BEHIND THESE DOORS

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(TW: brief mentions of rape)

Jeff POV:

"So, a few people have approached me— not naming names..."

Rush coughed. "Hide.."

Everyone sat around in my shop, in a sorta semi-circle formation. "Not. Naming. Names. Anyways, some people think this group could benefit from my amazing therapy!"

"Whoever did it is a jackass," Rush spoke. "Everything's fine."

"Actually..." Hide piped up. "I... have a few things I want to say..."

"I think I could add to that." Screech commented. "I know a few people in particular that need to get things off their chest..."

"Oh?" Rush snickered. "Who could that be?"

I sighed. "Rush— this is a safe environment."

"Safe environment my ass—" Rush got cut off by Grumble.

"Hey, don't try to start things. There's people who need this, and since you've caused problems, you have to sit in on it."

Rush scoffed, but didn't comment any further. "Thank you, Grumble... So, I what I think we should do is have one big, honest discussion, with me as the mediator. Who would like to start?"

There was a silence in the group, when Giggle rose her hand. "Can I start?"

"Go ahead!"

Giggled brought her knees to her chest. "Well, I've only been here for about two days or so, but... I've been feeling off. It's hard adjusting to a new environment, new people... but I've been told to shut up a few times, and I get it, I'm loud and I ramble, but it hurts when people yell at me..."

"Oh, boo fuckin' woo,"

"RUSH!— sorry, Giggle, you can continue."

"Anyways— that's the bad bit, but other than that, I've felt very nice!! Everyone seems so nice and fun and cool, and I've loved getting to know everyone!!" She giggled.

I smiled. She seemed like a nice girl, I didn't want everyone to tear her down...

"Mind if I go?" Figure spoke up.

"Of course,"

"So.. uhm... as everyone probably knows, last night Seek and I got up to some... activities. And I just want to say I'm ashamed and embarrassed of everything, and I'm sorry if it made anyone uncomfortable..."

Well, I haven't heard of this. "What happened?"

Rush laughed. "They fucked, and it was loud as shit."

"Rush— god... please."

They seemed... really nervous to continue. They were fidgeting with their hands, biting their lip... "A-anyways... uhm... it happened after an argument we had... and I just wanted to directly talk to Seek about it..."

"Is this something that you'd rather bring up in an individual session...?"

"No— I'm fine with doing it here... uh, Seek..? It... kinda hurt. You seemed... angry at me."

Seek's expression immediately softened, and he took his hands. "Figure, I didn't mean—"

Seek got cut off by Rush. "Rapist..." that caused a few people to snicker, but most of the group seemed fucking LIVID.

Grumble stood up. "YOU CAN GET THE FUCK OUT."

"TRY ME, BITCH—" Rush stood up, but immediately backed down when Grumble grew closer, bracing himself for a fight. Grumble was obviously stronger than him, and he didn't want a fight. He just kinda.. sat back down.