This Idea just popped into my head one night after watching its Kind Of a Funny Story (Which is a GREAT movie by the way!) This isn't really like that movie but it got me thinking about writing a story about teens in some kind of an Institution. Then my cousin started watching Victorious and a light bulb went off in my head! And so now I'm writing this story. I hope you like it!
*MAY BE TRIGGERING*
I do not own Victorious
Patient: Tori Vega
Age: 16
Reason for stay: Cocaine Addition
Patient: Cat Valentine
Age: 15
Reason for stay: Self- harm |
Patient: Jade West
Age: 16
Reason for stay: Bulimia
Patient: Robbie Shapiro
Age: 17
Reason for stay: Schizophrenia
Patient: Andre Harris
Age: 17
Reason for stay: Anger Management
Patient: Beck Oliver
Age: 17
Reason for stay: Attempted Suicide
They were all crazy in their own way.
Tori Vega. She had it all. The young Latina was talented, beautiful, and rich. But, the pressure of Hollywood got to her. You see, Tori Vega was a famous model in L.A. Tori was always invited to clubs to meet photographers. Every party or club seemed to have some kind of drugs. And that's how Tori found her love for cocaine. She knew it was wrong and she knew she shouldn't do it. But the cocaine made her forget about all the pressure. Plus one of the side affects of cocaine was weight loss. Being a model Tori loved this. She actually felt loose and fun. She felt like she was meant to be a model.
Tori's parents soon found out and told her to get clean or they'd make her quit modeling. She tried and tried to stop but she couldn't. Cocaine was the only thing that made her feel like she belonged. Her parents checked her into rehab but it never worked. One night while researching for more rehabs on the internet they came across a website. The website was for a mental institution called Shady Hollows. Shady Hollows was an institution in downtown L.A specifically for teens that had all sorts of patients. Drug addicts, alcoholics, depressed teens, schizos, eating disorders, and even some criminals. Every patient has left there perfectly healthy and happy. And so The Vegas decided that was best for Tori.
Cat Valentine. She was once a girl with such a bright and bubbly personality. Now she was known as the psycho with scars all over her body. Cat also had ADD which made her hyper. She could never sit still. Random things would just pop up in her head and she would blurt them out. If you told her a secret she would probably end up telling the entire world because that's just how her mind works, she can't help it.
Cats' parents got tired of getting phone calls from teachers about their daughter interrupting class or saying something inappropriate. Her parents took her to a doctor. They made her take some test and prescribed her to some meds that would help her control her ADD. Those pills ended up making her worse. She was completely numb. It was like she had no feelings at all. She could never tell if she was happy or sad. Cat just couldn't handle it anymore. She needed some way to express how she felt. Cat had seen shows and movies about girls that had cut themselves. Some girls at her school even cut themselves when they were stressed. The first time she cut, she couldn't believe how good it felt to actually feel something, to feel alive. As long as she cut she wasn't a zombie.
One day before school Cat had woken up. Since she had to go to school she knew she wouldn't be able to cut until she got home. She cut just right across her arm. She was careful, she never cut were there was a vein. But, that morning she wasn't carful enough. She had cut just a little too deep. Poured warm water over it and loved how it stinged. She then patted it dry and threw on a long sleeved t-shirt. When she got to school she didn't realize that blood was lightly dripping through the shirt. A teacher noticed and sent her to the nurse. The nurse examined her arm and noticed all the scars. The school had to call Cats parents.
When Cats parents found out they were not happy at all. They just didn't understand why Cat would hurt herself. She was crazy to them. They didn't want to deal with her so they sent her to Shady Hollows.
Jade West was once the popular girl at her school. She was beautiful and talented. It was no surprise when the most popular senior started dating her. Jack Dean. He was also talented; he got the lead male role in every play he auditioned for. He was also the quarterback for the football team that took state every year. They were the perfect couple, her being a talented actress and star of the dance team, and Jack being the star of the football team and a star on stage.
Things were not always perfect for the couple though. They were constantly fighting (Probably because he was on steroids).Jack would sometimes call her mean names such as bitch, ugly, and fat. Eventually he broke up with her and said he could do better than her. Jade was crushed. The words were stuck in her head. He broke up with her because she was fat.
Jade completely changed her image. She wore black all the time because black is more sliming. She knew it would be to obvious to just stop eating, people would notice. She decided she would eat in front of people and then vomit it back up. Jade knew that it was disgusting, that she was disgusting, but it made her look better. The Goth girl soon got caught though. Her mother had suspected that Jade was bulimic because she was suddenly skinny and her face was more rounded (Bulimia can make your face rounded or chubby) so she started keeping an eye on Jade and noticed every night after dinner Jade would go to the upstairs bathroom. Her parents had no idea what to do with her. That's how she ended up in Shady Hollows.
Robbie Shapiro was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of eight. When he was younger it wasn't as bad, as long as he took medication he was fine. When he turned sixteen the voices got worse. The voices weren't telling him to kill people so, he wasn't completely crazy. He just always had voices in his head telling him not trust people. Sometimes the voices were just telling him to say mean stuff to people. Like, if a girl with a giant pimple on her nose he couldn't but call her Rudolph. His parents took him to different doctors and one doctor told him to go Shady Hollows. He has been a patient there for the past three months.
Andre Harris never liked his stepdad; He was a pig, a slob. One night he came home drunk. Andre could smell whiskey on him. He just rolled his eyes at the drunken man. Andre's mom was just sitting on the couch watching TV. David (his stepdad) Walked straight to the kitchen. "DAMN IT WHERE IS MY DINNER? I PAY THE BILLS IN THIS HOUSE I COULD ATLEAST HAVE A HOT MEAL WAITING FOR ME WHEN I GET HOME" "Honey please calm down, your food is in the fridge." Andre could here his parents arguing in the next room. He ran in the room when he heard his mom cry. His mom was lying on the floor while his stepdad was punching her. "John stop it!" "Andre, stay out of this!" Andre then tackled John to the floor. Andre was so angry he just kept punching him in the face. "Andre, please stop it!" Andre looked up to his mom "Momma, HE HURT YOU! WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING HIM?" "Because Andre, I love him! I need him!" after she said that she dialed 911 and an ambulance came for John. John was put in a coma and the doctors do not know when he will wake up.
Andre's mother told the police what happened. He would either go to Juvie or an Institution to work on his anger issues. He would rather have gone to Juvie then listen to a shrink tell him how fucked up he is. But, Andre's mother sent him away to Shady Hollows.
To everyone else, Beck Oliver seemed to have the perfect life; Girls chasing after him, being a male model, and getting small parts in movies. Becks home life was not as great though. His parents were abusive, both physically and emotionally. Beck had tried to kill himself three times just to get away from them. The first time he swallowed a bottle of aspirin with water. His mom found him before it could kill him. The next time he thought if he drank alcohol with the pills it would work. But, it only made him pass out with foam coming out of his mouth. The family owned no guns so he couldn't take the easy way out and shoot himself. Beck thought about hanging himself but there was really no place in his RV or his parents' small house to hang himself and he didn't want some poor kid finding him hanging lifeless on a tree. Then, a light bulb went off in his head. He could slit his wrist! It may sound crazy but Beck was actually happy when he found something that would surely kill him. Beck didn't know if there was a God, his parents weren't really religious. He liked to believe there was a God. A God (Or anything) that truly loved him and thought he was perfect.
Then, one day after school on a Friday, Beck rushed to his RV. He had been planning this all week. His parents were going out of town so there was no way they would find him until the Monday. He would defiantly be dead by then. He grabbed an old razor blade and slowly slid from his wrist all the way down to his forearm (long ways) twice. But, Fate (Or God) had a different plan for him.
His parents were out of the neighbor when they remembered they had to give Beck money for food. They turned around and his mother ran into the RV to give Beck the money. When Mr. Oliver heard Mrs. Oliver screaming he ran in. "Oh My Baby! What have you done? Oh God! Please wake up!" Cried Becks mom. Becks father called the police while he told Becks mother to get a towel, put warm water on it, and hold it on Becks arm.
Beck woke up to a bright light in his face. At first he thought maybe he was in heaven, until he heard his mothers' voice. "Oh Beck! Don't scare me like that again! Why would you do something like this?" "Why are you acting like you care about me now?" Replied Beck. His mother didn't know what to say so she just walked into the hallway. His parents couldn't afford for him to get a therapist but they did find an institution that would accept their Health card.
Shady Hollows.
These six teens were all classified as "Crazy" in some way. They will soon see that they are not too different from each other. Will they become friends? Some may become more. You never know what will happen at Shady Hollows.
This story is about friendship, struggle, romance, and drama. I'm planning on this being pretty long but I don't know for sure. This chapter was more of an introduction so you know why they are all here. This took me about three days to write because I have been busy! I'll try to update by Monday. Please give me some nice reviews!
Also if you're reading my Jandre story I will try to update this weekend! I'm so sorry it's been like five days since I updated, I've been busy with my job, writing this story, and I have to do a book report for my summer reading list for advanced English!
-xoxoxo Eva-