Lauren begins to strip

Lauren whimpered as she looked around the bar at the other patrons, the people either muttering to others in amazement or giggling at the woman's expense. How had she lost so badly?! She was Lauren! She NEVER lost! But somehow, she had! Lauren hung her head as she sat her three of a kind down on the table.

"Well, Lauren?" Rose asked, folding her arms over her large chest as she tilted her head with a smirk. "Are you just going to stand there, or are you going to honor your wager?"

Lauren bit her quivering lip as she looked around at the patrons of the bar again. After she had humiliated and swindled every single one of them after they challenged her, she knew that not a single person was going to help her. Sighing in defeat, Lauren stood up from her chair, her cheeks going pink as she heard whispers from the crowd.

"Is it my imagination, or did Lauren just shrink?"

"You noticed that too?"

"Yeah, I'd say she's about eight inches shorter than before?"

Lauren bit her lip again. If this is what they had to say about her height, she could only dread to imagine what they would say about the rest of her. With another whimper, Lauren reached up to her blouse, fumbling with the buttons as she slid it off.

As she placed her blouse on the table, she could hear the crowd giggling. She looked up to see Rose raise an eyebrow quizzically, the little woman paling in response. Did she figure out her bra was mostly padding? If she did, the cowgirl didn't say anything.

Closing her eyes, Lauren hooked her thumbs into her skirt and pushed it down her short, stubby legs. She heard Rose and the entire crowd gasp in shock as she opened her eyes. She didn't need to be a mind reader to tell what they were staring at.

"What is Lauren wearing?!"

"It's spanx!"

"What's that?"

"You know, special shaping underwear that makes butts and stomachs look smaller than what they really are."

"Okay, now I'm curious to see just how big they are!"

Lauren gulped as she grabbed the waistband of her spanx and slowly pulled them down. The instant she pulled them off her feet, the bar erupted into a chorus of laughter.

"Look at that belly! Lauren has a beer gut!"

"Never mind her stomach! Look at at her butt! It's huge!"

"I know, right! It looks like a trash bag filled with jello!"

"How can someone so short have a butt so big!"

Lauren fumed in anger and humiliation as she watched all the patrons who had once feared or wanted her were now mockingly her paunch and butt mercilessly. True, she did also mock their losses whenever she took them to the cleaners, but still...

Lauren looked down at the last two articles of clothing she had left, her anger disappearing as she saw her padded bra and white cotton underwear. She gulped as she tried to decide which one to take off first, knowing that either would lead to her downfall from "Queen of Hearts" to a complete laughingstock. It pained her to make the decision, but in the end she chose to remove her...