Under the skin.

1

It was the start of Summer. No more school for a few months. Freedom at last. 

I turned 18 last week, but ever since my birthday, something has felt off. In fact, I have been "off". 

My eating has dwindled down to me forcing myself to eat dinner once a day with my parents, as I didn't want them to worry about me. I wasn't hungry anymore. Food wasn't appetizing.  

But, instead of lossing weight on my already thin body, I have gained muscle and my body has a healthy glow to it. 

I was confused and concerned.  It made no sense.  What was happening to my body?  

I also have found myself sleeping a lot during the day, with is not like myself. I am less active than I was when I was going to school, but somehow, I was more tired. 

My mom told me that she found me sleep walking around the house yesterday at 3am. I had woken her up and she found me in the kitchen, trying to open the drawers. 

I wasn't stupid enough to think that this was nothing worrying. But my parents were. I knew they noticed changes in me, but they thought it was "puberty".

My mum would say,

"She's going through the late stages of puberty honey! Isn't that great!"

Or

"Look at her body filling out more. She's definitely got her gorgeous mom's body."

First of all, my mom is naturally thin, like really thin. Mine used to be super thin before I turned 18. Whatever is happening with my body, is nothing got to do with her bodyshape having the same body genes as me.

Second of all, my mom thinks she's the "bees knees" and all that cool shit. She has always been a confident woman. Jin, my older brother takes after her.

Anyway, after spending a while trying to figure out what was wrong with me, I just quit and went to sleep on the couch. 

After dreaming of nothing, I awoke to water being pored on my face. 

I tore my eyes open and glared into the eyes of a smirking Jin. I was going to kill him for waking me up from my "beauty" sleep. 

"Bitch! What the fuck!? Why did you do that!?" I yelled at Jin. He was now frowning.

"Hey! Don't use foul language at me you brat." 

"Then don't wake me up, especially by pouring freezing water on me!" I stood up and punched his arm. 

"Oww!" he grabbed his arm. 

"Oh boohoo. Don't go crying like a baby," I mocked. 

He gritted through his teeth in pain, "I wasn't planning on. When did you start learning to punch that hard!? Like, I think you severely injured my beautiful arm!"

"B-but I didn't punch you that hard! You're just weak." I raised my eyebrows and crossed my arms. 

"Whatever.  Stay away from me, you punching lunatic. Or....you punching Lae-natic. HAHHAHAH."

I stared at him in disgust for a minute before breaking down into laughter. 

"HAHHAHAH your laugh is the BEST!" I clutched my chest, afraid my lungs would give out because I was laughing so hard watching him laugh at his own odd joke.

After we had settled down, I remembered that he woke my up. 

"Wait, why did you wake me up again?"

"OH.  Yeah. Mom said that Mr Park and his family are coming over for dinner, so she wants you to get dressed nicely."

My eyes widened. I nodded and went to get dressed.