Fiction of Myself

Chapter Thirteen.

Parker's P.O.V.

Over a week had now passed and I still wasn't allowed to leave my room, or really do anything on my own. Nurses were always in the same room as me. I wasn't even allowed to shower in peace. The bathroom door had to be twenty five percent open at all times in case something happened. My mom got a call from Jessie the day I was fed with the tube and put in this room. She visited everyday dropping off small meals she made at home. I felt beyond horrible for leaving her there alone all by herself, when exactly who knows where my dad was or if he still had it out for her or I. Even if my recovery was fake I had to get out of here, just so she wasn't alone. Along for my own sanity I had missed now over a week of school and every time I checked my grades online I wanted to punch myself in the stomach. I knew school should be the farthest thing from my mind but how could it be when its what the teen generation prides themselves on.

None of my friends had been able to see me, just me, myself and I, well and my mom. I sat up in my bed smiling every morning as the nurse walked in with my pills I had to take daily. I swallowed them and beamed at her. She looked at me in confusion and smiled slightly back. I had taken it upon myself for the past couple days to seem as normal as possible. I took my pills, took the protein shake they gave me everyday, along with the three required meals. Finally at the end of week I was put onto a scale where they weighed me.

"You can step on." Doctor G told me clicking things on a computer.

I braced myself and stepped on praying for a miracle.

"Good." He said as I stepped off.

"How much?" I asked my heart racing now.

"Seven pounds gained, which is enough to get you discharged tomorrow. If your mother agrees you get to go home and back to school starting Monday as today is Saturday." He said giving me a smile and a pat on the back.

"Would it be too much to go out with my friends today? I haven't seen them in so long and, well I promise we'll go out somewhere to eat. Even if I didn't want to they would make me." I pleaded longing to get out of this place into the crisp air where it was now lightly snowing.

"I'll have to ask your mother. But from me it's a yes." He said laughing at my pleading.

I smiled excited to get out of here and said bye to Doctor G as I rushed back to my own hospital bedroom for the first time in forever to be on my own and get dressed in warm clothes. I unpacked what my mom had brought me weeks ago. I shifted through a new sweater and long sleeved t-shirt along with new grey sweatpants. I didn't remember the last time I had gotten new clothes. Happily putting them on I jumped into my bed getting my phone I had sneaked in from underneath my mattress. After texting Ramon I could hang out I sighed in relief to feel somewhat normal again when I got a knock at the door.

"Come in!" I said loudly. The door slowly opened to Veronica standing there.

"Veronica? What are you doing here?" I asked as I remembered I wasn't supposed to have anyone else in my room for the first day besides me and my mom.

"I need help Parker. I can't recover I keep flipping out on my nurses who have cared for me for so long. Even eating fruit or vegetables has become a struggle. I don't know what to do or who to go to that understands what is going on in my mind. No one besides you." She remarked shivering.

"I can try my best to help you, even if I'm not supposed to have visitors, you're an exception." I said getting a spare blanket from the bag my mom brought to wrap it around her. She nodded thankfully as I heard another knock at the door.

"Just a minute!" I yelled in shock.

"Veronica you need to hide." I whispered.

"Where?" She stuttered.