27 Days~ A Lams Fanfiction

Chapter 3

💛Peggy's POV💛

"He's being roomed in your room." I say to John.

"Yeah." He says, looking away.

"You like him, don't you?"

"What! That's ridiculous, I just met him!"

"You don't believe in love at first sight?"

"I need to go see if Alex is situated.." John says trailing off.

You see, I know my best friend like I know my own mind. You will ever find anyone as trusting or as kind. So I know when John has a crush on someone.

❤️John's POV❤️

I walk out of Peggy's room and to mine. I walk in to see Alex sitting on the top bunk looking through one of his suitcases.

"Hi." I say, walking over to my bottom bunk.

"Hey." He said without looking at me. He looked down to see me about a minute later. "What's the bracelet for?"

I look down at my wrist. Everyone wears either a yellow, green, or red bracelet. Mine was red, so was Veronica's and Maria's. Peggy, Herc, and Laf had yellow. No one had green.

"Just our eating stages. Red means they're not getting to you, therefore you're getting your way. Yellow is they're starting to get on you. Green is you're better, they're just keeping you here for a bit to make sure you're okay." I explain.

"Is anyone here green?" Alex asks.

"No, and no one wants to be. Kind of. But maybe you do, I don't know."

"Oh no, I'm not eating whatever they serve here."

"Good luck." I say, plopping down on the bottom bunk.

A few minutes of silence pass. It was comfortable, but I wanted it to end.

"So, Alex, tell me some things about you." I say.

"Well, I came here from St. Croix, I'm super bisexual, and I enjoy writing."

"Nice. If you wanna know more about me, I came here from South Carolina, I'm super gay, and I love turtles."

"Nice. Good to know you aren't a homophobe."

"Oh, no. I'm the opposite." I said. I took a shaky deep breath and said, "Why exactly do you not want to get better?"

"I don't know if I can trust you, but here I go. In 27 days is the 3 year anniversary of my cousin's suicide." His voice turns to a whisper and he climbs down the ladder to the top bunk and sits by me on my bed. "I'm starving myself so that I can also die on that exact day."

I just tilt my head and stare at him. "Oh Alexander- that's what I assume 'Alex' stands for- I don't know if that's going to work." I say softly.

He opens his mouth to say something, but just then Mr. Washington opens our door slowly. He was a very kind guy, he didn't treat us like kids like Mrs. Washington- his wife- did.

"Dinner time, boys."

"Yes, George!" I say with a smile.

We follow him out to the 'cafeteria', and on the way Alex whispers "Are you actually that enthusiastic about dinner?"

"No, but you have to pretend to be happy so that they don't know you're giving food to the only person here who actually wants to get better." I whisper back.

"Who's that?" Alex asks.

"Veronica."

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