Depression/ anxiety one shots

Don't listen to them ( sh tw ⚠️)

" Anna , I swear if you aren't dead or deaf, I'm literally going to kill you !" My brother Charlie yelled at me from downstairs. " Tonight is your night for the dishes , and I'm tired of you not listening to me!"

I ignored him going back to what I was doing . A bunch of people made this Instagram account to post photos of me on and then make fun of in the comments . I've had this horrible habit of hurting myself for the past couple years when things got to hard to emotionally handle , and today was no different. My mom found out once but she didn't really care , didn't even try to take anything away from me or anything . Not that it mattered if she cared or not because she was gone on a business trip for two weeks , and my dad wasn't really in the picture , so it was just me and Charlie. He was 20 so my mom felt totally fine leaving us.

I then heard Charlie stomping up the stairs , so I ran from my bathroom to my bedroom door to lock it . I then ran back inside my bathroom and locked that door as well. I was not about to let him find out what I was doing .

" Open this door right now Anna!" Charlie yelled banging on the door . " Anna I mean it ! Anna! Fine I'll get in myself then ."

He walked downstairs and got the key that was universal to all the bedrooms in our house . I heard him come back up the stairs and he unlocked my door. I still wasn't too worried because the bathroom doors didn't have a key , until I heard him gasp.

His voice softened a little and he asked , " Anna are you alright? There's some blood on your carpet ."

I looked down at my arm and realized when I ran to lock the door , some must have dripped on the floor, and I knew I had two options. One was to embarrass myself and two was the truth , so obviously I went with one.

" Yeah I'm fine , I just , uh , got my period ." I said embarrassed even though it wasn't true . " I'll clean it when I'm done in here though I swear.

He awkwardly said , " Oh , sorry . I'll um, leave you to it then. Also please do the dishes when you're done up here." And he left my room.

I finished what I was doing and cleaned the floor , not bothering to clean up my arm because frankly I didn't care if it got infected or not. I walked down the stairs and Charlie nodded his head toward the kitchen and turned his eyes back to the show he was watching.

I was doing the dishes with one hand because I didn't want to risk pushing my other sleeve up , when Charlie came into the kitchen for some soda. He walked past me and grabbed one from the fridge but then noticed how my sleeve was soaked . I was not exactly good at using only one hand to do the dishes .

" Anna, your sleeve is all wet ." He said grabbing my arm with the soaked sleeve .

I tried grabbing my arm from him ,wincing as he held on tight to it .

" Why'd you do that?" Charlie asked

" Do what?" I said pretending I was clueless

He squeezed tighter again and again I winced.

" That." He said.

" Oh I must've bumped it on something." I said fake laughing .

He obviously didn't but my excuse because before I could do anything he had rolled up my sleeve revealing all the red and puffy marks on my skin.

" Anna. Why would you do this? " He asked in almost a whisper.

"No reason,okay. I'm just a freak so leave me alone." I said and broke free from his grasp . I attempted to run back into my room but he held me back , this time with my good arm.

" I'm going to clean these , and then you're going to tell me what happened Anna." Charlie said as he took me into the bathroom.

" Sit." He ordered and began cleaning my arm.

I zoned out and was brought back into the real world when Charlie said , " All done. Now talk please."

I knew I couldn't even get the words out to tell him so I got out my phone and showed him the account.

He looked shocked and set my phone down before pulling me into a hug.

" Oh Anna I'm so sorry that happened. They are all liars though . You are beautiful, smart , funny , and everything good in this world , okay. Don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise. I will take care of this . They will be punished, I promise you that . Just go to sleep okay . I love you Anna , and if you ever feel like hurting yourself again please just come to me , and we'll work it out together. Try to get some sleep . " Charlie said .

I hugged him again and then said, " I love you too. Night Charlie ." and I walked to my room.

" Night Anna!" I heard Charlie yell back before I heard his phone dialing.