Two's Enough Three's a Crowd by Brenda Hampton

Author:Brenda Hampton [Hampton, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781601622075
Publisher: Urban Books
Published: 2000-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

23

NOKEA

I ate everything in the house, from the rooter to the tooter. I had been pigging out even when I wasn’t hungry. The stress from not talking to Jaylin added to my bad eating habits. I was only a few months pregnant and already had picked up fourteen pounds. Dr. Beckwith said if I didn’t slow down, I was headed for a difficult pregnancy.

When I left his office, I stopped by Burger King on West Florissant Avenue to get my last taste of a double Whopper with extra cheese and some French fries. Then I had the nerve to stop at Krispy Kreme and get three glazed donuts. By the time I got to the office, I felt like a pig. I had to struggle just to make it up the stairs. I went to the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror. I could still see my curves, but if I kept at it, I knew they would soon disappear. I decided to take my doctor’s advice and cut back on the fattening foods. From now on, it would be just salads and Jell-O. If I splurged, it would only be on the weekend, or if I felt like going out to dinner with Pat and her husband.

She was a charm. Since she was the closest friend I had, I confided in her a lot. She even started to pick up weight with me, forever bringing me ice cream and a bunch of other fattening foods. Every Saturday she took time away from Chad to come by my place and keep me company. She knew I missed Jaylin and tried to do everything in her power to make me forget him. But no matter how hard she and I both tried, he could never leave my memory. We had too much history together, and since we had a baby on the way, it would be even more difficult to get him out of my system.

On Saturday, Pat was right on time with some salads she made and movies she brought from Blockbuster. She rented The Best Man and Training Day, movies we had seen time and time again. She knew that Morris Chestnut and Denzel Washington were definitely a way to snap me out of my misery. We sat in my den mesmerized by the fineness in both of them and munched on our salads.

“Girl, I’m so hungry that I’m going to imagine this is the hamburger and fries I ate earlier this week,” I said, picking all the meat out of the salad first.

“Nokea! I thought you said you weren’t going to eat any more fast food.”

“That was after I stopped at Burger King. Since then, I’ve been doing pretty good. And since it’s Saturday, and I can splurge on the weekend, can we please order a pizza with everything on it?”

“No, Nokea. You know you need to eat a little healthier. If not for you, then for the baby.”

“I didn’t think it would be this hard for me to watch my weight, but this salad stuff is driving me crazy.

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