Mentally in love (Remington Leith)

Chapter Seven

I woke up to the sounds of whispers.

"Can't we just go get food already?" Sebastian asked.

"Well once she wakes up-"Emerson spoke.

"Don't wake her, this is the most sleep she's gotten all week," I heard Remington whisper.

"She looks so peaceful, I'm glad you guys are that close now," I heard Sebastian whisper back.

I didn't feel Remington on my side of the bed anymore, and if I'm being honest...I miss it. It was nice to feel safe for once. I began to open my eyes very slowly, blinking to continue the impression that I was asleep. I began to look around the room only to have my eyes land on Remington.

"Good morning sleeping beauty," Remington shot me a smile. A blush crept across my face causing me to remove my eyes from his. He had beautiful eyes that when the light hit them just right that they just shimmered.

"Hey, come back to us," Remington waved his hand in front of my face. I blinked a couple of times trying to clear my thoughts before making eye contact with him. He held a small smile on his face. God, did he have a nice smile. I smiled back before apologizing. I did this by holding the sign letter A and rotating it clockwize on my chest.

"She apologized," Emerson smiled at me.

"No need to apologize, we were wondering if maybe you wanted to eat in here? Larisa gave us the okay," Sbeatian offered.

"I'm okay, I'm not really hungry. You guys can go without me," I smiled. Remington shot me a concerned look as Emerson translated. I waved him off. The other two boys were just looking at Remington, waiting for him to go along with them.

"Go, We'll look after her," a new voice spoke from the doorway. It was Josh and Tyler.

"I'll be right back," Remington held out his pinkie almost as if he was making a promise. I interlocked our pinkies and watched as he brought a kiss to his thumb. I did the same.

He ruffled my hair as he walked away leaving me with Tyler and Josh. I fixed it to make sure that my eye was still covered.

"Hey, how ya' holding up after...you know,," Josh trailed off earning a slap from Tyler.

"Nice dude, just right off the bat," Tyler subtly glared at Josh making me smile.

"I'm okay. I took a power nap," I signed, looking more at Tyler than Josh.

"I wanna know what she said," Josh pouted.

"She said that you're out of the band," Tyler replied with a straight face.

"How does she even know about the band? Wait, do you mind being called she? What are your pronouns?" Josh asked.

"I am a she," I replied with a smile. Tyler translated it for me.

I pointed to Josh and then pointed to my notebook which was behind him with my feather pen from Emerson gently laying on top of it. He looked at me with a puzzled expression.

"You want the notebook?" He asked. I just nodded my head and opened up my palms to accept it. He handed it to me which made me cross my feet and set it on my lap to get comfortable. The boys took a seat on Remington's bed next to me. My knees were gently resting on both of their laps, it felt nice to have such good friends. Even if I didn't know them for that long, I knew that we were going to become closer. I was already falling in love with these boy's personalities.

"So...not to sound rude, why are you here?" I wrote onto the paper showing them.

"We wanted to make sure that you were okay, we were worried. We had stopped by earlier, but you were asleep with Remi," Josh smiled. Tyler just nodded his head. A blush kissed my cheeks causing them to become red.

"So..what was this about a band?" I wrote down as well.

"Me and Josh are going to be in a band when we get out of here," Tyler explained, his face was very serious.

"We are in a band called Twenty One Pilots, it's not rap or hip hop.." Josh trailed off.

"It's just It's just another attempt to make the voices stop," Tyler looked down, almost like he was distracted. It was almost like he was listening to the voices in his head again. This happened in Cafeteria C earlier.

"Is he always like this?" I wrote.

"Yeah, haha, sometimes," Josh smiled. He rubbed Tyler's back which seemed to make him snap out of it.

"I'm sorry. That happens a lot," Tyler muttered pulling at the back of his hair. His anxiety was being very present to me. I could see the embarrassment and the fear that I would judge him for dealing with the demons in his head. But instead, it was the opposite. I know that we all have our demons. Mine are present everywhere in my life.

I grabbed his hand, interrupting his hand from gripping another piece of his hair. I intertwined our hands. He looked up at me, I just shook my head and gave him a kind smile.

I pointed to him and spelt okay with my free hand.

"I will be okay," He smiled. Josh moved and brought Tyler into a hug.

"Is it blurryface again?' He asked.

"Mhm," Tyler bit his lip. I kept my grip on his hand not understanding fully. Who was Blurryface and why did he matter so much? Was it the name of his demons??

"You're not alone," I wrote in my notebook. The feather tickling my hands. I smiled at the feeling.

"I know, thank you," Tyler smiled at me.

I had the strong urge to hug him, but I didn't want to make him uncomfortable. Within a few more minutes, the other boys had returned.

"We got you food even though you didn't want it," Emerson smiled.

"Thank you.." I trailed off.

Ermerson handed me a plate full of food. Tonight I had spaghetti with garlic bread and some salad for a side. My drink was water, thank god. I began to eat even if I didn't want to.

For the rest of the day, we all hung out in the room and just talked..well for me wrote. But it was nice to see how we all got along. It was almost like we were a family. Sebastian kept mentioning a Daniel? I guess he would be stopping by with the boys tomorrow. There was also something called a Palaye? I didn't understand that, but it turns out to be the boy's band. Then they started making fun of Sebastian for burning potatoes, to him I guess they are fried? I can say that these boys are very funny, and a pleasure to be around. I couldn't tell you how grateful I am for the boys.

"Remington, I had a lot of fun, thank you for introducing me to your family and your friends. And thank you for everything," I wrote to him, and slipped him the note while everyone else was talking. He smiled as he read it.

"Baby doll, call me Rem."