(Warning: this chapter may trigger body dysmorphia, and depression, so tread lightly ❤️)

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"Oh god did I get fatter?" Zamora asked herself looking in her full body mirror. She pulled at the fat on her stomach and thighs. She woke up and just knew today was gonna be one of those days, but she also knew she couldn't just stay in her bed. She has school today, her aunt would worry and ask questions she didn't want to answer and her mom would be called. So she sucked it up and got dressed for school, she didn't feel like dressing up like she usually did so she just threw on a big ass hoodie and some shorts.

"Nicolas are you ready yet? Hurry the fuck up you tick tac looking ass bitch" Zamora yelled from the living room waiting for Nick. Her aunt Diana is making them walk to school together to "bond". You can already see how that's turning out.

"Um I don't care either way but are you okay? You would usually be grilling me the whole way to school" Nicolas asked skeptically. Zamora snorted and shook her head, "what are you a masochist, do you want me to degrade you and shit, is that like your kink or something?" Zamora asked jokingly. "Don't worry about it, I'm just worried about Jessie is all" she lied, it's not like she wasn't worried about Jessie at all, it's just that she has a lot of other things on her mind.
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'Maybe I actually should talk to my Aunt' Zamora thought while drawing on her desk. She's had her head down the entire time and barely spoke to Ethan. It was weird for Ethan to see his friend like this, she usually would have been telling him about some zombie movie she watched , or they would be secretly watching a spongbob episode in class. But today she just sat there quietly, drawing on her desk.

Text from Aunt D: Your mom told be about your appointment today, do you want me to take you? REPLY

Zamora got a Notification from her phone as she sat down at lunch with Ethan, she read the text and slumped down on the bench. She forgot she had an appointment with the psychiatrist, she argued with her mother for months just to get this appointment and she forgot about it.

Remember a while ago when Zamora mentioned she has ADHD and a whole lot of other mental problems? Yeah well she's mostly self diagnosed, yes she's had a couple referrals but she technically never gone to the doctor for it, until now. You see Zamora's mother, Roxanne, has this thing where she believes that absolutely nothing can be wrong with her child, and only she's allowed to have "real problems."

So after years and months of denial and tears, Zamora was finally able to convince her mother to set up an appointment, and that appointment happens to be today.
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"Why do I have to watch Nicolas fail miserably at basketball? I mean I don't mind, but don't you want to save the kid a little bit of dignity?" Zamora complained watching Nick get dunked on repeatedly by the other team. Zamora being Zamora she was of course recording every second of it, how else would she properly mock him later? "I'm gonna make an edit of all his fails, it's gonna be awesome" Zamora said typing furiously on her phone.

"If you have a pair of binoculars, you may notice Nick Birch a squirrel of a boy, dribbling the ball across half-court" Nicolas classmate Matthew teased. Nicolas took a shot, only to have the ball slapped back into his face. "Son of a bitch!" He raged, throwing the ball into the table with all the drinks. "Ha, you big mad Nicolas or are you little mad?" Zamora shouted, to which Nicolas flipped her off.

Ethan could see that Zamora was starting to feel better. He didn't know what was wrong in the first place, but he was glad to see her laugh again.
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"Okay we're gonna ask you some questions and run a few test" Dr. Torres said walking into the office looking through what looks like files. "Ummm, are you her mom?" Dr. Torres asked looking at aunt D. "No unfortunately, I'm her temporary guardian until her mother comes back from the UK" Diane answered, squeezing Zamora's hand for comfort.

"Okay well I'm going to need you to step out for a moment, you will be let back in when the result are out" Dr. Torres stated sitting at her desk. Diane was hesitant to let  Zamora stay in the office on her own. "It's okay Aunty I'll be fine" Zamora encouraged. Diane nodded and with hesitance left the office.

After a while Diane was let back into the office, she immediately looked over to Zamora who was chilling playing with a Rubik's cube, though her leg was bouncing up and down more than usual.

"Please have a seat Mrs. Birch, I would like to discuss the results" Dr. Torres said shifting through some papers. Diane sat down in the seat next to Zamora, "calm down aunt D, you're more nervous than I am" Zamora joked, eyes still fixated on the Rubik's cube.

"Alright so Zamora obviously has ADHD, and she also suffers from depression" Dr. Torres stated placing the many papers down. "I'll be prescribing medicine for the ADHD, I recommend she take medication for her depression too, but the alternative option is therapy, whether or not she takes medication for her depression is up to you to decide" Dr. Torres concluded.

Diane sat there processing all of the information. Zamora felt kinda relieved, she was worried that if the test said there was nothing wrong then this whole time her mother had been right saying she was faking all this for attention.

"Oh right, we feel it would be for the best for you to come back in two weeks, there are some separate test we have to run" Dr. Torres remembered. Diane snapped out of the little daze she was in "test for what? Hasn't all our questions been answered?" Diane questioned.

"Yes but during these test we have uncovered something else," Dr. Torres started, "why do you keep say we" Zamora interrupted. "We, as in my superiors and I" Dr. Torres answered Zamora politely.

"We would like to run test for Autism and Bipolar disorder" Dr. Torres finalized.

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A/n: Sorry for the short chapter, I don't really plan any of this or have an outline for anything so I didn't know what to do for this chapter, I just kinda wake up and be like "today is the day I traumatize my character" ya know.

Anyways, hope it wasn't too trashy I'm trying to improve my writing, so if anyone has feedback or constructive criticism than please feel free to comment.

Thank you.