✰ Chapter 17 ✰
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I lean my head against the toilet ring, my mouth next to the opening of the toilet, of the girl’s bathroom at school.
I had to throw up here because I forgot to last night.
There was too much homework, so I fell straight asleep once I was completed with it.
But I don’t remember waking up.
Oh well, so here I am, in the girl’s bathroom, making myself throw up.
I used the end of a pink highlighter that I had in my backpack.
I then hear three girls walk in and start talking.
“Oh, my goodness, looks like someone is throwing up in there.” Girl #1 says.
“Maybe she’s pregnant.” Girl #2 says.
“Nah, maybe she’s a fat ass who saw Macie Carmichael.” Girl #3 explains.
Damn, they can see my long legs from under the stall.
But at least they don’t know it was me.
Then I see them huddled outside of the door.
“Come on out, we have a lot of theories, I just want to see if you’re okay.” Girl #2 explains.
Making the other two girls snicker.
“Fine, we’ll just wait here, I don’t mind missing 1st period.” Girl #1 sighs.
This made me have bad anxiety.
Oh no.
I can’t have these people know that I am a bulimic.
Think Macie, think.
“You need to come out sometime.” Girl #3 taunts.
I then heard whispering.
And I looked under the stall, and see their feet leave.
I stayed where I was and made sure to hear the door close.
When I heard the door close, I stood up, and slowly creeped my way out of the stall.
Looking around me as I did so.
The bell then rang, and just as I was about to get out.
I heard the sound of a camera go off.
More specifically, a phone camera.
“Oh my gosh, it’s Macie Carmichael! Tell us, are you pregnant?” An Indian girl with glasses asks me.
“Oh, that’ll be so cute, Charles giving up his football dream to help raise their little baby.” A girl with red hair sighs.
“I’m not pregnant.” I tell them.
They all three looked at me.
“Then were you even throwing up?” The redhead asks.
I think for a moment.
Technically, they only saw me sitting down.
They never heard me throw up.
“Um I thought I was going to, my mama cooked something bad for dinner last night, and I thought it would make my way back up.” I lied while smiling at them.
They all three looked at each other.
“Well, we should get going to class, I am never late.” I explained to them.
They all nodded and then walked out of the bathroom first.
“I don’t buy it.” I hear a girl tell me.
I look to see it’s a blonde girl from the trio.
“What do you mean? I ate some bad food.” I tell her.
“Don’t play dumb, you Macie Carmichael have bulimia, and I’ll make sure to tell your precious cheer team.” The girl says with a smirk, and then walks out of the bathroom.
I fell down on my knees.
“Macie?”
“Macie, babe wake up.”
I hear Charles’ voice.
“You are dreaming.” I hear him say.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
I woke up and see Charles leaning over me.
“You were just dreaming babe.” He explains.
I sit up on my bed with a groan.
“Oh, good, that would be embarrassing.” I chuckled.
“What was the dream about?” He asks me.
“Did I say anything?” I asked him.
Good gosh, I hope that I didn’t say anything, while I was dreaming.
“No, but your heart was racing really fast, and you kept whimpering in your sleep it seems.” He tells me with a frown.
“Oh, well it was just about me getting bullied.” I explain getting out of bed.
“Oh, babe, you don’t have to worry about that, you are loved at school.” He tells me while standing up and hugging me.
“Yeah okay.” I sighed and leaned my back against him.
It’s still high school.
Anyone can be a victim to bullying.
“Come on, it’s almost September, meaning that early acceptance letters will be coming in the mail, Tommy got his to Stamford.” Charles explains.
“Already?” I asked him in shock.
Charles laughs.
“Uh yeah babe, he applied around the same time as me.” Charles says as a matter of fact.
“Oh, well good for him.” I sighed.
“Yeah, now let’s go and grab some food for dinner.” He tells me.
“Okay, can you drive?” I ask him with a small smile.
He grins at me, then kisses me on the lips.
“Of course, beautiful.” He tells me.
Making me slightly blush.
“What does my beautiful girl want for dinner?” He asked me.
I think for a moment.
“Chinese would be fine.” I say giving him a cheeky grin.
He laughs and grabs my hand.
I put my phone in my back pocket.
“Let’s go then girl, I’m buying.” He says giving me wink.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
We were waiting in line at the Panda Express.
“Babe, let’s eat at that table over there.” Charles tells me while pointing at one of the tables for two right next to the window.
“Alright sweetie.” I chuckled.
My man does love Chinese food.
“What can I get for you two?” The lady at the register asks me.
“Yeah this will be for here, I’ll have for entrees orange chicken for the lady, and broccoli beef for me, with a side of white steamed rice, and fried rice.” He explains to the woman.
She types it all in.
“Anything else?” She asks him.
“Anything else you want babe?” Charles asks me.
“Um yeah, I’ll take four vegetable spring egg rolls to go.” I tell her.
She nods and then puts the order in.
“So, I can have some for lunch tomorrow.” I tell Charles when I see him looking at me in amusement.
“Would you two like drinks?” She asked me.
“Yeah two lemonades, thank you.” Charles tells her.
He then takes out his debit card, and hands it to her.
“I love that my girl has a hearty appetite.” He looks at me smiling and then gives me a wink.
This made me blush.
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