Life After An Eating Disorder

cells

My legs gave out the second after I walked into my Living Environment class. I grabbed onto the wall closest to me and slowly guided my way to my seat. "Are you okay, AJ?" Mrs. Owens asked me as I opened my eyes briskly. Shooting stars passed in front of my vision of my first period classroom. "Oh, yeah, I'm great." I smiled warmly as she shook her head.
The classroom suddenly filled up with my classmates. One of my best friends, Rae, entered nearly before the bell rang that signaled home room. I slowly paced my way towards the empty seat in front of her desk.
"Did you see the new episode of Oil and Blood?" Rae asked curiously. I shook my head, "There's literally the word 'blood' in the name. Literally." I've always had a blood phobia ever since I was a young child. Why didn't I see the knife of the table? There was blood everywhere. I shivered at the thought. I even have a scar to remember it. Rae rolled her eyes. "You know, it's a really good show, and you should totally watch it-" I cut her off. "That's not gonna happen." I said while laughing.

The second bell rang, signaling the beginning of first period. "Okay class, today we'll be doing a cheek cell lab. What you need to do is have someone in your lab group rub the inside of their cheek with a tooth pick and scrape it against the microscope slide. You'll examine it and draw a diagram of what it looks like." Mrs. Owens explained to us. "Get to work class" she said after handing out our lab packets.

"Who wants to do it?" Kathy, one of my lab partners, impatiently asked. "Well, you're the one who brought it up, so...." Rae said while laughing, causing me to laugh. My laughing came to an abrupt stop because I started to feel a ceasing pain in my chest. You're just thirsty. "I'm not doing it." Kathy said. I wish she'd just suck it uppp. She never does any work, she can AT LEAST do this! "Do you wanna do it?" She directed her question towards me. I knew Rae didn't want to, and that's understandable since she doesn't like germs.... and Kathy obviously isn't going to. "Do I have a choice?" I rhetorically asked, even though I have a perfectly good reason as to why I don't want to do this.
Kathy handed me the tooth pick and I genteelly rubbed the inside of my cheek.
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Once we got or microscope in focus, once Rae got it in focus actually, we called Mrs. Owens to make sure we did it right. "Who's cells are these?" Rae and Kathy pointed to me. "What'd you eat this morning?" She said while laughing. Nothing. And if you ask about yesterday; nothing, and the day before that; nothing. "You might be sick, AJ, you should consider seeing the nurse." I'm not sick. "I can assure you that I'm fine." I said with a convincing smile. I'm totally fine, I just haven't eaten in three days.
Human beings have an estimate of one hundred trillion cells, all of mine are lacking glucose. I know my brain is using fats as its main source of energy, instead of sugar, and that's abnormal, but I feel absolutely fine.