The Outside Series - Complete Trilogy: Books 1-3 by Kristina Renee

Author:Kristina Renee [Renee, Kristina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-25T06:00:00+00:00

20

After locking myself in the bathroom, I took a deep breath and started stripping out of my clothes. If I didn’t get this over with, I’d be obsessing about it all night.

As it was, I ran inside the house like a crazy woman, mumbling an excuse about needing to pee. Everyone was downstairs when we got back, laughing and talking before heading outside to help with the groceries we picked up. I wanted to be down there with them so I could laugh and tell them about how I agonized over which watermelon to buy and how Austin hadn’t even given it two seconds’ consideration.

But instead, I was hiding in the bathroom, shamefully checking to see if I was as enormous as I felt.

Time to get this over with. The scale was sitting on the bottom shelf of the cupboard where the towels were kept. I’d noticed it after taking a shower the day before.

All I had to do was drag it out and hop on. Then I’d know for sure.

Numbers don’t like, and I fully expected to want to puke after seeing this particular number. But before I could plan my next step, I had to verify what the damage was. If this was my lowest point, then at least I’d be able to measure how far I had to go.

It only took me a minute to find what I was looking for. It was one of those older scales with a needle instead of a digital readout. These were notoriously inaccurate and easy to cheat if they weren’t calibrated right. For a moment, I hesitated. Was there any reason to even try if I knew the numbers weren’t going to come out right?

I faced my reflection in the bathroom mirror above the sink and considered my options. There was some puffiness in my cheeks now where there hadn’t been any before. It could have been my imagination, but even my neck looked like it was getting bigger. It was no wonder none of the boys at school had made a move on me recently. They could see what I’d been in denial about.

I was getting fat.

I clenched my fists before turning to face the scale once more. Even if the numbers weren’t one-hundred percent accurate, it would still give me an idea of what I was working with.

There was no other way around it. I had to do this.

With everything off except my bikini, I was ready to go. Goose bumps prickled across my skin as I stood there, eyeing the scale like it was a bear trap that would crush me if I stepped on it.

The longer I stayed up there, the more likely someone would notice my absence. If I wanted to keep suspicion to a minimum, I needed to hurry up.

It was now or never.

With my eyes squeezed shut, I eased my way onto the scale. It groaned beneath my weight and I worried it would explode into a million pieces. I tried to tell

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