Fix me|| HS

Chapter Nine: Mental Disorder

I was trying to get a tan at the beach but ended up falling asleep while listening to music 😔 now I have a sunburn on my back that matches the same color as a strawberry.

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Violet

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"Oh don't worry, I was also checking you out."

I didn't know how to answer him back, he got me cornered. I'm gonna be honest, I was looking down at his body-- who wouldn't?

But now he just admitted that he was also looking down at me. I don't know if he was just playing with me, or if it's actually true.

After a few moments of just total silence, he then raised up his hands in surrender. "Just kidding! I just wanted to know how you'll react." He awkwardly laughs.

I weirdly looked at him before laughing a little too.

"Let me go get dressed." Leaving the door to his apartment open, Harry quickly disappeared inside his apartment to put on some clothes.

He returned back wearing a black tee with gray sweatpants. The waistband to his sweatpants and Calvin Klein boxers were pretty low; revealing his deeply carved v-line on his skin.

"Come in." He gestures again, and I do what he says.

When I got in, a scent of fragrance swirled in my nose, more of cologne. A very familiar cologne which I believe it's from Tom Ford.

His apartment is ridiculously clean. Everything is simple, nothing exaggerating in color, or furniture. The theme to his apartment matches him; black and white.

Harry is in the kitchen, so I followed him there. It feels weird to be here, especially since Harry and I were never nice to each other since I moved to my apartment. It doesn't feel uncomfortable, but also not home like.

"It feels weird being here." I blurt out as I watch Harry peel a banana. He takes longer than a person usually would, like he scanned through the banana and carefully pealed it. After he peeled off a strip, his facial expression went narrowed.

"Ugh." He groans in annoyance as he tosses the whole banana in the trash.

"Why did you throw that away?"

"Because the size of the strip was too big." He says it in an obvious tone. I just wrinkled my face in confusion.

He grabs another banana and peels off the skin in four parts. "Finally." He mumbles to himself with a small grin.

When he takes a bite, I heard some murmur escape from his mouth. It sounded like he was counting, and he said the continuing number after each chewing of the banana in his mouth.

The longer I stayed here, the weirder it got with Harry. I mean the perfect peel of the banana, the counting while he chews; there must be an explanation.

As he saw my uncomfortableness with being here, he cleared his throat to speak. "Um Violet I have something to tell you."

I nodded as a sign for him to continue, so he took a seat on a chair next to the dining table.

"I can see you're confused in why I wanted to perfectly peel the skin of the banana off, and why I was counting."

"Yeah." I laugh a little to lighten up the mood of awkwardness.

"I have a mental disorder." He looks down.

"I have a mental disorder." He repeats again.

"I have a mental disorder," and again.

"I have a mental disorder," and again.

"Why did you say it four times? I heard you the first time."

"Well the first time I said it my voice cracked at the end. The second time it sounded too weak. The third time was okay, but I don't like odd numbers, so I said it a fourth time to make it even."

I was looking at him like if he were to be crazy. What type of mental disorder does he have?

"What's your mental disorder?" I ask.

"Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Or OCD for short." He looked like to be ashamed on himself, hating every bit of it.

"I've never heard of it before. Can you explain?"

He intertwined his fingers together as he took in a deep breath. "Let's just say I have to do everything in a specific way. I do something multiple times, and I never get satisfied. An example will be with the banana. I wanted to peel it four equal parts because three is an odd number, and you already know I don't like odd numbers. I was counting how many times I chewed each bite. I chew each bite of food twenty-two times. Before bed is the time my disorder gets more intense. I barely get any sleep because I constantly check if I turned off all the lights or if I locked the door correctly and even if I turned off the stove after boiling water to make tea."

I now see Harry as a whole different person. Nothing in a bad way, he actually seems even more interesting now, but I feel really bad for him.

"I'm sorry." I say to comfort him, but it didn't work. His face twitched in anger, and he quickly stood up.

"This is why I didn't want to tell you. I tried my best to not give it away with the actions I do." He coldly says.

"What do you mean?"

"Everyone knew about my disorder before you moved in-- except you. So I was rude to you so you would be rude back to me. Everyone treats me with pity because of my disorder, and I'm fucking sick of it. Nobody treats me normal! But you do, and because of you I felt like an actual human instead of some weird guy with a fucking mental disorder. But now I bet you'll see me as some freak too."

"No I won't." I stand up to walk where he is. "I don't think you're a freak. You're actually quite interesting; normal people are boring."

He turns around to look at me, and his emerald green eyes lighten up. "Really? Well can you promise me something."

"Sure."

"Can you still sometimes be rude to me. It will be refreshing after having to deal all day with other peoples' pity for me."

I laugh. "Okay."

He walks in the living room, and sits down on the couch, resting his legs up on the coffee table. "Now... tell me about yourself."

I take a deep breath before closing my eyes. I gave myself a few seconds to think about what I'm going to say. Should I tell him my story? The real story why I'm being searched by the most powerful force in the U.S and what I did to cause it? Should I tell him about the wedding and my ex husband?

"If I tell you," I begin to speak. "will you promise me you'll still see me the same?"

He looked at me nervous. "Promise."
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I'm so excited for the next chapter! It will finally explain EVERYTHING about Violet

well almost EVERYTHING bc some will have to stay in secret ;)

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