Broken (Edited edition)

Snow Day

I hear someone walk into the bedroom, and then hear them leave." I can't do this! She's going to kill me!" I hear Wade say, and some laughter." Come on, it's sixty bucks. Plus us laughing like morons." I hear Bob say, and Wade sighs." Alright, fine." Wade says, and I hear my door open again." Lyca? You awake?" He asks, and I slowly open my eyes. I feel someone hit the bed hard, and I go flying off the bed. I land on the ground, and clutch at my ribs." OW!" I scream, and press my head into the carpet." Oh shit, you okay Lyca?" Wade asks, and lifts me up onto the bed again." I'm so sorry." He says, and I shrug." It's okay, it just hurts so much." I say, and he glares over at the door." It was Mark's idea!" He shouts, and Mark looks through the crack in my door. He makes a face, and comes in the room. Sweetheart, you okay?" He asks, and I nod." Yeah, why did you want him to do that?" I ask, and he shrugs." Lyca, it's about almost noon now. We were bored. Did you not sleep well last night?" Mark asks, and I shrug." I woke up at midnight, heard someone go to bed, then couldn't go back to sleep. I must've stayed up until about three in the morning I guess." I say. I rub my ribs a little bit more until they stop hurting, and stand up." Couldn't you guys play video games? You have the equipment to record it don't you?" I ask. Bob nods, then shrugs.

"We felt better if we hanged out with you while playing video games." Bob says, and I smile at him." Can I have some coffee first please?" I ask, and Wade fixes my tangled hair in my face." Sure, let me go make some." Mark says. He leaves the bedroom, and goes out to the kitchen. Bob smiles at me, and goes over to the closet. Mandy had hung my clothes while Mark and I were hanging out in the living room yesterday. I said that she didn't need to do that, but she insisted that she must. Bob takes out a pair of jeans, a gray long sleeved shirt, and black socks." Here you go, why don't you get dressed." He says, and hands me the pile of clothes." Okay, you have to get out of my room first." I tell them, and they nod.

They leave the room while I change, and look at myself in the mirror. My shirt hangs looser on me, and my cheek bones are more prominent. I look thinner, and I'm more paler." Lyca! Your coffee's ready!" Mark shouts, and I look over at the door." Be right out!" I shout back, and look back at the mirror. I pull my shirt up, and look in horror at my waist. My ribs are sticking out, and my stomach is flat. I press my hang against my stomach, and feel my stomach rumble. I've been skinny all my life, it's always been from lack of food. But now I'm severely thin, I've always had a little bit of meat on my bones. But now, I'm just skin and bones. I go out to the kitchen, and see Mark standing there with two cups of coffees.

"Thank you, can I have some food?" I ask, and he looks down at me." Sure, you look kind of thin." He says, and looks around the kitchen. He makes me a bowl of oatmeal and banana slices, with a side of strawberry slices. I eat slowly, and see Mark staring at me." Yes? Can I help you?" I ask him, and he shakes his head." Nothing, I'm just interested in watching you eat. You haven't been eating lately Lyca, I'm kind of worried." He says, and I stare at him as I eat." I've noticed too." I tell him, and eat a big mouth full of strawberries. We look at eat other as I finish eating, and I start drinking my warm coffee. Bob and Wade come up from the basement." What have you guys been doing?" I ask them, turning around in my seat." We set up the computers downstairs, and going to play Gta 5 downstairs. We set up an extra chair for you next to Mark." Wade says. I smile, and Mark looks down at his phone." We'll play for about two hours, then we need to get Lyca some medicine." Mark says, and stands up." Come on Lyca." Bob says, and I walk downstairs behind them. It's really quiet in the basement, so quiet I could hear a pin fall.

The computers are set up in an empty room that has a small window in the top left corner. There are four lamps in each corner of the room, and lights near the monitors to show the boys faces. They sit down at their monitors, and I sit down next to Mark. He works on getting the face cam was working right, then made sure I was on the camera as well." Okay, everyone ready?" Mark asks, and the other two nod. Mark starts recording and does his intro." Okay, so the first part of the video will be Lyca playing my character, and it's just an experiment." He says, and hands me his controller. I move the character a little bit, and figure out how to take the gun out." Okay, what are you doing Lyca?" Mark asks, and I look up at him." Just wait." I say, and he smiles. I run over to Wade's character, and point the gun at him. I shoot him, and he dies." No! I just just bought new car!" He says, and we start laughing. Mark wipes his eyes, and I put his character in new clothes. I put him in skinny jeans, a tight gray T-shirt, and make his hair look like Mark's. I put glasses on him, and Mark smiles." Look, it's me!" He says, and I start laughing.