**Torture Time**
She finally decided to ask Jing-Mei and Randi, After what she knew teasing them always made Dave in a better mood.
"Dr Chen and Randi can I speak with you two in private for a second?" Randi followed curiously after the red haired doctor, and so did Jing-Mei. Inside a empty room she started talking.
"As I told you before, Dave is at a clinic to get through his eating disorders" Randi looked at Kerry, she knew that, but what had that to do with her?
"Yes" Jing-Mei answered.
"I just got a call from there, and it doesn't seem like Dave have much progress, more the opposite. He is now so thin and weak that he is connected to an IV."
Randi and Jing-Mei gasped in unison, they had always though that in some way that Dave just would come back after a few weeks, healthy and smiling as he used to.
Kerry continued "He always finds new ways to get rid of the food he eats, and they asked if I could get someone I knew Dave liked to visit him"
Does really Dave like me? Jing-Mei and Randi thought.
Dave looked at the IV bag, he had counted every single drop that had run in the tube into his arm, by now he had counted 342 drops. Suddenly he heard someone coming inside, he looked up and saw Molly standing there.
"Hey Dave, How are you" She asked
"Never been better" He said ironically.
"I'm just came to inform you that you don't have to come to the cafeteria today"
He smiled, wow, finally! But then Molly continued
"The food will be brought up to you" Molly stood there a second, biting her lip.
"What?" Dave asked.
"Sally from your therapy group…"
"Yeah what about her?" Dave asked
"She died today, she starved to death" Molly said
Dave looked at her not knowing what to say, it was so surreal, it just didn't fit. He felt himself starting to shake a little, then he lost control and tears started streaming down his cheeks. He had never cried much before, but now all this just overwhelmed him. Molly walked over to him and sat down on the bed and held around him, stroking his hair, like a little boy. Dave thought about Sally, she had always told him that he was thin. Maybe they were right, maybe he was thin. He didn't want to die, he wanted to live.
Jing-Mei looked at Benton who was driving, she couldn't really believe that he would drive them to Dave. It was typically her luck that her car was broken just when she needed it most, and Randi walked to the ER. And then Benton suddenly had offered to drive them.
After driving for about an hour they was outside the clinic.
"Are you going with us inside?" Jing-Mei asked Benton
"When I'm already is here, I can follow you inside too" He said.
Randi jumped out of the car and walked together with the other two.
They looked around, it wasn't like a hospital, it was much more cosy. Benton walked over to the admin. desk.
"Hello, we're coming to visit Dave Malucci" He said to the receptionist. A nurse standing next to her looked up.
"Dave Malucci you said?"
"Yes" Benton replied. The nurse reached out a hand.
"I'm Molly, Dave's nurse. I'll show you to his room"
"I'm Peter Benton"
"Jing-Mei Chen"
"Randi Fronzak"
She started walking down the corridor.
"I don't think Dave is like you are used to, his mood has probably changed a lot from what you know. And one from his therapy group died today, so he is probably a little sad" She stopped outside a door, "If there is anything you need, I'll be down the hall" She smiled a little and started walking away from them.
Jing-Mei took a deep breath and knocked the door. They heard Dave yelling enter and so they did. Jing-Mei opened the door and walked inside followed by Randi and Benton.
Benton looked at the man in front of him, and the sight was scaring. Dave's face was sunken and pale. The colour was almost white and he could clearly see his cheekbones through the skin his eyes where red, like he had been crying.
"Hey Dave" Jing-Mei said.
"Geez, Dr. Benton?" Was the only thing Dave said
"Hello Malucci"
"Why are you all here?"
"We just wanted to visit" Jing-Mei said
"Yeah right, and I'm the king of England! I guess that Molly asked if someone could come and talk some sense into me"
"No, she just said that it would be nice if someone came to visit you"
He lifted a hand to stroke away some hair, and they saw how much his hand shook. He noticed their looks and quickly put down his hand again. "So how is the ER?"
"It's kinda quiet, without you commenting everything." Jing-Mei said. It was the truth, she really missed his comments to her, even how annoying she thought it was before.
"Yeah, you were kinda the only the doctor it was fun talking with. No offence" Randi said.
They sat down, and Benton started regretting that he hadn't stayed in the car. Suddenly they heard someone knocking on the door.
"Come in!" Dave yelled. Molly stuck her face inside,
"I just wanted to know if you wanted to have something to eat?" She said to Benton, Jing-Mei and Randi.
"Sure" They replied. Molly nodded, and smiled. She closed the door behind herself . Dave looked down on his hands. It was nice that they visited him, but why did he have to eat with them, he wanted to eat alone.
He had decided that he should start to eat a little again, he didn't want to die like Sally.
It was a silence between them, no one knew really what to say.
"Anything funny happened?" Dave asked just to say something.
"Nah, it haven't happened much"
"Can I borrow the toilette?" Randi asked
"You have to wait till someone unlocks it"
"Unlocks?"
"Yeah, if it was open I would be throwing up in there"
"Oh" Randi said, feeling a little embarrassed
"Don't worry, I'm used to it" Dave said noticing.
The door opened and Molly stuck her head inside. "Hey, The dinner is ready for you in the visitor cafeteria" She said to the visitors.
"Ok, thanks" They stood up and walked towards the door.
"We come back soon" Jing-Mei said.
When they walked down the hall they started talking,
"He was incredibly thin, I think I never have seen a male that thin before." Randi said
"Yeah, I know"
"Torture time" Dave said when Molly stepped in to his room with his tray.
"Just eat a little" Molly smiled "It seemed like nice friends?"
"Yeah" He said shortly not bothering to explain about Benton.
She put the tray down on his bed. He looked at it, he knew that he should eat a little, but the food looked like it was full of fat.
He picked up a fork, and started sorting everything around on his plate, salad to the right, meat as far as away from his as possible, bread to the left and cheese closest to him. Molly just sat there watching, knowing that this was important for those with eating disorders, some sort of having control.
After sorting the food he stuck the fork into some salad , and lifted it up, studying it carefully, before eating it. Molly smiled, it looked like Dave Malucci would survive.
He ate a little salad more, before pushing the tray away.
"I think you soon will get rid of this IV" Molly said and lifted up his tray. Dave looked down, and suddenly he saw that his stomach were big.
"I'm Fat!" He yelled a little hysterical. Molly sat down the tray on a table, and walked over to him again.
"No Dave, you're not. Your stomach seems so big now because you haven't eaten in weeks. It will disappear again in not long."
"I won't let anyone see me like this!" He said.
"I tell your friends that you are asleep, ok?"
"Ok" He said, "Molly?"
"Yeah?" She turned around again
"Thanks" Dave said, and for the first time in a very long time he smiled.
"You're welcome" She smiled back and left the room.
To be continued! Please review!!
She finally decided to ask Jing-Mei and Randi, After what she knew teasing them always made Dave in a better mood.
"Dr Chen and Randi can I speak with you two in private for a second?" Randi followed curiously after the red haired doctor, and so did Jing-Mei. Inside a empty room she started talking.
"As I told you before, Dave is at a clinic to get through his eating disorders" Randi looked at Kerry, she knew that, but what had that to do with her?
"Yes" Jing-Mei answered.
"I just got a call from there, and it doesn't seem like Dave have much progress, more the opposite. He is now so thin and weak that he is connected to an IV."
Randi and Jing-Mei gasped in unison, they had always though that in some way that Dave just would come back after a few weeks, healthy and smiling as he used to.
Kerry continued "He always finds new ways to get rid of the food he eats, and they asked if I could get someone I knew Dave liked to visit him"
Does really Dave like me? Jing-Mei and Randi thought.
Dave looked at the IV bag, he had counted every single drop that had run in the tube into his arm, by now he had counted 342 drops. Suddenly he heard someone coming inside, he looked up and saw Molly standing there.
"Hey Dave, How are you" She asked
"Never been better" He said ironically.
"I'm just came to inform you that you don't have to come to the cafeteria today"
He smiled, wow, finally! But then Molly continued
"The food will be brought up to you" Molly stood there a second, biting her lip.
"What?" Dave asked.
"Sally from your therapy group…"
"Yeah what about her?" Dave asked
"She died today, she starved to death" Molly said
Dave looked at her not knowing what to say, it was so surreal, it just didn't fit. He felt himself starting to shake a little, then he lost control and tears started streaming down his cheeks. He had never cried much before, but now all this just overwhelmed him. Molly walked over to him and sat down on the bed and held around him, stroking his hair, like a little boy. Dave thought about Sally, she had always told him that he was thin. Maybe they were right, maybe he was thin. He didn't want to die, he wanted to live.
Jing-Mei looked at Benton who was driving, she couldn't really believe that he would drive them to Dave. It was typically her luck that her car was broken just when she needed it most, and Randi walked to the ER. And then Benton suddenly had offered to drive them.
After driving for about an hour they was outside the clinic.
"Are you going with us inside?" Jing-Mei asked Benton
"When I'm already is here, I can follow you inside too" He said.
Randi jumped out of the car and walked together with the other two.
They looked around, it wasn't like a hospital, it was much more cosy. Benton walked over to the admin. desk.
"Hello, we're coming to visit Dave Malucci" He said to the receptionist. A nurse standing next to her looked up.
"Dave Malucci you said?"
"Yes" Benton replied. The nurse reached out a hand.
"I'm Molly, Dave's nurse. I'll show you to his room"
"I'm Peter Benton"
"Jing-Mei Chen"
"Randi Fronzak"
She started walking down the corridor.
"I don't think Dave is like you are used to, his mood has probably changed a lot from what you know. And one from his therapy group died today, so he is probably a little sad" She stopped outside a door, "If there is anything you need, I'll be down the hall" She smiled a little and started walking away from them.
Jing-Mei took a deep breath and knocked the door. They heard Dave yelling enter and so they did. Jing-Mei opened the door and walked inside followed by Randi and Benton.
Benton looked at the man in front of him, and the sight was scaring. Dave's face was sunken and pale. The colour was almost white and he could clearly see his cheekbones through the skin his eyes where red, like he had been crying.
"Hey Dave" Jing-Mei said.
"Geez, Dr. Benton?" Was the only thing Dave said
"Hello Malucci"
"Why are you all here?"
"We just wanted to visit" Jing-Mei said
"Yeah right, and I'm the king of England! I guess that Molly asked if someone could come and talk some sense into me"
"No, she just said that it would be nice if someone came to visit you"
He lifted a hand to stroke away some hair, and they saw how much his hand shook. He noticed their looks and quickly put down his hand again. "So how is the ER?"
"It's kinda quiet, without you commenting everything." Jing-Mei said. It was the truth, she really missed his comments to her, even how annoying she thought it was before.
"Yeah, you were kinda the only the doctor it was fun talking with. No offence" Randi said.
They sat down, and Benton started regretting that he hadn't stayed in the car. Suddenly they heard someone knocking on the door.
"Come in!" Dave yelled. Molly stuck her face inside,
"I just wanted to know if you wanted to have something to eat?" She said to Benton, Jing-Mei and Randi.
"Sure" They replied. Molly nodded, and smiled. She closed the door behind herself . Dave looked down on his hands. It was nice that they visited him, but why did he have to eat with them, he wanted to eat alone.
He had decided that he should start to eat a little again, he didn't want to die like Sally.
It was a silence between them, no one knew really what to say.
"Anything funny happened?" Dave asked just to say something.
"Nah, it haven't happened much"
"Can I borrow the toilette?" Randi asked
"You have to wait till someone unlocks it"
"Unlocks?"
"Yeah, if it was open I would be throwing up in there"
"Oh" Randi said, feeling a little embarrassed
"Don't worry, I'm used to it" Dave said noticing.
The door opened and Molly stuck her head inside. "Hey, The dinner is ready for you in the visitor cafeteria" She said to the visitors.
"Ok, thanks" They stood up and walked towards the door.
"We come back soon" Jing-Mei said.
When they walked down the hall they started talking,
"He was incredibly thin, I think I never have seen a male that thin before." Randi said
"Yeah, I know"
"Torture time" Dave said when Molly stepped in to his room with his tray.
"Just eat a little" Molly smiled "It seemed like nice friends?"
"Yeah" He said shortly not bothering to explain about Benton.
She put the tray down on his bed. He looked at it, he knew that he should eat a little, but the food looked like it was full of fat.
He picked up a fork, and started sorting everything around on his plate, salad to the right, meat as far as away from his as possible, bread to the left and cheese closest to him. Molly just sat there watching, knowing that this was important for those with eating disorders, some sort of having control.
After sorting the food he stuck the fork into some salad , and lifted it up, studying it carefully, before eating it. Molly smiled, it looked like Dave Malucci would survive.
He ate a little salad more, before pushing the tray away.
"I think you soon will get rid of this IV" Molly said and lifted up his tray. Dave looked down, and suddenly he saw that his stomach were big.
"I'm Fat!" He yelled a little hysterical. Molly sat down the tray on a table, and walked over to him again.
"No Dave, you're not. Your stomach seems so big now because you haven't eaten in weeks. It will disappear again in not long."
"I won't let anyone see me like this!" He said.
"I tell your friends that you are asleep, ok?"
"Ok" He said, "Molly?"
"Yeah?" She turned around again
"Thanks" Dave said, and for the first time in a very long time he smiled.
"You're welcome" She smiled back and left the room.
To be continued! Please review!!