Becoming Bone (ON HOLD TO REWRITE)

Chapter 12

Jace's Pov.

When I woke up this morning I wanted to do the exact opposite. I could easily lie in bed all day if I was allowed to. But I'm not, so I force myself up. Last night I woke up all an unholy hour because I was cramping. I was in so much pain. 

Eventually someone came in to check on me and gave me some pain killers. They didn't help very much but I'll take what I can get. This all resulted in me getting very little sleep. And now I breakfast. Breakfast is not something that I'm looking forward to, but nonetheless I trudge downstairs. I take my usual seat and wait for my tray. 

I figured that I would start out small by simply eating a little less. They can't really compare it to my eating habits before I was tubed since I barely ate, hence the reason I got the feeding tube. Will was the only one at the table right now but slowly the table filled up with the other boys. Oliver sat next to me as usual. 

We both, well actually all the boys, ate about 3/4ths of our meal. Weird coincidence . I'll start out with 3/4ths then half and I'll have to resort to hiding food in my sleeves. Even though they watch us eat, I bet I could do it. The nurse doesn't watch us the whole time. She leaves for about five minutes at some point and then comes back. 

Sneaking food isn't that hard. Granted, I've never done it in treatment, but I have at dinners where I was watched closely. But the only problem was I'm not just hiding it from the nurse, but the other boys too. 

Expeccially Oliver. He can't know no matter what. I don't want to set him back. He's doing so good and I don't want my problems to affect him. I may be going down but I don't want to drag him down with me.

Oliver's Pov.

At breakfast I could tell something was wrong with Jace. he ate and everything but the was just something off about him. I wanted to ask him but I didn't want to be annoying. I

'll just ask him later in the room. But right now it was time for group. We all made our way into the living room and took our seats on the couch, me and Jace next to each other of course. Carol came in with a smile and took her seat.

"Well, let's get started." she say. "Who wants to go first?" slowly Julian raised his hand.

"Me, I guess." he says unsurely.

"Okay, how'd you're visit go yesterday?" she asks him.

"It was okay. They were happy that I'm doing good but were mad that I wasn't better yet. They yelled at me a little but they apologized for it afterwards. They brought me a cupcake that my little sister made, so I ate that. I love my sister so I she made me something, I'll eat it. I always have." he tells her.

"Why didn't she come to visit?" Carol asks.

"My parents don't want her to be in an environment like this. With 'sick' people, as they say. But it's okay. I still get to call and write her." he says.

"That's good. How are you today?" she asks.

"Pretty good. I might get to go on an outing soon, so that's great." he says. Carol smiles at him.

"Good for you. Anything else you want to talk about?" she checks and he says no. then she moves on, going around the circle.

"Okay, Miles." she begins, "How was your visit yesterday?"

"Not very good. Dad was having one of his bad days so it was filled with him mostly insulting me. He started saying things about everyone here so I had him leave." he tells her.