Hang on Henry

Chapter 4: Loose

Henry's POV:
September 30th, I woke up this morning and stepped on the scale. 112, still so much more to go. I did a 2 miles run and came home to shower. I showered and got dressed. I put on dark blue jeans, a orange, black, and white flannel, and black vans. My clothes are getting loose. I changed my pants to black sweatpants and a red hoodie. I looked at my wrist to see a bunch of cuts. I'm running out of room. I look at my right wrist and walked back to my closet. I found the pocket knife and picked it up. I grabbed it and made a few cuts on my left wrist. The pain stings and I began to cry. I grab a towel and clean the blood from my arm and the pocket knife. I had to go to work later that day, my kid danger suit was getting too small and had be resized. I check the time, it was 11:15, I had to go. I then left my house.

I came down the tubes at Junk-N-Stuff. The speed of them made me light headed. "Hey Henry, come here and let me measure you." Shwoz cheered. He was already holding the measuring tape up, ready to go. I couldn't let them know what was going on. I walked over to Shwoz and held my arms up. "Could you take your hoodie off so I can measure you?" He asked.

"Sure" I sighed. I took off my hoodie and tried to cover my wrists, and revealed myself to him. My ribcage was viable, my bones poking out.

"Woah Henry, you've lost quite a bit of weight. Everything okay?" Shwoz asked as he measured me.

"Yea I'm fine." I answered. "You almost done?" I couldn't wait for this to be over.

"Yeah, I'm done." He said as he was writing down my measurements.

"Okay cya Shwoz." I said as I put my hoodie on.

"Hey Henry!" Ray smiled. He went to the auto snacked and ordered a nacho tower. "Wanna come help me finish these nachos?" He asked. There's too many calories, I can't eat those.

"Uh I have to go." I say as I walked towards the elevator. I tried to make a quick exit. I successfully left Junk-N-Stuff without any further questions.

Ray's Pov
I watched as Henry left, without even saying bye. "That was weird, huh?" I asked Shwoz. "He usually loves the nacho tower".

"I noticed something going on with him." Shwoz said. "I had to measure him for his kid danger suit and he's lost a lot weight." He added.

"Do you think this has something to do with him not wanting any snacks either that other day? Or how Charlotte and Jasper told us that he doesn't eat at lunch anymore?" I stated. "There is something going on with Henry. This is all very strange for him. I'm gonna get to the bottom of this Schwoz." I said.

"Well how are you going to do that?" Schwoz asked.

"I'm not really sure. But Henry has been very avoidant of food or even just us. He never wants to hang out with any of us anymore." I said with concern.

"We need to help him." Schwoz stated.