Beth bit down on her lip, trying to ignore the hunger pains and growling coming from her stomach. It was Christmas, and this morning her mother had forced her and her sisters to give up their Christmas breakfast, the biggest meal they’d had in weeks to a family she deemed more ‘needy’

she didn’t want to ruin your outing, she hadn’t seen you in a couple days and you were her best friend, had been since you were young girls, but she was starving