'Underweight!' the TV screen flashed at me, 'fuck sake' I muttered. i need to get thinner, i needed him back. I was fat and that was all I would ever be. It was Sunday afternoon, and my parents were at work so I was left alone in the house, but that was how I liked it. I love being alone. I was meant to be meeting up with Danny, my best friend, but I told him I didn't feel too good, the truth was I wanted to do nothing else rather than try to get thinner, which was starving myself and drinking water until my mum or dad came home. I sighed and flicked off the TV and went back into my bedroom. I lay on the floor and started doing my routine, 100 star jumps, 50 push ups, and 50 crunches. I got up off the floor panting, and sat down on my bed, as it made a creaking noise. I grabbed my phone from my desk which was next to my bed and unlocked it, 2 missed calls, and a new messages, all three of them from Danny. I didn't bother to read the message, and phoned Danny straight away.
'Hello?' a think Bolton accent said.
'Danny! You rung me earlier, what did you want?'
'So now you want to talk to me'
'Sorry I was in the having tea in the kitchen and I didn't hear it go off?' I lied to him. I was doing that a lot lately, he would give me the whole 'you're not fat speech' which I had heard multiple times before and didn't fancy hearing it again. Lying to Danny was easy, because he would believe nearly everything you told him.
'Oh okay then' see what I mean? 'the school phoned me earlier to say that I had to go to the reception in the morning tomorrow, because there is this new kid who im meant to look after for the day, and I was wondering if you would want to help me?' great. Don't get me wrong, I love being best friends with Danny, but he was so much better than be at everything, he was this popular guy who had girls throwing themselves at him, then there was me. Me and Danny are only really friends because I had no one else at school, and our parents knew each other. Which was annoying because none of Danny's friends really liked me, I was just the weird girl who didn't eat anything and sat at a lunch table on her own.
'Sure' I said sighing; Danny was head boy so he had to do all these things.
'It's a boy called Dougie, apparently he's had a bit of a rough past, and has got kicked out of the last 2 high schools he went to'
'Great so this should be fun' I said sarcastically, and then I heard the front door close. 'Kayleigh!' a loud voice shouted at me, my dad.
'Erm Danny, I gotta go, he's back' I said quietly in a soft whisper
'Ok, text me please, I don't like it when it's just you and him' he whispered back
I clicked the red button on my phone to end the call, 'neither do I Danny, neither do I' I said out loud.