A New Light In Life

New Home

~~~Kyle POV~~~

After Elia presented himself and Elian something seemed a little off about Finn's behavior. He seemed to not be here anymore. The more time passed, the worse he became.

"Finn, you right?" Chris that was the nearest one to him began to talk to him, but he got no response. Finn began to balance himself back and forward and began to scratch his face and cover his ears. He let go of his bag and it fell to the grown and as if on cue, Finn began to panic more. He began to look at everything but not truly see anything at the same time.

"Finn? " Even Elia began to become restless which is weird on its own since most of the time he only pays attention to his older brother.

Before anyone could move we saw Evan stand up fast and run towards Finn.

"What are you..." We were cut as we saw how Finn began to ran, but before he could hit his head on the wall Evan restained him, but that seemed to make things worse.

"NOOOOO LET ME GOOO! NOOO" Finn began to scream and try to scape Evan's grip but he didn't let go. At that everyone stood up and began to get ready in case he needs assistance.

"Matt, darling. Go call Malek and tell him to hurry up we need his help here. Tell him that the new kid is having an episode". I told Matt as he was locked into place by what was happening. He would not be able to help and if he got involved then there would be two people that we would need to take care of and not just one, and we don't really know what is happening to Finn, so we don't really know what to do. We need to wait until Malek arrives. He might not be able to make a diagnosis right now but he might know of ways to calm him down.

"Matt hurry! We don't have much time. Evan seems to be struggling to keep Finn from hurting himself. Hurry go!" That seemed to have woken up Matt since he ran to the nearest phone to call Malek. When I turned around I saw that now even Chris was helping Evan to keep his hands away from his face. Finn already had dark red marks on his face that showed how hard he was scratching himself.

"Is this my fault?" I turn around to see Elia's face drained of all color. I grabbed him by the shoulders and turned him towards me.

"Elia! Look at me. We don't know his triggers yet, but you did not cause this consciously, so it is not your fault. Just remember what you said, think about what could have triggered him, and don't do it again. Do you understand?" I only got a small nod out of him.

"What is going on here?" When I heard Malek's voice, I could finally let out my breath.

"We need help, Malek. That is Finn. We don't know what might have triggered him, but when Elian finished presenting himself he began to slowly fall. We don't know what to do, so Evan and Chris are holding him to stop him from hurting himself. Do you see those marks on his face? He just did that to himself" I began to explain the situation to Malek to see if he could help.

"Ok, I need you to tell me exactly what happed" I explained everything that happened step by step not skipping anything. I had to learn to observe and remember what is happening when I see one of the boys acting weird. One never knows when a new trigger is going to appear.

"Ok, I get it. First of all, I need all of you to shut up. Do not make a single sound, that would only make things worse, and slowly let him go Evan" Evan turned around to look at Malek like he was crazy but still did what he was told.

"Chris you too"

"But.."

"No buts right now. Holding him is getting him more into the panic"

"...Ok" Chris slowly let go of his hands and began to back up. When he was at a reasonable distance Evan also let go making Finn drop to the ground and go into a fetal position.

"Did he have something with him when he arrived?" Malek whispered and looked at me. I remembered his bag and began to search for it on the ground, and it was on the floor where Finn was originally standing. I carefully go to get it and return to Malek's side. I give him the backpack.

Malek instantly opens it only for it to contain an old teddy bear and a blue fuzzy blanket. There was no clothing in there.

Malek took the teddy bear and with careful steps approached Finn but still did not get too near him.

"Hi Finn, I am Malek. Do you want your teddy bear?" Malek asked with a soft and tender voice. His working voice. He was a psychiatrist and had helped us all to get better.

Finn reacted when he saw his bear but did not move. It was not until a couple of seconds later did he moved little by little towards the bear and Malek. When he finally reached for the bear he grabbed it, and he finally stopped freaking out and just balanced himself back and forward while hugging tightly his bear.

Malek did not talk, no one did. He just extended his arm in a silent invitation and we all waited. It felt like years before Finn began to reach for his hand. He took Malek's hand slowly and carefully as if ready to pull at any given moment.

When he had a firm hold of him Malek began to gently pull Finn towards his chest and placed Finn in his lap. They stayed in that position for a long while. Finn rested his body in Malek's chest and Malek gave him a gentle but firm hug.

Malek gave me a signal to pass him the blanket, and so I did. He covered himself and Finn in a tight burrito and just rocked him until he was calm once again.

"You ok now, Finn?" Malek finally said after a long while of silence. He did not obtain a verbal answer but a gentle nod, but he was more than happy with that.

"I am going to carry you, Finn. Are you ready?" He again only received a soft nod.

"I am going to bring you to your room. You are going to live here now. I know that is drastic, but we can take it slowly. You are home now" Another soft nod was given. 

We followed from a distance as Malek brought Finn to the room that is right beside his. I think that is for easy access in case of something happening which I thought was a good idea.

Once Malek entered he left the boy in the bed and snuggled him. He might have been sleepy with all the energy that he wasted with his episode. 

We still don't know what he has, so we need to ask Malek. We need to know what we can do in case this happens again, and he is not nearby.

When Malek exited the room and closed the door softly, he turned around and whispered. "Go down as quietly as possible; I will tell you in the living room." and so we did.

When we were sitting in the living room the atmosphere was tense. Evan looked tense and that says a lot if we think about his stone face. Christ is worried and is constantly combing his slightly long hair. Elia was still shaken about what happened and now his big brother was trying to calm him down when it was usually the other way around, and Matt is just sitting on the sofa. No longer with Clara and has a serious expression on his face.

When Malek finally entered the room we all looked at him.

"I know that you all want answers, but even if I were the best psychiatrist in the world I would need to have some more interactions with the patient until I have some kind of hypothesis on the diagnosis. From what Kyle told me, it could be multiple things, but I am inclined towards some kind of anxiety or somewhere in the Autism spectrum, but I am not sure. When he wakes up I will be able to talk with him and get a better guess, so just be careful for now like we are always when a new kid enters, you got me?"

We all nodded but Matt stood up. 

"Yes, Matt?"

"Is umm he alright now?" He asked in a small voice as if afraid to wake Finn up even though he was on the second floor almost all the way to the end.

"For now he is. I just need to figure out what kind of condition he has and we can work from there" Maleck said in a resolute voice that is able to relax us all.

"But he is still going to live here, right?" Elia asked. He was still worried that what he did might have made Finn uncomfortable and not want to live with them anymore.

"Yes. He is going to live here, after all this is his new home"