Brian blinked a couple times trying to adjust to the brightness of the light. Allison grabbed Brian's hand and gave him her gentle smile. Brian looked around the room trying to see who all was in the room.

"What happened" Brian choked out

"You slit your wrists" Bender stated calmly while standing in front of Brian's bed.

"Where am I" Brian said but instantly regretted when his throat was in pain. Andy handed Brian some ice chips to chew on to help with the pain that his throat was in.

"You in the hospital." Andy commented while adjusting his letterman's jacket. "doctor said you were strangled and now your hand is broken and you have to be on suicide watch." Andy continued while feeling highly uncomfortable.

"They didn't call my parents" Brian turned towards them.

"I think they did Brian but it was awhile ago." Allison said to him and Brian shook his head and decided to look at the ceiling.

"I thought we were done with the attempting suicide route." Bender tried to joke even though this wasn't a joking matter and the glaring from Allison proved that.

Brian sighed while looking down to see his wrists were covered with bandages and the hospital gown showed all the bruises and cut marks that Brian always hid behind his sweater vests.

"When can I leave?" Brian asked not giving them direct eye contact.

"After three days." Allison mentioned and Brian groaned.

"I ain't going to kill myself." Brian muttered but Andy heard it and Andy sighed.

"You almost bleed out. If John didn't find you when he did you would be dead Brian. It doesn't matter that you weren't actively trying to kill yourself but self-harm is always dangerous." Andy rambled to Brian and Brian just looked at Andy. Andy shook his head before leaving the room, Allison followed Andy quickly leaving Bender and Brian in the room by themselves. Neither one of them had anything to say in that moment. Bender just played with his lighter and Brian stared at the ceiling.

Allison rushed to catch up with Andy and Allison stepped in front of Andy and Andy shook his head. Allison just stared at him just letting him muttered without saying anything.

"How can Brian act like this is okay?" Andy questioned Allison.

"I guess that's the way he deals with things. We all don't really know Brian. i mean it hasn't even been that long." Allison mentioned to Andy.

"I just don't get it." Andy confessed to Allison while sitting down in the waiting room chair and Allison sat down next to him.

"We all deal with things differently. Andy we all have bad habits and self-harm is Brian's way of dealing with it." Allison commented while facing forward while sitting criss-crossed on the hospital chair.

"People die from self-harm" Andy stated while shaking his head.

"I saw once his parents dropping him off at the school, they were yelling at him saying that he was a failure and such" Allison confessed to Andy and Andy shook his head in surprise.

"Why would they say that to Brian, I mean he's one of the smartest people at the school and they know why he got detention last time." Andy exploded with a sense of anger.

Andy wanted to protect Brian but how do you protect someone from themselves. Brian had to protect himself but Brian wasn't like Bender, he wasn't tough, he wasn't like Andy, he didn't do sports and he certainly wasn't Allison who could ignore things. Brian take things to his heart. Andy and Allison walked back to the room to see Bender still messing with his lighter and Brian was sleeping at that moment.

No one in the group knew what to do and Andy had to go to wrestling practice otherwise he would get an earful from his father for missing practice. He gave Allison a kiss before quickly leaving the hospital.

"Bender" Allison stated to him.

"What" Bender responded.

"What are we going to do" Allison asked Bender.

"How the hell am I supposed to know? Brian haven't told us why he had those fingermarks along his neck or the fact that his hand was broken." Bender pointed out to Allison and Allison turned to stare at Brian who haven't stirred and that's when Brian's heart started beating and Brian started having a seizure. Allison ran to Brian's bed. Bender screamed out for help and that's when Allison and Bender were shove out of the room and they watched the doctors and nurses paddling it and even one doctor was on top of Brian doing compressions. Allison covered her mouth with shocked and Bender kept pacing back and forth trying to keep his facade in tact. One nurse urged Allison and Bender to sit in a chair and Allison kept shaking her head. She rubbed hair back and Bender kept sighing and shaking. Allison knees kept bouncing up down. Brian's life was on the line and no one knew what was going on.

Allison couldn't hold back any longer and finally tears fell from her eyes

Bender tough act started to crack. Allison dialed Andy's number.

"Andy" Allison greeted him.

"Ali, what's going on" Andy asked her while he was getting ready to go into practice.

"Something happened to Brian." Allison bit her lip to try to stop the tears.

"What happened." Andy demanded to know while sitting down on one of the benches in the locker room.

"He was flatlining. Doctors and nurses are working on him now." Allison voice started to crack.

Andy shook his head while hitting a locker door. "I'll be there."

"No, you have practice." Allison told him.

"Screw practice, Brian matters more." Andy said while putting on sweats over his uniform and grabbing his wrestling bag. On the way out of school, Claire waved at Andy. Andy shook his head.

"Wait Andy what's the rush" Claire questioned him.

"Brian is in the hospital fighting for his life." Andy sneered at her.

"What happened." Claire asked.

"Don't act like you care. He slit his wrists early today but you wouldn't know since you practically decided not to be true friends with Bender or Allison." Andy pushed Claire out of his way and hopped into his car.