Author: The Wayward Angel
Story: Skeleton in the Closet
Word Count: 408
Chapter: 4/?
Pairings: None
Spoilers: None
Trigger Warnings: eating disorders, self-harm, homophobia, angst, low self-esteem
Summary: Everyone has secrets, closets full of skeletons. It doesn't matter if you're a jock, or a cheerleader, or a nerd…in the end it's all the same. Everyone is made of the same atoms and molecules and when you peel off the skin and muscle we all look the same inside. Everyone has something to hide. Everyone. *Highschool AU*
Disclaimer: Not even close

Unbeta'd. All mistakes are mine. Please feel free to point out any grammatical or spelling errors.

Skeleton in the Closet
Chapter Four – Gabriel Novak

Chocolate, candy bars, Snickers, Milky Ways, Reese's Pieces, Skittles, on and on and on. Gabriel Novak loves candy. He eats it all the time. In class, at home, in church. But he never gains weight, not even an ounce. Because Gabriel has the all time, most perfect secret in the back of his pocket on how to eat as much candy as he wants.

His own skeleton in the closet if you will.

Binge and purge. Bulimia. Eating disorder. Whatever you want to call it.

It's not a problem, it's a solution. Gabriel is convinced. It's not about being skinny, or fat; it's about having a love for something that could possibly mess up his perfection. Okay, maybe it is a body image thing but whatever.

Gabriel's not really hiding it, but no one knows either. No one pesters him about how "unhealthy" his obsession is. Not even his little brother Castiel. He's pretty sure that Castiel is hiding something, but everyone has secrets. Absolutely everyone.

Gabriel isn't a jock, or a cheerleader, and he's not as sexy as that Dean Winchester kid because damn, even Gabriel has given that kid's ass a double look, but he's had his fair share of chicks. And he knows for a fact that no girl would give him a second glance if his stomach started getting pudgy, but he does love his candy.

Vomiting isn't that bad, really. Not when it's just chocolate or whatever that's coming back up, and yeah, okay, sometimes it burns and brings tears to his eyes but it's fine. Everything's fine.

He has it under control.

Really.

And as long as his parents don't find out and freak out, everything will be fine. It'll all be fine. It will. It has to be.