“Hey fat ass, how’d it go?” the first words to greet Red as he piloted his way inside the home of Ivory. He was used to it by this stage, it hardly even made him blush anymore. Hardly. His cheeks were a little red as he came to a stop in the living room and leaned over (pad dipping slightly) to give his partner as much of a kiss as he could.

“Fine yes, actually we had no problem with the device at all. Seems we could be on our way to endless sunny days if they can scale up the technology.” Red replied, settling in to stare at whatever was on the holo projector in front of them. A food advert, predictably. It must have subconsciously had some effect, his stomach rumbled in anticipation of a meal.

“Well don’t tell my friend Sunny Days that, she’ll never shut up if people make anymore jokes about her weather related name.” Ivory said with a small giggle of delight. “She already has enough trouble being a Pegasus who hasn’t flown in decades, not that she’s much different to the rest of the Pegasi here...oh, sorry hun’.” Ivory finished up, she often forgot Red was a Pegasus too. Like most you’d never know, their wings were either buried under mountains of fat or their wings themselves were so fat and hefty like the rest of their bodies it was difficult to tell what was wing and what was just more blubbery rolls of lard.

“None taken, it was a lot of work though…” Red hinted. Ivory didn’t need to know that he’d done very little physical labour.

“I bet, well food is on the way. Just waiting for…”

Ping!

“Ah, perfect. We’ll eat here rather than me preparing the table. Less work. Plus I saw this ad for these hover trays and wanna give them a test!” Ivory said, moving her huge bulk to the kitchen and presumably to Red dishing up the food she had been cooking. When she returned she was followed by what looked like two very small pads that floated at head level, except they were piled up with food. Red licked his lips greedily and as he felt her settle herself back next to him started to dig into the food.

“These things?” he asked between mouthfuls.

“Mmmm, not expensive. Ad said they worked on the same principles as pads but just made for carrying food instead. You can eat wherever you want!” the mare explained, taking hooffulls of food and chowing down. For a few moments nothing but the noise of the holo projector blaring ads and the smacking of lips occupied the room. The two massive ponies taking in as much as they could as quickly as they could. Red himself decided to stop for a moment to digest, something was on his mind. He had been thinking about it since he had seen the new plots they had started to build.

“You think um, well…” he started to say. It made Ivory stop her eating too.

“What is it? You know you don’t have to be nervous around me Red we know each other pretty well by now.” Ivory said with a smile, wiping some of the various bits of food flotsam from around her multiple chins. “My jokes about your mountain of a butt weren’t enough to make you feel at ease?” she teased.

“You want to move in together? They’re building these new plots at the company...uh, sparse is how I’d put them. But they’re specifically made for gainers. We could have two, right next to one another. I could get them cheaper too, perks of working in the business…” he finished. He could see Ivory thinking about what he had just said, her expression changing to a concentrated look.

“I mean I’d be lying if I said it hadn’t crossed my mind…” she said. “Show me the new builds and what you think we could get. If it’s nice I might be willing. You know technically if we’re neighbours we’re not really moving in together right?” she teased a little more, pushing her bulk into Red in a playful way.

“Well...the plan is eventually we’d easily join up again. Like I said they’re built for gainers.”

“Let’s take a look. For now enjoy the meal and well...wait what is this garbage?” Ivory said, pressing a hoof into her pad to change the broadcast channel. “Colony programming just ain’t that good is it?” she sighed, flicking through.

“No, mostly food shows also. I don’t know who they appeal to really. Most ponies eat out.” Red said.

“Well I cook, there’s a market for those of us who still like to cook at home.” Ivory replied, still absent-mindedly flicking through the channels until she found something good to watch.

“Oh, of course..my mistake. Lovely meal again by the way.” Red said, going back to chewing.

“No problem big buns...ohhh, my favorite!” Ivory squeaked, stopping her presses and her eyes immediately becoming glued to the screen. The title card was just vanishing but Red could make it out.

Corpulent Court

He thought he had heard of it, a soap opera about the lives of morbidly obese ponies who got into a range of mishaps with their neigbours. Seemed more than appropriate for an Empire full of fatties. As the title card vanished one of the main characters appeared on screen with his flanks yelling ‘Push!’ as a number of what Red could only assume to be family members of people who lived in the street trying their best to get whoever the pony was inside their house. The doorway was comically small.

“Kppffttt, classic!” Ivory guffawed as she watched. “Such an old joke but it never gets tired.”

“You’d think they’d have learned by now. What’s this about?” he asked pretending not to know.

“Oh you know, just fatties going about their daily lives. I want to see what happens with Hearty Feast. Last week she caught her husband sneaking off work to go eat at a new place that opened in the town. I think she’s going to confront him!” Ivory explained. At this point Red relaxed, pushing the small hovering tray off to one side as he had finished his meal.

“Bwarrrppp!”

“Always nice to hear you’ve enjoyed it fat ass.” Ivory said, hardly giving Red a glance as she continued to watch the drama unfold on the screen. Red settled in beside her. It was nice to relax and just spend some time together, even if it was watching something dull.

As he snuggled close to Ivory he started to think this is what life would be like if they moved in together. He’d come home after a long day of work to a feast and they’d probably fall asleep in front of a holo projector watching whatever program was on. Was that what he wanted? He wasn’t sure. He loved Ivory to bits but he wondered if every day was going to be this way. He had loved the spontaneity of what they did when they had first met. But it wouldn’t always be like this would it, they’d do different things. Besides he was tired, it was easy to just fall into a nice lull of doing nothing like this. He still wanted to show her the new housing plots and talk about.

That was another day though, for now Red just settled in for a night of snuggles and stories.