LIFE IN A DREAM | CHRIS STURNIOLO | STURNIOLO BOOK |

Chapter Two

THE NEXT DAY

10:14 am

Ana's POV

Nick "ANA! Wake up you lazy shit!"

I hear Nick from downstairs, god the man has a set of lungs, I've been awake since 6 in the morning throwing up, I think I'm sick or have a cold or... no there's no way... I haven't eaten that much recently, no stop assuming, I can't be, it was nothing like this the first time.

I hear a knock on my bedroom door, I'm scared if I stand up I'll throw up again.

Chris "Ana? Are you up?"

Ana "Yeah uhm-"

I cut myself off from gagging quietly.

Ana "Yeah I'm up I'll be out in a minute, uh can you get some water please?"

Chris "Yeah of course, are you okay?"

I look down wondering if I should tell him, no, not today not right now later? probably... not. 

Ana "uh Yeah I'm just dehydrated"

Chris "Oh okay yeah, I'll be back in a sec"

Ana "Okay thank yo-"

there it goes again

TWO MINUTES LATER 

I'm on my feet I'm looking at myself in the mirror and Oh my fucking god I'm a ghost, I don't think I've been this pale before, what's going on.

Ana "holy fuck"

I whisper to myself, as I touch my now pale face, the color has disappeared, and my eyes are bloodshot red from the tears that had been shed from the pain of throwing up for 4 hours.

another knock on my door 

Chris "Ana I got the water"

I open the door of my bathroom grab a blanket and wrap it around my body, I'm freezing cold but I'm sweating like crazy.

Ana "Coming one sec"

I slap my cheeks a little to bring some redness into them to make me look semi-normal after I open the door to see Chris standing in only his Pajama pants and nothing else holding a glass of water like a little servant

Ana "Ah! thank you so much, I really appreciate it"

I smile at him but I feel something coming up, I take a sip of water to wash it down, I then take another couple of sips.

Chris "No worries, do u feel better?"

Ana "Yeah I needed that"

Chris smiles and looks me up and down.

Chris "Why do you look like that?"

what is he talking about? My face?

Ana "Huh? What do you mean?"

Chris "Your little outfit you got on there"

he points and swings his finger up and down, wow judging me right now.

Ana "Oh my god shut the fuck up go pester Nick or sleeping Beauty"

Chris "on it"

he runs off toward Nick's room and I hear a scream a laugh and a loud bang.

oh god, Nick is in trouble, Chris loves being the centre of attention and I'm not saying it in a bad way it's really funny and brave, and he's got the confidence for it.

My head is now pounding, the headache is starting to really affect everything right now, and I'm starting to get worried, should I text Mary Lou? She went through everything with me last time if it even is some side effects of bulimia.

I only got out of Bulima just last year the triplets helped me but I never wanted to get them involved in my 'problems' because I felt bad for bringing stress into their lives at the time, but they helped me out of it and I couldn't be more grateful.

I made the choice of calling Mary Lou but first I messaged Christopher. 


ChRiStOpHeR



Ana
Hey I'm feeling quite sick today
so I'm just gonna stay in bed all day.


It took a couple of minutes for him to reply but he got there in the end.


Christopher 
That's okay, I think we were just going to go 
food shopping cause we gots no foods :)


His typing language is so messed up and confusing but funny, his personality really shows.


Ana
Okay you fucking weirdo, thanks for the
water again btw ;) 


Christopher
allgood, just lemme know if you
need anything and I'll get it okay?


Why the fuck is he being so nice? 

Ana
I will thank you :)


Christopher liked your message



Okay, now time to call Mary Lou... I don't know what I'm going to say. I pick up my phone and search through my contacts finding her down in the M folder, right here we go, while the phone was ringing I felt chills run down my spine, I'm still so cold I go under the cover in my bed and try warm-up, as soon as I do that she answers.


 Lou Lou <3
Connected

Mary Lou "Hey hon what's up?

how do I tell her?

Ana "Hey is there any chance you could come over today?"

I can't tell her over call I need her here.

Mary Lou " I can be over at 11 am if that's okay with you?"

 oh thank god, I take a breath of air and release the air with relief

Ana "That's perfect thanks Mary Lou"

Mary Lou "Are you okay? do you need me to bring you anything?"

Ana "Just yourself" 

I avoid the first question because I don't know what I would've said if I did answer, like
 'Yeah I'm great oh apart from the fact that I've been throwing up for 4 hours straight and that I have a suspicion that it's my bulimia coming back but other than that I'm doing just fine'

Mary Lou "Okay hon I'll be over in a bit see you soon"

Ana "Bye see you soon"

I hang up and start tearing up, which makes my headache 10 times worse so I try to take a nap but shit doesn't work cause I'm stressing like crazy so I just scroll through TikTok, and while on TikTok I come across some edits of the triplets and I making funny comments about goldfish? i really don't remember talking about goldfish and how Matt is like a goldfish, anyway, I keep scrolling and see another one but this one is just Chris and I

Ana "What. the. fuck."

I say to myself as I watch the edit it's me and him looking at each other, I see a video of him looking at me the way he was when I saw him in the mirror, I never noticed him looking at me like that before until yesterday.





To be continued...

A/N

For anyone struggling with Eating disorders or something similar please seek help if you haven't already, you deserve a good life and I hope you live your life to the fullest 
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