Category : Books-Fiction

Sub Category : YoungAdult

                          Chapter 1
    "Hmmmm." Amy hummed as she took a bite of her candy bar. She usually took M&Ms as one of her various midday snacks, but she spent her paycheck on three large chips, two cans of whip cream, five cans of soda, and other various types of junk food. A knock sounded on the teal-green door. Amy quickly gave a silent scream and picked up her feet so her heels touched the edge of the toilet seat she was using as a chair. Another knock sounded, Amy craned her neck to see under the door.
The pair of sky blue two-inch heels stood for about three seconds waiting for a response, before giving up and walking away. The clicking sound of her heel meeting the tiles of the floor slowly faded away as the unamed girl walked out of the bathroom and into the swarm of juniors and freshmen hurrying to class. 

Amy slowly put down her feet and continued eating. Fast. She gulped down her candy bar and quickly gulped down  some soda she got from the machine a while ago. She went through an order of two large fries and two Mcdoubles. An order that she had to bribe someone to get cause she didn't have a car. She slowly got up from her "chair", she got on her knees and with shaking hands lifted the toilet seat. Then, after taking several deep breaths, put two fingers into the back of her throat and pulled on her uvula to trigger her gag reflex.  She gagged. Like a waterfall, partly digested food and soda came up from her mouth and into the toilet. When she was finished, she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand and dug into the back pocket of her bell bottoms to get a piece of mint gum. She unwrapped it and quickly shoved in her mouth and chewed.
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After school Amy went home. She tried as hard as she could to open the door to her mother's two bedroom apartment quietly, but it creeked loudly as she stepped into the apartment. Oreo, her black and white pitbull puppy, greeted her by jumping on her, attempting to lick her face. Although she couldn't.  Being a month old, she was only a foot and a half tall standing on all fours, and 3 feet standing on her hind legs. "Heh, hey girl." Amy chuckled as she scratched behind Oreo's ears. The puppy barked and wagged her tail in satisfaction. "Amy, is that you?" A woman, dressed in a light blue waitress outfit, stepped out of the bathroom. Her feet was barefoot and her hair was shoulder length, light brown, and wavy like Amy's. "Hey Mom, how was your first day of work?" Amy asked as she embraced her mother, inhaling the sweet scent of her perfume.  Maureen sighed, blowing a whisp of hair out of her face. "Okay for the most part, although my feet were begging for mercy by the time my shift ended." 
"Hm. Well I'm just happy you did so well. Especially since its your first month out of rehab and-" Amy trailed off and lowered her head, and stepped out of her mother's embrace, Maureen bit her lip tentatively. 
"I- erm-"
"Its ok, I know what you meant." Maureen sighed, "I'll be honest, I really thought I could actually have control over my pills, but all I wanted was to more and more because I thought maybe I would get the body I always wanted."