A Switch Short Story

A switch. The most painful and life threatening thing I ever did started with a switch. My whole life the switch has been turned off. Then on Wednesday September 13th during the 15th year of my life, the switch turned on. I don't remember exactly why or how it happened. I was having a good day and then all of a sudden everything changed.
“No more food for you,” I could hear the voice from inside the switch tell me. I agreed. I didn't know who the voice was or why it was now choosing to talk. All I knew is that it was now going to tell me what to do and there was point fighting it. The moment the switch flicked on I could feel everything change. The previously happy world around me now seemed dark and glim.
“Why” I asked the voice.
“Control”

I sat down and stared at the empty table in front of me until my friends came. One by one they sat down with plates full of food and faces full of joy. I looked at them envying the fact that they were able to be happy and that they could eat.
“They are weak Emily, You’re stronger than them” The voice reminded me. I knew it was right. Slowly my friends started to see that I wasn’t eating anything. They started to question me. Telling me that I should eat and that I didn’t need to worry about my weight. I lied to them, telling them I would eat when I got home. I said that the food here wasn’t even good so why should I waste calories on it. After a couple of minutes of going back and forth with me, eventually they moved on.
After what felt like the longest 40 minutes of my life, lunch finally ended. I went to class and focused extra hard on my work in order to distract myself from the hard pain in my stomach.
I went home that day and skipped my after school snack. I watched television while lying on the couch. I watched all of my favorite television shows and nothing could distract me from my hunger, the pain was too

Except at lunch my friends tried harder to get me to eat. I wanted to scream at them. I wanted to tell them I wanted to eat but the voice from the switch wouldn't let me. But I didn’t. The voice had made me promise to not tell anyone about it. After school that day I had tennis. As we got to practice and started to run I started to get dizzy. Although it was only a 90 minute practice, it felt like forever. With every step I took I felt like I was going to fall. I was so dizzy I couldn't tell if the balls were actually coming toward my racket or it was just another part of the world that seemed to be