*Tuesday Morning*
Demi's POV
I woke up and Anna was clinging onto me in her sleep. It was so cute and I didn't want to wake her so I just stayed there and watched her while she slept peacefully with her her body hugging onto mine. She started to wake up so I grabbed my phone to check the time. It was already 10:45 a.m. Had we really slept that long? "Good morning sleepy head," I said as Anna opened her eyes. When she realized that she was pretty much on top of me she scooted away.
"Sorry," she said looking embarrassed.
"What did I tell you about apologizing? Now go get ready because we are going out to lunch in a little bit," she got up out of the bed not looking at me and grabbed her stuff to go to the bathroom to get ready. We both take a long time to get ready. When we finished getting ready it was 11:30. I finally got to show Anna around the apartment since she was feeling a little better. She followed me intently while I showed her where everything was. When she saw my piano her eyes lit up. "You can play whenever you want," I said to her as she stared at the piano. She just looked up at my and smiled. Once I was done showing her around we went out to my car and left. We went to a little italian place where I knew there wouldn't be paparazzi.
Anna's POV
Demi took me to an italian place for lunch. Great. I looked over the menu to find something at least halfway healthy. Demi ordered a salad with chicken in it, and a cup of soup. I ended up ordering a cup of minestrone soup. "That's all you're eating?" Demi asked me looking concerned. She used to have an eating disorder so she probably thought I have one or something. I wouldn't call what I have an eating disorder. I'm too fat to have an eating disorder. I thought of an excuse so she wouldn't worry about me.
"Yeah. If you can't remember I just had chemo yesterday and food still doesn't seem very apatizing," I said. It wasn't really an excuse since it was actually pretty true.
"Okay, but after this we're getting Jamba Juice," I nodded and smiled. I liked Jamba Juice because it was really good and how much weight could some fruit and ice blended up make me gain?
Out food came out. I ate all of the juice out of my soup and left the rest. The waitress came and asked if we were finished. Demi looked to see how much I ate and raised one eyebrow at me. She opened her mouth to answer the waitresses question, but I answered for her. "You can take mine. I'm finished," Demi rolled her eyes at me while the waitress took my bowl. Demi said she was finished and then we left.
"What was that about?" Demi asked when we got into the car. I knew exactly what she was thinking.
"I told you I still don't feel great from chemo," I replied. She believed me and drove to the Jamba Juice around the corner. She went in and got our smoothies while I sat in the car. She came out and told me she got me the same thing as yesterday. I sipped on it during the ride to her apartment. When we got to her apartment she left to get her mail. I went over to the piano and started playing one of the songs I wrote.
Demi's POV
Anna had barely eaten anything since she's come home. Of course I got worried about it because of my past and thinking about the stress and everything she's been through. She told me that she just didn't feel good from the chemo so I just let it go. When we got back to my apartment I let Anna in and then I went down to get my mail. When I came back up I heard Anna playing the piano. It was a song I had never heard before, but it was gorgeous. I walked over to the piano after sitting my mail on the counter. I sat down next to her and she jumped then stopped playing. "Oops, I didn't mean to scare you. That was really good! What song was that?" I asked.
"I- uh- um. It's nothing," She stuttered.
"Did you write that?" I asked. She nodded and looked down at her hands. "That's amazing!" I said and she smiled. I left her to go look through my mail and I heard her start playing again. There was an envelope addressed to Anna in the stack of junk mail. The return address was Sony Studios. It was probably her check for winning. I brought it over to her to let her open it. I watched as she carefully opened the envelope and pulled out a check. She looked at the check and smiled.
"Will you help me write a check to the children's cancer research fund?" she asked me. I smiled and nodded. A normal 13 year old would go out and buy a whole new wardrobe and a bunch of other stuff and then keep the remaining money. Anna wanted to donate it. She is cancer free now too so it's not like it would benefit her at all to donate it. She has such a big heart and is so selfless. I'm so glad that I decided to foster her. She is such an amazing kid. I helped her write out a check.
"How much do you want to donate?" I asked her.
"All of it," she said confidently.
"Are you sure?" I asked shocked by her response.
"I'm positive. What would I need it for? I have everything I need already. Trust me those kids need it way more than I will ever need it," I could think of so many things that she might want to use it for, but she was right. I mean I could buy her anything she wanted. The kids really do need it more. I pulled her into a hug and kissed her head before finishing writing the check. I looked at her and smiled when I was finished. "What?" she asked.
"Nothing, I'm just really, really proud of you and glad that I have you," I said. She smiled and looked down at her hands again. I pulled her into another hug. I put the check into an envelope and made Anna hold it so I could take a picture of her with it. I tweeted it.
"ddlovato: Sooo proud of my baby girl<3 Children's Cancer Research Fund get ready for a big check!!!
pic.twitter.com/Tlj82fbL"
I went and put the check in the mail. On the way back up to my apartment I thought of something. Why don't I do a live stream with Anna? My lovatics had been begging me to do one for forever. "Hey Anna, do you wanna do a live stream with me?" I said as I walked through the door into my apartment.
"Sure," she replied so I got out my laptop and tweeted about it and then got the live stream set up. A ton of questions started coming in. I answered some and Anna just sat there watching all the comments come in. There was some hate. There were some questions coming in for Anna.
"Anna why don't you answer some now?" I said looking at her. A ton of questions came in for her. I saw her look at some of the questions. I could tell she didn't know which ones to answer. "Here what about this one. 'What's it like living with Demi?'" I smirked and she rolled her eyes at me.
"It's terrible. She is really stuck up and controlling," she said trying to keep a straight face. She was terrible at lying. I faked an offended expression. "I'm kidding. She's amazing. I've only been here a couple days, but so far it's been really great,"
"Well besides you being either sick or in pain the whole time," I added and she rolled her eyes at me again. I put my arm around her and gave her a side hug earning a ton of awe's in the comments. "Answer that one," I said pointing to a question about when Anna was going to make new music.
"I told you she's controlling," Anna said before reading the question. I stuck my tongue out at her. "And she's actually 5, not 21," Anna added and I rolled my eyes at her. She read the question and her eyes lit up. You could tell she really had a passion for music. "Well I haven't gotten to figure out when I'm going to be able to record anything, but I have a ton of songs written that I might be able to use on an album, so we'll see," Anna said. I didn't know she had songs written. I mean I heard her play that one on the piano, but I didn't know she actually had complete songs written.
"Wait, hold on. Since when do you have songs written?" I turned to Anna.
"Um well you see, I have this song book that is pretty much filled with songs I've written over the last few years," she said.
"And why do I not know about this?"
"I don't know, I'll go get it if you want me to," she said and I nodded. Now I was really curious. She got off the couch to run to her room. She tripped and fell when she was behind the couch right in the view of the web cam. "Oh my God are you okay?" I asked while throwing my head back, laughing. She stood up.
"Just dandy," she said before going to her room to get her song book. I put my hand over my mouth and kept laughing. I read a comment in the chat box thing that made me laugh harder. 'Demi's already rubbed off on her.' Anna came back with a torn up book that was completely filled with songs. Like there had to be around 100 songs in it. I went to grab it from her, but she pulled it away. "Who said I was gonna let you look at them?" she said.
"Pwease," I said giving her a puppy dog face. She shot me a look letting me know that she was serious. "Fine," I said pulling her into me. "Personal?" I whispered in her ear so the people watching us couldn't hear. She nodded focusing on the comments coming in. "When you're ready to share I want to hear them," I whispered to her and then started answering more questions. I noticed Anna seemed distant. Then I realized why. There was a ton of hate coming in. Anna got up. "Where are you going?" I asked confused.
"Bathroom," she said not even bothering to look at me. She grabbed her song book and left. I took the chance to shade the people who were hating on Anna and then I ended the live stream. Anna had been in the bathroom for a while so I went to check on her. I knocked on the door. "Anna, are you okay?" I asked. I heard sniffling.
Anna's POV
There was so much hate coming in directed at me and it was all true. I felt the urge to cut come. I ignored it for as long as I could, but I couldn't fight it anymore. I got up and went to the bathroom. I pulled out my razor and started slicing at my hips. A little bit later there was a knock on the door. "Anna, are you okay?" I collapsed into sobs at the sound of Demi's voice. She would be so disappointed if she found out what I did to myself.
"I'm fine," I managed to get out.
"I can hear you crying, please unlock the door,"
"Demi, please. I just want to be alone,"
"Anna, unlock the door now or else I'm going to kick it in," she sounded mad so I cleaned up the evidence and opened the door. As soon as I opened the door Demi tackled me with a hug.
"Oh my God, you were starting to scare me!" Demi said as she hugged. "Don't listen to the hate baby girl, they don't really mean it," she said still hugging me. She was wrong they meant it and it was true. I started sobbing again and pulled away from the hug. "Talk to me Anna," she said looking at me straight in the eyes.
"I'm sorry, I'm fine. Please just leave me alone. I don't feel like talking," I said and ran around her to my room and shut the door. I collapsed onto my bed and cried. I heard Demi open the door. "Go away! I said I didn't wanna talk," she didn't listen.
Demi's POV
I had never seen Anna this angry and upset. I really wanted her to talk to me, but I didn't want to force her. I followed her to her room and she shut the door in my face. A minute later I opened it. "Go away! I said I didn't wanna talk," Anna yelled. She was curled up in a ball on her bed sobbing. I went over and laid down with her. She tried to get away, but I held her close so she couldn't. I glanced down at her wrists just to check. I guess I'm just paranoid because I don't want her to end up like how I used to be. Thankfully there weren't any cuts.
"Anna, listen to me. I'm not going to make you talk, but please know that you can come to me with anything and I'll listen. You can trust me. I promise," I said and she turned to face me and buried her head into my chest to cry. I wiped away her tears and held her close listening to her sobbing which broke my heart.
A/N
Sorry it's sappy. I just don't want to make it boring and I don't really want too much like drama or anything yet. I'm working my way up to a couple climaxes in the story. Theres going to be some filer chapters and time skips in the next few chapters. I'm getting close to 1k reads! Let's see if we can get it to 1k by the time I get back Sunday night!