A Third Of A Pie

Chapter 17

"No. We're going to investigate."

"W- what!? We told Toast w- we'd go home!" Spooker argued, biting his lip.

"Don't you wanna help Ghost?" Colon asked, giving Spooker a side glance.

Spooker had fallen silent.
He did wanna help Ghost.
"... fine..." Spooker agreed, sighing.

Colon smiled at him, continuing to drive.

-

Toast waited anxiously, messing with his hands.
"Visitors for Johnny Ghost," a doctor called out, holding a file in her hands.
Toast stood up, raising his hand, before following him to a room.

Marking the door as occupied, before sitting down in front Toast, opening the file.
"Does your friend have a history of substance abuse, self-harm, or suicidal tendencies?" She asked, looking over the medical records.

'That's not good...'

"Yes, ma'am. Though... Nothing like that has happened any time recently. It was during teenhood," Toast answered, placing his hands onto his lap.

"I see.... says here he has schizophrenia, but he receives therapy and is medicated. Is that accutate?"

"Yes, ma'am."
He hated the tone doctors used about it. They made it sound like he desperately needed that help!
.... then again.... as much as Toast didn't want to admit it.... he did.

"Does he have access to his own medication or any other types of medicinal drugs?"

"No, ma'am. They're locked and I had the key with me."

"And you're entirely sure of that?"

'.... he didn't....'

"Yes, ma'am."

"Well, during our treatment and testing, we concluded that this was an overdose."

-

Opening the door, they flicked the lights on.
Immediately, they shut the door behind themselves.
"We shouldn't be doing this..." one of them whimpered, biting his lip and holding the other's sleeve.

"We have to. Come on," he responded, before dragging the other off.

Sighing, Fred agreed, following Chris reluctantly.
'You're doing this to help.'

Colon stopped, thinking quizzically, "where was he before we left...?"

"Last place was the kitchen," Spooker answered, looking around anxiously, feeling bad and guilty for doing this to them.
If they were hiding something, there was probably a good reason behind it.

Colon nodded, leading Spooker to the kitchen.
They were startled by how it looked....