The dishes still weren't done.  Pop cans still littered the table.  The floor was clearly not vacuumed.  Lea was disappointed, but not surprised that her roommate hadn't done what she had promised.  Exasperated, Lea went to where she knew Tessa would be.

    Tessa was lying on her side in the middle of the fold out bed of their couch.  She bore a blissful, aloof smile as her stare was fixated on her reality TV show.  She often pulled out the bed part of the couch so that she could stretch out, despite the fact that she was rather short and could comfortably fit on the couch without pulling the bed out.

    Lea loomed over her unaware roommate.  Lea knew that she would have to be the one to put the bed back in place every time Tessa pulled it out, just like everything else that Tessa took out and failed to put back where it belonged.  Where Lea once saw the cute round face of her spunky new roommate, she now saw the face of a young woman who dodged any responsibility she possible could.  The fact that Tessa was still lounging about in her pajama shorts and tank top with her blonde hair still messy while Lea just came home from an exhausting day at work made Lea even more frustrated.

    "You know you didn't do any of the chores you said you would do," Lea said strictly, hoping to express her exasperation.

    Tessa, oblivious to her roommate's woes, nonchalantly responded, "Yeah, I'll get 'em tomorrow."

    "You said that a week ago," Lea shot back, hoping to get through to Tessa.

    "Yeah, well, I was busy catching up on the last season.  Don't worry, I really don't think the dishes are that bad."

    "We're literally out of clean dishes!" Lea was now getting visibly upset.

    Tessa could finally tell that Lea was getting angry.  She replied, "Well, you know, if you want them done so bad you can do them yourself." Tessa shrugged.

    "I've done them the last five times! At least! In fact, I don't think you've done them once!"  Now Lea was fuming.  Tessa had seemed like such a good roommate when they first met, and now she didn't seem to understand the basic concepts of taking turns with chores and keeping the apartment tidy.

    Starting to get defensive, Tessa responded, "Then I guess you'd better do them because my couch-bed thing and I are not separating any time soon."

    Lea's eye twitched, a sign of anger that had only ever surfaced a few times in her life.  This struggle of trying to get Tessa to care about their living space had gone on for months now, and Lea was sick of it to the point that she was willing to get physical.  Then, she had an idea.

    "You know, Tessa," Lea said, making herself seem much calmer than she actually was, "technically, that is my pull out couch.  So, I think that I should be able to use it how I want to use it."  As she spoke, Lea moved to the front of the couch, between Tessa and her TV.

    "Hey, get out of the way! What are you even talking about anyway?"  Tessa craned her neck in an effort to catch every second of the show she was missing.

    "Well, I just thought that, since it's my pull out couch, I think it should be folded up right now!"  With that declaration, Lea lifted up the end of the couch toward Tessa.  Before Tessa could even register what was happening, Lea had folded the front end of the bed on top of Tessa.

    "Hey, what the hell are you doing?" Tessa called out, sounding slightly muffled by the fact that she had been sandwiched between two halves of the bed's cushion.  Tessa had been lying in just the right spot on the bed for her small body to be completely covered by the cushion.  She briefly tried to squirm her way out before Lea continued with putting the pull out bed away.  Lea shoved the Tessa sandwich down into the couch, pressing down into it with all of her might.  As she pushed the fold out bed into place, the amount of room that Tessa had got smaller and smaller.  

    As she felt the cushion press more tightly into her soft body, Tessa found her movement becoming more restricted the harder Lea pushed.  Her arms were pinned to either side of her, she wasn't able to move her legs an inch, and her cheeks were being squeezed into the rest of her face.  Having never felt this compressed before, Tessa was starting to seriously worry about what was happening to her body.  She would feel as though there was no way that her body could get any more squished between the halves of the mattress, only for her to feel her own body get pressed flatter.  Tessa imagined that this must be what a cartoon character felt like when they got run over by a steamroller.  Tessa called out again, this time more muffled than before due to the fact that it was getting hard to move her mouth, "This isn't funny Lea! Let me out now!"

    In fact, it wasn't funny to Lea.  Cathartic was the more accurate word.  Mashing Tessa into the dark recesses of the couch felt like finally squashing an annoying fly that had been flying around her head for an entire day.  When Lea finally wore herself out with the pressing, she noticed that the couch hardly looked like there was anything in it.  She could still hear Tessa faintly call out from inside the couch, so she did the only logical thing to do at the time and continued to put the couch back together.  She put the couch cushions on top of the folded up bed, making sure to really slam them into place to let Tessa know what was happening.  

    Realizing that Lea putting the cushions on meant more time being squashed, Tessa just whimpered pathetically, trying to make it loud enough for Lea to hear so that she might take mercy on her.  At this point, Lea was pretty sure that her body was crushed far beyond what was normal.  She could feel her own depth seem to slowly and steadily decrease with every passing second she spent under the pressure of the couch.  

    Well, I guess it isn't the worst place to be squashed... At least it's soft.  Tessa thought to herself, trying to keep positive as she felt the last of the couch cushions be put into place.  Though it would be a lot nicer if I wasn't completely helpless and trapped.  She tried once again to wiggle, but it was in vain.  Suddenly, she felt a large increase in pressure, and she mentally winced.

    "Ahh..."  Lea sighed in relaxation as she flopped down onto the couch and laid across it.  Lea, who was taller than Tessa, made sure to lay across the whole couch in order for Tessa to feel her weight across her entire body.  "Man, it sure does feel good to relax!"  Lea wiggled her body to get herself more comfortable on the couch, which in turn caused the mattress to rub across Tessa's body.  

    As the mattress went back and forth across Tessa, she could feel a strange sensation, like every time the mattress went back and forth she felt more of the mattress's surface.  Tessa couldn't tell at the time, but this was because Tessa was getting spread out by a combination of the pressure and the motion of the walls of her soft prison.  She tried to call out again, but found that she could barely hear herself at this point.  Great, she thought, now I can't even freaking beg for her to let me out!

    Lea called down into the depths of the couch in a mocking tone, "Hey Tessa, if you don't mind, I'm gonna watch TV for a little bit.  If you need anything, like, say, you want to be let out, just say something!  Make sure you articulate though, I'm gonna turn the volume up!"  Lea grinned to herself as she raised the volume on the TV, knowing fully well that there was no way that Tessa would be able to be audible from beneath all that padding.  Lea watched TV for the next few hours, allowing her troubles to melt away.  She frequently adjusted her position on the couch, and each time she did she felt herself sink deeper down into the couch.  She was excited to see how squished Tessa would look once she got the messy girl out, but she waited patiently until she felt that Tessa had had enough time in the couch before pulling her out to see the result.

    Lea hefted the couch outward and unfolded the bed to see what had become of Tessa.  When she got a full view of the lazy, unfortunate roommate, she couldn't help but to laugh.  There Tessa was; immobile, helpless, and flat as a board.  Just as Tessa had expected but hardly believed, the pressure of being sandwiched in the couch with Lea on top of her had squished Tessa's body until it was no thicker than a composite notebook.  

    Continuing to snicker, Lea examined Tessa closely.  It seemed that not only did Tessa get thinner, but she also got wider.  Lea assumed that since Tessa's body mass had no where else to go, it just spread outwards.  Also, it appeared as though the parts of Tessa with more fat spread out further.  This phenomena was very noticeable in Tessa's thighs and ass, which were probably the fattest parts of the short girl's body.  From Tessa's butt to about halfway down her thighs, her body mass had been spread as far as it could, meaning it hit the edges of the inside of the couch and stopped spreading from there.  This made it look like someone had just cut off parts of Tessa that got too wide, leaving her with straight edges at the outer ends of her thighs.  It reminded Lea of how her own thighs looked whenever she sat down and they spread out, only to a much more extreme extent.  

    Lea looked up Tessa's body, noticing that, while Tessa's clothes were still in tact, they were covering much less than before due to being stretched out.  The girl's pajama shorts now just barely covered her private bits, and her shirt had somehow ridden up her body to the point where it seemed more like a bra.  This revealed Tessa's bare belly, which had undergone the same spreading treatment as the rest of her.  Above that was a pair of squished a spread boobs.  Tessa's breasts, like her butt, had also spread to the edges of the couch, but not to the same extent as her butt.

    Lea wondered where Tessa's arms had gone for a second before realizing that they had been mostly covered up by Tessa's boobs.  The slacker had thrown her hands up near her face in self defense at the last second.  Her flat hands framed each side of her mashed up face.  Somehow, both of Tessa's cheeks managed to get pushed toward the middle of her face during the flattening, causing her mouth to pucker a bit and giving her face an even more squished look than necessary.  Her eyebrows were frozen in a raised position, indicative of the shock she felt as she felt herself get flattened.

    Suddenly, Tessa moved her eyes.  It had taken a second to get them adjusted to the light of the room after being stuffed in the couch, but now that she could see clearly she looked around the room, her eyes moving across the flat plane of her face.  She was disappointed to find that this was about the only movement left in her sheet of a body.  Even when trying as hard as she could, Tessa was entirely unable to move the rest of her body.

    Looking desperately at Lea, Tessa tried to beg for help, but all that came out of her mouth was, "Mmph mmph mmph!"  

    Lea responded with a snort of amusement.  "Quite the predicament you've gotten yourself in, huh, Tess?  To be honest, I had no idea you were so... I suppose malleable would be the right word."  Tessa could tell that Lea was enjoying this situation about as much as possible.  "Well," Lea continued, "You know me Tessa.  I'm a woman of science.  Which means that when I see something interesting, I have to experiment on it."  Lea let the words sink in for a second before resuming.  "Let's do some testing!"  Lea grabbed Tessa by the head and peeled her off of the fold out bed.  Lea held Tessa in front of her, wiggling her captive roommate a bit to see how she wobbled in her grasp before taking her to the kitchen.

    Lea laid Tessa out on their dinner table, which was probably larger than it should have been considering the size of their apartment.  Lea disappeared from Tessa's sight for a moment only to return with what Tessa instantly recognized as something she did not want to deal with: a rolling pin.  Lea grinned as she brandished it in front of Tessa's face.  The sheet girl tried to object, but her muffled pleas fell on deaf ears.

    "For our first experiment, let's test your spreadability!"  Lea called out as she slammed her rolling pin onto Tessa's toes.  Tessa instantly felt her already flat toes lose even more of their depth.  Wasting no time, Lea began to roll the pin up Tessa's body, causing a wave of getting squashed to pass over her body from her legs to her head.  The effect was evident after only the first rolling; Tessa already looked thinner and more spread out.  Encouraged, Lea rolled over Tessa again and again, each time noting how Tessa's features would slightly distort every time she rolled.  She took extra note of Tessa's face, the squashed aspect of which became more comically over exaggerated with each pass of the pin.  After a few minutes, Lea had worked up a sweat, and Tessa had gone from notebook thin to paper thin.  Also, Tessa's body now covered the entire surface of the table.

    Lea once again looked over Tessa's body, now motivated by curiosity as well as revenge.  As Lea had figured, the fattier parts of Tessa were easier to spread than the leaner parts.  Tessa's boobs, butt, and legs were easy to smear out to the edges of the table, while her slightly toned stomach and hands required extra passes to get to the desired dimensions.  All of Tessa now looked distorted, from her way to wide hips to her smushed out breasts to her smeared out belly.  Lea traced the wavy line that separated Tessa's legs, noticing that the line was not as distinct as before.  

    "You feel that, Tessa?  I think your body is getting so squished it's starting to fuse into itself!  Ain't that some shit!"  Lea called out to Tessa.  As a matter of fact, Tessa could feel this happening.  At the very this boundaries where her normally separate body parts touched, she could feel a strange warmth that was more intense than any embrace she had ever felt.  She didn't know how, but she figured that this must be here body starting to fuse in on itself.  Tessa tried once again to beg for help, but at this point was so thin that she could only manage to elicit an occasional whimper.

    "Now," said Lea as she walked over to get closer to Tessa's face, "you may have noticed that I went a bit easy on your face.  There are two reasons for this.  The first is that I plan on squishing your face much more in this next experiment.  The second is that I find your squished up face too delightfully pathetic to smear it into mush.  At least for now anyway.  Now, let's proceed to the next test; compactability!"

    Tessa didn't have much time to imagine what this could mean before finding out.  Without delay, Lea went to the other side of the table to where Tessa's legs were.  After a couple of attempts, she managed to peel Tessa's flattened feet off of the table, followed by peeling the rest of Tessa's body.  Lea then began to roll Tessa up like an official decree from medieval times.  The feeling was rather odd for Tessa.  She felt sections of her rolled up flesh rub up against other sections of her body that would normally never touch.  As Lea rolled close to the top of Tessa's body, Tessa felt the out of this world hug crawl further up her body.  Then, just as Tessa braced for her face to be rolled up along with the rest of her, Lea stopped rolling.

    Tessa felt a second of relief before Lea repositioned herself to continue her task.  Lea took Tessa's spread out hands from the side of her face and folded them behind Tessa's head.  Then, pressing down onto the rolled up portion of Tessa's body, she folded that backwards as well.  Lea pressed her hand down onto Tessa's face, both to create a crease that would keep Tessa's body behind her head and to gain leverage so that she could lean over and grab the rolling pin.  Now realizing what was about to happen, Tessa mentally prepared herself for the coming squishing.

    Lea first pressed the rolling pin onto the sides of Tessa's face to fuse together the edges of the pile of Tessa.  After doing this, Lea began to roll back and forth directly on Tessa's face.  Lea imagined how all of the boys who Tessa flirted with would feel if they saw her like this as she watched Tessa's face get a bit more distorted with each roll.  Lea found that since she pressed the edges of Tessa before rolling, Tessa's wasn't spreading out as much.  Doing this much have created a bit of a boundary that Tessa's body was resistant to spread out past.  Lea didn't really mind; after all, it was more fun if Lea could still admire the adorably pathetic face of her roommate turned experiment.  

    Lea finally stopped rolling to get a good look at her results.  Tessa, who was a perfectly normal and lazy girl just hours ago, was now just a flat, surprised, and a bit distorted head.  The length and width of Tessa's head were about one and a half times larger than they normally were, and she was only about as thin as a note card.  At this point, Lea was just plain impressed at how tightly compressed this girl's body could get.

    Tessa, on the other hand, was too concerned with her current situation to be impressed.  She could definitely feel the pressure that was being put on her, after all, how could someone not when they have their entire body compressed to the point of being somewhere between the size of an LP record and a CD.  She now felt the warmth of fusion all over her body, though at this point it was hard to pinpoint the location of any particular body part beside anything that was on the surface of her face.  As Lea thought about what to do next, Tessa had time to collect her thoughts.

    Oh my god, this is so fucking crazy!  I can't believe this is actually happening!  Tessa thought to herself.  Who the hell does Lea think she is?  I mean, who just squishes someone like this and thinks, 'Hey, I should squish this person even more!'  Ridiculous!  She has no idea how confusing it is to have all of my body all mashed up like this!  It sucks!  ...Then again, I actually could imagine myself getting used to this nice warmth... Wait, what am I thinking?  I don't wanna be some damn disk lady!  She had better change me back soon!

   
As Tessa simmered to herself, Lea wondered what to do.  She looked around the room for inspiration.  Suddenly, the sink caught her attention and she smiled to herself.

    "Hey Tessa, I think I know what to do next.  You're going to finally help me out with the dishes!"

    How the hell am I supposed to help when I'm like this? Tessa thought to herself before being grabbed by Lea and being taken to the sink.

    "Oh darn," Lea said, feigning discouragement, "It looks like I can't find any of our normal wash cloths.  If only I had something that I could use as a substitute- Oh wait!  I have something right here!"  Lea smiled and turned the water on while Tessa took a second to process what she just said.

    What do you mean you have something?  W-wait a second, you don't mean me?  Lea, I swear to god, if you use me as a god damn wash cloth- eep!  Tessa's internal tirade was cut short by Lea pouring peach-scented dish soap on her.  After squeezing her helpless dish rag a few times, she got to work on the dishes, paying little regard to the fact that her dish rag was probably objecting to everything she was doing.  Lea did actually take some mercy on Tessa at this point, in that she made sure not to use Tessa's face side for the really dirty dishes.

    Surprisingly, this wasn't all that bad of an experience for Tessa, at least compared to what she thought it would be.  Though she tried as hard as she could to fight it for the first minute or two, she soon gave up and let the sensations overwhelm her.  It was a bit like taking a hot shower, only with the added feeling of being constantly touched by something.  That, and instead of scrubbing herself with something, she was the thing doing the scrubbing.  She didn't even really mind the dirtiness of the dishes that much since she would just get immediately clean after being put under the water.  However, being a dish rag also came with some downsides.  For one, it was incredibly humiliating to be used by your own roommate as nothing more than a piece of cloth-like material for cleaning.  Secondly, Lea was being a bit too rough with Tessa for her liking.  Tessa could feel her flattened face rub against the dishes, and with each hard rub she could feel her face get smeared out like the rest of her body.  It didn't hurt, but Tessa certainly didn't like it.  She was just thankful that the soap didn't sting her eyes for whatever reason.

    Lea didn't even notice what she was doing to Tessa's face.  Being a very focused individual, Lea was only really paying attention to getting the dishes clean by the time she finished the last one.  It was only after she finished them all that she noticed how much Tessa's remaining features had been distorted.

    "Oh shoot, I didn't mean to do that," Lea said, actually genuine in her disappointment this time.  Tessa looked as though her entire face had just been elaborate makeup the whole time, and Lea's rough treatment had smeared and smudged the makeup all over her face.  Of course, the reality was that Tessa's moldable face was just too squishy for Lea's work.  Tessa's normally big, round eyes were now about twice as big and more abstractly shaped than before.  Her mouth was also smeared out to be quite a bit bigger than before, though a bit more than her eyes.  Apparently the smearing caused parts of her face to fuse just like with the rest of her body, because Lea could no longer tell where the hole of Tessa's mouth was; it looked like she just had one big, blobby lip.  Her nose had also been sufficiently smushed around her face, though it was less distinct than the rest of her.

    Tessa, now with the scent of peaches deeply embedded into her skin, was furious on the inside.  I can't believe you're treating me like this Lea!  And just because I didn't do some stupid cleaning shit for a few weeks!  I was gonna get to it!  You had better fix this right now!

   
Oblivious to the threats of her roommate, Lea thought out loud.  "Hmm, what to do now?  I was gonna let you off the hook after this and just leave you on display for a few days to really let this lesson sink in, but I really wanted to see that stupid face you were making in all its humiliating glory.  I had the picture frame picked out and everything..."  Lea absent-mindedly wrung Tessa between her hands as she said this, squeezing all of the excess moisture out of her wash cloth while twisting up poor Tessa into a spiral shape.

    Wait, a few days?!  What?!  You were not only going to put me in a picture frame, but leave me flattened out like this for a few days?!  You're nuts!  Bonkers!  A whacko!  I can't believe you're the same girl that I started rooming with all those months ago!  Gah!  And cut it out with the twisting!

   
Lea began talking again, almost as though she had read Tessa's thoughts, "I bet you're probably thinking about how this is a bit of an overreaction for not doing dishes.  But it wasn't just the dishes, was it?"  Lea twisted Tessa a bit harder after saying this.  "You've never vacuumed.  Or dusted.  Or cleaned up after yourself.  Or cleaned the toilet..."  With every activity that Tessa had neglected, Lea twisted harder.  "And then you made me pick you up because you let your car run out of gas, but didn't pick me up when my tire went flat!  And the time you left me outside in the cold because you had the TV up too loud and you didn't hear me knocking!"  Finally, Lea was allowing her true frustrations to come out.  Tessa could hardly focus on what Lea was saying because of how intense the twisting was getting.  After a few more seconds of ranting, Lea finally let Tessa go.

    Tessa landed into the sink with a plop while Lea regained her cool.  Tessa was trying to wrap her head around her current situation.  Metaphorically, that is.  Her head was already pretty wrapped around itself in the first place.

    Ugh... That sucked.  I didn't realize Lea was so strong.  Shit, I don't feel myself moving.  She must have twisted me up so tightly that my body did that fusing thingy.  Well, I can't say this is any better than how I was, but at least now I know where Lea's coming from.  Still, this is, like, way too excessive!  Maybe she'll have calmed down after vent-

   
Lea interrupted her thoughts.  "Good news, my little test subject!  I've decided to do more compressability testing on you!"  Lea practically sang this out to Tessa.

    Shit, Tessa thought to herself.

    Lea grabbed the twisted up Tessa from the sink and placed her back on the kitchen table.  Grabbing her trusty rolling pin once again, Lea pressed it down into Tessa, rolling over her a few times for good measure.  This rolling reduced Tessa to a flat, long sheet of skin tone flesh, with nary a feature on her.  From the outside, she looked a bit like a flattened out baguette.  Tessa just whimpered to herself as she felt her body get even more compressed than before.  Tessa took a second to notice the fact that she was now technically kissing herself due to the fact that her lips were pressed into themselves.

    "Good, but I think we can do better than that," proclaimed Lea.  She picked up the flatbread-like person and rolled her up as she did before.  This time, however, she made sure to roll her up tightly so that there was almost no space in the center of the roll.  As Tessa wondered what kind of squashing was up next, Lea placed the Tessa roll on back onto the table, with the spiral of the roll facing upwards.  Lea left the room for a couple of seconds, only to return with one of her way-too-heavy text books.  Without hesitation, she slammed the book down onto Tessa.

    Lea pressed into the book for a couple of seconds, then lifted it to see the result.  It was about what you would expect, just a small, skin-colored disk with a spiral pattern.  Lea used her pin to roll over the disk a few times, wanting the parts of the disk to fuse but not wanting to spread it out too much.  When she was satisfied, she roll the disk up yet again, set it on the table spiral up like she did before, then pressed the book down into it again.  The result was a slightly smaller disk with a spiral pattern.

    Tessa could hardly even tell what was happening to her body at this point.  She was so mixed up within her self and fused together that she couldn't tell where any particular part of her body was.  She had been so mixed up that practically every inch of her tiny body felt like every part of her body.  

    Lea was not about to make things any easier for Tessa to distinguish her parts from one another.  Deciding that the book and pin were too cumbersome, Lea just started to mold and compress Tessa in her hand.  She placed Tessa in her palm and closed her fist on her to feel her squish out between her fingers, rubbed Tessa between her palms, and then stretched her out just so she could do it again.  Lea blushed as she manipulated Tessa's body.  It was only then that she realized just how worked up this whole affair was getting her.  The feeling of being in complete control of this person, and the feeling of reducing her to nothing but a tiny blob of clay was so empowering, so cathartic, so-

    Lea paused as she realized that she had begun to subconsciously rub her crotch into the corner of the table.  

    Deciding that she would rather question her sexuality at a later date, Lea put Tessa back down on the table.

    "Well, uh, I think that's enough experimenting for today."  Lea felt embarrassed, at least until she got a good look at Tessa.  The malleable maiden was now just a small, uniformly colored blob of compressed girl.  "Wow Tessa, you look like a chewed up piece of gum!"  Lea laughed to herself.

    Fuck. You. Lea, Tessa thought.  I can't believe you've turned me into this!  I can't move, I can't talk, I can't even tell where any part of me is anymore!  How are you even going to get me back to normal after this!  However the hell you restore me, you'd better find a way to do it from far away because as soon as I get back to normal I'm kicking your ass!

   
Lea could only imagine what kind of insults and threats Tessa was throwing her way, but she didn't really care at this point.  "Hey, speaking of gum, I should get some," Lea said out loud to herself.  Gum always helped her relax and gather her thoughts, and she remembered that she had specifically left one strip left in her most recently opened package.  As she opened the gum package, she thought about how she may have been too hard on Tessa.

    However, when she opened it up, there was no gum left.

    The one stick that she was saving was missing.

    And there was only one other person who could have taken it.

    Lea walked back over to where she left Tessa.

    "Actually, Tessa, I did come up with one more test for us to do today."

    Ah shit, what's she gonna do this time? Tessa felt completely exasperated at this point.

    "I call this one the taste test," Lea said ominously

    T-Taste test?

   
Lea picked up Tessa off the table and started bringing her to her mouth.

    L-Lea?  C'mon now, this isn't funny!  Lea? Lea?!

   
Lea placed the piece of gum on her tongue, then slowly, deliberately closed her lips around it.  "Mm, tastes like peaches," Lea said to herself.  After a second of savoring the flavor, she got her mouth to work.  She chewed the gum, pressed it between her tongue and the roof of her mouth, and otherwise just ground it against her teeth.  After a few minutes, she squished the gum out into a flat surface, pressed it up against her lips, and blew into it.  It worked even better than normal bubble gum; with hardly any effort, she blew quite a nice bubble.  The gum felt itself grow as air was blown into it, steadily feeling its surface get taughter with each blow.  The pressure of the air inside of it was getting to be unbearable for the little piece of gum, building and building the tension until suddenly-

    *POP*

    The bubble of gum made a loud burst as it popped.  Half of Lea's face was coated in a warm layer of the popped gum.  She couldn't help but laugh at the whole situation.  She peeled the gum off of her face and resumed chewing it.

    "You know Tessa, I thought that one of us was going to have to move out.  After today, I think we're going to get along, much, much better from now on,"  Lea started to blow another bubble, wondering how big she could get it before it burst.