Skinny Girl

"Why are you doing this to yourself?! I love you!" Elijah says looking at me, both of us with tears coming down our faces.

"She left me! I wasn't good enough for my own mother. How can I love myself and my body when I know that the one who gave me life hates me?" I cry. "I have to make sure everyone else loves me. I can't loose anyone else."

"I love you so much! You are perfect."

Aubrey's mother left her when Aubrey was only five. Her father commuted suicide when she was ten. Her big sister hasn't talked to her in two years. Aubrey is now an anorexic teen who only wants for someone to love her. And that's what Elijah plans to do.