I Could Start Fires With What I Feel For You

Chapter 6

"Oh. Logan who is this? I didn't know we were going to have company." Mrs. McGreeny said. Well there goes my chance to escape while I could. They both just look at me and I kind of shrink into myself at the attention.

You see, I have social anxiety and anorexia. I'm also a self-harmer. I have scars on my arms from over the years. When I was best friends with this girl name Sabrina, I didn't want to live in this world anymore so I cut my arm really deep and Brina came into my bathroom without me knowing. I blacked out and when I woke up I was in the hospital. I had stitches in my left arm to hold it together, and on the right arm they had super glued it together because that arm didn't have as much tension in the skin.

"ALEX!" Logan was suddenly by my side and I was on the ground. "Alex, what happened?" He asked panicked. I couldn't tell him what happened, because the truth is, I don't know what happened.

"I don't know." Is all I said. I actually have an idea about what happened but I can't tell him. He would find out about me cutting, and he wouldn't be my friend. I don't want him to not be my friend. I finally have a friend that I'm not related to. "Shit."

"What is it? Alex, you can tell me anything." Logan says. I just look at him weirdly and reply.

"I forgot that I told Mason that I'd go to the hospital after school. Is there anyway your mom could drive me there?" I ask him. He helps me off the ground and then goes and asks his mom.

"Well that's fine sweetheart." She says to me, "And by the way, you can just call me Krishane or Kris." I just nod my head and follow them to a large red truck. Logan got in the passenger side and Kris got in the driver's side so I got in the back.

"So why do you need to go to the hospital sweety?" Kriss asked me. I told her that Mason was in the hospital because he was in a coma. "Why is he in the hospital and if you don't mind me asking, who is this Mason?"

"Mason is my twin brother and near the beginning of this school year, we were walking home and when we crossed the street, I was in front of him, I made it across, but he was hit by a truck that I guess didn't see him." I answer not even feeling like I have to cry because that story wasn't the truth.

"Well I'm so sorry Alex."

"We don't have to stay long because he is going to still have to do most of the tests and visiting hours end in half an hour." The truth is, I just want to go back to their house and hang out because I don't really feel like talking that much. I already know what Mase is going to say.

"Okay. Well I'll drop you and Logan off at the entrance and then find a parking space." We did a mumble of okays. We were about five minutes away from the hospital. "So Alex, were you and Mason close growing up?" Kris asked me.

"Yeah, he's older than me by about thirty minutes and so he always played the protective older brother/dad since my dad wasn't in my life long enough to do that. Mason protected me from the bullies, beatings, and he'd always beat up the guys that asked me out." As I said the last part. Logan blushed a little, then he and Kris looked angry.

"What do you mean 'beatings', Alex?" Logan asked furiously. Why was he so mad? Then I replayed the sentence in my head. I didn't reply again because my body made me mute from realization like it always does.

"Damn It. She went mute again." Logan said... with his mom right there.

"Logan watch your language and what do you mean mute?" Kris asked confused.

"Whenever someone asks her about her past or family, she goes mute. I'm just surprised she didn't go mute whenever you asked all those questions." Logan said. Wow he figured that out on his own in not even one day.

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Dun dun dunnnnn... ~Belt from The Croods