The simplest solution to a problem is normally also the best, as the saying goes. Tina's problem, she got a bit carried away with herself last night, and swallowed three more of her plushies, to go along with the one she ate the day before. The four of them together were enough to bulge out her little raccoony tummy, just enough to be noticeable. After the whole lecture her mother gave her about vore, there was no way Tine could let her find out what she did. But she had to leave her room sometime, and she had to go to school. Her solution: wear a shirt.

	Simple, easy, and since it was still spring, no one would question someone wearing a shirt, with the weather still being a little chilly now and then. So Tina went to school, getting a ride from her mom, who never gave her shirt a second thought. 'This is too easy.' Tina thought to herself. She really was begining to enjoy, not only the eating aspect of this whole vore thing, but how it was her little secret, that no one else had any clue. It thrilled her to think of her four little captives, while looking around the classroom, everyone entirely oblivious to what she had done. 

	Sitting queitly in class, she could hear and feel the plushes now and then, squishing and sliding over each other in her stomach, moving with the contractions of her muscles. She'd get a little shiver of panic, if the wet slorping sounds got loud, which they did a couple times, but to her great relief, no one seemed to notice. 

	After school, Tina had to walk home, her mom had told her earlier she would be busy, and couldn't pick her up. By a chance of luck, Tina saw her cousin Shannon on the way, so she decided to walk home with her. Even though Shannon, a mongoose, was six years older than Tina, the two girls had always gotten together growing up, and were close friends. Shannon lived just down the block from Tina, so the two could walk the whole way home together.

	Tina was itching to tell her cousin her little secret all along the way. She knew she could trust her, and wanted desperately to tell her. She decided to try easing into the conversation, to see how Shannon would react. "So, Shannon," here she lowered her voice a little "What, um, what do you think about that vore thing?"

	The question took the mongoose by surprize, but she recovered quickly, shooting her cousin a sideways glance. "And just what do you know about vore?"
	
	Tina stammered for a second, but that was all Shannon needed to figure her out. "Is that why you're wearing a shirt today?" She couldn't help chuckle, seeing her little cousin suddenly blush bright red right through her fur. "It's okay, we can go to my place, and talk all about it if you want." A little reassuring wink made Tina feel a little more at ease.

	At Shannon's house, Tina's excited words spilled like a flood. She didn't realize before just how much she had wanted to show somebody, to show off to them what she had done. Her story ended with showing her cousin the lump in her belly, were the four plushies were cramped together. 

	"Wow, Tina, that's pretty cool. When I was your age, I was just getting into vore too, but I never even thought about doing it with plushies. I kinda wish I had now, seeing you."

	Her words made the raccoon girl's heart leap in surprize. "Shannon, you like vore too? Wait, if you didn't use plushies, then, what?"

	Now it was Shannon's turn to blush. "I liked to hunt mice in my parent's basement. Sometimes I'd go out to the middle of nowhere, and look for them in fields and woods." Here she chuckled. "Then the mice turned into squirrels, then raccoons, and I just kept getting bigger and bigger meals."

	Tina was shocked, as was clearly evident by her hugely smiling face. She had no idea her cousin, and one of her closest friends growing up did any of this. The girls talked on for hours, about all Shannon's many conquests, and unusual experiences. Tina noticed the Sun was going down. "I should probably get home, I'd love to stay and chat all night,"

	Shannon cut her off midsentence. "Well, it's friday, why don't you spend the night? We could have a sleepover!"

	Tina's eyes brightened, her smile wide as can be. "Oh yeah! I didn't even think of it! I'll run home real quick, to let mom know, and grab some stuff for tonight." With that, the raccoon girl was off and out the door, dashing down the street. 

	Of course, her mom was fine with her spending the night at Shannon's. 'She still has no idea.' Tina thought gleefully to herself. Upstairs, she dumped out her bookbag, and refilled it with a blanket and pillow. But before she could dash back out of her room, she stopped, and turned back. "Oh why not?" She chuckled to herself, going back and stuffing a whole pile of her plushies down into her bag. 

	Back at Shannon's could finally take that annoying shirt off. There was no need for it anymore, it would just be the two girls here. Tina was actually proud of her little bulge. It was her little badge of honor, as she saw it, in her newly discovered world of "vore". 

	The girls layed out their blankets and pillows on the livingroom floor, and lounged comfortably on them as they talked more. The mongoose girl was impressed, to say the least, at her little cousin's first belly bulge. "Heh, that's a whole lot more than I could manage on my first time. Does it hurt at all?" She poked and rubbed the bulge as she marveled at it.

	"Hehe, na, it doesn't hurt at all. In fact, I'm sure I could fit at least a few more before I'm full."

	Shannon didn't believe her, and told her so. But Tina, being a raccoon, couldn't say no to a challenge. She unzipped her bag, letting her little managerie spill out onto the blankets. 

	"Heh, I see you came prepared."

	Tina only huffed, as she grabbed a lifesized rat plush, and brought it to her lips. Its furry little face went right down into Tina's open maw, continuing down into her throat. She clamped her muzzle down over the toy, and started inching it in, a bite at a time. In short order, she had the rat stuffed all the way into her mouth, leaving only its thin pink tail hanging from her lips. With her first big swallow, she dumped the rat back, fully into her throat and neck. With the second, it was gone, streaming headfirst down to join the others in her stomach.

	Shannon sat back and watched the show intently. Only after the rat had vanished did she make a sound or movement. "Wow Tina. You're a true natural at this. It took me weeks of trying to take my first rat."

	Tina blushed a little and giggled. Just then, an idea came to her, something she hadn't thought of before. "Hey, can I see you eat something? You can do a lot bigger than me, right? I wanna see!"

	"Hmm..." Shannon thought for a second, holding her paw to her chin as she pondered. "Oh! I have this plushie somewhere around here that an old boyfriend got for me at a carnival. Let me go find it." 

	In no time at all she came running back, her arms wrapped around a large, very large, tiger plush. Tina's jaw hung open in disbelief. "There's no way."

	The thing was easily a full yard long, and that was without counting the tail. "Hehe, you said you wanted to see something big." Shannon teased. 

	The mongoose wet her mouth and lips, as she looked down into her plushie's face. She let out a deep breath, psyching herself up for what she was about to do with the poor fabric creature. First she shoved both his frontpaws into her mouth, letting them slide over her tongue, and into her experienced gullet. The synthetic furry fabric caught and snagged, much more than real fur would, but she didn't let it stop her. She had swallowed bigger before, much bigger.

	The plushie's stuffed arms compressed down as they were pulled down her throat, tugged on by powerful muscle contractions. His head was roughly the same size as her own, but she simply stuffed it right in her mouth, compressing down the inner stuffing. Now she could start swallowing, as well as pushing it in. Shannon took several mighty gulps, each one taking the little beast another couple inches down into her. Her mouth was held wide open around the huge plush, but closed slightly around it with each new bite and swallow. 

	Tina could see the mass of the plush as it sunk into her cousin's neck, and into her chest, where it vanished into her ribcage. When Shannon had the plush in to its middle, Tina could once again see the bulge of it reemerge in her furred belly. "There it is! I see it!" She pointed excitedly.

	Shannon chuckled, the sound muffled into something that sounded like a cough. With one paw at her belly, and the other pressing the tiger's bottom, she kept on swallowing. Soon only the tiger's legs and tail were left in view, the rest lost down the pink fleshy maw of the hungry mongoose girl. With the bulk of the plushie now firmly wrapped in her throat, the rest was easy and quick. With one mighty clench and gulp, the stuffed animal slid down and in, leaving his paws resting on her tongue, his tail dangling from her lips. 

	Tina laughed, seeing the comparison of the tiger's huge thick tail, and the little rat's tail she had in the same position just minutes ago. Shannon leaned her head back, taking one last swallow. The bulk of the beast was gripped tight by her entire esophagus, and was pulled quickly down. The tail slid in and vanished down Shannon's throat, the last of the tiger. It was now fully in her stretched stomach, balled tightly in the hot wet confines. 

	"Ta da!" Both girls fell over giggling, Tina laughing into a pillow, Shannon curled up around her new rounded belly.