Adopted

Clean

I wake up, naked, with someone holding my head above water. I'm in the tub, and when Avril notices I'm awake, she walks over to the tubside. "Hey, how long have you been hiding your scars now?"

I try to speak, it sounds like this, "Fo li toe mons."

"We were gonna find out sooner or later, you know that right???" "Mmmmmmhmmmmmmmm."

"Okay, so, that fashion statement of yours, was to cover all this up." I nod, and in the process, almost drown. But luckily, Gee fishes my head out before I run out of air.

"Don't look at me." I say to no one in particular.

"Can we atleast get you dressed fisrt?" They both ask this at the same time.

"I guess." I wish I was strong enough to dress myself, and do my own bandages.

Gerard helps me sit up. Then he pulls the plug to the tub. He grabs the towel Avril is handing to him and carefully brings his arm down to his side. " Avril, come over here and hold her back up. Hayden, this may sting a little bit." Avril walks over and holds up my back. Gerard cautiously moves in front of me. He starts drying me off, trying as hard as he can to only look at my face, my eyes mostly. Then he hands the towel to Avril. My top half is dry, finally. Gee gets up and walks over to the gauze, and comes back with it. He starts to wrap up the injuries that he can see. He says, "Give me your left hand Hayden." I obey. After that he helps me stand up, keeping his eyes on mine. "Avril, dry her off the rest of the way." She does as told, trying to only look at my feet. He doesn't let go of my hand. When I'm dry, Gerard wraps up the rest of my injuries. I still can't feel my foot, and Avril has to hold my hand so I don't fall over. He says, "All done wrapping you up, but you need different clothes than what Mikey brought, your injuries are worse than we originally thought. Mikey!!!"

"Yeah, what now.", he tries to come in but Gee blocks him.

"Go get a pair of boxers and a sleepshirt."

"You already have clothes on."

"Hayden can't wear what you brought in. Sorry, but her injuries are pretty severe, the worst yet."

"Be back in a sec." With that Mikey runs off to do as told. "Where's my hair? Why can't I feel it on my shoulders, not even my neck?!?!? I look in the mirror, I can't even recognize myself. My hair looks like, like, Gerard's in "Welcome To The Black Parade", except its, its, orange! It looks AWFUL!!!" When I finally stop my mental rampage, I realize that I'm out of the tub, but in the air. Gerard sets me down carefully, and Avril takes the boxers and sleepshirt from Mikey.

"Hayden, lift your left leg, okay back down now. Right leg up, back down." Gee guides me through getting the boxers on. Avril finishes pulling them up for me. The shirt is so big, that all they have to do is drop it over my head, then pull my arms out. "There you go, all clean and dressed." Gerard sticks his head out of the bathroom after he says this. Then Mikey and Frank come in.