My eyelids fluttered open and I looked around. I was in the nurse’s office, lying down on a bed. I used my elbows to push myself into a sitting position. The nurse saw me sitting up and rushed to my side.
“How are you feeling, dear?” she asked.
“What happened?” I asked, disregarding her question.
“You fainted, dear,” she told me. “Tell me, sweetie, have you eaten today?”
“Yes,” I lied, my voice cracking.
She looked at me sternly. “Tell me the truth, honey. When was the last time you ate?”
“At lunch,” I lied again.
She sighed. “I think you need to eat something.”
“Really, I’m fine. I just ate.”
She ignored me and walked over to the counter. She plunged her pudgy hand into a pretzel container and pulled out a handful of them. She walked back to me and held out the pretzels.
“I’m not hungry,” I insisted.
She dropped the pretzels in my lap. “I don’t care if you just ate a cow; you fainted and so now you need something to eat.”
I looked at the pretzels scattered over my lap and my heart began beating faster. I couldn’t eat them, I just couldn’t. It would destroy me. I would eat one, and then want more and more and before I knew it I would be shoving them in my mouth by the handful.
“I’m not leaving your side until you eat at least one,” she informed me.
I hesitantly picked up one pretzel and nibbled a corner. I looked at her.
“Finish it,” she commanded.
I pushed the entire thing in at once and the flavor of salt filled my mouth, but I didn’t chew it. The nurse didn’t notice I wasn’t actually eating; she just smiled and walked away. As soon as she was gone I spit out the pretzel even though all I wanted to do was eat it. I spotted tissues by the side of the bed and wrapped the soggy pretzel up in one and stuffed it in my pocket along with a few more.
In a few minutes the nurse returned and saw that about five more pretzels were gone and she smiled. “Don’t you feel better now, sweetie?” she asked.
“Yes,” I lied. I felt just as bad as I had before.
“You can go now, if you’re okay,” she told me, handing me a pass to go to my next class.
I snatched the pass and headed out of the infirmary.
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Deadly Double Love
Mystery / ThrillerKitty learns a horrible and dark secret from her dad and her world comes crashing down. Nothing is the way it seemed before and and slowly her life begins to dissolve as she falls into a series of destructive habits that could end up killing her. **...
