SHATTERED HEARTS

Eight - Normalcy

Third persons POV.

Looking at Katherine lying down there Scarlet sighed before raking a hand through her curly hair. She had been worried about Katherine ever since she started giving off the cold shoulder and distant looks. But she was yet to figure out what was wrong with her best friend. But it seemed like things only kept getting worse. Just today she had walked in from doing her chores when she had the heaving and she was about to go inside and have a look but then thought otherwise after recalling the fact that Katherine hated that. She hesitated for a while and when she couldn't take it any longer she walked inside the tiny combined bathroom only to meet Katherine walking out as she was struggling to even walk.

And in the next two seconds Katherine came crumbling to the floor Scarlet ended up yelling for Anita since she had no idea what to do as she helped Katherine of the floor. Anita had walked in minutes later with a little girl by her side who had gone to call her after Scarlet kept shouting for someone to get Anita. And now Anita was in there discussing a few things with the doctor she had called in a while earlier on.

After a few pokes the doctor walked Anita out before relating to her that she wanted to carry a blood sample, a cotton swab and do some more test then she would be back in a while until then the girl was to be in a glucose drip. She was extremely malnourished from what she could pick up. She also had bruises along her neck and nail marks on her arms.

At first the doctor had thought she had suffered abuse but after enquiring a from Anita and scarlet that never came up only the fact that she had severe nightmares which would explain why she had scratch marks since according to her room mate she would wake up while thrashing around. The bruises from her neck could also be from the nightmares, they were not deep and were barely visible or she could have other issues as well. She checked her body for more bruising she found a few on the side of her stomach. If this were also caused by the nightmares then Katherine was a threat to herself and her room mate.

No one knew what she would do when she had some other nightmare. And this nightmares seemed severe, which also raised the question of is she had always had them or they just started and if they just started what triggered them. But before that she had to have a clear diagnosis to determine whether the bruises were self inflicted or it could be a symptom of a more sever illness. Add the continuous vomiting to the list.

After all this conclusions the doctor had decided to have the test carried out which shed carry the specimens with her then be back with the results which Anita agreed before walking the doctor out .

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A while latter on Katherine came to, to several voices in her room and once her eyes flew open and she looked around her looking for the source of the noise but it was gone all to soon before she could make sense of where the noise was coming from.

Just then her eyes flew to the uncomfortable thing in her hand and thats when she noticed she was on a drip and it was damn uncomfortable she wanted it off and as she went to take it off a hand held hers back and thats when her eyes decided to have a feed on the owner's hand only to fine several other pair of eyes looking at her. Katherine's eyes flew from each on of them to the next, from scarlet to Anita, to the lady beside her and towards Becky, who was also a caregiver in the orphanage and she wondered what Becky was doing in there well the question was why what all of them were doing here and standing over her. Well that question didn't last long before Becky broke the silence.

"Who is it Katherine?" Becky questioned and Katherine gave her a dumbfounded look not understanding what Becky was going on about.

"Don't play dumb Katherine, who is the father?" Becky questioned with a venomous tone and once again Katherine's dumfounded look mirrored in her face. And Anita hissed at Becky and she just shrugged annoyed.

"Why are you getting mad at me I'm not the one who broke the rules." Becky retorted back and Anita gave her the consistent annoyed look making the latter huff in annoyance before leaving the tiny room. Katherine looked onto the side wondering what all this conversation had to do with her. Couldn't they have it anywhere else. She felt irritated by their presence, them hovering over her and this thing in her arm wasn't making matters any easier.

The person that hand held her hand had lessened the hold on her so she was able to snatch her arm of and took of the irritating thing from her arm and sighed in relief. But a jolt of pain flew from her head but oddly enough the pain elicited another feeling deep inside her.

A feeling that thrilled her and brought something with it, a calmness she hadn't had in ages. Never in her life had she thought that pain inflicted could make her feel this better. Seeing the blood dripping down her arm added to the calmness within her. And she welcomed it.

When somebody tried to patch it up she had snatched her hand away glad that she had the strength to do so. She couldn't let this lady take even this away from her. She had just discovered something that was anything but miserable and she enjoyed it so how could she let the lady snatch this from her too. She couldn't she snatched her hand and wouldn't let the lady anywhere near her arm that she kept trying to reach. She could see the lady talking but didnt hear a thing all her attention had been on that little pain she felt and the blood drops that left her arm and fighting off the lady who threatened to take away her new found peace.

This pain wasn't inflicted by anybody else but her maybe that was it or it had reached a point where she had too much pain in her life that she grew customed to it and going days without a dosage of it and then all of a sudden experience tiny bit of it gave her normalcy. She had no idea and didnt have time to figure it out as she felt a pinch in her skin and seconds later her eyes were droopy again and they closed on their own accord and she had on a little smile on her face.

That smile had tugged at Scarlett's heart. How did they get here. She had seen how those eyes that held nothing in them had for a moment flashed with a bit of joy. One that she knew all too well. That was her a few years back. Every cut she made on herself, how a certain peace had engulfed her and that smile had been hers everytime infront of a mirror as she looked at the aftermath of her cuts. Used to be elated by her work of art on herself. If she was honest with herself sometimes she was still tempted and she had given in some months ago. It gave her some kind of anchor. Was that it. Was her hell hole now her best friends.

Topping that fact with the lab reports s**t just went down hill if it wasn't already down. She didnt know what to feel, be mad, angry, pity or try being supportive. All this made her feel drained. For a moment she was tempted to look for her little box. Then shed have other feelings other than all this. But everyone was here and she couldn't. She wanted to shout, but the person she wished to shout at didnt even give a care to the world. Its like her body was here but her mind was in a land of its own. All this was frustrating her all the more and driving her insane.

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A/N

Sorry guys took forever to update, been away dealing with something am still dealing with it but more updates will be up.

I'll try updating three times a week if not two times.

my apologies once again.

love you all..