The Miracle Clinic

Chapter 71 - Abandonment (Prologue)

Back during the first day of middle school, a younger Ronnie Everst is walking towards his class, he glances down at his schedule to see his first class is a science one, yet none of the classes around him are-

Just as Ronnie has that thought, he ends up running into someone causing the both of them to fall to the ground. Ronnie rubs his head a bit when.

"Oh my god, I am so sorry." The student with slightly messy brown hair begins to apologize as he gets up.

Ronnie looks over at them for a moment before remarking, "Hey don't worry about it, I should've paid attention to where I was walking."

Ronnie dusts himself off before standing up and adding, "I'm Ronnie by the way. You got any idea where the science classes are? I'm supposed to have a class there but this whole school is a maze."

"Oh uh-, I'm M-Marcus," Marcus stammers out before calming down and replying, "I think the science classes are closer to the cafeteria."

"Sweet well thanks, Marcus, you're a lifesaver!" Ronnie begins to say as he starts to run away.

Though, as Ronnie runs through the hall he can't help but feel something peculiar toward Marcus. Maybe it was the way he acted, maybe it was the fact Marcus had the same backpack Ronnie had the year prior, or maybe it was for some other random factor entirely.

Whatever it was that caught Ronnie's eye that day, it was the justification he needed to turn around and yell back to Marcus, "And hey just so you know, we're friends now so don't forget it!"

"O-okay!" Marcus replies confused.

As Ronnie continues to walk to his class, he thinks of how for some reason, despite only knowing each other for just a little bit of time, Ronnie wishes that the two could actually be friends.

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In the present, Ronnie opens his eyes as he lies on the asphalt street. The stars in the night sky look a bit blurry, and standing over him, shaking him profusely, is Marcus Veridan.

Ronnie wonders why Marcus is being so silly, he's fine. And why is he crying so much?

The ringing in his ears causes him to not be able to hear what anyone is saying, he notices Elizabeth is also on the phone with someone with a distraught look on her face. She looks over to Ronnie and she tries to stop from crying but she can't help it.

Ronnie is confused by her actions because why would she cry when seeing him? He's fine.

That's when he notices that Alex has dragged that Cal Hound fellow out of a crashed car and is beating him senselessly. Ronnie finds him foolish, Alex always had a bad temper but to attack someone even when his hand is broken is a new low for Alex. Besides, he's overreacting.

They're all overreacting.

"I'm....I'm gonna be fine," Ronnie manages to croak out as blood gushes out from his forehead, "I'm gonna be..."

However, Ronnie never did get to finish that sentence as he drifted into unconsciousness.

"Ronnie?" Marcus shouts, "RONNIE!"

Marcus tries to shake him, tries to stop the bleeding, to do anything to wake Ronnie back up.

But it doesn't work.

Nothing works.

Finally, an ambulance arrives as well as some police cars, as the EMTS have Marcus step aside, he notices Alex shouting.

"Hey let go of me!" Alex roars.

Several of the police officers begin to drag both him and Cal Hound into the police car, both in handcuffs.