Breakfast, followed by second breakfast.

Spending the next few minutes hastily getting washed, dried, dressed, and prepped up, Susan checked herself in the mirror after drying her hair. Giving herself a look over, she found the edges of her blonde hair seemed a lighter colour. Bringing up a lock of her hair between her fingers, the woman found the tips to be a bit bleach in comparison to the rest of her golden blonde hair. Shrugging and thinking none of it, she stepped out of the washroom, gathered her clothes to get dressed and plucked a pair of shoes from her closet to wear.

Stepping out of the bedroom in a pair of dress pants and a soft blue button blouse, Susan tied her hair back and made her way to the living room where she found her two kids eating breakfast. From the kitchen she could smell Ben Grimm scraping away at a skillet making scrambled eggs and bacon for everyone, the big orange stone-skinned man turned his attention from the burner to smile back at the woman. Smiling over to Franklin and Valaria, Susan kissed them both on the forehead before joining them at the table and setting up a plate for herself. “Morning kids, are the two of you ready for school after breakfast?”

“Yes MOM!” Her son and daughter cheered out in unison.

“Morning Suzie, sleep well? Made hash and bacon.” He waved with his spatula, scooping up the fried minced potatoes and bacon onto a plate and made his way over to the table to join them.

Yes PLEASE! Woke up starving this morning.” She answered, using her fork to scoop up all the freshly cooked bacon and eggs, surprising everyone on how much she was stacking on her plate before bringing said fork to the mound of scrambled eggs in front of her to start eating her meal. Watching her go, the trio sat silently as the Invisible Woman ate like she was starving. Wolfing down one mound of eggs and bacon after the other, a look of pure bliss on her face maintained with every bite she took.

“Hey uh… Suzie, want some toast to go with yer bacon?” Ben offered, seeing the woman shake her head slightly before inhaling another fork full of bacon. Scraping her place clean, Susan wiped her lips and stood up from her seat, looking over the table as if searching for something.

“Is there anymore?”

“Sorry mom, you ate it all.”

Slightly taken back, the woman looked down to realise that she had eaten almost all the eggs and bacon on the table, leaving the hash browns, toast and fruit practically ignored save for her kids and friend, taking what they could get from the show. Blushing slightly, Susan covered her mouth with the back of her hand in embarrassment, then wiped her hands on her napkin. “Heh, guess I was hungrier than I thought, well kids, lets get you two to school, don’t want to be late now do we?”

Quickly getting out of their chairs, the two grabbed their school bags and joined their mother at the front door. Turning to look back over to the table, Susan waved back to the Thing with a shy smile. “Sorry about the damage Ben, hope I left some for you.”

Seeing the door close, Ben Grimm looked down at the table to see the only thing left were jam lathered toast and hash browns, shrugging, he filled his plate and nibbled at his toast. “Hmm, well, Alicia DID say I could stand to lose a few pounds…”

*

Getting the kids into the spare fantasti-car, Susan flew her two children to their school to start their classes, the pair sitting in the back seat with their school bags in hand as they flew over the city. More than once Susan found herself preoccupied while flying, even after breakfast she was still hungry. Seeing the large campus for gifted children just below the flying vehicle, Susan made her descent and landed just outside the curb of the school, parked between two other cars nearby. Turning over to check on Franklin and Valaria in their seats, she smiled back at the two, giving their hair a look over before she opened the side door and let them out. “Bye kids, have fun at school.” Seeing the two wave her goodbye and run for the main gate with the rest of the children, Susan caught a moment where she spotted Valaria being held up by a trio of girls in school uniform like her, taller and obviously a year more into their curriculum. From her vantage she could not hear what was going on, but she could see her daughter have a distraught look on her face before she made her way inside.

Taking note of that, Susan reactivated the Fantasticar and ascended a few stories overhead before turning around and making her way back to Four Plaza. But during the trip back, she felt her stomach growl again. Rubbing her flat middle, Susan frowned and looked down to the main streets below. Spotting a burger bistro in sight, Susan descended and found a decent place to park the park and made her way inside. Patiently waiting in line, the pale woman sighed, her arms crossed as the line of people grew shorter and her turn to order came up, during that time Susan was getting irritable having to wait forever to get her order in, but in actuality she only had to wait 5 minutes. The teller at the front desk was a young teenager smiling up to Susan wearing a hairnet and cap with the bistro’s logo.

“Hello, welcome to Butch’s Bistro, how can I take your…”

“I want three orders of your double patty burgers with bacon and cheese, along with some barbeque sauce and fries.”

Blinking back at the woman, the petite cashier leaned to the side to look behind the Invisible Woman tapping her foot impatiently. Finding apart from an elderly woman and a child behind her, there was not a group she was with. “Will that be all ma’am?”

“And I want a diet coke.”

Getting her order, Susan made her way outside to the sitting area of the bistro and sat at a table in the shade. Immediately she began eating her meal, the moment the ground beef, bacon and sauce touched her tongue, her eyes rolled back with a moan of bliss. Eating like she was starving; the woman took one bite after the other, oblivious to the stares from everyone nearby as they watched the woman eat a large hamburger like she hadn’t eaten in days only to follow up with her second one. Already she could feel her hunger ebb away, the need to eat fading as she filled her stomach. Dipping her fries in sauce and taking a sip from her drink, Susan became distracted when she heard a familiar voice nearby.

“Susan? Susan is that you?”

Looking up while still biting into her burger, Susan’s eyes lit up when she found her friend Greer Grant looking down at her from across the fence line of the eating area, her son in her arms while she stood there with a slack jawed smile and shaking her head in surprise. “Wow… Feeling hungry there Suzie?”

“Hi Tigra! He there William, are you having fun with your mother?” Chirped Susan, wiping her face and pulling a seat out for the tiger woman to sit along with her, keeping her toddler Will in her arms while he playfully struggled against his mother’s grip.

“He’s entered the terrible twos… for sure, by the way, are you feeling alright, you pretty pale, heck I could make out in broad day light girl.”

Bringing a hand to her cheek to cover her blush, Susan pouted before licking the sauce from her lip and wiped her hands with her napkin. “To be honest I thought so too, but I feel fine except for a bit of an appetite.”

Well, I’m heading off to the gym to work off some steam and drop him off to day care, want to come with?”

“Oh I couldn’t do that Greer, I’ve got a couple of things to do back at the home and…” Looking down at her plate, she realised she had eaten three double stacked burgers all by herself in one sitting, not to mention she ate almost all the bacon and eggs this morning when Ben served breakfast. Looking down at herself and pressing a hand against her stomach, she did not look bloated, if anything she did not look any different then when she started the day. Still, her sudden eating habits did worry her. The last thing she needed was to get a ‘mom bod’ after trying so hard to keep her model-trim figure.

“You know what? Sure, need a ride there?”