Luke
Stuffing my hands into the males hoodie that I wore as he waited patiently for me as his own were in his black jackets pocket, black jeans and a plain grey shirt as I dragged myself towards the building where the meeting would be. Sighing as we walked in, the walls of the lobby were a soft blue with plenty of light and a few plants as a women welcomed us with a bright smile before directing us to our room. it was similar to the size of a class room with a row of large windows, soft yellow walls with chairs in the circle as most people already sat as they talked to one another with smiles, I knew everyone had different issues from assault to abuse to eating disorders and depression so it wasn't so isolating.
"you okay?" peter asked as he rested a soft hand on my lower back and I nodded before taking a seat as he moved one closer to me as he had a visitor lanyard on so people knew he wasn't here to heal and I noticed a few other had the same.
"hello everyone body" Someone smiled as they came in as I assumed they were the psychologist or something, "now I'm sure your all aware that we have a new person so I'm sure you'll all make him feel welcome and we'll go around and introduce ourselves"
"my names piper and this is my friend Wilson"
"Ethan.."
"Tim and my boyfriend frank"
"Jason, but I prefer jac"
"Ricky and my brother Adam"
"Daniel"
"uh I'm Alice"
"jasmine!"
I felt myself freeze up when it got to me, "oh.. uh my names Luke and this is my partner peter..."
"well, we'll start nice a slow today so who wants to talk about one thing they did which there quiet happy about, even if it small" she spoke, zoning out as I stared out the window as I tried to think of one decent thing I did that actually made me happy.
"you alright?" Someone asked and I looked next to me as Jason sent me a small smile.
"Just trying to think of one decent things" I sighed.
"yeah... I know how you feel with that..." he sighed, "I usually just lie"
humming in agreement as I turned back to peter as the male immediately looked back at me and sent me a goofy smile, "you look pretty in the summer light" He whispered and a small smile pinched at my lip though I looked back at the floor blankly.
"Luke? is there anything you were quiet happy about?"
"I didn't kill myself"
"Uh.. I suppose I didn't let my flowers that peter got me die.." I muttered
"what type are they?" Jasmine smiled.
"daisies..." I mumbled.
"Jason? what you get up to yesterday?"
"I didn't sleep for half the day, mainly because I didn't sleep at all" He shrugged and I chuckled softly at the comment.
"That not good Jason" The women sighed.
"wanna know what else is not good? suicide so be glad I showed up" He scoffed.
"yeah.. I suppose so" she stated, "so does anyone want to talk about there past?"
dead silence.
well other than Jason.
"So like what type of past, you know the nearly being beaten to death or like the rainbow and sunshine stuff"
well I recon I'm gonna like Jason.
"ha my dad did the same, did he ever kick you out?" I questioned.
"Hell yeah, and than he'll get angry at you for running off" He laughed softly and I glanced at peter who looked worried.
"guys, can you not laugh about stuff like that" Susan sighed, "makes Alice uncomfortable"
"Yeah well we have to live with it-"
"We all have to, why you think were here" tim scoffed.
"Yet we can't talk about it freely can we?" Jason sighed.
"Would you guys like to open up about what brings you here?" The psychologist, grace, asked, "Jason why don't you start us off"
"Tried to kill myself, but mainly because depression caused it which my father caused" he explained before he looked at me as if expecting to explain.
"Remember, you don't have to talk today" Alice reassured me as I looked back at Peter as I took his hand, needing the anchor it supplied.
"Well... A few weeks ago I was uh drug and sexually assaulted... And uh before that I had grown up in a abuse household in which my mother had... She.. she overdosed on Christmas... I made sure that my little sister Lily though she doesn't know much about what happened since I took her as soon as I got out of there..." I explained and no one cut me off or said how they totally understand everything.
"Damn he has a worse story than me" Daniel joked making a few smile as it broke the tension.
"Well you are very very brave for making it here Luke... Even if some days all you want to do is just leave, I can relate on some aspects with being assaulted since I've been in your shoes.... But I'm sure Peter is definitely a good anchor... And we will help guide you on healing..." grace smiled before we moved onto the next person.
"I suffer from severe anxiety... I was born with it but it worsened after I was physically assaulted by a person while walking home..." Susan spoke, "they didn't even want to rob me... I don't wanna know what would have happened if my now boyfriend didn't find me" she sniffled.
"I'll be back..." Peter whispered to me and I nodded as he got up and left as I assumed he needed the bathroom.
"Hey is he like... Autistic or something? He just gives off that vibe" Jason whispered to me.
"No... Don't think so, I honestly think he has ADHD" I hummed and when he came back he suddenly a goofy smile on his face as he sat back down.
"There soap smells like bubblegum" giggled quietly as he held up his hand as I could easily smell it.
"That's great Pete..." I smiled.
the end
if you want it to continue I'll add more for the future
