It was Saturday morning. Nick spent the morning playing Xbox, bored and depressed that he was stuck inside for the entire weekend. He felt his stomach growl with hunger. He ran down to the kitchen to grab a bite to eat. He looked in the pantry and grabbed a poptart. He quickly gobbled down the poptart and washed it down with milk. That was not quite enough to fill his stomach. Nick figured that if he was allowed out of his room to eat, he could spend some time there cooking and preparing a meal. He fill a bowl of cereal, scrambled some eggs, fried some bacon,and had some toast and butter. His older brother came into the kitchen as Nick was eating on the kitchen island.
"Hey little bro, shouldn't you be in your room? Aren't you grounded?" his brother, Mike asked.
"I'm allowed to eat, Mike," Nick replied, "Mom and dad aren't going to starve me out."
"Well you certainly don't look like you're starving," Mike commented and went to open the fridge.
"I'm just so bored," Nick replied, "Videogames, TV, and food are all I have, man."
"Careful, dude. Don't turn into a fatass," Mike said poking Nick's slim stomach.
Nick shrugged it off and took the rest of his food and a bag of potato chips to his room. Nick sat in his room watching TV and finished off his breakfast. A half hour passed and he realized that he mindlessly consumed the entire bag of chips as well as several sodas. He rubbed his swollen stomach and wiped off the crumbs that covered his shirt. He finally felt like he was full for now.
Then, his stomach growled again. He couldn't believe it. Something about his boring, sedative day while grounded just made him ravenously hungry. Nick decides to...
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