10 feet apart

not my home but home

"please do not make me go'' I held tightly onto the edge of my bed vibrating with anxiety and fear

''you have to go'' my mother spoke to me crouching down to be eye level with me but not making much contact with me as she reached her arm out to me and began to wrap her hand around my arm and softly began tugging at it making me detach from the bed and collapsing onto the floor in full blown panic and tears rolling down my face feeling my mom slowly rub my back I shut my eyes tightly.

-

" you are going to be ok'' My mother smiled weakly at me as I stood now In a nurses office my parent's were advised to take me to a treatment center to deal with my so called diagnosis of  anorexia or else I was going to die apparently to them but Ana told me I was healthy so I did not believe them.

I watched my mom and my dad walk out of the house and like that I was in a new world I did not know a thing about as I faced the living room I was met with three other people two males and one female I took a seat on a mini sofa wrapping myself up in a blanket as I began to feel my body go numb due to the coldness I felt.

"hey'' a young red haired girl said she stood in front of me and behind her walked one of the two males here she smiled a bit ''Im Kylie and..'' she looked behind her quickly before making eye contact with me again ''That is Leo'' she paused and looked at the table that was behind where I was seated at ''At the table Payton is being an asshole'' I started to get up from my seat letting the blanket behind I analyzed everyone around me.

Kylie was red haired girl about 5'6 she was not underweight but not overweight either she was a perfect balance she wore a black jacket and a grey tee and some athletic shorts.

Leo was about the same except he was about 5'11 and had black wavy hair he wore a red tee and dark blue jeans .

Turning around I took a good look at Payton who was sitting down not letting me see anything but his face and shoulders and a part of his chest he had black hair as well it was straight but styled forward it was a little messy but not horrible either.

the silence of my analysis broke when Kylie began to speak looking at me

''so while we have some time all alone..'' she looked away '' how about you tell us a little about you and we return the favor'' raising an eyebrow at me crossing her arms

''well um I..'' I stuttered a bit

'' you don't have to'' Payton finally spoke his voice seemed groggy and a bit raspy

I looked at him ''It's ok''  before looking at Kylie and Leo who stood in front of me only feet away

she smiled and waved me over before she sat down on the floor

''here I will start it might help ease you'' Leo said to me as he joined me and Kylie on the ground

''Payton are you coming?'' Kylie shouted and he just shook his head making her shrug

LEO POV

''Well I'm Leo and I'm 17 and I have major depression disorder and that's basically why I'm here" he laughed softly I Placed my arms in my lap and took a glance at Kylie smiling a bit "my parents are divorced and my dad blames me for there divorce"
"Used to" Kylie decried to correct me
I nodded "yeah used to we did family therapy here and all that shit so I guess it's not my fault"
Kylie nodded assuring me it was not my fault anymore
"Any ways thanks to my depression I've spent my first month here on a thing called one to one because they thought I would do some To my self or whatever but I finnaly got out of it" I sighed deeply
"I've been here for three months so far and I do think I'll be leaving soon fingers crossed"
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KYLIE POV
"Emily I'll go next but I expect you to return the favor ok ? Ok."
I coughed before starting
"So I'm Emily I'm also 17 I think we all are basically so I have no idea why we're saying all this" I rolled my eyes
"I have bulimia wow what a crazy concept eating disorders ! Who knew those existed!"
I joked I could tell in the corner of my eye Leo was giving me his death stare trying to have me calm down a bit to not offend the new girl but I honestly could not give two shits right now I was peeved at Leo he didn't even mention me in his story.
"I've had this thing for like 2 years now and it completely sucked like I would go to the kitchen at 2am and eat cereal and milk and then we'll go to the 'bathroom' " I paused " friends houses were the worst though because I would feel so guilty about what I was doing and they never found out witch is why it took two years for me to even get here in the first place " I shrugged "but I'm in a better mindset I think"
I looked at Leo "thanks to Leo that is a month ago I was really a reck but he changed that" I smiled a bit the anger that once filled my body just melted away as he smiled back at me I really loved that boy.
"Are you two dating?" Emily blurted
I nodded "yes" I pounced Leo and wrapped my arms around his neck "by the way thou you're not supposed to fall in love with clients here but we're pretty sneaky here so" I giggled and then detached my self from him in case staff decided to walk in.

Emily POV

I took a deep sigh "well I'm Emily as you all seemed to figure"
"And I honestly do not know why I'm here because I think I'm perfectly healthy"
I watched there faces turn just a little pale
As I heard a chair shuffle in the background and then followed by Payton's voice
"that's bullshit by the way Emily" I turned around now seeing him stand right beside me
Payton was wearing a white tee and ripped black skinny jeans he was 6 foot and he looked in ok shape but not exactly healthy either

"No really my parents forced me here because of the stupid hospital" I retorted back to Payton I watched his facial expression carefully and he raised an eyebrow
"yeah and guess what could have possibly sent you to the hospital?"
"because I was under a lot of stress?" I fought back
"No Emily you're fucking sick I see it I see you you're not ok " he basically yelled causing a staff member to check on us all
"Is everything ok?" A young girl with light brown curly hair in a sweater and leggings said peaking through the door
Leo nodded his face a little shocked by Payton's words
"Well Emily let me show you you're room shall we ?" She asked and I nodded getting up from the floor taking one last look at Payton and walking away with the staff.