𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗧𝗼 𝗔 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 ~ 𝚅𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝙽𝚎𝚒𝚕 🤍

1995: 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚄𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎

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Kelly's POV, January 3rd 1995

It was a new year, and 1995 hadn't exactly started off as well as I'd have liked, but it is what it is. New Year passed without even being a thought in our minds let alone being celebrated, we had more important things to worry about. Once you've seen one new year, you've practically seen them all.

It had been hectic because we'd finally taken Lydia to the hospital and demanded the doctors do further investigations, it for some reason took some time for the doctors to take us seriously but eventually we got someone to listen and explained the situation, what's been going on and the other things we'd been told by other doctors and how we didn't think they were truly what was wrong.

Needless to say, they took us more seriously when we told them everything and how long it had been going on for. Lydia had been admitted to the children's ward of the hospital on the 28th of December, and since then a number of tests had been performed and results had been given back indicating nothing immediately wrong, but she'd also had some scans last night and me and Vince were hoping to find the results of those this morning.

We'd spent near every day at the hospital since she was admitted, not wanting to leave her side too much because she didn't like being in the hospital, even if the nurses and doctors were nice, she didn't like being on her own, and we'd spent every night here but one so far, Allie was with Vince's parents right now and visited for a few hours every evening.

We'd been awake since half eight and it was now quarter past ten, Lydia had gone back to sleep about half an hour ago and me and Vinnie had been talking about what the scans could show, we went through all the possibilities we could think of... apart from one.

We thought it, and silently communicated it but didn't dare say it incase saying it made it appear, though we knew that was shit. Saying it wasn't going to do anything but make it a realistic option, a realistic option we didn't want to even look at.

We eventually fell silent because if we carried on talking we'd be unable to avoid saying what we were both so scared of letting out into the open.

Waiting for Dr Martin, the main doctor who'd been assigned to Lydia, was probably the most nerve-racking thing I've ever gone through as nothing he could say would be good and when the medic did finally enter the room, for some reason I got a sinking feeling in my stomach.

He smiled at us "Morning."

"Morning, man." Vince replied a bit flat, not really in the mood to be enthusiastic, he hasn't really been himself since Lydia was taken in, her being in this room, hooked up to machines and having tests ran on her was a lot, and did fill your head with bad thoughts. Neither of us were really in the best mindset at this exact minute, we weren't sure what would be worse though, not knowing what's going on or finding out.

"Do you mind stepping out into the corridor and I'll fill you in." The doctor requested and we did, though with some hesitation because there was something about his tone I didn't like, it didn't sound as upbeat as it would if we had some good news for us.

"You have the results of her scan right?" I wondered the moment we were out of the room and into the corridor just as I closed the door behind me.

"Yes." He sighed softly, holding a clipboard with what I assumed to be the results on a sheet of paper "And unfortunately, we found something of concern on your daughters abdominal scan."