To eat an orange chicken
Chapter 1
3 am in the morning.
Amberlynn is sitting on her pillow mountain wrapped in 16 blankets. The cold wind sound from outside is distracting her from watching Trisha‘s new mukbang. Amberlynn glances at the window then looks at Becky sleeping silently next to her. Amberlynn knew what she had to do. As the sound of the wind is getting louder, Amberlynn’s desire for leftover chicken and brown rice grew bigger. She doesn’t want to wake up Becky with her grotesque walking and go get food. She thinks to herself: if I move one part of my body at the time no one will know about this, it will be like nothing happened and I can eat alone in the kitchen. It’s a tough decision for a big girl like Amberlynn but she knows. She knows it’s inside of her. The binge monster. It’s slowly starting to creep on her and she knows that this has to be done. Otherwise... otherwise... she doesn’t even want to think about what could happen if she doesn’t feed the binge monster. If something takes away the magical power that only food can give her.
Amberlynn slowly starts to move from her pillow mountain to an already very squeaky wooden floor. At that moment, Becky turns around but is still sleeping. ‘That was close’, Amberlynn thinks to herself. But not as close as the floor cracking wide open under her heavy legs. She gasps but doesn’t give up. Grains of sweat start to fall from her face on the floor. She sees her reflection in one of them and now she’s sure nothing can stop her. It’s time.
It’s 5 am. Amberlynn finally waddles herself to the fridge. As she opens it, the cold breeze rushes her pale cheeks. She is alive. The binge monster is satisfied. The rush of excitement and adrenaline flows through her veins as she takes the first bite of the chicken. Everything went well, nobody knows about her secret binge. As she was taking her 234th juicy bite,she heard the sound. It can’t be. It’s not happening. Someone is here. Someone is up to her. For the first time ever, her heart started beating faster, her veins pumping harder but not from obesity. It was fear. Her binge monster is about to be reveled to someone else. The door slowly opened and her fork trembled: ‘Amberlynn! What are you doing?’
Chapter 2 coming soon...