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Jenna was furious.

She knew she shouldn't have taken Nicole up on her offer. Sit with that device for fifteen minutes before bed to lose weight overnight? This was the last time she'd let her insecurities get the better of her.

Waking up had been horrifying enough, Jenna was lucky she had kicked her sheets free in her sleep. After the initial panic, she knew she had to get in touch with Nicole, and the door was now far out of reach...

She had been so tired went she went to bed that she had left her phone discarded on the floor, a small mercy, she supposed. However, her exhaustion meant she had forgotten to charge the device, and the charger was on her bedside table...

In a rush, the tiny woman had scurried down to the floor, propped up her huge phone and tried to call Nicole.

No answer.

She tried again.

No answer!

Jenna tried several more times before deciding to text her redheaded friend.

Still nothing.

It was all she could do while she watched the battery slowly drain away, not wanting to lose her phone entirely. She opted to wait between sending further messages...

However, this made the seconds feel like hours, and the minutes like days...

Trying to text at this size was difficult, so the sentences had to be short - much like herself. Jenna went between bouts of anxiety, rage at Nicole's lack of replies, exhaustion, all tempered by a boiling bitterness...

Nicole had some explaining to do.