I Don't Love You
Okay guys what's up? I know I'm taking forever and the suspense is killing you guys but I'm so tired for some reason. I'm not really sure why but I am. Don't worry though you'll get your three chapters. After this one we've got one more before you guys won't get one for a day or two cause I've got that all night thing to go to.
In this chapter Moose and Sophie will talk to Chase and Blake most likely. They will confront Andie, still haven't decided who all is going to be there when it happens but it will happen. Then something horrible is going to happen that you guys are going to be yelling at me about for a while or at least until the next chapter gets posted. Um I know that a lot of things are going to happen so this chapter could be kinda long. We won't know though until I get to the end will we?
A/N-This one is named after My Chemical Romance's "I Don't Love You".
Disclaimer-Don't own Step Up 2, if I did I'd own Rob Hoffman. Oh and the stuff I use on Bulimia is from Wikipedia.
Chase was not expecting Sophie and Moose to show up on his doorstep. In fact when he opened the door he could not have been more confused. Sophie looked anxious while Moose looked heart broken. Sophie was holding tight to a laptop and Moose's hand. Chase had secretly been hoping that it was Andie who was ringing his doorbell but the more he thought about it the more stupid it sounded. There was no way in hell that Andie would ever come to his house after what he'd said to her.
"Guys what's going on?" Chase asked.
"Chase it's Andie!" Moose exclaimed before Sophie could even open her mouth to say anything. "We know what's wrong with her."
Chase instantly moved aside to let his friends in. Closing the door behind them he didn't understand what exactly Moose was talking about but it involved Andie and that was good enough for him.
"Come on let's go in the living room." Chase said.
Blake was watching TV but he looked up when Chase entered with Sophie and Moose.
"Hey Sophie, hey Moose what are you guys doing here?"
"Blake they know what's wrong with Andie." Chase said quickly.
Blake turned off the TV and moved behind his little brother to see the screen of the laptop. Sophie began to type and Moose began to talk.
"Okay so how much do you guys know about Bulimia?" Moose asked.
"It's an eating disorder." The brothers said together.
"Exactly." Sophie nodded.
"What does that have to do with Andie?" Chase asked.
"We think she has it." Sophie and Moose said together.
"No way!" Chase said immediately shaking his head. "Andie's stronger than that."
"Chase I know you think that but stop for a minute and think about it." Moose said. "Before Andie started disappearing at lunch she use to eat in front of us, but she ate huge amounts in one sitting and didn't eat anything after or before that. Then she always had to go to the bathroom after lunch, what do you think she was doing?"
"Purging." Blake said quietly.
Moose and Sophie nodded.
"She was purging the morning before you guys broke up." Sophie said. "I saw her."
"How come you didn't say anything?" Chase asked.
Sophie stopped typing to look him in the eye. Those big brown eyes that made every girl he looked at feel safe. She could still remember the first time she saw Chase Collins. He came into dance class late and Sophie was improvising, she did a half turn and they locked eyes. Sophie hit the ground and Chase ran over to help her up. He covered for her by claiming he hadn't meant to scare her. After dance class he'd introduced himself and asked if she had a boyfriend. Sophie had said no and Chase asked if she'd like to go to dinner with him. Sophie had said yes and things just kinda went off from there. But Taylor got in the way. She said things about Sophie that weren't true, called her a slut and said that she slept with tons of guys before she got to MSA. She called her fat behind everyone's back and finally when Sophie could no longer take it she became Bulimic.
"Sophie?" Moose waved a hand in front of her face.
"Huh?" She whispered.
"How come you didn't say anything to us about seeing Andie purge?" Chase asked.
"Because I know what Andie's going through." Sophie said. "I know how cruel Taylor can be. And—and I know what it's like to be bulimic."
There was silence.
"You—you were bulimic?" Moose squeaked.
"Yes, for the last three months of me and Chase's relationship I was." Sophie said as she resumed her typing on her laptop.
"So I take it you stopped?" Blake asked.
"Yes I stopped." Sophie replied not removing her eyes from the screen. "My mother found out and threatened to kill me if I didn't."
"Okay so let's say Andie is bulimic." Chase said. "What do we do about it?"
"We've got to talk to her about it." Moose said. "We've got to get her to admit that she has it so we can get her help."
"Hold on." Chase said pulling out his phone. "We need Missy here."
As Chase listen to Missy's phone ring he could feel guilt washing over him. Andie had an eating disorder and he was pretty sure he'd made it worse. She trusted him, she needed him to be there for her and he'd gone and broke her heart. He'd made her get worse, it was his fault that Andie was fading away from them.
"Hello?"
"Missy, you've gotta come to my house now." Chase said.
"Chase what happened?" Missy asked.
"We know what's wrong with Andie." Chase said quietly.
"On my way."
Missy didn't wait to see if Chase had anything else to say.
"Missy coming?" Moose asked.
"Yep, she's on her way right now." Chase said.
"Good well while we wait," Sophie handed her laptop to Chase. "You should read that."
Chase felt Blake move closer to him so he could see the screen. Taking a deep breath, Chase began to read about Bulimia Nervosa.
The criteria for diagnosing a patient with bulimia are:
Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following:
Eating, in a fixed period of time (e.g., within any two-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat during a similar period of time and under similar circumstances.
A sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating).
Recurrent inappropriate compensatory behavior to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting; misuse of laxatives, diuretics or other medications; fasting, or excessive exercise.
The binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behaviors both occur, on average, at least twice a week for three months.
Self-evaluation is unduly influenced by body shape and weight.
The disturbance does not occur exclusively during episodes of anorexia nervosa
Chase looked behind him to see that Blake was frowning slightly. They hadn't noticed that when Andie did eat it was like she couldn't stop herself from eating it all. But now that they thought about it she did do that, at least she did before she started disappearing at lunch. She ate everything that was sat in front of her and she never left anything behind. She was preteneding to eat so they'd leave her alone.
If any of these symptoms are noticed, a doctor or psychologist should be contacted. However, these symptoms are often difficult to spot. Because bulimia carries a great deal of shame, the bulimic desperately tries to hide the symptoms from family and friends. Bulimia is more likely to span over a lifetime unnoticed, causing a great deal of isolation and stress for the suffering individual. Despite the frequent lack of obvious physical symptoms, bulimia has proven to be fatal, as malnutrition takes a serious toll on every bodily organ.
They had to get to Andie to admit she had it. Then they had to take her to a doctor. Because if she died then Chase would never forgive himself. If she died Chase just might consider suidcide.
'God we'd be like Romeo and Juilet.' He thought darkly.
Bulimics go through cycles of over-eating and purging that can be very destructive to the body. These cycles often involve rapid and out-of-control eating, which may stop when the bulimic is interrupted by another person or when his/her stomach hurts from over-extension, followed by self-induced vomiting or other forms of purging. This cycle may be repeated several times a week or, in serious cases, several times a day. Some bulimics eat secretly; others eat socially but are bulimic in private. They also differ in "how much" they purge. Some can vomit without gagging themselves after eating. Often when the urge hits, they go to great lengths to purge, as if an uncontrollable urge is making them do so. Medical evidence shows that the chemicals released when purging may make a person feel "high". This can also lead to extreme dehydration and electrolyte imbalances.
Blake watched his brothers' face go from sadness to anger back to sadness. Blake could already see that Chase was starting to think it was his fault. He could see that his little brother was starting to realize that him break up with Andie had made her worse. He was starting to see that he was the reason for her losing weight.
Some bulimics do not regard their cycles as a problem, while others despise and fear the vicious and uncontrollable cycle. Bulimics may appear underweight, normal weight or overweight. bulimia can also take the form, more commonly, when the suffereer eats an average amount and again self-induces vomiting.
There are two sub-types of bulimia nervosa: purging and non-purging.
Purging type is the more common type of bulimia, and involves any of self-induced vomitinglaxativesdiureticsenemas, or Ipecac, to rapidly extricate the contents from their body.7
Non-purging type occurs in only approximately 6-8 of bulimia cases, as it is a less effective means of ridding the body of such a large number of calories. It involves doing excessive exercise or fasting after a binge, to counteract the large amount of calories previously ingested. This often occurs in purging-type bulimics, but is a secondary form of weight control.
So Sophie had been right. Andie was bulimic, but how the hell were they going to talk to her about it? How were they going to get her to admit that she had a serioulsy problem and needed help? Andie was stubborn and if she didn't believe something was wrong with her then they'd have a time convincing her that something was wrong. Chase would have been able to do it, if she didn't hate him at the moment. Missy and Moose probably could but knowing Andie she'd deny it and could possibly flip out on them. Missy had told them that they did not want to make Andie mad, she said she could be dangerous when she was mad.
A knock on the door made them all jump. Chase got to it before Ann and opened it find Missy standing with her hands on her hips.
"Alright," She said. "What's wrong with Andie?"
"You gotta come inside." Chase said pulling her into the house and shutting the door behind her.
"Missy," Moose said. "Andie has Bulimia."
Missy stared at them.
"You're lying." She said shakily.
"I wish like hell we were." Chase sighed sitting on the couch. "She has Bulima and we've got to figure how we're going to get her to admit it and how we're going to get her to accept help."
"It won't be easy I can tell you that." Missy said as Sophie handed her the laptop to read the page on Bulimia.
"Why don't we do it tomorrow?" Moose asked.
"How?" Chase asked tiredly.
"Why don't I tell her that I need to talk to her at MSA." Moose said slowly, the plan was still forming in her head. "The whole crew doesn't need to be there—."
"So who should?" Chase asked.
"Me for sure." Missy said as her eyes scanned across the computer screen.
"You couldn't stop me if you tried." Moose said.
"I think Chase needs to be there." Sophie said quietly.
"Are you crazy?" Chase asked. "She wouldn't come if she knew I was going to be there."
"So we don't tell her." Missy supplied.
"Okay so where are we going to do this?" Chase asked.
"The dance room." Moose said. "Andie and I can have rehersal just the two of us. And then either during or after you guys can come in and we can talk about it."
"I've got a question." Blake said. "How do you guys plan to get into the dance room?"
Chase pulled from under his shirt the chain that held the key do the dance room. Blake stared at it a moment before his hand went to check his pocket.
"Don't worry you've still got yours." Chase said smirking.
"Then how did you—?"
"You remember that time I asked to borrow the key?" Blake nodded. "I took it and had a copy made."
"But that's not important right now." Moose said cutting Blake off when he opened his mouth to say something to his little brother. "So tomorrow Andie and I are going to have a rehersal just the two of us. I'll tell her I got Chase to give me the key and I got some new moves I wanna show her."
"Then, Chase and I will show up and we're just gonna what?" Missy asked. "Gang up on her? You do remember what happen the last time you guys ganged up on her?"
Chase and Moose didn't answer.
"Why don't you let Moose talk to her and if she starts to bail then you all can cut in?" Blake suggested.
"I like that." Moose said nodding.
"Okay," Chase said. "So I'm going to give Moose the key tonight and then tomorrow him and Andie are going to go have a one on one rehersal cause he's got some new moves she's got to see right? Then after you guys are going to sit and Moose is going to ease into talking to Andie about her eating disorder right? Then is she starts to bail, which I know she will Missy and I will stop her and try to talk some sense into her right?"
They all nodded everytime Chase said right and he clapped his hands together.
"Guys we've gotta hope that this works." Missy said handing Sophie back her laptop. "Because if it doesn't and Andie doesn't get help, man she'll die."
"That settles it." Chase said. "We do it tomorrow."
Andie was just about to head into the bathroom when her phone started to go off. Picking it up she saw that Moose had sent her a text message.
'Hey Andie meet me at MSA tomorrow at noon, I've got some new dance moves I wanna show you. And before you ask no Chase isn't going to be there. I got him to let me borrow the key. Please come, these are some moves you just gotta see.'
Sighing, Andie texted Moose back promising to meet him and went into the bathroom. If she was going to dance the next day then she had to get rid of everything in her stomach.
Moose didn't sleep that night. He was too nervous. What if Andie refused to get help? What if she wouldn't listen and wouldn't admit she was sick? How was Moose supposed to ease her into talking about it? He wasn't good at this sort of thing. Chase had said that everything was going to be okay but he himself didn't seem to belive it was.
"Robert, darling are you alright?" His mother asked peeking her head into his room. Regulus came bounding in and jumped on Moose's bed before trying to lick his face off.
"I'm fine mom." Moose said quietly. "Just tired."
"Then you should go to bed." His mother said before closing his door. Leaving Moose with a super hyper puppy.
"Come on Regulus." Moose muttered picking up the dog and pulling the covers back. "Time for bed."
Moose let the dog pick where on the bed he was going to lay and then Moose got comfortable. But no matter how much he tried, Moose could not get to sleep.
When Andie got to MSA the next day Moose was waiting for her. She backed up slighlty when he moved to hug her but Moose caught himself. He smiled at her before leading her inside and startign to jabber away about all the new moves he had. He knew Andie wasn't listening but he for once didn't care. He could jabber on about nothing while his mind became more and more nervous. There were several times that he nearly broke and told her what was going on. But every time he looked back at her he could see how extremely skinny she had gotten. And his mind would instantly go back to the fact that she needed help.
"Okay show me these amazing new dance moves." Andie said tiredly as she threw her bag to the floor.
"Right, you wanna start the music for me?" Moose nodded to the boombox.
Andie nodded and did as she was told. Moose counted off and then began to dance. Every time he thought about stopping his mind returned to the picture in his mind of how skinny Andie had gotten.
"So you think you can do that?" Moose challenged when he was finished.
"No problem." Andie replied smirking.
"Alright then, let's see if you can keep up."
Andie hit the play button again and ran over to Moose to join him in front of the mirror. As they danced Moose kinda slacked off a little to watch Andie. She kept her eyes on her body in the mirror and she never once cracked a smile the entire time she did it. All too soon though she was stopping, they weren't even halfway finished when she called it quits.
"You give this early?" Moose asked plopping down next to her on the floor.
"Hell yea, that routine was hard." Andie muttered.
"No it wasn't." Moose said softly. "It was just something I can up with in my room last night."
Out of the corner of his eye he saw Chase's hat slip into view from behind one of the pillars.
"So um—you wanna go get something to eat?" Moose asked.
"Naw, I had a big breakfast." Andie muttered. "I'm stuffed."
"Andie." Moose said quietly. "Why do you keep lying to me?"
"What?" Andie asked.
"Why do you keep lying?" Moose repeated. "You keep telling us you've eaten but we know you haven't."
"Who's we?" Andie asked, her eyes suddenly narrowed. "Did Chase put you up to this?"
"No I didn't."
Andie jumped and whorled around to see Chase appear from behind the pillar.
"You've changed Andie." He said quietly. "You're making yourself sick and you could die."
"What are you talking about?" Andie demanded. "I'm fine! Matter of fact who the hell are you to try and tell me if I'm making myself sick or not."
"Andie I'm your—."
"No you're not!" Andie screamed tears falling from her sunken eyes. "You're not my boyfriend Chase Collins! You dumped me remember? You dumped me for someone better!"
"Andie no—."
"Don't lie to me!" Andie had gotten to her feet now. Her fists were balled up and she looked deadly. "I keep trying to tell you guys I'm fine!"
"But you're not chica." A small voice said from the corner.
Andie whorled around to face Missy.
"You told them didn't you?" She yelled. "You blabbed to them!"
"Andie no—."
Andie tried to run for the door but Missy got there first. She pressed her back up against the door and faced her friend.
"You're supposed to be my friend!" Andie yelled. "I trusted you and you went and told them!"
"I am your friend Andie that's why I'm trying to help you!" Missy yelled.
"I don't need anyone's help!" Andie yelled.
She ran back over to her bag, she bent to pick it up and Chase moved toward her.
"Get away from me!" Andie yelled. She picked up her full water bottle and threw it as hard as she could at Chase. It hit him fully in the face and he yelled in both surprise and pain.
"Andie calm down." Moose said weakly. "We're just trying to help you. You're sick Andie. You're sick and you need help."
"Moose you should be on my side!" Andie hollered. "You're my best friend and you're not even sticking up for me!"
"I can't stick up for you Andie!" Moose yelled. "I can't stick up for you when I know you need help!"
"Andie please let us help you." Chase pleaded, he was holding a hand to his forehead which apeeared to be bleeding.
"I DON"T NEED ANYONE'S HELP!" Andie screamed. She ran to the middle of the room and did two circles, trying to find a way to escape.
"And you're sick." Chase said softly. "You're sick and you need help. Let us help you."
"I hate you!" Andie yelled looking him directly in the eye. "I hate all of you!"
She spun around once more and was about to take off when she stopped suddenly. Andie swayed from side to side slightly before stumbling. She turned again, still trying to find a way out.
"G-guys?" She muttered. "I-I'm dizzy and I-I c-can't b-b-breathe."
Before any of them could get to her, Andie crumpled to the floor. They heard her head hit the wood before it was compeltely silent.
Right well I'm not saying anything. Did you guys like the chapter? I did I thought it had just the right amount of drama and a very nice cliffhanger. Anyway, I have to go to bed because my fingers are hurting so bad I can barely move them. I hope you guys liked and I'll try my hardest to get a chapter up before I leave tomorrow night.
A/N-This chapter was so emotional. Man I almost cried writing it.
Reviews keep my fingers typing chapters!
Danyi
