"TEEN ROMANCE" ~ Malachi Barton

chapter - 23

GIOVANNAS POV:

A few days had gone by since the beginning of winter break. Malachi had been a little distant from me lately, he just wouldn't tell me what was going on in his life, but today, Malachi and I are supposed to hangout with Keira and Stone, making christmas cookies, wearing matching pajamas, and watching christmas movies.

I walked into my bathroom after laying in bed for a bit, seeing how much my stomach had gone down from the night before. I looked at my ribs poking through my skin and traced them with my finger.

"is it too much?" i ask myself, noticing how my eyes had sunken in and i practically looked like a skeleton. At this point, i just forget to eat, not even try to avoid it, i just do.

I shower, listening to Phoebe Bridgers and humming along to her songs.

After 30 minutes i got out of the shower and put on a hoodie and sweatpants, not trying to wear anything too tight because it would be obvious how much weight I had lost.

I put on a pair of red and black plaid pants, and a black fitted shirt, not being too worried about how it looked for right now, Malachi is supposed to match with me.

I threw a looser t-shirt in my bag and a hoodie incase I got self conscious of after I ate.

My mom drove me to Keira's around 1:00 PM, I was really excited to see Malachi, especially. It felt like forever since i've seen him, and better yet we are wearing matching couples pajamas.

"bye mom, thank you," I hop out of the car and run up to Keira's door, knocking on it.

"HI!!" she squeals, opening it and hugging me.

"heyyy pookie,"

I step inside the house, taking off my shoes.

"Stone and Malachi are in the basement." Keira's tells me as we start to walk down her basement stairs. Her gray carpeted basement and white walls being a familiar site. I've always loved her house.

I see Stone and Malachi playing tag or something, saying hi to Stone. Malachi running around the corner of the coffee table and straight into me, knocking me over.

"shit! sorry!" he says, pulling me up, feeling a dizzy flash as my vision goes black for a moment.

"it's okay," I smile half heartedly at him.

"when did you get here?" he asks, hugging me.

"just now."

"oh, ok." he stops the game with Stone and pulls me over to the couch. tackling me onto it.

"you smell good." He says laying on top of me.

"thank you. I like your pants." I say pointing out our matching pajama pants.

"i like yours." he says. pushing his face into the crook of my neck and shoulder.

"are you okay?" I ask, confused on his clingy behavior.

"mhm. i just love you so very much," He mumbles

"i love you too..." still not convinced on the reasoning behind his behavior, but i'm not complaining.

5 PM- GIOVANNAS POV: