1202, 12:15 am
Evie woke up in a ball under her sheets, curled in upon her stomach in hunger. The hollow feeling in her stomach told her that it was empty in a way it hadn't been since before Evie had first learned to buy groceries and make her own food.
Food. There was no food and there hadn't been for-- days? Weeks? She managed to drag herself up on her bed and recognized the room she was in with its soccer posters and sports equipment. Now Evie could vaguely remember eating dinner just a few hours ago.
But she was so hungry. Holding her stomach protectively as she rolled out of bed, she dragged herself to the kitchen and immediately began looking through it. Cookies, snack cakes, candy, bread; the food that Evie was pulling out all fit into the same categories of sugar and carbs.
Once she had found everything that she was considering to be desirable food at the moment, she tore into the pile. Halfway through a sleeve of cookies, Evie remembered something. She had a brother, didn't she? He would be hungry too.
A brother. Nicky. She said it out loud and the name felt swollen and heavy on her tongue, like it wasn't his name at all. Her attention broken away from the food, Evie managed to stand and leave the kitchen, needing to find him. She peered into his dark room, searching. "Nicky?" It still didn't sound right.