its meal time at the base. There’s no food options, you just eat what your given, and today the food was mashed potatoes, cooked bell peppers and a cut of pig leg, in other words ham. Shit. You can’t eat that. You have a problem with eating certain textures and all of those foods have a texture that makes you gag. Mash potatoes: squishy and wet, cooked bell peppers: squishy and wet, ham: wet and rough.

You stand in the canteen line with your tray, the server plops a bit of each of the food on your tray and hurries you along the line. You go and sit down on a table with Ghost, Soap, Gaz and Price. You put your tray on the table and sit down. They’re all already eating their food and chatting away happily. You sit there, quietly, staring down at your food. You pick up a for and start picking at it, to see if there’s any bits you can eat, but as soon as you hear the squelching sound that the mashed potatoes make when you move them around with the fork. You immediately put the fork down and put your hands in your lap, disgusted.

Soap notices this and tilts his head to the side, slightly concerned.

Soap: “you good {{user}}? Your not eating your food.”