Panic Prone

Twenty-nine

skittlesxrayn

"He already knows," Jay snapped back.

"No, he doesn't. He thinks we're together. He doesn't know about this friends with benefit deal. And if he did, I don't think he would be too fond of knowing his friend was taking advantage of his sister!"

Jay stared at her, "I don't care. You're sick. You need help."

"I don't need help! I'm fine!"

"That's total bullshit, Emma and you know it."

Towerz got between the two of them, he looked at Emma, "What's going on with you?"

Emma rolled her eyes, "Nothing! Can't people just leave me alone?"

"No we can't! I...We care about you and we see what you're doing. You look like a skeleton," Jay said, looking at her with concern.

"Is that what you really think, Jay?" She smirked, pushing past her brother and putting her hands on Jay's chest, "Is that what you think when you're on top of me, fucking my brains out? Hmm? Is it? Because, I never heard you complain then."

He pushed her hands away, "When the hell did you get so cold?"

She rolled her eyes and walked away from the two of them.

A few hours later, Emma went home. She had been walking around aimlessly. She walked in to her house and straight in to an intervention. She looked around the living room. Manny, Jay, Towerz, her parents, even Pater and Sean were there.

Emma sighed, "What's this all about?"

Her mother stood up, "Anthony came to us, telling us that he's worried about you. That you haven't been eating."

"You don't think it's sad that you or Dad never noticed?" She hissed.

"Emma, we work." Her father said, standing next to her mother.

Emma rolled her eyes, "And you go away on the weekends."

Towerz stood up, "That shit doesn't matter right now, Em. What matters is that you're sick and you need help."

Emma looked behind him, straight at Peter, "Why are you here?"

"I care about you and I noticed that you really haven't been yourself," Peter answered quickly.

"Bullshit." Her eyes moved to Sean. She smirked, "What about you? Hoping to get more action than just a kiss?"

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Jay's face turn red. Sean shook his head, "I'm here for support."

Emma rolled her eyes, "Look, I appreciate that all of you care, but I'm fine. It's not like I'm out getting pregnant or anything."

Manny lowered her head and Jay stood up, "Since when are you such a bitch!"

Her parents started to tell Jay to leave, but Towerz said it was ok.

Emma looked at him, raising her eyebrow, "What?"

He walked over to her, "You heard me."

"How is any of this your business anyway, Jay?" She snapped, backing away from him.

He stepped closer to her, "I've known you, your whole god damned life, Emma. This is my business. And you lied to me. You said you would stop."

"There's nothing to stop. I'm fine. Can't anyone understand that!"

"People who are fine, don't faint. People who are fine actually eat something and keep it down!" He screamed at her.

Manny, Sean, Peter, Towerz and her parents, stood by and watched. Their eyes, darting back in forth between the two of them.

"You don't know what you're talking about," She said quietly.

"I don't?" He grabbed her arm and walked her in to the kitchen.

She leaned against the counter, "I like to stay healthy, ok?"

He looked at her, "Says the girl who use to scarf down half a large veggie pizza."

She looked away from him, everyone was standing in the doorway, "Is there a point to any of this?"

"Yeah, for once there is," he opened the fridge and grabbed piece of last night's pizza. He walked over to her, "Eat it."

She looked at him and then down at the pizza. She shook her head, "No, I'm not hungry. I had a big lunch."

"You're lying, Emma," Manny said from the doorway. "I was with you at lunch."

Emma shot her a death glare.

"Emma, please. Eat it." Jay begged.

Her lip quivered as her eyes filled up with tears, "Jay, I can't. Don't make me," she said quietly.

"Then, get help. Let them take you to the hospital."

She shook her head, letting the tears fall, "I just wanted to lose a few pounds."

Jay put the pizza down and wrapped his arms around her, "It's ok, Emma," he said soothingly.

She fell to the floor and he kept his arms around her, sitting on the floor with her. She cried harder as he rubbed her back, trying to calm her down.