Chapter 6

Kate busied herself in the kitchen making coffee and a light breakfast for herself and Ana. She wanted to apologise for last night.

"Morning" Ana said coming out of her bedroom.

"Morning" Kate turned around "god, you look awful".

"Thanks for that, I feel a lot worse than I look. You cooking?".

"Yeah, thought I'd make some breakfast for us. I wanted to apologise for last night, we shouldn't of ambushed you like that".

"You're right, you shouldn't have. I'm not lying to you Kate".

"Really Ana? Because Elliot said he saw you last night when you were drunk and that the two of you talked".

"I don't remember seeing him last night".

"Yeah, he said that you were pretty drunk. He gave you a lift home from Portland. So you don't remember what you guys talked about?".

Ana shook her head. "Not really".

"Lets sit down to have some breakfast and we can talk, okay?".

"I'm okay with just a coffee, I don't feel so good".

"That's what you get for drinking whisky all night. Well I'll put your breakfast in the fridge in case you want it later. Sit down and I'll get your coffee".

"I was drinking whisky? Gross".

"Yeah, that's what I thought. For someone who doesn't drink that often you should stay away from the spirits honey." Kate said a few moments later and set down the coffee in front of Ana.

"What else did Elliot say?".

"You sure you don't remember?".

"No, well not much anyway. I remember being in a bar and I vaguely remember talking to someone and then them driving me home but I didn't know that it was Elliot".

"Well he said that he told you he knew that me and Christian were worried about you and why, then he said that he asked you if it were true and that you didn't say anything but looked guilty as hell".

Ana looked away from Kate's gaze. She didn't know what to say, she didn't know how much Kate knew.

"Ana, I am going to ask you again, have you been making yourself sick?".

Ana flushed with shame, it was different lying to Kate and Christian before, they hadn't asked her directly.

Ana nodded ever so slightly. If Kate had blinked she would of missed it.

"Oh Ana, why? Why didn't you talk to me?".

A tear ran down Ana's cheek. "Because I didn't want you to look at me the way you are now".

Kate sighed. "Is this because we all kept pushing you to eat something?".

Ana shook her head. "I don't know, all I know is that whenever I ate it felt like it was really heavy in my stomach and made me feel really ill, when I was sick I didn't feel like that anymore".

A tear ran down Kate's cheek too. "Why didn't you just talk to me Ana?".

"I don't know, I guess I figured you would make too much out of this and I don't know, I thought Christian might make good on his promise".

"What promise?".

"He was still here when I got back yesterday and he said that he would leave it for now but if he saw me losing more weight then he would take me to the hospital".

"Wait, I thought you didn't remember anything from last night?".

"I remember being home and Christian was here. I guess that I had sobered up a bit by then".

"Well now we know what is going on we can get you some help no one will have any reason to take you to hospital" Kate tried to smile.

"What if I don't want anyone else getting involved in something that only effects me?".

"It DOES NOT only effect you, okay Ana" Kate yelled. "We are all going through this with you".

Ana was taken back, Kate had never yelled at her. She had yelled at people for Ana but never at her.

"I know that you are all worried about me but this is something that I am dealing with, not you Kate".

"We all just want to help you, as much as I am not part of the Christian Grey fan club he is worried about you and so am I".

"Is that why you told your boyfriend things about me that were supposed to be private"

"I was worried about you Ana, he was the only person I could talk to".

"You could of talked to me Kate".

"Yeah right Ana, anytime I tried to bring anything about it up you got mad at me".

Both of them were silent for quite some time.

"What are you going to do?"

"I am going to come with you to the doctors today and you are going to tell them" Kate said firmly.

Ana knew that it was going to be pointless to argue about it so she didn't bother.

"Fine. When?".

"I have called the doctors and they said we can come in at ten".

Ana went to her bedroom and sat down on the bed. She hated how Kate had looked at her, she knew she wasn't going to be anything but 'looked after' by Kate from now on.

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