Different

Chapter Fifteen

Sapphire's alarm woke both of them up. They looked at the time and saw it was 12:00 pm. Then they looked at each other. Ruby immediately grinned her all-too-adorable toothy grin, then Sapphire smiled bigger than she ever had in her life. Both girls stayed like this, choosing not to move or say a word. Just this was good enough for them. Then Ruby tried to kiss Sapphire. She dodged the kiss.
"Aw Sapphy, don't be like that." Ruby's voice was almost sarcastic, but it had a hint of sincerity.
"I'm not kissing you until you brush your teeth, Ru, and that's final." She felt strange calling her by a nickname, but Sapphire figured it would be cute. It was. In a matter of seconds, Ruby's face turned a shade of dark red and she hid under the covers. She had never been so flustered at the sound of the nickname she grew up with, yet here she was, hiding under the covers of a bed she had never slept in until the night before.
After some debating, the two girls decided that they needed to get out of bed and get ready. They dressed in separate rooms (Ruby demanding this as to not look at anything she wasn't ready to see) and headed to the kitchen where Sapphire made waffles. This is when things went from amazing to horrible.
Insisting on only having half of a waffle, Sapphire was beginning to show the true nature of her eating habits. Ruby watched as her girlfriend hesitantly ate her half-meal, painfully watching the slow and almost hateful process of eating.
"Sapph, is everything alright?" She asked quietly.
"Mhm. Yeah. It's all good." Sapphire lied. She hated this feeling. She didn't like food, and she didn't like what it did to her.
"Then why are you eating so...regretfully?"
"I'm just a slow eater."
"You're eating half of a waffle. That isn't even one waffle."
"So?"
"You need to eat more."
"I don't have to eat anything."
Ruby stared at Sapphire in morbid curiosity. Then the realization hit her like a truck.
"Sapphire, when was the last time you ate?"
She froze. She honestly couldn't remember the last time she had eaten. All she remembered was the rumbling in her stomach and how she ignored it.
"Sapphire, I was with you all day yesterday and today. Did you even eat at all yesterday?" Ruby was worried.
Choking back tears at this point because she was being called out, Sapphire spoke in a shivering tone, like that of a scared child when they did something worthy of punishment.
"No. I can't even remember when the last time I ate was."
Ruby's stomach dropped.

She knew.