warning: gore and disturbing details, verbal abuse, and mental health problems.
David sat at the desk to be put into the hospital looking around very fast and worried but won't stop smiling. David's mother looked at him sadly as his father just batted an eye and grumbled he was a mistake and he should have never been born as he waited for the nurses to come and get the forms. David's eye twitched. when he was signed into a room with another boy his age. (17 at the time).
"okay David this is your roommate, his name is Daniel he's in here for similar reasons."
she moved him into the room with his stuff and David looked at her one last time tears in his eyes.
"what's wrong" she asked
"I don't belong here..."
"yes, you do sorry to tell it to you kiddo..."
David smiled at her tears falling down his face and going in the room.
"They all say that....but you don't" Daniel turns to David holding a purple crayon drawing on the walls because it's what keeps him calm. he wore a white tee-shirt, gray jeans, and black shoes.
David was wearing an oversized green hoodie with the strings taken out cus they asked him to cover his old camp tee shirt and had on black shorts and knee-high green and white socks and brown and yellow combat boots without strings or laces.
"of course i can tell" David's smile never broke as he said that and daniel seemed to never blink at all. David went to the bed next to him and started to unpack having many things but us he unpacked the hoodie lifted it up to reveal some bruises.
"who did that?" daniel asked holding the crayon in his hand tightly.
"my dad. he's not a nice person." David threw the stuff out on his bed now
"hm." daniel set the crayon down
"Hey, you have a nice smile why do you do it so much."
"papa told me o always smile ill be happy, im very sad... can you see im sad? no one tells me im sad, only yell at me for being too happy."
"i can't tell"
"ill teach you how to be just like me don't worry danny . "
"your kind of cute in a way"
"thank you" David only smiled wider.
"Boys bedtime!" one of the nurses said.
"Okay!" daniel turned off the lights and layed in bed.
David got on his bed and sat there hugging his knees never breaking his smile and he cried into them for the night after daniel fell asleep. he didn't sleep that night and went to lay down at 6am and closed his eyes as if he was asleep the whole time.
"Boys its morning wake up for activities"
David pretended to be tired as he sat up "activity's what is this camp?"
