A Broken Doll

Black Sheep

"Evie, you need to eat"

"I know, it's just I don't feel hungry"

'Evie, you need to eat, your starting to look sick" Joanna repeated, as if she hadn't heard me.

"I'm not a baby"

"No you are not, but you need to eat. You make me hungry just looking at you sunshine" Joanna chimed as she drummed her finger's over and over again on the refrigerator door.

I sighed irritated as fuck.

I just wanted to be left to wallow around in peace. No badgering. No nagging.

But I knew better than that. Joanna wasn't gonna take "I'm not hungry" as an answer.

As tiny as Joanna is. She definitely was a pro at getting her own way.

"My wolf is hungry" I mutter under my breath.

"Awesome what does your wolf want?"

"Deer" my wolf bit out as she pushed herself into my mind.

I start to salivate at the thought of raw deer meat and my stomach starts to growl.

"My wolf want's, deer"

"Jeez I have chips and soda, but no deer meat. But you know what, I think I must have left it in the trunk of my car, next to the elephant and the giraffe I have stashed in there. Joanna mocks mischievously as I burst out into a full on cackle.

My wolf growl's long and low and sulks off back into the shadow's where she came from, insulted at the fact that she had been mocked at.

"Aw come on wolf, it was funny' I call out to her but she doesn't listen.

"My wolf isn't happy with me" I laugh.

I stop suddenly in my tracks.

When was the last time I had laughed like that? When was the last time that I just had fun and felt carefree?

"Been a long time since you've laughed huh?" Joanna stated factually.

"Yeah"

"Did it feel good?"

"Yeah it did, I feel really good" I smile as Joanna playfully hit's me in the arm with a cushion.

"Ah excuse me!" I laugh out loud again as a cushion smacks me in the face.

A full on play fight ensues for the next half hour, as a flurry of soft teddy bear projectile's, cushions and a few apple's launched through the air by both Joanna and I. Eventually both of us fall to the ground exhausted but still trying to kick each other.