Hey guys. Here's the next chapter. Hope you guys like it. This Chapter is dedicated to my wonderful reviewer Nightworld fan, hope you like it :)
Cece woke up in pain. A lot of pain. Her arms gripped her side as she curled up into herself and tried to will away the pain. she could feel the tears gathering in the corners of her eyes. What yesterday had been an achy and uncomfortable dull pain was now a full-out blinding pain. She felt like someone was slowly stabbing her repeatedly in the side with a very dull knife. Shakly she gripped the side of her nightstand and tried to heave herself up. Big mistake. As soon as she was on her feet a wave of nausea hit her hard. Cece clamped a hand to her mouth and fell to her knees. Her hair spilled over her side, slipping from the loose ponytail she had put it in the day before. She felt hot, so hot. Suddenly there was a knock at her door.
"Cece!" yelled Logan "Get up, it's time for school" Cece opened her mouth to say something but quickly clamped it shut as another wave of nausea hit her. Side was killing her, it hurt so much. She slowly stood up and made her way to the door.
"Cece!" yelled Logan again.
"I'm coming" yelled Cece weakly. Cece heard him walk away. Between the blinding pain in her side and the nausea it took her a few minutes to reach the door. She collapsed before she was able to open it. Grabbing the door handle she pulled her self up and opened the door and started to make her way to the kitchen.
Logan looked over at the kitchen door and saw Cece through it. She was pale and had thin layer of sweat covering her body, her red hair was loose and spilling over her shoulders. One arm was clamped around her middle while her other hand dragged along the wall. She looked sick, really sick. He watched wide eyed as She fell over, knocking down a vase on her way down. Everyone turned to her when they heard the vase break.
"Cece!" yelled Georgia. She rushed to Cece and fell to her knee next to her daughter. His dad had gotten up as well along with Flynn. Flynn sat on the other side of Cece. Georgia grabbed Cece's head and placed it in her lap. "What's wrong Cece?" She asked Cece. Logan could tell that Georgia was really worried.
"H-Hurts" whispered Cece.
"What hurts?" asked Georgia.
"M-my si-de" Said Cece while she clutched at her side. suddenly she shot up her hand clamp over her mouth. She leaned over the side and vomited. It was just bile. She kept dry heaving, Logan could see the tears falling over her cheeks. He looked over at his dad and saw him on the phone, probably with 911. Flynn was crying. He walked over to fly and kneeled next to him. Flynn threw himself at Logan and burried his face in Logan's shirt. He put his arms around the little boy he genuinely thought of as a little brother. He stared wide eyed at his step sister, still dry heaving and obviously in pain. He watched as Georgia put her hand on Cece's forehead.
"You're burning up Cece!" Georgia gasped. Cece had finally stopped dry heaving.
Cece felt another wave of pain hit her. She bent over with a cry clutching her sides before falling side ways.
Logan watched as Cece fainted. He could hear his dad say that the ambulance was on it's way. He just hugged Flynn harder as he watched Georgia clutched Cece to her chest. He heard the bell ring and a cry of "Paramedics!" He watched numbly as they lifted Cece onto the stretcher and rolled her out into the ambulance. He watched as Georgia got into the ambulance with Cece. He could see the tear falling freely over his step-mothers cheeks. He followed his father out into the car with Flynn and barely registered them follow the ambulance to the hospital. He watched as they rolled Cece into the hospital, a doctor seemed to come out from no where to put a breathing mask on Cece. He watched as they rolled her into a room with big metallic doors. He stood numbly as a nurse told Georgia and his dad that they had to wait there. They sat in the waiting area for what seemed like hours before a doctor called out for Cece Jone's family.
"That would be us" said Georgia. the doctor approached us and offered his hand.
"I'm Doctor Smith, I've been put in charge of Miss. Jone's Case." Jeremy took the extended hand in his.
"Is Cece going to be ok?" His dad asked.
"Cece was suffering from appendicitis." The doctor explained "Her appendix ruptured which is what caused her to faint. We were able to remove the ruptured appendix safely and she'll make a full recovery from this. however..." he trailed off.
"What?" asked Georgia.
"I think it would be easier to explain if you were to follow me."He said gravely. They followed him into the post-surgery ward. Logan saw Cece Laying in one of the beds. She was pale and attached to an IV drip along with a breathing mask. What caught his attention though were the bandaged wrapped around her left arm where the IV drip was attached. He saw Georgia pale at the sight of her daughter in such a state.
"While preparing her for surgery we discovered somethings that worried us." Said the doctor. he walked up to Cece's bed and they followed him, gathering around Cece's bed. They watched as the doctor began to unwrap Cece's right arm. "We found along both her arms a disturbing amount of scaring and injuries" He finished unwrapping her arm. They all gasped at what they saw. Georgia collapsed to the floor sobbing while His dad attempted to comfort her even though he seemed close to loosing it as well. Logan went wide eyed. He felt like being sick. All along Cece's arm were cuts. So many cuts. Small one, long ones, shallow ones, deep one, ones in the process of healing, others looked recent. Some were scabbed over while others were still open. Along with the cuts there were white scars. He felt Flynn burst into tears next to him. Logan wrapped an arm around the eleven year old. "I'm afraid there's more" said The doctor. all their heads snapped up "You daughter is underweight. While examining her arms we discovered scars on her knuckles." the doctor turned Cece's arm around to show them her knuckles. "This is know as Russle's sign" He paused before continuing. "Russle's sign is defined as scaring or caulses on one's knuckles caused by the action of shoving one's fingers down their thought repeatedly in the act of self induced vomiting. In other words, your daughter has been purging." Logan saw Georgia start to sob again. Logan felt so shamed of himself. He couldn't help but feel like this was partially his fault, all the times he had insulted her, bringing her down. He felt sick at the sheer idea of Cece cutting because of him. He hated Cece but he didn't want her to die. Hell he didn't even hate her. He had been jealous of her. She had seemed to have everything her wanted but couldn't have... yet look at her... she wasn't anywhere near as strong as he thought she was.
"Mrs. Hunter..." said the doctor patiently as if he had dealt with distraught mothers all the time, which he probably did. "You daughter has been self harming and purging... In other words she not only has an eating disorder that will have to be corrected but she also is depressed. We can't be positive of anything until she wakes up but I can assure you, her road to psychological recovery will be long. " With that the doctor left leaving them alone with Cece. Logan watched as His dad lead Georgia to armchair next to Cece's bed. Logan collapsed into a chair near at the door with Flynn in his lap. He couldn't believe this was happening.
Oh god, I can't believe i wrote that. Poor Cece TT^TT why am i so cruel to her. Oh well, at least Logan got his wake up call. Tell me what you guys think of the chapter. Do you guys think that Cece should still be in the hospital when Gunther gets back? Should everyone find out what happened to Cece through Logan? should they even find out?
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