You know, to be honest I just don't get it. All I did was tell her that I thought she was eating a little too much, that's it. After all, she was shoveling down her third bowl (and I'm not talking little tiny bowls that you serve those fancy deserts in... Mom's rice bowls are frickin' huge) of rice... And she's gotten huge herself recently. I mean, she's never been skinny. None of us ever have (though I wouldn't call myself fat, not by a long shot). But she was always a little bigger than the rest of us, and recently she's been a lot bigger.

So I said it to her, for her own good. I know she's got this super secret special job that apparently sucks up all her energy, or something like that (no one will tell me anything about it though!), and that's supposedly why she's been eating so much. But to me it just looks like she's been putting whatever she can get into her mouth because she wants to eat more and more. And even if she thinks she needs more, she doesn't seem to be burning it all off, not the way she's been getting bigger and bigger.

Don't you think you've had enough already?

That's all I said. Really. Just that one little question. It's not even like I said anything about her being fat and enormous (though she is now). It's not like I said it meanly. At least I don't think I said it sounding mean... But she burst into tears and Mom took it out on me (despite the fact that I have a frickin' date tonight!).

I really didn't mean it that way!

So why is it that I am now grounded and stuck in my room with only my homework to keep me company?