The Perfect Nuts

Krystle was worried. She knew that she had to stay away from nuts; they were always her downfall. But here were the perfect nuts, sweet and salty and just begging her to take them. They were even calling out to her. She could hear their voices echoing through her mind as she gazed at them. Her mother had warned her against nuts, she knew that if she took them she would react badly, probably breaking out in hives, but she couldn’t help herself. Nuts were her secret passion, her addiction, her only love.
“Krystle, are you listening? You look like you floated off into another world.” Krystle’s friend Jules didn’t know about Krystle’s obsession with nuts. As far as Jules knew, Krystle was just a normal girl who never did anything wrong. But Krystle hid a dark secret, the secret of the nuts.
“I’m fine. I guess I was just letting my mind wander. I’m sorry, did I miss anything?” In about ten seconds she was caught back up to the conversation. After all it was hard to miss anything when the topic was so dull compared to nuts anyway. How could she stay standing here when the nuts she so desired were only steps away? She had to go over and take them just this once. Maybe her mother was wrong after all and the nuts wouldn’t hurt her. She would never know unless she tried these nuts. And maybe these nuts were different than all the ones that had made her sick in the past. They looked different - they looked better. These nuts were perfection.
As Krystle began to move across the room, almost involuntarily, a sudden thought struck her. She heard her mother’s reaction in her head if she found out that her daughter had taken these nuts. The voice was in no way pleasant and it reminded Krystle of all the reasons she had been avoiding nuts her entire life. The reminder was all that she needed to stay where she was and try to pay attention to her friends, as they discussed nothing so fascinating as the nuts. But for the rest of night she kept stealing glances over to where the nuts rested across the room.