Disclaimer: Little life update. Let's see, my mom threw out my antidepressants, because according to her I don't need them. It's gonna be a few days before I can get more, so hopefully I can keep myself distracted long enough for nothing to happen. I'm feeling fairly okay though, so I should be good. Anyway, please enjoy the chapter. Oh, and leave a review. I enjoy reviews.
Chapter 11:
After storming off from Elza and taking the bus home, Michiru arrived home to find Hotaru at the coffee table doing homework.
"Hello Hime-chan, how was school?"
Michiru asked, setting her backpack down by the door.
"It was okay, I spent most of it worrying about Haruka-papa though."
Hotaru said, trying to hide the sadness in her voice. Michiru let out a sigh, then took a seat next to the young girl.
"It's okay to be worried, we all are."
"I just don't understand why she won't eat."
"Right now none of us do. And we probably won't know until she tells us."
"You mean if she tells us."
"Heh, right."
A silence then draped over them, and Hotaru turned her attention back to her schoolwork. However, there was a question weighing heavily on her mind.
"Michiru-mama, did I say or do something to Haruka-papa to make her stop eating?"
Michiru's jaw dropped at Hotaru's question.
"Of course not. What on earth would make you think that?"
Hotaru shrugged her shoulders.
"I'm not sure, I guess I'm just trying to figure out what caused her to be this way."
"I understand, and we're going to figure it out. But please, don't blame yourself for your Haruka-papa's behavior."
Michiru then gave Hotaru a much needed hug. She then left to go look for Haruka.
She soon found her in their bedroom, looking at something on her laptop.
"Hey hon, what are you looking at."
Michiru asked, taking a seat next to Haruka on the bed.
"Nothing really. How was school?"
Haruka asked, closing her laptop and setting it aside.
"It was fine. Speaking of which, I have your homework in my backpack."
Haruka let out a groan, and Michiru couldn't help but laugh.
"You didn't think you were going to get out of doing homework, did you?"
"Well yeah, kinda."
Michiru shook her head.
"I'll go get it for you. It's really not that much."
Michiru said, leaving the room then returning a few moments later with a stack of papers.
"I thought you said it was going to be that much?!"
Haruka blanched, looking at the stack of papers in her girlfriend's hand.
"It looks like a lot, but it really isn't."
"Yeah, sure."
Haruka grumbled, taking the papers from Michiru's outstretched hand.
As she began to look through the papers, her stomach released a low rumble.
"Have you eaten today?"
"I'm not feeling well. Besides, I told Setsuna I'd eat dinner."
Haruka said, not bothering to look up from her homework.
"Will you really?"
Haruka gave a nod. Michiru eyed her for a moment, unsure if she should believe her or not. However, she knew questioning her would lead to nowhere.
"Alright, well I'm gonna go get started on dinner, while you work your homework."
Michiru then gave Haruka a kiss, before leaving the room.
Once she saw the coast was clear, Haruka set her homework aside and opened her laptop back up.
"Michi would be so disappointed in me, if she saw me on this."
Haruka thought, eyes glued to a pro ana forum. She knew anorexia was a serious mental illness, and not a diet choice. However, she often visited pro ana and even pro mia sites, in an effort to gain tips on how to lose weight quickly, how to eat as little as possible, and how to hide her behavior.
She was well aware that was she was doing was dangerous and could have serious, even deadly consequences, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
"Once I lose the weight, I'll go back to eating normally."
Haruka was so engrossed in what she was looking at, that she hadn't noticed Hotaru enter the room.
"Haruka-papa."
The tall blonde responded to the young girl calling out to her, by jumping nearly ten feet into the air.
"Jesus Hime-chan, you don't scare me like that."
"Sorry, I was just coming to check on you. How are you feeling?"
"I'm alright."
"That's good."
Hotaru then walked over to Haruka, and climbed into her lap. Haruka set her laptop aside, and wrapped her arms around Hotaru. Making sure not to let her see what was on the screen.
"I love you, Haruka-papa."
"I love you too, Hime-chan. And I'm sorry for scaring you this morning."
"It's okay, I'm just glad you're alright."
Hotaru said, snuggling in close.
"You're eating dinner tonight, right?"
"Of course."
"And breakfast tomorrow?"
Hotaru asked, looking at Haruka with hopeful eyes. Haruka nodded her head, finding herself unable to say no to the girl sitting in her lap.
"Good."
Hotaru then gave Haruka another hug, which was gratefully returned.
"Come on, let's go see how your Michiru-mama is doing with dinner."
Haruka said. She then moved Hotaru off her lap, and together the two headed downstairs to see how Michiru was coming along with dinner.
End of chapter 11:
A/N: Pro ana and pro mia stand for pro anorexia and pro bulimia. Basically these sites are made by people who think these dangerous eating disorders are nothing more than a diet that someone can start and stop anytime they want. Anyway, I tried to make this chapter longer than the other one. I think it's at least a little bit longer. I'll try to have the chapter up sometime this weekend. So until next time, this is PokémonSoulMaster93 signing out.