Mental

5

Zayn's pov.

"Thank you so much, you don't know how much this means to me" She told me, with quite an excitement.

"You're welcome, it's nothing really" I told her, cause it really wasn't.

"Actually it is, no one has ever done this to me" she told me, with a smile, showing off one dimple.

I just smiled at her, the fact that I was the first one ever to help her.

"Well I'm glad I'm the first one" I said, while putting ketchup on my curly fries.

"Glad you are too" she told me with a smile.

Her stomach did a loud grumble, not just any normal grumble.

She just looked at her stomach, telling it to shut up in her mind.

"Arlette, you should really eat, I can hear your tummy" I tell her, worried about her well being.

"I can hold it, until dinner time" she told me with another smile, I just gave her a look, a look of not believing her.

"I promise I'll eat something by dinner time" she said, she held out her pinky, I returned the same gesture back at her.

She kept gazing at me, so I instead I returned a smile.

"How do you do it?" She asked me, I looked at her confused.

"Do what?" I asked, still being confused.

"How can you smile like that? You smile like if everything is fine, which is not the case" she told me in-a-matter-of-factly, she was right.

"I'm used to smiling like this, it's like my mask, it hides my pain" I said, frowning, remembering things I didn't want to remember.

"What caused you to overdose?" she asked me out of the blue.

"My dad abuses my mom, and my girlfriend played me, so I couldn't take it anymore" I explained, getting my eyes watery from just thinking about it.

"Look, I'm not going to say it's okay, because it's really not. Just be strong, I'll help you too, don't cry, it's alright right now" she told me, while wiping my tears away as I looked down at my food.

I didn't say anything, but look at my food.

But she was right.

"I'm sorry, I asked such a naive question" She told me, while she played with her fingers.

"No don't be, it's alright" I told her, with another smile.

"Zayn we'll do this together" she told me, grabbing my hand and holding it with hers.

"Lunch will be over in a few!" Screamed the nurse, meaning we had to hurry up.

I just nodded at her statement, we will do this together.

I began eating my food, that was now cold, after I finished eating, I threw my plate away and followed where everyone was located at.

I saw Arlette coming towards me, she stand in line right beside me.

The nurse swiped their card on the sensor to let us out of the cafeteria, we soon began walking down the stairs that lead to our floor.

Everyone sat down where they were last time, so me and Arlette did the same too.

"So Zayn, what are your hobbies?" she asked me out of no where

"Well, I love to draw and spray paint, I also love to sing" I said with a smirk.

"What about you?" I then asked her.

"Photography is what is my passion" she told me excitedly, like just thinking about it made her happy.

"Why won't you sing me a song?" She asked me, wiggling her eyebrows.

"Okay, what song?" I asked her.

"Let me love you" she told me with a smirk.

He I began preparing my self to sing, doing a few breaths here and there, "I'm only going to do a short version, if that's okay" I told her, waiting for an answer.

I closed my eyes, ready;

"Baby I just don't get it

Do you enjoy being hurt?

I know you smelled the perfume, the make-up on his shirt

You don't believe his stories

You know that they're all lies

Bad as you are, you stick around and I just don't know why"

She looked at me with an amazement, like if I just won the lottery; "Wow that was awesome" she told me with her mouth wide open.

Before I even realized, everyone was crowded in our location.

Everyone began clapping, enjoying my horrible voice.

"Thank you" I said smiling at each and every one of them.

Everyone began telling me how amazing my voice was, I didn't think so.

Soon, all the commotion calmed down and everyone returned to their normal lives.

"Snack time!" said the nurse.

Everyone gathered up to get their snacks, I got up and went to go get mine, until I realized Arlette didn't follow.

I looked back at her,"C'mon you promised me" I said with a pout.

"Shit, I thought you forgot" she told me,rolling her eyes playfully.

I laughed at her comment.

After some time thinking about it, she soon got up and went to go get her own snack, which consisted of animal crackers.

After she got them, she sat down and began opening the package, reveling her animal crackers, she began looking at the food label and that's when I knew, I had to do something about it.

"Nope, can't check calories" I said, ripping the calorie label.

She rolled her eyes again.

"Zayn" she said, "I wasn't even going to"

"Sure" I said doing signs with my hands.

She sat there, still, like if she was thinking about something that wasn't right.

"What are you thinking about?" I asked her, while getting some animal crackers out and inserting them in my mouth.

"Nothing, nothing" she told me, bring suspicious.

"Arlette, tell me" I told her, now facing her direction.

"Sorry, I was just-" she said until I cut her off, already knowing the answer, I assumed

"Going to purge them weren't you?" I said with squinting eyes.

"Y-yes" she told me shyly.

I knew it, I had to help her immediately, watch her every move.