Chapter 2: I Don't Wanna Stop (Part 1)

*Scene 1*

Setting- Outside of the school

"Hey Paige! Wait up!" Hazel yells to her non-caring friend. "What's wrong?" Hazel finally got her to stop. Paige turns around and looks her in the eye.

"Hazel, nothing is wrong!" She screams back at her in fury.

"Nothing's wrong?" Hazel says in disbelief. "If nothing's wrong then what's up with you at lunch. You ate one bite of salad. One bite. And last night...you were saying that you're fat. I'm worried about you, Paige."

Paige switches her tactic. "Oh, that. I'm sorry, I just didn't get a lot of sleep last night and it ruined my appetite. And last night...I was just talking. Hun, do you really think that I'm less than perfect?" She says laughing.

"Yeah you're right," Hazel replies. "I don't know what I was thinking," she finishes, trying to make herself believe that it was the truth. But Paige wouldn't lie to her, she thought. They keep walking and talking small chit-chat.

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*Scene 2*

Setting- Outside of Spinner's house

"What was wrong with Paige at lunch today?" Spinner asks Jimmy, looking up from his dribbling basketball. "Do you think she's like in her time of the month or something?"

"Dude, that's just disturbing," Jimmy replies, forgetting what he said. Jimmy then runs up and steals the ball from his zoned out friend. "You shouldn't ask what's wrong with Paige...more like what's wrong with YOU? Lets play some ball, Spin! Forget about it. She's fine. She's just being a girl, not wanting to get fat and all of that."

"Okay," Spinner says running after Jimmy like a chicken with his head cut off.

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*Scene 3*

Setting- Paige's house

Paige returns home after saying good-bye to Hazel and throws her book bag on the ground. "Mom, I'm home," she says.

"Ok Paige. Don't eat anything. We're eating dinner early tonight," her mom yells back to her from the kitchen.

"Don't worry, I definitely won't," she mumbles to herself while walking up the stairs to the bathroom. She walks directly to her scale and stands on it. "One pound!" she says angrily. I've starved myself all day for one pound. Okay this is so not working for me," she says to herself thinking that she won't be able to eat for a while to get this weight off.

She lays on her bed for a while until she hears her mom's voice yelling for her for dinner. She walks down, knowing that she definitely can't eat.

"Eat up hun," her mom says putting a bowl of mashed potatoes in her face.

"I'm really not hungry, mom. I had a big lunch," she lied bold face. Her mom gave her a "I don't care eat anyway" look and that was it. She couldn't get away with it.

"Fine I'll eat," she says annoyed. Paige ate up as little as she could but still making sure it didn't look suspicious.

After dinner she ran right upstairs into the bathroom. She turned on the shower to drain out the noise of her throwing up...