My Body Tells Me No (Open)

"That sucks." Heather mused, casting a look towards the front of the room. "So essentially I can't just up and leave?" Heather had thought about it a few times but more often than not she had so little energy to do most things let alone sneak out.

Groaning, Heather rubbed a hand over her eye, that was not good news. On the other hand, Alec was right, this was not her last stop, she refused to stay here forever."How long have you been here, Alec?" If you had cancer and you were in a hospital, didn't that kind of give the idea that this was where you'd probably spend the rest of your days?

"2 days off a whole year." That was a long time to stay in one building. "Here I am thinking that being here nearly a month is bad, but damn, Alec that's a long time to stay in a hospital." Fingers tracing the title on her book, Heather tried to imagine staying here that long, she didn't want to.

Heather guessed that most people had the same attitude she did towards hospitals, they definitely weren't viewed as a good omen in Heather's mind. "Do you go to the group therapy sessions or whatever they're called?" Heather had been invited to them but since she knew no one there, she'd declined going, talking about her feelings was not the kind of therapy she needed.

"Don't the kids from the Mental Ward go sometimes?" On a late night wondering, Heather has passed the ward, taking one look at the name plaque and carried on walking, night time and virtually crazy people did not seem like a good mix.

"Thanks, I'll keep that in mind." And she would, if she ever felt like going she most definitely would not go alone to what sounded like an hour of boredom mixed with too many morbid thoughts. Cracking a rare smile, Heather wasn't sure what to say for a moment before she felt like apologizing for her behavior earlier, "I'm sorry that I was a bitch earlier, this is all just very new to me. I guess I wasn't prepared for a welcome committee of sorts."

"That's because it's rare to get a good doctor. For months I had multiple doctors tell me that what I was suffering from was growing pains and stress." Stress did trigger the pain though, so did cold weather but that was beside the point, the point was that her doctors were awful until she'd come here, not that she'd admit to that.