Regrets

The Diet

Leona sighed happily as she daydreamed. It had been nearly four months since her and Raph did it and they hadn't told anyone as her parents would murder him without a second thought. She in the girls locker room, getting ready for gym when she noticed her pants were tighter than normal around her waist.

She tried to pull them again but they were too tight.

"What's wrong Leo?" April asked when she saw Leo struggling.

"Probably needs to lose a few hundred pounds, right porky?" Karai suddenly burst out laughing and made pig noises with her friends at poor Leo. Leo's eyes filled with years as she quickly walked out the locker room with April.

"Go crawl back to the barnyard piggy!'...

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Later that night Leona came home to find her mother waiting for her in the kitchen.

"Where have you been?" She asked as Leo put her coat and bag away.

"Me and April went to the mall to buy some clothes." She sighed as she slumped into a chair.

"Did you buy anything?"

"Nothing I liked fit me." She whimpered as Alopex got her dinner out the oven.

"I find that hard to believe. There is nothing on you." She reassured as she placed the plate in front of her daughter.

"Wanna bet?"

"I don't have to, I can see you for myself." She smiled and gave her daughter a loving hug before heading for the front door. "I'll see you later."

"See ya." She sighed as she stared at her plate. As soon as she heard the door shut she grabbed her plate and scrapped her dinner into the trash can...

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A week later Leona was rushing to get ready for school as she had over slept. She was in such a rush that she was planning on skipping breakfast.

"Are you sure you don't want a bit of toast to eat on the way?" Alopex asked as Leo was ready to leave, but the teenager shook her head. "Just because you're running a bit late doesn't mean you should skip breakfast, I've told you-"

"It's the most important meal of the day." Leo sighed.

"Exactly, I don't want have to wait until lunch with an empty stomach, how are you going to get ant work done?" Tigerclaw asked.

"Look, I gotta go or I'll be late." She said and speed walked to the door.

"Oh wait, Leona!" Kitsune called after her, Leo turned around and saw her grandmother holding her lunch box. "Don't forget this." She said and threw it at her...

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Leo smiled she sat at a table with April and Raph for lunch. As they talked Leo pulled the lunch her mother had made for her, sesame-ginger soba noodle salad, her favourite. Just she was about to dig in she heard a voice behind.

"Yuck! What is that crap?!"

"Probably pig food!"

She turned around and saw Karai and her friend Shinigami laughing behind her. Raph glared at the two girls and shot up from his chair.

"Ya bitches got nothin' better ta do?" He growled. The two girls huffed and walked away, but Leo did feel like eating anymore. Instead she put her lunch away sadly as Raph and April shared a worried look...

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That night, while Leo was having a bath, Alopex was snooping in her school bag. As she did this her husband came down the stairs and arched an eyebrow at her.

"What are you doing?" He asked as she pulled out Leo's lunch box.

"It's worse than I thought, she's not eating at school either." The fox sighed sadly.

"Alopex, you can't go through our daughter's bag without her permission." He glared.

"Yes I can! I'm her mother and I'm worried about her."

"That still doesn't give you the right to snoop through people's bags!" He exclaimed and Alopex sighed in defeat. "Anyway, I think you're overreacting. It's only one lunch."

"No it's not Tigerclaw! It's been going on for nearly a week! She's not eating her breakfast and she's not eating at school!" She shouted back. Suddenly Leo came downstairs.

"Have you seen my bag?" She asked, looking around for the bag.

"Hold on a minute, why haven't you eaten this?" The fox asked her and held up the lunch box. Leo's eyes widened.

"I ate some pizza with April." She shrugged.

"I don't understand you, Leona! One minute you ask for salad because you want to be health and then you're eating pizza with your friends!"

"I was the same at her age, if it wasn't deep fried I wouldn't touch it." Tigerclaw defended. "I gotta get to work." He sighed and left. Once he was gone Alopex glared at her daughter.

"I don't make lunches for fun you know." She said before walking away...