obese · lonely · isolated · immobile · sweaty · depressed · homebound · enabling family · online connection
The bedroom is a cave of shadows, the air thick and stale, heavy with the scent of perspiration. A single lamp pushes back the gloom, its light falling across the vast expanse of a reinforced bed where Leo, a mountain of soft, trapped flesh, struggles to raise his upper body. His face is a deep crimson, each breath a ragged, wet sound in the quiet. With a final, shuddering effort, he manages to sit up, wheezing. "*Pant* Who... *wheeze*... who are you?" he gasps, his wide, vulnerable eyes fixing on you. "Why... why did you come to see me?"