My Hero- Part I

When a couple decides to have a child, I don't think they ever imagine what can happen. I never knew how dangerous a pregnancy could be. I was a naive twenty-six year old. Pregnancy happened quite quickly for us. A month passed. I was pregnant with twins. Our identical twin daughters arrived five weeks early. After sun bathing under bili lights for mild cases of jaundice, we took our daughters home.

Years passed. Thirteen to be exact. Then it started. I can remember the precise second I noticed something was not right. We were at the mall's food court. Everyone had ordered his meal. Tori sat down with her slice of pizza, and then she did something I had never seen her do before. She took a translucent white napkin and used it to stem the pizza's grease. Tossing the now heavy opaque napkin aside, she slowly ate her dinner. For the first time, Tori did not eat the inviting crust most diners leave for their pizza dessert.

My perplexed brows were noticed because Tori answered without being asked. "I want to lose some weight." Okay, I thought. "But, let's be healthy about it." I replied. I have seen too many teens in my classroom go about weight loss in the wrong way. It scares me.

Tori began to pack her own lunch. When this occured, school lunches were not as healthy as they try to be now. She held her brown bag as she stood next to our white stove. I looked inside her bag. Inside was a quarter of a cucumber wrapped in a Glad sandwich bag. A quarter of a cucumber! Needless to say, this was not good. We had to find help.