Tabula Colton

Chapter 20- The Clinic

"You liked coming here! You haven't been since the accident. That's all I know. It's super expensive but it makes you feel better and that's all I care about! What did he do?" He sounded so authentic.

He sounded helpless and desperate to figure this out. Did he not know what they did to me? I couldn't hold it in anymore.

"Eizo Kimura. You hired him to turn me in to this," I offered a little to see where he'd go.

"Yeah he works with Eizo. That's how I found him. He works with a lot of celebrities too. Did he touch you? Make you do things? He hurt my baby boy? Tell daddy," he implored.

"No..." I needed to talk to Julian Cheng, see what he found out. 

Mr. Takada seemed to really not know what was going on. I was starting to believe he couldn't have had anything to do with this. He loved me so much.

"Then what? I need to protect you and I can't do that unless your honest with me. I'm your daddy. I need to know what I'm dealing with here so I can fix my boy," he said in that controlled fatherly tone that put my body at ease and cleared my head.

What was I doing? I'd flipped out on him. How could I come back from this? 

I couldn't make any moves before I could talk to Julian. That would be stupid. I also couldn't risk going back to the doctor who possibly wiped my brain out. I had let my emotions get way ahead of me.

"What if he... gives me something that gets rid of Miguel?" I thought fast.

"That's what you're afraid of? I thought we were done with Miguel," he hissed and shook his head. He was frustrated. It hurt me to see him upset.

"Look. I'll go in with you and make sure he doesn't do anything you don't want. I'll hold your hand the whole time and if you get uncomfortable with anything just give me a code word like say 'it's cold' and I'll take you home. But he's worked with you a lot and he always makes you feel better. That's all I want is for my boy to feel better. Ok? You trust Daddy?" he asked. I was stuck. I didn't want to raise any more red flags with him until I could find out what Julian knew.

"Yes sir," I said. He kissed me, slid me off his lap and then led me inside the clinic.

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"He is healing quite well from the accident. It's remarkable how fast things heal at his age. It looks like the cast wasn't very necessary. His fracture isn't severe enough to warrant it. I'm betting this was Beverly Sinai hospital. Am I right? They'll slap a cast on anything just to overcharge. A brace would do just as well and be more sanitary," Dr. Perrin said as he showed us a 3D computer model of my arm bones.

"Really? That's awesome! Yes please!" I perked up. 

I hated this thing on my arm. It was itchy and it smelled weird. "Can I, daddy? Please?" I asked Mr. Takada excitedly. It's odd how quickly I'd gotten used to calling him daddy in front of everyone. It's just who he was to me.

"Of course," Mr. Takada said and kissed the back of my neck. 

He was sitting on the examining table with me in front of him and between his legs. He'd stayed with me through the whole examination and they'd explained every test and scan they did.

"These bruises should be clearing up soon enough too. You'll be right as rain and back on that skateboard in no time," the doctor assured.

"No way! I'm using it for firewood," Mr. Takada laughed. 

The doctor used a little saw tool to get my cast off. It smelled so bad and he washed my arm with this special soap and then put on this cream that helped with the irritated skin. He gave me a green apple sucker he said matched my eyes and sent us off. I was fine.