He is all I've got [NovaHD]

Where Am I? ~ Chapter 1

"Ugh where the fuck am I?" I look around seeing only white walls, the room is completely empty, nothing on the walls, only a tightly locked window in the middle of the back wall. I man walks into the room with light-ish brown shaggy hair, dressed in apparel that made him seemingly blend into the walls. "Oh, you're finally awake again" I look at him very confused as to what he was speaking of, he comes to sit on the side of the snow white bed. "I can tell that you are confused, so ask me any questions that you may have, and I will answer them as best that I can." "Where am I?" "You are at the Colorado Mental Health Institute." "What?! Why am I here??" "Do you not remember anything?" I shake my head, "You tried to severely hurt yourself" "What is that supposed to mean?" "You tried to kill yourself Mr. Marchant." I start to think but it just causes my already terrible headache to get much worse "Ugh" I go to put my hand to my head when I see my wrist that is thoroughly bandaged. "I did this?" "Yes." "Did I do anything else?" "The doctors had to pump your stomach. You took a great deal of medication that were prescribed to you by your physician with alcohol to back it up. Would you like something to eat?" "Does that mean I can leave this room?" "Yes it does." "Then, definitely"

He gets up and helps me up from the bed, and we walk to the dining hall with him basically carrying me, where many people stop and stare at me. "Why are they staring at me?... What is your name by the way?" "They are looking at you for a few reasons, those being that they know why you are here, you are new, and they know no better than to look at you, also my name is Jake." "Well Jake, I can walk now you don't have to help me, although I would like it if you could stay with me so that I am not completely alone." "I thoroughly apologize, but I cannot stay with you Mr. Marchant I have other patients to attend to, but I will help you find others whom I feel that you would be able to establish a friendship with." "Alright..." I got my food and made my way following Jake to a table with five other guys at it. "Hey guys, this is Aleksandr he is new around here, so be nice." Jake walks out of the dining hall, going to see other patients. "What is he even talking about? We are always nice." He smirks "Hey Aleksandr, come on sit down" "Please, call me Aleks." "Alright Aleks, I'm James" James has nice dark brown eyes a few shades darker than my own, almost completely black hair, and a longer-ish beard that was about the same color. "I'm Trevor." A guy with about the same color hair as myself, that was a bit bigger than the rest said. "I'm Joe" A very small guy with pretty long hair said. "That's Aron, he doesn't like talking to new people very often." James said talking about a smaller asian guy sitting with his knees up to his chest rocking back and forth in the seat. "And I'm Brett." I larger built older guy with a smaller beard said. "Nice to meet all of you... Why are you all in here?" "Tip, don't ask that question to anyone in here besides us, they won't necessarily take it well." James says "I was admitted for my Paranoia and Bipolar disorder" Brett admitted. "I am being treated for Bulimia" Joe admitted "I have Panic Disorder and Post traumatic stress disorder." Trevor says. I wasn't going to even go there with Aron, when he is ready he will tell me most likely, but then there was James who surprised me fully when he just stood up with tear filled eyes and runs away. "Should I go see what's wrong" I wondered "No. Don't. That isn't going to help him right now just let him get it out." "If you say so..." I finish eating, so I put up my tray and go back to my room.

On the way to my room I saw James sitting in a ball on the wall. I sat down beside him not touching him or anything just sitting beside him. "What are you doing?" He turns his head towards me and I see his tear stained face clearly. It makes my heart sink to the bottom of chest. "What happened? Was it something I said?" "It was nothing Aleks. I just... It's just in my head." He leaned against me and I put my arm around him to show him that I did care about what he was going through, even though I didn't really know what had happened. We were sitting there for what it seemed like hours when Jake was going down our hall and saw us telling us that we had to be in our rooms, even in spite of James' pleads. I walked to my room as Jake had told me. I sat on my bed for a little while thinking everything over as best I could with the still very large headache pounding throughout my head. Jake opens the door and comes to sit beside me on the bed, "So, how was your first day awake and well?" "It was all good and well even though it wasn't much of a day seeing as I didn't wake up until what it seemed like was about 4:00." "Did you make friends with the guys?" "Yeah I did for the most part..." "Oh don't worry about Aron he is always distant at first." "...How come you were calling me Mr. Marchant when you call other people by their first name?" "It is mandatory for the first day for our patients." "Why is that?" "So we can get a feel for how you will react to other staff calling you by that name, if we see that you don't particularly like that name, that being you we will stop calling you that name and alert other staff about that, while someone like Mrs. Rose, whom you will meet very soon I bet, would not like to be called by her first name, which we alert staff about as well." "Oh, well, I guess that is a pretty good system." "I think so aswell, well you should get to bed Aleks. Goodnight" "Goodnight Jake." I lay down, and try to sleep for the time being.

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