Remmington's School for Troubled Teens

Chapter 14

The photo above is what Scarlett's body looks like. Not what her face or hair looks like. She is 5'2" and extremely underweight. This can be used as a reference as you read further down the chapter. In no way, shape or form am I pro-ana! I want to stress that. But Scarlett is anorexic and that is important to the story. 

Luke's POV

Coffee. That was all that I wanted in that moment. I was exhausted to the utmost degree and could barely stand anymore.

I ran down the stairs, almost falling about seven different times, grabbed a mug, pushed the button and waited for what seemed like hours. 

"Rough night, I'm assuming." I jumped and turned around to see Clay sipping on his own coffee, sitting at the table also eating a chocolate bagel. 

"Crap, Clay. You scared me. Have you been there the whole time?" I stared at him, waiting for an answer.

"Yea. And I was reading the comics in the newspaper and laughing really loudly. You were just too in your own world to notice."

"Oh. Well, where is everyone else. And why are you dressed? It's Saturday." Clay was dressed in jeans and a light blue unbuttoned tee shirt at 10:47 in the morning. When he would usually be sleeping until 1:30 in the afternoon. 

"Everyone else is getting ready, just like you and Scarlett should be doing. We have group today unfortunately. It's been a month already."

I groaned. No one liked group. We had group therapy once a month every month with all of our house mates. That's part of the reason we all knew each others secrets and trusted each other so much. 

It was painful for everyone the first few times. But after a while it was still a pain, but tolerable. It was a two hours session where they tried to get us to be open with each other. Everyone's first group was terrible. Ashley cussed everyone out and screamed. And Nikole sobbed the entire time.

I remember Kace punched the therapist and was almost sent out of the school for doing so. Caden didn't talk for three months after his first session and Clay overdosed on Xanax after his. Me. I tried to kill myself. It was hard enough that I had killed my sister but the thing we did after made everything ten times worse. I hung myself. But before I was completely gone, Kace found me. He took me down and called 9-1-1. After that incident I had to be on close watch for about six months. And that was when I started doing drugs everyday and there wasn't a time where I wasn't high. I was doing drugs before but not as seriously as I was after I tried to kill myself. 

And then I overdosed on cocaine after about a two year period of doing drugs. Then they put me in the rehab center part of the school and counseled me everyday. For five months. I got out in July. And I have been proudly clean from drugs for seven months. 

I can only imagine how Scarlett is going to take this...

"Group starts at 11:30. So you should probably start getting ready." Caden said as everyone started walking down the stairs.

"You look like hell, Luke." Ashley spoke as they all approached Clay and I.

"Yea, well I feel like it too. Scarlett won't be getting up anytime soon either, so I don't know what we're going to do about that." I picked up my coffee cup and practically chugged the whole cup. The scolding sensation waking me up more than the caffeine itself. 

"We heard her screaming all through the night. How'd that go for you?" Kace said as he began making his own coffee. 

"I just felt really bad. The things she was screaming were-"

"You might want to shut up, Luke, because if Scarlett hears you saying you pity her in any way, you're going to get slapped." Faye interrupted me as she walked down the stairs. Everyone turned around and looked at her. She also looked extremely tired.