I originally planned to post this on Mother’s Day, but I was busy with the event with my family this weekend. Even though I was late, my good partner, Josiah aka JURBLEFAZZ reminded me this: “Better late than never. For the picture, he helped me with today’s story for my picture.


The home of the Wattersons was all quiet. Everyone, except Nicole, left to do their daily routes. While Richard was taking Gumball, Anais, and Darwin on a misadventure for an errand, the mother remained home. She had a day off that day and as usual, she was feeling uncertain about what to do. Usually, she does lots of housework as well as attending her job at the Rainbow Factory.


Inside the kitchen, she was staring at the window. “What can I do?” She sighed. “The others are not here to make utter disasters today. Even though I don’t approve of it, they do give me some reason to be productive…”

She frowned. Without her family, especially the boys, she couldn’t get work out of her head. She would try to make messes so she can clean up after herself like she did one time in “THE PAINTING”. However, she felt like it wouldn’t do much good. It would just produce an unhealthy habit.


Just then, for some weird reason, she looked down at her white shirt. She tilts her head curiously. It was then, she had an idea. She remembered the time she was freaking out so much that when she hyperventilates, she inflated herself. It led her to reduce stress by taking big breaths and swallow them to make her belly big.


“Maybe it’s time for me to do it again,” She said softly with a warm smile. Without a moment to spare, she cracked her knuckles and took a very deep breath. When she was prolonging her inhalation, her gut started to bulge. It grew and grew until it was big enough to make her shirt rode up. At that point, her blue belly was exposed. The mother cat continued to breathe incessantly.

By the time her belly got bigger than the kitchen window, she looked at her latest girth. She felt it, rubbing it, too. Nicole gave out a warm smile, cooing, “I forgot how nice this feels. It’s been forever since I’ve done this.” She was admiring every moment of it. She couldn’t help but think the inevitable.

“Perhaps a few more puffs should do it.”

What would Richard and the others think by the time they get home and see a blue, furry balloon, filling up the entire house?

Nicole Watterson belongs to Cartoon Network