Stigma

Patient one: Park Jimin

Jimin could feel the tears slide down his cheeks. He stared at the half eaten plate in front of him, he could feel himself growing fatter any minute. He hated it.

He hated this place, he hated the doctors, he hated how they forced him to eat. Could they not see how fat and ugly he was?! If only they'd let him do what he wanted, if only they hadn't destroyed his hard work! He had almost reached his goals!

But now, this place was destroying all he had worked for. Ever since he came here he has been gaining weight. He weighed 50 kg (around 110,23 lbs) two days ago! 50! Meaning he had gained around 10 kg (22,05 lbs) since he arrived here, and he had almost reached his goal! He had almost been skinny! Just 6 more kg to go (13,23 lbs) and he would've finally been skinny! He would finally look good.

But they'd destroyed it. He could practically see himself growing fatter with each bite.

More tears began sliding down his cheeks, he could not do this.

"Jimin-ah, you know that you can't leave the table until you've eaten everything that's on your plate right?" the nurse told him, Jimin just nodded. Those were the rules, no one could leave the table until everything on their plate was gone, if you refused to eat there would be consequences for the entire group. Meaning that everyone on the eating disorder department would probably get less visiting time.

Jimin enhaled deeply before beginning to eat again. Every bite was a fight, he could hear this voice in the back of his head saying:

"Stop eating! You're already fat enough you pig! No wonder no one likes you! You're so ugly. Don't you know how much calories are inside that dish? 875 Kcal, that's how much! Do you know what happens when you eat that? You'll grow fat again! I just want to help you, you'll be beautiful once again, just please, listen to me."

Jimin closed his eyes, he needed to ignore the voice, it was not like the voice was telling him anything new any way, he already knew that everything it said was the truth.

"Miss, I'm ready" Jimin said while pushing his plate away from him.

"Okay, you can leave the table" she said after she checked his plate to see if he ate everything on it. Normally she would walk him to the hall where eveyrone could socialise but recently a new patient joined in the eat disorders group and the doctors had their hands full with him.

"You know where the hall is right? You're allowed to go alone today, a nurse is ill and we have our hands full here, we'll- BAEKHYUN!" the nurse immediately ran to Baekhyun's side, the new boy had been forced to eat and apparently couldn't hold it in anymore and decided to puke into the trashcan.

Most people would be disgusted by seeing someone puke but Jimin, he wasn't, in fact it gave him the urge to do it too. To get everything that they had forced into his body out of his system.

"Do it!"

It was the voice again. Jimin closed his eyes and inhaled deeply trying to ignore the urge to puke. "I'm going then" Jimin yelled before quickly leaving the room.

*Tiny time skip brought to you by smol mochi*

"Jiminie pabo!" Jimin heard an annoying voice, it was the fetus of their little gang, Jungkook. "Damn you brat! I was born in Busan first! Have some respect for your elder!" Jimin raced after Kookie.

When he passed a trashcan he quickly threw away the paper towel he used a minute ago to wipe off his puke covered fingers.