The Pack One Shots

Fake Smile (Merome)

HEY Y'ALL ITS YOU WATER PRINCESS HERE. So I know y'all want the nxt Dare or Dare but this idea hit me like a ton of bricks and I had to do it before I forgot it. So here. Have sad feels.
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Mitch thought about the food he just ate. Hot dogs, home made pasta salad, and angel food cake with whipped cream and raspberries for dessert. He felt sick. Even before he ate it. Is this what an eating disorder feels like? he thought to himself.

Then he thought of the fading scars on his leg. Jerome had found him crying in the bathroom one day after he drug the razor sharp blade across his skin. He didn't hardly feel the pain. It was his punishment for being stupid. For not eating, being scared, for cutting in first place.

"What have I become Biggums," he sobbed. Jerome said nothing, he just cradled his sobbing friend.

Now he found himself hiding from friends and family in his room. He was lying in his bed with music pounding around him, wondering why nobody was looking for him.

Then again, he was the strong one. The one people came to with their problems. He kept people from cutting, he kept them eating. He was the brave one and he was breaking.

The food he just ate felt like shattered glass in his stomach but he was determined to hold on to it.

Just then Jerome walked into Mitch's room. "You ok babe?"

"Yeah. I'm perfect," Mitch said with his perfect fake smile. No one could tell it was fake. Not even his parents.

"Wanna go to the fire with me?" Jerome asked his eyes bright with all happiness and innocence.

"Yeah let's go Biggums," Mitch said taking Jerome's hand. Off they went. Mitch's secret still a secret, hidden to make everyone he loves life just a bit easier.