Jimmy lies on the bed staring at the ceiling. Outside Jimmy hears the door unlock and lady in a white nurse type outfit walks in.
" Mr. Neutron." She says reading off a clipboard.
" Yeah." Jimmy says.
" Come with me." The lady says.
Jimmy gets off the bed and follows the lady to a room where a circle of chairs is set up.
She leads Jimmy to the one empty seat and closes the door, locking it.
" Say hello to Jimmy Neutron." The lady says.
" Hi Jimmy." The circle chanted.
" Now, we all know confession is good for the soul so now's the time to get anything off your chest, Jamie you start." The nurse says.
Jimmy looks across the circle to a girl with blonde hair down a little past her shoulders, she wears a pink shirt and a pair of jeans and she looks very thin.
" Hello, I'm Jamie Hall." Jamie says.
" Hi Jamie." Everyone except Jimmy chimes.
" Everyone at school told me I was too fat so I became bulimic to try lose weight, luckily before I hurt myself one of my friends got me help. I was mad at first but now I'm happy." Jamie says.
Everyone claps except Jimmy.
The boy next to Jimmy begins talking, his name is John and he's here because of some mental illness or something like that.
After half an hour later and a lot of crying Jimmy hears.
" Jimmy it's your turn." The lady said.
Jimmy looks to see everyone looking at him.
Jimmy just takes a sip out of the paper cup of water that'd he'd gotten.
Everyone continues to look at him.
" Come on Jimmy." Jamie says.
Jimmy still didn't talk.
" Obviously Jimmy doesn't want to talk, so let's go." The lady says opening the door and everyone gets up.
She leads each of them back to their rooms, Jimmy's the first.
Back in his room Jimmy lies on his bed and looks to the ceiling; he then decides to get something to read from his suitcase.
Jimmy takes out a magazine and begins reading it, even though he's read it a million times.
When the clock on the desk in Jimmy's room reads six o'clock the door opens.
" Come with me." The nurse says.
Jimmy follows her and she leads him to a cafeteria of sorts where everyone congregates getting food and sitting together, talking, and laughing.
Jimmy walks towards the line and gets food, it looks like green beans, mashed potatoes, and some form of meat in some sauce, across from there is a salad bar where some girls stand talking.
Jimmy then walks towards an empty table; he sits down and begins eating. Jamie, with a salad and some mashed potatoes, sits next to Jimmy.
" Hey Jimmy." Jamie says.
" Hey Jamie." Jimmy says moving his food around with his fork.
Jamie sits quietly looking at her food but not eating it.
After five minutes another girl sits next to Jamie.
" Hey Jamie." A girl with brown hair in a ponytail says sitting down next to her.
" Hey Sora." Jamie says.
" So who's your friend"? Sora asks pointing to Jimmy.
" This is Jimmy Neutron, say hello Jimmy." Jamie says.
Jimmy doesn't speak.
" He's a little shy." Jamie says.
" That's fine." Sora says eating a spoonful of mashed potatoes. " So why's are you here Jimmy?"
Jimmy still says nothing.
" He won't tell anyone." Jamie says to Sora.
" Well we'll just wait till he's ready. I remember my first day." Sora says.
" That's cool." Jamie says.
The time passes slowly in silence with just the clinking of utensils, the chattering of people and sounds that mix with the sound of other sounds.
After an hour or so everyone is hounded out of the cafeteria and to their rooms to do whatever they want before everything basically shuts off.
In his room Jimmy looks out the window at the full moon, its reflection in the small waves of the lake.
Jimmy wants to cry, he misses his friends already.
" What if I never see them again?" Jimmy thinks.
Jimmy crawls into the bed and begins to cry
At ten o'clock all the lights in the hospital except for a few select ones go out.
Jimmy tries to fall asleep but he can't, about every half-hour footsteps come from outside the locked door.
" Probably people patrolling the halls to make sure no one's outside their room." Jimmy thinks.
He lies in bed then gets up, he hasn't seen a bathroom but sees a door he overlooked.
" Probably there." Jimmy thinks opening the door. Inside there's a toilet and sink along with paper towels.
After two minutes Jimmy walks back to his bed and gets under the covers.
Jimmy finally gets to sleep at one in the morning.
Once Jimmy falls asleep he still tosses and turns in his sleep.
Jimmy dreams that he's running across a gray rooftop, there's an eerie gray fog covering the rooftop.
As Jimmy runs his friend's faces pop up and say, " Run faster Jimmy, run!"
Behind Jimmy is a dark figure.
Jimmy continues to run but he reaches the edge of the rooftop.
" No where left to run." The figure says.
The figure grabs Jimmy and holds him over the edge of the building.
Jimmy looks down; the ground is three stories down.
The figure unveils himself it's Nick.
" Goodbye." Nick says.
He drops Jimmy and Jimmy falls towards the ground.
As Jimmy hits the ground he feels no pain, when he looks he isn't on the ground but in a dark dingy room.
In front of him is Nick.
" You ruined my life so now I'm gonna ruin yours." Nick says.
Nick pulls out a gun and fires one shot.
Jimmy wakes up in shock, he looks to see his bed drenched in cold sweat.
Jimmy looks over to the clock, two o'clock.
" Great I was asleep for an hour." Jimmy thinks.
Jimmy can't get back to sleep no matter how hard he tries.
At 7 o'clock a.m. Jimmy hears the door click and a nurse walks in.
" Get up Jimmy, if you're not up in five minutes you'll miss breakfast." The nurse says.
Jimmy moans and she leaves.
Jimmy rolls out of bed and walks into the bathroom. He changes and walks back out.
The nurse walks in and Jimmy follows her towards the cafeteria.
In the cafeteria it's practically the same scene as dinner except everyone looks tired and some people are still in pajamas.
Jimmy grabs a tray and gets into line, today's breakfast, oatmeal, tasteless, colorless sludge.
Jimmy actually sees that people's names are written where they should sit.
At a table next to the window is Jimmy's name; next to his name is Nigel Carterson on one side and Kelly Lincoln on the other.
As Jimmy begins taking spoonfuls of oatmeal and stirring them back into the bowl a boy with black hair gelled into spikes and wearing a plain black shirt on it sits next to him.
" You're new here." Nigel says.
" Yeah I am." Jimmy says still not actually eating his oatmeal.
After another long silence except for the noises of spoons, people talking and the footsteps of people, a girl with red shoulder length hair sits next to them.
" Hey Nigel," She says adding a lot of honey to her oatmeal. " who's the new kid?"
" I'm Jimmy Neutron." Jimmy says.
" What are you here for?" Kelly asks.
Jimmy shows her the cuts along his arm, several still not healed, and it looks like Jimmy arm wrestled a rose bush.
" I'm here for a suicide attempt." Kelly says. " I slit my wrists on the night I graduated the eighth grade." Kelly says.
" Why did you do that?" Jimmy asks.
" Something bad happened that night." Kelly says.
" What happened?" Jimmy asks.
" It was at the high school end of year party," Kelly begins but is cut off by Jimmy.
" Where?!" Jimmy asks shocked.
" It was in a barn in downtown Retroville." Kelly says.
" You were that girl!" Jimmy says in amazement.
" What girl?" Kelly asks.
" I saw you, outside in the trees," Jimmy says but its Kelly's time to interrupt this time.
" Where Nick Dean was?" Kelly asks.
" Yeah, you were the girl he was on top of, I heard you scream." Jimmy says.
" Did you call the police?" She asks.
" Yeah I did." Jimmy says.
" Thank you." Kelly says. " Thank you so much."
" For what?" Jimmy asks.
" If you hadn't seen me and been brave enough to call the cops, I could have been hurt more badly." Kelly says.
Jimmy finally sees a light side in his actions, he had saved an innocent girl from a sick boy.
I think I'll end it here on a light note. Next chapter will be up A.S.A.P.
