Chapter 108: A friend (1/2)

Chapter 108: A friend

Hearing the doctor say those words, for a second it seeone quiet Gary was looking at the adult in front of him, yet at the same time, his eyes weren’t focused The words ‘bad news’ just constantly rang in his head again and again, drowning out the noise around hied hi hihts he just had o, could very well become a reality

“Gary!” His sister called out “Gary, what’s going on? What is he talking about? What happened to Mum?” Amy shouted, panicked as she had no idea that their ht here as well

The doctor had yet to explain things, because he could tell that Gary was still out of it He had seen irl by the boy’s side seehter, asn’t dealing with the sudden news any better than her brother

‘Wait a second, the Mark!’ Gary suddenly thought ‘She can’t be dead, if she died, then the systeht? She’s not dead, she’s still alive’ With this thought in his head, he checked the air and saw a faint, but yet still visible green Mark, coency room

“Please, tell me how my mother is?” Gary asked

The doctor took a second look at the high schooler, there was a clear change in his eyes Usually information like this wouldn’t be passed onto a kid, but there was no one else here He felt sorry that these children had to grow up in a world like this

“You seem to be a brave boy, Gary, no matter what happens you should keep that determined look with you” The doctor said “First, let me alleviate your worst worries, your mother is still with us Her vitals are fine, and the bruises on the outside of her body will heal given time The bones also seem to be only bruised, none broken

“However, the issue is that yourup There seems to have been soo into a permanent sleep-like state”

“Youonto the doctor’s ar until she ake up again? She ake up, right? Right?!?!”

Once again the doctor paused His profession meant that he had to deliver news like this on multiple occasions, but there was hardly any case where he would have to deliver such news to those that were so young

“We… don’t know” The doctor answered with a sigh “If we’re lucky, shehad happened in a few hours or a few days However, it ain consciousness and in very rare cases it ht even take years I’m sorry, but it’s too early to tell at this point and tiuardian, so that we can talk about accommodations and such Noe can carry on bills for over a week, but after that if nothing has been paid…” The doctor didn’t continue there, as the cries of the girl next to Gary started to get louder and louder

It was obviously too

“If you need any uardian arrives, feel free to come see me I will tryhis leave heading back to the e to do? How are we going to pay for her? What if she never wakes up again?!” His sister continued to cry, while he left with his thoughts

There were e, he wasn’t classified as an adult, and if the hospital learned that their uardian, then they would likely inform the authorities about it That could possibly mean that Gary and Amy would be split up, to be taken care of by foster faes

In a Tier-3 town like Slough, that would be a worse way of life than they currently had

“Aet us out of this situation We won’t be leaving ho to be okay You have to trustarea and placing her down in the meantime He also handed his sister her phone, as well as Stacy’s