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9.

After a few days in that hospital and Addison and Maddie coming to visit every day the day where I had to leave the hospital finally arrived. I started packing my stuff while Maddie was looking at me from the other side of the room. "I'm sorry for not being there for you, maybe if I saw what was happening you wouldn't be like this." She said feeling very guilty. "No Madelyn." I said as I walked closer to her. "You don't get to apologize for something you didn't do. It was my decision to do what I did. The responsibility lands on me and only me." I said looking at her. Her eyes had turned watery like she wanted to cry but was holding it in. She gave me a hug and I hugged her back.

We arrived to the Smith's house. It was big and had a very rustic look to it. We waited on the front door and saw a blonde woman in her mid 40s open the door for us. She had a very fine looking face and deep hazel eyes. "Hi I'm Chelsea! You should be valerie." She said looking at me. Her voice was very warm and sweet. "Yes that's me." I said with a smile. "Thank you for trusting us with her." She said looking to my parents. "Come on in darling." She continued, this time looking at me as she guided me inside her house.

I followed her as she continued guiding me towards the room I was going to be staying in. "Okay honey this is where you'll be staying. Let me tell you the rules, okay?" She said kindly with a smile on her face. "Okay." I agreed. "Okay first thing, no drugs of course. Second, no phones. Third, this is your house darling. You can use whatever you want, there's always food in the fridge. You can use the pool, or anything in this house. Judah comes back from work at 6pm but I will be giving you my full attention. We have cameras in every door, just in case. I trust you tho." She said smiling and helping me unpack. "This is so sweet of you. Thank you for this opportunity." I said with a soft smile on my face as I continued to fold my clothes. "That's no problem for us. We're happy to help. I think you might've heard about Justin too." She said expecting a yes from me. And indeed I had heard from it. "Well his case was little harder and more complicated. Nothing God can't solve of course." She said still helping me placing my folded clothes into the closet's cabinets. "Yeah I've heard." I said. "I'm sure you will do this in a short period of time. Oh by the way, Justin and Hailey want to come visit on Friday, is it okay with you?" She asked with a soft tone in her voice. "Yes, it's fine, I'd like to have some company." I said smiling.

The next day I woke up about ten in the morning and went downstairs to the kitchen. I wanted to get high again. I felt like I needed it. I entered to the kitchen room and saw Judah taking a cup of coffee. "Hey Val! How did you sleep?" He asked, he seemed like a very lovingly person. I immediately trusted him. "I slept good, thank you for everything I don't even know how to start thanking you." I expressed my gratitude towards them. They're doing a lot by accepting a stranger into their house and recover them from drugs. "It's our pleasure Val. I think Chelsea forgot to mention but you will have sort of a schedule for some activities. Is it cool with you?" I wasn't aware that I was going to have a schedule but it didn't bother me either. One thing I knew is that I didn't want to die because of an overdose. "Yes of course, how will it be?" I asked intrigued of how my following months we're going to be like. "Okay so, everyday you have the morning completely free. You can get in the pool, relax, whatever you want. At 3pm you will have yoga lessons with a trusted friend of us, her name is Pia. At 6pm that I arrive from work we will have some conversations guided more towards God and battling addictions. Every night we will eat dinner altogether, the three of us. Every Monday in the morning one family member can come to visit you. You can use the gym whenever you want, we highly recommend you to use it, just let us know when to call the personal trainer. Finally, every Friday night, Justin and Hailey Bieber have specially requested that they want to come and hang out, sing some songs, eat something, watch a movie. That'd be all for now." He said smiling and taking another sip of his coffee. I am very honored that all of a sudden Justin and Hailey want to come over to be with me. It's really sweet from them.

I ate breakfast and went to the gym built inside the house. The personal trainer gave me my exercises and I started working out. I haven't worked out since I went to the hospital and I forgot how good it feels. I finished doing all of the work I had to do in the gym and went straight to take a shower. I let the warm water run through my skin as I listened to some Taylor Swift music from the mini music player Chelsea had left for me in the room. I started thinking about my whole existence and life. Why did it all go south when it was apparently going good?

I went out of the shower and looked at the clock 2:50. Shit I needed to get ready for the yoga lessons. I changed into some exercise clothes and ran down the stairs. I saw a tall brunette and really gorgeous woman standing in the living room talking to Chelsea. "Oh hey there!" She said in a high pitched voice. "Valerie this is pia, she'll teach you some yoga." Chelsea said in a much more relaxing voice than the one I've heard before. "Hey! Nice to meet you." I said giving her my hand but instead she gave me a hug.

"So tell me about you." She said as we carried our yoga mats to the garden of the Smith house. "Well I just turned 17, actually I almost die on my birthday." I said trying to sound sarcastic. "Oh I'm sorry." She said looking at me. "No it's fine, I'm from Norwalk Connecticut. I'm a model." I said and stopped to unfold my yoga mat placing it in the grass. "That's nice to know. Let's rock this shit now." She said and she started teaching me the weirdest yoga positions.