The Tragedy of a Ten Year Old

The Adoption pt 2

"Max, Max! Wake up"Gwen shook the boy as David called an ambulance

"My son cut he passed out I- a don't know what to do"

(Over the phone) "its ok sir where are you?"

"Camp Campbell"

"Ok an ambulance is on the way do you mind staying on the call"

"I can do that" David ran outside the kids see him on the phone panicking and gather around

"Can you go outside"

"I just did"

"Ok what's your sons name?"

"His name is Maxwell Aaron Patel, I don't fully have custody but its in process at the moment"

(The kids)

"He's talking about Max"

"What an attention seeker,"

"How far can he got for a sliver if their attention"

"I don't know"

(With david)

"Ok sir what's your name"

"David Park"

"Ok the ambulance is almost there"

"Yea I can hear it"

"Ok sir can I let you go?"

"Yes"

"Ok good luck"

"Thank you"

The call ended

"What's up david?"

"Is that an ambulance?"

"Yea max needs to go to the hospital" then the father turned to where the ambulance was and yelled"hey over here" and the truck drove towards him

The workers took the stretcher into the house following david and they put max on when they got max out of the house and the kids saw him they were shocked his left arm was covered in cuts up and down it and the right hand was in Gwen's hand and she got in the vehicle with Max

When the ambulance started driving away he piled the kids in the bus and started following it to the hospital

At the hospital

"Is he going to be ok?" Nikki asked

"I don't know yet, he never cuts without a reason did you kids say something to push him over the edge

"I did this David" Neil said to the already sad father

"What?"

"I got mad, Jealous even so I started saying he didn't deserve you or Gwen this is all my fault"

"I also did this," Harrison spoke up "I called him an attention seeker, I was also upset"

"If were admitting things we all slipped rude comments to him" Nurf spoke up "I called him a loser, Nerris called him a worthless freak, Nikki said your so rude no wonder your parents left you to him, and Preston told him he should just die"

"You guys What! I thought I was a shitty parent and you kids are just being bullies, Max has problems yes but his anger his rudeness was just to protect himself, the only punishment he can take with out cutting is us forcing him to play his violin for us" he took a breath "I'm sorry but you can't apologize to me, apologize to Max because he needs to feel loved right now"

"Still we're all sorry David" Neil looked at him "I was just jealous"

"Jealous? Why?"

"Well my parents don't notice me my dads all over Nikki's mom and my mom just doesn't care"