First off I want to apologize to all my readers! I'm SO SORRY! I can't believe I haven't updated in almost two years! Eep! I promise this will NEVER happen again. Scout's honor. *salutes* :) Anyways, here is the long awaited chapter 12 of Perfect Body. Enjoy! ^^
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Previously in Chapter 11...
"We're not lying. We're sorry, okay? We really never meant to hurt her…," Lonnie said pulling herself together.
"We thought she was okay. I mean, we knew that she had thrown up once or twice, but it never seemed so bad…" Connie confessed as tears started to form in her eyes again.
"We don't want Bonnie to…to…die," Connie and Lonnie said in unison. "We love her."
Kim, Ron, and Tara looked at each other and back at the twins. "We're not the ones you need to be apologizing to…"
"You need to be apologizing to me," said a weak and fragile voice. Connie and Lonnie turned around and saw Bonnie, lying in a hospital bed, on her way to the recovery room, with Mrs. Rockwaller and Dr. Possible standing next to her.
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Kim, Ron, and Tara gasped when they saw that Bonnie was alright and ran to her side.
"Bonnie! I was so worried!" Tara immediately broke down and wrapped her arms around her best friend's frail body and hugged her tightly. Bonnie smiled faintly and hugged her back. I'm sorry, Tara..., she thought to herself. Remembering her sisters, her smile faded in an instant and her gaze drifted to her older siblings whose faces were now pretty swollen with tear stains lining their cheeks. All the hatred and resentment she felt towards them flooded back and she glared in their direction.
"I said, you should be apologizing to me." Connie and Lonnie looked at each other and then back at their sister's pale body lying in the hospital bed. Their mother placed a protective hand on Bonnie's shoulder, her face stern and angry. Bonnie laughed.
"I knew it. Even after I almost die you STILL don't care about me." Bonnie laughed again and looked down at her hands and the IV in her hand. "Mom, I want to go to my room now."
"Sure thing, sweetie. Dr. Possible will take you to your room," she replied, smiling sympathetically at her daughter. Dr. Possible wheeled her into room 305 again as Mrs. Rockwaller approached her daughters.
"Mom, we..." Connie began, but was cut off when her mother slapped her hard on the face. Connie gasped in shock and pressed her hand to her stinging cheek and watched as her mother slapped her sister as well. Lonnie cried out and fresh tears fell from her eyes. Mrs. Rockwaller stared at them with such fury and anger her in her eyes, debating what to say to these treacherous snakes she called her daughters.
"I want to blame myself for this. All of it. I should have never left her home so much with you two. I cannot. BELIEVE. that you would even THINK about treating your own SISTER this way. I...I...Where the hell did I go wrong, raising you two!? Tell me what I did because I have no fucking clue!" Connie and Lonnie's eyes drifted to the floor as her mother's voice rose, her voice cracking with anger and sadness.
"We're sorry...It's just that..."
"SAVE IT! Tell it to someone who cares. You know, like Bonnie. If she'll even here you that is." Mrs. Rockwaller gave the girls one more furious glance before she turned to walk away.
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"So how are feeling, Bon-bon?" Ron asked semi-cheerfully. Rufus poked his head out of his owner's pocket to smile sadly at Bonnie.
"Alright, I guess. Thanks." She was still staring at her hands and the IV. How did things get this far? How did this happen? She twisted up her face subconsciously, confused and upset. Kim noticed and leaned in closer, placing a hand on Bonnie's back comfortingly.
"Hey. Everything is going to be alright. Okay?" Kim smiled, but it quickly faded when Bonnie's head shot up, her face twisted up with anger and sadness, tears streaming down her face.
"HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY SAY THAT?! Even IF I do go home, I'll still be stuck with those...those...THINGS! HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OKAY?!" Bonnie yelled furiously as she started to sob uncontrollably, grabbing clumps of her hair in her hand. Kim, taken aback, gasped and backed away unsure of what to say to make it better. Just then, the door opened and her mother walked in with Mrs. Rockwaller.
"Hello, Bonnie. How are you?" Dr. Possible tried to smile, but stopped, continuing when she saw Bonnie's blank stare. "Well...I've just talked with the hospital psychiatrist and we'd like you to stay here for about 2 weeks. We just want to monitor your eating habits and make sure you're not throwing up or starving yourself." Dr. Possible walked over and placed her hand on Bonnie's sympathetically.
"Our plan is to have you gain about 8 pounds before we can let you go. You'll meet with the psychiatrist and go to support groups and everything. It's going to be alright."
Bonnie smirked and slid her hand away. "That's the second time I've heard that in the past five minutes." She looked up at her mother's sad, tired face and noticed someone standing behind her. Connie and Lonnie stepped from behind their mother, their eye gazing at the floor.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING IN HERE!?" Tara asked angrily. "GET OUT!"
"No. I want them to stay," Bonnie said staring at the two girls. Tara took her seat next to Ron and Kim again and watched, waiting. Dr. Possible excused herself, taking Mrs. Rockwaller with her, muttering something about having some more of Bonnie's paperwork to fill out. Silence filled the room as Bonnie stared angrily at her sisters. Tara's face mirrored the same emotion.
"I want you here to see me. Do you know why? It's because you've never seen me this vulnerable. You've never seen me half-dying with a stupid IV in my veins!" Bonnie spat making her sisters jump and stare at Bonnie.
"YOU'VE NEVER SEEN ME UNABLE TO BREATHE, COLLAPSED ON THE FLOOR BECAUSE I HAVEN'T EATEN IN A WEEK AND WHEN I DID SNEAK SOME FOOD I THREW IT UP AGAIN!" Bonnie was full on shouting now, breathing heavy as her brown eyes bored into her sisters' angrily.
"I hope this was what you wanted and that you're happy. Sorry that you're plan to kill me didn't work though. Oh well. Good luck next time." Bonnie, spent, collapsed back onto her bed, crossing her arms and staring out the window. Connie and Lonnie glanced at each other, silently debating on who would approach their little sister first. Connie nodded and stepped forward.
"B...Bonnie? I'm so...so sorry. I never really meant for this to happen. We just didn't want you to feel fat. I didn't mean...for you to get so sick..." Connie tucked a strand of her beautiful hair behind her ear and tried to place a hand on Bonnie's shoulder. Bonnie flinched at her sister's touch and glared at her, making Connie jump back.
"Bonnie. We're serious. We're really sorry okay? I mean, how were we supposed to know that this would happen? We may not get along, but we ARE your sisters." Lonnie said, approaching cautiously.
"And why the hell should I believe anything you say? Because of you two, I've developed BDD, anorexia, and bulimia. And now I'm supposed to just forgive you like that?" Bonnie snapped her fingers to empahasize her point. "Who the HELL do you think you are?" she asked incredulously.
"Bonnie...maybe you should just give them a chance. I mean, other than the fact that we just whooped their asses, they have no other reason to say anything to you AT ALL," Ron said tentatively. "Now, I'm not siding with them," Ron said holding his hands up defensively after seeing Bonnie cast a death stare in his direction, "because I'd love nothing more than to kill them right now, but do you honestly want to be unhappy like this for the rest of your life?'
Bonnie's hatred and anger faltered a bit and she looked over at her...friends' faces and half-smiled. "No. Not really." She heard Connie and Lonnie breathe a small sigh of relief, which caught Bonnie's attention.
"You're really sorry, aren't you?" she asked, slightly confused. "I don't get it."
Tara walked over and sat beside her best friend on her bed and hugged her close. "I can understand what you mean, but things will get better." Tara smiled at Bonnie and looked up, her smile fading into a menacing glare. "Won't it Connie? Lonnie?"
"Y...yea. Of course," Lonnie said. The twin sisters shifted their weight uncomfortably and looked around the room. "We should probably...you know, let you get some rest. So...um, bye."
"Yea. Feel...better, Bonnie," Connie added, ducking out the door, closing it behind her. Bonnie nodded at the closed door, leaned back against her hospital bed, and stared out the window.
"So now what?" Bonnie asked quietly.
"Well, like Mrs. Dr. P. said, you'll get therapy and you'll be monitored. On the bright side you'll miss school!" Ron said, trying to brighten the convo. Bonnie continued to stare out the window.
"Bonnie? Thank you," Tara said.
"Um...for what?" Bonnie asked, screwing up her face in confusion.
"For taking the steps to get better. I wouldn't want anything to happen to you. You mean the world to me."
"Oh...well. It's not like I had much of a choice. But yea. Thanks, Tara."
"We're all glad you're going to get better," Kim added, walking over to Bonnie and placing a hand on hers, smiling.
"Thanks," Bonnie replied, smiling at Kim, Ron, and Tara. They really care about me, huh? Looking down at Kim's hand, Bonnie raised a slightly confused eyebrow.
"Um...Possible? This doesn't mean things are cool with us." She coolly slipped her hand out from under Kim's. "As soon as we get back to school, you'll go back to being the same annoying red head who doesn't deserve to be captain you always were, got it?"
"Sure. What ever you say, Rockwaller." Kim half-smiled and sat down on Ron's lap.
"Same old Bon-bon, huh?" Ron whispered, wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her closer to kiss her cheek.
"Um, excuse me? Could you please do that somewhere else? Ew!" Bonnie rolled her eyes and went back to her conversation with Tara.
"Haha. Yep. Same old Bonnie."
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YAY! This is the first fanfiction I've ever finished so be proud of me. Haha. I'd debating putting an epilogue so please comment on whether you not you think that's a good idea. If not, then you have just finished Perfect Body. Tell me what you think and thanks for having such amazing patience with me and reading my story! :) 3
