watching, manga she is reading, or game she is playing and she raises from the dead.”

“Hey!” she pouted as she became flustered.

“I’m joking, come on we don’t want to be late.” Sky laughed. The girls stopped as they heard a commotion, they turned and saw a group of girls pass by loudly. “Watch out here comes the nerd herd.”

The nerd herd, the notorious group of the school’s nerdiest girls who took the idea of being a nerd to a completely different level. They made Agnes and Sky look tame in comparison. They were the school’s laughing stock, but they seemed to be too entranced to notice. Mildred, Bertha, Cordelia, Hedy, Claire, Samantha, and their leader the biggest and dorkiest nerd of them all Trixie.

“Don’t touch them, I hear they are contagious.” Sky giggled.

“Sky…” Agnes sighed and rolled her eyes. “Be nice, they just are different…”

“I know, but it is hard not to.” she frowned with an all too-knowing twinkle in her eye as if she was in on a joke but no one else was. “So tell me all about the ending!”

“Well if you insist!” Agnes beamed. She told her friend all about the ending to the anime she was watching as they walked to class. And due to her not paying attention she bumped into something and toppled to the ground. “Ow…” she grunted rubbing her butt that cushioned her fall. She looked up and saw a group of boys looking at her. Boys her one of her weaknesses….

“Hey watch where you are going!” one of them shouted at her causing her to cower back. Even worse they were mad her her.

If Agnes had two weaknesses besides her sloth and her overwhelming nerdiness it was confrontation especially when someone was upset at her and when it was a boy. Just like always she froze up stammering as her face turned bright red from the embarrassment.

“Hey, maybe you shouldn’t be standing in the middle of the hall!” Sky jumped in to save her like always. “Have you ever thought about that or maybe you are too meatheaded to think!”

“Hey, what did you call me!” a more built boy stepped up to Sky who bounced back a bit, she was also not good with confrontations. She can talk the talk but once someone challenges she goes all weak.

 “Both of you knock it off.” One of the boys said as he reached out to Agnes. “She just bumped into me it is no big deal.”

Agnes nervously took his hand trying not to get all sweaty and gross. She looked at him and nodded too flustered to talk. “T-thanks…” she slowly and softly muttered out.

“Sorry, about that.” she smiled and scratched the back of his head. “You were talking about Changeling Without Courage, right?” Agnes flinched and nodded. “Yeah I watched the ending last night it was amazing.”

“I KNOW RIGHT!” changing on a dime she perks up explicitly jumping towards him with a bright beaming smile across her face. “It was amazing, what did you think of the final battle it was so awesome and the animation was breathtaking!”

RING!!!! The sound of the final bell filled the halls.

“Sorry girl, we should get going.” Sky frowned and grabbed Agnes by the back of her sweater vest knowing that dragging was the only way to prevent her from missing class to talk about anime.

“We can talk after school, my name is Daniel!” he called out to her.”

“I’m Agnes!” she called back her embarrassment returning to her upon giving him her name.

Daniel and his friends walked in the other direction and he looked over his shoulder back at her one final time. “You seriously let that fat girl get away with that?” one of his friends sighed.

“Don’t tell me you are into her?” the other one groaned.

“What she is kind of cute?” he shrugged.

“You mean fat?”

“Like you two aren’t bigger than she is.” he sighed pointing at his friends’ notable guts.

“Hey, this is all muscle.” His friend groaned patting his fat belly and making it jiggle.

“Yeah, you keep telling yourself that…” Daniel sighed rolling his eyes.

“Oh, he is so into you!” Sky giggled as she wrapped her arm around Agnes as a chubby pointed tail slithered into her pants.

“Y-you think so…” Agnes blushed smiling a bit as she couldn’t wait to meet him again.