(One month later)
"Dammit Molly my friends are flying in to see the show and to meet you" Howie screamed at Molly when she awoke from her nap and told him that she was too tired to go out that evening.
"Baby the pills haven't stabilized me and I am just too exhausted to go out. We have some very hectic days coming up and I need to be at full strength. Why the hell can't you understand that I am sick? Why do you always turn it into some criminal offence when I tell you?"
"Don't give me that shit, every time we have plans you back out and use your anemia as an excuse. Are you embarassed to be seen with me or something?"
Molly started to cry, "No it's not that, why can't you be there for me?"
"That's it cry, cry and blame me, run to AJ and talk bad about me" Howie slammed the door as he stomped out of her hotel room.
"He is getting worse" Molly cried as she curled up in the bed and cried.
~~**~~
Howie looked at his cell phone as he was about to leave and decided to call Molly and see if she had changed her mind. When he heard the sleepy greeting that answered the phone he knew she had not changed her mind "Fuck her" Howie slammed the phone down and walked out the door.
~~**~~
AJ sat on the couch in his hotel room flipping the channels, he was bored and not feeling very well. He heard Nick, Howie and Kevin leave to go out. He heard Nick ask Howie where Molly was and shook his head and grimaced when he heard Howie mutter angrily "She is pulling her shit again" AJ reached for the phone and called Skylar.
"Hi Skeelo"
"AJ how are you, hey why aren't you out terrorizing the city?" Skylar teased.
"I am not feeling well, am I disturbing you?"
"OH yeah, hold on while I tell the male strippers to stop and wait while I tell Limp Biscuit to stop partying, of course I am not busy, I am big and fat and counting down the days till Peanut arrives. Now what's up?"
"It's about Molly"
"How did I know...I guess you still haven't told her your feelings about her yet huh?" "No I haven't. Skeelo, Howie is being such a prick to her, he tells her that she is lazy and that she is making up her illness. I am really worried about her. We went out to dinner last night and she ordered a steak and then after she was half way through it she almost started to cry and then ran to the washroom. I think her bulemia is acting up and I am scared for her"
"I know, Kev called me yesterday and told me the same thing, apparently she looks like hell too. You have to talk to her. If Howie keeps pushing her she is going to going over the edge and once she is over we might not be able to get her back. AJ she trusts you and yearns for your respect, talk to her, get her help, make her admit that she has a problem."
"I am just afraid that if I confront her she will end up hating me as well. This is so hard, I talked to my mom this morning and she says that management knows something is really wrong with her and they are thinking of replacing her. That will devestate her."
"She needs help AJ, first and foremost she needs to get healthy again. My God Kevin says she looks like death warmed over, go talk to her"
"Thanks Skeelo, I love you"
"Love you too, now go and check on her"
AJ looked at his jogging pants and wifebeater and nixed the idea of getting dressed "Come on Bone she has seen you in worse" he walked down the hall and tried her door which was unlocked.
"Chipper?"
He heard gasping and moaning in the bathroom and threw open the door. He drew in sharply when he saw her kneeling in front of the toilet with her fingers down her throat. He ran over to her and grabbed her hand. "YOU ARE NOT DOING THIS!" AJ cupped her face and looked at her pale and skeletal face "You may want to fade away to nothing and die but I won't let you. Now get dressed because I am talking you to the hospital."
Molly stared at the man in front of her "You don't understand..you don't understand , I need to be perfect so Howie won't call me lazy and lose his temper anymore..please Alex just leave me alone and pretend you didn't see me" Molly begged between her tears.
"Forget...why so that I can have your death on my concience for the rest of my life?! No way Chipper it ain't going to happen." AJ picked up the woman in his arms and wrapped her in the blanket off of her bed and walked down the hall with her. " I am hailing a cab and you and I are going to the hospital"
"Please..please Alex if you ever cared about me you would leave me alone, I know what I am doing, look I am almost there, look at how thin I am"
AJ put her down and spun her around to look in the mirror that decorated the elevator. He pulled up her pajama top and exposed her thin body "Does this look healthy? Do you really think that Howie would want to make love to a pile of bones?" AJ tried not to cry when he saw how sickly skinny she was. "Jesus how did Howie ever let you get this bad?"
Molly stared at her thinning and dull hair, her hollow cheeks and her almost see through skin and collapsed in AJ's arms "I just thought that if I was as skinny as all the girls that Howie looked at in high school and all the girls that he has dated that he would stop yelling at me all the time"
"Chipper...oh god Chipper" AJ held her tight and as the elevator doors opened he signalled for Mike his security guard.
"AJ what is going on, Molly are you alright?" Mike asked worriedly.
"She is going to the hospital and she is going to get better once and for
all" AJ picked her up as Mike hailed a cab and the two men ran past the
screaming fans and into the cab. AJ kept running his hands up and down her
back as she cried while Mike called management and the rest of the security
team to let them know what was going on. He watched the interaction between
the couple and he prayed that God would find it fit to make the two realize
that they were meant to be together.
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