#neglection

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Lanyon spent the next three days doing nothing but listening to Jekyll tell his stories and ramble about his science, until he noticed the bags under his eyes.

“Hold on, you can stop now.”

Jekyll's entire body sagged in relief as he let out a little whine from the back of this throat. He started to fall over when Lanyon grew to stop him.

“No, no sleep, not just yet. I would like you to answer some questions first.”

Jekyll looked at him with such a pathetic look that he couldn’t keep from laughing.

“It won’t take long, and it’s for your benefit, I swear. Now tell me, what hurts?”

“Everything.”

“Everything? Could you elaborate?”

“My head and eyes and muscles and stomach and throat.”

“Jeez. Ok, do you know why?”

His human glared at him in annoyance. “Because I’ve been stuck here doing nothing but talking for days.”

“And?”

“Do- do you really know nothing of human biology?”

“I know little about your kind. I find you a rather pathetic and disgusting species, so there was little reason to know anything until recently.”

“My muscles hurt because I need to be able to move and stretch them. My stomach because I need food to survive-”

“I’m assuming you eat more than bark and honey.”

“Yes. Plants and cooked animals mostly. Now my throat hurts because humans need water, and because we aren’t supposed to talk so frequently as you’ve made me. My head hurts both due to lack of water and lack of sleep.”

“How often do you need these things? And know that if you are lying to me I will be able to tell.”

He sighed but answered anyway “Ideally we should have an hour of exercise, eight hours of sleep, three meals a day, and around two hundred ounces of water at LEAST.”

“Wow. That is… A lot of requirements. Your kind is…. Very weak. You live for such a short time and use most of the time you have trying to continue not dying.”

“It’s not like we can help it. If it’s too much trouble for you, you can let me go.”

“No. Absolutely not.”

Tears sprung into the human’s eyes as he started shouting. “You can’t just keep me here, I have a life! I have friends and things to do and I don’t want to be here! I-”

Lanyon gently took one of his hands and with the other started stroking his hair. “Shhh shh shh. It’s ok. You’re safe here, I’ll take care of you. It’s all oka-”

“No it’s not! It’s not ok it’s-”

Lanyon felt for the connection he had to Jekyll through his name and pulled.

“Henry. You are safe here. You are not to speak or think about this matter for the rest of the day. You are happy to be here, and you know I’m going to take care of you.”

Henry opened and closed his mouth for a few moments as if he was trying to say something, but his eyes went hazy and he stopped. Lanyon let go of him smiling.

“Good boy. Now I’m going to get you some food and water, and it will be here when you wake up. For now though, I want you to sleep, ok?”

Well I have,

Honestly, I've been harboring anger and sadness for 2 years, I always feel like I'm being ignored by my group of friends.

They steal my only friend but no one notices that, and after my bff moved out, it's only me and my friend group. My friends group actually split into two, my main friends group and my other friends group.

And I know they only like my bff only and not me, I'm just like a second choice to them or black sheep idk. I always feel left out and always be the one who got kicked out.

Even after my best friend left, they still act the same even with my main friends group is still the same but worse. I was sad at the back and no one even bothered to comfort me or asked me to join them. I don't know what they think that day but all I see is just them only talking to each other without me, only looking at me confused on why I'm suddenly stopped being loud anymore like usual.

I was so sad and depressed and I started to vent to my bff only and told her everything on what I've been through since she left.

This has been going on until one day, a fight between my group friends happened.

It all happened when my teacher had assigned us to split into 5 groups to make a history project and of course no one picked me but gladly a kind classmate invited me over to be grouped with them.

Idk the fight between my friend group is going to happen until my main friend group tells us in our main chat group about what happened. I listened to their explanation and they blamed the other.

After I listened to their explanation, I secretly moved to the other to listen to their explanation, and they explained too.

Now in this situation, I claim both faults, because what happened is, my main group didn't do anything at first and just waited for my other friends group to give them an order. This causes stress to my other friends because in that month, it is a very busy month and we have two projects to be complete and my main group actually didn't do the other project because they claim they're lazy.

This fight caused us to split into two groups, one is my main group and the other one is the other. This has been going on for a month and I can't help but backstab my main group to go to my other friends group.

Why?

Because when they were explaining and blaming on the other, I can see they didn't care about me at all, they only wanted someone to support their statement and blame the other like they didn't cause this from the start.

I backstab them for a few months until they find out and ditch me for being a snitch.

This makes me so furious because they literally make me look like a villain. Okay, I admit that I felt guilty for backstab them but this is the only choice I have to make them feel betrayed after what they did to me.

because sometimes It'd be the anxiety that'll have your mind and body go through depression and though it gets dark, theirs always a way of freedom

break your own neglection and mental distortion kill your demons with kindness...