Introduction: Two years ago I started writing Withered as a school project for a health class I took about eating disorders. After stumbling across a comment that there is very little literature available that discussed the thoughts and feelings of the siblings and children of people who suffer from an eating disorder, it dawned on me that I should be the one to do it. I wrote these first six chapters two years ago, and I''ve decided to post them here because I would like to continue the story and I''d like to get some feedback....