Competition

Cate

Cate's pov

Lee walks me to class, as she carries her stuff I look over at her arms, high key they are massive and I'm kind of jealous. I feel like she puts no effort into getting her body, it seems so easy for her. She lifts at most four times a week, absolutely excels at track and essentially everything else she does.

Asians have terrible genes for building muscle, and even though I'm a girl like Lee I'm even worse off, but if I told lee that she'd just tell me eat more protein drink more water and lift heavier. Simply because that works best for her.

But it's fine, her and I don't do the same sports so we wouldn't look the same any way, I do gymnastics I have strong legs and I'm a bit on the thicker side, around 129 pounds. And I'm 5'8, heights lee will never know. She's about 5'2 she might grow but I doubt it.

Lee drops me off at my classroom, trig for first period. I watch her walk down the hallway. Her first period by her own choice is P.E, she's probably Off to go guzzle plant protein or whatever else. I make sure she's gone Then I run over to the vending machine in the hallway. I grab my usual a diet coke, three giant cookies and two things of fruit snacks. I'm starving. I didn't eat yesterday night, I decided to distract myself with my classes prepping for my next trig test. I always put my academics first.

I sit in the bathroom and eat every last bite, it barley takes me 10 minutes. Feeling almost painfully full but still enjoying it, the cookies I got today were peanut butter my absolute favorite. Then like it's nothing because I do this so often, about five times a week at this point I tie up my long pin straight black hair, take a few sips of water and bend over the toilet and start coughing it up. It's more painful than usual today probably because I haven't been drinking enough water. But it's fine, all that matters is that each painful bite ends up in the toilet.

" Ew that's disgusting" is all I say as I look at what I just happily ate. The cookie comes up all sludgy and broken and the whole of it is brown with bits of color from the fruit snacks.

" Seriously people are going to suspect me for being pregnant if I keep doing this" I mumble under my breath. Teen pregnancy, well pregnancy in general is my biggest fear a whole baby plus weight gain you can't do anything about? No thanks.

I flush the toilet, flip down my septum piercing , dab on some concealer under my eyes before I grab some more water from the machine and head back to class just as the bell rings while my throat burns.

I sit down, and just as I do Rebecca comes into class, I feel bad for her but also jealous she eats whatever she wants. Don't get me wrong she wears it to, but she seems happy enough.

" Hey bex!"