My Fairy Tale

Chapter 14

*Beep* *Beep* *Beep.* Was all I could hear. What was beeping? I tried opening my eyes, but it was impossible. My mind was now screaming at me. I recognised the beeping. I was in a hospital. This is why my mind was screaming. “WAKE UP SHLEBY. WAKE UP!” I tried and I tried, but I couldn’t. I need too, my mum couldn’t go through this again, I can’t go through this again. I heard voices, but they weren’t mine.

“Is she going to be okay?” A muffled voice, most likely from crying, had asked. “Yes she will be. We have had to put a tube down her throat to feed her. She fainted from lack of food and exhaustion. It isn’t good for a girl her age. Has she eaten much in the past few weeks?” The doctor asked. “Uhm I don’t know. She has skipped breakfast, but she eats dinner in her room and I don’t know about school.” The voice, which I realised, was my mum, finally answered. “Okay, now what about sleep?” The doctor questioned again. “I usually wake her up at 6:30; she has been awake before that though. I go to bed at about 11:00, and her bedroom light is still on. So no, she hasn’t had much sleep.” My mum soon began crying once again. “Shhh it’s going to be okay.” Adam tried soothing her. “We will get some coffee. Skye, come with?” Kyle asked. I gathered Skye, mum, Adam and Kyle were here. “I’ll come too.” Spoke another voice. Logan. “Mrs Dallas, she is going to be okay, she just needs sleep, and food.” The doctor told my mother before walking out.

Mum: “What are we going to do?”
Adam: “What can we do?”
Mum: “I notice she hadn’t been eating much, but I thought it was because she was too busy with homework.”
Adam: “It isn’t your fault; she is learning her lesson the hard way.”
Mum: “It isn’t her first time though.”

Oh no… mum, please don’t.

FLASHBACK

“Shelby baby please wake up!” Mum was shouting in my ear. It was the second time I’ve been in hospital for a lack of food in three months. I know my mum is getting worried, but I haven’t had time to eat. And then there’s the other reason. I was being bullied for my weight. I tried working it off, but it took too long. So I decided not eating was the easier option. I know, it sounds stupid, but it was working. Until I first fainted. I was scared as hell, but when I woke up, I knew I was okay. Then it happened again. Almost six weeks later. So here I am. Sitting in my hospital bed. I had finally woken with a tube in my throat, for the second time in six weeks. “Shelby, why aren’t you eating?” Mum asked. I slowly shrugged. I had no energy to move. “You know this is dangerous, I warned you the first time what would happen. So why did you do it again?” Again, I slowly shrugged. She grabbed hold of my hand. “Pinkie promise me, pinkie promise me you won’t do this again.” She pleaded. I did as she told. “One more time Shelby, one more time and its boarding school.” She barely whispered. I barely nodded, but I understood.

END OF FLASHBACK

I had been eating better, I swear. But ever since things with Stefan have been happening, my grades have been dropping, finding out who really caused the car crash, my mind has been everywhere except eating and sleeping. I forgot about it. It didn’t seem important. 

Adam: “So what, you are going to put her in a boarding school?”
Mum: “I have too, I warned her, and I can’t let her take the risk of doing it again. It will be better.”

“No it won’t!” Another voice shouted.

Mum: “Skylar honey, you know what happened the other two times; you know how much I worried. Remember how you felt the second time. It was hard for you as well.”
Skye: “I know Kelsey; I remember sitting here impatiently waiting for her to wake up. But she has been eating better, I don’t know what happened this time, but please, please give her another chance. Please.”
Mum: “I’m sorry Skye, but I can’t. I can’t keep giving her second chances, it’s getting too dangerous”.
Skye: “Please Kelsey, please.” I heard her sniffle. Great she was crying.

Skye kept saying please, mum kept saying no. But me? What did I want? I know not eating is dangerous, I know about the effects it can have on me. I promised my mum rehab would be next, I pinkie promised. But its boarding school, I don’t want to go to boarding school.

“Is she okay?” Another voice questioned. I didn’t recognise whose voice it was though. “Stefan, you need to leave.” Skye said. “No, no I don’t. I need to be here for her.” Stefan? Why was he here?
Skye: “Stefan, leave now.”
Stefan: “Not until I know what happened.”
Skye: “It isn’t any of your business. Leave now.”
Mum: “Why does he have to leave, I thought him and Shelby were dating?”
Skye: “It’s complicated. Can you please him to leave Kelsey, Shelby doesn’t want to see him.”
Mum: “I’m sorry Stefan, but if Skye is telling you to leave, you need to leave.”

I didn’t hear Stefan say anything after that. I just heard his heavy footsteps leave. I tried to smile at myself for having the bestest best friend in the world. But I couldn’t move still. The doctor came in and checked out my pulse and other sorts of things.

Skye: “Doctor Tomlinson, why hasn’t she woken yet?” Doctor Tomlinson, sounds hot.
Doctor Tomlinson: “I’m not sure, it’s quite strange her being out this long.”
Skye: “What- what does that mean?” She started crying again.
Doctor Tomlinson: “I’m not sure. She would wake up any minute. I promise.”
Skye: “And if she doesn’t?” She barely even spoke.
Mum: “She’s strong Skye, she will wake up.”