“Don’t tell a soul!” she whispered fiercely. “Or I’ll never speak to you again. And I’ll make sure no one else does either!”,Fiction: To Tell or Not to Tell?,“Don’t tell a soul!” she whispered fiercely. “Or I’ll never speak to you again. And I’ll make sure no one else does either!”
M y friend Tova had always been of average weight so when I saw her again after two and a half months of summer vacation I was shocked at how skinny she had become. Truth is I’m not the most observant person. I wouldn’t notice an elephant running past me. Besides it was our last year of high school; all my friends were constantly dieting. But Tova had lost a lot… and she had never mentioned that she was on a diet.
I casually asked her what diet she was on. I was also overweight so I was looking for a way to fight the flab. I was so confused when Tova insisted she was on no diet. But my mother said she also thought Tova had lost a lot of weight. If Tova wasn’t dieting why was she suddenly so thin?
I noticed that Tova had begun to dress in layers in the middle of the summer. What was that all about? Was she sick? She said she was fine. Then she started failing tests. This was really worrisome! Her grades! Tova allowing her grades to slide? It was all a mystery to me. A horrifying frightening mystery. To which I wanted answers. But there were none forthcoming.
Then one day I found out the truth.
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