Love Me Tender

hold on

TRIGGER WARNING:
mentions of suicide attempt and self harm

almost the entire glee club had now made it to the bowling alley as planned, the group was still waiting for Cameron, who had still not called to say they were on their way yet. worry started to cloud the groups minds when 15 minutes had passed and there was still no call or sign of Cameron anywhere.

"should we check on them or something?" Santana asks, breaking the silence.

"we shouldn't worry yet, it's only been 15 minutes. they said they were just going home to change. let's be patient." Will reassured.

~~~

when Cam got home from the service they immediately broke down in a fit of sobs in their room. they threw their blazer off and across the room, tears still falling from their face. Cam let out a few more sobs before wiping their face and sitting at their desk. they open up the papers they had folded earlier and began to write on them again.

~~~

30 minutes had now passed since the group had arrived at the bowling alley and still, nothing from Cameron.

"maybe Cam forget to call and is almost here already. they don't live far from here so maybe they just were running late and forgot. don't think the worst here." Quinn says, trying to reassure Finn, who was pacing in the parking lot.

"i- i've just got a real bad feeling in my stomach about this." the tall boy admits.

the others all heard Finn and began to worry more. despite the glee club drama that week, Kurt and Rachel were standing together, spam texting Cameron's phone to try and learn something about what's going on.

"guys listen. hey, come here." Will calls out to the kids, who all began to group around the teacher.
"i know we are all a little bit worried or scared right now, but we have to trust that everything is okay, alright?"

"Cam isn't texting either of us back." Rachel points out, gesturing between her and Kurt.

"we will give them 15 more minutes. if by then we haven't heard anything, we can all go check up on them. Rachel, Kurt, keep texting and calling just incase." the teacher finished, dismissing his students. worry and fear was now pounding through his body, unsure of what could be happening just a few miles from him.

~~~

after writing for the last almost 30 minutes straight, Cam finally stood up from their desk. they slowly closed the last envelope and put the pictures over them once again. slowly they moved to the middle of the room and broke down again. the room quickly filled with the sounds of their sobs as they fell from their lips and the occasional "please stop" or "i can't" that would fall from their mouth. Cam pushed themself up off the ground and towards the bathroom where they promptly locked themself. Cam slowly moved towards the cabinet and removed the things they had placed there previously, all wrapped in a towel. they took a deep breath before turning the sink in and sliding their back down the parallel wall. Cam rolled their sleeves up their arms, revealing the newly healed scars.

"i'm sorry." were the only words to leave their mouth before moving the shiny silver object down their arm.

~~~

"Mr. Schue, it's only been 10 minutes but no one has heard anything and we all think Finn might explode soon." Artie explains to the stressed teacher, Tina by his side.

Will looked at the pair in front of him before scanning his other students faces. he could see and feel the worry pouring out of each of them.

"load into the cars let's go. we are all too worried to be standing here and doing nothing." Will finally spoke out to the group.