Bulimia

005

I woke up at 6:00 in the morning, pretty early. Not my usual wake up time. I got out of bed and got ready to shower. 

I showered and started changing. I put on a creme colored dress. It reached just above my knees. It was strapless, and I felt naked, so I put on my mini jean jacket.  My sandals were downstairs so I could put them on when I got down there. I blow dried my hair and let it free. I grabbed my book bag and jogged down the stairs. When I got down there, I saw my Aunt Veronica. Surprisingly, she wasn't wearing any type of slutty clothing. Instead, she was wearing a knee-length red dress and black stilettos. 

I ignored her and put on my white pearl cluster sandals, I got them from my aunt. They were pretty, I wanted to make sure she didn't see me wearing them. She might think I want to talk to her or some shit. I don't. Instead of eating here, I decided I was going to eat at school. I opened up the front door and got out. Now, time for the hell hole. 

~*~

I sat down in the last class of the day, History. I took out my history book and flipped to page 290. "Hm..Maddie, why don't you sit next to Brent. Allison, you sit next to Echo. Fuck. Are you fucking serious, Mr. Thompson? "Alright, now that you guys won't be talking anymore, can someone tell me why the civil war started?" asked Mr. Thompson. Allison rose her hand and smirked at me when Mr. Thompson chose her and not me. 

"Allison?" "Well, the Southern States thought that they could have slaves while the Northern States didn't think that was right, and then they started fighting" she explained, smiling proudly. "Good job, Allison. You've been doing your studying" he said. Allison nodded her head and took out her nail file. But, before filing her nails, she wrote something in cursive on a piece of paper and passed it over to me. 

"You're a worthless piece of shit. Bulimic." Is what it said. Great. The words going to spread and soon, I'll be known as the girl who's bulimic. 

~*~

After school, I went directly to the pond, just as Taylor had told me to do. She wasn't there yet, so I sat on the grass and took out my phone. I had 45 messages, all from Allison and her clique. Guess what they all said. If you guessed Bulimic, you're correct. I felt hot tears go down my cheeks and the curves of my nose and deleted the messages. 

I heard the rustling of leaves behind me and I wiped my cheeks. I didn't want Taylor to see me like this. I got up and stuffed my phone into my jacket pockets and turned around to see..Tyler? "Tyler? What're you doing here? I was supposed to be meeting Taylor here" I told him. "Really? I was supposed to meet her here too" he said slowly. "Oh. Why would she-" I stopped myself from saying anything else. Taylor is trying to set up Tyler and I. 

I don't want to go out with Tyler, though. Wait. I do. No. Yes. Ugh. "Let's go on the swings" I told Tyler. He nodded and we both ran for the swings. My sandal got caught on a branch that was on the ground, a result of a rainstorm. I tripped and bumped into Tyler. We both fell onto the grass and guess what was so perfect? I fell on Tyler's stomach and we were both facing each other. 

This was so fucking awkward, I just wanted to disappear. My lips were like magnets to his. They kept inching closer and closer to his. We were so close for our lips to touch, but Taylor had to ruin the moment. "Hey guys, sorry I'm late!" She yelled, smiling. "So, I see you guys were gonna kiss. I thought you guys didn't like each other" said Taylor. 

Tyler and I blushed so hard, I thought the blood was going to explode through our cheeks. "Well, uh, we weren't going to kiss. That'd be..weird" said Tyler, eyeballs wide and cheeks red. "Yeah, uhm, he had something on his lips..the corner of them and I was going to take..it off" I finished. "Sure. Sure." I rolled my eyes at Taylor and got a text from my aunt. 

Aunt V: Time 4 dinner

Me: b there in a bit. kinda busy rn

Aunt V: Im srry 4 my horrible behavior lately. broke up with f

me: its ok. not your fault. rlly????? woow. haha, lol. he deserved it. he was a perv. 

Aunt V: :) haha, ik

Me: g2g

I didn't check my aunt's next message and told Taylor and Tyler that I had to go. "Okay, just make sure to come over later. Let's do something fun" said Taylor, smiling. I nodded and ran off to home. I was starving. 

~*~

After dinner, which was green bean casserole and dinner rolls, I asked my aunt if she had soda. "Yeah. I have a diet coke on the counter" she replied. "Why?" "Oh, just..thirsty" I lied. My aunt smiled and cleared the table. I took the coke and speed walked to my room. Well, speed ran..

I opened the door to my bathroom and pulled up the toilet lid. I chugged down the soda and stuck two fingers down my throat. I puked up the dinner and then puked up something else. I don't even know what it was. I threw the emtpy soda bottle into the trashcan and flushed down the throw up. 

I closed the bathroom door and put on my sandals, again. I hastily wrote a note telling my aunt that I was at my neighbours house and that I'd be back soon. I petted Tina and ran down the stairs. I left the note on the coffee table in the living room. I opened the front door and looked up at the stars. I ran to Tyler's house and knocked. Tyler's mom answered the door. 

"Echo! Hi. Here to see Tyler?" She asked, her voice was sweet. "Hi, Mrs. Wickers. Actually, I'm here to see Taylor" I told her, smiling. "She's in the living room." I entered the house and made my way to the living room. Taylor was on the floor, laying on her stomach while Tyler was sitting on the couch, his feet on top of Taylor's back. Cecil was snuggled up to Tyler, her head under his armpit. Ew. 

They all looked up and smiled.  Except for Cecil who made the mean eyes at me. I smiled back and ignored Cecil. "Let's go to my room!" Exclaimed Taylor, pulling my arm. I grinned and followed Taylor. She shut her room door and jumped on her bed. "I can't believe that you almost kissed Tyler!" She squealed. "Neither can I" I mumbled. "You guys are great together" she said, taking out a bucket of nail polishes. 

"NO. We're not" I said, biting my lip. Are we? No. He's too cute. Wait, what? I need to shut up. "Yuh huh." I shook my head and sat on her rug, I stared at the twinkling stars. While I stared at them, I replayed the incident of earlier. Tyler was about to kiss me, me. Echo James. KISS ME. 

"Aren't you happy?" asked Taylor, pouting. "What?" I frowned. Taylor huffed. "I said, I asked Tyler if he actually liked you and wanted to kiss you and he said yes!" My heart literally stopped. Wait, she can be lying. I'll just believe her. "Oh. I'm going to go to his room and apologize for todays incident" I told Taylor. She just nodded and I got up. I opened her door and stepped out into the hallway. 

"Second room to the left!" yelled Taylor. I walked to the room and saw a sign that said "Tyler's room. Beware, hot person inside." I smiled and knocked on his door. It took him a few minutes but he answered it. When he saw me, he smiled. "Hey Echo" He greeted me. "Hi, Tyler." "Come in" he said, pulling my wrist. I sat on his bed and started talking. "Tyler, I'm so sorry for wanting to kiss you earlier, that was wrong of me and I'm such a weirdo. That was so awkward, I wished I could've disappeared. I'm such a bad fri-"

Tyler's lips connected to mine and we..kissed. It felt so fucking weird. Tyler's eyes were closed but mine were opened. I've never kissed anyone in my life. I don't know what to do. I'll just copy him. Hopefully, that works out. His tongue, the one he used to talk, was touching my lips and I felt spit everywhere on my lips. We're so bad at kissing. I wonder if it's this sloppy when he kisses Cecil. 

Cecil. He's dating Cecil. This isn't right. Not one bit. I tried to pull away but my head bagned into the wall. I said "Ow" into Tyler's mouth and it sounded weird. It sounded like ahh. I pushed Tyler away from me and whispered a small sorry and rushed to his door. I couldn't leave. Taylor and Cecil were in the way. Cecil was open mouthed and Taylor was smiling. 

Cecil's hand connected to my cheek and all I felt was a stinging feel all over my cheek. Oh, and warm liquid on my cheeks. Great, I'm crying. Ugh. I ran out of the house and swore to not ever go back into there. Ever. 

Author's note: hi. idek what i wrote. its so..weird. im disgusted with myself. eh. help my poor dear soul. ugghhhhhhhh. bye bye. i hope you liked it. it was really good in the beginning and then just collapsed at the end. in my opinion. but whatever. bye.