'Oh my gosh! You mean you got all this gifts?' Kelly looked at her younger sister, insulted at her disbelief. They sat in her bedroom like little girls. Kelly was sharing her toys with the other two. Sandra, Kelly's best friend, smiled a little and piped in. 'Jocelyn, do you mean you don't know how popular your big sister is? I could barely find her among all the boys today. She should make it a point not to come on Valentine's day. Every single boy in school wants her to be his Valentine date.' Kelly did not seem to be listening. Her eyes examined the five boxes of chocolate, two bears and three roses that had collectively come from six guys. Her eyes of course, ended up eventually on the chocolate.
'So much chocolate, so little time,' she muttered wistfully. 'I cannot believe that Eel Face Martin gave you chocolates,' laughed Sandra. 'Tell me about it. That weirdo always looks at me as if he wants me to die. I nearly got a heart attack when he actually spoke to me today. 'Uh... uh... uh... this is for you' I swear he creeps me out.' 'Yeah man,' giggled Sandra as she turned towards a wide eyed Jocelyn. 'You should see this fellow. He really looks like an eel. All you have to do is just chop off his limbs, lay him on his stomach and throw him in the river.' The image really make Kelly laugh and she nearly fell over. Sandra was trying to calm herself and Jocelyn had just settled for giggling with the two of them. 'What say we pig out today? All chocolate and no exercise. Today we eat and tomorrow we starve! Set?'
'Set!' The other two burst out at the same time, still giggling. They opened three boxes of chocolate and finished two, leaving the other one, half finished in the refrigerator. Kelly woke up moaning the next morning barely able to get up. She thought about the day before and knew she should have stopped at four pieces; her stomach just could not take too many of a good thing. She rolled over and felt her body experienced something very familiar to her. Remembering the feeling from a long time ego, she soon realized that her body was telling her that she was going to throw up. She ran to the toilet and got there just in time. Her indigestion lasted longer than she had thought it would and she found herself in the toilet doing the same thing three days later. Thinking that neither her sister nor Sandra had had any problem with their stomachs, not to mention that she had eaten the least among them.
She opened the fridge to see if there was anything to drink. She looked at the half eaten box of chocolates and felt the urge to eat one. Knowing she should not, she took one anyway and popped one into her mouth. Closing the fridge door after taking out a packet of milk, she poured herself a glass and drank it down slowly. Her stomach got better eventually but she found herself craving for the chocolates that were in the fridge. The huge box contained an assorted of light and dark chocolates. As she walked back to her room with her milk, she walked back over to the fridge and took another one out. The next few days, Kelly was miserable. She was going from better to worse and back again, over and over. She had become so addicted to the chocolates that it worried her; because she knew that the chocolates would not last forever. She lay in her bed and tried to go asleep, wondering if there was anyone in school who hated her.
She looked at the last piece of chocolate three days later as she held it in her hands before eating it. She swore when she accidentally dropped it. She bent down to pick it up, the urge to eat it so strong that she considered just popping it into her mouth without even wiping it off. She picked it up and looked it over, trying to see of there was anything visibly inedible on it. Examining it, she found something inscribed at the bottom. It was her name together with a Chinese character she could not identify. She felt the hair of the back of her neck stand as she wondered what it meant. The urge to eat it, though still as strong, did not overpower her common sense ans she threw it away. Fear gripped her when she realized there was something spooky and evil going on. Her stomach ached but she craved for a bite. Kelly felt stupid sitting in class the next day, feeling the urge to eat chocolates. Suffering withdrawal symptoms from sweets was making her irritable.
She stared with glassy eyes at the teacher who was presently leaving the class. She stared beyond her and beyond the blackboard. Maybe, it was because of this that she did not notice the boy who approached her. Eel face Martin looked down at her and smiled. 'Feel like a chocolate?' Kelly grabbed a few and chewed them with delight. She was so happy that she wanted to kiss Martin for his kindness. And she did. Martin smiled with satisfaction.
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