Insanity

0.3

I start umpacking my variety of black skinny jeans and band tees, hanging them up in the wardrobe. After a few minutes of unpacking theres a knock at the door.

A tall caramel haired man walks in. His hazel eyes sparkling in the dim lghting of the room.

"Hi, I'm Ashton. I'll be your counsellor. Mae right?"

"Hey, yeah thats me."

"Well, its nice to meet you Mae. I'll be here if you ever need to talk or just play foose-ball" he whispers the last bit which earns a giggle from me.

"Well, are you hungry because dinner will be served in approximately 2 minutes and 3 seconds" He smiles. I walk towards the door and Ashton follows me.

"This way" He points to the right I follow him until we finally reach a big cafeteria area with about a half a dozen groups of teens sat down spread across the room.

"Why are there so many groups? I mean arent they all friends?" my curiosity finally taking over my mouth.

"Its just like any school, everyone has their group of friends here."

" Who should i go sit with?"

"Follow me" he gestures for me too follow him i do as im told.

We stop behind a group of three boys all laughing and throwing food at eachother.  Ashton clears his throat causing them all to look up at us. My eyes meet with a pair of green ones.I look up and see his bright pink hair and notice his tattoos, he has what looks like an anchor on his left thumb, a X in roman numerals on his right middle finger and what I think says ' To The Moon' on the inside of his left arm. He had an eyebrow bar in his right eyebrow, I always had a thing for a guy with pirecings.

We just stare at eachother for what seems like hours but is only a few seconds.

"Calum, Michael, Luke this is Mae, Mae this is Calum, Michal and Luke. Ithink you guys will get on. Tke her under your wings and show her the ropes, yeah?" he says pointing to all three of them. Luke has bright blue eyes with blonde hair in a perfect quiff, and a black lip ring ( it was totally punk rock)  and Calum has striking brown eyes with brown hair with blonde streaks. Michael was still staring at me but  i pretended like I didnt notice.

"Hi!" I say trying to break the silence.

"Hey" Calum and luke both mutter.

"So you new around here then?" Luke asks as I take a seat next to Calum and Ashton taking one next to Michael.

"Yeah, just got here." I smile.

"I'm going to get a glass of water. I'll leave you guys to get to know eachother." Ashton says before getting up and walking away.

"Where you from then?" Calum asks.

" Not far. We call it the Wastelands because nothings there"

"No way! I Iive there too" Luke buts in.

"So whats your story?"Michael finally chirps up.

I take a deep breath " Not much to tell really" I shriugged "Started getting bullied by some plastic bitches in school when I was about twelve, convinced me I wasn't worth the air I breathed. Guess I started to believe them, their voices stuck in my head, found a razor one day, found it helped with the pain. I was thirteen when my parents found out. They sent me to SunnyVille outside of town, guess it worked for a while but the main bitch come back into my life. It started again so I started again. So here I am me and all my voices."

We was silent, nobody spoke so I decided to break it.

"What about you, guys?"

The boys all looked at eachother none of them speaking and you could say they were saved by the bell, as it rung through the cafateria. There was a scrape of chairs as everyone stood up and made their way out. Michael stood up and held out his hand.

"You ready?" he asked looking straight into my eyes, I couldnt help but notice how perfectly green they were.

"For what?"

"It's group therapy. You're with us!"

"Come on Mae we'll take care of you!" Calum reassured me.

I took Michael's hand and he pulled me up. I felt electricity surge through my body at his very touch. He smiled and let go.

I followed the boys down the corridor to another empty room with a few chairs in a circle and a few people already sat down. I see Ashton walking over to me.

"Mae, seeing as its your first group session, you dont have to feel likeyou need to join in, thats cool if you dont. Just sit and take it all in. We will hear from you another time."

"Thank you sir!"

"Call me Ash" He smiles.

"MAE! MAE! MAE!" I turn around to see Michael waving his hands at me. " Come sit next to me! I've saved you a seat!" I take the seat next to him.

"Thanks Michael!" I blushed.

The hour session passed quickly. I didnt speak but I somehow found it really theraputic. Some of these kids were more messed up then me, some had the same problem and some didnt feel like they needed to be there. Ashton seems cool, I feel like I could talk to him. He's not much older than us, he talked to us not at us which is new for these kind of people. I still didnt get to find out what Luke, Calum and Michael were in for, I have to say it had me intriged. I found myself glancing at Michael throughout the session trying to work out what was wrong with him. He seemed normal, well as normal as me. Did he have the same problem as me? did he hear voices? whatever it was I wanted to know, but how the hell do you ask someone something like that without it being weird? I kind of wanted to be friends with this guy even know making friends wasnt part of the plan. I wanted to come here get better and get on with my life, but surely if I was to make friends that would make the whole experience easier right?

Group therapy was the last structered activity of the day. We had two hours free before lights out. The boys were playing foose-ball in the day room I watched for maybe ten minutes before getting board and deciding to sneak off to my room. I heard footsteps follow me.

"Mae?" someone said behind me. I turned around to see Michael standing there awkwardly fiddling with his hands.

"Hey Michael, sorry to bail on you guys I couldn't handle your awesome foose-ball skills any longer" I laugh.

He laughed back.

"It's okay, I know i've got mad skills."

I giggle.

"You wish Clifford!" I smirked.

"I think I've had enough foose-ball for tonight, but I dont feel like heading off to my room yet. Do you....... maybe...... wanna hang out?" He said awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck.

"Just us two?" I asked.

"Yeah, sure if that doesnt make you uncomfortable?"

"No it's fine i'd like that!" I smiled at him.

"ooooooooooooooo" We turned around to see Calum's and Luke's heads peering round the day room door, grinning their heads off.

"Piss off guys!" Michael shouted. They ducked back inside the room.

" Come on Mae, let's get out of here!"

"Where we going?"I questioned.

"Do you trust me?" He raised an eyebrow.

"I guess"

"Then trust me. I'm gonna take you on a tour of this shithole that you will be calling home for the next few months"

I giggled.

"Come on then lets go!"