Look guys, it's Tuesday :D
I'll be waking up in 8 hours.
To wait for my new phone.
So I'm going to be sat on my arse for 8 hours doing nothing.
You'll get more story :)
Impatient children xD
I'm gonna tap him like a maple tree. I'm gonna search him for some syrups. I'm gonna be having sex with him.
I'm afraid things change :P
Here's another chapter, but because my phone came early, I've been playing with it and have now got plans to go out xD
So. Only one chapter today :P
Chapter Ten
For the next few days, everything between Naomi and I were perfect. We spent every waking moment we could together, perhaps arising suspicion in other residents and staff, but we didn’t care. It seemed they had just passed off our closeness as support towards each other, to get one another through each day.
Until the day I lost her.
Everything had started off that morning as usual. It was a Monday. 8am. Weigh day. All of the residents lined up outside the weighing room in anticipation of how they had changed over the week. No one wanted to gain weight; no one wanted to admit her loss of control. However, no one wanted to lose weight either; to spend another minute in this prison was nearly unbearable.
Everyone shuffled around, terrified to go first, but desperately didn’t want to be the last one on the scales. After what seemed like forever, we slowly started filing in one by one, entering with no emotion, exiting with the same blank look. Then it was my turn. I slowly walked into the weighing room and turned round, facing away from the scales and removed my pyjamas, leaving on just my underwear. The nurse made me turn in a circle so she could see I wasn’t hiding anything to put on any weight. I stepped on the scale backwards and heard the nurse play around with it, making sure she could record every last pound. She sighed and wrote down the number and let me put my pyjamas back on and leave.
Naomi was next and I gave her a quick smile before heading back upstairs to change for breakfast. I had just got to the top of the stairs when I heard one of the girls scream like a wounded animal. I knew it was none of my business, but I bounded back down the stairs, two at a time and skidded to a halt at the back of the queue outside the weighing room. The scream was rolling from Naomi’s lips and spreading round the clinic. Everyone knew what it meant. She’d lost too much weight.
Naomi’s eyes opened, she saw me and fell forwards, collapsing into my arms. I fell to the floor with her and cradled her body shaking with sobs. I kissed her head and told her everything was going to be okay. I lied to her. I knew it wasn’t going to be okay. I knew what was coming next. But I didn’t have the heart to tell her it was about to get a lot worse. She already knew that.
Tara walked over to my side and knelt down so she could look Naomi in the face should she look up at her. Tara didn’t wait around for long. “You have to come with me, Naomi,” she said gently.
Naomi slowly lifted her head from my chest and turned to face Tara, shaking her head with little feeling in each movement. She looked at me and I could offer no words of comfort to her, as we all knew she would have to go with Tara sooner rather than later. Tara held out her hand and I nodded at her to take it. Reluctantly, she removed her tight grip on my pyjamas to place her hand in Tara’s, who smiled and stood up, gently pulling Naomi to her feet.
Again, Naomi turned to me. “I don’t want them to feed me through a tube,” she whispered. She was terrified, anyone could see that. I knew the tube was inevitable – as was her moving to a different ward. A sullen “I know” came from my lips. The thing I did not know was what I could say to make her feel any better.
As Tara led her away from the ward and away from the one person who loved her most in the world, I felt my heart breaking. She kept her eyes on me until the last second before she turned a corner.
At the corner, the words “I love you,” left her mouth with no sound, for only me to see. In that instant, my entire world crumbled.
I'm gonna tap him like a maple tree. I'm gonna search him for some syrups. I'm gonna be having sex with him.
