After finally getting up and out of bed around 2 PM, she asked me what I was going to eat. I told her I might scarf down some of my leftovers after folding my laundry. She looked at me in bewilderment and said, “I wish I could be like that, how are you not hungry?”
As soon as she asked, her eyes fell off me and onto the kettle she was pouring hot water out of into a mug for her tea. So the question lingered quietly in the air before another topic of conversation pushed it out of the room.
But if she had looked at me for even a second longer, my skin would’ve burst into flames and my quivering lips would fight to hold back the desperation in my voice as I said, “honey, I’m starving”.