Code Violet

Chapter 5: My name..

Of course when I got to school on Wednesday I had to fill in the guys in how it went. I was in a rush at home so I hadn't told my brothers yet either.

"Well," I paused for dramatic effect and they looked at me impatiently. "It was actually kinda fun." They looked at me with confused faces.

"Dude you defiantly fucked a crazy didn't you?" Ryan raised his eyebrows and I glared at him.

"They actually don't seem to bad. We just played cards and chatted. I had to clean up dishes and stuff but other than that nothing to much work." They nodded but disappointment was evident in their faces.

"So your punishment was hanging out with normal people? I'm holding that over mom when she tries to ground me." Chase complained and I laughed.

"Was anyone in there like a psycho?" Marcus whispered as if it was a dirty word. I shrugged.

"I'm not aloud to ask. Although I suspected the eating disorder patients and drug recovery ones." They were still disappointed that I didn't meet some weird serial murderer in there.

"So nothing weird happened at all?" Blake asked Impatiently.

I thought back to the screaming girl and decided to tell them about her.

"Well there was this one girl!" They leaned forward waiting for me to continue. "I had just got there and she burst in screaming and they had to restrain and sedate her. I asked her name and apparently they aren't aloud to say it because of privacy reasons or some shit. I asked what was wrong with her and they didn't tell me." Interest peaked in their eyes and they quickly started to make up stories about what could be wrong. I heard lots of words like skits and bad brain development but none of those sat right. I saw her running, she wasn't running like she was wandering around completely out of it. She was running away, she knew what she was doing.

Lunch came around and I met up with Amelia same way I always do. I told her about the screaming girl and went more in depth about the whole bracelet codes and rules that place had. I hauled out the sheets Rosemary gave me and we went over them together.

The sheets had the multiple codes that could be announced in the facility over the PA for different emergencies.

"Okay so like code red fire makes sense. Code blue someone died makes sense. Code amber missing minor got it, and code orange for missing adult. But code double red means a red patient is out? Like what?" Amelia looked at the sheet puzzled.

"Red patients have bad conditions and could be dangerous. I guess it warns people who aren't trained that one is on the loose." She nodded agreeing.

"Okay makes sense, they don't have very many codes though" I shrugged.

"Only sheet I got, I'm heading there after school again today at 4:30 for awhile. Maybe I'll learn more, I don't know." She smiled.

"Be careful Barron."

Carson drove me out this time since practice wasn't until later in the day. He practically shoved me out of the car. He was in a rush to meet up with Emma. Yuck.

I walked in and signed it at the front desk before heading up to the common room. This time was different though. There were a bunch of volunteers there today as it was Wednesday. When Rosemary saw me come in she quickly rushed over.

"So I figured to get you accustomed you'd come all days this week. Next week and for the following weeks I have you scheduled for Mondays, Wednesday's, Thursday's,and Saturday's. Sound good?" She asked showing me the papers. I nodded and went to meet up with more volunteers.