Jade Stark's Story *On Hiatus*

Bitchlyn Strikes Again

~After Treatment~

Once Treatment ended, I ran to my room to grab sweaters for me and Natalie, a few books, and the rest of the thin mints I smuggled, and then I ran back to the infirmary. 

Natalie was sitting on her bed in a daze. I went over and sat next to her “You okay N?”

She snapped out of her daze and turned to me. “Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?”

Something was different… She was acting weird… “You sure you’re okay?”

“Yeah, what do you got?” She nodded towards what I was holding. 

“I grabbed sweaters for us, a few books, and the rest of the thin mints” I tossed the thin mints to her. 

She smiled and caught them. “So how was treatment?”

“Same old, same old”

Natalie nodded. “I never thought I’d say this but I cannot wait to get out of here and go back to treatment”

“You sure you’re ready for that? Isn’t that kid in one of your treatments?”

“Yeah so? Nothing happened” She shrugged. 

What’s going on with her? “You sure you’re okay?”

“Yes Jade,” She said, irritated. “I’m fine”

I sighed. “Whatever you say”

Natalie took one of the books that I had set on the bed and started reading. Why is she being so weird…? She doesn’t think anything happened when just like an hour ago she told me the opposite? 

Natalie was looking at the book but it didn’t seem like she was actually reading it, it was like she was off in her own little world. 

As I watched her for a few more minutes, I realized what was going on. She’s denying anything happened because she doesn’t want to accept it, she’s repressing it. I did the same thing a few years after I was kidnapped when I realized what was happening. I thought that if I didn’t think about it and pretended it didn’t happen that it would have magically made that true

I sighed and sat at the bottom of her bed and grabbed a book. I’m going to let her be, if she needs to talk or anything she knows I’m here. 

~A Week Later~

“Hey J,” Natalie said, throwing something at my head. 

I looked up from my book and rolled my eyes. I picked up the bag of apple slices she had thrown at me. “Did you steal these from the cafeteria?”

“No, Warden gave them to me. He said they had been leftover from today’s lunch and asked if we wanted them otherwise they would be thrown out” She shrugged, taking a bite of her apple slice. She looked up at the sky, it was yard time so we were outside. We both missed being able to go outside, somewhere where there was grass and trees and not this stupid dirt area. 

I shrugged and opened mine. “Have you seen Bitchlyn today?”

“Nope” She popped the P. “I haven’t seen her since Wednesday when you smeared that banana in her face” She laughed. 

I laughed and took another bite of an apple slice. A few days ago Brooklyn was being a bitch and trying to start a fight with us so I took Natalie’s banana and smeared it on her face. Unfortunately, I had an allergic reaction to the banana so now I have a rash on my hand but it was totally worth it. 

“Well well well well, if it isn’t the two most brainless wastes of space” 

I rolled my eyes and turned around. “Talking about yourself again Brookie? That’s a bit egotistical isn’t it?” I turned back to my book. “By the way, there are only three well’s idiot”