My friend, her name is Demi and she is the prettiest most bubbly girl you will ever meet. Let me just clear this we are NOT lesbians.
I hadn't known her very long but we grew close and after a while I had offered if she would like to stay with me and my family after what I had heard from her older sister. She told me that her life was a mess and that she needed to get away from it all for a while. Her father committed suicide last year and her mother has turned back to alcohol again since splitting with her step dad. I also heard that Demi, her older sister and her younger were all too sexually abused by this man. I'd like to add she also has an eating disorder which is currently trying to be helped and she is very skinny.
For about a month after her staying at my house her older sister arranged to go on a holiday with her, her boyfriend, me and Demi to Spain. She was totally fine until about a week into the holiday when we decided to go to this mini theme park thing. After we had eaten -which she had refused- she told to me she wanted to go home.
It was so unlike her, she usually would be anywhere until it closed, she was always full of energy, always up for anything. I told her I didn't want to as we'd only been there an hour or so and I continued to walk around with her trailing behind. A minute later I'd turned back and her eyes were black where her mascara had gone everywhere and she was in tears. I'd never seen her like it. I took her to the side and sat her on a bench and asked her what was the matter. She wouldn't answer and few seconds later a little child and her family walked past staring at her. All of a sudden she screamed at them 'Stop Looking at me' so loud that even people quite far turned around. She was in such a state. She even started talking to herself as if she was having an argument with someone inside her head. I didn't know what to do.
I took her to the toilets so she'd calm down then I took her home. She didn't say a word in the car only stared into space. I hate to say it but she looked like she should be in a mental home. We went back to our apartment and she locked herself in the toilet as soon as we got in. She dawdled for quite a while then I heard her take a shower. She came out and went straight to bed. She didn't say anything to me the whole night.
I woke before her in the morning to see her sleeping there with cuts and bruises all the way up her arms. And she has been like this ever since. She won't eat. She won't talk. She won't shower. She just sleeps. I've tried getting her to a doctor but she goes mental. It's like the Demi I know has disappeared and she is a totally different person. I want to help but I don't know what to do.
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