Double Dragons ~ the girl who befriends dragons

- category : about me -

Hi again, this is a story about my rapid metabolism that I always have ever since I was little. I think it's pretty hilarious what a mind can do, so I decided to share it. Happy reading!

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‘Let her eat more, she’s too thin,’ that was what most people told her mom whenever they had dinner on a restaurant and she got scolded for eating so much.

Her mom would try to contain herself at first and sighed. There was no way these people would understand that while her daughter ate like there’s no tomorrow, she was very skinny. For a while, she was suspicious that her daughter had a stomach worm, or a few of them. She tried giving her “Combantrin”, a medicine she believed to be powerful enough to fight stomach worms.

Alas, her daughter’s eating behavior showed no alterations whatsoever. So after some convincing, she gave up and just let her daughter ate what she wanted.

The daughter was happy because it worked to her advantage. It was true that she ate so much. The proportion of white rice and meat/vegetable that she ate was 3:1. Much to her delight, it was really difficult to her to gain weight.

She insisted that she had an explanation to her condition, that she actually HAD a stomach worm. When the “Combantrin” tried to kill it inside her body, it was too late. The worm had grown to be significantly larger……large enough to be a stomach dragon. Furthermore, as fate would have it, she actually had TWO of them. She called them “Double Dragons”.

In her imagination, her dragons ate two third of the meal portions and gave up the rest for her body’s metabolism. When the dragons were full, they slept. But when they were hungry, they would cause tremendous rumbles until she fed them sufficiently. It was a mutual interaction, you see, as the dragons gave her heightened physical strength in return.

So this girl and her dragons lived together for a long time. When she got in the all-girl catholic junior high school, she immediately attracted attention for her tall and skinny figure. However, she could not care less when her friends told her nicknames like “Scare crow”, “Sailor Moon”, or when they told her not to do any exercise lest her waist got cut off. All she cared about was the well-being of Double Dragons, whom she was getting fond of more deeply over the years.

That time, she was a girl of 5’9” and weighted less than 120 pounds.

Until one day, one of her dragons died. It was during her junior year at college that she noticed she could not eat as much as she used to. It pained her greatly that one of her beloved dragons died, and she could not understand why her dragon left so abruptly after years of existing together.

Without a dragon to eat some portion of her meals, she started to gain weight, although it was subtle. Living in USA had changed her slightly, as she started to develop more muscles and stamina as she exercised and danced. Her living dragon still as enthusiastic as ever; he growled loudly when hungry and slept peacefully when full.

She is now a figure of 5’10” and 130 pounds.

Looking back, she thought it was amazing to have such a creative mind for explaining an extremely fast metabolism that goes slower as she ages. Nonetheless, she still believed in her dragons.

She endlessly hoped to never, ever lose her one and only dragon. For everyday she woke up in the morning and was happy to be greeted by the loud growling of her ever-energetic dragon.


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