Support Group ( Jai Courtney )

Day 7 next

We all sat in circle. I was fidgeting with my hands on my lap, it was way better when I was watching from far away. Sarah was by my right side and she seemed like a child on Christmas day when she was looking at me. I already took a liking in this sweet old lady, and by my left was Jai. I felt awkward next to him after rethinking what happened earlier, did he kiss me because he actually wanted to or just to shut me up?

" Hi everyone, I'm glad to see you there"...

And as Jai was resuming his intro speech about how happy he was to see us and how today would be great, I examined the others.

Sarah, a sweet as a sweet potato if not sweeter old woman.

A small fatty guy I thought was named Jake, or Jeff.

Rebecca, petite woman, black hair and apparently OCD's problems.

This tall blonde girl, who looked completely out of place.

George, a quinquagenarian , who looks very not stable but kind in anyways.

And this girl Amel who seemed as afraid of this circle as me.

Wait isn't there someone missing ?

1,2,3,4,5,6,7..

" And sadly as you all know Wali left us-"

" What ? what happened to him ? Did he snap again? "

I remembered when I saw Jai at the store buying chairs because ' Wali snapped '.

Jai turned to face me a smile on his face.

" No Lili, he didn't left us in that way, he actually went to Denver to get a medical follow-up. "

I nodded feeling kinda relieved for this guy I saw once.

" As you all can see we have a new member, so it would be nice for each and everyone of you to introduce yourself briefly."

Everyone introduced themselves, I learned that the tall blondie was Annie and I also learned their ' Issues'. It wasn't hard to guess that the blondie wasn't confident about herself, she was freaking georgous ! George lost his wife who took his kids away from him, typical, Amel was agoraphobic, Jeff was addicted to food, Rebecca had OCD and well Sarah lost all her children and grand children. I wondered how she could be that joyful woman.

All those people needed a professional follow-up, but apparently just like my case the money wasn't here. I felt bad being here, my ' problems ' weren't that important next to Sarah's or Rebecca's or everyone in this room.

When Sarah finished her story my eyes stung with tears I was holding back. She then warmly smiled at me almost to tell me to tell everyone about me.

I nervously looked back at Jai, not really sure if I was ready for that.

" Thank you everyone, Lili would you share something with us ?"

He gave me a reassuring nod.

I took a deep breath.

Everything's gonna be okay.

" Well hi, I'm Lili, and I am a- I'm a foster kid and I-yeah um that's it."

" Can't you tell us more ? like your age, why you are here ?"

" I'm nineteen and you basically forced me here."

He laughed at my comment along with a few others.

" Other than that I'm here because of Sarah."

I looked at her, it was true, if it wasn't for her I would have left. She smiled yet again at me and took my right hand in hers. I looked down at our hands not really comfortable at first, I wasn't used to affection like this.