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Chapter 24

"Wait. What are you doing talking?" Mitch asks as he crosses his arms over his chest.

"What are you still doing standing here? I don't like you so get the hell away from me." Tim says as he hangs the angel on the tree.

"You're not supposed to be talking. You'll surely be released now." Mitch says with a sneer. "And I'm telling Ms. Tina that you're cussing."

"I said. Get. Away. From. Me. You pencil prick bag of bones." Tim growls as he turns to face his tormentor.

"Why don't you go harass someone else, Mitch." Avi says as he hangs an ornament on the tree.

"My job is to make sure no one hangs any ugly ornaments on the tree." Mitch states.

"That's not your job. As a matter of fact, you don't have a job cause no one wants you around. You're a waste of space. So why don't you make us all happy and just disappear. You're like chitlins. No one likes chitlins and no one likes you." Adam says.

"Oh, stay out of this, Motor Mouth." Mitch says. "I won't allow this ugly angel to hang on the tree."

With that being said, Mitch quickly grabs the little corn hush angel and crumbles it in his hands.

"NOOOO!!" Tim yells as he grabs for the angel but wasn't fast enough.

Chance had been called over to help Tina and Jenika untangle some Christmas lights. Tim's yelling quickly draws everyone's attention.

"Oh, no." Chance groans as he, Tina and Jenika try to make their way through the patients who had gathered around.

"Why? Why did you do that?" Tim cries as he falls to his knees and tries to pick up the pieces of the torn up ornament.

"You son-of-a-b*tch." Avi growls before punching Mitch in the face.

"KILL HIM, AVI!!" Adam yells. 

Austin could only stare in shock at what was going on. He had never seen Avi this angry. He was normally the calm one of the group.

Mitch falls to the floor and Avi quickly sits down on him and raises his fist to punch him again.

"AVI, NO!!" Tina yells as she grabs the bearded man by his arm.

"NO, MS. TINA!! LET HIM KILL HIM!! IT'LL DO US ALL A FAVOR!!" Adam yells. "HE'S MEAN AND HATEFUL AND UGLY AND DOESN'T DESERVE TO BREATH OUR AIR!"

"Adam, honey, calm down!" Jenika says as she grabs hold of the blonde.

Nate rushes over to help break up the fight. Olena and Sami were trying to get the other patients cleared back. But all the patients wanted to see Mitch get exactly what he deserved.

"I want to know what happened and I want to know right now!" Tina says. She quickly lays a hand over Adam's mouth. "Austin."

As Austin begins to tell Tina what happened, some of the other patients also told her that Mitch was the one who started the whole thing. Chance turns around and slowly gets on his knees in front of Tim.

Tim was clutching the shredded pieces of the little angel to his chest. He rocked back and forth as he sobbed heavily.

"I'm so sorry, Sweetheart." Chance whispers softly.

"Why did he do it, Chance? Angels are good. They don't hurt anybody." Tim says through his sobs.

"People like Mitch doesn't see the good in anything. Their main purpose in life is to make other people miserable." Chance says as he wraps his arms around the distraught man and pulls him into a hug.