I Ate the Apple

Chapter 15

KATHRYN'S POV

Channing's family is over checking on Channing, but Cam left shaking terribly and I'm really worried. Matt said she was having a panic attack, but he said she wasn't.

Channing isn't answering the phone and Cam isn't either.

Her parents and Nana and Papa are here and Matt, and we, obviously.

I walk in her house to glass all over the place.

She had a bad panic attack.

She's pacing around her house with her hands in her hair, hyperventilating.

"Get the fuck out of my house." She hisses.

We all protest, trying to help, but she just keeps screaming at us to leave, so we just go to my house.

CAM'S POV

I laid on my couch for three days with my door locked and curtains shut

Everyone tried to come over, but I wouldn't let anyone in.

I know everyone is panicking.

I stood in front of that mirror with the knife to my stomach three times, and four more times with it on my thigh.

But it's not the answer.

I fuck up real bad, and I'm scared to leave my house to see the shame on my family's faces.

I need to fix this.

I know I need to fix this, but I don't know how.

I haven't eaten anything.

I need to give him what he wants.

He just wants me.

That's all he's asking.

He's asking for time with me.

I need to separate work from my home life.

I get up and go to the kitchen.

I make myself a huge breakfast and force myself to eat. I clean the house, all the glass, everything.

I had a really bad panic attack.

I start making a list of everything I need to do.

I check things off as I go, starting with a shower.

I then get dressed and work on my eyebrows and make myself presentable. I scrub my teeth and head to Verizon.

I get a second phone, a work phone, and then I stop in at CC22. I use the work computer to send my new number out to all the stores, telling them not to call my other phone at all, no matter what the circumstance is.

I remember back in high school I asked Channing the night before I left for college what he wanted to do with me before we broke up for school and he said he wanted to buy an Xbox360 and play Halo with me because he thinks it's cute when I'm mad.

We didn't have an Xbox, so I start with that and get him the newest Xbox.

I know buying my way in won't work, but he shows me so much appreciation and always makes sure I'm happy, but I never return the favor.

I've gotta make some changes.

I get him the Xbox and all the games he could ever want and four controllers.

He told me he always wanted a PA system because he wanted to scream four into it when he drives past golf courses.

That means a ball is about to hit the golfer.