**AUTHOR'S NOTE**
I am no longer writing this with firewithin sadly. It would take us far too long to get in touch, write, edit, and post new chapters; therefore I found it best for the story, and for you guys, to continue to write this on my own. I wish her the best with her stories and hope she'll still contact me and let me know what she thinks
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Jamie's POV
I knocked on Mikey's door and waited. Once he opened it… he just stared at me. "Can I come in?" I
sort of whispered. He looked me up and down before stepping aside and letting me in. I walked in and sat on the edge of his bed.
"What's up?" He closed the door and curled up on his bed again with the comic book that had been
laying in his spot.
I played with my sleeves and didn't say anything. We probably sat there silently for a good fifteen
minutes. "Did you just miss my company? 'Cause this isn't really exciting."
"Sorry." I pulled my knees closer to my chest and I saw Mikey lower his comic book to look at me. I
stared down at my hands again and felt my face heat up; I didn't like being stared at.
"Alright." Mikey threw his comic book onto his night stand and scooted next to me. He pulled me
into his side and talked into my hair. "What's going on?"
"I need medicine now, Mikey." I curled into myself some more and he hugged me tighter. "I don't
know what-" Mikey kissed me, interrupting my sentence. "Mikey-" I blushed when he started kissing down my neck. "Mikey what-" I stopped talking and blushed more when he started leaving a hickie on my neck. "Mikey." I pushed him off and scooted away a little. "Mikey I'm scared and I don't know what's going on with me."
He frowned and pulled me closer as he spoke. "I was just trying to make you feel better."
"That's not gonna help me, Mikey." I curled into him again and sighed.
"Oh really?" He kissed me again and I made a sound of frustration. He kissed me a few more times
before I smacked him on the back of the head.
"Why are you so fucking horny?" He smiled guilty and opened his mouth to speak. "Actually, I don't
want to know." I got up from his bed and grabbed my board off his desk.
"Jamie." I looked at him and he looked like he was back to normal. "What's going on?"
I looked down and shuffled my feet. "I don't know. I'm stressing out and I can't talk about it." He
frowned and I saw slight anger burn in his eyes. "Mikey… I can't, I'm sorry."
"Why did you come in here then?" Anger leaked from his voice. I frowned and left the room. I just
wanted him to make me feel better, to make me forget about it, but I guess I didn't really give him the chance to do that, I pushed him away when he did actually.
I started rubbing my burned arm through the sleeve again and it started to sting. "Stop… Stop you
need to stop." I whispered to myself and I started to cry when I couldn't.
I started running down the hall screaming. "Gerard!! Gerard!!" He came out of his room with a very
confused face. I plowed into him and latched onto him. "Gerard it hurts!!"
"Jamie, what the hell's going on?" He tried to pull me away from him so he could look me in the face,
but I wouldn't let go. "Jamie!"
"I can't do it anymore! I'm so scared and stressed, they're gonna want to know what happened and I
can't tell them!" I could feel him trying to look down the hallway to make sure no one was around to hear me. "I can't do that Gerard!"
"Jamie you need to stop!" He started walking down the hall with me still latched to him while I was
still screaming. "Jamie, someone is gonna hear you!" I could hear him getting angry with me as I kept screaming. "Jamie!" Suddenly his hand was around my throat and I was pinned to the wall.
My eyes widened as he angrily stared at me. "You need to stop it, otherwise they're going to find
out." A tear slid down my cheek, but I nodded. He started dragging me down the hall again and I kept my mouth shut until we got to the nurse. "She came screaming down the hallway, don't know what's going on." The nurse nodded and left the room. Gerard and I sat down in the chairs.
"Sorry James… I just needed to get you to shut up." I nodded a little and stared at the ground. He
squeezed into the chair with me and hugged me.
"Do you think they're gonna put me on more pills, Gee?"
"Maybe James. I don't know." I nodded and curled into him more.
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Lyla's POV
"Hey Frank?" I walked into his room and he smiled up at me; he had been in the middle of playing
his guitar.
"Hey Lyla, what's up?"
"I just thought I'd stop by so we could walk to lunch together." He smiled and nodded before he put
away his guitar.
"Alright, let's go." Frank smiled at me and offered his arm. I giggled and wrapped my arm with his.
"So have you said anything to Gerard yet?" He blushed a little and shook his head. "Why not?"
He shrugged. "I don't know. I think he's busy with Jamie right now; something's going on with her."
His face contorted with worry as we walked up to get our food.
Jamie's POV
"Hey guys." Frank greeted us and smiled at me before he and Lyla sat down.
"Hey Frank." Gerard replied before he continued to eat. Frank looked over at me and gave me a
concerned look. I looked down at my food and pushed it around with my fork. "Hey Mikes."
"Move." Gerard stood up and Mikey scooted next to me. I felt him stare at me before he started
eating. We all ate in silence for a while until Gerard spoke up.
"Well aren't we a fun bunch today." It was then that I felt someone staring at me. I peaked up through
my bangs to see Lyla staring at me. I raised my eyebrows at her and she blushed and smiled a little before she looked down at her food. I saw Mikey's body language change and I looked over to see that he had his jaw clenched. I looked at him for a few seconds before I leaned over and laid my head on his shoulder. He looked down at me as I wrapped my arms around his torso.
"What are you doing?" I felt everyone look at me as I continued to stare down at the table.
"I'm just leaning on you." I whispered to him. He sat there for a few seconds before he continued to
eat. I looked up when I saw two guys, about my age, standing in the lobby. I sat up and stared more as Nurse Joy talked to them. "New people?"
Gerard looked up from the table for a moment before he pushed his cereal around and spoke. "Yeah,
I forgot to mention that to you, sorry 'bout that." I stood up in the booth and stepped over Mikey, then Gerard, once he sat back, and hopped down to the floor. "Frankie, you wanna come?"
He looked up at me a little surprised, but also happy. "Yeah, sure thing." Frank scooted out of the
booth and turned to Lyla or a second. "You gonna be okay with Gerard and Mikey?"
She smiled a little. "Yeah, I think so." Frank smiled and nodded before we headed out to the lobby.
"Jamie! There you are!"
I smiled and opened my mouth to reply, but I hesitated. Nurse Joy just smiled and waited. I let out a
small, nervous laugh and tried again. "Sorry, Gerard forgot to tell me."
"That's fine, we haven't been waiting long." She smiled to me before turning to the people standing
next to me. One of them had dark curly hair and pale green eyes. He gave a small smile and nodded to me and Frank. The other boy had dark, newly cut, straight hair and stretched ears; he was staring at the ground so I couldn't see his face.
"Jamie, this is Daniel," She motioned towards the boy who was staring at the ground. "And this is…"
"PJ." The boy with curly hair spoke.
"Right. Daniel wanted one of his friends to escort him here, so PJ came with him." I smiled and
nodded. Nurse Joy turned back to the boys before speaking again. "Jamie is here for minor BPD, which is Borderline Personality Disorder." Frank and I smiled at each; he was probably having a déjà vu moment. "She's also a selective mute, right now she's talking though." I smiled at the boys and PJ gave a small smile in return. "Daniel would you like PJ to stay while you're shown the asylum?"
We all looked over at Daniel and he nodded a little with his head still down. PJ looked between Nurse
Joy and I before speaking to Nurse Joy. "Would it be alright if just…" He looked over me as he tried to recall my name.
"Jamie."
He smiled a little as a thanks before continuing. "Would it be alright if Jamie just shows us around…
I… think he might be a little more comfortable that way…." I saw his jaw tighten after asking his question.
I turned my attention to Nurse Joy as she spoke. "That'll be quite alright." She smiled at him before
turning to me and Frank. "Frank, you can go and finish eating with your friends if you'd like… or I could show you the ropes of being a tour guide for new patients?" She smiled at him as his mouth hung open a little.
"Uh, that’s okay, I think I should just leave that job to Jamie." He smiled at me before bowing his
way out.
"Alright Jamie, if you'd like to go on ahead." Nurse Joy smiled at me and the boys. "I'll be around if
you need me for anything, Daniel." She smiled at me one last time before handing me a clip board and heading out back.
I turned to the boys and smiled at them. "Is there anywhere you would like to go first?"
PJ looked down to Daniel and waited for a response. Daniel shook his head. "Anywhere is fine." I
nodded to him and waved ahead of us.
"Right this way." I smiled at them again and we began walking down the hallway. "Down this
hallway are some of the patient rooms; Daniel's is a little further down."
"Uh, he prefers Dan." I looked over at PJ and nodded.
"I think Dan is more suiting… from what I can make of his face that is." I smiled a little, to let him
know I was teasing. PJ laughed just the slightest.
"Dan, why don't you try and talk to her?"
"She's just going to think I'm crazy, like the rest of you." It wasn't until Dan spoke that I realized both
he and PJ had British accents.
PJ looked up at me before speaking. "He and his best mate Phil were driving through town one day
and they got a car crash." I furrowed my eyebrows a little bit. "Dan was driving and Phil uh… didn't make it…" I frowned and noticed Dan turned away from PJ a bit. "Since the crash, Dan's been depressed and… talking to himself. He swears it's Phil he's talking to, that he see's his ghost, but Dan has never believed in ghosts… so…" PJ shrugged a little as his conclusion. I was about to try and say something when PJ cellphone went off.
"Uh, sorry." PJ answered it and sighed after the other person spoke. "Alright." He hung up and
frowned a little. "I forgot I had to go to my parents' house after this. Uh…" He looked down at Dan before he continued to speak. "Will you be alright if I leave?"
"Just get out." Dan pulled away from PJ when he tried to touch his shoulder.
PJ looked over at me and frowned again. "Alright. I'll see you when I can." He turned his attention to
me again. "Look after him please?"
I nodded and he nodded in return before leaving. I looked at Dan before wrapping an arm around him
and starting to walk again. "Come on Dan, let's keep walking."
"You think I'm crazy too, don't you?"
"No." He stopped in his tracks and looked up at me, completely caught off guard, and I could finally
see his face. He was quite attractive with his dark brown eyes and his fringed hair that framed his face perfectly. "I know ghosts exist, my friend Gerard was visited by his ex-girlfriend's ghost after she committed suicide."
He still looked stunned when he spoke. "That's… that's uh.. terrible." I swallowed hard and nodded a
little.
"Not as terrible as what you're-" He returned his gaze to the floor and I frowned, realizing I shouldn't
have said anything. "Sorry." He shook his head, but kept his gaze to the floor still. "Come on, let's keep going." I wrapped my arm around his shoulders again and we began walking down the hallway once more.
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I know what you're probably thinking "Ugh, another new character? You just brought in Lyla." Fear not! I know where I'm going with this new character x) And no! This doesn't mean that I'm going to kill Lyla, there will be no more killings! Anywho, comment and let me know what you guys think!! Thank you so much for your love and support guys!! <33