~ Prologue ~

"Saying Goodbye"

"I am sorry for your loss." The doctor put his hand on the woman's shoulder and she started to shake her head,

"How could this have happened?" She muttered,

"It appears your daughter went into Cardiac Arrest." The doctor looked at the two parents in front of him.

"Did your daughter have an Eating Disorder?"

"What! No! I would have noticed something like that." The woman started to cry and her husband wrapped his arms around her. He shook his head,

"She was a beautiful and healthy girl. She was a healthy weight, she didn't show any signs..." He trailed off and looked down, a small tear falling down his pale face.

"I am so sorry to tell you this but it does appear that your daughter suffered from Bulimia."

"How do we know?"

"We are going to check the electrolytes to see if there is any imbalance."

"What happens if there is?"

"Then we will know exactly how your Daughter died." The doctor looked at them both,

"They are very secretive, you weren't to know." He tried to smile at them, and patted the man on the back as he passed them,

"As soon as we know more we will tell you." The man started to cry as he held his wife in his arms, she cried with him.

"How could we let her down?" She whispered to him, he shook his head,

"I had no idea what she was doing, we've never had secrets before."

"I can't believe something like this could happen." He hugged his wife as tight as he could, just to let her know they were going to be alright. Then he looked outside the double doors to all his daughter's friends, they were waiting for news.

"Come on, we have to tell them." He nodded towards them and she nodded,

"Do you think it has anything to do with her?" She nodded at a particularly close friend of their Daughter's.

"I hope not." He muttered,

"It doesn't seem right that both of them would have an eating disorder at the same time. One of them must have helped the other." She looked up at him,

"I don't know what I would do if she was responsible for my beautiful baby's death."

"Me neither. But they may not have known about each other."

"Maybe." She held her husbands hand as they walked through the doors, trying to hold back their tears as they told them the bad news. She watched as her daughter's best friend collapsed, crying into her boyfriend's arms.

"I should have told them " She whispered to him but he just shook his head,

"She didn't want you to, there was nothing you could have done." He kissed the top of her head and then looked up at their friends, he shook his head,

"I am really sorry for your loss." The parents smiled at him through their tears and then looked at the tiny girl crying in his arms.

"Did you all know?"

"Yes, we were going to tell you but she wouldn't let us. She promised us she would stop, we didn't know what to do". A dark haired girl stepped forward and went up to her best friends parents and hugged them,

"If I could turn back time, I would have told you. I really wish I hadn't believed her."

"It's not your fault. What we really want to know is if you made her like this..?" She looked at the tiny girl who was still crying, she seemed to know the question was aimed at her as she looked up at them and shook her head,

"What do you mean?" She sniffed, her boyfriend standing up and walking over to them,

"If you are implying that she caused your daughter's Eating Disorder then I would take it back if I was you."

"Just leave it." One of the other boys went up behind him and shook his head,

"We have to know." Her husband spoke up this time,

"We have a right to know." This only angered the boy as he stepped forward and then shook his head, pointing towards his girlfriend.

"She didn't do anything, it was the other way around. The constant looks at her food, the comments about her weight and then telling her all about how she 'got rid' of her own food. Your daughter was to blame for her Eating Disorder, but we didn't blame her because she was ill! She was our friend as well, we knew she couldn't help it, we knew she needed to tell someone about it and she chose my girlfriend, our best friend. She may not have forced her to be like this but she sure as hell didn't help. So don't go around pointing the finger at her, take a look at your own daughter first." He took a deep breathe and looked at them, they stared back surprised and shook their heads,

"She wouldn't do that."

"Oh and she would?" He pointed back to the the brown haired girl who was now standing up and leaning on a dark coloured boy,

"They were best friends, they both knew about each other and this helped them along. It didn't help them but it didn't make anything different. They would have done it on their own anyway." He said and then he looked down at the floor,

"I am so sorry. I didn't mean to place the blame on anyone." The older woman shook her head and then let go of her husbands hand, moving towards the girl, she smiled at her and then pulled her into a tight embrace,

"It will be okay, she loved you so much. You need to carry on with recovery." She whispered to her and the girl nodded, tears falling from her large, brown eyes,

"Thank you."

A/N: I bet it's obvious who it is ;) Tell me what you think in a review! The next chapter will be like before all of this happened :) Just let me know if it's worth carrying on, please!