Chapter 2:
*In Emily’s Room*
Emily,”I know what I’m going to do, I’m going to go on a diet and I’m going to run and do sit-ups. This way I will become thin like all these models.” she says as she flips through a fashion magazine.
*After she finishes the magazine she gets up and studies her body in a full length mirror.*
She says out loud to herself, ”I’m so fat, I look like a balloon. No wonder they didn’t want me. They probably couldn’t find anything large enough for ‘the fat girl’ to fit in.”
By now tears are streaming down her face as she looks in the mirror one more time before Monica yells to her that its time for supper.
“Great,” she thinks, “ this is just what I need now, *food*.”
She walks downstairs not even caring what she looks like, she is more concerned about how to get out of eating.
Monica, ”Hello dear, I heard about the agency, I think they made a huge mistake not taking you.” as she hugs her.
Alan (in his Sidney the bear voice),”Me too, Emily you’re the most beautiful girl in the whole world.”
“Yeah Em, I’m sorry.” says AJ
Emily, ”Thats ok, I never really wanted to be a model, anyway. Where’s Ned tonight?”
With that comment they leave the modeling thing alone they are all thinking that she is telling the truth.
Edward, ”He’s with that Cassadine. I don’t know what he see’s in her.”
Lila, “Oh, Edward be quite. I think that she is a lovely woman.”
*They all start eating and talk about business and the hospital. Emily eats some of her food and they she just picks at the rest. After desert was served Emily excuses herself to go take a bath.*
She goes into the bathroom and turns the water on so they won’t here what she’s going to do next. She studies her middle and index finger for what seems like hours, is really only a couple of minutes.
She says out loud,”You have to do this Emily or the food in your body will make you even fatter and ruin even the slightest chance that you have of becoming a model.”
After she convinces herself that its the right thing to do she sticks her two fingers down her throat and makes her self throw-up.
Emily,”There that wasn’t that bad, see now all that food is out of my body and everyone thinks I ate it. Oh well at least I won’t get fat.”
But as she says that the realization of what she did sets in and she slumps against the wall and started crying.
In between tears she thinks,”Why can’t I just be a normal teenager why does all this stuff keep happening to me? I just don’t get it why am I so fat? People must look at me and think ‘That poor Quartermain girl look how big she’s gotten since the last time we saw her’. I know why I don’t have a boyfriend I’m too big. I wonder why Lucky hang’s out with me. He probably feels sorry for me. I can’t take this anymore I hate this body, it is so big. I have to do something about it.”
*She gets up and shuts off the water and changes in to gym clothes and goes running at the track.*