Colorful (Adopted by Emblem3)

Chapter 16: These times are hard

Drew's POV:

Mom had walked in with McDonald's for Wes, Keaton and I.

"Where's Wesley?" She asked, looking around.

"He's still sleeping." Keaton said.

"Okay, I'll put his food in the fridge, and heat it up when he gets here." Mom said handing me and Keaton our food.

There was knock at the door and Dr. Kuntupis walked in.

"Goodmorning." He said, shaking mine, Keaton's, and my mom's hands.

"Goodmorning." We said in unison.

"We have summarized what Ryder has developed and we also have a question for you, Mr. Chadwick." He said taking a seat on a chair.

"Okay..." Mom encouraged.

"Basically, Ryder has had OCD since she was about 8 years old. Over the years, she has developed seperation anxiety, and cyclothymia." He said.

"What's cyclothymia?" I asked.

"It's a mood disorder, milder than a bipolar disorder, where she'll have mild mood swings from time to time. It's not severe so, no need to worry. We will perscribe medication for that."

"What about the seperation anxiety?" I asked.

"She developed it when she was placed into the orphanage. She was seperated from someone she was close to, obviously. There's nothing we can really do to help this besides, rehab, which, might make it worse, being seperated from you guys." Dr. Kuntupis explained. "Now, Mr. Chadwick, what do you know about Ryder's past?"

"She, she was abused, raped, and just went through hell basically." I answered.

Dr. Kuntupis looked to be in pain. "That's not what I wanted to hear."

"Why? What's wrong?" I asked. I swear to God, if they take my baby girl away from me.

"Well, when she wakes up, she's going to go under alot of traumatic stress. Her whole life will flash before her eyes. She'll have a hard time. We've seen people screaming and crying and everything in between. But, they didn't go through everything she did. For Ryder, it will most likely be worst. She'll probably need to be held down." He said sympathetically.

"Thank you doctor." Mom said, shaking his hand.

"You're welcome." He said before exiting.

This cannot happen to my baby girl.

I grasped onto Ryder's hand and looked at her.

Wes walked in as mom told him about the food in the fridge. He thanked her and heated his food up.

Laraine and Breezie walked and looked shocked.

Laraine came over beside me, asking me how I was doing. I couldn't answer, all I could think about was, what is going to happen when she wakes up.

Everything got quiet now. The only sound being the heart monitor, beeping with every beat of her fragile heart.

Jake and Bridgit came in and smiled at me which, I returned.

"Hey, someone call Nick's dad. Tell him to bring down Nick." Wes suggested with a mouthful of food.

Keaton nodded and left the room.

"I miss her so much." I whispered, I'm not even sure if anyone heard me.

"Me too." Wes said.

"Nick and his dad are on his way. Oh, and dad texted saying he'd be here. Mom are you cool with him coming?" Keaton said while walking in.