Admit Defeat

Admit Defeat

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Andy is a skinny boy stuck in reverse, waiting for the love of his life to come back. He fills his life with hours spent on his game console and countless bags of chips emptied. He doesn't cut, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't drink, but all the same he eats. Hazel is a normal sized girl who's sick of boys paying more attention to her friend Becky. She's got a loving family and the pleasure of no siblings. Her parents thought they knew what they were doing until their perfect trombone playing daughter began puking up the nutritional suppers they made. Nancy is a fat girl living under the shadow of her skinny older sister. She's always had a bad relationship with food and her father, the one who blessed her with the fat gene. Her mother, the skeleton-thin one, never guessed her daughter would consume random pills form the bathroom cabinet instead of eating the chocolate pudding she used to love so much. Brock is a incredibly fit guy who's been the quarterback for the school’s football team his entire stay at the high school. Finally, the pressure's got to him and he finds himself eating more than just a few burgers every week. Nobody notices until his jersey won't fit. Four teenagers. One year, no, the last year.
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