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Story time! Enjoy! (From here on out, it's about to get really intense.)

Tori's POV

The next few weeks, all I could think about was working out every single morning. My eating hadn't really changed. I generally ate what I always did. I got to where my legs didn't burn while running and I wasn't sore anymore after a week or so. After jogging every morning for a few days, my legs were so sore that every step I took caused me to practically moan and groan.

"Vega, would you shut up?" Jade exclaimed when I walked into school doing that one morning.

I groaned in response. "How about you shut up?"

"How about you watch what you say?"

I glared at her. "Please, Jade, I don't wanna get in a fight with you today. I'm just so sore from all that running I've been doing and I'm so tired." Oh yeah, I'd also been exhausted. I still wasn't used to my waking up 45 minutes earlier than normal. I fell asleep in some of my most boring classes.

She eyed me up and down. "Why the heck are you exercising in the morning? You look like you could use a cheeseburger or two."

No matter what anyone said to me, I wasn't convinced otherwise. I simply sighed and said, "Maybe because I want to, okay? Now, please, just get off my back."

After a few weeks of running every morning, I finally decided it was time to weigh myself. I have my own weigh scale in my room, so I closed my door, locked it, and then stepped on the scale. My heart dropped realizing that I'd only lost a couple of pounds.

Before I could get too upset, I heard pounding on my door. "Tori, open up!"

I rolled my eyes. Only one person would knock on my door like that. I walked over to my door and threw it open. "What?" I exclaimed in my sister's face.

"What did you do with my shoes?" she practically yelled.

"Trina, I haven't touched your shoes." I told her. "I don't go into your room."

"Well, someone obviously took my shoes and you're the only one that would take them in this house." She crossed her arms. "Give them back!"

"I already told you that I don't have them!" I yelled. "Now go away, I'm busy!" I tried to slam the door in her face, but she pushed the door open with her hand.

"Busy with what?"

"None of your business!" I yelled.

She pushed my door open and walked in my room. She looked at my weight scale and then at me. She did that for a few times before walking to my bed and sitting down. "Okay…talk. What's up?"

"Nothing," I said quickly.

"Come on, Tori…you've been jogging every morning for the past few weeks and then I come in here and see a weight scale in your room. Start talking,"

I sighed. "Fine…I'm trying to lose some weight."

"Why?"

"Just because," I said. "And I thought I already told you that I wanted to lose weight. Why are you so shocked?"

"I don't know; I guess I forgot you told me." she muttered. "But seriously…why are you doing this?"

"Why do you care?"

"I don't, it's just…if you really wanna lose some weight, why not you try watching what you eat?"

"I do watch what I eat." I said immediately.

"Yeah, obviously not enough," she said and stood up. "Look, I know what I'm talking about. If you're serious about this weight loss, then you've got to start eating healthier and maybe even cut down on a few calories."

I hesitated for a moment, thinking, and then said, "You think that'll work?"

"I'm sure it will." she said and stood up. "Good luck," Just before she walked out, she said, "Oh, but just a warning…don't cut off too much food. That could be really bad." Then she walked out of my room. Trina confused me in so many ways. One second, she was in here yelling at me because she thought I had her shoes and the next second, she was giving me advice on how to lose weight. I will never understand that girl.

I took Trina's advice and along with jogging every morning, I started eating like a health freak. I made sure every single meal was super healthy and I found myself thinking about what healthy thing I would have for my next meal. My meals usually consisted of salads, extremely healthy sandwiches, grilled chicken, and lots of fruits and vegetables. I was also getting to where I talked about all these healthy things I ate. I felt like I was annoying my friends, but I guess I didn't care enough to stop.

I could tell they were annoyed because they simply nodded and smiled when I talked about the food I ate. The only one that acknowledged their annoyance was Jade. "Okay, Tori, we get it!" she snapped one day at lunch. "We know that you've been eating healthy for weeks now. So just shut up. We don't care."

I slightly rolled my eyes and then looked at the faces of all of my friends. They were looking down, avoiding my face. "Have I really been that annoying?" I asked.

Most of them continued to look down except for Andre and Cat. Cat just smiled her sweet smile at me and then Andre said, "Well…you have been talking about it a lot lately and…it's getting…a little old."

"Uh huh," I said.

"But no offense,"

I smiled a big fake smile. "Yeah, well…some taken," I grabbed my bag and walked away. I headed in the school and walked over to my locker. I began to grab some of my stuff for my next few classes. Since it would still be awhile before the bell rang, I decided I would just go wait in the library.

Just as I closed my locker, Andre walked up to me. "Hey Tor," he said gently.

"Don't," I snapped at him. "Don't come talk to me when you know I'm mad at you."

He sighed heavily. "Tori, I'm sorry, okay? Maybe…maybe we were being a little insensitive." He softly smiled. "Can you forgive us?"

I just stared at him for a moment. "I might forgive you, but not everyone else unless they say their sorry."

"They are sorry." he said. "We feel bad that we made you sad, but…"

I groaned. "I hate it when you say but at the end of a statement."

He smiled, ignoring me. "But…it's just…maybe it would be good if you didn't talk about what you eat so much. We know that you're on some of kind of diet that I don't even know why you're on and that it's important to you, but…maybe you could…not talk about it as much. We're sorry we offended you today, but I just ask that you stop talking about food so much. Eat healthy, if you feel like you have to, and move on. It doesn't really matter."

"Okay," I said. "I'm…I'm sorry for being so annoying, it's just…it's important to me."

"I know that." he said gently. "And I'm not saying you can't talk about it at all. Just don't make it the only thing you talk about, okay?"

I smiled and nodded. "You're the only one who understands me."

He shrugged and said, "That's why we're best friends." But then he cleared his throat and said, "So…since we're talking about it…is this a diet that you're on?"

"Kinda," I said with a sigh. "I just wanna be healthy."

He looked down at my body. "Well…you look pretty healthy to me."

"Thanks, Andre," I told him. "I'm just trying so hard."

"And you seem to be doing a really good job."

I smiled at him. "Well…thanks again, Andre,"

"No problem," he said. "So how about we go back to lunch? Your food is still at the table and we don't know what to do with it."

I giggled. "Well, how about I just finish my food?"

"I'd say yes!" he said and then we headed out of the school and went back outside. We walked over to the table and sat down. I apologized to all of my friends about how annoying I'd been and they forgave me. All except for Jade, but Beck gave her a little glare and she sighed and forgave me. I gave Beck a smile as a thanks. I loved that Beck could get Jade to do anything he wanted.

I ended up taking Andre's advice and I stopped talking about food as much. I still did occasionally, but it wasn't near as much as I did before. I just had some kind of obsession with jogging and eating super-duper healthy and even though I wasn't obsessed with talking about it, I still made sure my friends and family aware of this. For some reason though, I don't think they liked that I was still eating like a health freak and exercising daily. I would get weird looks whenever I did bring it up. I simply shrugged it off. That's all I could really do.