Author: Skytate17

Title: Pressure

Summary: They say high school changes everyone..

Note: ok here we are… the first five chap we'll talk about the situation with every 5 rangers. Enjoy!

1 Don't Believe The Hype

I hate food. I really do. All they contain are calories, carbohydrates, cholesterol, and fats. Ugh, fats. Fats are the worst substances every created by man kind. Saturated fats, unsaturated fats, trans fats. I could repeat those names in my sleep; I probably already do. But as much as I despise food, I can't help but eat everything in site. It grosses me out how much I eat sometimes, but it's not my fault. It's normal for teens in my family to eat this much around my age, it's hereditary. I can't stand it though. At times, it feels like I have no control over how much I eat. Holidays are the worst. That's when I eat everything in sight, even if I don't like it.

Did I mention I hate food?

I haven't hated food for my entire life. I've loved it, up until this past summer. I went to a singing camp, and met this girl named Kira. When I first saw her, I was stunned. She was absolutely gorgeous. Everything about her was perfect, especially her figure. I've loved my body for the past seventeen years of my life, and I never wanted to trade it in, until I met her. We got along great at first, since she was my roommate, along with 4 other girls. It worked out perfectly. I've asked her one night how she got the body she had, and she held nothing back. Just thinking about that night makes me cringe, even though I'm on that route now.

Summer 07

Syd plopped down on her bed in her room, and flipped open a magazine. Kira was sprawled out on her bed next to her, listening to her iPod. Syd looked over at her, and observed her body with detail. Her legs were well toned, her arms were muscular, but not too muscular, her thighs were a perfect size, and her waist was the kind of waist girls everywhere dreamed of having. Syd threw the magazine in her hand onto the floor, and poked Kira in the arm.

"Hmm?," Kira took an earphone out of her ear.

"How'd you get your body?," Syd asked, looking at Kira

Kira rose an eyebrow, and took out her other earphone. She cleared her throat, and sat upright on her bed, her legs crisscrossed.

"Want me to show you?"

Syd shrugged. "Um.. I guess so!"

"Okay," Kira stood up, "we'll go to my normal spot. My stash is there."

Syd got off her bed, and followed Kira out the door. The door slammed shut behind them, sending a loud noise through the camp. They didn't care, even if it was midnight.

They both walked side by side, in complete silence, until they reached a garbage can in the middle of the woods. It reaked up the entire spot they were in. Syd held her breath, almost bringing her hand to her nose.

"Whew," Kira waved her hand in front of her nose, "I have to change the bag soon, don't I?"

Syd nodded, slightly laughing. She stopped when she saw Kira bend down to the ground. She soon stood back up, with a box in her hand. In the box were bags of chips, cookies, candies, anything you could think of. Syd felt her mouth begin to water at the sight of her favorite food in the entire world: Lemonheads. Kira grabbed at least 2 bags of cookies and 3 cans of Coke, and dropped the box to the ground.

"Isn't that Coke warm?," Syd questioned.

Kira opened one of the bags of cookies. "Yes. That's the way I drink it." She handed Syd the cans of Coke.

"Hold them for me while I eat."

"You're eating both of those bags?"

Kira nodded, stuffing her face with at least 5 cookies. She gulped them down, and quickly put another 5 into her mouth. In the timespan of 5 minutes, the entire bag was gone. She opened up the other bag, and ate it almost as fast.

"Give me one," her muffled voice said, pointing to a can in Syd's hand. Syd held out the Coke. "Thanks," Kira grabbed it out of Jordin's hand. She snapped it open, and drank it down in one gulp. She took another one from Syd, and gulped it down smoothly.

"Last one," Kira said. She shook the can up, and opened it soon afterwards. Bubbles spilled out of it, but she didn't care. She gulped it down, the bubbles and suds stinging her throat as she did. Kira threw the can to the ground, and grabbed Syd's arm.

"That's how you lose weight?," Syd asked, "I think that's how you gain it."

Kira shook her head. "This is how I lose weight."

Syd watched as Kira placed her right index finger on her tongue. Seconds later, Syd could no longer see her finger. Kira dug her finger down her throat, and almost immediately everything she had just eaten left her body. Jordin turned her head at the sight of the upchuck, and nearly puked herself.

Kira did this for the next 5 minutes. The echoes of her vomiting filled the woods, but Syd soon figured out why Kira chose this place. It was in the middle of camp. No one came out here, it was too far out.

Kira picked a washcloth from out of the box, and wiped her mouth clean. She reached into her pocket, and took out a few breathmints, and popped them into her mouth.

"Now you know," Kira said, covering her mouth with both of her hands. She was checking her breath, Syd realized.

Syd didn't say anything back to Kira. She just nodded. She was shocked at the fact that Kira was doing this to herself, because she'd never do that to herself. Too gruesome.

They both walked back to camp, and quickly went back to what they were doing before they had went on their little adventure. Kira fell asleep soon afterwards, but Syd didn't.

She laid in her bed, wide awake. She was reliving what she had endured today, and it wasn't the Kira thing. At practice today, she was chosen to sing a solo in front of record producers, and everyone else in the camp. It was easy for her, she hadn't been nervous at all. After she sang, they all gave her good comments. But on her way out, she was given a slip, like everyone else. On the slips were comments, of what they could work on.

She'd gotten good comments, until she read halfway down the page. One of the producers had said she was pretty, but could lose a few pounds. Those comments didn't effect her then: but they did now.

Syd now realized she needed to lose weight if she actually wanted to live her dream, which was to obviously sing professionally. She'd always concidered herself a curved girl, but it didn't matter to her. All of the guys liked her anyways. She was constantly hit on, asked out, you name it. She always turned them all down though, and she didn't know why. None of the guys at her school appealed to her.

But now, the words 'lose a few pounds' stung her like never before. She thought her figure was fine. She was always complimented on it, no one ever pointed out her flaws, except for her brother, but that's expected from them. They're always that rude. But now someone thought the complete opposite of her. Syd never thought she needed to lose weight before.

She now realized she had to, and because of Kira, she knew exactly how to.

Present day

After meeting Kira, and learning the truth about her, I've never been the same. After that day at camp, I've never been the same. I've tried diets, fasting, stuff like that, but nothing has worked. I have avoided and avoided trying to do what Kira does, but right now, it seems like the right thing to do. I don't want to be fat anymore. When I look in the mirror, I see someone ugly. I never used to look at myself this way before, but now I see myself in a different light.

I asked my friends if they thought I was fat, but they all said no. Psh, what do they know? Nothing of course. They're just sugar coating their truths. I know they feel differently deep down inside of themselves.

Tomorrow, I'm stopping my current diet. I'm giving up. Even though I don't want to do it, I'm going to. I want to lose all of the weight on me, because I can't stand any of it.

I'm going to lose it, even if it means doing the one thing I've avoided all along..