" Aww come on, Nick. It'll be fun," Aaron said trying to talk his brother into going snowboarding with him. The teenager, already dressed for out door activity, took off his gloves and sat down on the bed beside his brother.
Nick lay in bed, hands under head. He wasn't inclined to talking to anyone and was pretty pissed that his younger brother had violated his room, even if he had been specific that NO ONE was allowed to enter the premises. Not under ANY circumstances. Yet his brother had bolted in, starting to talk him into getting up and going snowboarding with him.
" NO!" Nick was stern in his comment.
He wasn't up to meeting any people and certainly not wanting to go outdoor. Damned if he was in Aspen, against his own will, he still didn't want to do any skiing. It was not that he disliked these kind of sports, no on the contrary. He'd even got up early to go skiing, yet his stomach had started to give him trouble again and he was soon batteling another fight with nausea. He'd felt like crap for an long time now and he almost longed that the disease that had him in it's tight grip would finally break out. That way he would get relief soon. He was getting so sick and tired of feeling this crappy all the time.
Tomorrow was christmas eve and he hoped that this was just an 24 hour bug, since it would suck eggs to be sick with the stomach flu on the night of celebration. Brians Leighanne had complained that she felt a bit ill during breakfast and they had decided to stay at the their room the whole day.
" Please, Nick," Aaron whined, grabbing his brother in the arm, trying to get him to stand up. He really wanted to spend time with him since they rarely got to be together anymore. Besides Nick loved snowboarding and wouldn't miss an opportunity to do so.
" I said NO, Aaron. Now leave me alone." Nick rolled on the other side, turning his back against his brother.
Aaron looked disappointed. " But Nick..you..you..you really use to like it," It was clearly that his little brother was batteling tears and Nick felt bad for making Aaron this sad. Yet he couldn't help it, there were no energy to do anything.
With a sigh, Aaron stood up. " You know, Nick, you would tell me wouldn't you, if, you know there were something wrong with you, you know?" There were sadness in the tone of his voice.
" Yeah, now GET OUT." Nick muttered, not wanting to talk anymore since he could feel his own eyes start to burn from tears threatning to dwell over. Besides he was doing his best to fight down the nausea that was threatning to get him into fullblown vomiting. That however was NOT something that he wanted his brother to see therefore he swallowed hard.
" Fine, be an ass then. See if I care," Aaron shouted sourly, walking briskly out of the room, slamming the door in the process.
" That little punk," Nick mumbled as he heard his brother leave his room. He didn't have to think any longer of the incident since more pressing matters were making themself known and soon he had to run to the bathroom, hands covered over his mouth. Sinking down on the floor infront of the bowl he let go off the little he'd eaten at breakfast.
This was starting to be an procedure since he had started the day like this for several weeks now.
" Nick, I think that.." Aaron who had come to ask if he could borrow his brothers sun glasses, bursted in, whitout knocking on the door. A bit suprised he noticed that there were no Nick in sight. Blanket was thrown carelessly on the floor and as he called his brothers name again, " Nick?" he heard a faint sound from the bathroom.
Walking really quietly he made it to the door, just to be met with an sight that had him all concerned. There were Nick puking his guts out, moaning, looking like he was in real pain. That was strange since Nick had mentioned nothing about being sick, and he was sure that he would have heard about if he had the flu from his parents. If that had been the case his mother would have forbidden him and his sisters to visite his brother since they couldn't afford to be sick, going on tour again after new years eve.
There were something very disturbing over what he wittnessed. And something stopped to let himself known.
The other night he had overheard his parents talking that Nick might be on drugs or that they suspected that he had some kind of disorder called Buli...Bulimia something. All Aaron knew about that disorder was that people first ate alot and then puked. On purpose! It was just gross!
But Nick couldn't have that disease, could he? Aaron was starting to sweat really bad and it was uncomfortable to hide from his brother. Besides by the sounds Nick was soon going to come back. Toilet was flushing and he could hear Nick get up to rinse his face. Really silent he walked over to the door, opening it up really slow he walked oútside, then closed it as quiet as he could.
Now he was really disturbed over his brothers health.
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" Hrm..let's see," Aaron was writing on his computer, toungue in his mouth, set to find out the information that he needed. He was going through the search engines, looking up all he could find about eating disorders. The incident earlier in the morning had him really shook up and he was intend to find out if Nick could be into that bullimia crap.
" Oh how many pages," he murmured as he went through the seed of home pages regarding this disorder. Suddenly he found what he was looking for and studied it carefully.
Nasty, Aaron thought as he read about eating and vomiting. According to him that was the most gross thing that anyone could do, vomiting that was. Everything he read could fit the picture, everything but that the person would loose weight. As far as he knew Nick was gaining weight, at least it looked so on his stomach.
" What are you readin'?" It was his sister Lesley that had sneaked up behind him, reading over his shoulder.
Before thinking Aaron pressed delete and said, " Nothing."
" Really?" She raised and eyebrow. Then there were an michouvious grin on her face, " You're watching porn."
" NO. I'm not!" Aaron objected.
" Yes you are," Lesley laughed and said to their sister Angel who just came in, " Aaron is out on the net, checking out nude girls."
" I am NOT!" Now he was starting to get upset. Angels started to laugh too and Aaron fumed from anger.
" Yes , why would you otherwise delete the page when I came in?" Lesley looked at Aaron, searching for an answer.
Shrugging the blonde said, " Beacuse!"
" That's it, I'm telling mom," Angel said running out from the room, laughing.
" YOU'RE NOT!!!!! If you do I'm gonna kick your ass." Aaron ran after his screaming twin sister.
" What is this?" Jane said, with an grim expression, hands on her hips.
" Aaron is watching porn sites!" Angels was telling on her brother and this had the teenager wanting to rip his sisters head off.
" I'm so gonna kill you, " he threatened, getting his mothers eyes on him. " You do no such thing, Aaron Carter and now you appologize to your sister."
" But I did nothing wrong," the boy complained. " This is soooo unfaiiir,"
" Quit whining," Jane said irritatedly, " You sound like Nick!"
Sulking Aaron left the room, going upstairs. No way he was going to appologize for something that he didn't do. He went into his room, slamming the door beside him. This day was becoming more and more shitty.
In the other room Nick lay down, listening to music in his headphones. He had spent the whole day in here, just feeling as crappy as he could be. His head ached and the stomach had been upset all day. Luckely there had been no more trips to the bathroom, yet he had this stomach ache that didn't seem to let up. It was also sooo boring laying in bed all day, but he knew that he was running a slight fever, and had no energy what so ever to be up.
This was something that were so very unlike Nick Carter. He was often jittery, not being able to sit or lay still. Yet these days that was all that he wanted to do.
His head jerked as he heard the door slam in the room beside him. Aarons room. A small smile toyed on his lips, recognizing the temper from his own. Aaron was an miniature of him in young age, with that exception that Aaron was more spolied and had an better self confidence, at least that was what he was playing out.
" Niiiiiickkkk, Aaarrrrrroooonnnnn!" his mother called out from the stairs, " Diiiiiiiinnnnneeeeerrrrr"
Nick sighed. Food wasn't something that had high priority, yet he had to go since he would otherwise worry his family too much.
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" Mom, isn't Nick coming down to dinner?" the young blonde asked as he was stuffing his mouth full with meatballs. He had an hard time sitting still and kept fidgeting all the time. The incident earlier on in the day had him really shook up and he couldn't stop thinking about it. He felt all jittery.
" Porno king!" Angel said, giggling and that had Aaron in for a fit.
" Ouuuchhh, Mooooom, Aaron kicked me," his twin sister Angel yelled, giving her brother an hard glare.
Jane sighed heavily, " Aaron sit still, and No I don't know if Nick will be down for dinner." She had tried to reason with her older son earlier on just to be met that he was tired and that he wanted to be alone. Seriously worried she had tried to get him to talk, but he had clammed shut like he had done so many times before. Her earlier talk with Brian had her thinking.
Could her son really suffer from an eating disorder?
" Oh Nick, you came!" Aaron sounded cheerfull.
Raising an eyebrow he said as he sat down, " Yeah, Why wouldn't I do that?"
" Oh..hrm..eh..," Aaron looked down, " Nothin'," he said looking down, feeling his brothers suspecious looks upon him.
" Son, are you feeling all right?" There were concerned in Bobs voice as he took in his sons appearance. Nick was much too pale for his own liking and had heavy dark bangs under his eyes.
" It was sooo much fun snowboarding," Aaron said, turning to his brother, " We really missed you."
" Mhm."
There were not many words uttered at the dinner table and Aaron was busy watching Nick, under his bang. He made an note how much Nick ate and if he was looking like he might be sick or something. When the dinner went without misshaps he thought he most be paranoid or something since Nick showed no sign from being sick or having that Bulimia crap. Ok, he looked a bit fat, but he didn't eat more than before, more likely less.
Pulling his plate at the side when he was done, Nick let out an loud burp and this had Jane into action. " That was rude." she scolded him.
Shrugging Nick said, " At least Jay Leno loved it."
Aaron giggled, getting Janes eyes on him too. Instantly he shut up.
"Sorry, May I be excused?" Getting an positive response Nick stood up, pushing his chair in and then said, " Thanks mom. That was good," with that he left the room, feeling the family members searching looks in his back. Jane felt concerned. Nick seemed to lack apetite and he was mostly pushing the food around on his plate. Still he was gaining weight.
Aaron watched in silence as his brother left the room and then stood up to follow him, intend to see what ge was up to next.
" Where are you going young man?" Jane asked, eying him closely.
" To..to the bathroom," Aaron lied. Ok, technically it was not an lie since he strongly suspected that it was the place where Nick was going too.
" Well you have to wait since you didn't finish up your plate," Jane said sourly and this had Aaron groaning.
" I have to go now," he whined and Angel as well as Lesley said that he was an whiner. He didn't care since he had to see where Nick were headed. What if he was really puking up his guts?
" First you are going to eat up your food," Jane said with determination. Aaron had an hard time of sitting still. He fidget, since he really wanted to go and see where Nick went. He had to know.
" I'm not hungry," he lied, holding his stomach to emphazise the feeling. This action had his parents frowning. " You're not coming on with something are you?" Suddenly Jane was very concerned and she tried to feel his forehead.
Aaron shrugged. " No, I'm fine. Just ate too much."
" Ok." His mother didn't look too convinced, yet let the topic drop. " Very well Aaron you may be excused."
" What???" His sisters yelled, " He is just lying. He isn't sick!" They complained and Aaron smiled smugly at them. Before going he stuck his tounge out getting them to yell even louder. Then he ran before his mother changed her mind.
He needed to see with his own eyes what Nick was up too.
