Reality chapter 4, part 2
“Hi mom” I say innocently “what are we having for
dinner?” I start to unpack the groceries bags.
“Well I thought that Danny could come over and we could have
steak.” She says
I freeze and tremble, I am sure that Jess already told you about
Danny so I wont cover him, but I examine my cut and rub my hand
gently over it and it tingles. I shut my eyes and all I can imagine
if the big red F on my math paper, all of the cuts and bruises I
have gotten from Danny, and what people would think of me if they
found out that I cut myself.
“No” it bursts out of me and my mom freezes “ I
really don’t like Danny but obviously you only care about
yourself.” I storm up to my room and don’t go back down
stairs until morning. During the night I make more cuts and slices
in a pattern, on one arm it says LIFE and on the other it says
SUCKS. I wake up in the morning because my mom is shaking me
frantically. She calls 911 and by now I am about half awake. I doze
off again and wake up in a bed in a hospital room. Doctors surround
me and my arms are bandaged up. All at once everyone starts talking
to me. I only hear bits and pieces of what people are saying. I
loose interest and start to stare out the window. All of a sudden
everyone is gone and Jess is in the room. She asks me a bunch of
questions and I just get angry and tell her I have my reasons. Then
this doctor comes in and says stuff about a mental facility thingy
and Jess starts yelling at me. And I mean yelling at the top of her
lungs, as if she was trying to talk to someone on the other side of
the country. Jess storms out and I don’t see her for over a
year.
After a year at
the mental facility, I get home and the first thing I want to do, I
go on a walk. When I get back from the walk my mom tells me that
jess called…
Reality chapter 4, part 2 “Hi mom” I say innocently
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Nov 25, 2012 2:01am
