Disclaimer: I don't own Glee, nor do I completely own Nick and Jeff (although I'm pretty much creating their personalities myself since we haven't gotten to know them too well on the show).

It was lunchtime before Jeff realized just how big of a problem it was that Nick had run away from him that morning. No one had seen him since then. "What do I do? If I go to the headmaster, he'll be expelled for sure… but I'm terrified that something bad has happened to him."

"I don't understand… why is he going to be in trouble? I mean, other than skipping classes. But that's not an offense worth of expulsion," Trent replied. Jeff shook his head, sighing.

"Nick's been in a lot of trouble lately… last week he left campus without permission, and the headmaster said if he had any more problems he would be sent home. Permanently." The last thing Jeff wanted to do was tell the whole world what was going on with his boyfriend – it wasn't his place – but the other Warblers still didn't look convinced. After all, Jeff and Nick had both been hiding what was really going on from their friends – Nick because he didn't want anyone to know and Jeff because he didn't think it was his place. But he was starting to think that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to keep this from everyone else. "Nick has some problems, okay? It's not my place to tell anyone what's going on with his life… but it's bad. He doesn't even really seem to understand how bad what he's doing to himself is."

"He's anorexic." Jeff turned around, sighing as he realized that it was Sebastian. "What? You weren't going to tell them the truth and this way Nick can't get pissed off at you. Besides, he knows that I'm not going to keep this a secret… I don't think it's right to help him cover up what he's been doing to himself." To be honest, Jeff was sort of relieved that he didn't have to be the one to tell everyone, not that he would admit that in front of Sebastian.

"It isn't your secret to tell."

"It isn't something that you should be letting him hide," Sebastian shot back. Jeff shook his head, not at all surprised that the other Warblers at the lunch table were looking at one another in shock.

"He's seriously anorexic? No joke?" Ian asked. Jeff nodded, sighing. "Shit…"

"That's why he passed out at Regionals, isn't it? He wasn't eating…" The look of understanding on Aaron's face was surprising. Jeff watched Aaron get up and start to leave the table, causing everyone to turn to his brother, Andrew, for answers. The older twin looked almost as upset as his younger brother had.

"Aaron's best friend at our old school was anorexic… she had a heart attack not long before we transferred here and ended up in a coma. She never woke up." Jeff closed his eyes, sighing and shaking his head as he stood up.

"I have to go find him… if he shows up, will one of you text me?"

Jeff wasn't sure how long he searched for Nick; he knew that he was missing class because of the bells, but he wasn't really keeping track of the time. He just really needed to find his roommate, because after Andrew's story Jeff was terrified that something bad had happened to him. The fact that there weren't any text messages from the rest of the Warblers – especially not from the guys that had afternoon classes with Nick – worried him.

It wasn't until he started looking through the dorms for the third (or was it the fourth?) time that Jeff finally found Nick.

"It's not healthy… Natalie was like, 70 pounds when she died, Nick…" Jeff stopped outside of Aaron and Andrew's dorm room, listening to the boys talk.

"I weigh more than that…"

"Not by much… definitely not as much as you should."

"I know…" Jeff breathed a sigh of relief. "I just… I can't control it anymore. I'm not the one in charge… I hate it."

"You were never in control of all of this, Nick. You can't control it, no matter what you may think." Jeff stood there, listening as Aaron spoke to Nick. "The only way to get your life back is to fight against it. You have to break this cycle you've gotten into, or you'll end up like Natalie."

"I don't know that I can do this…"

"Hey… we've all got your back. Every single one of the Warblers is behind you, okay? And we'll do whatever you need us to do to keep you on track… even if it means that you hate us for a little while, because we're probably going to piss you off."

"Aaron's right," Jeff said, pushing the door open so that he could see Nick and Aaron, who were sitting on opposite ends of Aaron's bed facing one another. Nick's legs were crossed, and he was playing with something that sat on his lap. "We've all got your back, Nick. And I'm not going to let you give up fighting." Jeff walked over to the bed, sitting down next to Nick and putting an arm around the boy as he spoke.

"Do all of the Warblers know?" Nick asked.

"Sebastian announced it at lunch today… anyone that wasn't there will know by the end of the day, though. You know how fast things travel around here." Jeff squeezed the boy's shoulders as Nick nodded.

"They're going to hate me… someone's going to put things together like Sebastian and realize that what happened at Regionals was all my fault…"

"They've already figured it out. But we're your friends, Nick. Some people may be upset right now, but they'll understand… you weren't in control, the disorder was," Aaron replied. "I'll talk to them, okay? They'll understand… once they know what's going on, they'll get over it."

"And if they don't?"

"We've got your back. You've got a lot of people that really care about you around here. And I think even Sebastian wants to see you beat this," Jeff replied.

"And that's saying something, because we all know that Seb's an asshole."

A/n: So here we go, another chapter! I was actually rushing to finish this, because a coworker asked me to cover her shift tonight and I wanted to get this posted first, but I also still need to go to the store, do some cleaning, and take a shower before work and I only have a couple of hours. Anyway, I hope you enjoy… I've been a bit distracted from this story lately because I've got another idea I'm working on that's taking a lot of my muse lately (because those boys DO NOT SHUT UP, lol!).