My Blood- stay with me

Chapter 7

Josh Pov

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As we walked towards the visiting room Tyler seemed a little nervous. He had his head held low and he was breathing faster than normal so I stopped and turned him towards me

“Hey Tyler, look at me.”

He looked up with tears in his eyes

“Tyler, I am right here and I am not leaving. I'm here for you. If you need to leave just tap my leg twice and we'll leave, you don't even have to say anything if you don't feel comfortable, Okay?”

He nodded and started breathing slower

We turned back towards the door and walked in. Jenna was sitting at the table and jumped up when she saw him to hug him. This scared him so he took a step back which made him bump into me so that his back was against my chest. Jenna didn't notice and pulled him closer and into a hug. Tyler just stood there stiffly until she let go and spoke up

“Tyler I am so happy to see you”

I guided Tyler to his chair at the table and took a seat right next to him before speaking

“Hello, Jenna. I'm Josh Tyler's psychologist at this facility. I presume they told you the rules but I will mention them again just in case. So, you have 30 minutes to visit, and if I deem necessary then the visit can be cut short or terminated immediately. If you bring up anything, or ask any questions that i deem unsafe or inappropriate I will step in.  If you have any questions just let me know.”

She nodded

“Hi Tyler. I know it's been three years but you disappeared one day and then your dad disappeared so I couldn't ask about where you went. But recently my friends sister was released from here and said that there was a kid named Tyler here, and that's how I found you.”

Tyler hadn't looked up from the table since he sat down. It was quiet for a second before Jenna spoke again.

“Tyler?”

I forgot to let her know that Tyler rarely talks

“Jenna, I don't know how much Tyler talked outside the institute but since he's been here he minimally speaks so just don't push him to speak to you.”

She nodded,

“oh, ok.”

For about 15 minutes she spoke about her life. How many Instagram followers she had and what she was doing with her life before she mentioned something that made Tyler uncomfortable.

“Well you know I am so glad that I found you since you are so important to me I care about you so much.”

Tyler started tapping my leg repeatedly. I closed my binder on which I was observing Tyler's behavior in.

“okay Jenna I am going to end this visit. If Tyler allows it then you can visit some other time. Have a good night.”

We stood up from the table and I was walking Tyler out the room when Jenna said,

“I mean what I said Tyler!”

Before I could react Tyler turned around with clenched fists and yelled,

“Bullshit!!!! You didn't care when everyone made fun of me!! You knew Zack wasn't real and you left me all alone!!”

I grabbed Tyler by the waist and held him in place since he looked like he was gonna lunge at her and attack.

“you don't care!!!!!!! No one does!!!!!!! You didn't stay with me!!”

Tyler was crying and screaming so I picked him up and put him over my shoulder as he struggled and Jenna was led out by the nurses as Tyler was still yelling through tears

“you didn't stay with me!!!!!You didn't stay!!”

When we got back to Tyler's empty room I sat him on his bed and gently grabbed his face, making him look at me.

“no one stayed” he whispered

“Tyler, Tyler. Calm down. I need you to breath with me. In and out. In and out.”

He was started to calm down

“okay good Ty. That's better. Now i want you to count down from 20 to 1 but in a random order okay?”

He nodded and started reciting numbers

“20,....13…….15…...19……..9…...7….. 8…...10….11..12..5, 3, 14, 16, 4, 6, 2,1.”

His breathing was pretty much back to normal.

“I'm sorry. I'm..so sorry”

He whispered

“Tyler it's okay. You reacted the way that you feel. Now we just need to get you to a place where you can express those feelings through different means”

He nodded and wiped his tears while sniffing

Brandon walked in,

“Hey Ty, Jenna left so whenever you are ready we can get you set up to go to the Trench behavioural Facility. Take your time. And i brought those flowers you asked for”

Tyler had written a note to Brendon yesterday asking if he could bring the yellow gerbera daisies that he kept hidden in a box. He had collected them whenever he was allowed supervised outside time. For some reason they were his favorite, and so he didn't let anyone besides Brendon touch or look at his box of daisies, so i let Bren bring the box to the new facility and put it in Tyler's new room for him.

I pulled Tyler into a hug and rubbed his back for a few minutes until he was completely calm and ready to go

“Ready Tyler”

“Yeah. I'm ready to leave Dema, Josh”

“Alright. Let's go”

Tyler Pov

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Josh  put restraints on my wrists, as part of protocol when moving a patient, and led me through the grey hallways that I had memorized for 3 years now. But after 3 years I was finally getting out of Dema. The place that I hated. The place that reminded me too much of Zack. The place that Josh was saving me from.

Goodbye Dema, Hello Trench.

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So i work at Hot Topic and I've been working like 30 hours a week during the holiday season and it's been so busy that i forgot to update on here so, sorry about that, but I'll get back to updating every Friday.

Stay Alive ||-//